yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] yjosipy:
well the good news is that there is still no errors and i asked help from user named Rox from ace 2 forum (who speaks my language and lives about 70km from my house :D ) he will help us out but the bad news is that i had to pause syncing so that means i m still downloading
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] ShadowsDie:
Good job, let me know if something happens, i'll try to help as much as I can
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] yjosipy:
nopeee its cheking files :victory: now tell me how to add thewisps repos to manifests
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] ShadowsDie:
initialize environment

$ . build/envsetup.sh

Then i think you have to get the missing repo by typing "breakfast trebon" but im sure it will not work

Then create a file with the name local_manifest.xml in the local_manifests directory. To see this directory, you have to press Ctrl-H in your file manager.

then make the manifest look like this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<manifest>

<!-- CM replacements -->

<remove-project name="CyanogenMod/android_frameworks_native" />

<project path="frameworks/native" name="omnirom/android_frameworks_native" revision="android-4.4" />

<!-- Local projects -->

<project path="external/webkit" name="legaCyMod/android_external_webkit" revision="cm-11.0" />

<project path="hardware/atheros/wlan" name="TheWhisp/android_hardware_atheros_wlan" revision="cm-11.0" />

<project path="hardware/qcom/display-legacy" name="TheWhisp/android_hardware_qcom_display-legacy" revision="jellybean-mr2" />

<project path="hardware/qcom/media-legacy" name="Dazzozo/android_hardware_qcom_media-legacy" revision="jellybean-mr2" />

<project path="device/samsung/msm7x27a-common" name="yazidkucrit/android_device_samsung_msm7x27a-common" revision="cm-11.0" />

<project path="device/samsung/trebon" name="yazidkucrit/android_device_samsung_s7500" revision="cm-11" />

<project path="kernel/samsung/msm7x27a-common" name="yazidkucrit/kernel_KeongBalap" revision="master" />

<project path="vendor/samsung" name="yazidkucrit/proprietary_vendor_samsung_msm7x27a" revision="cm-10.2" />

<!-- FM Radio -->

<project path="hardware/qcom/fm" name="legaCyMod/android_hardware_qcom_fm" revision="cm-11.0" />

<project path="packages/apps/FM2" name="legaCyMod/android_packages_apps_FM2" revision="cm-11.0" />

</manifest>

save the file then repo sync again

hope it helps

Edit: can't we talk via any messenger? because i often check xda every hour and we cant communicate that fast

hopefully we will finish this soon...
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] yjosipy:
yes why not my fb name is joosipp
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] ShadowsDie:
i invited someone with that name thell me if its you
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] yjosipy:
nope try this www.facebook.com/joosipp
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] danyznd123:
I have successfullly ported cm11 to our device!!

But I can't upload It and share It with you due to bad internet connection (upload speed~12 Kb/s).... :crying: :crying: :crying: :crying:
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] yjosipy:
Goood job :D just do what i do leave it to upload over night
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] ANDROID-000:
How about you bro, any progress?
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] yjosipy:
If jou know someone who can solve STATIC_LIBRARES error while compiling then i would compile it :D :P
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nestea57:
Hi,

I have installed a new official rom for my Upai/star N7100+ with android 4.1.1. But Camera does not work anymore. The screen is grey (black) but there are buttons etc..

I have installed an other apk (new galery 4.2 for android 4.x), I have the camera but the screen is always grey (with buttons).

Can you tell me what are the files about camera ? (lib etc..) per example : /system/lib/libcameraclient.so etc..

I have a copy of an other official rom which works fine. (I maybe could copy these files...)

Thank you ;)

Ps : My phone is rooted and I have a recovery mode to install .zip.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nestea57:
I found !

Libcamalgo.so

Libcameracustom.so

Libcameraclient.so

Libcameraservice.so

Libcamerametadata.so

But when I delete and copy, size files are 0ko ! (the copy does not work)

How can I do to make a .zip which I will install with recovery ?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] swedenxperia:
Can someone give me the stock ICS browser? I accidentally deleted it from my Xperia Sola..
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] swedenxperia:
Please someone! I really hate google chrome on mobile
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.android.browser&hl=hr
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] swedenxperia:
It's not that one I'm searching for but thanks anyway... I found what I searched for on an other site.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] ChikeD:
You realy shoid learn how to extract files from the firmware FTF

This one from XP .75, I imagine it should work on Sola too.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ddpludo:
Hi all,

I have a samsung galaxy s i9000... I tried few custom rom then flashed my phone back to a stock rom on gingerbread. Then one day my phone started to bootloop on startup, i had to wait like 15 min to get it started. Now my phone just bootloop forever and doesn't start at all. So i decided to flash a stock rom again with pit files and repartition tickled.

Problem is, when odin restart the phone after flash done (PASS), i got a lot of errors msg exactly like in this video

watch?v=zdMhYYdMB08 on youtube (cannot post link atm forum rules)

And when i choose reboot in the system recovery (to try to start the phone), the phone bootloop forever.

I tried many guides on this forum, but can't fix the problem :(

I think the only way to fix it is to follow the instruction in the youtube vid but i don't have linux, so i don"'t understand what to do...

I hope someone can help me

Thank you
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] rmurph17:
Hi all, I had to hard reset my XdaIIi, but I had previously set the permanent save on my contacts, but when it finished setting up I tried to retrieve the contacts but it didnt work :(

I've also had the phone syncronised with my PC and have the past three partnerships still on it, is there anyway I can retrieve my contacts?

thanks
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] christopherwoods:
Whenever I've done a hard reset of my stuff, I've just done an ActiveSync before resetting it or flashing the ROM... When I've got my phone back to working order again on a fresh installation, I've just ActiveSynced again, and bingo - all my contacts, files, calendar, AvantGo files have appeared with no problem.

To do that, I've just set up a new full relationship, and ActiveSync has taken care of the rest. The only thing I've had to backup myself has been my SMSes... Of course, if you didn't have your Contacts selected as one of the things to synchronise with your PC every time you synced, you're straight outta luck.
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] sidd:
Hi rmurph17,

:lol: you are not straight outta luck :lol:

Do the following if u have already Synced your XDA with outlook before resetting:

1. Delete all your partnerships from your PC's ActiveSync without pluging the XDA

2. Once deleted all partnerships, put ur XDA on cradle which is already connected to PC

3. PC will ask for a new partnership, tell it what do u want to sync and from where & which account e.g. Outlook

It will start syncing once it made the partnership.

GoodLuck

Sidd
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] christopherwoods:
... So basically, what I said (see my original reply: " I've just ActiveSynced again, and bingo - all my contacts, files, calendar, AvantGo files have appeared with no problem") - I assumed you'd tried deleting your old ActiveSync partnerships from your PC via the ActiveSync software before attempting to resync again.
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] longpt:
Have problem with contacts

I had use Nokia 9210i and use Outlook + plaxo (plaxo.com) to manager contacts.

I have around 10.000 contacts with full detail (numbers, email, website, extra information)

Now I change to XDA mini S and discovered that they can not do the same thing as N9210i.

Just about one forth of my contacts Syns from PC, the Programe Memory of XDA is full.

I am asking many person, searching site to site but no one have same problem.

Everyone, who have experien, please advice me:

1. Can I store the contacts file in SD card but not on the fone (Programe Memory)

2. if 1 not avaiable, Can I expand Program Memory more than 64M?

Thank you so much for help me.
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] sidd:
Hi longpt,

I think in your situation u should better give a try to contact Microsoft.

https://support.microsoft.com/commo.../www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/default.mspx

Goodluck mate

Sidd

by the way r u using Wallaby (XDA 1) ?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sitanshu91:
guys ..happy new year

i have finally sim unlocked htc j one from japan (calls and sms working using indian sim card)

now i want to start gprs setting in htc one

now when i go to setting>>mobile data>>Access Point Name and press three dots at top i can find create apn setting

i am not able to use gprs

CAn i flash a new rom .....i dont know any compatible rom for that

can anyone help
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brilliant_smart:
i got the same problem here,

anybody out there to help us with solution?

thanks

---------- Post added at 05:37 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:43 PM ----------

Hi there

Root the phone, download sqlite editor, goto files/data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/database... open carriers and edit row number two..

if u have a working phone u have to install same sqlite editor... goto the same path and check for the raw that has your carrier apn in its apn column that is the six column....

good luck
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smohta123:
dear i hav einstalled maximus hd custom rom , but on that i cant find network setting and apn setting, (only mobile data on-off)

please help me sirji

please

thanks

sourabh
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Q&A, Help & Troubl] zad75455:
Dear Friends,

Got my new Galaxy Note 10.1 2014, stock set-up, no rom change (yet) and got the following problems:

1.Can't pull down notification bar at the top and open the short cut bar at the left side.

2. Can't reboot or switch off by holding power button

Did a factory reset over the menu but this did not give a change. Did google the problem, but no result.

Please help me to find a sollution

Have a nice day

Ben
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Q&A, Help & Troubl] ultramag69:
Return it under warranty, it is clearly defective....
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Q&A, Help & Troubl] zad75455:
Thanks for your help, I'll return it tomorrow.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Q&A, Help & Troubl] crowlaw:
Do you have a case on the device. I had the same problem and I took the case off and know everything works again.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Q&A, Help & Troubl] zad75455:
Thanks a lot, this it!!!!

Have a nice day

Ben
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Q&A, Help & Troubl] Cebudukas:
Had same problem, that what it was. My case had magnets in it I am thinking that they were causing all the trouble.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Q&A, Help & Troubl] mrkay:
Had the same problem here. Discovering that it was the magnets in the case was a pure fluke. I'm glad to see that you've resolved your issue too.
[Sony Xperia Miro, Tipo (Dual), J, E] Mhrok:
Hello,

My GF yesterday set new pin on screenlock on her Xperia Miro. And 10 minutes later she was panicking she cant unlock her phone.

Checked: "Forgot password" option did not appear even after 95 tries.

Checked: Using google device manager dont work (even "calling" phone makes no effect)

PC Companion can't find device.

My question is: how to backup personal files before factory reset?

Thanks for your help.
[Sony Xperia Miro, Tipo (Dual), J, E] aayushkkc:
You can't backup the contacts unless the PC companion detects it ..

If its about whatsapp ..

Then don't worry.. Because whatsapp makes a quick backup every night 4am so it'll be backed up ..

Rest won't be backed up if its in internal memory!
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vecino:
Hi guys, please can we help me? I have trouble with random reboot and soft reboot. Most often when I playing games or I use benchmark (AnTuTu Benchmark). I´am useing franco Kernel with default parameters. Does anybody have similar experiences? I use Purity and FrancoK from the start and were never such problems. Yes I tried a complete wipe / flash stock google image.

I found in logcat: 12-31 20:56:45.985 F/libc (31189): Fatal signal 13 (SIGPIPE) at 0x000079d5 (code=0), thread 31189 (logcat).

But I don´t know	what does this mean?

Thanks
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XxLordxX:
Hi,

As you mentioned it usually happens when you're playing games or using benchmarks, I'd like to ask you to check if the device is not getting too hot. Nexus 10 has a powerful CPU and GPU, having no coolers the temperature may be an issue. Specially considering that when you flashed the Stock it still happened, I believe it's a problem with your device overheating and rebooting itself to prevent any damage.

If this is really the case, then this is a hardware issue. Going to check the attached files later.

~Lord

"Time is too short to cry, long enough to try." - March of Time (Helloween)

Sent from my KitKat Nexus 10
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] alematt:
Hello all,

i'm currently running cm10 LE and i'm happy with it, but it eats battery very fast!!

can you suggest me a rom that is more battery friendly? i was wondering about slimcm or stock jb port (kontini or devswift) but if u have other rom to suggest you're welcome!

thanks
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] alematt:
Up

Inviato dal mio Xperia U utilizzando Tapatalk
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] androidous:
AOKP

AOKP ported rom has a pretty good battery life :)

Also try reducing the max processor speed to like 800mhz and put the governer as ondemand
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] alematt:
thank you for your reply, but unfortunately AOKP wasn't updated for a while :(
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] declassified:
Try using the FXP Team CM10

It has really good battery life in its current state
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Michele2:
I suggest cm9 kitkat or cm10 FXP, because stocks roms are very slow also if they've got good battery life.

Ps: Sorry I've got more problems with this language, because I don't speak English :/
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] claudd:
Try UNSTOPPABLE JB. Management of ram and battery is better than CM10 LE
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] bharathbondfire:
If u want good battery life use stock ics

If u want very good performance use cm

Currently on CM 10 LE it has good battery life like stock

Plz don't use any of battery saver's
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] alematt:
Thank you all! Now i'm on slimcm and i can have 6.40 hours of screen on!!!!

Inviato dal mio Xperia U utilizzando Tapatalk
[Galaxy Ace S5830i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aliv3mau5:
Can I install CWM5 on CWM6(6.0.4.5)? Because i want to install cm10 rom and i'd few issues, when i want to try install rom i see this: (in attachments)

Thanks for all help and Happy New Year :>
[Galaxy Ace S5830i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mradermaxlol:
Do you have the GT-S5830i or GT-S5830? There isn't any CWM6+ and CM10.X/11.X.

Отправлено с моего Nexus 7 через Tapatalk
[Galaxy Ace S5830i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aliv3mau5:
I have GT-S5830
[Galaxy Ace S5830i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mradermaxlol:
Soooo? Why are you in GT-S5830i section?

Отправлено с моего Nexus 7 через Tapatalk
[Galaxy Ace S5830i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aliv3mau5:
Oh damn, my bad, sorry.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Saffare:
please I need seclauncher2.odex on amg4 rom
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xAbsoLx:
i can't help you sending you the file but aomm you need to search for a odexed rom wich contains seclauncher2.odex to do that "i think thats difficult cuz stock based's are deodexed" or you can search "how to odex"
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] lafactorial:
A kernel for CyanogenMod 11.0 ION/PMEM

FEATURES

*Kernel 3.4.87

*Build with Linaro GCC 4.7.4 2014.01 toolchain by Christopher83

*O3 Optimization

*Overclock up to 1.8 GHz

*CPU voltage control VDD sys interface

*Lowered display panel voltage

*Lowered wifi voltage

*Lowered vibetonz voltage

*Fixed 100% battery notification after charger unplug

*Fast Charge support

*Battery Life eXtender support

*Increase audio loudness

*Increased cpu freq.on boot

*Con Kolivas' CK3 Tweaks

*Fast Random generator (frandom) support

*Dynamic management of dirty page writebacks

*Dynamic management of the minimal slack

*Dynamic file sync

*Dynamic read-ahead

*LowMemoryKiller management of not killable processes

*Lowered swappines

*Stock Ram/362Mb Ram

*Governers : adaptive, conservative, lulzactive, interactive, interactiveX, ondemand, ondemandX, powersave, smartassV2, lionheart, performance

*I/O schedulers : noop, vr, sio, row, cfq, bfq, fiops

INSTALLATION GUIDE

Reboot To Recovery Mode

Flash the kernel

Wipe Cache & Dalvik Cache

Reboot System

CREDITS

arco68

Christopher83

educk

madridii

arsradu

sir mordred

and all github users for their commits

<< DOWNLOAD 362MB RAM >> Compatible with latest CyanogenMod 11.0 (20140413-UNOFFICIAL)

<< DOWNLOAD STOCK RAM >> Compatible with latest CyanogenMod 11.0 (20140413-UNOFFICIAL)

Old Versions :

<< DOWNLOAD >>

You can use [URL="http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2401988"][COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"][U]Performance Control[/U][/COLOR][/URL] to edit all features.

CHANGELOG:

XDA:DevDB Information

[Kernel][CM 11][ION+PMEM] KhaN Kernel 3.4.87 ( 16.04.2014 ), a Kernel for the Samsung Galaxy W I8150

Contributors

lafactorial

Kernel Special Features:

Version Information

Status: Beta

Current Beta Version: v2.0

Beta Release Date: 2014-04-16

Created 2014-01-01

Last Updated 2014-04-16
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] ahaiqali:
Cool, another CM11 kernel!
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] -Rhoby|™-Bugs:
wow new kernel :good:

great job bro ;)

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[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] theloneseeker:
Good Job Buddy......
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] adefxda:
Thanks, now we have more RAM on 4.4.2.. :thumb:
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] ghost141:
i flash the swapped version. but it's not swapped at all.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] ali7557:
4.4.2 Kernel

My brother lafactorial

Great work.

Success and ease.Continuous steps forward.

Very thanks
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] lafactorial:
Sorry my mistake.Tested and uploaded again.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] ghost141:
flash the swapped version, and yeah! calender keep crashing -_-''
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] lafactorial:
I have no problem at all. Try to clear cache of the app.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] Adi Aisiteru Reborn:
swapped storage perfectly :)

Rom Kk Bean Kat v.4

Dalvic runtime

thanks :good:
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] Lakum:
I realized one thing when I swapped memory. When I transfering some apps to sd card, it transfered to external SD instead (the 1.70gb one), not to the swapped one (my 32gb). Not like on the jellybean. How to do this?

- XDA ROCKS -
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] serkan sekerci:
[MENTION=5183976]lafactorial[/MENTION]

Thank you dude,

I have just flashed your kernel, I have to test it for a meaningful time to realize its performance, and will give feedbacks here... :))
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] xlollomanx:
Can we flash swapped version of this on lastest arco's CM11 release?(1/1/2014)
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] lafactorial:
You will have camera problems if you flash.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] xlollomanx:
Ok thanks, I' ll wait for an update
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] ali7557:
In a short time, the great work.

More and more forward.

Thanks my brother.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] lafactorial:
You are welcome. I am trying to learn.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] ianfebriyanto:
I download, and I use it. and working perfect, no problem so far. thaaaaaaaaaaaaanks :D
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] lafactorial:
Update

Updated to new version for CyanogenMod 11.0 (20140101).
[Themer General Discussion] alldroid:
All the best to everyone hope you have a great 2014
[Themer General Discussion] ThemerSupport:
Thanks to everyone for all your support!
[Themer General Discussion] dj_mol3y_x8:
Happy new year to you all now time for a holiday with my family.

All the best

Moley

Sent from my RAZR I screen to your screen using a strange thing known as the world wide web
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CaracalSef:
Hi there. A friend of mine has an I9300 which had 4.0.4. I could not update from the phone, so I go I9300XXUGMK6 from samfirmware and flashed with odin. All went good, until the first screen after boot. It's requesting a sim network unlock code. The phone was locked in Vodafone Romania and got unlocked by a guy. I don't know how. He uses Cosmote Romania.

Now my question is that if I can flash I9300XXEMG4 with odin so I can use galaxsim unlock. I don't have an /efs backup and the /efs partition it's empty (I read something about a new format of that partition from some Android version up), so I can't get nv_data.bin.

The IMEI it's there, so no lost IMEI after this odin flash to 4.3.

Thank you! And happy new year! :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boomboomer:
EMG4 is version 2 efs format, same as GMK6, so unlock patches will not work.

Without a backup of your efs version 1 folder you cannot go back to a rom that patches would still work with.

If you have a valid imei then your efs folder cannot be empty, don't mess with it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CaracalSef:
You are right. /efs is not empy. X-plore was showing that, but root explorer shows the content. I have installed 4.1.2 (I9300XXEMG4), I still have the IMEI, but also sim lock status.

What can I do in this situation? Is there ANY way I can unlock?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boomboomer:
Obtain unlock code from a reputable company, I think efs v2 was created for the purpose of blocking patches.
[General Topics] ArgyleMoss:
the other day i put my sd card in a friends Tungsten Palm and now its back in my exec i cant delete or save anything on the card. how do i format the sd card back to my exec? I can view and play the stuff from the sd card on my exec, i just cant save or delete anything, please help.
[General Topics] ArgyleMoss:
please dont reply to above. Ive sorted it. like the amature i am i didnt check the lock on the side of the card :oops:
[General Topics] underwurlde:
Hell, I've learnt something!!! :oops:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] zgomot:
Are there any cutom ROMs that are flashable via FlashTool? I have a bootloader unlock allowed=NO device, that's rooted, with busybox installed but I can't install a recovery so I was wondering if there is any ROM out there in .tft format that I can flash without a recovery.

Currently using stock 6.2.B.1.96
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ffabiomelo:
you gonna find a lot of roms in this forum, just search for your phone
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] zgomot:
Dude, I looked, And all I could find (besides stock ROMs, which I already get via OTA) is flashable zips, and since I can't install a recovery on my phone, the'yre of no use to me, are they. Thus, my search for custom ROMs flashable by FlashTool.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] zgomot:
Oops. Forum done bad and double posted my message.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] abcdjdj:
There are no custom roms which are in the ftf format. Only Sony can create sin files, from which ftf files are created.If my memory serves me well, in files could be created but that was only for 2010 Xperia Phones. All custom roms come as a zip which has to be flashed using a recovery.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] zgomot:
I kind of expected this but I figured it was worth a try.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sudd1976:
CM10 for Locked bootloader

Dude,

This has just been released today for locked bootloaders.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2593806

Give it a try
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] zgomot:
Yeah, but my whole problem is I can't get a recovery flashed so I can't flash zips.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sudd1976:
Dude,

I guess you have tried installing recovery for locked bootloaders, what's the problem you have when installing it?