[Tutorial] Xperia S/P/U/Sola Bootloader Unlocking & Relocking
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My 3g rework without any work from me! [emoji2]Anyone can help me plz I really need to use 3G connexion
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But how to have x-reality again?
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Everything works great with installing this mod! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2642608 [emoji1]
Envoyé de mon Xperia S en utilisant Tapatalk
Are you sure about this?
My xperia Z1 vibrator is malfunctioning like this guy here http://youtu.be/BXKCUpE6rdQ?t=4s but i have unlocked the boot loader.
This means that this kind if malfunction is still in warranty?
It should, but better "re-lock" to make sure no servcecenter worker has funny ideas. But no promises from my side, but worth a shot.
Regards
Since the Xperia Sola is no longer listed at http://developer.sonymobile.com/unlockbootloader/ is there any other way to unlock the bootloader?
Sony support is rubbish. The asked me why would I want to unlock it since it invalidates my warranty (lol, the phone is 3 years old already) and have ceased further communication.
Sony support is rubbish. The asked me why would I want to unlock it since it invalidates my warranty (lol, the phone is 3 years old already) and have ceased further communication.
You can try the Sony Xperia go or Sony Xperia U, as both phone's are similar to Your phone.
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208Quick tutorial for unlocking & relocking the bootloader of the Xperia S/P/U/Sola.
this is the official way to unlock bootloader
Warning!
This procedure will wipe the /data partition of your phone, so you will loose all ur stored data, settings. SDCARD will NOT BE WIPED!!!
DRM keys WILL be lost forever
why to unlock bootloader?
- u can flash custom ROMs/Kernels
- u dont need to worry if the new firmware can be rooted or not as with unlocked bootloader u can always ROOT ur device
- SE/Sony gives sneak-peaks/preview builds of latest OS which requires unlocked bootloaders, as they did with Xperia 2011 line (they had ICS alpha/beta), so who knows may be SE/Sony may give early builds of ICS (JellyBean???)
Most of this is taken from lollylost100's his tutorial from ARC thread (all credits for that concise tutorial go to him, i have elaborated on a few things and added device specific changes)
btw i dont have this device, most of this testing was done on user darkpisces's phone so thanks a lot to him for helping me out!!!
[ before we begin unlocking bootloader ]
- get the IMEI code for ur device: type *#06# in phone dialer to find it out, note only the digits (no dashes)
- download the fastboot package
- download the latest FlashTool Xperia Driver Pack and install fastboot drivers (common) & adb drivers for this device from the list!
- make sure u have a windows PC with USB cable to connect the phone
- power down ur phone and keeping the Volume Up button pressed connect the USB cable to PC this will trigger FASTBOOT mode and windows will start driver installation, which should be automatically done
- once drivers are installed just disconnect cable and power on device
[ how to unlock ] (official way)
- Go to: http://unlockbootloader.sonymobile.com/ and read everything!
- At the bottom click 'Start Unlocking the Bootloader'
- after u have verified that u can unlock bootloader, scroll to the bottom of the page and click "Continue"
- you will get "are u sure prompt" accept it by clicking "yes i am sure" (i assume that u have read an understood it)
- then accept the "legal terms"
- finally u will get a "Create Unlock request" page, enter your IMEI (sometimes the last digit needs to be removed for this to work), name and email address
- You should now receive your unique unlock key, its displayed on screen, SAVE THIS KEY SAFELY
- Extract fastboot_with_Android_USB_file.rar and open fastboot folder
- Hold SHIFT and right click on the background of the folder
- Select 'Open command window here'
- Connect your phone in fastboot mode (turn phone off, hold Volume UP button and plug in USB Cable) [make sure drivers are installed as explained above)
- In the cmd windows type in fastboot.exe -i 0x0fce getvar version
- If a value is returned (it will return 0.5), it means the phone is correctly connected
- Type in fastboot.exe -i 0x0fce oem unlock 0xKEY and replace KEY with the key which u received earlier.
- You're device should now be bootloader unlocked
If this tutorial is too much for you then itskapil wrote a step-by-step guide (and recorded a video also):
-Instructions: http://www.theandroidsoul.com/how-to-unlock-bootloader-xperia-arc-play-neo-pro/
-Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRH3pC7MhEA
(the above videos and some steps are for Xperia 2011 devices, but most the steps are same for Xperia S/P/U/Sola)
Info on Relocking bootloader is in next post96Relocking Bootloader
this Relock FTF is based on the package posted by Blagus in his ARC thread (all credits for this go to him, i have only added the correct loader.sin for this device)
RELOCKING BOOTLOADER WILL ALLOW YOU TO GET NEWEST UPDATES & REPAIR DEVICE USING SEUS/PCC
before we begin relocking the bootloader make sure that u have flashtool download & installed
u can get the latest version of FlashTool from:
http://androxyde.github.com/Flashtool/
download link is under "Installation" tab
if u have not use FlashTool before read this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1526866
download this FTF:
Xperia S -> Xperia-S_Relock_bootloader.ftf
Xperia U -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26783129#post26783129 (thanks to enigma77x)
flash this FTF via FlashTool
RELOCK FTFs FOR P/U/Sola are under testing! if u are interested in testing kindly contact me via P.M., before u contact me, make sure that u have UNLOCKED the bootloader!
when it says enter flashmode, power down device and keeping VOLUME DOWN button pressed connect usb cable to phone, the device will now enter flashmode (green LED)
after this file is flashed reboot phone
bootloader will now be relocked!!!
incase device doenst boot DO NOT PANIC... u can flash stock firmware FTF anytime to get back to stock ROM... i will post link to working FTF once its available...
P.S.: there is no official way to relock bootloader20hi DooMLoRD,
i have created relock bootloader for Xperia U
http://tiny.cc/ST25i_Relock_Bootloader
it's working15
NO!
After relock you can use SEUS / PCC / EMMA again. The imei is used to generate the unique unlock-key. Also it gets stored to check if you claim warranty. Arc has showed us that SE is not denying warranty at all if you unlocked. They just decline it if the cause of the failure is a custom rom etc. pp. for example if you ****ed your cpu with overclocking.
SEUS/PCC/EMMA checks TA area for the unlock key, if it is present it reject the phone and refuses to update. The relock Doom posted here is the same way we worked out on Arc. It deletes the unlockkey from TA and this way you are again able to use SEUS/PCC/EMMA.
Hope i enlighted you a bit.
Regards14manage to do this on my x64 Windows 7.
key thing is to get the right drivers
I download the drivers from here, http://download.theandroidsoul.com/file/unlock xperia arc bootloaders.zip
and use the fastboot drivers from the drivers folder.
then in that few seconds where the phone is in fastboot mode, I update the drivers accordingly.
The problem I think is Windows 7 will automatically redirect the driver installation to default/generic installation if it can't find the driver for the device. So perhaps to avoid it totally it's to use gpedit.msc to stop the redirection of the devices..
