[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] HvdW:
Misery

Listen to my story, it's sad but it's true

Please don't laugh, it may happen to you.

My Desire is happy. Today it performs as it did in the old days, even better.

It has 4.4 installed and boosts.

How come?

My T bird is in bad shape.

Yesterday I tried to install the leaked T-4.3_leak_278-DooMLoRD.zip

My phone: Sony Xperia T, 9.1.A.1.141.ftf running, unlocked bootloader, USB debugging on, permision to install APKs, rooted, CWM recovery

Ready for take-off I presumed.

Except for one thing: The phone doesn't, won't, refuses to boot into recovery.

There where a Desire is a piece of cake that has been running CM 7 to 11, including some siblings, I cannot get my T bird to boot into recovery.

I was able to master my old Optimus Black too, but this phone is quite stubborn.

So am I.

Btw. My phone refuses to be recognised by Sony PC Compagnion and Sonys Emma as well.

Happily there is fastboot, adb and Flashtool as well as DoomLords easy rooting toolkit who don't have any trouble making contact with my beloved phone.

Here's what I did.

No recovery? OK I'll do it my way.

Looked around in the directories of T-4.3_leak_278-DooMLoRD.zip and my phone, saw some similarities and draw my conclusions.

Connected the phone with fastboot.

Blue light on.

Fastboot devices gave a go. Here's the command that started the trouble:

fastboot flash system T-4.3_leak_278-DooMLoRD.zip

Everything went smooth except for one thing.

I forgot to issue the fastboot reboot command.

Well starting up ended with the SONY logo shining for more than 30 minutes before I decided that my experiment failed.

After that I tried: fastboot flash boot T-4.3_leak_278-DooMLoRD.zip (not enough space in partition)

At this point I thought: well, knowing that reinstalling 4.1.2 is so easy with 9.1.A.1.141.ftf I might as well experiment a bit more.

Why not try some kind of boot.img. (don't know were I found it, who cares)

I issued the command: fastboot flash boot boot.img

Unplugging the device and restarting revealed that there wasn't any restarting left.

The phone was dead, may poor little T bird got in a state of coma!

At that point I had enough of experimenting and decided to flash 9.1.A.1.141.ftf with Flashtool and get back to normal bussiness.

First of all I had to figure out how to get a tiny bit of life into my dead bird.

The trick was pushing on/of, vol+ and vol- together, wait for a vibration (she's alive!), release all 3 buttons, push, vol+ and on/off, wait for another shiver, relase on/off, plug in USB and there was the blue led.

From that point on it was some kind of simple to reach for the green led.

Being completely relaxed I started Flashtool and issued the command to install the stock 4.1.2 again.

My day turned into a nightmare at the moment I realised that Flashtool stalled!

-INFO - Device connected in flash mode

-INFO - Selected LT30P / 9.1.A.1.141 / PL

-INFO - preparing files for flashing

-INFO - please connect your device into flash mode (at this point the well known Sony window for connecting came up and desappaered shortly after)

-INFO - Opening device for R/W

-INFO - Reading device information

and from that point on nothing.

Didn't know what to do

After some searching on the web I found this: http://teamw.in/project/twrp2/143

TeamWin with a twrp recovery.

In the meantime the battery was empty too.

Recharging didn't work.

The red light was on for a few seconds and extincted.

Searching again revealed somone who held the on/off for some time to be able to load the battery.

So I wrapped some elastic band around the phone to push the switch on and started loading.

With some struggle it got into fastboot mode.

Then using adb and fastboot (found minimal_adb_fastboot_v1.1.3_setup.exe somewhere on XDA)

fastboot flash img openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.0-LT30p.img

Afterwards there was some life but I couldn't get the phone into fastboot or flash mode, whatever I tried.

Disappointment came up again.

Would I have to send the divice to SONY for repair?

I kept trying to get into fastboot again and then.....

ALL OF A SUDDEN A MIRACLE OCCURED!!

The display displayed something!

Something from TWRP with 3 buttons, one of which offered the possibility to install a ZIP from SD

Chose the new 9.2.A.0.278 and IT INSTALLED!!!!

My T Bird flies again!!!

And how!

4.3 perfect.