Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

Not impossible to brick, that’s for sure.
I see ppl mentioning setting “wipe all”, that’s usually not necessary. Not entirely sure if that’s the issue, but it very well could be.
It might, more likely, be differences in hw revisions . Slight changes in design or even different chipsets.
I think it’s important feedback for the porters, and really suggest to join IRC channel to involve the porters. And Jolla.

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

Actually you cannot brick this device as we have a tool to flash in flash mode which is almost the nothing mode :)

@juicme, @ajalkane One trial (because I remember that I had same problem than you to flash stock MM (problem of flash script), but cannot remember how I fix it)

In flash mode, before launching the flashtool (so, flashtool is closed), could you do a ./adb devices in order to start daemon

So, you should get :
List of devices attached
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *

Then, try to flash an image.

FYI, try again the image I provided (not the upload, the one I've uploaded) and it works fine

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

FWIW, I couldn't run the backup script on machines running Arch and Manjaro (an Arch based distro), but was successful on a PC running MX linux (Debian base).

The phone would keep asking what type of usb connection is required (charging, mtp, or midi), and selecting mtp would prompt it to ask again, and again.

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

Same results, unfortunately. I'm going to bite the bullet with chagrin and try Sony's official flasher on Windows, as it seems that's what will be required anyway for flashing Sailfish.

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

Could you post the log from trying flashtool?

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

Sure, here's the logs when I flashed Mousse04's image:

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

strange, it looks to work fine ...

And at the end, your device is still with Nougat? Why are you saying it doesn't work ?

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

No, I'm pretty sure it's with MM. It's just that it boots, gives a distorted Xperia image after about 10 seconds, and reboots again. Bootlooping forever.

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

ok and is it the good xperia X version?

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

This is bog standard Xperia X. On the box it says F5121 Graphite Black, SI 1302-9422 Rev 4.

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

I just did the flashing in Windows with Mousse04 image and apparently the result is a working phone. Too bad the phone speaks now chinese or something like that which makes using it a bit problematic :D.

However, this points to my linux setup being the culprit. I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 with adb and fastboot installed from the official repositories. Maybe they're outdated and are the reason for the failure?

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

That was exactly what my Xperia X did after flashing, if USERDATA was not wiped.

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

I did click all wipe options.

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

I don't think you should wipe all,
Just wipe user data.
By wiping all, I think you delete data that SFOS Needs (drivers that it depends on from Android, like WiFi and more)

Flashing went well from your log output.

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

But wouldn't flashing the new Android image anyway install all those drivers?

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

strange. Mine got all languages

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

Good point. I also wiped only userdata.

I would say rather that : as the .fsc script is not perfectly up to date, ar aligned with the image, maybe by wiping everything, you wiped something which is not flashed by the script ....

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

I finally managed to accidentally click on some chinese scribbling that presented me with language selection. So I'm now able to use the phone and hopefully try to recover the DRM keys.

Thank you all for the help! For now it remains a mystery to me why I couldn't flash successfully with linux, but that it was at the end a success is most important. And a word of encouragement to others with my predicatement, it was much less a laborous process to do it under Windows than I was afraid of. Unlike many guides said, I did not have to install any drivers etc. Just download FlashTool and feed the image to it.

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

got the same problem ... but was luckier ;)

Edit: Anyway, good news. Now, let's help @juiceme :)

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

My advice to juiceme: if you have troubles with this inside linux, then despite the mental horror, boot into Windows or loan a friend's Windows machine for fifteen minutes. I spent several evenings trying these tools within Linux. Once I swallowed my pride, it was only a matter of 15 minutes until I had successfully downgraded the phone.

At least under Windows 10 I didn't have to download any drivers, just have Mousse04 image on USB stick and download Flashtool. Easy peasy. The DRM backup software seemed to work well within linux after flashing MM.

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

Yes the DRM and SailfishOS stuffs are easy after this fu... downgrade :)

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

Hi

If you used flashtool, where did you get it from?

I tried downloading from http://www.flashtool.net/downloads.php

and the md5sum doesn't match for either the Linux or Windows versions, e.g.

Windows md5 sum on website is E06829037E0F1291BC53E45B012D6FDF

but on the file downloaded it is
ceab49b14bf84eacf8ce0202e2498b5e flashtool-0.9.23.1-windows.exe

Linux md5 sum on website is
3C70AF72F9B9E45C195F9192409E0C0F

but on the file downloaded it is
a68d331f710b78f7eaf4350e70d3e693 flashtool-0.9.23.1-linux.tar.7z

md5sum's on 0.9.23.1 before patch 0.9.23.2

Has anyone got a version with the matching md5 sum?

Rich

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

bummer. So I received my Xperia X F5121 from Amazon today and of course wanted to flash the community image right away. I did the TA backup and wanted to unlock the bootloader. As described in the guide, I went to check the status in the service menu and there it says under "Confguration": "Bootloader unlock allowed: No". The way I understand it, it's not possible to unlock the bootloader and flash SFOS, right?
This really puzzles me, since it is a full priced retail version. Is there a possibility to unlock the bootloader that I'm missing (like flashing another ROM first) or do I have to return the phone?

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

I did not care about any DRM stuff.
But I found it being a real lockin procedure since it was impossible to unlock the bootloader unless I
* actually started the phone (not only vol-up start),
* set up the android,
* enabled developer mode by clicking 7-8 times on the build item in the about/system in settings section, and
* then checked the then appeared "allow bootloader unlock" as the last step.

Not sure if it will help you or fit your situation, but to me this was a completely wasteful step of an hour or so. They claim it is for protecting active installations that you cannot allow direct flash of phones in use, but it was no active installation (and never used before) since I had to actually set it up and avoid installing and configuring phone-home features etc ... I only wanted to unlock and flash.
The good part of it was that it took two minutes flat to flash the image until booting SailfishOS after the bootloader unlock (which took only a fraction of a second). :)

Cheers,

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

That is not a usual retail version, for sure. Return it :(

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

Thanks for your reply. That's exactly what I did as well: Started up Android, skipped through the initial Android setup, enabled Developer mode and then checked the Service menu for the bootloader unlock (which states "No" in my case).
So I guess I'll have to send it back and look for another source.

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

Not sure about service menu. Sounds like you did not do the last step. I am pretty sure the allow bootloader unlock option was in the settings section. I swithed it from no to yes and then shut down the phone.

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

Sure seems like it. It also has a strange model number on the box. Most shops list the black Xperia X F5121 as Model 1302-9401 or 1302-8005, mine is "1302-5472 Rev 3".
Maybe we should start a list which model number can be unlocked and which one can't?

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

No need. You just got an operator model. Maybe it was "refurbished" by some dishonest seller.

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

Got my Xperia X (F5122 dual sim) and found out it's running 7.1.1 :( tried looking for a marshmallow firmware for it but couldn't find anything :(

What are the DRM keys for? It is purely for warranty and being able to restore phone to it's previous android state?

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

Flashing the F5121 firmware could work (at least with custom roms it only has no dual-sim support so it could be enough to backup the keys).

The drm-keys unlock some functionality on android but won't be needed at all on Sailfish OS or custom android roms (there are drm-fixed-kernels available for custom roms which restore those features).

In many places (eu afaik so you'll be fine until brexit is done :p) they aren't even needed to "restore" warranty since wiping the warranty by unlocking your bootloader is not allowed there.

So unless you're going to sell the phone or you plan on ever running stock rom on it again you don't need to backup your drm-keys (can't hurt though).

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

Thanks jakibaki, I have no intention of using android or going back to it. I thought that Jolla might need the DRM keys to access some of the hardware stuff (Camera, audio DAC, etc...)

As you helped me in the other thread getting F5121 marshmallow firmware is not an issue but F5122 seems to be a right pain and I don't think I need go through it.

I guess we will know more next Wednesday. Once again thanks for helping :)

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

Hi folks,

so in order to install Sailfish X do I need to unlock bootloader using Sony's instructions (and install android sdk and other stuff)? Or does Jolla provide some tool for this on wednesday or can I unlock bootloader using Emma?

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

From what I understood EMMA can't flash anything with a locked bootloader. So you will to first unlock it before using EMMA.

I haven't unlocked my bootloader yet but with doing some reading you don't need the whole SDK to unlock it. But I will wait to see Jolla's instructions first before doing anything.

Also if you have a windows PC sony has a video on how to unlock the bootloader: >>Video Here<<

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

I am following helpers:
http://www.xperiablog.net/2016/03/12...erifirm-guide/
http://sailfishmods.de/2017/07/howto...ys-bootloader/

My XperiFirm -Create your FTF firmware [1302-3140] file is always failing at the end of the download with unpacking failing. I am using Mac.

@mousse04
Should your FTF version work with phone "Region: Nordic (Generic) [1302-3140]"?

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

I had that on Linux after one successful try. I tried deleting the directory created by flashtool (something like /root/.flashtool). Next try was successful. So maybe this might help in your case as well.

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

Aaand - boot loop with Mousse04's file above.

Edit.

But now managed to get working with Mousse04's ftf. I totally missed step "Right at Wipe , we select everything from APPS_LOG, DIAG, SSD, USERDATA"
After this I boot loops gone.

Thanks for the file!! :)

Now I can continue to DRM stuff...

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

Please note that as of today you need to update Xperifirm:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/cro...oader-t2834142

Have to manually amend Androxyde's Flashtool to account for this change as no longer connects to server by replacing Xperifirm.exe in Users > Name > .flashTool with version dated 16/10/2017 to restore XF icon function.

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

Back in August, I struggled with this subject using a Windows 10 pc.

I ended up using flashtool-0.9.23.1-windows.exe to get the necessary drivers onto my pc. That worked well, but today Norton Security claimed there is some malware hidden in the tool, within the file flashtool-drivers.exe. So it deleted this file.
The name of the malware: Heur.AdvML.B

To whom it may concern...

Re: How to unlock bootloader - Sony xperia X
 

Yes. I noticed this aswell :)
But, consider this. Flastool contains exploits for many things. For Example rooting the device.
Sure, its “malware”, but its intentional ;)

Just remember to get it from the (more or less) official sources !