yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Xperia Play Android Development] mehmehmen:
Ok so i can also now confirm recovery seems to of functioned fully as intended. backup and restore worked fine no errors, also all menus accesible and mounts and storage all functioning as normal. :D finally i feel a little safer messing with my new toy :P
[Xperia Play Android Development] Scorbion:
I can report the same but I guess we need more time testing for bugs.

Btw can we have a flashable version? It will make testing a bit faster and easier
[Xperia Play Android Development] mehmehmen:
i think the reason there is no flashing version is because of how different the sony setup of their devices is compared with most androids. sony are infamous for cocking about with good hardware and implementig horrible software lol i am just glad i can back up and restore even if i need to use fastboot for now it makes things less risky when playing about with other projects too :P in time bin4ry will of figured out everything he wants to before posting an initial release of th recovery flashable.
[Xperia Play Android Development] AndroHero:
from what i understand kernel and recovery boot from the same partition, so we would need the kernel and recovery packaged together before we can have a flashable version :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] AndroHero:
binary i have a problem, i was trying to test the recovery by creating an update.zip to push the latest VoiceSearch to /system/app/.

when i try to flash it, CWM gives me an error, that the type of script i used is not supported anymore, it tell me to please switch to Edify scripting (update-script & and binary-script) but i only know how to write the old style ones :confused:

do you know somewhere i can go to learn how to write the new script?? :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] Logseman:
I know it's not what you ask for, as you want to write on Edify, but maybe this will do now? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=903598
[Xperia Play Android Development] AndroHero:
thanks for that man :)

*edit* i tried that app and it didnt work mate, it probably cause it uses the mount points for a diffrent device :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] Bin4ry:
Root update added to first post :-)

Regards
[Xperia Play Android Development] Logseman:
Root stock ROMS as well... you mean that there's no need to unlock the bootloaders to apply this update.zip??
[Xperia Play Android Development] AndroHero:
You need unlocked bootloader to issue fastboot commands, so no fastboot, no recovery :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] Logseman:
Hmmm, you need an unlockable bootloader afaik.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Nhialor:
pretty sure all xperia play's boot loaders are unlockable, but SE has chosen only a few to be unlocked...that's why blagus is working on the rest!
[Xperia Play Android Development] Waqas:
Any idea if this will have any positive effect on a broken radio. Play was bricked cos of ota update with unlocked bootloader. Broke radio to fix it. Now lookin for solution to make my play a phone again.
[Xperia Play Android Development] axiomjunglist:
Backed up and restored successfully. Baseband is unaffected by the restore, which actually turned out good in a way because through flashes of various stock R800i roms I went from baseband ending 21-22 to 14-14 and back to 21-22. Fortunately the radio has worked fine the whole time, except I lost my original APN settings when I got 14-14.

Thanks for making this tool available Bin4ry, this is going to be a huge timesaver!
[Xperia Play Android Development] 050177e:
hi! mate...any tuturial how to install this recovery on my phone...thanks in advance......
[Xperia Play Android Development] Logseman:
How about reading the first post? It doesn't bite.
[Xperia Play Android Development] awoken:
Do i have to have my bootloader unlocked?

Fastboot keeps telling me my device needs to be rooted which it already is.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Nhialor:
I've started using this today, and I can say I love it, it's brilliant. However, I'm currently doing a backup of my system, and I dunno if that is meant to be a progress bar down the bottom or not, but if it is it's not moving, yet it's definitely backing things up!

It's already done system, data and .android_secure!
[Xperia Play Android Development] Logseman:
It's a graphical glitch. The process works fine.
[Xperia Play Android Development] thomassafca:
I think you should have an unlocked bootloader to use fastboot commands, not sure though..:confused:
[Xperia Play Android Development] Logseman:
You do need to use a fastboot command to unlock the bootloaders, so that is not correct.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Bin4ry:
All development is only done for unlocked bootloader phones sorry :/

Regards
[Xperia Play Android Development] FrAsErTaG:
Bin4ry I'm trying to make an edify script and having trouble

When trying to flash my zip I get

Taken from recovery log

Installing: /sdcard/FTR v0.2.2.zip

Finding update package...

I:Update location: /sdcard/FTR v0.2.2.zip

Opening update package...

Installing update...

Installation aborted.

No real error, I've not been using edify before but unsure why my updater-script is not working..

Any idea or guides?
[Xperia Play Android Development] AndroHero:
You dont, you need an unlocked bootloader to issue fastboot commands, i said that last week :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] Bin4ry:
Send me a preview so that i can look into. Or open my RootXperia.zip and look how i have made the script :)

Regards
[Xperia Play Android Development] Logseman:
Given that the command to unlock the bootloaders is:

fastboot -i 0x0fce oem unlock 0xKEY

I would say that, if you needed an unlocked bootloader to issue any fastboot command, you would never be able to unlock the bootloaders in the first place. What you need is an unlockable bootloader. Not only can you issue the unlock command on fastboot, you can issue "getvar", "devices" and so on.

Of course, another thing is flashing system partitions or recoveries.
[Xperia Play Android Development] excession3105:
OK, can't actually sort that for you guys, but I do have one question.....Where's the Care Bear?;)
[Xperia Play Android Development] FrAsErTaG:
Thanks mate, I will organize uploading the zip in a couple of days mate.

Edit: Figured it out :D
[Xperia Play Android Development] Logseman:
Do you plan on adding a "reboot into fastboot" feature in CWM?
[Xperia Play Android Development] Bin4ry:
Is not possible. You cannot invoke fastboot start from system. You always need a key pressed to get the blue light on :D

But we will implement a reboot into recovery feature, and maybe smth. like RomManager :)

Regards
[Xperia Play Android Development] Nhialor:
Wish I was a good enough programmer to help you guys out. What age are all of you? When'd you start coding? I've a long road ahead of me!
[Xperia Play Android Development] svenk919:
Can't format system (thus no restoring) when I wanted to go back to stock firmware from cm7. Fastboot doesn't work either so might not be a clockworkmod error but maybe the log files helps.

Edit: it's restoring now, I still used the old version. My bad :x
[Xperia Play Android Development] kloodee:
guys i've tried for so many times to apply the " fastboot boot recoveryPLAY.img " i get fastboot not found , please help i went through all the thread and yet i couldent help it
[Xperia Play Android Development] Logseman:
Have you set up fastboot first? As in, downloading the drivers, connecting the phone on Fastboot mode, telling the system to use the drivers you have downloaded, and so on?
[Xperia Play Android Development] kloodee:
no i havent sir, could you please guide me to the right page to read about setting the fast boot
[Xperia Play Android Development] Prozel:
I took a nandroid before installing thomassafca's theme. I turn the phone off through CWM, boot into fastboot, but, now I ran into a problem.

I keep getting an error saying the no device found. I've tried reinstall stock kernel but that didn't help. Please help.

Anyone experienced this?
[Xperia Play Android Development] cloud1250000:
Is that only for unlocked bootloader?
[Xperia Play Android Development] monsterday2002:
yes. i think its only for unlocked bootloaders. I read somewhere in this thread.
[Xperia Play Android Development] AndroHero:
yes you need an unlocked bootloader to boot the recovery .img :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] pouxonu:
Any reason it tells me cannot load recoveryPLAY.img even when everything is where it needs to be?

Update: root is done
[Xperia Play Android Development] muhski:
Nice, this CWM works fine!

I hope I won't need the backup, though ^^
[Xperia Play Android Development] loismustdie555:
when i put rootxperia.zip on sdcard and boot recovery then go to "install zip from sdcard/choose .zip/sdcard/rootmyplay/rootxperia.zip" it does nothing except it says "back menu button disabled"

does anybody have a clue as to why it does this?
[Xperia Play Android Development] loismustdie555:
ok i figured it out (root works {yay}) but i was wondering if it would be possible to use a theme frome the UOT theme kitchen http://uot.dakra.lt/kitchen/

or if it would mess up my phone

EDIT: yay it works when i apply a theme from the uot kitchen
[Xperia Play Android Development] ZeCoder:
Ok. Installed. Thank you very much.

But please somebody tell me how to reboot into recovery mode.

I searched alot but I can't find the key combination for rebooting into fastboot/bootloader

or recovery mode.

Please help.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Cat_On_Droid:
Question,for me to go into CWM Recovery mode,i need to fastboot boot it everytime?
[Xperia Play Android Development] lofike:
I have installed this no problem, but it seemed to have stopped me from flashing anything on flashtool, not sure..

but all i got in the log is to tell me to allow unknown sources and debugging.. Yet it's already turned on..so if anyone could help me it'll be awsme. oh and I was able to flash CM7 and didn't flash the ftf file >< so i don't have a radio.

I have tried fast boot flashing Doomlord's file, it has radio but I still can't use flash tool with the exact same problem. I'm not sure what the problem is.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Cat_On_Droid:
Are you using FLashtool 3.0.0? use Flashtool 2.9.1

Also install Gordens gate drivers from the drivers folder of the flashtool
[Xperia Play Android Development] mr.ultraman:
Sent from unknown device using XDA app :P
[Xperia Play Android Development] Rivalo:
When will it be able to flash roms? Like CM7?

And when you make a nandroid of your official rom, can you reinstall it after you were using CM7?
[Xperia Play Android Development] AndroHero:
1) recovery cannot flash /boot as it's it host partition. So never.

2) ofcourse you can, just remember to flash right kernel after restore :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] zetsurin:
Does this root process using the .zip file work on the 4.0.A.2.368 ROM?
[Xperia Play Android Development] AndroHero:
Yeah ofcourse it does :p
[Xperia Play Android Development] zetsurin:
Bingo. It worked just like you said. Cheers! :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] benoitb85:
Thanks Bin4ry and the FreeXperia team ! I just got my Xperia Play with the latest firmware and after unlocking the bootloader I could root it with no trouble thanks to your work.
[Xperia Play Android Development] crispyduckling:
hey i can get into recovery fine,

but when i try do a back up i get error cant mount sdcard?

can anyone help

thanks
[Xperia Play Android Development] brat81:
Un-sure if this is related to CWM but i now can not use mass storage when i connect my phone to my pc.
[Xperia Play Android Development] brat81:
Any help on this please?
[Xperia Play Android Development] brat81:
Awesome support, kinda reminds me of the x10 forums
[Xperia Play Android Development] sonicfreak360:
Your problem has no relation to this thread so you are thread jacking. Also, you have given us no details as to what has happened, you should just make a new thread in the general area. Don't blame the community.
[Xperia Play Android Development] droiddrums:
Thanks!

Recovery works great, Ty for this !
[Xperia Play Android Development] fenix4o9:
Sorry wrong thread please delete
[Xperia Play Android Development] Adam3Sixty:
Used this to root 2.3.4 :)

Worked perfectly!! Many thanx :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] crispyduckling:
still cant do a back up in recovery?

keeps saying cant mount sd card???

any help please
[Xperia Play Android Development] Leraeniesh:
Anyone know how to get ROM Manager enabled for the Xperia Play?
[Xperia Play Android Development] DoubleByte:
Is the version of CWM included in FXP official or unofficial? It would seem to me that someone would have to give it to the ClockWork devs to include it as one of the phones they recognize.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Fokezy:
I have a problem with fastboot...when I issue the command it gives me an error:

C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\tools>fastboot boot recoveryPLAY.img
downloading 'boot.img'...
FAILED (remote: The Device must be rooted first)
finished. total time: 0.001s

And yet my play is rooted,but bootloader locked,can anyone help me?

I'm guessing it's cuz of the locked bootloader...but I hope I'm wrong
[Xperia Play Android Development] AndroHero:
Ofcourse it's cause of the locked bootloader :p you cannot issue fastboot commands with a locked BL. (except for the bootloader unlock command)
[Xperia Play Android Development] linkandzelda:
Hi, I got this to bioot up fine but it will not let me mount the SD card, whioch pretty much renders it useless? :/
[Xperia Play Android Development] Logseman:
how about reading the first post? this is not meant to be flashed.
[Xperia Play Android Development] linkandzelda:
Thanks for the advise but I didnt flash it i "booted" it like instructed. But still it will not read my SD card it fails to mount.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Cat_On_Droid:
how do you fix the MD5 Mismatch?? im in a horrible situation, i tried to make a flashable zip and failed.i have 3 backups and it doesnt find any system.imgs,data.imgs,or android secure.imgs or anytihng else...:(
[Xperia Play Android Development] brainard52:
This may have been something I did, but I tried "Apply update from SD card" And went up (as a faster way) and hit yes, and all of a sudden the gui poofed, and I had the background image. the volume keys were disabled, but if I hit home or menu, the gui would appear again. If I hit one of them again, it would go away again. The search key would just make the gui go away. *shrugs* like I said, this was probably just something I did, but w/e

Steps I took:

1: using the volume keys, I chose the apply update option

2: use the up volume key until I was at yes

3: hit the search button for confirmation.

4: Bug.
[Xperia Play Android Development] ThePerfectBitch:
Sorry.. but how do i install?
[Xperia Play Android Development] AndroHero:
You can't install this, you have to boot it using fastboot every time you want to iuse it. Doomlords kernel comes with CWM though, You need an unlocked bootloader to use either by the way.
[Xperia Play Android Development] ThePerfectBitch:
Why do you have to have unlocked bootloader?

And how do i unlock my bootloader?
[Xperia Play Android Development] sonicfreak360:
OK, please GOOGLE your questions. People don't want to spend their time typing answers that have been answered before!
[Xperia Play Android Development] Me-Nex S:
how can I install this ?

is it just like bootloader thing ? " flash it "
[Xperia Play Android Development] antEris:
No. You may hot boot it with fast boot; I.e. "fastboot -i 0x0fce boot recoveryPLAY.img". Flashing it will not work as our recovery its in the same partition as the kernel, so flashing it will leave you with no kernel.

When you hot boot it it will boot into recovery and you can make / restore backups and flash update.zips.
[Xperia Play Android Development] crimsonnight:
sry for being a bein a noob but i've still got no idea where to out the .img file for it to be picked up by clockworkmod - can't find fastboot.exe?

if it helps i'm running the lastest generic uk firmware, rooted using doomlord's tool

cheers
[Xperia Play Android Development] Geeve:
I really didn't understend nothing of what people are talking here. No tutorial, no indications, just 2 download links, one containg an archive of some folders and some indications for those who knowsomthing about rooting and the other an .img

So... What do I do with those folders and that img? How do I use them and how am I supposed to root my phone? Cheers!
[Xperia Play Android Development] jpzzle:
Not a noob just one on the Xperia play , so after reading all this as someone mentioned WHAT TO DO BESIDES TWO LINKS AND OTHERS TALKING, do I install the recovery from the phone itself, then do I apply the recovery img from the phone as well? Is that it? I'm still stock , obviously , thanks in advance
[Xperia Play Android Development] Logseman:
Read the OP and it's perfectly clear.
[Xperia Play Android Development] jpzzle:
Read and still. There is no such thing as precautions not to brick this phone its one of the newest phone yet has the most threads about bricking and unbricking or unrooting, therefore ill ask even if it makes ears bleed . Those with experience understand this, as I've also helped a lot on different threads as well.
[Xperia Play Android Development] jpzzle:
And the Xperia isnt recognized by clockwork recovery so what TO DO , how to get a alright recovery so I can just move on to other steps.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Logseman:
I would recommend you to read the thread I link in my signature, the red one (if you're in the desktop). I think it's a fairly comprehensive data base in what you can do on the Play.
[Xperia Play Android Development] jpzzle:
Ok thank you, it's comprehensive , I broke my laptop hence I wondered of a way without computer but even the easiest way requires one it seems , so , that it shall be.
[Xperia Play Android Development] jpzzle:
rooted

only issue was i didn't and couldn't use fastboot as many ppl can't either which makes this though very easy somewhat redundant ,hence why i required a simpler and more direct way to root, and i found one a forum here that uses adb to push a zip and now i'm rooted ;)
[Xperia Play Android Development] kakool:
hi

my phone is sony ericsson experia play (800i) sim locked to o2,

will this method unlock it from o2 network and be able to use other phone networks?
[Xperia Play Android Development] Trancicted:
I'am a bit of a noob, so the only thing I have to do is use flashboot and type this:

fastboot boot recoveryPLAY.img

Then the phone will boot into recovery so I can back-up my ROM and install this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1442557 ?

If I don't use that code, the phone can't use recovery? Is there any possibility to write CWM into the phone so I can use it without pc?
[Xperia Play Android Development] Logseman:
Since you have unlocked your bootloaders, you can install a custom kernel from DoomLord which has a built in recovery.

This was an old workaround we used before CWM was embedded in the kernel.
[Xperia Play Android Development] ijustwantthedownload:
So I'm trying to put CM7 FXP104 on my Verizon phone. I updated to the .89 firmware and then rooted it using DoomLord's script. I've rebooted but when going in to FastBoot mode (yes the LED is blue) the following happens. Anyone have an idea? I tested SuperUser and confirmed it prompts for access...

C:\Users\ijustwantthedownload\Desktop\Xperia Play\fastboot>fastboot boot recoveryPLAY.img

downloading 'boot.img'...

FAILED (remote: The Device must be rooted first)

finished. total time: 0.001s

EDIT: I did have to relock my bootloader in order to get the device to boot after updating to the .89 firmware... trying to remember the commands to get it unlocked again. I still have the key from ashergray
[Xperia Play Android Development] Mogul345:
Shamlessly copy/pasted from http://unlockbootloader.sonyericsson.com/instructions

fastboot.exe -i 0x0fce oem unlock 0xKEY, where KEY is the unlock boot loader key you got in the beginning of this instruction. The boot loader should now be successfully unlocked.
[Xperia Play Android Development] unrandomsam:
I am using this (With stock SE rooted boot.img normally)

And want to add to it support for /system/vendor (That I have filled with various junk to save space on /data)

Are the sources on anywhere ? (Might as well update to 4.1.5 whilst I am at it).

Is there something I don't understand about the working of /system/vendor ?

(130MB free and unused on my Sim Free R800i)

Does flashtool etc mess with it ? (I think its just a free partition that can be used as you see fit that is just left alone).

(Filled it manually with adb remount / adb shell busybox mount -o remount,rw /system/vendor) - I don't want any of the hacks in the boot.img to set stuff read write that isn't for good reason. (Typos for example - I do all my file management from the shell).

I don't really want to have to redo tons of work to get it working.

(If it isn't possible I will just write a simple shell script to do it).

Or a method to actually get the version in the CM7 sources to boot would also be good (Then I could submit a patch to add the support to that version).

No one has mentioned it at all which surprises me. (It is the obvious place for Sony to put gapps etc).

Any comments would be helpful.
[Xperia Play Android Development] m2maddy:
Use -i option and try.

flashboot.exe -i 0x0fce flash boot recoveryPLAY.img

--

Maddy
[Xperia Play Android Development] Logseman:
No, thisis not meant to be flashed. Delete the flash part.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Mysticales:
Ok here I am, learning about another phone. Just got the xperia play from verizon I am trying to work with. So on the 1st post it has me confused.. one line says DONT flash and then the other line says flash this. So which is it?

Do I need to use both of these images? Or wait, I think I understand it now.. but please confirm before I screw that up.

I console fastboot to just "boot" into the image which isnt flashed, kinda like a soft load 1 time use. Then once I am in that temp recovery mode, I flash the other file, from there on out I can flash custom roms and get into cwm everytime I need? Or would I need to keep using the temp method each time I want to flash a diff rom? Thanks.

Edit: Ok I got everything going. Easy enough. Used the one from the rom thread. =) Manage to get basically all my answers too. Only took most the day to do this all. =) Now least I have a better understanding of the cdma flashing.
[Xperia Play Android Development] homeworlder:
So do i flash or no ?
[Xperia Play Android Development] Mysticales:
I had that same confusion with the post.. really should be reworded some.

Basically you fastboot INTO the .img file (This is a temp 1 time boot into. Think of it like using a Ubuntu Live cd to boot up) Then once IN the recovery mode, flash the other file.
[Xperia Play Android Development] sonicfreak360:
I think this doesn't need to be rewritten at all, people just need to learn how to read. That, or people just don't know what via means? It specifically says what you have to type in to use the recovery, and then it says to flash the root app via recovery, (via means with, basically)
[Xperia Play Android Development] Mysticales:
Well Im used to flashing and so, its just when I get a new device, I read up on things. But yes, I had the same confusion. Wasnt till later in the day when I used the stuff from the free xperia rom itself that it all made sense.
[Xperia Play Android Development] skaroger867:
im having trouble with the download...can someone check the link for me?

also is this the only way to install a custom rom? (i have my att play rooted aready)
[Xperia Play Android Development] loismustdie555:
the link is fine for me, the one on the bottom that is. because multiupload is gone, yes that's right sopa's dumba$$ people think they can censor the internet, not realizing that what they're doing is plain wrong.
[Xperia Play Android Development] agraceful:
sopa has nothing to do with why multiupload was taken down. Sopa never passed. Please do not speak on what you don't know. I will post a link tomorrow if it doesn't get mirrored by then