[Q] XTS (SGPT1211) brick - stuck on Sony Logo

[papars]

I stumbled upon such tablet with only the Sony logo during boot.
I tried the above procedure and I couldn't go further than flashing mmcblk0p3.
Flashing mmcblk0p4 or mmcblk0p7 never ends.

Either the flash chip is gone, or it needs re-partitioning.
So it goes to the recycle bin.
Thanks for the otherwise great guide.

 

[pasche]

Hey guys @davhenry @stifilz i could finally recover my Sony Xperia Tablet S following these steps and the Sony's Unbricker Software 1.0 by @condi

1) Unzip the software and make a new folder called "UNBRICK_DATA"
2) Download manually the files unbrick.zip and the correct OTA Software of your tablet
3) Unzip the unbrick.zip file and copy in the SD Card with Win32DiskImager
4) Rename your OTA Software ( Example: signed-txs03_201-ota-131023018.zip) to update.zip
5) Copy this file in the folder "files" in the program
6) Open and DOS Console in Windows and descrypt the file using desklunvr.exe. Example : desklunvr.exe update.zip
7) Make 2 image files with the recently file generate (update_deslunvr)
7za.exe x update_desklunvr.zip system.img
7za.exe x update_desklunvr.zip hidden.img
8) Copy the new images files and update_desklunvr in UNBRICK_DATA (these last file i did just in case )
9) Run Condi´s Program and make sure you go to the step 6 and just follow the instructions

The tablet reboot 2 times at the beginning looks like not working because get stuck in sony logo but turn off and turn on again and then ITS WORKSS !!! :laugh:

Good luck guys

Hi all,

I'm also having trouble with my german Xperia Tablet S and trying to unbrick this (if possible). I also tried @condi AllInOne Tool but this does not work in several ways.

First...I'm unable to find a "current" ROM for my german XTS (SGPT121DE/s). All links I found so far are not valid anymore.
Then I thought I found one, but then, I'm unable to extract the system.img and hidden.img. 7za tells me, that the decrypted .zip is not an archive.
Another problem is, that I'm also stuck in boot loop, so I'm unable to boot normally. I was able to create the "unbrick" image and see the cold boot message, but am unable to connect via "adb". I get a "?????? no permission" from "adb devices" (on Linux). On Windows, the devices is not listed, so I think, I still have some driver problem on Windows.

So maybe someone could send me a "working" link for the german ROM (SGPT121DE/S) (Wifi only and 3g - just in case), so I can test the extraction of the system.img and hidden.img. If I got these, then I can deal with the driver problem.

Any help will be appreciated and many thanks to you XDA guys making this unbricking and recovery possible.

pasche

 

[pasche]

Hi all,

I'm also having trouble with my german Xperia Tablet S and trying to unbrick this (if possible). I also tried @condi AllInOne Tool but this does not work in several ways.

First...I'm unable to find a "current" ROM for my german XTS (SGPT121DE/s). All links I found so far are not valid anymore.
Then I thought I found one, but then, I'm unable to extract the system.img and hidden.img. 7za tells me, that the decrypted .zip is not an archive.
Another problem is, that I'm also stuck in boot loop, so I'm unable to boot normally. I was able to create the "unbrick" image and see the cold boot message, but am unable to connect via "adb". I get a "?????? no permission" from "adb devices" (on Linux). On Windows, the devices is not listed, so I think, I still have some driver problem on Windows.

So maybe someone could send me a "working" link for the german ROM (SGPT121DE/S) (Wifi only and 3g - just in case), so I can test the extraction of the system.img and hidden.img. If I got these, then I can deal with the driver problem.

Any help will be appreciated and many thanks to you XDA guys making this unbricking and recovery possible.

pasche

Hi all,

thank you all for this great work. This guide now worked for me too, after finding the complete archive https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B6RZCJTq-bzDU01qeUxvT2t4ZEE&usp=sharing

But I had problems connecting the tablet via Windows. So if you have Linux, just use these steps

1. Download all 6 .rar files from the google drive link and extract the archiv. From this archiv, you only need the 3 files unbrick.img, system.img and hidden.img.
2. Dump the unbrick.img onto a SD Card (min. 2 GB) with "dd if=unbrick.img of=/dev/<yourSDCard>"
3. Insert the SD card into the tablet and power on. You'll see something with "Cold boot"
4. Check that the device is connected to adb via "adb devices". If you see something like "??????? no permissions", kill the adb server with "adb kill-server" and restart "adb" via "sudo" or set your "adb" binary to SETUID (chown root:root adb && chmod u+s adb) and try again. Try it with "adb root" to start the daemon as root.
5. "Root" the device with

adb shell "/system/xbin/pwn"

Results in

[+] This may take a few minutes.
[+] Success!
sh: /system/xbin/busybox: not found
sh: cp: not found

6. Remount / rw

adb shell "/system/xbin/busyboxbin/mount -o rw,remount /"

7. We create a new directory /imgdata which will be used to mount a partition and to which we'll push our 2 images (system.img and hidden.img) onto

adb shell "/system/xbin/busyboxbin/mkdir /imgdata"
adb shell "/system/xbin/busyboxbin/mount -t vfat /dev/block/mmcblk1p3 /imgdata"

8. Push the images

adb push system.img /imgdata
adb push hidden.img /imgdata

9 Dump the "system.img" onto 2 partitions (don't ask me why) /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 and ..p4)

adb shell "/system/xbin/busyboxbin/dd if=/imgdata/system.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3"
adb shell "/system/xbin/busyboxbin/dd if=/imgdata/system.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p4"

10 Dump the "hidden.img" onto mmcblk0p7

adb shell "/system/xbin/busyboxbin/dd if=/imgdata/hidden.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p7"

11. Unload the SD card and reboot the tablet via

adb reboot

and also "unplug" usb cable.

Now wait a few minutes and enjoy. Work for me.

All steps are just copied from @condi batch file so just look there in case you doubt.

Thank you all

pasche

 

[aomelche]

Unbricking SGPT1211.
Requirements:
*ABD drivers for XT, you can download from here: {censored by xda-developers}
*SD card min 2GB
*USB Cable for XT
*Win32 Disk Imager, you can download from here: {censored by xda-developers}

Well this is how I did:
1 . Download from this link all necesary files and extract it {censored by xda-developers} this contains the unbrick.img, system.img, hidden.img and the @condi's unbricker program that I used in the process compressed into winrar parts.
2. Once downloaded we have to write the unbrick.img (you can fount into \Unbricker\UNBRICK_DATA ) to SD with Win32 Disk Imager.
3. Start @condi's unbricker program and press the option 6 (not 7, because I tried with this and did not work) and follow the steps. The program going to try write the unbrick.img into the SD card but for some reason it can't, but we already have the SD card whith the unbricker.img writed so don't worry about it.
4. Plug the SD card and USB cable into our XT when the program ask for it, and continue the process, it going to take some while (aprox 30 min), and going to ask for reboot at the end.
5. In my case when the program ask for reboot I pressed the esc button for mistake but it didn't reboot the tablet so I powered off manually and turn on again with the USB cable connected but without the SD card. In the reboot the XT show you an Android window like recovery mode and reboot itself again twice. After that, we see again the Sony's logo and Xperia logo after that.
6. Enjoy again your XT.

Sorry for my english.

Thank you very much!
Your English was the best English I read for the last three days!
It worked after all.
I had a problem with rebooting - I turned it off manually and after several seconds turned on, after may be a minute nothing still happened (only SONY logo), so I repeated turning it off and on, then it booted.
Special thanks for the files.

 

[ErnestX]

Thank you @condi and all of you guys! My Tablet works again. After a couple of tries I ended using step 7 (after writing unbrick.img using Win32 Disk Imager) This is the only way the Tablet showed the "COLD BOOTING" text. I followed all the next steps and after aprox. 20 min. When condi's program is done, after it asks to take the SD card out of the tablet, it tried to reboot the tablet but returned an error. No manual reboots with the power button made it work as @rassegan mentions. What really worked for me instead, when the error shows, is: go to the folder where adb.exe is located, and run: "adb reboot". And that was it.
Thanks again!

 

[angelparras]

Hi, i founded a new thing that will help you. If is not showing cold booting, yo can do this.

Whit the SD inside (With the img file inside), turn off your tablet, press and hold the VOLUME + button and press once the ON button, now it will show the cold booting.

And if your sd partition has changed, you can use MINITOOL Partition Wizard, is free and recover your hidden SD partition.

 

[vincenzo929292]

Unbricking SGPT1211.
Requirements:
*ABD drivers for XT, you can download from here: http://www.mediafire.com/download/msn16sd5wrb1sdh/Sony+Tablet+ADB+Driver+Automated+Installer.zip
*SD card min 2GB
*USB Cable for XT
*Win32 Disk Imager, you can download from here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/

Well this is how I did:
1 . Download from this link all necesary files and extract it https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B6RZCJTq-bzDU01qeUxvT2t4ZEE&usp=sharing this contains the unbrick.img, system.img, hidden.img and the @condi's unbricker program that I used in the process compressed into winrar parts.
2. Once downloaded we have to write the unbrick.img (you can fount into \Unbricker\UNBRICK_DATA ) to SD with Win32 Disk Imager.
3. Start @condi's unbricker program and press the option 6 (not 7, because I tried with this and did not work) and follow the steps. The program going to try write the unbrick.img into the SD card but for some reason it can't, but we already have the SD card whith the unbricker.img writed so don't worry about it.
4. Plug the SD card and USB cable into our XT when the program ask for it, and continue the process, it going to take some while (aprox 30 min), and going to ask for reboot at the end.
5. In my case when the program ask for reboot I pressed the esc button for mistake but it didn't reboot the tablet so I powered off manually and turn on again with the USB cable connected but without the SD card. In the reboot the XT show you an Android window like recovery mode and reboot itself again twice. After that, we see again the Sony's logo and Xperia logo after that.
6. Enjoy again your XT.

Sorry for my english.

Thank You! EU version or US? Only Wifi?

 

[cherfylee]

Hello ALL,

First of all, I would like to say thank you to everyone, I save my SGPT131 by following this post! It really help!
I know that it is not easy to find the rom, if anyone need "signed-txs03_350-ota-130705005.zip" please let me know.
Sorry for my poor English.

Thanks again!

 

[Lieven85]

Thanks

Hello,
First of all, thanks to all, I save my SGPT1211 by following this post! :laugh:
the vendor programms are not back on the tablet. So i try to do this manual.
For the app IrRemote. it won't run. Is there someone with the same problem. and solve this problem.
I install IrRemote.APK IrRemoteService.APK and IrRemoteApiService.APK

Thanks in advanced

Lieven85

 

[vincenzo929292]

Hello,
First of all, thanks to all, I save my SGPT1211 by following this post! :laugh:
the vendor programms are not back on the tablet. So i try to do this manual.
For the app IrRemote. it won't run. Is there someone with the same problem. and solve this problem.
I install IrRemote.APK IrRemoteService.APK and IrRemoteApiService.APK

Thanks in advanced

Lieven85

If you restore the device is expected to return as new with all applications

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Hello ALL,

First of all, I would like to say thank you to everyone, I save my SGPT131 by following this post! It really help!
I know that it is not easy to find the rom, if anyone need "signed-txs03_350-ota-130705005.zip" please let me know.
Sorry for my poor English.

Thanks again!

I need the ROM for 3g version.

 

[Elzipu]

xperia tablet

Hey guys @davhenry @stifilz i could finally recover my Sony Xperia Tablet S following these steps and the Sony's Unbricker Software 1.0 by @condi

1) Unzip the software and make a new folder called "UNBRICK_DATA"
2) Download manually the files unbrick.zip and the correct OTA Software of your tablet
3) Unzip the unbrick.zip file and copy in the SD Card with Win32DiskImager
4) Rename your OTA Software ( Example: signed-txs03_201-ota-131023018.zip) to update.zip
5) Copy this file in the folder "files" in the program
6) Open and DOS Console in Windows and descrypt the file using desklunvr.exe. Example : desklunvr.exe update.zip
7) Make 2 image files with the recently file generate (update_deslunvr)
7za.exe x update_desklunvr.zip system.img
7za.exe x update_desklunvr.zip hidden.img
8) Copy the new images files and update_desklunvr in UNBRICK_DATA (these last file i did just in case )
9) Run Condi´s Program and make sure you go to the step 6 and just follow the instructions

The tablet reboot 2 times at the beginning looks like not working because get stuck in sony logo but turn off and turn on again and then ITS WORKSS !!! :laugh:

Good luck guys

please maybe you have a video of it. i don't completely understand your instructions.
Thank you very much buddy

 

[MONTANAVO]

if you restore the device is expected to return as new with all applications

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i need the rom for 3g version.

help i can not find the ota of my table sgpt1211 tale with one that is sgpt121mx / s if you can help me i would thank you so much.

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please maybe you have a video of it. I don't completely understand your instructions.
Thank you very much buddy

help i can not find the ota of my table sgpt1211 tale with one that is sgpt121mx / s if you can help me i would thank you so much.