yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[XPERIA X8 General] bryke:
I need this so much thx man!" I think method 2 is the answer if you want to go back to the official 2.1 eclair?? Am i right? Sory im really new with this stuff
[XPERIA X8 General] lotus13:
I've used first method.then update with PC C .and the with flash tool i've roothen my phone :) and instaled xrecovery
[XPERIA X8 General] aarun444:
now using gingerdx if my phone bricked can i use seus
[XPERIA X8 General] ahmadsamhann:
Of course :D

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[XPERIA X8 General] Miks0n:
Awsome man, evreything about how to repair bricked phone in on place. This is what I loking for just in case if my phone gone bricked ^^
[XPERIA X8 General] jphonggreenadik:
i bricked my x8, when i turn it on, it shows a cellphone icon with an exclamation point. :( can this be fixed by SEUS? the screen dimmed, :( is this a total brick?
[XPERIA X8 General] aldee_s:
wow, maybe yes that is a "full" brick. hmm, just try to use flashtool method, that is the last recovery attempt for a bricked x8 :D
[XPERIA X8 General] junixquiaoit:
maybe yes! thats something new.. :eek:
[XPERIA X8 General] doixanh:
Maybe you plugged out USB cable during a SEUS/flashtool flash. Try flashtool one more time. Hope it would be able to help :D

Pray!
[XPERIA X8 General] kakho55:
Seus is more step to unbrick... Flashtool more easy .. flash , root , install xrecovery... all in one... 10 min done....

cheer...

=====kakho55@xda========

*GingerCruzt Revision 7.4*

*waiting my XperiaMini 2.3*

*Malaysia*StevEn.hOe*

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[XPERIA X8 General] eagleeyetom:
I'm just wondering where Graveir is? He's out for a long time.
[XPERIA X8 General] mabdullah007:
thank u i have recently rescue my phone thank u for great work:)
[XPERIA X8 General] Droid117:
Great job, I assume I flash a kernel just like I flashed the rom?
[XPERIA X8 General] Galon123:
which one of the ROM at the page one that have 2.0.1.A.0.47 build number??
[XPERIA X8 General] jiawei0309:
my phone stuck at sony ericsson logo cant go xrecovery...can help??
[XPERIA X8 General] dotsen9:
flash with seus or flashtool.
[XPERIA X8 General] deedii:
How can you flash a Firmware(ROM) with incorrect baseband required by ROM? Is it OK say i got baseband 6 and flash the ROM GingerCruzt that require baseband 15?
[XPERIA X8 General] ruifung:
Lol you can't, most ROM's include a check for the correct baseband in their installation scripts.
[XPERIA X8 General] deedii:
If you could be keen with my post, it is a follow up question regarding Graveir post, and FYI obviously I knew that :)
[XPERIA X8 General] koenh78:
Hello,

My x8 is stuck on the white SE logo...

I tried XRecovery, but no luck.

I tried SEUS, but no luck...

Even the flashtool keeps asking to connect my phone.

The back button is pressed, the green led is lightend (and goes out after x seconds...)

I held the back button for over a minute, but the program still asked to connect the Xperia...

Anyone an idea?

tx!
[XPERIA X8 General] biscoitu:
Did you have SEMC drivers installed on your PC???? take a look on device manager and search for SEMC device to see it is recognized by OS.
[XPERIA X8 General] koenh78:
Hello,

Sorry, i talked to fast...

I'm on a VMWare (host is Linux, which doesn't support flashtool).

Suddenly, i thought of mounting the USB into the VMWare...

Now the flashtool has found my device...

Fingers crossed!

EDIT: Tx for the great program! It did its job!

I'm back on the SE interface.

Next step, root + CRom :-)
[XPERIA X8 General] Kiwiii97:
Dude! Uve saved my mobile!... for the second time!

First by the xrecovery and now by flashtool! :D

big thanks!
[XPERIA X8 General] gawran1:
I had stock kernel and 2.3.5 gingerdx, i unlocked my bootloader with seetoolsmc because i had my phone unlocked by se tool box and flashed kernel v003 and my phone didint want to start after gingerdx logo. Ok with PCC i restored to stock and my network was locekd again and my wi fi did not respond, i tried 100 ways and now when i start my phone without SIM card it's working, but when i put the SIM card in i enter my SIM pin and then the phone wont load anythinig, just the up tab and a blue theme Help?! I flashed stock kernel, 2.1 E15i_X8i_2.1.1.A.0.6_Baseband_015.7z and software but nothing
[XPERIA X8 General] rav3n_pl:
After you flash stock kernel use SEUS to get stock rom and get wiped. Then you can start over :)
[XPERIA X8 General] gawran1:
So next thing is to do:

1. Stock kernel, http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1272696 for example?

2. SEUS, ok

3. U mean full whipe or? In Settings or?

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And again, whenever i put my SIM card in the phone wont enter the desktop...
[XPERIA X8 General] rav3n_pl:
If ur still bricked and cant get into recovery to restore backup (or not have backup):

1. flash stock kernel - using Flash Tool form PC

2. use SEUS from PC to restore original 2.1 rom

3. boot phone - it can take 5 mins (mostly about 2)

Now ur ready to start procedure again:

1. root phone (superoneclick)

2. unlock bootloader

3. flash new kernel (I have FXP)

4. load new rom (I use FXP)

:D
[XPERIA X8 General] gawran1:
Ok i restored my backup and it's working, but still my SIM network is locked :( solution?
[XPERIA X8 General] rav3n_pl:
You getting "enter pin for you network" after "enter pin"? Try cancel second one.
[XPERIA X8 General] gawran1:
Haha i tried that :)))

Aint working ...
[XPERIA X8 General] sukartochen:
Wow great....you help me...my phone alive again..thank u very much...
[XPERIA X8 General] dipusen:
hi,

I also bricked my phone (X8).

I installed W8 ROM in my X8 via xRecovery and rebooted. My phone started and showed the SE boot animation but thats all. The phone keeps restarting and showing the boot animation again. Amazingly BACK button press is not starting xRecovery mode, seens the ROM update removed my xRecovery.

1. SEUS shows my phone is already up to date.

2. PC Suit doesnt connect as I cant start the phone fully.

3. I cant find the FlashTool supporting X8. All I got for X10.

Please any one help me.
[XPERIA X8 General] biscoitu:
SEUS have an option to force update. It recognise that phone is up to date because it checks kernel and baseband, and I guess it doesn't check the rom. Try it again and read carefully all the msg it shows and you will find out how to force it to flash the stock rom again.

Sent from my X8
[XPERIA X8 General] dipusen:
Thanks, I tried SEUS again but didnt worked. Then I tried with FlashTool and downloaded firmware of X8. It worked. Now I am updating my phone with SEUS to the latest baseband ...15.
[XPERIA X8 General] dipusen:
guys, Ive got another problem. I just managed to restore 2.1.1 by flashtool and seus. right now I can not root my device. SuperOne is waiting for device!!!

Any help? How to root?
[XPERIA X8 General] biscoitu:
You need to enable usb debugging first.

Sent from my X8
[XPERIA X8 General] dipusen:
Yess, ofcourse I enabled USB debugging. Actually I rooted and used GingerDX v17 for last one month. Today suddenly I gone mad and tried to install W8 ROM and my phone came to bricked condition. Some how I managed to restore the 2.1 but ROOTING got stuck. After asking " Your OS version is higher than 2.0? YES/NO. When I click yes it says "device not found".

BTW PcCompanion and SEUS fully detecting my phone.
[XPERIA X8 General] StrikaX8:
Any of the methods wouldn't save from a hard brick, right?

Sorry if the question is dumb, but how is a hard brick different from any other 'normal' brick?

And good job on the guide.
[XPERIA X8 General] Graveir:
Hard brick is when you screw your bootloader, so that the motherboard must be replaced.
[XPERIA X8 General] Cancar96:
this is how my tale goes

-flashe gingercrutz (it meesed up my sd card and all recovery modes)

-did the flash tool

-got to phone and able to use it

-pc companion asked for update

-did it star the hone and got to exclamation point and phone image

-again flashtool

-worked and do not update then (i used shakira) do not update whit pcc-at least in my case,i hope i helped someone here :D
[XPERIA X8 General] IROC_69:
i tried to run supercharger script

when my phone rebooted i didnt go past sony errison screen

cant enter in xrecovery phone isnt detected my flash tool phone

when i enter the battery phone turns on itself i cant turn it off

what can i do
[XPERIA X8 General] sapabg:
take out the battery...run SEUS....when it asks for the phone put the battery back in while holding the back button (it will not start) then plug in the usb...hope I helped
[XPERIA X8 General] kingonrock:
I am using w8 i made a mess with unlock bootloder no i lost my sim services no sim card is deteced i cant use any sim card i made stock rom flash even though no luck

Pleseeeeeeee i beg you guys help me out

Thanks
[XPERIA X8 General] dipusen:
you can try to flash the Stock Bootloader attached by Flashtool.
[XPERIA X8 General] Cancar96:
can smoebody help me

i get stucked at preparing files for flashing

ive been waiting for hour now...

tried 2 difrent rom...but still notihng

never mind i used update service
[XPERIA X8 General] paco911:
Hey,

last night, I was doing clean install of GDX.

First, I flashed stock kernel & ROM via SEUS and then rooted it and installed GDX v019.

Then I decided to update busybox hence the installed version was ~15.* and latest avaliable is 19.*. Everything was fine until I rebooted my phone. Now it's stuck on boot at SE logo and can't enter any recovery. I tried reflashing stock firmware using SEUS and Flashtool, but they're both stuck on step two (when the phone should be plugged in flash mode (holding down back button while plugging)), even though my phone enters flash mode (green light turns on) no program would recognize it.

So now I ask you for help, as I'm out of ideas.

Any help or advice would be helpful.
[XPERIA X8 General] :
Ive bricked my phone and i used seus and now it works. When i was going to update my phone from Pccompanion my phone couldnt boot up. Ive waited atleast ten minutes, then pulled the battery and runned SEUS.

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Does your computer have the right driver? When you plug in your phone it would come up like SEMC Flash Storage or something like that.
[XPERIA X8 General] brofaris:
i have do unlocked bootloader for w8 using x8 method...after it finish my phone can't turn on...one more think is it same between x8 and w8??and i can't do flashing because my phone can't turn on and usb can't detect....plzz help me friend...
[XPERIA X8 General] Graveir:
If you screwed your bootloader then MOST PROBABLY you need to have your phone serviced and your main board replaced. Sorry, no boot, no flashing, no help but hardware replacement...
[XPERIA X8 General] dotsen9:
Bad luck.....
[XPERIA X8 General] beastfren:
can anyone provide a rooted 2.1 tft file to be use in flashtool?

thank you
[XPERIA X8 General] alimami:
there is no rescue with Hard brick but you send the phone to SE
[XPERIA X8 General] king_slavcho:
please update stock rom links as fast as you can thankyou... Please dudes i need it till 9 o'clock. PLEASE
[XPERIA X8 General] semdxd:
thank u very much for perfect thread
[XPERIA X8 General] daddy_rhon:
there is no rooted 2.1 ftf,u must use super1click for rooting,maybe you can also use flashtool for rooting because there is also an option there...
[XPERIA X8 General] milenkokg:
Use seus to back on stock
[XPERIA X8 General] :
See HERE or look at my sig

The "Sony Ericsson" directory contains a 2.1.1.C.0.0 FTF (7-Zip compressed as it's too large for MediaFire) for the X8, the E15i and E15a Baseband FTF for the X8 and a Kernel-only FTF for the X8 (you can also use the files for the W8 but keep in mind that this is NOT a "Walkman" ROM).

The "Flashtool" Directory contains Flashtool 0.2.9.1 as well as the latest (at time of writing) 0.6.7.0 (yay, no super ****ty Hotfile download)

Have fun.
[XPERIA X8 General] zephiel:
@B.Jay

Thanks! I was about to request a mirror for the FTF of the Stock ROM and Kernel!

Thanks Hitted!
[XPERIA X8 General] monovirus17:
I just want to say thak you Graveir for this useful thread. I have bricked my phone for the 1st time after customizing my X8 several times and I used SEUS to recover it. More power to you.

Thanks hitted!
[XPERIA X8 General] Dzol Cp:
Nice guide buddy!! Keep up a marvelous job!! :)

send using XDA Premium
[XPERIA X8 General] :
Yes, but you can find the 2.1.1.A.0.6 and 2.1.1.C.0.0 (plus baseband FTFs) in my Sony Ericsson folder on MediaFire (see link in my signature)
[XPERIA X8 General] :
If you hard bricked the phone (i.e. you tried to unlock the boot loader and it died afterwards) you CAN NOT restore the phone through ANY normal means.

Only way to resurrect the phone is to send it off to SE for repair or by finding a VERY skilled phone repair shop where the technicians know how they can resurrect the device through either JTAG or Testpin-UART flash.
[XPERIA X8 General] maxnaxos:
For hard bricks try Flashtool!!!

I've never had a hard brick, but when I accidentally soft bricked my phone, I red that thread for bricked X8s, in which is mentioned that you can unbrick hard-bricked devices using Flashtool.

I haven't tested it myself (and I don't mean to! :p). Just sharing.

Anyway, you can try it before sending your phone to SE or a technician. You have nothing to lose! ;)
[XPERIA X8 General] Dzol Cp:
Thank You B.Jay for the nice info about this Jtag etc...i learn something new :)
[XPERIA X8 General] dikshasubedi:
Thanx

Thanx, 2nd option worked for me...ur a genious...
[XPERIA X8 General] bumenoo:
ROM image reupload please
[XPERIA X8 General] ulilalbab:
thanks guy's. this tips can i use if my phone brick further.. and i hope that thing will not happen..:)
[XPERIA X8 General] Cancar96:
yeey i can brick it again ^^ everything is working just fine! first boot takes about 2 minutes :P
[XPERIA X8 General] khaidir84:
thanks bro.. it works! save4 my life again.. Awesome!
[XPERIA X8 General] kress666:
I tried to install xRecovery in GingerDX23b. Restarted and got stuck at the SE Logo. Can't go in to any recovery (CVM or xRec).. SEUS and PCC and Flashtool sees my device but then loose contact with it.. Is it completely dead?
[XPERIA X8 General] adambala:
same here can not enter rexovery stuck on sony loggo now what????

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thats the log....08/010/2012 13:10:20 - INFO - <- This level is successfully initialized

08/010/2012 13:10:20 - INFO - Flashtool Version 0.6.8.0 built on 2012-02-26 19:26:25

08/010/2012 13:10:20 - INFO - You can drag and drop ftf files here to start flashing them

08/010/2012 13:10:24 - INFO - Device disconnected

08/010/2012 13:10:39 - INFO - Selected X8_E15a_2.1.1.A.0.6_Baseband_015.ftf

08/010/2012 13:10:39 - INFO - Preparing files for flashing

08/010/2012 13:10:39 - INFO - Please connect your device into flashmode.

08/010/2012 13:10:59 - INFO - Device connected in flash mode

08/010/2012 13:10:59 - INFO - Opening device for R/W

08/010/2012 13:10:59 - INFO - Reading device information

08/010/2012 13:10:59 - INFO - Phone ready for flashmode operations.

08/010/2012 13:10:59 - INFO - Start Flashing

08/010/2012 13:10:59 - INFO - Flashing loader

08/011/2012 13:11:01 - INFO - Loader version : R4A045 / Bootloader status : UNROOTABLE

08/011/2012 13:11:01 - INFO - Flashing amss_fs.sin

08/011/2012 13:11:02 - INFO - Flashing cache.sin

08/011/2012 13:11:02 - INFO - Flashing fota1.sin

08/011/2012 13:11:02 - INFO - Flashing kernel.sin

08/011/2012 13:11:05 - INFO - Flashing amss.sin

08/011/2012 13:11:16 - INFO - Flashing fota0.sin

08/011/2012 13:11:16 - INFO - Flashing finished.

08/011/2012 13:11:16 - INFO - Please wait. Phone will reboot

08/011/2012 13:11:16 - INFO - For flashtool, Unknown Sources and Debugging must be checked in phone settings

08/011/2012 13:11:17 - INFO - Device connected in flash mode

08/011/2012 13:11:18 - INFO - Device disconnected

08/011/2012 13:11:20 - INFO - Device connected in flash mode

08/011/2012 13:11:42 - INFO - Device disconnected

08/011/2012 13:11:45 - INFO - Device connected with USB debugging off

08/011/2012 13:11:45 - INFO - For 2011 devices line, be sure you are not in MTP mode

now what???
[XPERIA X8 General] SzolnoK:
hello

i tried all of them but nothing works :(

1. when i was trying to open my phone "sony ericsson" logo appears and phone and i can't reach xrecovery

2. i downloaded

X8_1.6_clear.ftf

flash tool (latest)

E15i_X8i_2.0.2.A.0.24_Baseband_006

E15i_X8i_2.1.1.A.0.6_Baseband_015

and placed them to firmware folder of flashtool

installed all drivers

plugged usb cable to just PC and opened flash tool

click flash and choose X8_1.6_clear.ftf

but there was nothing at "firmware content" box

i clicked ok but there is no pop up screen for instructions

3. i tried with sony suite

i choose update. it downloaded some files to my computer

and there was a pop up which tells me instructions ( holding back button and plugging cable)

i do it nothing changed it is saying it all the time and there is no NEXT button

please help me :(
[XPERIA X8 General] Graveir:
Um... you must bear some things in mind. Firstly, this tutorial was created when there was no way to unlock bootloader whatsoever. If you damaged the bootloader, I cannot help you.

Moreover, GingerDX and some other ROMs base on CWM recovery, which also was not available for X8 when I was creating this tut. If you flash xRecovery for such ROMs, you may screw the booting data of your ROM.

If the ftf files don't work, try to find some other, or some flashable xRecovery stock ROM files - I recall there were some at some point or another.

Anyway - there is a new, up to date tutorial that encompasses the bootloader thingie. Try to find it :)
[XPERIA X8 General] sputnik81:
Hi there.

Unfortunately I'm not good in informatics so I need your help.

I bought my X8 (E15i) past summer, from an italian mobile network company...with a simlock. The phone was really really slow, no memory, really crap.

I visited this forum and started doing everything needed to install afaster rom.\\So I rooted, the phone, installed busybox and superuser, unlocked the bootloader and installed Gingerbread v15.

3 Months ago I moved to a foreign country so I had to use another sim card...and here all my troubles started:

1. I bought an unlock code on ebay in order to remove the simlock.

a. to do that I had to reinstall the OEM rom (2.1)

b. unlock was succesfull but with that rom I wasn't able to recieve any sms any longer

2. I reinstalled the Gingerbread v15 but no market was avviable anylonger so I couldn't download anny apps (the past ones installed where lost due to flashing to 2.1 android).

3. I tried to upgrade the rom to gingerbread v23...and ther eit happened...:

I installed the rom, the alfa update and the overclock update (dammn!!!this may have caused all damage!!!)

When I tried to reboot the phone only the white SE logo appeared and the phone didn't do anything more....(I waited 1 hour...)

Since yesterday I treid to follow every procedure to unbrick my phone but nothing....the only thing I reached now is that I used SEUS to repair the phone.

Now it boots and, I don't know how that is possible, there's the logo of the italian network company again on boot up.... Then the pin code of the sim is asked but NO SIM CARD works anymore. I can introduce the pin code, it's accepted but then, NO MENUS, NO ICONS, NO APPS, NO NET, i.e. I can't do anything with the phone...the buttons don't work too....

I treid the several other procedures to unbrick the phone too but..always the same result.

Can anybody of you help me please????????????????????:confused::confused::confused::confused:
[XPERIA X8 General] 8cpaiw:
i didt understand you good but i thinks you must do this:

flash to stock re-root it and then thats it ....i think
[XPERIA X8 General] LeiUlanday:
Alternative links for ftf stock roms

The links posted aren't working anymore, at least for the ftf files.

My phone's softbricked right now for flashing a custom rom without wiping the cache partition, and I badly need my phone this time. SEUS and PC Companion wouldn't work for me. SEUS wouldn't even start. I've tried PC Companion months ago and it did work a couple of times.

Maybe because of the software updates that were made since I last unbricked my phone or maybe because I'm using a different OS this time, the Windows 8 Consumer Preview as it's still free. For those who could resolve this in case the problem is with Windows 8, please please share how you did it.

Flashtool is my last hope. Googled for the tft download links and for those who need the tft files, here's the link.

B.Jay's useraccount

Please click "MyMediafire" under his signature as I can't post outside links for now cause "ALL new users are not permitted to post outside links in their messages"

Good day. :) :D
[XPERIA X8 General] sputnik81:
I tried several times by using X8toolbox-final, found here on the forum but it doesn't work when I click on "root" it always say "waiting for device"...it doesen't matte rif the phone is powered off, powered off and in flash mode or powered on....

I can't activate usb debugging as NO functionality works when the phone is on. The only thing displayed is the screen background and that usb cable is connected...(it asks if I want to transfer files from pc to sd-card).

So, has anybody of any idea or suggestion for me?

Will my phone (if it will ever work again) be again simlocked (even if I unlocked it)?????
[XPERIA X8 General] SzolnoK:
i have both of recovery app

but i used CWM recovery when i was installing new ROM

i can't find the solution about bootloader on forum also :(

p.s.

if someone help me i can donate $3 paypal. I have no phone for days :(
[XPERIA X8 General] eagleeyetom:
Dude, you are alive! :D
[XPERIA X8 General] sputnik81:
Now I tried the whole procedure several times.

If I don't put in any sim, I can root, unlock the bootloader, install busybox and Superuser, flash Gingerbread v23

BUT 2 kind of errors occour:

1. if I flash gingerbread v23,.....the phone still only displays SE logo (I flashed the rom and then applied full whipe), then I re flashed original rom again, rooted...., flashed gingerbread v23 + alfa ddons,+full whipe... -> same result

2. if I try to use the original ROM with my simcard...., after inserting the pin code, no icon appears, no functionality. The phone doesn't work (without sim card, I have all icons, menus, and so on...)

I have to admit that tried so often that I already tried Run msm7227_semc.cmd and the Run msm7227_sect2.cmd....even if the S1 tool told me not recognized Simlock....

I really don't know what to do. I don't know what tool was used to sim-unlock that crap, I only know my phone is dead/unusable and I really really would like to restore it, even to original rom, with a sim-unlock. I need that phone.

Please help me!!! :(
[XPERIA X8 General] LeiUlanday:
What was your indicator that it's on flash mode? Did you see the green led light up? If you're phone's softbricked, USB debugging shouldn't be your primary concern.

You should first flash a rom(Custom or Stock) before rooting as rooting needs USB debugging and USB debugging is only possible when you've already flashed a rom. You can't root before flashing.

Please review these steps again.
[XPERIA X8 General] sputnik81:
As I already said I did all that steps, with the only difference that I installed the clean OEM Sony Ericsson Rom instead of other roms.

I didn't install any baseband....do I need to do that extra???

The only thing I want to is my phone working again (doesn't matter with which ROM if OEM or custom) with any Sim card (like before it soft bricked).#

At the moment only OEM ROm works but WITHOUT Sim card. If you insert the sim card nothing works (I tried with 3 different sim cards...)