[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] safcscon:
Right, to start off ive had the XZ for a while now, (was a replacement for a damaged one mid last year). My problem is i think ive bricked it, (absolutely devastated :( ...) i would love to hear from some more experienced users who could possibly help me in my situation.

On my memory card i have a few different roms backed up for me to restore to at my leisure, (pac rom, beanstalk rom, stock 4.3, stock 4.3 with unlocked bootloader, cyanagenmod..) i use the latest dual recovery (twrp and clockwork).

Now here is my problem and how it occured....

I was running stock 4.3, with locked bootloader, rooted.....I booted to twrp recovery, in there i had a choice of roms to restore from, without thinking i restored a backup of cyanagenmod FROM MY Girlfriends xperia z, (was digging through my laptop last week to clear things up and seen a cyanagen mod backup... thought it was from this xz so put it on my memory card... :(.

So now ive wrote a cyanagenmod restore point which was made on my girlfriends xperia z which was an unlocked bootloader onto my current one, which was a locked bootloader.

When it happened last night i had around 50 % battery.

The phone shows very little signs of life. when plugged into wall charger it gives a flashing red led, around every second or so.

When connected to Flashtool (latest one) it connects in flashmode, thats without pressing and holding down, (get same results if i press and hold down also.

The phone will not connect in Fastboot mode (up and plug usb in).

Holding power and up for 10, 20, 30 seconds does nothing but blink a red led at me.

It is recognized in windows (7,32bit) but will connect for a while then disconnect, then re connect then disconnect etc...

I do have full backups (made in twrp) of full stock rom, i have full backup of my T.A partition. im wondering if there is anyone on here had anything similar to this and successfully brought it back from the brink ? Only done without my phone for today and im lost without it....

here is a log of what happens in flashtool when im plugged in..... trying to flash a generic unbranded sony ftf.....

03/009/2014 19:09:34 - INFO - <- This level is successfully initialized

03/009/2014 19:09:34 - INFO - Flashtool Version 0.9.16.0 built on 19-04-2014 19:00:00

03/009/2014 19:09:46 - INFO - Checking if changes have been made to devices folder.

03/009/2014 19:09:59 - INFO - Pulling changes from github

03/010/2014 19:10:00 - INFO - Devices sync finished.

03/010/2014 19:10:05 - INFO - Device disconnected

03/010/2014 19:10:18 - INFO - Selected Bundle for Sony Xperia Z (C6603). FW release : 10.4.1.B.0.101. Customization : Generic UK

03/010/2014 19:10:18 - INFO - Preparing files for flashing

03/010/2014 19:10:35 - INFO - Device connected in flash mode

03/011/2014 19:11:25 - INFO - Please connect your device into flashmode.

03/011/2014 19:11:26 - INFO - Opening device for R/W

03/011/2014 19:11:26 - INFO - Reading device information

03/011/2014 19:11:36 - INFO - Unable to read from phone after having opened it.

03/011/2014 19:11:36 - INFO - trying to continue anyway

03/011/2014 19:11:36 - INFO - Start Flashing

03/011/2014 19:11:36 - INFO - Processing loader.sin

03/011/2014 19:11:36 - INFO - Checking header

03/011/2014 19:11:36 - ERROR - Processing of loader.sin finished with errors.

03/011/2014 19:11:36 - INFO - Ending flash session

03/011/2014 19:11:36 - ERROR - Error in processHeader : 2 : The system cannot find the file specified.

03/011/2014 19:11:36 - ERROR - Error flashing. Aborted

03/011/2014 19:11:36 - INFO - Device disconnected

03/011/2014 19:11:51 - INFO - Device connected in flash mode

03/012/2014 19:12:52 - INFO - Device disconnected

03/013/2014 19:13:01 - INFO - Device connected in flash mode

03/014/2014 19:14:02 - INFO - Device disconnected

03/014/2014 19:14:04 - INFO - Device connected in flash mode