[Sony Xperia ZL] Aljecama12:
Hello guys, I wanted to share with you my story and the steps I did to unbrick my phone beacuse I was so desperated and I couldn't find a well explained post to solve my problem:(

1.-HOW MY PHONE GOT BRICKED​

Go to point 6 to see the problems I had

1.- My phone was running android 4.3, specificaly this ROM http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2385313

2.- I wanted to upgrade to android 4.4.4

3.- I tried to flash the same eXistenZ ROM but it was 3.0.0 and obviously android 4.4.4 based

4.- I started the proccess (wipe data, cache, dalvik cache and flash the rom from CWM recovery)

NOTE:

I WAS USING THE SAME ROM BUT AN OLDER VERSION, THAT'S WHY I FOLLOWED THIS STEPS, IF I WERE COMING FROM ANOTHER ROM LIKE MOONWALKER I MUST HAD DONE A FRESH INSTALLATION

5.- Everything was going fine until the last step of the Aroma Installer where there was an option to select your device and I accidentally selected the model of the Xperia Z (C66xx) instead of (C65xx) of the ZL

Here come the brick

6.- I restarted the phone and nothing happened, the screen didn't even turn on

7.- I couldn't access to recovery

8.- Nothing happened when I pressed the power button even for one minute

9.- I connected my phone to my PC, I wanted to flash a FTF ROM using flashtools but the phone didn't even went into Flashmode:(

SOLUTION:good:

BE SURE TO HAVE YOUR PHONE FULLY CHARGED BEFORE TRYING THIS, YOU CAN PLUG IT FOR 5 HOURS TO AC POWER

1.-Someone in xda told me that trying to connect the phone in fastboot mode maybe a solution, but I had never used that before so I investigated an entire day before doing anything.

To connect the phone into fastboot mode We have to press the volume up button and without releasing it, connect the phone to our PC using the Data cable (USB), our phone's LED should turn on in a blue color then our PC should start installing the fastboot drivers NOTE: THE DRIVERS WON'T INSTALL, AN ERROR WILL OCCUR DURING THE DRIVERS INSTALLATION, (AT LEAST THAT HAPPENED TO ME), so I followed this thread http://xdaforums.com/xperia-z/help/help-findiing-installin-s1boot-fastboot-t2218143

2.-Our device now should be recognized by our PC NOTE: I USED A WINDOWS 7 PC, DON'T KNOW IF IT WORKS WITH WINDOWS 8, TRY AND COMMENT PLEASE:fingers-crossed:

3.- Now we have to flash a Kernel to our device, I saw in some post that a kernel was flashed from a CMD window using fastboot but that metod didn't worked for me:rolleyes: So, i tried this:

First download this Kernel img from here:https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8F8dI650En8d1JfcllPUnNIT2M/view?usp=sharing

also download this FTF 4.4.4 STOCK ROMhttp://xdaforums.com/xperia-zl/development/ftf-india-t2879984

And this FTF Kernel from herehttps://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8F8dI650En8aTFRWHEyQmw5Y2c/view?usp=sharing

Place the last 2 files downloaded here:

And the kernel img wherever you want:

[IMG="I placed it on my desktop"]http://s18.postimg.org/crxmkslyw/image.jpg[/IMG]

Open flashtools

Click on the black bold

[IMG="This will window will appear"]http://s17.postimg.org/7vsxrr1vz/image.jpg[/IMG]

Now we connect our device in fastboot mode and select this option:

We change that extension to *.img

We go to the route we downloaded our Kernel (Desktop in my case)

[IMG="My file is called boot"]http://s17.postimg.org/kr0xeih5b/image.jpg[/IMG]

Then it will start flashing and when finish, our phone should be recognized in flashmode by flashtools program, so now We click the black bold again but this time We're going to select Flashmode

Select this one: and press flash

Once finished, the phone finally turns screen on and goes into recovery(in my case that happened), then we turn it off by pressing the reset button, this one:

[IMG="The yellow one located next to the MicroSD card slot, press it for 10 seconds"]http://cdn.lowyat.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/xperia-zl-7.jpg[/IMG]

Once turned off we connect our phone to PC in flashmode, (press and hold

volume down button

and connect it via USB) and again repeat this proccess:

THIS WILL FLASH STOCK 4.4.4 TO OUR PHONES

But in this step, change some things: SELECT THE ONE THAT IS SELECTED IN THE IMAGE (10.5.1.A.0.283) AND CHECK THE SAME BOXES, EVERYTHING SHOULD BE LIKE THIS:

[IMG="In EXCLUDE everything will be UNCHECKED"]http://s4.postimg.org/qx85i96j1/10_2.jpg[/IMG]

AND THATS ALL!:)

NOTE: IF YOUR STORY IS SIMILAR TO MINE (YOU SELECTED XPERIA Z INSTEAD OF ZL ON EXISTENZ AROMA INSTALLER) AND YOU STILL WANT TO FLASH THIS AWESOME ROM TO YOUR XPERIA ZL DO THIS STEP INSTEAD OF THE PREVIOUS ONE

This will only flash 4.4.4 stock kernel and if your recovery is still working, wipe data, cache and dalvik cache and install eXistenZ ROM again but pay more attention in the final step where you have to select your Bootloader and Model

I CREATED THIS THREAD SPECIALLY FOR PEOPLE WHO IS NOT EXPERT, I KNOW THE FRUSTRATION THEY SHOULD BE PASSING BY:(

IT IS NOT SO COMPLICATED TO FOLLOW THE STEPS BUT IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAN SOMETHING PLEASE COMMENT AND I WILL TRY TO FIX IT

DON'T FORGET TO PRESS THE THANKS BUTTON IF THIS HELPED, ALSO TRY TO THANK ON THE POSTS I MENTIONED THAT WERE HELPFUL FOR ME AND NOW ARE HELPFUL FOR YOU:):good: