When it comes to flashing firmware for the XZ Premium, I know there is a plethora of information scattered through many threads in this section. Quite frankly, I was a little overwhelmed with the whole flashing process, and, despite everyone's best efforts, was totally lost. I just wanted to flash my USA XZ Premium to the Central Europe FW to enable the fingerprint reader, but I didn't want to alter the radios, etc like in the other thread that describes the process.
So, after a bit of trial and error, I decided to put together a simple guide that I hope is easy for those with a little less "flashing" experience. I'd like to point out that none of this information is my own; I'm simply compiling it in a way in which I believe will be helpful. This post is only possible because of all the people who have contributed in the various flashing threads thus far, so many thanks to all of them. Also, I know it's a touchy subject around these parts, but I wanted to give a shout out to the developer of Newflasher -- without his tool, we all still may not have method to flash our XZPs. Thank you, sir.
Anyway:
1. Find, download and install/extract Newflasher, XperiFirm, Flashtool and the official Xperia Companion application.
2. XperiFirm: download whichever variant of the FW you’d like to load. Be sure you are choosing the correct version of your hardware.
3. Flashtool: go to the application folder, then go to the drivers folder. Run this app, and check the boxes next to Flashmode Drivers and Fastboot drivers. You will need these installed to avoid any possible connection issues with Newflasher.
4. Open the folder which contains Newflasher so you can view all of the contents. Do the same with the firmware folder that you now have which was downloaded from XperiFirm (Ex. G8142_Customized CE1).
5. Copy all of the .sin files, as well as the partition and boot folders, from the firmware folder over to the Newflasher folder. Create a new folder name "partition," and extract the existing partition folders files (that you copied from the firmware folder) in to the new partition folder.
6. Power down your phone and wait 5 seconds. Hold the volume down button with the device powered off, and plug your device into your PC.
7. Run Newflasher.exe. You should now start to see the application working (this process took about 5-10 minutes for me). It will tell you when you can disconnect.
8. Open the Xperia Companion application, and, following the on-screen instructions, do a Software Repair on your device.
9. Start your device like normal, and you should have your new software loaded!
Thanks again to all who have contributed to this process!
So, after a bit of trial and error, I decided to put together a simple guide that I hope is easy for those with a little less "flashing" experience. I'd like to point out that none of this information is my own; I'm simply compiling it in a way in which I believe will be helpful. This post is only possible because of all the people who have contributed in the various flashing threads thus far, so many thanks to all of them. Also, I know it's a touchy subject around these parts, but I wanted to give a shout out to the developer of Newflasher -- without his tool, we all still may not have method to flash our XZPs. Thank you, sir.
Anyway:
1. Find, download and install/extract Newflasher, XperiFirm, Flashtool and the official Xperia Companion application.
2. XperiFirm: download whichever variant of the FW you’d like to load. Be sure you are choosing the correct version of your hardware.
3. Flashtool: go to the application folder, then go to the drivers folder. Run this app, and check the boxes next to Flashmode Drivers and Fastboot drivers. You will need these installed to avoid any possible connection issues with Newflasher.
4. Open the folder which contains Newflasher so you can view all of the contents. Do the same with the firmware folder that you now have which was downloaded from XperiFirm (Ex. G8142_Customized CE1).
5. Copy all of the .sin files, as well as the partition and boot folders, from the firmware folder over to the Newflasher folder. Create a new folder name "partition," and extract the existing partition folders files (that you copied from the firmware folder) in to the new partition folder.
6. Power down your phone and wait 5 seconds. Hold the volume down button with the device powered off, and plug your device into your PC.
7. Run Newflasher.exe. You should now start to see the application working (this process took about 5-10 minutes for me). It will tell you when you can disconnect.
8. Open the Xperia Companion application, and, following the on-screen instructions, do a Software Repair on your device.
9. Start your device like normal, and you should have your new software loaded!
Thanks again to all who have contributed to this process!
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