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[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Bin4ry:
yes!

yes correct!

Regards
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tsukeyomi:
Yes.

So here is how i proceeded to flash the prerooted image with FlashTool. I'm a beginner but willing to learn about the Android world. This guide is really simple and is mainly aimed to beginners like me. If someone is in my situation (problems communicating manually with the device in FastBoot mode), maybe this could help:

How to easily flash the prerooted ICS image with FlashTool:

You must have ICS already installed. Be sure your bootloader is unlocked. Unlocking it is very easy, just go on http://unlockbootloader.sonymobile.com/ and follow the steps.

Download the prerooted image you can find in the first page of this discussion.

(If you want the newest 6.1.A.2.45 firmware, you can download it here (fast direct download), but it isn't pre-rooted. If you want to have root on 6.1.A.2.45, first download it, then install the rooted 6.1.A.0.452 firmware following this guide and then flash the 6.1.A.2.45 preserving root.)

Download and install the latest version of FlashTools if you haven't already. Install the drivers for Xperia S and FastBoot if you haven't already. You can find them in the driver folder inside of where FlashTool is installed.

Rename the prerooted image you downloaded earlier to "system.img".

Launch FlashTool. Click on the flash symbol (the first one you see) and choose FastBoot mode.

On the left, click on "Reboot into FastBoot mode (via ADB)". Wait until the notification LED on your device turns blue.

Then, in the middle of the FastBoot Toolbox, click on "Select system to Flash" and choose the "system.img" (the prerooted image you renamed earlier).

Wait until it finishes. You will know it's finished when the event window of FlashTool will display "Before reboot check for the log status" or something similar.

On the FastBoot Toolbox click on "Reboot device into system", in the middle column.

Wait for the reboot and you're done! You should see the SU icon between your apps now.

If there's any typo or mistake/wrong information, please let me know.

If OP thinks this can be in any way helpful, feel free to report it in the first page.

Hope i helped :victory:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Razje:
Thanks, works perfect :D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] K900i:
Hi, I have downloaded the prerooted System Img but the flashtool is not able to detect System.img I downloaded from the first page of this thread.

Have I missed anything?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Daniel_GB:
flash it via fastboot....
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] K900i:
My phone enters fastboot-mode, but the problem is that the flashtool isn't detecting the System.img file...

all the steps are correct until Step 7
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] fNOOB:
I have already rooted using the manual method, is there any advantage to me flashing the .img anyway?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Deniz.S:
if everything's fine then there's no point
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] scook94:
Use fastboot.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dachao:
I just flashed the rom and my GPS does not work. Anyone else with the problem?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] MasterLinuxer:
ICS is flashed for 24 houers now. SU does the job great and nothing's laggy. Waiting for KA's ROM :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] K900i:
I am following the instructions but it says

error:cannot load 'XperiaS_prerooted_ICS_452.img'

and I have also tried the alternative method but flashtool inst recognizing the img file which I downloaded in the post 1
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] azreezalazrul@gmail.com:
I just flash the ftf file without unlock bootloader and it works damm it smooth,

Just want the original stock 2.3.7 6.0.A.2.73 or 76 ftf file

if 3 days or 4days it come laggy,

Could somebody help if someone have that ftf file,that I cant download it to make backup to my xperia s:rolleyes:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Basian Mile:
I would apreciate if somebody is willing to do a ExtendedPowerMenu.

Gesendet von meinem Galaxy Nexus
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sandydude:
Lagging

Is anyone facing the lagging issue?

The icons on the home screen are taking few seconds to display when returned to homescreen.

Is there a way to overcome this lagging?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dmbardal:
Installed and working great !

At first all my apps \ settings etc. were ported over, but it lagged crazy.

Reformatted the whole phone and installed again.. perfection.

Waiting for a decent custom ROM now! :-)

thanks for the up
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] noob.fl:
was the same by me... first installation, the launcher was damn laggy... so i flashed back to Gingerbread, then back to ICS with full wipe of every partition and now works great :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tsukeyomi:
If you're following my method try to rename the image to "system.img", without the capital letter.

If still doesn't work just redownload the file, maybe it is corrupted or something went wrong during the download.

Let us know.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] kobolt99:
Same here, in google maps it shows I'm like 400 meter from my real location.

Someone else having the same problem? or any idea on how to solve this?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] arcanixX:
Do you guys know what is "SIM contact"? Is causing a lot of battery drain.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] markksa1978:
My gps working like charm.. :laugh:

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Never exist in my battery usage statistic.. Maybe your sim card got problem?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] cocaino:
ia musing this update till tomorrow and i cant find any bug or laggy

this is very good update thanks binary

one thing is theame wan not good it is gb theame

i want ics the ....
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ahmedoxo:
yeah me too, it drains the battery even more than the display!!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] K900i:
Hi, thanks for replying.

I renamed the file without using capital letters now, when I open the flash tool It detects the file as "system.img.img" I tried flashing it but the log says "flashing system" and then instantly " please check the log before rooting into the system" when i reboot there is no #SU.

thanks
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] utsav911:
Will it void my phone's warranty if I flash this firmware? cause my current region is India.

Sorry for my noobness. :(
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] wing_zero8556:
Thanks for your guide tsukeyomi, was very helpful. Got the phone rooted :D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] a4rocks:
No it won't. Flashtool is not supposed to void any sort of warranty. Go ahead and flash the firmware of your choice
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] utsav911:
Thanks. So I will flash ics now :D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jatt101:
From all the ics firmwares, is there any particular one that is better than the other?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] edowar:
Many thanks bin4ry and Sony.

This Rom is perfect, and I very love it.

And it seem like LCD more vibrant than ginger and so far I never see yellowwish screen again.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] marko68:
After flashing this version I Will receive updates from PC companion about My country or I Will receive switzerland updates? And what about italian operators and roaming

Please give me an answer

Thank You
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] hadramos:
you will receive the updated Switzerland
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] marko68:
So i have no reason to install this upgrade, is better if I wait the Italian from Sony?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sminki:
Yes, Sony is that good they can repair faulty hardware through software :p
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] edowar:
Re: [ROM] Xperia S - Official Sony ICS 6.1.A.0.452 {1257-3740} Generic CH

But it is not yellow tint, I mean yellow screen after my Xs replace to a new lcd from sony :-).
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sminki:
no worries, I was just trying to be funny :p my S only came back 2 days ago from having the yellow tint fixed ;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] marko68:
is better if I wait the Italian from Sony?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] donjamal:
pointless, you can flash the italian version later on (of course only if there will be a ftf file available)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] marko68:
This is the point.....is so difficult to find italian .ftf files........and I can't understand why here in XDA I find everything from other countries and so few things about Italy....
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] incubusk8r:
3d and panorama camera

did anybody else lose the 3d and panorama camera after update.?:confused:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Bin4ry:
Its easy reason: Seem like noone of the Italians here is interested of posting their countrys stuff. Normally people post their countrys roms. You can do a "backup" of your country firmware with flashtool. There are many tutorials how to do it here on XDA.

So be the first one posting italian firmwares ;)

Regards
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] marko68:
I will happy to do it! Can you give me a link to a right guide to do it,please?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Bin4ry:
Here is one tutorial found with google in 10 seconds:

http://mytechencounters.wordpress.c...eate-an-ftf-file-of-your-xperia-ics-firmware/

The process is the same for EVERY FIRMWARE on EVERY SONY DEVICE!

Regards
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tsukeyomi:
Oh now i understand lol. When you try to do this type of operations always set Windows in order to be able to see which extension each file has.

Try to rename rename "system.img.img" to "system.img" and retry to flash it. If your computer and phone configuration is correct (drivers installed, bootloader unlocked) you won't fail. ;)

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Hey, why don't you make a .75/.76 ftf of the Italian generic version? I already flashed the CH ICS so i can't. Maybe in the future i could just flash the italian ftf (anyone could do it actually) and we'll be able to make the ftf of italian ICS when it is out.

Having .75/.76 italian ftf would be nice anyway, think about it ;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nickholtus:
connect you phone in fastboot mode first and then do it again

works fine
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] K900i:
I tried still getting :(

23/045/2012 19:45:19 - INFO - Device connected in fastboot mode

23/045/2012 19:45:20 - INFO - Launching Fastboot Toolbox 1.0 by DooMLoRD

23/045/2012 19:45:20 - INFO - Device Status: FASTBOOT mode

23/045/2012 19:45:59 - INFO - Selected system (system.img or system.sin): G:\system.img

23/045/2012 19:45:59 - INFO - Flashing selected system

23/047/2012 19:47:03 - INFO - Please check the log before rebooting into system
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] noob.fl:
this message means: its finish, try to boot into system - should work
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ycb04:
3d panorama is still there just no shortcut for it
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] K900i:
Rebooted into system couldn't get root :(
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] fNOOB:
you might aswell try the manual method, it's not that much more diffucult ;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] noob.fl:
you was faster then me :)

@ fnoob.. try the flashmethod version with the ftf - just follow the instructions from Bin4ry in the first post... if your BL is unlocked, works properly :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] kobolt99:
gps not working

I've tried gps location in google maps under different situations and it's still showing me like 400 meters away from my real location.

When using 3G/GPS the gps icon shows up but it doesn't interact, but if only GPS on it shows up in the status bar and interacts (those little lines that moves besides the little satelite). Never works properly.

Could that be a flash error or something like that?

What could I do to fix this?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] joaonds:
After atualization with this ICS, the sound of notifications cause interference with the sound of media player (PowerAmp).

When I receive a notification, the song I'm listening leaves out the headset, and go out the external speaker of the Xperia.

Is there any way to fix this?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] K900i:
New error (in the command prompt window )-using the manual method :(

This same error comes up when I try the easy method too......what could have gone wrong?

Please help.

sending 'boot' <5414 KB>

FAILED < remote: the device must be rooted first>

finished. total time: 0.0009s
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] neunzehn77:
So.... After testing and testing searching for bugs and... Here is my quick reply to this ics Sony- Brand... I have got also a galaxy note and a HTC one with ics.. so its easy to compare.. From 1-10 (10=best)

xperia s = 3..

Galaxy Note=7

HTC = 8

Why?

- Battery drains like ice in the sun

- Launcher lags

- missing ×send to..*

- no auto- brightness

- slow reaction when opening apps

- bad responding buttons

- no ICS Theme with ics features

- bad responding touchscreen

- overexposed pictures using frontcamera (face- lock)

- bad sound

- connection errors when using Internet and calling some

- worst email client ever without direkt dialing a number written in an email

- bad copy and paste behaviour

- Bluetooth drains battery as hell

- toggles for gps, nfc,.. Won't work

- mp3 ringtones need seconds to start up

- contacts not automatically sync with exchange

-....

Its a silly joke and it seems to me that Sony tries kidding me... Why its so difficult to build up a clean / working ICS?

Hmm many the bloatware is the problem... :-)

Ive got enough from Xperia S.. Seems to me S means ****ty :-)

Sorry Sony... 6h of using.. Battery emty... That is not fair.. Other Brands can do it much better..

www.neunzehn77.info
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] thanksgiving60:
yes

contact sony

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we really appreciate your personal opinions :rolleyes:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] 3Shirts:
Sorry, all I could hear is "waah waah waah, my ***** hurts"
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] randy_c:
LOL :laugh:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ben36:
Lmao! And I don't have any of those problems!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] scook94:
Lucky you. While I didn't have all of them either, the piss poor battery performance and some broken apps had me reverting to GB.

It's a poor effort from Sony, I trust Cyanogenmod will do the job correctly and until then I'm sticking with Ginger Bread.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ben36:
What broken apps?

My battery is brilliant since on ics too. I'm still on 48% since unplugging around 12 hours ago and I've been using it loads
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] marcjuh:
Seems to me by reading your opinion. You haven't tried to figure out the phone totaly before posting it. If you tried harder and reading more about your xs you'd figure out the phone does almost everything you said it wont... Maby after a week playing with it finding all the good stuff yourself by reading you could gif a more accurate opinion :D:p

Verstuurd van mijn LT26i met Tapatalk
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] scook94:
My battery was dead after 8 hours, I need better than that.

I was having issues with Alphascope (now Scope Beta) not working via mobile network. It's my must have app and I can't really justify not having it when the other gains with ICS were so minimal.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mikbe:
One question: Did you wipe data?

I don't have the problems you described.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] fNOOB:
^THIS. *dies*

Also, do any of you seem to be having problems with Push notifications?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] scook94:
Yup, wiped everything and installed all apps from scratch.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mikbe:
Sorry for you. My battery life has never been better.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bustervic:
Yeah, I have have little issue at all with this ICS update, the last 2 days I have gone to bed with 25% battery left with 16hrs of time since last plugged and over 3 hrs of screen on time. On gingerbread the same usage, and the battery would be dead.

That is as good or better than the One X.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] noob.fl:
im using my phone today the whole day, playing arronund, reboot a lot of time, made benchmarktests over benchmarktests, put the Governor to Performance, install and reinstall apps, play music, was always on WIFI - short: don hardcore use and after 12 Hours got loosed 80% of Battery - damn good i think

true... but lagst just if you apply som third party Widgets and resice it

never nedet

auto brightness sucks... hate my old Xperia pro for no option to kick out Auto Brightness

wait for a couple of hours after install ICS first time... you will love the speed

true... but no more so bad like with GB

Take a Replacement... Nova or Apex

not mine

dont us it, so cant say it

sorry, mate, but the Sony Devices are sounds as good as hell... not one of my other devices sounds so good like the Xperias... damn, the Xperia Mini (e10i) is da f****ing loudest and best sound Smartphone if ever heard... on second place is the Xperia S

is your baseband proper installed new?

use g-mail since jears - for a couple of reasons

got no problem

wait a couple of Hours and maybee 3 or 4 circles of Battery load and unload ;)

no problems here

if you got root, you found the build.prop tweak to change this ;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Suhaib Haidar:
Is this need to unlocked boot-loaders or I can do it with locked BL?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
You can do it with locked ones.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tsukeyomi:
What happens if i try to relock the bootloader after flashing the prerooted image?

Following this method, for example.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] donjamal:
has anyone on locked bootloader tried this:

http://www.sparkyhub.com/how-to-root-sony-xperia-ray-with-android-4-0-3-in-5-minutes/

or will this work only on 4.0.3?

EDIT: this doesn't work :( heck, i want root and can't unlock the freaking bootloader :(
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Pacjonek:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=27796951&postcount=87

Now i don't have Xperia S so i don't may test this.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] donjamal:
trying, will report back soon :D

EDIT: no go :(

the guy says this should work on our phone as well, so some of our devs would might give it a go? i also contacted him asking for his help. let's see.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Pacjonek:
Maybe try this.

I modified this method to Xperia standards.

Remember to extract all files and then run it.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] donjamal:
what changes you made? btw same error as the one i posted in the original thread. btw i made the same changes :) changed the m12 dir to tmp :)

no go, no root access, though superuser.apk is installed

is there a system dump somewhere? i couldn't find one.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Lord Takyon:
Same here lol. The quest continues ;-)

Sent from my XperiaS via transwarp conduit.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] donjamal:
the guy who created the rooting script for the razr is helping :)

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can someone with root access verify if this folder exists?

/data/local/tmp/

thnx
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Daniel_GB:
Its there....:good:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] donjamal:
could you please list the content of it?

thanks!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tsukeyomi:
There are 5 files.

superuser.apk

su

rootit

psneuter

init.rc

:)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] donjamal:
thnx :)

one more: what's inside /dev/block/?

is there a folder called mmcblk1p20?

again, thnx
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
I see that you guys are working on a root method for locked bootloaders. Well, if I had any knowledge I would help, but I don't have it... Good luck then, don't want to unlock mine yet...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] donjamal:
i don't have any knowledge either but i'm trying and figuring out :D now i know that there are file system difs between our device and the razr and that's causing problems

i fixed what i could but the above folder is still in the grey for me. well, we'll see. the guy is not responding at the moment, so i'm on my own :D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tsukeyomi:
Two folders, platform and vold.

Hit thanks to ALL of my posts! :D :D

I deserve it because of the "ubelievable" help I'm giving you haha :D :D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] donjamal:
there u go :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tsukeyomi:
Should you need anything else just let me know ;)

Btw, what happens if I try to relock the bootloader after rooting the device?

Is it fine if I do it?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sminki:
yes it's fine, but what's the point?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] donjamal:
dunno, i can't unlock it and being without root is a big pain in my ass :D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] AeonWorld:
Can somebody with xperia s provide a cwm system recovery (system.yaff....) please

Thank you,

AEON
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] donjamal:
someone pls list the folder content of /data/local/

thnx
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] soo55:
great thanks bin4ey for the links, I’ve just a small question: is it necessary to root before this update ? in this link: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1725078 ,they say that it's not necessary, why you added it in your post ?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] noob.fl:
/mnt/ (empty)

/tmp/init.rc

toolbox (think is just mine from the ROM Toolbox.apk
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] arcatarc:
Hi all,what about notification led?it works when screen off for sms,missed call etc..?

Tnx.

Inviato dal mio ST18i
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] noob.fl:
if you mean the small led - jess, works... blinking for missing Calls/Messages... red for less Batterystats, orange for loading (blue for fastboot)

if you meen the LED bar... dont blinking or do something else with notification
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] belek1979:
Update with unchecked wipe data and clear cache. To probles wuth stability - all apps works gr8. System 2. It took some time to optimization all my apps but you can do update to ICS without loosing any data!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] donjamal:
system partition

does anyone know which one is the system partition? or a way to figure it out?

thnx.

never mind, got it, i'm sooo coool :D lol, it's mmcblk0p12
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] technaudio:
However, your opinions ate wrong.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] singh_dd93:
somebody help me in extracting system from system.sin from this ftf

here is topic

plz help
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] hesamodin:
how to root this version with lock boot loader
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] shmoejoe:
Its been said MANY times, you currently can't root with a locked bootloader.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Bin4ry:
Yeah it is!

To your question how to figure out.

You can find other partitions by just typing mount into the shell -> it will show you which partition gets mounted to which folder.

But there are some more as you saw: Also boot partition is mmcblk0p3 and sonyrecovery is mmbblk0p11.

To know which one is which you can just dd them to sdcard and look into with a hexeditor. Then compare to partitions from original Sony firmware package.

Regards
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] qbzee007:
My FM radio isn't working properly. Catches channels but it doesn't sound good.

Am in South Africa.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] juzz|NOR:
Just a couple of things missing from this build, and that is the flashable .zip and working recovery!

I absolutely love this ROM ! Totally worth the wait!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] pratyush_gamer:
Totally Great Update....I can't even recoganize my own SXS After this update..... Love The Update.. :victory: ....Thanks Bin4ry ;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] donjamal:
thanks! i changed the script from the razr as well as the folder path but it doesn't work. i'm now waiting for the guy to check what's wrong. it seems the folder is not opened for writing :(

btw i used the shell command cat /proc/mounts and it listed everything properly.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Bin4ry:
I looked into this script and tell you it cannot work on Xperia S, atleast not until you find another permission bug.

Regards
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] donjamal:
that's what i thought :( disappointing :( thanks for the help though
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] looker1:
Anyone recognized difference between CH, DE or Iberian versions? Is there any?