[Sony Xperia Miro, Tipo (Dual), J, E] androquest:
Hello, I hope somebody will help me to restore recovery for my Xperia EC1505, preferably custom TWRP. My ultimate goal is to have NANdroid back since only this allows imaging. ADB backup does not work, I tried a number of versions: 1.0.23, 1.0.31, 1.0.32 (Windows XP SP3), only managed to get 549 bytes after "successful' finish. And the Titanium (I have it installed), contrary to some comments, does not have imaging option either.

I do NOT want to lose my current system and data, hopefully flashing 11.3.A.0.47_CE.ftf won't be necessary? (I could not finish downloading it from any place using any method, finally succeeded).

I read about TWRP Xperia E c1505. Rom stock | Sony Xperia Miro, Tipo (Dual), J, E but it's too complicated, confusing and in garbled language.

The story started when I unlocked the boot loader using the instruction from the Sony dev page and fastboot "oem unlock" command but it resulted in "soft brick" - infinite loop. Dialing *#*#7378423#*#* shows "Rooting status: Bootloader unlock: Yes" (not "unlocked" nor "allowed" ?).

After failures with Sony Companion (not made for WinXP anymore!) I used successfully Sony Emma 2.13.4.20 (plus android_winusb.inf driver for FastBoot and ) to flash the stock JB 4.1.1 build 11.3.A.2.13 customization world-i 11.3.A.2.33.

I think that's when the recovery option disappear. I think I was able to enter it once or twice before unlocking, but not sure since I've been rooting also my tablets at the same time. Or maybe after Kingo Root.

Now recovery with hardware buttons does not work, my phone reboots always into normal operations regardless whichever combination of power/volume I tried. Officially it's this: Supported devices & flash keys – Xperia E (C1505) – volume down,which indeed makes the LED glow blue when held for some time. Pushing repeatedly does not help. "Volume down" is different from "Volume up" in the Sony instructions page dynamically shown as Unlockbootloader | Step 2 / 4 - Developer World: "... B. Connect to Fastboot... 3. On your Xperia™ E, press the Volume up button at the same time as you connect the other end of the USB-cable...". Following these instructions "fastboot devices" shows "PSDN:UNKNOWN&ZLP fastboot" and the command "fastboot reboot-bootloader" gives "rebooting into bootloader... OKAY [ 0.016s] finished. total time: 0.016s" and the phone restarts into charging only mode (green LED). I guess "Up + USB" is for FastBoot,"Down+Power" is for recovery?

Recently I found this surprising statement here How to Boot Into Sony Xperia E Recovery Mode – The Android Soul: "Sony Xperia devices don’t ship with a pre-installed recovery. So unless you’ve installed a custom recovery like CWM or TWRP on your device, you won’t be able to boot into recovery mode." ?!

Then I rooted the phone using Kingo, went very well. It installed "Quick Boot" but it does not work, the phone reboots just for normal work. Kingo installed also "ROM manager" 5.5.3.7 where "Backup current ROM" shows TWRP under "Recovery already installed" and ClockworkMod under "Install or Update Recovery" and the former sign, but attempts to use "unsupported device" (C1505 not on the list) result in "Sorry! Until ClockworkMod recovery is available, ROM Manager will not work with C1505!". It also shows "Recovery Setup|Current Recovery: TWRP" and "reboot into Recovery" but nothing works.

Neither works "adb reboot [bootloader|recovery]", tried all the versions above.

I tried installing "15 sec ADB Installer 1.4.3" but supposedly "Universal" ADB Driver "did not finish as expected", showed "ERROR: Invalid command line parameter 'and'".

I could not use the newest Android SDK ADB and had to downgrade the "platform-tools" ADB to 1.0.32 because for some insane, scandalous reason the newest ones 24.01 are not built for Windows XP (no entry point for WSAPoll)!

Some websites are very confusing and misleading, e.g. Recovery For Xperia E c1505 :p:p:p? - Hi, I need To Enter In recovery :c in Xperia E C1505 How i can to enter? :: Ask Me Fast when some talk about different phone model, about PINK light (!). They claim recovery is built in stock ROMs.

Rashr says my device is not supported. No luck either at TWRP Devices, nor Devices - CyanogenMod , nor LegacyXperia Project by LegacyXperia nor FXP Blog, not even listed as "obsolete" device there.

Since most of these place refers to XDA Developers I'm asking for help here. Please let me know what can be done about this problem. Is compiling my own TWRP the only solution?

Is this relevant {MIRO/TIPO/J/E}[DEVELOPMENT] - CM10 - FreeXp… | Sony Xperia Miro, Tipo (Dual), J, E ?

Cheers!

PS Unfortunately pasting my post in HMTL does not work here so the links are below in order (editing would be a lot of work):

TWRP Xperia E c1505. Rom stock | Sony Xperia Miro, Tipo (Dual), J, E

Supported devices & flash keys – Xperia E (C1505) – volume down,

Unlockbootloader*|*Step 2 / 4 - Developer World:

How to Boot Into Sony Xperia E Recovery Mode – The Android Soul

Recovery For Xperia E c1505,Hi, I need To Enter In recovery :c in Xperia E C1505 How i can to enter? :: Ask Me Fast

TWRP Devices

Devices - CyanogenMod

LegacyXperia Project by LegacyXperia

FXP Blog{MIRO/TIPO/J/E}[DEVELOPMENT] - CM10 - FreeXp… | Sony Xperia Miro, Tipo (Dual), J, E