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[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] andross77:
I did this flash and fingerprint scanner works perfectly. Getting less bars of reception but I've done a lot of test calling and real reception is the same. WiFi speeds also the same. Noticed one bad error though which is the reason for the post.

I can't record video. I can switch to video but after I press the record button it makes one beep as it would normally to signify recording as started but timer stays at zero, there is another beep and then just a grey box saying an error had occurred. I must press the home button to get out and then everything is fine.

Anyone experience this or know how I could fix it?
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] j919828:
I got "install failed" for most of the drivers, and I am still getting the same error when trying to flash the firmware. Any other suggestions? Thanks
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] rodrigocp:
for driver installation on windows 8 or 10 you need to disable windows security ( just search "disable driver signature enforcement") after that you will be able to install them, try it and tell what happened

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Tried again today with the same UK FTF but reinstalled flashtool (dindt change anything on drivers) and instaled perfectly no errors. Don't know if it was a bad day or flashtool install.

Ps. Also this time i am sure i had 5gb+ on C: that day i probably was below 2gb mighty have some to do.

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Video working fine on the UK ftf, just installed and tried no problem, could be a bad installation, maybe try to flash again
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] andross77:
Thanks for the reply Rodrigocp! So I got it working yesterday just by changing the storage location of photos and videos in the camera app to internal storage rather than my SD card. This phone is different from both of my last 2 phones in how it handles SD cards. On the Galaxy S7 you could only use it for photos and videos unless you did a hack. On the Moto Z Play you could format it so it just becomes part of your internal storage and you can pit anything on it. On the X Compact you only get an option to move unknown data from internal to sd card whenever you want.

So now I just leave photos/video on internal and move them over every once on a while. Rodrigocp, were you using an SD card and saving photos/videos to it or no? That might be the error in the firmware. And I'm using a 256GB Samsung so I know it's a quality one.
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] j919828:
I fixed the drivers that way, now they should be all installed. But the problem persists... I tried installing Flashtool on another disk with no success either... I will see if I can get another computer to try it on.
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] enjoimadcow:
I purchased this phone yesterday and did the flash with success out of the box. I first booted into android skipping all the setup steps I could and saw my phone was running mm. I then followed this post and everything is working perfectly. However, I had some confusion that I ran into along the way and couldn't find exact answers on in this thread and I wanted to clear some of them up and help someone in the future. I used the tool and downloaded the uk custom firmware (if there is a better one let me know) and followed all the steps. When I went to flash it, I saw people say wipe system etc further up. However, my wipe windows had nothing of the sort. I decided to say screw it and flashed without wiping anything. Everything went perfect, fingerprint is working and when I checked the android version I was on nougat. I then followed up with a factory reset and have been enjoying the phone ever since. I hope this clears up some things for someone.
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] rodrigocp:
that's as far as I know (mine had that error and worked after driver installation), if you still get the error you will need the help of someone that knows the Flashtool better, hope you manage to do it. :)
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] rmwebb1:
Hi, please help .. this is my first Sony. I have followed the instructions and cannot get it to work. I did find that first I had to:

1. Enable Developer Options

2. Enable debugging

3. Enable Unknown Sources

I used Xpirifirm inside of Flashtool and after the download it automatically started to create the bundled .ftf but when I tried to flash this is what I got:

14/056/2017 15:56:53 - INFO - Device connected in flash mode

14/057/2017 15:57:18 - INFO - Selected Bundle for Sony Xperia X Compact(F5321). FW release : 34.2.A.0.266. Customization : Customized UK

14/057/2017 15:57:18 - INFO - Preparing files for flashing

14/057/2017 15:57:55 - INFO - Please connect your device into flashmode.

14/057/2017 15:57:56 - INFO - Opening device for R/W

14/057/2017 15:57:56 - INFO - Reading device information

14/057/2017 15:57:56 - INFO - Phone ready for flashmode operations.

14/057/2017 15:57:56 - INFO - Opening TA partition 2

14/057/2017 15:57:56 - INFO - Current device : F5321 - QV7076XU0B - 1304-3880_R5B - 1303-0642_34.1.A.3.49 - GENERIC_34.1.A.3.49

14/057/2017 15:57:56 - INFO - Closing TA partition

14/057/2017 15:57:56 - INFO - Start Flashing

14/057/2017 15:57:56 - INFO - No loader in the bundle. Searching for one

14/057/2017 15:57:56 - INFO - No matching loader found

14/057/2017 15:57:56 - WARN - No loader found or set manually. Skipping loader

14/057/2017 15:57:56 - INFO - Loader : S1_Root_d553 - Version : 1299-4841_S1_Boot_MSM8956_LA1.0.1_78-2 / Boot version : 1299-4841_S1_Boot_MSM8956_LA1.0.1_78-2 / Bootloader status : ROOTABLE

14/057/2017 15:57:56 - INFO - Max packet size set to 4M

14/057/2017 15:57:56 - INFO - USB buffer size set to 512K

14/058/2017 15:58:01 - INFO - Parsing boot delivery

14/058/2017 15:58:05 - INFO - No flash script found.

14/058/2017 15:58:05 - INFO - Flash script is mandatory. Closing session

14/058/2017 15:58:05 - INFO - Ending flash session

14/058/2017 15:58:05 - INFO - Flashing finished.

14/058/2017 15:58:05 - INFO - Please unplug and start your phone

2nd try:

I decided to create the bundled file myself by removing the fwinfo file and flashing has been stuck for 15 minutes on Reading Device Info.

Just so you know I just got the US version from Amazon yesterday, did the minimum to get it going, no sim card is inserted.

Please let me know what I'm doing wrong. THANKS

***** UPDATE *****

Got it to work by clicking "YES" to adding the fsc
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] Speaker Bass:
﻿I’m on Ubuntu 16.10 I tried 'mono XperiFirm' but after the download, the Customized UK unpackaging failed. Even after I changed the download path. As mentioned in earlier posts 'XperiFirm' is built into 'FlashTool'. So here’s what I did.

Steps:

Download 'FlashTool' for Linux http://www.flashtool.net/downloads_Linux.php

Extract to home folder

Open Terminal

sudo -s

/home/username/FlashTool/FlashTool

'Sony Mobile Flasher by Androxyde' will launch

Click the icon with 'XF' inside it (right below devices)

This will lauch 'XperiFirm'

Click Xperia X Compact > F5321 > Customized UK

Under the Xperia X Compact phone pic click the firmware box

a window will open, click 'Download'

After the download close 'XperiFirm'

(The download will save to /root/.flashTool/firmwares which only had 2 compressed files (FILE_10998415 & FILE_11000578.xfdl) which I could not extract, so I could not find the ‘fwinfo.xml’ to delete. So what I did next was flash the phone with 'Sony Mobile Flasher by Androxyde'.)

Plug in device

Click the lightning bolt to flash (Flashmode is selected by default)

Click the Firmware drop-downs until 'Content' loads

(I left everything as is and hit flash)

A window will open with instructions

Follow the instructions on the ''Sony Mobile Flasher by Androxyde'

When unplug device is listed, unplug

Device will reboot and start upgrading packages.

(My device came 6.0.1 after this it was 7.0. I wasn't sure if this was going to wipe my device but everything remained intact with the newly enable fingerprint reader :good:)
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] andross77:
so found another bug. i downloaded a bunch of games so that almost the entire 32GB was filled up. Then i did the storage transfer to SD card but it only had close to 1GB of apps to transfer even though i had just downloaded like 4GB or so of apps (KoTR is like 2.5GB by itself). But then when i checked in settings/apps and clicked on the individual games, it says they are all on the External SD card. So either they all transfered and i have a ton of space, or the app section is misreporting them all. Anyone else notice this bug? usually only people that put tons of games on their phone ever use up the space so maybe not :)
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] Youngjoshua:
Drivers from Flashtool

Should I install any drivers from Flashtool or something like that?
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] slixzen:
My CEO asked me to flash his Compact X to use the Fingerprint scanner on his newly purchased phone, however, I have been having problems getting stuck on:

Using flashtool 0.9.18 compared to the latest one, as the latest version just crashes and hangs when attempting to do anything with the phone.

This then just stalls and sits here for some time. Not really sure why as there is no further debug comments to explain what is going on.

Could someone assist here? The file size for the .ftf file currently (during a stalled period) is roughly 2.5 GB, is that normal size or should it be larger?
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] Halftrack:
You shouldn't be using the old flashtool if he already upgraded his phone to Nougat. They are not compatible and it basically causes a world of **** to happen. If you dig through some of the posts in this thread you can find a work around for it I think. Also assuming you have usb debugging etc all unlocked. As for hang time how long does it sit for? I can't remember how long it took for the flash to finish on mine but it was normal for it to take a little bit. Granted I used the older tool with the phone still on Marshmallow.

Anyway dig around in this post some. I remember reading some people who tried using the wrong version of flashtool with the incorrect version of Android and think they found a work around for it. Had to do a couple different flashes though to get it up and running properly again.
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] rmwebb1:
Mine used to stall but I got it to work by adding the drivers and answering "YES" to adding the fsc file. I am using Flashtool 0.9.23.2 and have Nougat. I've flashed from Customized EU to Customized UK and back. Yes, my .ftf file is roughly 2.5 GB. Good Luck.
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] inkwing:
Flashed UK firmware but fingerprint reader option still not available

Hey! I followed a variety of instructions scattered around this thread and the internet and managed to successfully flash the UK firmware on my xperia x compact. It was considerably more work than advertised (probably because I'm using a linux computer) but in the end it succeeded: in

settings -> about -> diagnostics -> facts -> customisation

it reads "1304-8441", which, confirming on xpericheck.com (xpericheck.com/device/F5321), is indeed the UK firmware. However, in my "Lock screen security" setting, the fingerprint is not available. Where did I go wrong? Did anyone else run into this? This is seriously upsetting.
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] RREA:
Please help. I get this error:

WARN - No loader found or set manually. Skipping loader﻿

I have an Xperia XZ
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] mrharlock:
Wanted to say thanks to the thread. I found the process easy and fun. Learned about my phone a bit more. Current versions of the Flashtool do an even better job with Xperifirm integration. So, thanks! Phone has full bars on T-Mobile, and access to band 12, despite what the little troll at the T-Mo store said.
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] wlewin:
So, I followed the instructions, and the phone doesn't detect a sim card....

Any ideas? I just tried a factory reset and that didn't solve it :|

Update - Reflashed. still no sim detected.

Update - It was the sim card I was using. Borrowed a friends and it worked. False alarm!
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] even2882:
First, the Xperifirm button in flashtool does not work at all, so I have to download firmware by myself. However, the flashtool stops responding everytime when I try to create the ftf, so I am stuck at step 5 Everyone knows what is happening?
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] Sumea:
I am european so I have the fingerprint working as it should so I am just here to ask a question out of complete interest:

Why is it that the fingerprint scanner is disabled in US for this phone? The hardware is clearly there it is just disabled by software, why is that?

I do remember other weird regional differences in "the same phone" like long time ago Samsung Galaxy S3 being completely different phone in US but having LTE too or something like that.

I wonder what is the reason behind this disable of fingerprint scanner.
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] LoisSherman13:
After I use the XperiFirm and download the Customized UK firmware, flashtool then tries to create the bundle which I assume creates the correct file, but I get an "ERROR NULL". I tried doing it manually like OP did and bundle it, but it just gets stuck and flashtool doesn't respond. Any ideas as to why this is happening?

Here is the what is in the flashtool prompt when it tries to create the bundle.

"17/030/2017 15:30:44 - INFO - Creating bundle for Xperia X Compact Customized UK 34.2.A.0.311

17/030/2017 15:30:44 - ERROR - null"

EDIT: It turns out it was a bug with the version I was running (the second most recent). Got updated to the most recent and it worked.
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] WilliamsEgo:
Where did you find the latest version. I can only find an older one on the website.
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] LoisSherman13:
OK here's what you have to do to update to the latest version.

1. Go to Flashtool download page and you'll see a spot that says "Patch from 0.9.23.1 to 0.9.23.2". There's a file there "x10flasher.jar". Download that file.

2. Find where Flashtool is located on your computer. Mine is "This PC" -> "Local disk C" -> "Flashtool".

3. Go into the Flashtool folder and you'll see a Jar file called "x10flasher.jar". You need to just replace that file with the new "x10flasher.jar" file you just downloaded from Flashtool website.

4. You're now running patch 0.9.23.2 of Flashtool where the bug that prevents creating FTF bundles is fixed.

Hope this helps.
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] legacyprotege:
question

thanks all, new to this scene and first time even unlocking the bootloader but it wasn't so bad

anyway, am I supposed to leave the "unlocksim.ta" out of the bundle? I remember reading in one of the earlier threads it said to leave that out otherwise it'll brick the phone:D

thanks in advanced
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] WilliamsEgo:
Thank you! I was able to get it to work!
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] LoisSherman13:
Awesome! Glad I could help.
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] aaronthegeek:
I am having the exact same issue with Flashtool 0.9.23.2. As far as I can tell it is the latest version. Maybe the bug isn't totally fixed? Any Ideas?

Thanks

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Oh nevermind. I did the patch and it is working now. I thought I didn't need it with the latest version. Sorry.
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] sriniwaas:
Warranty...

Will this void Warranty if we flash the phone with other regions firmware versions...
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] ondrejvaroscak:
No
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] sriniwaas:
Thanks for the update. This was the only point that was holding me off from buying a Sony phone from US. I am big fan of Sony phones and now you made me clear. Thanks again.
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] ondrejvaroscak:
However, I would recommend, if you need to send it to authorized service center, flash US version back before...
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] Brady KEITH:
It worked on the first try!
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] ggfish:
Can anybody confirm if the newest flashtool can be used to flash the UK version if the phone has already been updated to android N?

Thanks!
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] ceeemlol:
I get an error message when flashing saying I need to allow Unknown sources and Debugging. I activated both in the settings but it still gives me the error message. How should I proceed? (I have US version with N7 already.. Wanted the UK version to have the finger print sensor which is terribly useful compared to plugging in a pin or pattern whenever I have to unlock)
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] ondrejvaroscak:
Yes

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You don't need to allow anything. You need to POWER OFF your phone, in order to flash it. You need to enter the FLASHMODE. For this, prepare first the firmware you want to flash in FLASHTOOL, while your phone is NOT CONNECTED to the PC.

Then wait while FLASHTOOLS prepares the firmware. It will display BIG dialogue window and ask you to connect you phone to USB while SIMULTANEOUSLY holding VOLUM DOWN key. This will cause the phone entering FLASHMODE and LED will be GREEN. Flashtool will start flashing process immediatelly after detecting your phone connected.

Beware, that you need to install flashmode drivers for your device first, on Windows 10 you need to disable driver signature verification before installing the drivers.
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] ceeemlol:
How to disable driver verification on win10?
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] ondrejvaroscak:
Google?!
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] luthercale:
How to disable driver signature verification in Windows

This is what worked for me (option 1): It won't let me post a link (new user here), so type this article title into your search engine and you are good to go ... "How to Disable Driver Signature Verification on 64-Bit Windows 8 or 10 (So That You Can Install Unsigned Drivers)"

---------- Post added at 11:10 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:47 AM ----------

Followed all the instructions.

When I flash the firmware, I receive the message, "Drivers need to be installed for connected device. You can find them in the drivers folder of Flashtool."

Inside the drivers folder of Flashtool, there are drivers for lots of specific models of Sony phones, but not one for Xperia X Compact. I did install the top two drivers (the general ones for Flashtool and Fastboot), but I still received the same error message when I restarted and flashed again.

So then I tried installing ALL drivers and it got hung up and aborted.

Can people that did this successfully with the Xperia X Compact, tell me exactly what I need to do (and maybe if there is a place where I can download the exact Sony X Compact drivers if needed).
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] ondrejvaroscak:
Drivers for Xperia X Compact can be found on Sony Developers pages and also as part of Sony Companion software.

https://developer.sonymobile.com/downloads/drivers/

http://support.sonymobile.com/global-en/xperia-companion/
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] EHokie:
I've searched every post I can find and can't get past this when trying to flash. Can someone help please?

07/057/2017 20:57:17 - INFO - No loader in the bundle. Searching for one

07/057/2017 20:57:17 - INFO - No matching loader found

07/057/2017 20:57:17 - WARN - No loader found or set manually. Skipping loader

07/057/2017 20:57:17 - INFO - Loader : S1_Root_de8d - Version : 1299-4832_S1_Boot_MSM8996_LA1.0.1_31-F / Boot version : 1299-4832_S1_Boot_MSM8996_LA1.0.1_31-F / Bootloader status : ROOTABLE

07/057/2017 20:57:17 - INFO - Max packet size set to 4M

07/057/2017 20:57:17 - INFO - USB buffer size set to 512K

07/057/2017 20:57:26 - INFO - Parsing boot delivery

07/057/2017 20:57:26 - INFO - No flash script found.

07/057/2017 20:57:26 - INFO - Flash script is mandatory. Closing session

07/057/2017 20:57:26 - INFO - Ending flash session

07/057/2017 20:57:26 - INFO - Flashing finished.

07/057/2017 20:57:26 - INFO - Please unplug and start your phone

07/057/2017 20:57:26 - INFO - For flashtool, Unknown Sources and Debugging must be checked in phone settings

07/057/2017 20:57:26 - INFO - Device connected in flash mode
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] ondrejvaroscak:
Which version of Flashtool do you use?

Did you put your phone in Flash mode?
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] EHokie:
0.9.23.2

Yes, I put it into Flashboot mode. I'm using Xperia X Performance BTW. I followed all instructions completely many times with no luck.
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] ceeemlol:
I get the same message. Glad I'm not the only one :(
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] ondrejvaroscak:
Then please check Flashtool thread in Sony cross-devices Forum...
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] Barrel_Trollz:
Having trouble with this. Every time I download the firmware with XperiFirm, then close XperiFirm, I get an "ERROR: Null" message. Not sure what to do about it...tried installing drivers but don't know where to put the Xperia X Performance specific driver obtained from the SonyMobile site above. Any help would be appreciated...

Edit: After a computer restart, I've sorted that issue out. Now I'm having trouble actually flashing the device. When I go to flash it, "Xperia X Performance" shows up under firmware, but nothing shows up under content. I don't know how to fix this...I can't proceed and flash because there's nothing listed under "content". Please help me with this.

Edit edit: I'm an idiot.
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] Catcher235:
Followed directions, according to how they were laid out, but the flashtool is crashing on me after I create the bundle (outlined in steps 4 and 5). Please help. On Windows 10. Thank you!
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] ondrejvaroscak:
Can you post log output?
[Sony Xperia X Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] Barrel_Trollz:
Have you updated to the most recent version of flashtool (replaced the .jar file in your install with the new one from the website)?
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 1974darrenh:
Hi.

I have recently bought a secondhand d6603 on Android 6.0.1, build number 23.5.A.1.291

I need to find a way of rooting my phone (easiest way)

I have rooted phones before but only by using Kingroot etc

I have been going round in circles looking at websites explaining it but don't understand some of it.

All I want is an easy explanation of how to do it that I can follow.

Can I root without unlocking Bootloader? If not, how do I do it?

I really need someones help if possible. Like I say, the easiest way possible would be great.

Thanks in advance. Love the group :):):)
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dobsgw:
You can keep locked bootloader as long as you use ROMs with stock kernel. They will specify this and most here are for LB.

http://xdaforums.com/z3/general/recovery-root-mm-575-291-lb-t3435214

This will get you recovery the fastest way and from there you can flash a pre-rooted .zip or custom ROM