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[XPERIA X8 General] baiclark:
.wow i miss this thread!

Anyhow,i used to be an x8 user before and like you guys,i was dying to have my bootloader unlocked..

I made this thread just simply to gather thoughts,inputs and news on unlocking bootloaders for 11w26+..

I did my own research about unlocking the bootloader through altbypass and tespoint method..so u have to make ur own cable..the problem was,we couldnt find the pin outs for the tespins on our motherboard..so that made it too risky..and then after that, unlocking bootloaders became free on setool2..but u have to buy credits to update ur smart card from setool to setool2..until then,i lost my hope in doing the research..

This is not a guide,this is merely a collection of news on the ways to unlock the bootloader for our dear x8..so if you have inputs or ways to do it..please do share..

Ive heard about that guy who unlocks bootloader in exchange for cash..since he is able to do it..it is possible to unlock our boooader..its just that he's not that generous enough to share it for free..just pray he'll share it someday..

One thing that bothers me though is that he unlocks it online..he doesnt have to alybypass it using testpins and connecting the correct pinout..he must have used a softeware which altbypasses the security hole just by using usb cables..

Anyways,dont lose hope..i know there are ways out there waiting to be found..:)

Kind regards,

baiclark
[XPERIA X8 General] ScatteredHell:
This guy lack of english.

Can u tell us what u want exactly, use google translator

Sent from a god in Heavens
[XPERIA X8 General] soky999:
sony

it works throught sony website
[XPERIA X8 General] NIMBAH:
What does?
[XPERIA X8 General] krstep:
This tool was released today for free:

http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f778/free-plasma-tool-v-1-0-2-2-released-exclusive-1612826/

- Unlock all Sony Xperia 2010 Year (under test, private only)

Anyone tested it?
[XPERIA X8 General] Gogeta:
I read it and....

SOOO...

I think It's paid.....

(Or not?)

wanna thank xda? here
[XPERIA X8 General] ahmadsamhann:
I think you haven't complete reading. there is lots of password shared in the thread. well you have to read the whole thread then.
[XPERIA X8 General] Gogeta:
My mistake:p

wanna thank xda? here
[XPERIA X8 General] LilBlinx:
You are in tetovo but in Skopje there are many, try to find answers on forum.gsm.mk

ON TOPIC ! The number is 11W49. Will it work ?
[XPERIA X8 General] rajkumar85:
use flashtool

after many attempts i have successfully unlocked my w8 bootloader with the help of flashtool. initially i failed few times, then i reinstalled flashtool, disabled the antivirus, and sucessfully unlocked using the option unlock bootloader run option from the flashtool menu.
[XPERIA X8 General] Dzol Cp:
Well done,, on your new unlocked bootloader :D

what is your code numbers behind your x8/w8 ??

11w??

*I upgrade root/unlocked bootloader for x8/w8 in my home around nearly 20 ,,(4 w8 / 17 x8)

each for RM50 and,, all process is using FLASHTOOL /msm7227

I success unlocked bootloader using msm7227 for 11w40 (this happen when i was rushing to unlocked and forget to check the code, Thanks God (ALLAH) everything is fine :D
[XPERIA X8 General] Kevalvino:
How do you do that? Tell me please, i'am Islamic too :D

Sent from Xperia X8, and i need a tutor to unlock bootloader with 11W45, Please PM me ..
[XPERIA X8 General] veneshx8:
i dont think so. Wotanserver didn't unlock the bootloader but it did a hardbrick.

they havent replied me yet about this. its over 2 months now.

money wasted. :crying:
[XPERIA X8 General] Little Zed:
End up hard brick is most sure. Try setool2. Most users successful unlock even 12wxx
[XPERIA X8 General] Kevalvino:
Can you give me the steps ?? :confused:
[XPERIA X8 General] Gogeta:
It's paid method :rolleyes:

sent using internet explorer, hope it reaches on time :fingers-crossed:
[XPERIA X8 General] Kevalvino:
Can I unlock with a basic method that using SE Tweaker, s1tool or anything else ?
[XPERIA X8 General] Gogeta:
Mfg date....?

sent using internet explorer, hope it reaches on time :fingers-crossed:
[XPERIA X8 General] GoDz!:
Mine is 11w41

chances of success in unlocking bootloader??
[XPERIA X8 General] CnC-ROCK:
yes...but the chances of hardbricking the phone are more.
[XPERIA X8 General] AGuyOnNet:
11w50 user i guess i have to wait 5 more years until a safe method is made :(

Or try now and end up with a useless phone
[XPERIA X8 General] Lajbymester:
There won't be a free safe method ever. You can unlock it using SETool2 or you can go to http://unlock-bootloader.com/. Here you can unlock it using SETool2 over the internet. It's paid but this is the only method to unlock the newer devices. Or you wait forever for a free safe method, because there won't be any.
[XPERIA X8 General] AGuyOnNet:
Lol... btw i just checked the other date on my phone not the battery date... its 12w05 xD IM SCREWED
[XPERIA X8 General] Little Zed:
Some users reported that you can unlock with setool2 The Paid Method for 12wXX devices.
[XPERIA X8 General] AGuyOnNet:
Yeah but its paid method xD

I Rather use 2.3.7 OS for free than pay to use android 4... i better buy a new phone to be honest if i need to have the latest android version
[XPERIA X8 General] Little Zed:
It's your choice bro. I was just only recommending you about bootloaders. Buy a new phone is the best option! Cheers!
[XPERIA X8 General] hank2630:
hope it can be work.........
[XPERIA X8 General] AGuyOnNet:
It will work if someone makes a free app that can unlock the bl without any problems but i doubt it since people only want $ nowadays
[XPERIA X8 General] vineeth15:
Hey guys my manf. Date is 11w33 can the free version unlock my bootloader if yes then how?? And who helpers are always apperciated...thank you..:):)
[XPERIA X8 General] Gogeta:
No just no free service

work hard, play hard:cool:
[XPERIA X8 General] AndroidNotMaster:
So is it safe to unlock bootloader with new security using s1tool?
[XPERIA X8 General] cascabel:
what new security?
[XPERIA X8 General] AndroidNotMaster:
I mean manufactured date which is 11w29+. S1tool will unlock such bootloader?
[XPERIA X8 General] Gogeta:
NO.

Sent from my xperia katana :D
[XPERIA X8 General] AndroidNotMaster:
So the only ways for now are omnius and setool?
[XPERIA X8 General] Dede525:
Guys wich method can i use to unlock my x8 12w17? Is ok also paid method, but wich one? can you provide me some links?
[XPERIA X8 General] TheScriptKitty:
My X8 is11W26 :silly:
[XPERIA X8 General] abiud.gc:
Do you have news about this?? Im a 11w46 and wants to know if can unlock because i bricked once trying to flash a Rom because i dont unlock the bootloader first
[XPERIA X8 General] kks111:
hi

i can unlock it contact me on gtalk muskanjainxx@gmail.com
[XPERIA X8 General] Dede525:
I unlocked mine that has a 12wXX manufactured date thanks to alejandrissimo... but it cost! I paid 7€ and he did it online with me in conversation on Gtalk. I can say that is trusted
[XPERIA X8 General] nemexian:
Hi, i have X8 11w46 but on battery it say is 10w25

I really want to unlock bootloader, but Im kind of scared, I don't want to hardbrick.

How can I unlock it if I can at all. Sorry for bad English :laugh:
[XPERIA X8 General] Dede525:
Don't mind about the battery! the important number is the one on the phone, under the battery...

I had 10wXX and i successfully unlocked it with the usual method, one day I sent it in the warranty and Sony gave me another X8 12wXX in that case I contacted alejandrissimo and he unlocked the bootloader (and also the carrier) for 10$.... he does it in few minutes online, while you are in chat with him, you can trust him. you can search him on google and send him an email, he will answer pretty soon.
[XPERIA X8 General] laoneid:
wow, can you share picture about your phone that has unlock bootloader ? :)
[XPERIA X8 General] RastHacker:
Good new for me ^^ Ulocked with s1tool and msm7227_semc.cmd with 11w36 ;D
[XPERIA X8 General] wilbso:
LOL, in any way can help? i doubt so but it will give me something to do

well, obviously we will have to look into the system, but its not even visible there last time i check.
[XPERIA X8 General] 8cpaiw:
so can i unbrick my phone with that method???

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When will I be able to download setool2?
[XPERIA X8 General] :
Congrats, you already figured out that the link you posted above is for the 2011 line Xperia devices, not the 2010 X8/W8/X10mini(Pro)...

To crack down on the testpins (on the W/X8 - remove the battery, remove the huge white sticker below the battery glued onto the PCB. At the top/right there's an area of 8 pins - that's the SEPORT Testpins Matrix.

I already documented how pins 4-8 are connected by following their routing in the Schematics Manual.

While I can see that there's something going on at the pins on my Oscilloscope I yet have to probe the pins to see what I can get from there.

Like I wrote - I ordered an Arduino MEGA (which should arrive tomorrow or on thursday) to have a programmable I/O device to try and read the pins.

Going by the plain pinout I lack the idea if there's a need to pull one of the pins to ground (to enable the ALT_BYPASS - much like the USB Jig with the Sammy devices, but in our case the X8 doesn't care about Jig's - or in other words: to set the CPU into UART mode hence enabling UART comm on the testpins) or which of these pins may act as a UART at what I/O speeds.

Looking at what has been documented about the X10 testpins it actually requires a cable connection plus a switch to short two pins (seems that switch is what triggers the ALT_BYPASS).

Also, s1tool isn't able to do the "hard brick recovery" - in best case s1tool may be able to unlock the boot loader by ALT_BYPASS (that, however, first needs to be confirmed AFTER we worked out how we can possibly make a UART connection to the testpins matrix).

Since no one can provide that bit of intel (physical connection to the testpins) that's why we need to try to work it out ourselves. I read the line you quoted in magenta myself in the past, but there's no download I could find including that directory/file (which would be incredibly helpful as that may reveal how the Qualcomm cables are routed to the SEPORT).

The only new info I found in your post is that it seems possible to maybe work out a how-brew hard unbrick method if there's a way to flash the ROM through the UART (in which case the I/O speed must be rather high, because it would take eternally long to transfer ~250MB of ROM data at low comm rates).
[XPERIA X8 General] beastfren:
i have 11w34 x8, but i still manage to unlock my bootloader.

now using SDE 1.0 + naa kernel
[XPERIA X8 General] baiclark:
yeah i know its for 2011..what i think is that, s1tool supports and detects x8, so i think its also possible to try this method..with the idea of the testpins that is..

anyways, sorry for giving you a headache B.jay... because of my threads, a lot of people asks you nonsense things..i just feel like sharing what i have for future references...my apologies..
[XPERIA X8 General] :
Well, the last drop in the bucket was a certain some (I'm not going to name here) who just recently hard bricked his phone because he chose to simply not listen to me, the hard brick warning thread, and every other hard brick warning that's around, but has nothing better to do than to bug me by PM about how this resurrection can be done (as if I would know - I didn't hard brick my X8, I actually need it as a research device).

What blows me off my chair here is the total unwillingness of some people (*points finger to the ones who PM me about whatever they did wrong*) to do some research of their own but simply resort to PM in case they can't find their "fix" within seconds. Everything they possibly need to know about the thing you posted can be found by searching on Google, and I'm pretty sure setool.net is pretty hard to miss if they can come up with a somewhat intelligent search query.

Anyway - I posted my rant in the General board already and will ignore help requests by PM from now on ... it's not worth the trouble.
[XPERIA X8 General] RomWiz:
Flashtool

I used Flashtool and it worked for me :)
[XPERIA X8 General] baiclark:
.whats your manugacture date?
[XPERIA X8 General] Lietotajs:
11W35 hard bricked! After traying to unlock, first time unsucessfull ("R" not to turn in "r"), after seccond attempt phone not switched on!

Repaired and not traying more!
[XPERIA X8 General] wilbso:
HUH? NO WAI!

why did you even try?
[XPERIA X8 General] Lietotajs:
That was be before brick warning on this site (end of January)!
[XPERIA X8 General] wilbso:
OK fair anough
[XPERIA X8 General] 8cpaiw:
repaired like go to SE and they fix your phone or some other method?:confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::confused:
[XPERIA X8 General] RomWiz:
11W35
[XPERIA X8 General] Lietotajs:
Phone was be totally ded. I go to nearest mobile phone repairing warehause (not authorised SE), after one day phone was be fine, also I lost warranty, repairing costs for me 15 euros.
[XPERIA X8 General] syafwan:
I still waiting for unlocking bootloader 11w47. Its so far and make surprising when I seen that fact. I always have question; why Sony make limitation like that. That make me sad when I try to develop more in my HH :confused:
[XPERIA X8 General] 8cpaiw:
i am going to take my xperia x8 to nearest SE shop to fix it!!(for 1 or 2 days) :)

also i downloaded setool2 and i try to run it but then new window open and said:smartcard not found!

so do i need to buy some **** to setool2 work properly?

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i agree with syafwan (my date 11W46)

when can i unlock my bootloader(safe)??

i mean this thread is about unlocking bl for 11W29+ and nobody who got 11W33+

didn't unlock it with help of this post!!

sorry for language(mistakes)
[XPERIA X8 General] xperiax8tester:
One guy offers me to unlock my 11W41 bootloader.

He bought setool2 box (program),credits and everything so it should be harmless but I'm scared because I had 2 hard bricks allready.(first 11W37 and second 10W51).

If anyone is interested send me a PM and I will give you his e-mail :)

Guy is from Croatia and he is doing that remotely :D
[XPERIA X8 General] :
Now it gets interesting. I wonder how he will possibly do the testpins alt bypass remotely ... magical fairies?
[XPERIA X8 General] xperiax8tester:
LOL!

I don't know how he planning to do that .I'm telling you what he said to me :)
[XPERIA X8 General] beastfren:
all you need is to follow instruction of SpyderX carefully.

i had unlock bootloader for 5-7 times already and i dont have any problem.

my phone = 11w34 .
[XPERIA X8 General] wilbso:
Its not a limitation. Its a security hole !!!
[XPERIA X8 General] :
To provide a wee bit more insight...

For a unexpected change it's not Sony who's at fault here - it's actually Qualcomm, the manufacturer of the MSM7227 CPU/MPU used in the W8/X8/X10mini/X10miniPro (and a whole lot of other devices based on the same chipset).

Starting at 11W29 onwards (going by observations of hard bricks reported here in our X8 section) Qualcomm used a new revision of the chips in question. They have the security hole the boot loader unlock exploits to, well, unlock the boot loader effectively closed (in hardware). While this doesn't render the unlock software defunct it actually renders your phone defunct upon trying.

Alright, am already curious.

While we know that there are some 11W3x devices who got boot loader unlocked without turning them into a paperweight you SHOULD NOT ENCOURAGE others to try. Like it or not, but you're a minority in the range of affected devices. The chances that you will end up with a hard brick are at 99.95% (and the 0.05% are devices like yours where the gun, while you played russian roulette, didn't fire).

Just because YOU and a handful of others got it unlocked, which you can easily count by using the fingers of just two hands, doesn't mean it makes it safe for everyone else to try.

The WARNINGS exist for a reason and shouldn't be encouraged to be dismissed by someone who had nothing more than a lucky moment.
[XPERIA X8 General] wilbso:
He means SEUS i think.... op should correct me if im wrong :P

11W32 unlocked? Impossible unless you cracked those testpins before me and b.jay (arduino has been orded , and is on its way soon :) )

Ok, here is a full explanation:

Sony have recently shipped xperia x8's with a revamped chipset configuration. This caused the newer xperia x8's to have a security hole.

If anyone attempt's to Unlock their bootloader with the date 11w29 and above the majority of them will have a hard brick.

just a little warning ;) about the unlocking bootloader

Your sure your OK with this? I wouldnt (no offence to anybody or the guy who is offering) because you dont seem to know him personally?!

OK. Well good luck with it then

But DONT recommend it because of the 1 million other warnings not to. If you actually encouraged anyone to do this, you would have a problem (with about 1000 x8 users lol ;)

Just sayin, nothing meant by it but just giving a warning about encouraging something that has been discouraged alot ;)

-wilbso
[XPERIA X8 General] xperiax8tester:
Last night before I fall asleep I was thinking about SEUS and kernels.

When we update our phone with SEUS it updates our kernel and all of that goes through internet server.So if someone could make some patch for SEUS which will upload scripts from other server and like that we could add our kernels and roms.

I know that this is silly (very,very silly) but what if it is possible like that?

Dont laugh please :D
[XPERIA X8 General] :
You got a point here, though I yet have to see a 11W29+ device that didn't already ship with the final 2.1.1.C.0.0 firmware (and kernel). The last official ROM update happened in the first quarter of 2011 (February?) and well before the revised phones showed up.

Also - maybe there is a way to write a new baseband/kernel by using just a software approach, but then the official SEUS updates are...

a) digitally signed (hence genuine and therefore accepted by the boot loader).

b) not trying to crack the boot loader wide open and replace it past another loader.sin that bypasses the signing check to load custom kernels.

You can't really compare the official update methods (where there's most likely some undocumented functions being used in SEUS/PCC) past the boot loader unlock method.
[XPERIA X8 General] wilbso:
Do you mean Downgrades XD

OK,I like the idea, :D but good luck making a patch for .EXE (executable file/programm).

How would you patch it in?

But, i love the idea, just re-writing nearly the whole script (in my opinion, I love Making patches :) ). But how? would we upload links/download links to the script.

If you want, we can work on it together :)
[XPERIA X8 General] syafwan:
Ehm.. I understand now. I should have bought a secondhand HH first, when is possible to developed :o

Thanks for information
[XPERIA X8 General] gdeliana:
Well i think we need some geniuses here...since fxp team left our scene...things are going bad. They said no money...no support. What i don't understand is why did sony do this on a old model which passes out soon?

Now the question is weather someone finds a new security hole (must be a really genius person) or we pay fxp AGAIN and maybe they show interest and crack it AGAIN.
[XPERIA X8 General] :
Just to repeat it again... there IS a way to unlock the boot loader on 11W29+ phones, it's just not as simple as enabling USB-Debugging and running a batch file.

If you take a look at setool.net (I should slowly ask for a advertisement fee) there's a tool called "setool2". By using this tool along with unlock credits and the Testpins bypass method (requires you to tinker with the hardware) you can actually achieve what you long for - a unlocked boot loader.

Even Wotan is claiming they can unlock the boot loader on security fixed devices.

Note that this method hasn't been tried by anyone so far ... seems no one has the required exchange money to make use of it.
[XPERIA X8 General] gdeliana:
No you are wrong on saying that only paying solves the problem....Setool2 needs a special cable to be connected at the back of you phone...each phone has it's own style of the back connector cause of the different form factors of the phones. Look this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2510g4V4KA

You have holes in your logic also: You say..you connect the pins with any material which passes electric current....yeah but where you get the electricity power from (the connector is just a closed circuit which doesn't have any electricity source) to power up the pcb of your phone if you just connect the pins with any kind of metallic material . The answer to this are the cables you see on the video...they supply your phones power from the cable which must be connected to the lan port of the pc...or maybe you put the battery itself on them :)
[XPERIA X8 General] :
Thank you very much, I know about the Qualcomm Resurrection cables (alias Qualcomm GPG cables).

According to how the home brew X10 unbrick works you connect the negative pin of the battery to one of the test pins and you also need a loop connection with a switch (though I don't know to which pins the line with the switch exactly connects to). The power and data is provided to the phone by the USB interface - which, of course, is then flashed by setool2.

In short - the testpin activates the alt bypass and the connection with the switch is meant to set the CPU into USB Boot mode (instead of UART comm mode like with the GPG cables).

EDIT: That's actually what I am after ... figuring out how the testpins trick is done on the W/X8 to maybe find a way for a home brew hard unbrick ... but that project is now set aside anyway as I'll be continuing GingerDX.
[XPERIA X8 General] baiclark:
hew

locating the pinouts or x8 is pain in the a**...anyway..these are the pinouts..this will be our basis of making homemade gpg cables..

the original pages are here>>>>>>1 and 2
[XPERIA X8 General] wilbso:
Have you tested it?

Yes, you can try that method but as we are still finding an alternative methods. Once the testpins are cracked/solved we will be able to work out how to make an alternative way I.E: A computer programm that will modify the hardware/ security hole or a patch etc. I know im making no sense whatsoever but it is the post/thought that counts ;)

ok, i will be on lookout for now lol :D

Your sure right there, it is very annoying finding the pins, but if we succeed, then we might be able to unbirck a hrad brick without skipping off to see SE and tell them your phone is dead and that is it. lol
[XPERIA X8 General] baiclark:
Yes im sure about that..i just figured out that the distl/docs/blah blah can be found on setool itself..i found it after installing the setool2..it was just in one of the folders..hehe..anyhow,the laser mentioned that we can actually make our owm gpg cables if we cant buy one..how?basing on those pinouts..
[XPERIA X8 General] wilbso:
Good to know lol.

Good luck in doing so

Sent from my x8 with great knowledge
[XPERIA X8 General] neogen17:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=J88w8XtPXgc

WATCH this video it may help u guys .
[XPERIA X8 General] :
That's about how you can revive by using a Medusa JTAG Box... comes at about the same price as a RIFF Box and you need the E15 JTAG Header to connect the cable you put into the RJ<whatever> connector of the Medusa Box (you see it to the bottom/right of the E15 as the page gets scrolled down) to the header.

In short: that's a possible way if you want to shell out ~120-140 Euro.
[XPERIA X8 General] Lietotajs:
Ha! Better, vaste your Xperia X8 and bay new Xperia mini!
[XPERIA X8 General] Chadw1985:
i bought an x8 last week not knowing about the bootloader problem. i definitely dont want to try to unlock it being 11w49. i am anxiously waiting for solution so i can get dual touch working. If any testing needs to be done, i will be glad to help. Keep up the good work devs!
[XPERIA X8 General] Lietotajs:
For dual touch you not need to unlock bootloader, just only root and flash custom firmware and, if it has no dual touchouch, add modules for synaptic!