Hi Folks,
I'm wondering if you could help me please? I myself am pretty familiar with Android, but my missus has an Xperia T which is very alien to me. For instance, finding it has no stock recovery confuses me massively.
We wiped the phone whilst troubleshooting a speaker issue. Once it was set up again, she wanted to change the lockscreen photo. I advised it was probably in the Security menu. I didn't realise this, but she had never known it had PIN lock built in, so she decided to set it and promptly forgot it.
I have been searching the internet for a solution as well as Q&A here. I found in the sticky threads that I could reset it by booting into flash mode and installing flashtool, however the links there and in another thread to flashtool are both dead.
I also found that it could be done by the Sony update service, but this is no longer supported and has been replaced with PC companion - which doesn't seem to do what I want.
I'm not bothered about the data. I moved everything to the external Sdcard before wiping the first time. Can anyone please advise how I can factory reset the phone that I cannot unlock? It's completely stock, unrooted etc
From reading around, am I right in thinking if I can get into fastboot, adb works from there on this phone (unlike others)? If so I will just delete the lock code from the database if it's easier.
Any advise is gratefully received.
Dan
I'm wondering if you could help me please? I myself am pretty familiar with Android, but my missus has an Xperia T which is very alien to me. For instance, finding it has no stock recovery confuses me massively.
We wiped the phone whilst troubleshooting a speaker issue. Once it was set up again, she wanted to change the lockscreen photo. I advised it was probably in the Security menu. I didn't realise this, but she had never known it had PIN lock built in, so she decided to set it and promptly forgot it.
I have been searching the internet for a solution as well as Q&A here. I found in the sticky threads that I could reset it by booting into flash mode and installing flashtool, however the links there and in another thread to flashtool are both dead.
I also found that it could be done by the Sony update service, but this is no longer supported and has been replaced with PC companion - which doesn't seem to do what I want.
I'm not bothered about the data. I moved everything to the external Sdcard before wiping the first time. Can anyone please advise how I can factory reset the phone that I cannot unlock? It's completely stock, unrooted etc
From reading around, am I right in thinking if I can get into fastboot, adb works from there on this phone (unlike others)? If so I will just delete the lock code from the database if it's easier.
Any advise is gratefully received.
Dan
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