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need help with my xperia :$

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TheException92

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Hello everyone I'm a bit of a noob in the area of phone Modding and need some help to take it further.

I have a Sony erricson xperia play r800i and wanted to root to put all the cool stuff like Sony bravia engine n beats audio n stuff on my phone plus sort out the problem of eternal memory n make itvrun faster. I rooted with superoneclick and it went well but I didn't know what to do then so I tried unlocking my bootloader and it says its already unlocked so I thought it was because of root , I tried unrooting wich didn't work properly a few times then it did so I tried unlocking bootloader again n said it was still unlocked . I then tried to re-root so I could see if I could install what I wanted but it wont root again .
Any ideas on what to do if I can reset my phone to root again n if my boot loader is saying it is unlocked then will I be able to install bravia engine as such if rooted?

Thanks for reading hope you can help me :)
 
Well how did you unroot the device is the biggest problem. Now what you need to do is get a app called root checker . Boot the phone up and check to see if you rooted . Also did your root include a recovery .. should be clockworkmod .....
 
Ok you need to get to the stickies rooting there is a few steps with the doomloard rooting doesnt sound like you finished with rooting the device go to allthings root
 
Im not sure what you mean sorry go to allthings root .com or summut ? N finish off rooting the device as its not done properly it rooted fine with superoneclick but the unroot was a problem but it says has unrooted now apparently
 
Yes when you had it rooted did you see the recovery and did you make a back up with the recovery... once u made a recovery you need to have a rom to flash to your device which should be located on your sd card after you place it on it .if you have problems with superone click you can see step by step video on YouTube. Just put super one click but read doom lords rooting its easy and he put his foot in it cause it works and do the dam thang i give him all credit for that one :D:eek::what::thumbup:
 
had a look at doomlords easy rooting kit gona try that and see how it goes , cant atm tho because i dont have my cable with me haha but i will try it asap and let you no how it goes thank you :)
 
Thats cool it will work i have rooted a few items included a tablet i think sony is quick and easy if you follow the directions but doom loard is very down and give you quick easy steps and layout of how to complete the jobs of rooting but hey holla back when u try if you need help feel free to holla
 
yeah i found a usb so tried doomlords easy toolkit it rooted fine then just tried to install what i wanted got mobile bravia engine and just looking for ICS now can you flash and install thing with flashtool instead of clockwork mod because my phone wont install cwm and i have flashtool already , the sites that say flash it with cwm can i use flashtool instead? and cheers man really helped :)
 
ahhh wicked i can use flashtool then if i have the rom or kernel or whatever . and i dont think my phone is ginger bread .
android version 2.3.4
and build number 4.0.2.a.0.42
and stock kernal
2.6.32.9-perf
so where do i get ics for my phone cos im not on gingerbread i think anyways
 
ohh right cool so i click on the link and it will be on there and what was you saying about it being a problem is ICS a downgrade from gingerbread ? i fort ics was the newest and has a better interface and that :) thanks again lmao
 
Also what is your phone make and model and which carrier do you have .....

Also when keeping roms that you like on your pc or lap top be sure to make a folder on desktop called android phone and store all your good flashable roms in it :eek: :D :rolleyes::what:
 
cool man cheers and what i flash to my phone keep a copy on computer of just the file? so anything about like sorting it out if it goes wrong what should i do ?
 
my phone isnt locked to anything i bought it offline sim free so any network and that so i dont think theres any restrictions or anything and yeah i will put them in a folder for safe keeping :P
 
No if you get ics and see problems with it you dont need to keep it just use the flash tool to down grade back to stock roms or a custom rom also try cm7. Or cm9 if made for your device cause it would put you to 236 and cm9 is ice cream and cm10 is the latest 4.1 or jelly bean.
 
that 4.1 or jelly bean sounds good will it work for my phone ? have you seen it does it look better than ICS just want to make my phone awesome man whatevers best lmao how would i do that find it on that site or wherever and flash it through flashtool :) ?
 
If the phone acts up or u hit the wrong option on the phone and wipe it clean ..just pop the battery pull the sd card and put that rom back on it flash back into business without any head ache :rolleyes::eek:
 
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