[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] dazzle999:
ok this is a tutorial for those people stuck on a login screen.

first-off im not a develloper (far from it)

all info here is made by others and i do not take credit for it!

credits are @ the bottom.

since this question keeps popping up all over the forum and i had a bricked se myself i used a whole bunch of "tutorials" wich all lead to nothing,

so the i started fiddling around since it was broken anyway.

let me first explain i would like to thank the community here for offering all these great tools wich allow us to modify and restore our se.

ok so when i started my phone was completly bricked.

@ 1 point i managed to install xrecovery and accidentally installed a x10 version of a update.zip file...

i managed to flash that update.zip of a x10 version to my x10 mini pro wich completly destroyed my system.

i had no chance to boot in xrecovery because i am a complete noop in installing any kind of script to a android phone.

(if i were pro i would not have bricked it to start of with :D)

i accidentally wiped xrecovery in one of my previous attempts to "fix" my se with the flashtool ...yes i forgot to run the good update.zip out of the firmwares folder and choose the wipeuserdata option wich removed my xrecovery that i had installed....

so everything that could go wrong went wrong...

since it didnt really matter what i did with my freshly created brick i started digging around on the forums and found this post:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=920746

wich is a great way to flash roms to a previous version.

so i downloaded the tool 0.26 was the version wich i used.

after i got the tool installed i downloaded a new "old" rom.

i had too fool the se companion tool that i was using a old version.

these roms are found here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=826455

pick anyone because it does not matter at all (since im dutch i used the dutch version)

even though my system files were messed up to a point of no return the rom installed just fine but did not boot... but now i had atleast a older rom installed.

so i started the se companion and crossed my fingers...

and it updated! because the old rom was predated to their latest firmware they pushed out the update wich fixed the system files and gave me the latest firmware.

but now ofcourse i was on a stock rom not rooted or anything.

since i am such a noob at this i tried a new all in one script made by mikevhl

found here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=10596265#post10596265

it automaticly rooted my phone,installed busybox and xrecovery

after that i just ran the keyboard layout fix found here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=822050

but now i needed apps2sd because that was the only reason i ever started this madness called upgrading....

but instead i found this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=919326

it is not apps2sd!! but links2sd

Instead of moving all applications to SD card with app2sd, I want to move only selected applications.

Because I don't want to move my launcher, soft keyboard and dialer application to SD and make them unavaliable on boot if my SD card has problem or not inserted.

and because this is a apk even a geek like me can install that with astro..

please note that Link2SD does not move data and dalvik-cache, it only moves the apk file. This is what Android 2.2+ does. APKs are actually on the card; the dex files, private data directories, and native shared libraries remain in internal storage.

for actual apps2sd i would reffer you to use any other script/installation w/e. after all my failures i could not be asked anymore and found that this sollution was more than enough for me

the only thing you need to do is partition your sd card wich is verry easy and there is a perfect tutorial allready found here:

http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=SD_card_partitioning

so now i changed my bricked phone wich i considered dead to a working latest firmware rooted xrecovery links2sd working phone in less than a hour..

i would like to thank:

Androxyde and bin4ry for flashtool!

whooper90 for his keyboard-layout tutorial!

Mikevhl for his perfect script!

bakpinar for his links2sd program!

and ofcourse everyone contributing to their projects.

amen