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Xperia x8 backup before flashing

Hello, I´ve search the web but I haven´t found the answer or the way to do it, so I´m posting it here to see if someone can help me. Is there any way to backup the whole phone, so that if something goes wrong by flashing another rom, I can restore it back to the way it was before?
Thanks a lot.

xRecovery for Xperia X10.

hugerth said:
xRecovery for Xperia X10.
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And can i also use xRecovery to flash my phone with the 2.1 rooted firmware that I can get in some threads or do I have to use Bin4ry tool for that? Thanks in advance and sorry if the questions are stupid but it is my first time doing this, so i want to be careful not to break my new phone.

Bit curious myself. To restore a backup with xRecovery on a non-booting phone... wouldn't I first have to go through the whole process of installing/rooting 2.1 to be able to run xRecovery? Or can it run on a rooted 1.6 installation?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I can see, xRecovery is more about running custom roms than it is about restoring a non-booting phone to it's former glory?

to use xRecovery you must have rooted phone first.

[Q] returning my bricked/?semibricked g2 phone to t mobile.

hi..
i am new to android phones.. i tried rooting my phone with visionary ..it got stuck. i dont know whether you guys call it brick or semi brick but it looks preety stuck up on me. well i tried pushing adb couldnot. i am planning to send it back to t mobile for replacement.should i sent it just the way it is or do i have to remove visionary...i have no idea how to do it. wont my warranty be gone if i send it just like that... somebody plz guide me.. .thanks

weiredgal said:
hi..
i am new to android phones.. i tried rooting my phone with visionary ..it got stuck. i dont know whether you guys call it brick or semi brick but it looks preety stuck up on me. well i tried pushing adb couldnot. i am planning to send it back to t mobile for replacement.should i sent it just the way it is or do i have to remove visionary...i have no idea how to do it. wont my warranty be gone if i send it just like that... somebody plz guide me.. .thanks
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Hi don't know about visionary but there is an easier way to root if you have adb installed.. Search for GSMroot.. Or I'll post later as am on mobile... If you do want to send it back just flash the oringal rom from HTC website. I doubt you hero is bricked.
Edit : http://www.villainrom.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?1930-How-To-Root-The-2.1-RUU-or-OTA-Update-For-The-Hero
THe above is a good guide I use presuming you have ADB installed
but do remember to copy a custom rom to your sd card as update.zip
so that you can install it when you boot into recovery, cause otherwise you will loose root on rebooting and get to the red triangle with the exclamation mark.
good luck

hi again
could someone plz let me know in detail how can i flash original rom .i dont have adb installed. i just want to return it and dont want them to know i was trying to root .plz i need to return it in a day or two ..(

[Q] Root gone WRONG!

Okay so today i decide to root my phone. I heard alot about custom roms and other tweaks that make your phone do all this cool stuff. Well i try and download a custom rom, i did use the droid 2 bootstrap, and i believe i backed up on ROM Manager. after that i went and looked at roms and i downloaded Tanzanite ROM. at first i thought i was in a boot loop and i got scared because i rooted my phone last week and downloaded a custom rom wrong and it was in a boot loop. So when i thought this time it was in a boot loop, i hold X and Power button and get recovery options. i factory reset it then rebooted it, it then started up on Tanzanite ROM. I was quite happy with it, then when i try to look at my apps, they are all GONE ! There is no Market and i have no 3G coverage. I was upset and i dont know what to do. I am scared if i do something it will go into a bootloop or i will be stuck with this ROM forever. I NEED HELP ! PLEASE ! i cant afford another phone replacement. Please help me ! Please, experts, people who had this issue, somebody just please help. Thanks.

You're not stuck. There's always SBF.

SBF is your best friend. And a word of advice to you. ALWAYS find out what kind of recovery is out for your phone before you do ANYTHING like rooting or flashing. For Moto phones, SBF is your friend. HTC has RUU's.
Here is the guide to SBF your phone:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=770224
(Be sure to get the RSDlite 4.9 and the latest Moto drivers which you can find on Moto's website)
Here is the SBF file to download:
h t t p://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/droid-2-discussion/5323-tbh-mydroidworld-present-droid-2-2-3-20-triple-threat.html
This will get you back to 100% out of the box stock.
Good luck and let us know if you get it fixed. If you have any problems or questions, feel free to PM me.

I fixed the problem. Thanks guys but i would like to know, what is SBF and what does it do? Everytime i do a new ROM i am scared of the outcome. It bootlooped once and got a new one. I will always be scared when my phone re-boots. Alot of feedback i got, has mentioned SBF and i have yet to know what it does and yet to know what it means.

I could be wrong, but I think SBF stands for System Backup File. It basically is a file that came from Motorola. Motorola uses it to get the phone back to its out of the box state, meaning it returns the phone to the same state as when you got it.
You use it if you have no way to fix your phone. As long as you can get into bootloader mode, you should be able to use the SBF. It's actually pretty hard to 100% brick these phones.
Most phone has some sort of recovery utility like this. For example, HTC has RUU (ROM Update Utility) which will do the same thing as an SBF for Moto phones. I don't actually know what other brand phones have, because I've only ever rooted HTC and Moto phones.
Also, when you flash a ROM, you say you bootloop right? Be sure before you flash a new ROM to wipe data and cache in clockwork recovery. This should prevent bootloops.

New SEUS...

The new SEUS says that if the phone has modified software then it cannot be updated thus it cannot unbrick the phone right?
so if the case is like this. if i brick my phone with the installation of a custom rom then reverted to my working backup (Android 2.1 clean) will it be able to repair my phone even if it is rooted? has anyone tried this?
thanks

I only know this
When you bricked your phone, just enter to xRecovery and restore your backup
When you bricked your phone, just download and use x10flashtool and flash the X8 flash file
Sorry i just know this.. I didn't know anything about SEUS (because i never use it, when i use it, the update failed...)

I installed original firmware yesterday. Here is what I did. I had froyobread installed on my phone but since SEUS requires the original build.prop file of the SE firmware, I restored a backup of a SE ROM. Then the process went normally. SEUS didn't refuse to repair the phone.
Sent from my X8 using XDA App

howardmatthew168 is right! If you brick the phone you can flash the stock firmware with x10flashtool!

defy is dead!! help

I Want To Flash New Rom & I'm Not Able To Switch To Boot Loader Nor The Phone Is Charging When Connecting To Charger. It Just Showing Me White Light While Connected To Pc. I Don't Know What Happen To My Defy, Not Able To Switch On Nor Able To Switch To Boot Loader Nor It Stuck To Motorola Logo. It Just Blank. No Reaction At All. Please Help Me Out. I Was Having Froyo First Then I Updated To CM7 Then I Again Tried To Restore Back To FrOyo. But I Failed To I Suck Up To Google Logo, Then I Tried To Flash The SBF File(Downloaded From xda Developer) I Got Successfully Passed But It Doesn't Affected My Defy & The Next Day I Tried To Switch To Boot Loader But I'm Not Able To. DEFY Is Giving Me No Reaction Wheater I Tried To Switch It On Or Try To Switch To Boot Loader Or To Charge The Phone. JUST Blank Screen.

cooperation escsua
i got the same problem but in my case i don't know which SBF i tried to install ... i am recharging my phone with external battery charger.. i gonna try to install all sbf i can find on the net and see if it will work

the black screen when show that u flash sbf low android version on ur phone.
dont wory.
u charge battery with external charger and try another sbf.
just careful that SBF is defy or defy +.
use this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=966537

i've tried all, but in my case the problem is that the phone is not getting in bootloader mode. i charged battery externally but it didn't work. i tried Go McGyver method also but phone did not start. so defy is not recognized by rsd also!!
i don't wanna go to service centre bcoz my phone is rooted and had all possible hack for defy installed thus guarantee is void.

can't root gingerbread 2.3.6
after all useless efforts to unbrick my defy i finally went to customer care! they flashed my defy with android 2.3.6., i was enjoying the new interface of gingerbread and was happy until i came to know the fact that i can't Root it now as any of the rooting tools like superoneclick (latest version) , z4root etc are not working!
is there any working method for rooting android 2.3.6 without flashing????
help!!

washi.sasoriza said:
after all useless efforts to unbrick my defy i finally went to customer care! they flashed my defy with android 2.3.6., i was enjoying the new interface of gingerbread and was happy until i came to know the fact that i can't Root it now as any of the rooting tools like superoneclick (latest version) , z4root etc are not working!
is there any working method for rooting android 2.3.6 without flashing????
help!!
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I guess they've flashed a BL7 firmware. The above rooting tools will not work. They only way of rooting is mentioned in the below post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1595013