[Sony Xperia Miro, Tipo (Dual), J, E] dave96m:
Yesterday, I started unlocking my bootloader on Xperia J ST26i in order to eventually finish with installing ParanoidAndroid 3. It all went successful until I got to the last step of rooting the device. This - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2183737 - is the method I used. I was confused when I got to step 16, because the kernel I copied for flash didn't show up. So, I'd finish with two choices after shutting the phone down, having exited CWM Recovery. I would either open CWM again, after seeing LEDs glowing purple/blue in order to press Volume down key to enter CWM - or to ignore and finish seeing grayscreen. Luckily, I was able to find a JB 4.1.2 kernel for my rooted Xperia J, so I put it and flashed it instead of the ICS kernel provided on the thread I referred to. That solved the problem. I had JB 4.1.2 installed and rooted with ROM Manager installed along with SuperSU app. The next step I was going to do was to install a ClockWork Recovery, I hesitated installing PA3 directly without a recovery image. Ironically, CW Recovery is what really made all the problems now. Searching on Google I found a way to boot directly to ClockWork Recovery, I pressed and held the buttons for initiating it but I ended up with literally no way to normally boot the phone. So, I couldn't turn on the phone except in fastboot mode. In fastboot, I whiped all the data, reset to defaults, reinstalled the boot.img and JB kernel, however after all the resets and whipping anything that, according to many sites and devs, should make the phone function again...it failed. After a dozen times of taking out the battery, button combos I ended up not being able to access neither fastboot mode with CWM showing all those options for whipping, installing etc. Only phone's upper LED was working and it blinked red so I recharged the phone, then it was all the same but it'd blink green. After another hour of trying to turn on the phone in any mode, nothing good happened. When I held the power button, it vibrated but after a minute or so only green LED activated. Then I downloaded recovery exit zips that I'd install if ever got to CWM again. I tried once again to directly boot into CWM recovering by holding the power button down and both sides of volume rocker. It blinked light blue, then green and later blue. Device flasher couldn't read the phone, so I opened flash mode. It read it, but any installation of boots or kernels failed because of the phone that either disconnected or simply failed. There was no way for me to put more files on Internal Storage or SD Card, only those LEDs started behaving the way I described. After another twenty times of battery removing, 10 second and 30 s waiting, button combos, anything I could find on Google, nothing changed. Except, suddenly, the computer is able to link with the phone after holding power button for boot that only activated the green/blue/violet LED. Still, no response from flashing program, still failed to enter fastboot, CWM, direct CWM Recovery etc. But, now when my phone is, let's say, turned on with green or blue light, I can access SD Card and Internal Storage via Windows Explorer. Just below the hard drives, I can see my phone. Great? No, it's not Xperia J as it should be, PC detects Xperia Tipo. I also noted that it's mistaken SD Card for Internal Storage... Let's see what happens when I remove SD card from the device. Please help... :D