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Boot loop on stock Firmware - Never rooted

I am extremely new to android OS... I will just get that out of the way right now...
I am open to any resources or guides that someone may have regarding Newbies info for Android OS or Firmware or Flashing or Rooting.
I do not know what it means to Root your phone or what benefits it provides.
I do not understand what Flashing is exactly.
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Phone type : Sony Ericsson XperiaARC - LT15A
Service provider : Rogers Wireless - Canada
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I was using the phone, installing apps happily using my wonderful device then it shut down and is now caught in a "Reboot Loop" (thats what my friend said it was called)
It will attempt to boot, passed the sony ericsson logo to my Rogers logo then it reboots. over and over.
I have not rooted this phone..
I pulled the battery, different combinations of sim/micro sd in/out
What do I do?
From what I have researched, I will need some kind of flashing application to refresh my phone to its original state.
To do that, I gather that I will need to find out what kind of Firmware my phone originally came with and some way to get it to stay connected to my computer while it continually tries to reboot itself.
thank you in advance.

Yep. You need to download flashtool as the utility to reformat (so to speak) your phone. You also need a rom to flash, which you can find plenty of from this thread under the "stock rom" sub heading. here's a tutorial on how to flash (btw you need a usb cable)

jman2131 said:
Yep. You need to download flashtool as the utility to reformat (so to speak) your phone. You also need a rom to flash, which you can find plenty of from this thread under the "stock rom" sub heading. here's a tutorial on how to flash (btw you need a usb cable)
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Well i really feel like an idiot now LOL!!
I just had to click on the "update" button on the sony PC companion then click the "repair" button (just got it yesterday so i don't feel TOO bad)
The update was successful and I am now running the new operating system for the LT15A which what i gather from my research is ice cream sandwich? its verison 4.x
You were so gentle and kind I really thank you for your post! I will look into the resources you have provided. I think i would like to play around with this device in the future so that will be useful information.
For now, my only problem is that my phone has been updated with a language that is not familiar to me so i am going to have to figure out how to change it back.
Thank you again for your kind advice!

[Q] Xperia Play Boot Loop

Hello my friends! i have oe Xperia Play (R800i) with the default android verion (2.3.4 i think) and, yesterday i was playing Street Fighter 4 (Installed yesterday, but alerdy have the game before and i think its not the problem) and Asphalt 8 with Money MOD (maybe the game was too much for my poor Xperia Play, the game have great graphics, and have some legs because this when playing..).
But i think the real problem is the Ram Manager PRO... Yep, that program is mah doom (or no lol)!
And the only thing i have doing in the ram manager was:
Used three of the ore-set profiles to ram improvement (Balanced, more free memory and hard gaming.), and i tried to put in default so see the diference in the game (and was awesome how the program works!) but...
The other only thing i do was BY ACCIDENT... and that was probably increased the VM Heap Size, unintentionally...
i choice the VM Heap Size option and then marked 512MB ram (The MAXIMUM RAM in my xperia play!), but i pressed the back button in intention to cancel this, but the phone messenge me saying i have to reboot to get thius works... So after this i played Asphalt 8 until the phone battery was dead... maybe thats the problem... theres some way to redo that without booting the xperia play?
I dont have Clockwork MOD installed, My cell is Rooted and my Bootloader is locked, plz, halp!

you can flash stock rom with flashtool without anything

pedyvirus said:
you can flash stock rom with flashtool without anything
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I know a little on how to do this, i have one Galaxy 5 with CyanogenMOD 7 :3
But... you know if there's a method to recovery my phone without losing any data? i have tons of sms and dont want to lose them...
i'm trying to conect to the pc, maybe that works :3
oh, and if you know some trhead that have the necessairy things to flash the stock room, plz can you post here? thx bro!

okay... now i only want to have my cell back working...
It is rooted, but have the boot loader locked up and its bricked so dont pass the boot image saying "sony ericson"..
now, i dont know how to do it, i tried PC companniopn, but the Xperia Play have to be turned on to do this ):
and i will try flashtool, but dont know how to use and if it will work because the bootloader...
Edit: My Xperia Play is recongized by the Flashtool program, now... what to do?

"Originally Posted by Toasty Clown View Post
Would you happen to have a custom kernel? Which Sony Ericsson logo is it, the non-moving one or the animated one?
Now, you wouldn't have happened to install a CyanogenMod, Ice Cream Sandwich or Jelly Bean rom, would you? I know you don't remember which rom you installed, just trying to spark a memory. Anyway, if you did so, then all you need to do is flash a compatible kernel. You see, if the Sony Ericsson logo you are seeing is the non-moving one, then you have the stock kernel, the one that's incompatible with the aforementioned roms.
If you don't want to get involved with this kernel business, then I've provided a Flashtool guide, so you can at least get your phone to a working, albeit factory reset, state:
First, install Flashtool.
Go here and find what you think your stock firmware was, download it.
Place the .ftf file in your Flashtool/firmwares directory.
Open Flashtool (as administrator if necessary) and click on the lightning bolt in the Flashtool window. Highlight Flashmode and select OK. A new window shall pop-up.
Select your downloaded firmware. I should read "R800i" in the first box and "4.0.2.A.0.XX" (with the "XX" being the number of the version you downloaded) in the second, the contents of the third box varies, so disregard it. There are many options for what to keep/replace during flashing, but I'd recommend leaving them as they are. Select OK. The window will now close and a new window will pop-up shortly after.
This window will detail how the preceding steps: With your turned-off phone (make sure its battery is intact), hold the back key (the leftmost one) while inserting the usb from your computer to your phone, continue holding the key until the window closes, DO NOT REMOVE THE USB.
The Flashtool window will now begin streaming various lines detailing its progress, all you need to look for is the line detailing a successful flash which with then tell you to disconnect your phone, now you can remove the USB.
Go ahead and close the remaining Flashtool window, your phone should now be back to default, factory reset, everything except your phone's bootloader and SIM unlocked statuses, they should be how you left them before."
that solved my problem :3
the firmware http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1589399

[Q] [x-post from LG G3] D851 unroot / restore to stock

I recently picked up a D851 (TMobile). I rooted it, but did not replace the ROM or install a custom bootloader.
Last weekend, the phone started randomly rebooting. Watching logcat via adb showed me several random apps throwing sig11s, after which the phone would give up and reboot. Cycle repeats.
This looks like a hardware issue, as the apps that crash change on each boot cycle.
I arranged with TMobile to swap the device, but they cautioned me that the phone must be returned to an unrooted state.
I've had a hell of a time with it from here. My first try was to install the LG drivers and the PC Suite under a Windows VM, as I do not run Windows at home. Enabling USB passthrough for the phone to the VM let Windows see the phone, but the LG drivers would invariably fail with 'Device cannot start. Code 10.'. Likewise, the PC Suite couldn't find the phone.
Next step was to throw together some spare hw and install Windows 7 on that (a desparate move, to be certain. ). The LG drivers can now recognize the phone, so that's a definite plus. The LG PC Suite, though, claimed that my phone could not be upgraded. Wonderful.
Next step was to try this tutorial: http://www.androidrootz.com/2014/07/how-to-unroot-lg-g3-all-variants.html . I was able to get further with this method, but as it begins to flash SYSTEM, it pauses, and then dies with 'We can't communicate with Phone'. End result - I now have a soft bricked phone. On the phone, I see the port - COM41 - appear, and the usb animation starts to spin ... and after a few seconds, stops. It's at this point that Flashtool throws the Can't Connect error.
I next tried following this tutorial: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2785089 to flash a KDZ. The newer LG Flash tool used here can't create a connection to my phone for flashing.
I've run into a wall here. Any ideas on where to go next? I need to reset this phone back to a working stock state so that I can send it back.

http://lgg3root.com/lg-g3-root/how-to-unrootunbrick-lg-g3/
Use this and follow video carefully. Has worked many times. Use all his links not what you have downloaded.
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BACARDILIMON said:
http://lgg3root.com/lg-g3-root/how-to-unrootunbrick-lg-g3/
Use this and follow video carefully. Has worked many times. Use all his links not what you have downloaded.
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Also - as silly as it sounds, make certain you're using the USB cable that came with the phone. This has solved problems for a lot of people when trying to revert to stock.

etawful said:
Also - as silly as it sounds, make certain you're using the USB cable that came with the phone. This has solved problems for a lot of people when trying to revert to stock.
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I wasn't initially, but I did switch to it last night. Still no go.
I suspect it's either the phone itself (see above: re suspected hw failure), or the PC in question (nVidia chipset on this old motherboard, and I've had more than a few problems with adb talking to phones on nVidia motherboards). I'm going to try Bacardilimon's suggestion tonight, on a PC that has *nothing* nVidia-related in it, before I throw in the towel. As it is, the failing phone needs to be back to TMO by the middle of next week, so I'm all but out of time to resolve this.

Drake Maijstral said:
I recently picked up a D851 (TMobile). I rooted it, but did not replace the ROM or install a custom bootloader.
Last weekend, the phone started randomly rebooting. Watching logcat via adb showed me several random apps throwing sig11s, after which the phone would give up and reboot. Cycle repeats.
This looks like a hardware issue, as the apps that crash change on each boot cycle.
I arranged with TMobile to swap the device, but they cautioned me that the phone must be returned to an unrooted state.
I've had a hell of a time with it from here. My first try was to install the LG drivers and the PC Suite under a Windows VM, as I do not run Windows at home. Enabling USB passthrough for the phone to the VM let Windows see the phone, but the LG drivers would invariably fail with 'Device cannot start. Code 10.'. Likewise, the PC Suite couldn't find the phone.
Next step was to throw together some spare hw and install Windows 7 on that (a desparate move, to be certain. ). The LG drivers can now recognize the phone, so that's a definite plus. The LG PC Suite, though, claimed that my phone could not be upgraded. Wonderful.
Next step was to try this tutorial: http://www.androidrootz.com/2014/07/how-to-unroot-lg-g3-all-variants.html . I was able to get further with this method, but as it begins to flash SYSTEM, it pauses, and then dies with 'We can't communicate with Phone'. End result - I now have a soft bricked phone. On the phone, I see the port - COM41 - appear, and the usb animation starts to spin ... and after a few seconds, stops. It's at this point that Flashtool throws the Can't Connect error.
I next tried following this tutorial: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2785089 to flash a KDZ. The newer LG Flash tool used here can't create a connection to my phone for flashing.
I've run into a wall here. Any ideas on where to go next? I need to reset this phone back to a working stock state so that I can send it back.
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There is a link in the general thread on how to return to stock including a method using twrp. It's a sticky thread at the top I've never done the twrp method myself but it can more than likely be done without a computer. Twrp can be installed via Playstore if you don't already have it

BACARDILIMON said:
httx://lgg3root.com/lg-g3-root/how-to-unrootunbrick-lg-g3/
Use this and follow video carefully. Has worked many times. Use all his links not what you have downloaded.
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Holy hell. That site's links are absolutely infuriating. Anyone who puts each and every download link for software referenced by a howto behind separate timed appearance links that you have to ALSO enter an annoying captcha to enable should be shot out of a cannon - or, at the very least, have their howto ignored by the rest of the world.
Suffice it to say, the quality of that page doesn't give me much confidence that this will work any better than what I've tried already. Since I've already wasted a crapload of time on this project, and more on following those damned links, I'll give it a try tonight, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
Is the author of that page an XDA member? If so, please let me know who he is, so I can berate him personally. Thanks.

Toneman07 said:
There is a link in the general thread on how to return to stock including a method using twrp. It's a sticky thread at the top I've never done the twrp method myself but it can more than likely be done without a computer. Twrp can be installed via Playstore if you don't already have it
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I'd consider doing that, except as I mentioned, the G3 in question disconnected during a run of Flashtool, rendering it without a working OS to boot to. The phone now boots straight to download mode. The good news is, it's now officially unrooted. The bad news is, it's also officially bricked until I can get an OS flash to work.

Drake Maijstral said:
Holy hell. That site's links are absolutely infuriating. Anyone who puts each and every download link for software referenced by a howto behind separate timed appearance links that you have to ALSO enter an annoying captcha to enable should be shot out of a cannon - or, at the very least, have their howto ignored by the rest of the world.
Suffice it to say, the quality of that page doesn't give me much confidence that this will work any better than what I've tried already. Since I've already wasted a crapload of time on this project, and more on following those damned links, I'll give it a try tonight, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
Is the author of that page an XDA member? If so, please let me know who he is, so I can berate him personally. Thanks.
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OK I gonna keep it real with you. You can either enter the captcha and fix the issue or throw the phone away. Yes he is a member and for every phone that is out their he has its own page doing this for us. If you can't fix your phone with his method then it not the method but you. I have used this for many bricks. It works and it works great. Sorry if he making you do a little typing but like I said u can use his method or keep trying the other methods. Good luck
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OK I gonna keep it real with you. You can either enter the captcha and fix the issue or throw the phone away. Yes he is a member and for every phone that is out their he has its own page doing this for us. If you can't fix your phone with his method then it not the method but you. I have used this for many bricks. It works and it works great. Sorry if he making you do a little typing but like I said u can use his method or keep trying the other methods. Good luck
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After going through the painful process of clicking his links, I found that everything I downloaded is the same thing I already had, except for Flashtool - lgg3root's is actually older. Even the TMO firmware for my phone and the dll are both exactly the same, and I checked by running md5sum on them.
But hey, it must be me. There's clearly no other technology-related cause for this issue. I obviously don't know how to follow a howto, right?
Thanks for 'keeping it real'.

Drake Maijstral said:
After going through the painful process of clicking his links, I found that everything I downloaded is the same thing I already had, except for Flashtool - lgg3root's is actually older. Even the TMO firmware for my phone and the dll are both exactly the same, and I checked by running md5sum on them.
But hey, it must be me. There's clearly no other technology-related cause for this issue. I obviously don't know how to follow a howto, right?
Thanks for 'keeping it real'.
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See we agree.
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Not likely.
In any case, it failed again. The video he did gave me the exact same steps I followed elsewhere, and unsurprisingly, it failed with 'We can't communicate with Phone', after beginning the flash process. There is something else wrong here, though I'm not certain if the failing phone is at fault or the PC in question is causing the issue. To be crystal clear, the flash process starts, and then, at a random point during the flash, it completely stops, and Flashtool eventually gives up and throws the aforementioned error.
Any other ideas? If not, I'm going to have to try another PC to rule that out as the culprit. Sigh.

Mine gave the same error as well as couldn't communicate with server but the flash process continued running and the phone rebooted took about 3 minutes u learned not to touch any of the popups on the screen during flash and sorry I missed the part about no OS I thought you were booting to recovery... Driving while reading not the best idea

Toneman07 said:
Mine gave the same error as well as couldn't communicate with server but the flash process continued running and the phone rebooted took about 3 minutes u learned not to touch any of the popups on the screen during flash and sorry I missed the part about no OS I thought you were booting to recovery... Driving while reading not the best idea
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Nope, the phone is definitely not doing anything - the usb animation on the G3 completely stops before Flashtool throws the error.
And damnit, quit reading while driving. You can do that later.

Moved the hdd Windows is installed on to another PC with a different chipset. After it updated drivers, I tried again. Flash proceeded partway, then died. Reset phone, Flashtool reststarted flash from scratch, flash died at 15%.
15% is interesting. While I've seen the flash die at various points, 15% is the one that was most often repeated. This tells me the failure follows the phone, not the PC - which makes sense, as the phone has a suspected RAM failure.
At this point, it appears that flashing this phone is impossible due to faulty hw. Hopefully TMO (and eventually, LG) will accept the faulty phone back with no OS, because there's no way an OS is being written to this device ever again.

Thank you for answering

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Thank you for answering
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No problem. There's nothing I hate more than stumbling across a thread where the OP has the same problem I have, only to find it was never updated with the solution.

Good luck man let us know what tmobile says

Is there anything I can do?? Locked bootloader R800x, rooted.

Hello. I've rooted my Verizon Xperia Play, but I can't unlock my bootloader. I've checked the service menu, I don't have the ROOTING STATUS menu, and the Flashtool identifies BOOTLOADER STATUS:UNROOTABLE.
I've tried Sony's unlock site but my MEID contains letters whilst the website states it has to be numeric. I've used the S1tool with the TP method and S1tool appears to hang, with the green bar along the bottom freezing after the "usb connected" noise plays; but if I unplug the usb I get an error, so I know the application didn't crash. I don't know if I'm letting go of the contact, or even if I'm doing it correctly because almost all pictures of the TP method are gone. I also don't know how long the S1tool TP procedure should take, and I've (or I think) held the contact for 15 minutes without any prompt or change in the program.
I don't know what to do now, or does this simply imply a sealed fate? Is it just not possible for me to unlock my bootloader?
I really need to partition my storage and ram but apparently can't without an unlocked bootloader.
(wrote all this with on-screen keyboard, sorry about errors/confusion)
Any help is deeply and sincerely appreciated!!
Thanks Again,
From a Newbie

haha I didn't think anyone would be in the same boat as me, let alone within the same year
I've been scouring the web for probably a good 5 hours on this and I'm stuck right where you are. By some miracle, I was able to find all the files I need for CM9, the flash tools, Gapps, and etc.
I also was able to get it rooted, and in dt674's guide I'm stuck on step 15. Fastboot recognizes my device and all the files but when I try to send the recoveryPLAY.img it returns the "FAILED" error and tells me that it has to be rooted first... Even though it already is rooted... I would assume it would have to do something with the bootloader still being locked, and like you, the Sony website didn't accept my MEID code for not being entirely numerical... If I find anything else out though I'll keep in touch.

I'm in the same boat as you guys... Managed to get my R800X rooted by flashing to 2.3.3 then using the oneclick method, but I've got the same issue with the bootloader and the numerical MEID.
Honestly given the Xplay's age I think we're pretty much SOL and too late to the party when trying to look for support on this device. Most of the ROM links are dead, and the more supported/popular ones are for the GSM models, and the ones that still have their files hosted require an unlocked bootloader at that. Unless one of you guys has a magical solution for why our MEID's are messed up I'm stuck on 2.3.3 for now. At least I can still sideload mostly everything I need.

Yeah I'm pretty sure zzkoto is right lol. Just too damn old haha, so we're SOL.
I have reached out to the developer site support though, and I'm trying to get them to investigate the problem regardless. I've only gotten one email back in...a two month time period about? So we'll see what happens. Apparently they updated their site and fixed the problem... but it's still broke for me. Will post if I get any juicy details from them, or they email me about any fixes with the MEID errors on the site.

LADS, so they HAVE fixed their website, it's just at a new URL, and they haven't decommissioned the old one yet for some reason, which can be found in this very hyperlink.
And it works great, I got my code after inputting my MEID, shoved that into an ADB string and ka-blammo it's unlocked no problem.
Now I'm running LuPuS Kernal with CM9, but now I'm hitting a brick wall where the darn Wifi won't even bother to turn on (when it did with stock before) which I guess is a problem with R800x and the Play in general... Back to the drawing board lol.... Think I'm gonna scrap the CM9... Anyone Come across any good Kernal/Rom combos that make the Xperia Play a lean mean Emulation Machine? I'm feeling some classic PS1 MGS lately...

Alright here's one last update, just in case y'all have the same problem as me with Wifi.
I went back to stock 2.3.4 and my recovery Kernal, and Wifi worked again, so I decided to try something different. Installed DoomLords 2.3.3 Kernal v01 (the only download that worked on that page). Then after booting into recovery, I restored into Cola v6. After that I installed DoomLords wifi modules zip in CWM and boom wifi works again, and Play works completely as intended. Only hang up now is that the Android Market won't let me download anything because it's so old, but It's easy to get the apk's on my other phone and move and install them. Other than that it's incredible. Happy hacking y'all.

Great find on that bootloader fix mate, I'll have to look into that and getting some custom ROMs/kernals installed.
For the market not working, Google discontinued support for the old Android Marketplace services or something back in early 2017. But if you install the latest 2.3 compatible version of the Google Play Store, Google services should be back up and running with modern-ish apps.
Here's the link: https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-play-store/google-play-store-6-2-02-release/

Yo I figured it was something like that haha but I was overthinking it way too much. Thanks for the link to the Market, now I'm gonna go ham and get ALLL the emulators lol. Retro games here I come!

Advice needed - dead Z5 premium Dual E6883

Hi
So I woke up this morning early for some reason and saw that my charging phone was off (no dimmed clock) and the notification light was a constant red.
Obviously I tried several reboots and safe boots but no joy. Installed the latest Xperia companion on my laptop but when I connect the phone its not recognised, unless I try the option to repair then the notification light flashes between red and green before staying green and then a popup message appears on Xperia companion stating that the phone is locked with instructions on how to unlock it (if it were working), etc. After about thirty seconds or so it reverts back to the constant red light so I assume that the connection to the software times out.
I have tried a long 6/8 hour charge but that hasn't helped (something to try that I read somewhere).
The only constant is when I power up the phone the notification light flashes slowly five times red, then the red light stays on constantly until I hard reset again.
I have not been able to find out anywhere what this five slow blink error notification means so was hoping someone could tell me.
The only thing that had happened before this event was that for the past few weeks every now and then it would reboot itself several times randomly so I deleted apps to free up internal space.
Any factual pointers would be very helpful.
Many thanks

Sounds like it is soft bricked. I assume that you are totally stock (not rooted, no recovery). If this is true, I think the easiest thing to do is to 1) download Flashtool; 2) through Xperifirm (integrated into latest version of Flashtool), download a factory .ftf file for your unit (single sim vs dual sim); 3) ensure all needed drivers are installed on your computer; and 4) flash the new factory ROM.
Further, to be better prepared if this should ever happen again, download the flash the rooted .ftf file from the most popular post in this section ([FTF][Android 7.1.1][ROOT][R/W][32.4.A.1.54] E68xx + Patched Kernels (Google Drive). Then you'll be rooted and have a TWRP recovery that can be used to much more easily cope with bricked situations. Good luck!

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Sounds like it is soft bricked. I assume that you are totally stock (not rooted, no recovery). If this is true, I think the easiest thing to do is to 1) download Flashtool; 2) through Xperifirm (integrated into latest version of Flashtool), download a factory .ftf file for your unit (single sim vs dual sim); 3) ensure all needed drivers are installed on your computer; and 4) flash the new factory ROM.
Further, to be better prepared if this should ever happen again, download the flash the rooted .ftf file from the most popular post in this section ([FTF][Android 7.1.1][ROOT][R/W][32.4.A.1.54] E68xx + Patched Kernels (Google Drive). Then you'll be rooted and have a TWRP recovery that can be used to much more easily cope with bricked situations. Good luck!
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Many thanks for your reply wicozani! It's very much appreciated! I actually thought it was something along the lines that you mentioned as I had a feeling that the issue occurred because an app updated and the internal memory filled up to the pint where the phone can no longer operate. (I have too many apps installed).
You are correct in assuming that my phone is completely stock as I've never bothered with any modifying, etc.
Funnily enough, during my research the most useful advice I've seen was a YouTube explanation/guide and they used Xperifirm so I've had a look at the website to familiarise myself.
One question, what drivers should be be looking for, where would I install them on my pc and at what point would they be used in the flashing process - I've not seen this mentioned at all anywhere before?
And thanks for the tip for future proofing - I've already had a look at that post to try to make sense of it.
Many thanks.

DANORAK said:
Many thanks for your reply wicozani! It's very much appreciated! I actually thought it was something along the lines that you mentioned as I had a feeling that the issue occurred because an app updated and the internal memory filled up to the pint where the phone can no longer operate. (I have too many apps installed).
You are correct in assuming that my phone is completely stock as I've never bothered with any modifying, etc.
Funnily enough, during my research the most useful advice I've seen was a YouTube explanation/guide and they used Xperifirm so I've had a look at the website to familiarise myself.
One question, what drivers should be be looking for, where would I install them on my pc and at what point would they be used in the flashing process - I've not seen this mentioned at all anywhere before?
And thanks for the tip for future proofing - I've already had a look at that post to try to make sense of it.
Many thanks.
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I used that link to root my Z5P for the first time last year. One must follow the directions exactly. Then, you'll be on a base ROM that you can easily flash Joel's LOS 14.1 ROM over the top. It is awesome to have my 5-year phone now featuring an Android Security Patch Level of April 5, 2020! Both Xposed Installer and Substratum are working like a charm. If you want to install Magisk, be sure to uncheck "zip-verified file" (or something like that), and it will install fine. I had several instances of failing to install Magisk until i wised up and unchecked the zip-verified signature box. Good luck!