[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] lyrabee:
hey guys,

slowly i'm getting a little bit desperate :( actually i'm not sure, if my problem at the moment is flashtool or cyanogenmod 9.1 which brought ics on my phone or whatever. hope you can help me :)

i have an xperia ray and was on stock gingerbread 4.0.2.A.0.69 with baseband 8x55A-AAABQOAZM-203028D-66. but as the stock xperia included kraken facebook stuff, i finally wanted to get rid of it, so stock ics was no option. then i heard of cyanogenmod, which my friend had installed on his samsung galaxy s, and it worked perfectly there out of the box, so i wanted cm as well...

so on friday i installed cm9.1 stable from download.cyanogenmod.com/?type=stable&device=urushi following this guide: wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Sony_Ericsson_Xperia_Ray:_Full_Update_Guide

everything worked fine except of no phone and mobile data connection. i researched, and it seems the xperia ray wants baseband 72 to work properly. so i installed latest flashtool 0.9.3.0, installed the proper drivers with flashtool-drivers.exe fomr flashtool folder "drivers" and tried. the second try i finally managed to get the ray's green light signaling flashmode, but flashtool disconnected in between, and on the ray one could see an image that looked like a glass with a green liquid in it... well, as flashtool had closed the connection, i waited a little bit and - as nothing happened - unplugged the usb cable and tried to reboot the ray fearing that i had bricked it. actually i didn't, the ray booted up, _and_ i had phone and mobile data connection! so i thought everything was fine even as my phone info still says "Baseband: 8x55A-AAABQOAZM-203028D-66". first i thought "anyways, everything works fine".

and so it seemed, but today as i was visting my parents, where i normally have a fine phone and mobile data connection, there was nearly nothing, and so i thought, i have to get bb72! but i don't get the ray into flashmode anymore :(

i read tons of guides, tried several variations of plugging and unplugging points of time... no way... somehow i also fear that my problem might be that flashtool wants the phone to have usb debugging and msc mode on, which i did, and when i start flashtool with the phone plugged in it says "Device connected with USB debugging on", but after the unplugging, shutting down the phone and connecting it again with the back-button pushed and holding it says "Device connected with USB debugging off" and "For 2011 devices line, be sure you are not in MTP mode". maybe that's because i don't get the device into "green light flashmode" or maybe (as i had read about meanwhile) because with ics msc isn't (fully) supported anymore?

so, can you please help me? any suggestions how i can get that baseband flashed on my phone? should i try it with the linux version of flashtool, or are there still any possibilities on windows (xp sp3)?

thx a lot, and by the way: phantastic work, that all you developing guys and helpers do for us! :)

my current system:

Phone: Xperia Ray (Urushi)

Android: 4.0.4 [ICS]

Baseband: 8x55A-AAABQOAZM-203028D-66

Kernel: 2.6.32.9-FXP blinky-ghost@cyanogenmod #1

Rom: Cyanogenmod 9.1.0-urushi

the flashtool log (looks always like this):

09/004/2012 18:04:47 - INFO - <- This level is successfully initialized
09/004/2012 18:04:47 - INFO - Flashtool Version 0.9.3.0 built on 2012-09-06 19:32:51
09/004/2012 18:04:47 - INFO - You can drag and drop ftf files here to start flashing them
09/004/2012 18:04:52 - INFO - Device connected with USB debugging on
09/004/2012 18:04:52 - INFO - Connected device : ST18
09/004/2012 18:04:52 - INFO - Installed version of busybox : BusyBox v1.20.2-cm9 bionic (2012-07-14 01:52 +0200) multi-call

binary.
09/004/2012 18:04:52 - INFO - Android version : 4.0.4 / kernel version : 2.6.32.9-FXP
09/004/2012 18:04:52 - INFO - Root Access Allowed
09/005/2012 18:05:08 - INFO - Selected ST18i_8x55A-AAABQOAZM-203028G-72_baseband.ftf
09/005/2012 18:05:08 - INFO - Preparing files for flashing
09/005/2012 18:05:08 - INFO - Please connect your device into flashmode.
09/005/2012 18:05:14 - INFO - Device disconnected
09/006/2012 18:06:28 - INFO - Device connected with USB debugging off
09/006/2012 18:06:28 - INFO - For 2011 devices line, be sure you are not in MTP mode
09/006/2012 18:06:38 - INFO - Device disconnected
09/006/2012 18:06:55 - INFO - Device connected with USB debugging off
09/006/2012 18:06:55 - INFO - For 2011 devices line, be sure you are not in MTP mode
09/007/2012 18:07:08 - INFO - Device disconnected

thx a lot! :)

lyrabee

EDIT: hey again... i finally managed to get into the green light flashmode somehow, but flashtool still says:

09/006/2012 18:06:55 - INFO - Device connected with USB debugging off

09/006/2012 18:06:55 - INFO - For 2011 devices line, be sure you are not in MTP mode

09/007/2012 18:07:08 - INFO - Device disconnected

so i looked around, if there is maybe any other way to get that baseband flashed on the system, and i found a thread called "[Q] Flashing .ftf file without flashtool?" that states, it was possible with fastboot: xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1562110

so i'd like to try that. unfortunately that thread got stuck exactly at the point where it was about getting the right commands to flash certain files - e.g. for a baseband ;)

what i did so far is: i renamed the baseband-ftf to zip and unzipped the zip. the following files are included:

adsp.sin

amss.sin

amss_fs_urushi.sin

apps_log.sin

fota0.sin

fota1.sin

loader.sin

plus a folder called META-INF, but i guess that one isn't needed.

to flash the boot.img, when installing cm9.1 the cm-guide posts that command:

fastboot -i 0xfce flash boot boot.img

the guy from the thread "[Q] Flashing .ftf file without flashtool?" posts those examples:

fastboot flash boot kernel.img

fastboot flash system system.img

fastboot flash userdata userdata.img

so, what are the commands to flash those "sins"? and do i have to use that "-i 0xfce" part, or is "fastboot flash" enough?

hope, someone can help me with that :)

thx a lot again!

lyrabee