[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] beggz:
Ok so Im travelling around Colombia and need a smart phone to keep in touch with my folks back home as I'm out here for a year. All hail to the Xperia S, perfect for my needs and I have loved it since the 30th of Dec from whence I bought it. Turns out the phone is an import from the UK my homeland so ironically 1000s of miles from valid Sony care, but hey what can go wrong?

Well actually few things, as the camera went faulty on Sunday. I read many forums and followed all the advice up and to the last option,which was to reinstall the already upto date software. So I did via SUS. The update seem to go fine until I turned back on the device and reached the twinkling Xperia logo. Unfortunately thats how it stayed and after 30 mins, I hard reset the phone... DOH! I think maybe I should have left it longer in hindsight? Anyway I tried the reinstall again only this time left it alone. 5 hours later still no change, in fact in the end it ran out of battery with no changes, just Xperia Logo. FECKY DOODLES.

So I spent a day yesterday reading through all your related forums like a good little boy and trying various fixes. Initially via SUS then PC companion and then via Rootfix using stock roms (this gave me boot loop)

Log as follows

09/053/2013 09:53:38 - INFO - Device disconnected

09/053/2013 09:53:59 - INFO - Selected LT26i_6.1.A.0.453_UK Generic.ftf

09/053/2013 09:53:59 - INFO - Preparing files for flashing

09/054/2013 09:54:02 - INFO - Please connect your device into flashmode.

09/054/2013 09:54:09 - INFO - Device connected in flash mode

09/054/2013 09:54:09 - INFO - Opening device for R/W

09/054/2013 09:54:10 - INFO - Reading device information

09/054/2013 09:54:10 - INFO - Phone ready for flashmode operations.

09/054/2013 09:54:10 - INFO - Current device : LT26i - BX903CE5FD - 1257-3921_R6G - 1252-0023_6.1.A.2.45 - WORLD_6.1.A.2.45

09/054/2013 09:54:10 - INFO - Start Flashing

09/054/2013 09:54:10 - INFO - Processing loader

09/054/2013 09:54:10 - INFO - Checking header

09/054/2013 09:54:10 - INFO - Flashing data

09/054/2013 09:54:12 - INFO - Loader : S1_Root_de72 - Version : R5C004 / Bootloader status : ROOTABLE

09/054/2013 09:54:12 - INFO - Disabling final data verification check

09/054/2013 09:54:14 - INFO - Processing partition-image.sin

09/054/2013 09:54:15 - INFO - Checking header

09/054/2013 09:54:15 - INFO - Flashing data

09/054/2013 09:54:18 - INFO - Processing kernel.sin

09/054/2013 09:54:18 - INFO - Checking header

09/054/2013 09:54:18 - INFO - Flashing data

09/054/2013 09:54:19 - INFO - Ending flash session

09/054/2013 09:54:19 - ERROR -

09/054/2013 09:54:19 - ERROR - Error flashing. Aborted

09/054/2013 09:54:19 - INFO - Device connected in flash mode

09/054/2013 09:54:21 - INFO - Device disconnected

09/054/2013 09:54:22 - INFO - Device connected in flash mode

09/053/2013 09:53:38 - INFO - Device disconnected

09/053/2013 09:53:59 - INFO - Selected LT26i_6.1.A.0.453_UK Generic.ftf

09/053/2013 09:53:59 - INFO - Preparing files for flashing

09/054/2013 09:54:02 - INFO - Please connect your device into flashmode.

09/054/2013 09:54:09 - INFO - Device connected in flash mode

09/054/2013 09:54:09 - INFO - Opening device for R/W

09/054/2013 09:54:10 - INFO - Reading device information

09/054/2013 09:54:10 - INFO - Phone ready for flashmode operations.

09/054/2013 09:54:10 - INFO - Current device : LT26i - BX903CE5FD - 1257-3921_R6G - 1252-0023_6.1.A.2.45 - WORLD_6.1.A.2.45

09/054/2013 09:54:10 - INFO - Start Flashing

09/054/2013 09:54:10 - INFO - Processing loader

09/054/2013 09:54:10 - INFO - Checking header

09/054/2013 09:54:10 - INFO - Flashing data

09/054/2013 09:54:12 - INFO - Loader : S1_Root_de72 - Version : R5C004 / Bootloader status : ROOTABLE

09/054/2013 09:54:12 - INFO - Disabling final data verification check

09/054/2013 09:54:14 - INFO - Processing partition-image.sin

09/054/2013 09:54:15 - INFO - Checking header

09/054/2013 09:54:15 - INFO - Flashing data

09/054/2013 09:54:18 - INFO - Processing kernel.sin

09/054/2013 09:54:18 - INFO - Checking header

09/054/2013 09:54:18 - INFO - Flashing data

09/054/2013 09:54:19 - INFO - Ending flash session

09/054/2013 09:54:19 - ERROR -

09/054/2013 09:54:19 - ERROR - Error flashing. Aborted

09/054/2013 09:54:19 - INFO - Device connected in flash mode

09/054/2013 09:54:21 - INFO - Device disconnected

09/054/2013 09:54:22 - INFO - Device connected in flash mode

* Please note I had previously rooted the phone via BIN4RYs S root, could this be why I cant update via SUS and Pc companion? I was under the impression that using these would give me back root status.

I'm at a loss now and feel I've exhausted all possibilities, I have since used the SUS update again and managed to bring the beast out of its boot loop state.

Is there a way I could unroot the phone via Rootfix and then try again the SUS update?

Why did I get error flashing using rootfix ?

Might there be a hardware issue, Ive read quite a few motherboard failures and is there a way to test this?

I would be wholly appreciative if any of you fine fellows could lend me your doctoring skills and bring this illusive creature back to a life worthy of living.

Kindest regards

JIM