yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mihahn:
It's working for some devices ;)

Sent from my Nexus 4 running Android 4.3
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Axenvolt:
Having same problem as rpuica 79 ,, how could I solve it,,plz give some solution to unlock my wt19i ICS bootloader.....
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] rpuica79:
apparantly my bootloader was unlocked and never got locked, even after flashing stock roms a number of times. i dont know why emma and flashtool 0.9 said it was locked. very strange indeed. in other xperias the bootloader got locked and root removed everytime i flashed stock.

so i flashed a custom kernel in fastboot mode with flashtool 0.8.6 (made sure to select flash kernel option) and then on first boot i entered cwm that comes with it and instaled the rom of my choice, no problem.

i never thought of flashing custom kernel because i thought i had LB. thanks for the idea.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Kierro_Hun:
xperia Ray with BL problem

hello

i would like to ask for some help

i have a xperia ray (st18i), manufact. date is 12w17

this device is already network-unlocked via an NCK-code,

but it has not "fastboot" mode (in service menu -> BL unlock allowed: No)

i can "rooting" the bootloader with s1tool & testpoint method, but still no have "fastboot"

i want to change the kernel so, anyway...

so, have you any idea, how can i enable the fastboot-mode?

or can you help me, to make from any boot.img to kernel.sin or kernel.ftf

otherwise is it possible to upload a kernel in "flashmode" anyway?

example, embedding a kernel.sin in a stock ".ftf" rom?

thanks in advance

Kierro
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ajdiaz012:
sir what do you mean by "bootloader unlocked:yes" ? does it mean its already unlocked?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mihahn:
Bootloader unlocked: yes means it is unlocked, bootloader unlock allowed: yes means you are able to unlock it, but at the moment it's not ;)

Sent from my Nexus 4 running Android 4.3
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Dejsan:
Thz for good tutorial!

On my new xperia mini pro i have done it on easier way with flashtool :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mihahn:
I know I should add the flashtool method thanks for reminding ;)

Sent from my Nexus 4 running Android 4.4
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] puremage111:
hi me again

ok, so i found how to find the driver, but this happen.

this is nuts, i cant post the link, i ssed. i try inbox to you the image

so what should i do now?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mihahn:
If I were you I'd try to unlock using the tool in 2nd post, maybe this works better ;)

If that's not working too, try to unlock using flashtool :)

Sent from my Nexus 4 running Android 4.4
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] puremage111:
UNLCOKED

Unlocked

xperia ray!

Thanks to this :d
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] dhravreeling:
Hi mate,

Tried it your way, installed all de needed drivers and tried to use the fastboot device check. The problems are starting there.

In the first place, I tried using my own laptop (Windows 8.1) but the drivers didn't work. Then, I started using my other laptop (W7) which already had all the fastboot/adb drivers. I only updated it for my SE Arc S.

I entered adb in CMD and typed "adb.exe reboot-bootloader". It entered in fastboot but now, after fastboot getvar version it remains on <waiting for device>. It's stuck there for already 45 minutes.

Windows said I have a Android ADB Interface connected. I can type commands with ADB but in fastboot I can't.

My Arc S is unlockable.

Could you help?

EDIT:

Fastboot and fastmode. Lost in translation stuff.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mihahn:
Looks like there are some problems. The battery seems to be nearly completely discharged, so please flash a kernel like rage kernel to charge it. These 5 hours didn't charge the phone, the phone ran and wasted your battery. Rage kernel should support offine charging, so flash it, unplug phone and plug in again. There should be a screen to charge it. If it's completely chraged, you flash FXP 145 Kernel again and we can go on.

What do you mean with sector 7; gave it an error while booting, was there a screen or was it in cwm when you tried to install it. Do you mean "Status 7"? Was there anything like getprop?

If Rage kernel won't charge your phone, you will have to ask a fried if you could charge your battery in his phone or you get his battery to flash stock rom on your phone.

Please report, which method you have tried ;)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] jaimecy:
thanks for the guide :good:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] garychencool:
Thanks for replying, I've disgussed this with others on a different forum and they say carrier unlocking will make no difference because the carrier locked it in the first place, so now my phone cannot get its bootloader unlocked :(
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] megasoheilsh:
why damage to phone ?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mihahn:
What do you mean? If this is a questions, please ask again and explain what you mean :good:

Sent from my SK17i running Jelly Bean via CM10
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] cachiputi:
The Automatic procesor.

I put mi IMEI and a get unlock code in web page sony.developers

Push buton GET BL and the program send this log:

(bootloader) Unlock phone requested

FAILED (remote: Phone is already unlocked!)

finished. total time: 0.016s

My BootLoader is unlocked and open?¿

Sorry my English is very bad :cyclops:

Thanks!!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mihahn:
Yes semms like it's already been unlocked. Please connect it in fastboot mode to your pc and open flashtool. Let flashtool recognize the phone and please post the log here (would be great as a code!) and we can see if it is unlocked...

Btw your english isn't bad, I'm not a native speaker, too :)

Sent from my SK17i running Jelly Bean via CM10
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] cachiputi:
Ok. This the log:

10/018/2012 12:18:07 - INFO - <- This level is successfully initialized
10/018/2012 12:18:07 - INFO - Flashtool Version 0.9.8.0 built on 2012-10-01 19:35:32
10/018/2012 12:18:07 - INFO - You can drag and drop ftf files here to start flashing them
10/018/2012 12:18:12 - INFO - Device connected in fastboot mode
10/019/2012 12:19:06 - INFO - List of connected devices (Device Id) :
10/019/2012 12:19:06 - INFO - - USB\VID_0FCE&PID_0DDE\BX902K72RL&ZLP	Driver installed : true
10/019/2012 12:19:06 - INFO - List of ADB devices :
10/019/2012 12:19:06 - INFO - - none
10/019/2012 12:19:06 - INFO - List of fastboot devices :
10/019/2012 12:19:06 - INFO - - none
10/019/2012 12:19:26 - INFO - Launching Fastboot Toolbox 1.0 by DooMLoRD
10/019/2012 12:19:26 - INFO - Device Status: FASTBOOT mode
10/019/2012 12:19:31 - INFO - Device Status: FASTBOOT mode
10/019/2012 12:19:43 - INFO - Fetching connected device info
10/019/2012 12:19:43 - INFO - Connected device info: [ BX902K72RL&ZLP ]
10/019/2012 12:19:53 - INFO - Fetching fastboot version info from connected device
10/019/2012 12:19:53 - INFO - FASTBOOT version info: [ version: 0.3 ]
10/020/2012 12:20:55 - INFO - Finished Fastboot Toolbox

is OPEN and UNLOCKED BootLoader ?¿

THANKS!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mihahn:
Okay sorry, normally there was a line telling "bootloader status: rooted".

Try something other:

Open dialer

Type *#*#7378423#*#*

And service info

Configuration

Rooting status.

Tell us what the rooting status says ;)

Sent from my SK17i running Jelly Bean via CM10
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] cachiputi:
Says YES. But not if that means, that is already open or unlocked just this.

My phone came with NO, but use a range of WotanServerDOTcom to go from NO to YES.

But not if you just moved from NO to YES or also opened the BootLoader
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] adity:
You won't loose drm if you unlock via test point method
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mihahn:
If it is:

Unlocked:

Rooting Status: Bootloader unlocked: yes

Unlockable:

Rooting Status: Bootloader unlocked allowed: yes

So if your phone has the 2nd thing try to unlock without that tool. Should work. If it is the first, it is already unlocked ;)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] cachiputi:
Rooting status:

Bootloader unlock allowed: Yes

:( is not open ?

:crying:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mihahn:
No it's not, try again to unlock. Hope you wrote down the code.

Restart PC and try the bootloader unlocking tool again and if it doesn't work, try the method from my first post :good:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] cachiputi:
With the manual method first post, I also said the same thing with the automatic method :crying:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mihahn:
Okay I think I know now what has happened:

If you unlock via wotan server it could be like unlocking via testpoint method. The status in service menu won't change, but the bootloader is unlocked.

Please try to flash a custom kernel (boot.img) and it should work :good:

Maybe you could just tell us if it works ;)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] jamy_hallian:
when is give this command (fastboot.exe -i 0x0fce oem unlock 0xKEY) in tools folder, it says adbwinapi.dill is missing from your computer. please help me what am i doing wrong?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mihahn:
Have you installed all drivers and android sdk? Try downloading AdbWinApi.dll manually, you could find it on google.

If this doesn't work, use the SE Bootloader unlocking tool :good:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] karyk:
Can't get fastboot to run...

I followed the official guide from Sony and everything was going fine until I was supposed to write the fastboot command, than it just says <Waiting for device>. "Fastboot devices" command also gives me nothing, so it obviously doesn't communicate with the phone. Bootloader unlock is allowed and i have USB debugging mode checked.

When I connect the phone in fastboot mode, blue LED lights up and computer recognizes it (in Device manager I see Android phone and Android bootloader interface below it - and it says that the device is working properly), before I Installed the Sony fastboot driver (android_winusb.inf) there was "S1boot Fastboot" with yellow exclamation mark in the device manager, so everything seems to be in order... When the phone is connected in USB debugging mode and I write "adb devices" in cmd it shows me the device (BX902ZCAEU), then I write "adb reboot bootloader" and it reboots into bootloader, but fastboot still isn't working. Essentially, everything is like in this video (youtube.com/watch?v=f5W2BC7O8J4 - I just registered, so I can't post links...) except the fastboot isn't working.

The phone is running stock ICS (4.1.B.0.587) and it is rooted using this guide (talk.sonymobile.com/thread/41119?start=0&tstart=0) - but I had the same issues before it was rooted, so that's not causing the problem. I tried installing/reinstalling multiple android_winusb.inf drivers including the one from the "Howto: Install the Android SDK" guide on cyanogenmod wiki (which should have support for all cyanogenmod supported devices). I have also tried using PdaNet to install drivers (like some forums suggested), restoring the device with Sony PC companion and most importantly I also tried it with my brothers phone (Xperia pro) and on two different computers (Win7 x64 and Win7 x86) and I still have the same issue - so the problem seems to be between the chair and the keyboard...

Also It's worth mentioning that when I installed Android SDK, fastboot.exe was in platform-tools (not tools) folder so I was running it from there, but than I also tried copying it to the tools folder (without and than with the other contents of the platform-tools folder) and i tried copying contents of the tools folder to the platform-tools folder (basically I tried to run it in both locations in every condition possible). And I tried using multiple fastboot.exe files which I downloaded from the internet.

At this point I have exhausted any possible (and impossible) options I could think of.

Any suggestions? Please, I'm starting to get desperate...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] amnher:
newer xperia 2011 phones have new MCU Security meaning cannot unlock via test point. you will get "qreceive packet error"
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Amal Matty:
what api should i choose in sdk manager?

hello.

i wanted to know what api/os version should i select in the sdk manager. i have android 4.0.4 installed
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mihahn:
Try selecting Android 4.0.4 then ;)

Sent from my Nexus 4 running Android 4.4
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] codeon:
what's wrong here?

Hi,

after typing in fastboot.exe -i 0x0fce getvar version

I'm getting something like this (check attachment).

Can you help me with this?

Also, when I connected my phone to pc (on win 8.1) while holding the volume up button, it didn't ask for drivers. It just searched itself and finished.

Please, let me know where I'm going wrong.

Thank you!

EDIT: I guess, I uploaded the wrong screenshot. Anyways, I typed in the command correctly the first. It's just that whatever I type in involving fastboot or fastboot.exe, it's giving the same result.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mihahn:
If it is stuck on waiting for device, the device is not recognized properly. Connect the device in fastboot mode and if it keeps saying "waiting for device", open the windows device manager, select your connected phone and update the drivers by pointing to the downloaded driver from the Sony site. I hope this works :)

Sent from my Nexus 4 running Android 4.4
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] codeon:
Thanks for your reply.

I updated the drivers from the device manager. Still getting the same result. It's not stuck at waiting for device.

It's detected. After I type in that command, I'm getting the same result. Whatever I type in, that includes fastboot.exe, it's giving me the same result. It's around 7 to 8 lines. Check the pic in the attachment I atached previously.

Thank you!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Attitude.SSJ:
Seems like you are using an old version of fastboot.exe... From where did you get it? Try using the fastboot present in platform-tools folder...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] codeon:
As mentioned in the thread, I Googled it. Anyways, I'll try your suggestion and let you know if it works.

Thank you!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] codeon:
Hi,

It did work. But, there's a problem. My phone has gone into somewhat like a bootloop. It's restarting itself. It comes upto Xperia screen and then those colors thing and restarts again.

Please, some solution regarding this issue would be really helpful.

Thank you!

EDIT: Thanks for the help. Regarding the bootloop thing, I flashed my stock rom. used this thread.. http://xdaforums.com/xperia-j-e/development/e-dual-boot-recovery-image-stock-jb-t2276943
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] devastro:
following the step and now mydevice unlocked :) thankyu
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] pager1228:
Me too....
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mike chandra:
I'm unlocking bootloader using testpoint method.

But when I flashed any unofficial kernel it said 1 bad block encountered.

Any ideas guys?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] xperiarayst18i:
How to Unlock when "bootloader unlock: NO" ?

I basically want to root my Xperia Ray to upgrade it with a custom ROM but all the methods I have found keep failing! Is the problem with unlocking the bootloader?

The official procedure to upgrade my Xperia Ray from Android 2.3.4 to 4.0.4 keeps failing!

I have TWO Xperia Ray ST18i with Android 2.3.4 (build 4.0.2.A.062) which have manufacture date codes 11W37 and 12W03 (about 2.5 years old). Both were on Orange and are now officially SIM unlocked but it says “Bootloader unlock allowed: No”, which means that Sony’s official bootloader unlocker will not work.

Sony has officially released Android 4.04 (build 4.1.B.0.587) for Xperia Ray, but both the latest download of Sony Updater and also its PC Companion keep saying it has the latest software and have only allowed me to re-install 2.3.4 each time!

I have even tried SuperOneClick 2.3.3, Gingerbreak, Easy Rooting Toolkit 4.0, and Flashtool 0.9.16.1 but I can’t get them to work either. Am I doing something wrong or is there some clever way to unlock the bootloader?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mihahn:
Okay, try uinstalling the "S1boot Fastboot" driver and connect device, windows will search for drivers, you stop that and point to the winusb file. Then the device should be recognized.

If not, try it with the SE Bootloader Unlocking tool, maybe this one works :good:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] cachiputi:
Ok, it proved, to see if hopefully this Rom and Kernel rise again to download it. I will comment on here if it works.

Thanks for your time.

Incidentally, the license to use WotanServer I had to make the phone the Test Point.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] karyk:
Done that, several times actually...After that, the device is recognized by the computer, in the Device manager I see "Android phone" and Android bootloader interface" below it (when the phone is conected in fastboot of course) - and it says, the device is working properly. But no luck with fastboot.

As for the SE Bootloader Unlocking tool, I will try it, but I don't have much faith in it. Because a few hours ago I tried it using the flashtool (and Installed the drivers from flashtool... like this SE Bootloader Ulocking tool guide says). The SE bootloader tool seems to me like pretty much the same deal as the flashtool.

Using the Flashtool There is something weird going on - when I hold the volume down button and turn the phone on green led shines and flashtool says "device conected in flashmode", so that's okay. When I do the same with volume up button blue led shines (which is fine) but the flashtool will again say "device conected in flashmode". I can't wrap my head around this. :confused:

thanks for the answer
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mihahn:
That's really strange, but ypur phone says bootloader unlock allowed:yes?

Please try the tool, maybe it works...

Sent from my SK17i running Jelly Bean via CM10
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] karyk:
Installed the Flashtool drivers, tried the tool (everything like in the guide), no luck - it actually froze when I hit the unlock bootloader button.

Then i uninstalled drivers again and connected the sk17i in fastboot, but this time i let windows to find drivers online (before I just skippped it and installed the android_winusb manually right away) and it did install SEMC Flash Device (I see it under USB controles in device manager). So it seems like the device doesn't actually go into fastboot mode (even though blue LED shines...).

I also tried unlocking the bootloader via the testpoint method and there I ended up with error (qcReceivePacket: can't get packet start.) at the end of the procedure... But that seems to caused by my phone manufacturing date being 12W18 (apparently this method only works with devices that have been manufactured earlier...)

Now I'm really lost... I'm gonna try downgrading the phone to stock GB and start over, i have made it my personal endeavour to make this work, so I'm gonna try to change anything even remotely connected to my problem...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mihahn:
If your phone isn't recognized, how about opening flashtool, click on the flash, fastboot mode, reboot into fastboot mode? What's happening then?

Yes try it on gingerbread again...

Sent from my SK17i running Jelly Bean via CM10
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] karyk:
Did that already "reboot into fastboot mode (via ADB)" reboots the phone and blue LED is on, but the flashtool will again say "device conected in flashmode"... "reboot int fastboot mode (via fastboot)" obviously doesn't work as the device is not in the fastboot mode. Before I had the flashtool I also did write "adb reboot bootloader" in cmd, it rebooted with blue led, but than "fastboot devices" command gave me nothing (as expected, because It's the same thing as when i do it with flashtool)...

Just successfully finished downgrading to 4.0.2.A.0.62, but I got to go for now. I'll try it in the evening and post the result.

thx for helping
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] cachiputi:
Works!! :D

I instaled KernelPanik and ICS rom

WotanServer open and unloked BootLoader

THANKS!!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] karyk:
So I tried getting the fastboot work with the downgraded phone and still the same issue. Although one thing has changed, when the phone is connected in USB debugging mode and I write "adb devices" into the cmd it reports a different code than before (used to report BX902ZCAEU, now it says 42583930325A43414555). This is just getting weirder and weirder... I'm out of ideas, could this possibly be a phone related problem?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] :
thanks
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kovacslaszlo13:
Thank's a lot! :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] karyk:
Fastboot it does not

So I´ve confirmed that the problem is indeed with my SK17i. It doesn´t matter if I connect the phone holding the volume UP button or volume DOWN, it simply behaves the same way (only difference is that the LED is either blue or green).

The Flashtool always says that the device is in flash mode, doesn´t matter if the LED is blue or green. When updating/restoring via PC companion or SEUS it doesn´t matter if I connect the phone with volume UP or DOWN, it works either way. I also tried getting fastboot to work in Ubuntu and while assigning UDEV rules I found out that it reports the same thing in both cases (using the lsusb command it repported 0fce:adde in both cases - and 0fce:0166 in normal mode and 0fce:5166 in USB debug).

My only explonation for this is that the phone is either faulty, or it is lying (Cose it does indeed say "Bootloader unlock allowed: yes"). So It seems that I'm stuch with stock - which is really annoying since I really like the phone but I can't say the same thing about the firmware.

I doubt there is any solution for that, but if anyone has any idea please post it, I'm subscribed to this forum.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mikkkey:
@karyk:

I had the same problem...blue lights on but command window says "waiting for device":silly: so I downloaded another fastboot.exe and it worked:D try this here: http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-unlock-bootloader-on-sony-xperia-s-2/
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] karyk:
If you had read my last post carefully, you would probably find out that I don't really have the same problem as you did. But I'm currently on a boring lecture, so I have some time and I tried your fastboot.exe anyway - unsuccsessfully as expeted... Thanks for the reply anyway.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mihahn:
There are some devices where fastboot is disabled, but I don't know how to enable. I think it is impossible mate :(

Maybe if somebody knows how to enable fastboot, please let us know :good: