yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] cool_sops:
Does the ROM work for Indian phones too?

I bought my Xperia Pro MK16i in India. When I download the ROM from the given link the file has a sb-string "Central Europe". Will the ROm work on my phone?:confused:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] cool_sops:
Cannot download the FTF

I am trying to download the ftf "Android 4.0.3 Kernel 4.1.A.0.562" from the given link but I am not able to download. Can anybody provide alternate links? I'll be very thankful..

---------- Post added at 11:42 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:07 PM ----------

You say the phone won't start due to kernel mismatch, then how do I enable the "USB debugging" and "trust unknown source" coz each time I flash a kernel, the settings are reset to disable USB debugging and do not allow apps from unknown source. Thanks a lot for your time.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Elf_Czar:
this post saved my life! thnx :good:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] rajeev12304:
can't root my device

i am having xperia pro mk16a. i have unlocked my bootlocker. i have tried all the methods to root my phone but i am unable to do so. i have flashed it, used doomloader v1 as well as v4 but i can't root it. i am having version 4.0.4 (4.1.B.0.587). everytime i am getting this screen (attached)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] KnobMasterAllmighty:
Thank You Very Much Allmighty Sony Ericsson Txt Pro Deity

Thank you truly for your time in posting this most appreciated & valuable thread - it is the best I have found for my MK16a ROOTING needs <->

May you receive great & marvelous recompense for your considerate benevolence brother, :cool: best of luck , KnobMaster :p ;) :laugh:

:highfive:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Madforyouonly:
I HAve Downloaded the Latest flashtool ...

As Mentioned In this Procedure

Its Says To download flashtool Driver but the link is not working..

Is it Mandatory to Download It or Only Downloading The Latest flashtool for all xperia phones will work out here..?

Thanks For ur Support..

reply Must..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] DivineBastard:
Hi. I tried all the steps from the start thru step 3. Yes, my SE Xperia Pro is not booting (i'm following well so far). but then at step 4, when I used DoomLord's rooting tool, error messages with this are showing up: "failed to copy ____: read-only file system".

How do I resolve this? TY.

--DB

UPDATE:

I took the author of this thread's advice and read through various responses in the thread. I saw people had the same problem as I have, getting "read-only file system". Here's the solution, thanks to post #145 from user NVDX11...

i. do steps 1 through 3 of the first post of this thread. at the end of step 3, remove your phone from USB then turn your phone on.

ii. after you're turned on your phone and it is just showing a black screen (thus, you have effectively flashed your phone with file 1 in the steps), reconnect your phone via usb to your computer. flashtool will show that your phone is connected.

iii. click on your device name on the menubar (in my case, it was "My Mk17i"), select root, then click on "force emulator"

iv. on the dialogbox that appears, select supersu.

v. view what happens with flashtool. if rooting is not successful, remove phone from usb and it's battery, count to 5, replace battery then do steps ii through iv again. be patient, it will eventually succeed.

vi. if rooting was successful, remove phone from usb and it's battery, count to 5, replace battery then connect to USB on flashmode (in my case, hold back key while connecting to USB)

vii. flash your phone with file 2 of the first post of this thread (ICS4.0.4, 4.1.B.0.587).

viii. view what happens with flashtool. if flashing is not successful, remove phone from usb and it's battery, count to 5, replace battery then do step vii again. be patient, it will eventually succeed.

ix. once flashing is successful, remove phone from USB, remove battery (count to 5), replace battery, turn your phone on, and jump for joy for having a rooted phone with ICS 4.0.4. build 4.1.B.0.587, then thank users ashikonxda and nvdx11, as well as the makers of xperia flashtool. DoomLord also deserves much credit.

SOME NOTES:

> correct installation of flashtool drivers is CRUCIAL.

> I have SE Xperia Pro (Mk16i)

> I did this in a 32-bit Win 7 starter netbook (wouldn't work on my Win 8 laptop)

> i always run flashtool as admin. flashtool version used was 0.9.11.0 (2013-06-04)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Sw33t_Lov3r:
Thank you very much for creating this guide!!

I bought a nice Xperia Pro with ICS and this guide was the right help to root it easily and with confidence ^-^

I had no issues with this guide. My Pro is running latest .587 build and stock ICS.

The Xperia Pro is still a very good smartphone!

Thank you! And I hope you keep helping others.

May God bless you!

- L.

Pd: Have a picture of my beautiful kitty. I hope you like it! :D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] skype007:
I agree, the Xperia Pro is a great smartphone.

I have a question guys : I bought one Xperia Pro and what should I do with it to install custom roms ? (I mean should I update it to 4.0.4 then root...or if it is shipped with Gingerbread, can I unlock the bootloader, then root...)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] dibyajoti:
Thanks

Thanks :good:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] X-oly:
Flashtool drivers?

Hi,

Out of all the pre requisites you mentioned, I haven't been able to get a hold of the flashtool drivers cause the link doesn't work anymore and I guess doomlord don't want his links mirrored.

I haven't even started rooting cause of this and I was hoping to fix all the lil problems with it today by rooting ...

Any help will be appreciated bro! :D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] S0nY37:
cellphone is rooted?

Hello, i've got a question:

i did end Part A and the ting with doomlords is finished too..

but when i'm trying to do Part B the Flashtool won't find the firmware from that ROM...

so i can't end the whole thing....

would be great if someone could help :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] NVDX11:
Download "eroot" ,search on google,it will root your xperia pro in just a one click from your pc,enjoy
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] S0nY37:
why that?

the way i understand that flashing and so on, the cellphone is already rooted but won't boot because of that kernel/bootloader mismatch

so to get rid of that i'd need the right kernel... but exactly this data won't be found be my flashtool....

any ideas or alternative kernels so my cellphone will work?

thank you for answering before, but i want to stick to one method ;)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] NVDX11:
Have you copied the firmware aka .ftf file to c:\flashtool\firmware folder ?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] S0nY37:
the problem

i did like in the instruction and put it in there but when i start the flashtool it says: copy the content from folder c:\flashtool\firmware into c:\flashtool\firmware (the folder must be empty after that)

could it be it's just a matter of where to copy the ftf into?

i have to paths with this flashingtool: 1) c:\flashtool

2) c\users\myaccount\.flashTool

in the second one there was already the folder firmware and in the first one it got created when i clicked on the flash-symbol. Aand: everytime i start the flashtool it's asking to choose a "user home"?

maybe its because of that?

do you think i should just deinstall and reinstall the tool and try again?

'cause i tried both paths already.....

thank you for answering my questions :)

im looking forward to any answer so i can get my cellphone back to working state ;)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] NVDX11:
You need to copy it to c:\flashtool\firmware\*****.ftf always

As you were saying you have tried both path,i suggest you try the path i have written again in this reply ,or yes you can try uninstalling and reintalling the flashtool again if it doesnt work

*******.ftf is the firmware for our phone not the directory
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] S0nY37:
then it's not normal when the first path for searching for a firmware (i did nothing after reinstall, only click on flash) is the second one i mentioned?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] NVDX11:
Here i am mentioning again:

Goto c:\ drive ,find flashtool folder go inside it,find a firmware folder,then copy the ".ftf the firmware file" into the firmware folder

Then follow the flashing steps
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] S0nY37:
so. i did just add the firmware folder to the flashtool folder in c\ 'cause there wasnt one....

but the tool won't find it :/ i have absolutely no clue what im doin wrong :(

i attached i screenshot...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] NVDX11:
ok,i installed latest flashtool and faced the same problem you were facing.

no need to worry,i have fix, follow this steps:

1) uninstall the current version of flashtool you are using.

2) download this version: https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B4GFe3mfg6eycTJnTHZLZGFnY1E&export=download

3) install and goto c:\flashtool\firmwares\

4) copy the ***.ftf file there and follow the remaining steps given in the guide.

Good luck mate!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] SkyWo1f:
Everything worked for me except the Doomlord rooting part, i had to root it with a Chinese software (great & simple btw) and the go back to the final kernel, in my case CMR for updating my MK16 to Marshamallow https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2219711
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Whoosh13:
So I received an SMS from T-Mobile saying that I had gone over my Fair Use Policy and I can browse and check email but other services such as video won't work. This seemed weird to me because I am 100% sure I couldn't have used up 750mb of mobile data as I had barely downloaded anything apart from emails, twitter, messages (nothing big like streaming songs or videos).

So, curious, I went to check my Data Usage in Settings. It said that I have used 1.09GB in total, of which 1.05GB the "GALLERY"(wtf??) app has used. All this 1.09gb of usage has been since the 30th of August (day I installed DLH7 JB).

I have attached a screenshot to show the data usage on the graph.

Please could someone point me towards a valid reason for this as I am extremely confused.

Thanks in advance,

Whoosh13
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nodstuff:
Probably syncing pics with picasa.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ceo.mtcl:
Yup and Google plus automatically uploads pics.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Whoosh13:
Really?! Damn that's NEVER happened to me though :/
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Whoosh13:
I just checked that too. instant upload is OFF right now and even if it was ON I've set it to only sync using Wifi
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nodstuff:
Settings > accounts > untick sync picasa.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Whoosh13:
Okay, done that, thanks! :) but what's weird is I have never had to do that before, EVER, on any ROM on s3 or s1.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dantheman122:
Out of interest, how do you even check what's on your Picasa? Never used it but noticed it was set to Sync.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Whoosh13:
I don't remember the last time I used Picasa either...I'm guessing picasa.google.com
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WzFBaby:
Hey, I currently use ulearn for my college classes as in powerpoint attachments and just miscellaneous stuff is contained on the site but when I get on the site on my Nexus 7 it always says its running on another browser when I know its not so I was wondering if anyone who is familiar with the site and has a Nexus 7 and can tell me how to remedy this? It would be really helpful to access ulearn from my tablet. Thank you!
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ExploreMN:
You might want to tell us what browser you are using and what you've tried to resolve this yourself so people can make more reasonable suggestions.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] wolfeyes30:
Not sure if this has been posted already but un-checking the ripple effect within the lock screen options keeps the lock screen wallpaper normal. It was driving me nuts that all my dark wallpaper images were brighter on the lock screen.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] htccraze:
I was hoping someone could answer a question I have about the possibility of porting from the Desire VT. Both share the same Adreno 200 GPU and also share other similiar traits like being the same pixel size. From older posts I remember people saying it would be more easy to port from one phone to another if the GPU was the same and if the size was similiar so it wouldn't need to be resized. If this is indeed true wouldn't the Desire VT make the best choice to have a working port of sense 4 to our HD2? If anyone can shed some light on this I would greatly appreciate it. Below are some specs of the two devices. Thanks in advance.

http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_desire_vt-4830.php

http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_hd2-2957.php
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] KShion619:
Its not the graphics, or the pixel size. We had working acceleration, from what i have heard its Chipset drivers that are the issue so sound and other things will be impossible to port. but i dont know much on the VT to say much about porting from *that* phone

EDIT-

Actually this will have had the same issues in porting if not more. I am 100% sure unless we have gods for devs that can create libs from nothing
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] htccraze:
Yeah I recall that not having any libs was the issue the developers was running into. I only thought that since they share the same Adreno 200 GPU that maybe it could allow for a 'slightly' easier port. Also I seen a post here on XDA somewhere and if I remember it correctly a developer "claimed" to have sense 4.0 fully working but was to busy to post further details and said they would after their current project was over. Yes I know it seemed like b.s. but I was still holding onto a bit if hope. lol.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] KShion619:
Team Blackouts was the only one that wound up booting, there was another working on it but couldnt boot it up, the phone i believe off the top of my head was the One V which also shares the Adreno 200 or similar specs but yea its all in the Chipset as to where we would get on sense 4.x
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] htccraze:
Yes I had followed both threads very close. Actually the HTC One V has Adreno 205. Unfortunately for us the QSD8250 Snapdragon chipset thats on the HD2 seems to not been used in quite some time. Plus the HTC Desire as well as the Nexus One, both of which are very closely related to our phone have stopped receiving updates. UHGG!! It was wishful thinking anyway.

I'll just need to cave in and try to get a HTC Desire X. Since its going to be a rather budget friendly phone it looks as though this is my best option to have sense 4. I hope they release it in the states as well though.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mwakious:
i started working on it today...:D

give me some time to look at it.....:highfive:

edit: this is adreno 200 ,this good
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jandeltron:
In desire vt thread is written "also included are Device specific files for BravoC, Leo & Passion"

Is leo our hd2?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Nigeldg:
Yeah it is. Aren't bravo and passion both the Desire? Slightly confused about that bit.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] htccraze:
Could you send me the link to the Desire VT thread? I couldn't seem to find one for it. As someone already answered the HTC HD2 is in fact also called the HTC Leo.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Marvlesz:
afaik bravo is the desire, passion is the nexus1.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Kameirus:
The Nexus One (codenamed HTC Passion)

cdma Desire/ BravoC
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Robbie P:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1858491
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] htccraze:
Thanks but I was thinking the Desire VT had its own thread. This is a link to the Desire thread with a port of the Desire VT ROM. Its actually what I came across that made me think it would be possible for our phones to work too. Then when I looked at the specs I thought it might of been our best shot at a working sense 4.0 ROM.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jandeltron:
So if i install the desire vt zip it will work, or not?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] htccraze:
It will not. mwakious said that they will look into it so please be patient since this can take quite a while to do. When porting a ROM there are

several files that needs to be replaced. Even then there can be many things that could cause it to not boot correctly. Check back in a few days.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] GODISMYCOPILOT:
this sound's good i'd love to try this on my hd2 hoping its gets better than the blackout one
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] GODISMYCOPILOT:
is any one still working on this
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Kameirus:
you cant be serious

heres how to get ics sense 4.0 really quick

sell your hd2 and buy a phone with ics sense 4 on it
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] GODISMYCOPILOT:
im only asking 'if' as it seem'd to no update
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] htccraze:
In all honesty Its not likely it will work for our HD2 but I was thinking since the GPU was the same it might be a little easier for a developer to give it a go. Easier still suggests

its going to be a pretty big undertaking so please be patient. Even if it doesn't work out I think people should still thank mwakious for the time he's looked into it for us.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wolfwazabi:
Hi,

I have a noob question. When you unlock bootloader, that's mean is SIM Unlock or it's completly different ? I know SIM unlock is to go with any phone company.

Thank you.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RoberGalarga:
Completely different things. With the bootloader unlocked, you're able to install custom kernels, but the SIM Lock will remains (if you have it).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spliff721:
Have recently inherited a Samsung Admire SCH-R720, running android 2.3.4.on the Cricket network. I have done much research and have gotten it rooted with CWM. I have found little to no information on XDA, but I want to know that since the phone is CDMA, and I believe connects to the sprint network, is there a way to change it so I can use it on the sprint network?

Attached a dump generated by Mobile Odin.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tryin2function:
Haven't found such info myself but there's tons more help for the admire at androidforums or abcindicate
[HTC One X] iamaniff:
What is the next I need to do?
[HTC One X] glukosio:
sorry buddy, no images, no text, can't help :(
[HTC One X] chrisjcks:
I conquer, your images don't show.

So, we don't know what problem your having.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] GeneralSky2004:
I know everyone in this community hates questions like this, so I apologize. I'm currently on Blazer's ICS rom and loving it, but was just wanting everyone else's input on what they like. I'm not asking which is the best, that isn't a thread like that, I just want to know what you guys are running.

I like Touchwiz based ROM's opposed to the AOSP style (Dunno why, I just appreciate the Samsung nonsense). I tried Blu Kuban but was having issues with it being sluggish, and I know it's not the ROM's fault, it was most likely the way I had the CPU settings tweaked, but I couldn't seem to get them right. I was also am not a huge fan of overly theme'd ROM's. I like the ICS blue in the status bar and things like that, but when EVERY app is theme'd, it gets old.

Anyways, what are you guys running? If you could post your Kernel as well, that would be much appreciated. :):silly:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] BluesRulez:
Vanberge's re calked 0.1.7 with kuban kernel.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] GeneralSky2004:
Does it run pretty smooth with that kernel? I'll try flashing that kernel on Blazer again tonight and see if I can configure it decently. I am on Agat's right now, and it's doing well. I need to do more research as to what all of the Governors do. There are a ton on that kernel, and a lot of them I have never heard of. :P
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] MiguelHogue:
If you go to the Kuban kernel thread he explains what the governors do in the post on Page number 1

-Sent From My Blu Kuban Tapatalk Like A Boss
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] BluesRulez:
Its the best kernel I have used so far.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] moparfreak426:
Yep, blue kuban
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
Aokp, cm9, aosp ics. Or cm10 or aosp jb. I prefer the stock android look without mfg skinned UIs. I'm on aokp m6 ics right now, have been on one version or another since TCP started porting it in march. I use blu kuban to flash to to do prl and profile updates every so often but never stay on twiz roms more than 10 mins. On m6 I use the stock kernel times included, but have tried some of chris41gs kernels, however they broke a few things cuz i flashed them over an already set up rom instead of flashing them after a clean install, and the m6 I'm on has the internal and external SD locations switched around which confused the kernel and broke my SD storage so i went back to the stock kernel on this build til i decide to switch to another rom and do a clean install and start over from scratch

We are legion, for we are many.

Sent from the DarkSide of the GalaXy with a MEK device
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jburke90:
I got the tablet "unlocked:, Rooted, And running clockworkmod recovery. I had over the air update to 4.1 before all this but had no issues. I downloaded a ROM for 4.1, and when I rebooted into CWM I went to wipe my data and thats when it happened. The data wipe froze. I ended up having to forcfully turn it off. Then I got bootloop. I can get into cwm but I cant find my ROM to flash it. So im literally stuck. Is there a One Click revert to stock I can use? Or anything? Many thanks to anyone who can help. Note: this is my 1st tablet - Asus Transformer tf300t
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jburke90:
I also made a backup before everything but I cant restore it. It says MD5 Mismatch. Im really stuck here...
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] naelme:
so try to load your rom to sd card. then install from that?
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jburke90:
I have no access to my sd card. The ROM I downloaded previously does not show up in CWM.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] naelme:
You can't flash it again from cwm by redowloding, then putting on your SD card then munt in it?

U could reflash your unit with stock ROM using fastboot. I just unbricked my unit doing that after 5 days of fighting.

This is what I did, I downloaded job update from Asus then moved the blob to c/fast boot, loaded unit to fast boot then typed

fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system blob

But make sure our boot loader is 10.4 or it will signature mismatch, so down load the appropriate boot loader .

That's what I did at least and my unit is working again.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jburke90:
What would my commands be to do this? Thanks
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] naelme:
I used

fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system blob

read above edit.

i found the info here but had to tweak because once you upgrade bootload to 10.4 there is no going back it seems.

http://www.theandroidsoul.com/how-to-restore-asus-transformer-tf300t-back-to-stock/

you will lose your cwm, but you can re implement it when your done.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jburke90:
Can I use a custom ROM zip and get it from that? My internet is really slow tonight and 300mb is just crawling so downloading a stock ROM will take me another hour or so.... I am rooted if that helps.