[XDA Assist] Tom_O'R:
Have you bricked your sony phone and can't figure out how to do it?? If so then I invite you to read on.

First up if you have a sony C4 or C5 you could try this but I wouldn't if I were you.

THE PUBLISHER AND I CAN NOT TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR DAMAGE DONE BY THIS TOOL OR BY THE FORUM, YOU CHOSE TO DO THIS NOT ME

This could void your warranty

By reading on you accept that what you do from here on is what you do, not my fault, not the warranties fault and not anyone's fault but you

And I didn't make this amazing tool just so you know

Ok now after I've got all of that crap out of the way this is what you will need:

Î¼Torrent

Flashtool

A bricked device (doesn't need bootloader)

An angry owner :)

The charger cable for your phone with a USB on one end

Ok so the first thing you will need to download is uTorrent I advise you to not use this for bad because it limits companies.

You can download it at utorrent.com/downloads/

Select the latest download, you don't have to buy pro. I don't have it but feel free to do so.

Wait for it to download and run the installer. Download it but if it offers to download any other things say no or press decline or perhaps if it is a tick box, un-tick it but be slow, careful and read EVERYTHING.

Ok so now you have uTorrent installed you'll have to download Flashtool.

You can get it from flashtool.net/downloads.php

I currently use version 0.9.18.6 on windows 10 with an AMD chipset but it should work with any other windows and I've tried it on an intel chipset. If you don't know what a chipset don't bother just know that it works on windows.

Once you get to that site find the button that says your OS and click on it. Once there click on the button that says magnet link.

For Chrome users:

It will open a tab at the top of the screen wich asks you to open uTorrent select the open uTorrent button. If it doesn't then restart chrome or try one of the other browsers.

For Microsoft Edge users:

It won't work, use a better browser (I suggest chrome) or click on the torrent button wait for it to download and open it with uTorrent.

For Firefox users:

It will open a tab in the middle of the screen wich says launch application select uTorrent. If it doesn't show uTorrent then restart firefox or try one of the other browsers. Then click the open link button on the same window and wait for uTorrent.

After that, uTorrent should open up and so will another window in your browser, close that window and do as follows:

Select where you want to save it to under the save in box, do whatever the hell you want with the name; make sure that the flashtool-x.xx.xx......exe is selected with the tick box and click ok. It will now download to your selected folder.

Once it is downloaded in the big box in the middle it will say seeding. Right click the download and press open. For me, it said it was harmful but do I look like I would/have downloaded dodgy software??

Once in the installer same as before deny offers and just install, refer to earlier on if you can't remember.

Go to the install location (by default this is C:\Flashtool) and for easy usage find the Flashtool.exe or Flashtool64.exe file make sure you have an empty place in your desktop visible to you. Hold down Control (Ctrl) and shift then drag and drop it to the empty space on your desktop. Go to your desktop and open the link you just make.

Once you've done that the program will load up, wait for it.

Get your bricked phone, making sure it is still on (so it has charge)

Turn it on (it will be stuck in boot loop, this is ok, this is what we want)

Plug it into your PC/laptop while you do something else in the program. so it will have at least 2 % charge (when I did mine didn't even load up afterwards it just had the charging symbol and when it did it had 2% charge) there is a button in the top right of the screen, click it.

It will bring up a window wich has a huge list of phones on the left. Find and click on yours in this list. It will have something like F3311 or F3313 (for my phone the E5) if you don't know which one your phone is, then just go through both lists and find the one wich has the country you bought your phone in. Once you've done that go to your phone country and look for your provider. I have a sim-only plan so I clicked on Customised-UK if you are in a CONTRACT ONLY then find your provider and chose it. In the far right, there should be a button under says available firmware. Click on that button or the highest one and press download button. Wait for it to download.

Once it is downloaded then close those 2 windows and go back to the Flashtool. It will detect that you have downloaded a new firmware. Press the yes button in the window. It will then do stuff I haven't researched but it is needed. Once that is done click the bolt in the top left of the screen and select Flashmode. This will bring up a window that has a few things. On the left, you should have a firmware window. there you should select your phone and use the arrow keys to navigate down to when there are no arrow buttons and select it. For example, it will look like this:

Sony Xperia E5

F3311

Customise UK

37.0.A.2.108

For my case, I would click the 37.0.A.2.108.

This should bring up a Content window, a wipe and exclude window. If you want to reset your phone check the USERDATA, DIAG and APPS_LOG boxes. If not then leave them clear. Make sure no other boxes are ticked other than what I've told you that you can. And press flash. It will do some stuff and ask you to put your phone into flash mode. To do this simply turn your phone on (it will still be stuck in the so-called boot loop). It will bring up a confirmation window and say YES. Wait for the magic green bar to disappear and ignore ALL of the warnings + any driver errors, plug your phone in for a few more minutes then turn it on and watch the magic boot screen of joy!!! If you chose to wipe data then the boot will take a log-ish time (3-4 min) once it has loaded it will literally be as if you bought a new phone.

Merry Xmas!! :):):):highfive:

Silly phone owner!! Don't worry now!! :)