yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] creed1:
Thank you.

Yes, i did notice tht i was using philz only after starting the erase. so i went on with it. Got confused with the buttons to be clicked on. ill try doing this asap.. Could you please tell me how long the phone will take to reboot after the last step ? (how long will i have to look at the black screen before anything comes up) i heard it takes as long as two hours for the reboot after flashing the new rom. is that right? Thanks again.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinipic:
:laugh::laugh::laugh: When you reboot, it takes maximum 5 minutes until you have your phone back!

Good luck!
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Morinohtar:
"reboot system now" doesn't work

Hi,

I do all the steps, everything goes smoothly, but when the time comes do "reboot system now" the phone turns off and never comes back alive.... i waited like 15 minutes or so just in case, but even so nothing.

I used the "flashtool" to flash a stock image, and tried the process several times, but everytime it does this. What can i do?

Thanks
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] creed1:
well, thts what went wrong then.. i waited for around four minutes and thought i bricked my phone and then started doing crap in it..

thanks reinipic!
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Feriba:
Szia bagyusz

A cm11 telepítése közben hibát írt ki és leállt a telepítése. Most csak a sony felirat a kijelzőn. Hogyan lehetne visszatenni az eredeti 4.3-at a telefonra? Most jelenleg tégla!
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eddieandroid:
cm11 v2 update last 16.02 2015 missing radio fm!

Hello guyz!I have one question,why last update dont have fm radio?

Tnx
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Morinohtar:
Turn on/off and Reboot issue

Hi,

Anyone having this problem that when you turn on or reboot the phone, the apps that you chose disappear and some others appear? This happens to me all the time. I select the apps that i want again, reboot and they are gone again. Driving me nutts!

Is there a fix to this?

Thanks
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eddieandroid:
I try but still no progress!!?! :(
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Morinohtar:
To be more accurate, what i mean by the "apps disappear" means that the shortcuts that i put in the screen disappear, and a couple of others sometimes appear. And this happens everytime i reboot or turn on the phone.

Tired of creating shortcuts for the apps for them to disappear just because...
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ken823:
sd-ext not mounting ?!

Hello

I was using cm-11-20150116-UNOFFICIAL-lbhuashan and tried installing cm-12-20150120-UNOFFICIAL-lbhuashan after backup few hours ago.

However, I think I like the cm11 more and decided to restore from sdcard1, then I find out that my phone cannot read from the sd card anymore.

I can see sdcard1 in the CWM recovery and restore but I cannot read media files and my apps keep telling me I need to insert a SD card when I get back to cm11.

I have tried formatting the SD card and my phone still cannot detect there is a sd card inserted.

But when I put the SD card in the card reader, it worked perfectly fine in the computer.

In the CWM recovery there is a sd-ext not mounted and I guess that's where the problem is.

"Error mounting/sd-ext!" poped up when I try to mount it.

What should I do?
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinipic:
Hi mate, I see you are thinking in the wrong direction ;)

when you have installed CM11, there you have no SD card1! Your external storage is SD card0!!!

So, if you made a backup with CWM, the CWM folder with the backup is on SD card 0.

Go to CWM, choose restore, choose SD card 0 and restore easy the last backup, finished.

Don´t forget to make a full wipe before you are reinstalling the CM11 version with CWM. :fingers-crossed:

Greets, reinipic.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xerofan:
after i installed cyanogenmod 11 and chose reboot system now, it turned off and cant turn it on again.

after pressing power button i get only a short vibration and nothing happens.

I notcied also there is no led light when i try 2 charge it and when the cable is inside phone doesnt even vibrate when i try to turn it on.

also when i press vol down + power there is also a short green led flash + short vibration, but nothing besides that ;/

any suggestions ?
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheAvengingTITAN:
Same thing happened to me. Try taking off the back cover of your SP and taking a small object (like a pen or a pencil) and press the yellow button labeled "OFF". You need to press and hold until there are three vibrations, then give it a sec, then boot it up.

If it still doesn't boot up: you might've soft bricked your phone, so you would have to turn off your phone like shown above, when it'd completely powered off, go to flashtool (PC/Mac) then flash sock ftf using on-screen instructions.

Hope that helps! :D

Keep Calm, and Help The Community! :)
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xerofan:
well now i ve got a problem with flashtool and firemware. i have the ftf file but when i start flash i get a message to

ungplug ur phone

turn it off

press back button

plug in

but its off, and i dont have any back button when its off. when i plugin usb cable phone tries 2 start up and SONY shows on screen and then batter being charged shows up and then screen is black and LED is green coz batt is prob full.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheAvengingTITAN:
For the Xperia SP, you turn off the phone, press the volume down button as you insert the USB cable and you won't see anything appear on the screen. This means that you are connected in flashmode and the files should be flashing. Once it is done, flashtool will tell you to disconnect the device and power it up. Then you're good to go :)

Keep Calm, and Help The Community! :)
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xerofan:
thx moving ahead but not quite :P

11/039/2015 18:39:23 - INFO - Processing loader.sin

11/039/2015 18:39:23 - INFO - Checking header

11/039/2015 18:39:24 - ERROR - Processing of loader.sin finished with errors.

11/039/2015 18:39:24 - INFO - Ending flash session

11/039/2015 18:39:24 - ERROR - Error in processHeader : 995 : Operacja We/Wy została przerwana z powodu zakończenia wątku lub żądania aplikacji.

11/039/2015 18:39:24 - ERROR - Error flashing. Aborted

doest it mean i have bad ftf file?

11/039/2015 18:39:24 - INFO - Device disconnected

11/039/2015 18:39:32 - INFO - Device connected with USB debugging off

11/039/2015 18:39:32 - INFO - For 2011 devices line, be sure you are not in MTP mode

debugging off is bad right?
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheAvengingTITAN:
That's strange. Do you have the required drivers for flashtool, flashmode and the Xperia SP? if you don't, that's definitely the problem. Maybe even turn on USB Debugging via Developer Settings (if you can't find developer settings, go to about phone > tap on the build number until it says "you are now a developer!", hit back and go into developer settings and find USB Debugging).

Hopefully this should fix it, cheers :)

Keep Calm, and Help The Community! :)

---------- Post added at 06:00 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:52 PM ----------

@xerofan IF YOU ARE A WINDOWS UDER: make sure that you are running the x64 on a 64 bit version of windows and the normal one on x32 versions. Also run the program as administrator and close every other program for a better, safer and faster outcome :D

Keep Calm, and Help The Community! :)
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xerofan:
well i installed flashmode and flash boot drivers but there were no xperia SP drivere there and i dont remember what other should I install

dno if u remember but i cant turn on the phone so nothing i can do about usb debugging from phone menu.

ok i got it right and it booted :D thx for help. now ill go and try 2 get this CM 11 or 12 to work :D
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheAvengingTITAN:
Great to hear that! My advice is to stick to CM11 till Lollipop and CM12 gets stable. Right now, CM12 is quite a pain to set up and run as a daily driver. There's also a major performance drop when you run it. If you want a Lollipop ROM that is quite stable (has bugs though) and runs on scripts and requires manual audio driver installations... (Etc) I recommend you try Ressurection Remix 5.0.2 .

Keep Calm, and Help The Community! :)
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyzoltan:
TWRP

Why isn't TWRP in the recoveries? Can I install that dsmmex recovery pack to get it back?
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thefukrooball:
Corrupted Internal Storage path.

After the latest ROM flash, clean flash, the internal storage path shows invalid and not showing up, I am doing a reflash hard reset, and will update if it sorts out ,

cheers !
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinipic:
Hello, don´t worry:

in the CM 11 build of bagyusz: he removed internal sd card (data partition fix 5.4GB)!

The change was to remove the internal storage deliberately, its now integrated into your data partition.

Go to the File Manager - Settings - access mode - and change it to "root access". Internal memory is alive

As I noticed, when you are instlling an app, it will be installed in the internal memory. At the same time in the external sd is createtd a folder for the app, where the cache etc. are outsourced!

So you have on the internal sd only the system and the full memory space for apps ...

From my sight a genious solution.

Greets reinipic
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thefukrooball:
Thank you for your prompt reply!

Yes I did notice the apps getting installed on that partition and it is quite ingenious, I flashed another rom, but the internal remained read only,

could you please tell how to reinstate the original format of the internal memory incase of a rom change!

Many thanks!
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinipic:
Before you flash another rom you have always to make a full wipe, so the whole system will be reformatted. Be careful, for this action you need a backup of your former system. Otherwise your phone is without any system !!!

You can flash a stockrom .ftf file too.

Cheers reinipic.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thefukrooball:
yeah, I soft bricked my phone once :cyclops:. after a full wipe, but I guess we all learn from a few shat pants yes ?

the clockwork based recovery has a wipe all but that doesn't take care of the all the partitions, and I refuse philz because somehow it irks my :silly:,

I tried to flash a dual recovery with TWRP I sort of like that recovery but it was not registering, the permissions were denied somehow,

here is the link to the one I am talking about,

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2704506

and I alos realise this is my third question to you, and would like thank you for being patient and replying,

:D
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinipic:
Hi mate, first of all I want to say, that every developer when he ist bulding a rom, recommends a recovery to flash the rom. I don´t lnow it exactly, but I think, there is a context

between the permissions of a rom and the flashing. By myself I always flash a rom, backup a rom and restore a rom with the same recovery. Although an other recovery is working,

sometimes you can have a big problem with the restore of a rom because different recoverys do not realize the generated MD5 checksum!!!

So it may happen you make a backup with a recovery and you cannot restore it witz another recovery. Be careful.

When you flashed the dual recovery with TWRP, I hope you read the following:

Defaults:

The default on first boot with the boot-to-recovery flag set by any recovery is PhilZ Touch Recovery.

Init.d support is disabled by default, set dr.enable.initd to true to enable it.

Insecure ramdisk support is disabled by default, set dr.insecure.ramdisk to true to enable it, set to 'power' to boot it by pressing the power button at boot.

For this you have to enable it manually! And how I told you, make everything with the same recovery.

For bagyusz´CM11 is recommended the CWM recovery. I´ve never had any problem with it.

Greets reinipic.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thefukrooball:
Yeah i'd rather no fiddle that much i guess, and yeah after the flash the flag does go to philz, and yeah there are no other issues as such,

thanks again for the help !!

and yeah one small bug i noticed, when you enter number dial the keypad does not align correctly, you have to back once and press the dial again for it align completely to the screen, or maybe i'm getting the bug only ?

anywas all the thanks for the help man !

:svetius:
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saud_jmi:
Hello Sir, I am facing problem similar to this. I installed custom rom CM11 snapshot to my Sony Xperia SP to make it KItKat 4.4.4 and i followed the method via CWM recovery mode. In the end it said reboot the phone and it will take some minutes. The phone never booted after that. Its not starting, black screen.When i press VOL UP+pwr button blue light flashes in the bottom and upon pressing VOL down+pwr button green light flashes in the bottom but the phone does not switch on, not even sony logo appears.

Please help me.. i think i have bricked my device. I have also applied your suggestion but its id not work for me.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinipic:
Ok my friend, I think your problem is quite simple - I guess you have a locked bootloader, right? To flash a (un)officiell Rom is not a good idea. Because with a LBL you can only flash a Rom for LBL! The problem is, you cannot flash a custom kernel in a locked bootloader system.

So after the reboot your phone could not find any system. Don´t panic, here we go:

Download a stock .ftf Rom from here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2311964

Flash the Stockrom with the flashtool.

When the system is running, go here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2735975

Follow the instructions step by step and voilá, you will have a running Kitkat Rom as a daily driver! :fingers-crossed:

Good luck and cheers, reinipic.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saud_jmi:
Thank you for your reply, I will try as you said and will let u know the result..
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RJ Calderonni:
downgrade from CM12

I got the CM 12 running in my SP, but I don´t really like it. It´s to slow but well... its an unnoficial lollypop release. My question is, I can downgrade from that ROM to this , with the same installation instructions( enter in recovery mode, flash the ROM...)?
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinipic:
Hi, no problem, go to recovery, make a full wipe!!! an flash back the backup. Finished ;) greets, reinipic.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RJ Calderonni:
Muajajaja...I didn't a backup´:( , so I think in download this ROM and just install it. Is that ok?

Thanks a lot.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinipic:
You flashed a rom and didn't make a backup :confused:

no good idea - but i think, you learned now something.

You can try it to flash a rom after a full wipe, maybe it works.

Otherwise you have to flash a stockrom again with flashtool, root again, install recovery again ...

But first try a dirty flash. Let me know about it.

When you have been on bagusz' rom, I recommend to flash his CM11.

Link is a few posts before. Good luck :fingers-crossed: reinipic.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saud_jmi:
Thanks Reinpic! :good: I followed as u told and it worked my phone is back in action:o. I have installed CM12 feeling great!!
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinipic:
Welcome back! :highfive:
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saud_jmi:
Hi again, i have a new issue with the cm12 ROM, battery is draining very fast and the charging time is very slow (5-6 hours) otherwise other things are working fine. I tried to search the forum but did not find solution (probably i missed some post). Will appreciate your help...:confused:
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Allanitomwesh:
Cm12 no mobile data

The problem is that during initial setup the phone sets up mobile network,and at that point when it says "may take upto five minutes" it goes on for more than five minutes,so i skip this setup. At that point,i can see the 3G logo H+. When i finish setup having skipped that particular setup, i go to "settings-more-mobile network" and immediately the H+ becomes an exclamation. When I open APN, it is not correct, for my network Safaricom Kenya. Even after I correct it though, the exclamation remains. So then I have fully working CM12,correct APN settings. But no mobile data.

I have tried the following fixes

Reboot into recovery,wipe cache,wipe dalvik. No success

Delete default APN,put APN manually,reboot. No success

Dont delete default APN,add new APN,switch to new APN. Reboot. No success

Edit default APN. Save edit. Reboot. No success.

Reflash ROM, let "may take up to five minutes run. No success,runs indefinitely (phone starts to lose charge)

I'm at my wits end here. Other than mobile data not working,everything else seemed fine. I have flashed back to CM11,which ironically,has the exact same wrong APN as CM12 as default ,and when I edit it and save the edit,i get mobile data.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinipic:
Hehe my friend, for me too ;) That´s why I flashed back to CM11, because for me this is the one and onlx rom that works perfect and lagfree. Don´t forget, CM12 is in Alpha state and for the mobile data and network there are used fixes.

And the APN´s are not correct. So the WLan has much to do for a stable connection - and that sucks. I think we have to wait till the CM12 is more stable for daily use.

Cheers, reinipic
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saud_jmi:
Did you flashed CM11 available at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2735975.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinipic:
So it is :o No problems with any connections and a veeeeeeeeeeeeeery long battery life. I use it as a daily driver for my business, phone, Emails, Internet. And for this my battery holds 3 to 4 days!!!

Chers, reinipic

Edit: Don´t forget to make a backup! Download the CM11 zip and the gapps yo need for CM11!!,give it to your SD, go to CWM make a FULL wipe and flash the rom and gapps. Finished.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrBlc:
Warning about recovery and CM11

Hi, first i wanna thank you for great work. My phone now works like new.

Only thing is i couldn't get to CWM (or any recovery) after flashing your version of CM11. I got "briliant" idea to reinstall recovery package from first post and that worked. But my phone went from 70 % battery to 20 % in 2 hours. Also, couldn't access storage (all apps work, like camera and gallery, but file managers not), USB connection doesn't work and phone wouldn't charge.

I managed to transfer zip to SD card throu CWM and reinstall CM11 with 20 % of battery.

How to get to recovery that is shipped with CM11 (reboot to recovery doesn't work)? Is there compatible version of recovery image that will not f*ck up my phone?
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrBlc:
I figured out. CWM is not on camera key, but volume down. Key should be pressed after vibration. Maybe it should be updated in first post.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thefukrooball:
The Sp screen Demon

Hello,

I cannot post a bug report because , for the first time in using this phone for two years and after flashing this ROM, the top 2 cm screen gets unresponsive at time, either under load, no load , charge no charge, the problem cannot be triangulated, but its there now out of nowhere !

:( !
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Leecher123:
Failure

I tried installing the Cynogen from here and over my stock rom and after installation with gapps and update fix, all the installation process goes correctly without any error, after reboot my phone goes blank.

Hitting the power button it only vibrates and volume down + power gives green light.

Could not restore my backup due to this then I reverted back to stock rom using Windows Flash tool. Tried several time also with different cynogenmod roms but same result. Is it the kernal is not suitable or my phone is incompatible ?

I have used Towelroot to root my phone

Please help.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saud_jmi:
See post #131 and so on in this thread, follow those steps.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrBlc:
Switch phone on with only power button and wait until phone vibrates twice. Then press volume down and keep it pressed until recovery is loaded. If you press button before vibration, button will not be registered.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Renato Henrique:
Snapshot vs bagyusz

Don't get me wrong guys, I just wonder to know which one is closest to an stable CM11 rom.. snapshot m12 or bagyusz?

I've been testing the m12 with some issues like lag and some crashes.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheAvengingTITAN:
Try mateoo's cm11, its fast, smooth and updated.

Sent Using RR Milestone 1. Please h hit that thanks button!
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adampl78:
Hello, i have problem. After install recovery, phone restarting and stuck at Sony logo. What i musst to do?
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MikeJT:
XperiaSP Locked Bootloader (LBL) Cyanogenmod 11.0 by bagyusz

Hi all,

I've been using this ROM for a couple of months now and love it. It's smooth and stable - huge improvement over stock.

I have 1 frustrating problem though and don't know if it's related to the ROM or not.

Mobile data only seems to work some of the time. I know the APN settings are correct (EE in the UK) but often although enabled it's as if the phone doesn't know that it is, i.e. no arrows in the signal strength bars, no 3G icon or the like. Trying to access web pages in stock browser gives the error:

net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED

Removing and reinserting the SIM sometimes seems to solve the problem but only until the next reboot.

Hmm, bit of an update - I think the issue may occur when the phone moves from one cell to another - it then fails to negotiate a data connection with the new cell until the phone if rebooted. Beyond my knowledge to figure that one out!

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Mike
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bubbeld:
stable ?

hello at the moment i use MrSteve555 rom of CM11 but ik have some problems with the battery and deepsleepmode that doenst work.

Are these bugg's here fixed ?
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrBlc:
I there any changelog for cm-11-20150524-UNOFFICIAL-lbhuashan?
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vntpwr:
Internal Storage not shown

Hey there i have installed cm12 in my xperia sp but my phone internal storage not shown. what to do
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B.Gaboo:
gaaps

hi,

i installed the rom as per the instruction. i also flashed this gaaps from CM portal: 20141212 .

But after reboot i do not have gaaps installed at all. Could someone help me? I reinstalled the gaaps, but still nothing.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrBlc:
How to downgrade to cm-11-20150524-UNOFFICIAL-lbhuashan to cm-11-20150116-UNOFFICIAL-lbhuashan?

I don't see any improvement. On 20150524 FM transmiter is using internal antena with range od 3 cm (totally unusable).
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flash-:
just reboot to recovery ....do a full wipe and flash the cm-11-20150116 :p
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrBlc:
Luckily, still got preflash backup in CWM.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miladn78:
before I flash gapps , I have music's sounds but after flash I lost my music's sounds.

help me plz
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flash-:
are you sure you are flashing the right GAPPS for CM11 :) ?
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miladn78:
yes I'm sure,I have same problem with cm12
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flash-:
do you wipe cache and dalvick-cache before and after flashing of the GAPPS ? :confused:

try those minimal edition(Base Gapps) :)