Oct 26, 2014 This app downloads and flashes TWRP CWM or Philz recovery for Xperia. Recovery on your Xperia. To install TWRP on my Xperia V. In the dialog box which opens, select CWM 5 (ClockworkMod 5) and click on OK. The installation begins and when Flashtool shows “Recovery successfully installed”, it is finished. In this way you can easily install ClockworkMod Recovery on Sony Xperia X8, X10 and X10 Mini/Pro.

Install a Custom Recovery Image on any Xperia Device with RecoverX Sony’s Xperia devices are hugely popular and have a pretty substantial amount of developer support here on XDA. Of course if you intend to start flashing any of the available custom ROMs and kernels, you will need a custom recovery. Cue XDA Forum Member and his tool, RecoverX. RecoverX is a tool for Windows that allows you to install a custom recovery on any Xperia device quickly and easily. In the words of LEDelete: You just have to launch RecoverX, enter “install” and select your device, the recovery you want to install and RecoverX does the rest, it’s that simple.

This is useful for those who may be new to flashing, and are unsure of which recovery image to use and the relevant installation procedure. Obviously it’s always still a good idea to learn how to do these things manually, but who doesn’t like to make things easy once in a while? The tool is currently capable of installing CWM 5.0.2.7, CWM 3.2.0.0 (for X8), and xRecovery (for X8). The developer states that if you would like to see a recovery of your choice made compatible with the RecoverX, he’d be happy to hear from you and see what he can do.

If you have an Xperia device that’s crying out for a custom recovery, head on over to the original. Update – Links now fixed, sorry about that folks.

Before you start, battery level should above 60%, you should understand this installation could make your phone out of work if you don’t do it right, and all of your personal data, applications, sms, contacts, settings will be lost after you make a Full Wipe (Factory Reset), if you want to keep your data, use any backup applications to save your important stuff first. Download custom rom As all the custom roms for Xperia X8 / W8 are based on CyanogenMod 7 (latest Android 2.3.7), the install method is the same, but there are some different features between these custom rom, so you need to find out the one you like the most. I have try, and, it is hard to say which one is the best, but I like the Gingerbread default style, and I’d like to keep the system lightly and clean, so Personally, I always choose the kuyaDROID, I have write some posts about it, the latest is here:. PS: kuyaDROID for Xperia X8 is now updated to v4.3.233, you can see the screen shot of v4.3.233 in the, if you like the orange style, you can download the, but I recommend you the v3.2.209, it is more stable, you can download the last kuyaDROID v3.2.209 and, it is default style look, and better than the v3.2.175. PS: the latest kuyadroid is v4.5.4 (Jan.

2012), downlink updated at the end of the post. Another reason I choose kuyaDROID is that it support updating via xRecovery, I don’t like the CWM Recovery, it is complicated, and this installation guide is based on xRecovery. Install xRecovery. First thing you need to install is the xRecovery, a third party Recovery application, it can boot up the phone without enter main system, and manager the system data. – How to install xRecovery on X8 / W8? First, You need this software: FlashTool,.

Now create a new folder at the root of your driver C:, for example, “C:/flashtool/”, then extract the files to this new folder. Why driver C:? Because FlashTool require the JDK(Java Development Kit) to run in other file location, some said put FlashTool in driver C: can avoid this problem, but I am not sure about that, as I have already installed JDK. Now open the “X10FlashTool.exe” for a test, wait for a while, it takes a few minutes. If you can not get FlashTool to run, you can. If you have succeed to run FlashTool, you should see this window: All right, now connect your X8 / W8 to PC with the USB cable, no need to select any usb mode on your phone, then open the FlashTool, waiting for FlashTool communicate with the phone, you should see the successful message about E15i or E16i in the window.

If you have not root your phone, then click the “Root” button, your phone will automatic reboot one time, then it will be rooted, that is easy, and you should see a application named superuser in the app list, Don’t pull out the USB cable. If you get your X8 / W8 rooted, now click the “Ask Root Perms” button in FlashTool, then pick up your phone, tap on the allow button.

All right, now we can install the xRecovery, click the “xRecovery” button, FlashTool will transfer files to your phone, then a message “xRecovery successfully installed” will show up in FlashTool, you succeed. You also need to install the JIT, click the “Optimize” button, your phone will automatic reboot one time. PS: If you are using W8 E16i with stock firmware and your phone is rooted, and you don’t have xRecovery, here is other method to install xRecovery: this guide is about Install xRecovery on W8 stock firmware and your W8 is ROOTED!!, if you have not rooted it, do the root job first. X8 users who wants to install xRecovery should follow step 2-B above. Download the xRecovery files in this thread:. Don’t just follow the guide in that thread, it is missing a important step. Copy files (xrecovery.tar, chargemon, busybox, charger) to SD card.

Copy those files to “/system/bin/” with root explorer. Very Important!, Set All Those Four Files’ Permission to: rwxr-xr-x, remember, there are “xrecovery.tar”, “chargemon”, “busybox” and “charger”. Long press on the file, select “permission” on the menu. Set it like this: V V V V V V V Double check everything before you reboot the phone, because it may let your phone stuck on sony logo! Back up everything before you reboot your phone! XRecovery should work after reboot. I found this method by this thread: it seems the default xRecovery in FlashTool is not working in stock W8(E16i) firmware.

Copy custom rom update file to SD card. Copy the zip file you download at the step 1 to your SD card, make sure it is the one you want to install. OK, everything is ready, you get 75% process complete. Ford 555c Backhoe Parts Manual. Now disconnect the phone with your PC, power off your phone, press the power button, then repeatedly press the “back” key after the white “SONY” text show up. Your phone will enter xRecovery, top line of the screen shows “FreeXperia X8 Recovery 001”.

Now be careful, don’t press the “home” key if you do not know what is going on. Back up your current system.

Use the volume up and volume down key to move the highlight option, use Home key to select the option, use Back key to Return. Now follow this to back up your current system to the SD card, “Back up and restore” ->“Back up”, this may take over 3 minutes, wait for the process to complete. Then press Back key to return to the main menu. Wipe your X8 / W8 and install custom rom.

Now select the “Factory Reset (full wipe)” to clear user data, then enter “Instal custom zip”, enter “choose custom zip from sdcard”, volume key move your selection, find out the custom rom zip file, and press Home key, the installation process will start, wait for 3 minutes when it shows “install from sdcard complete”, press Back key to return to top menu, select “Reboot the phone”, now enjoy your brand new custom rom. PS: If you fail to update your Xperia X8 / W8, you can simply enter xRecovery, select “Backup and Restore”, select “Restore”, restore the whole system you backup before. Update: [stucked on Sony ericsson logo?] Just remember, if your phone vibrated when you power it on, it can be fixed by recover the system, it not a hardware issue. If your phone is stucked on Sony ericsson logo,. [] Too late to know kuyadroid is updated his rom to v4.5.4, much more smooth and stable, anybody wants to install it can be download here:.

Changelog is on. [] Download X8 015 baseband (fix baseband error): [] New download link for [] update download link: if the downlink does not work for you, you can visit to convert the multiupload link to several network disk links, one of them should work.

Copy the download link and submit it, see my screen shot. Hi guys, here is lot of stuff to share with u about my w8 E16i. First i installed xrecovery by method first given by charlie it works fine.

I installed flashtool and pc companion(or gorden gate exe file which is in drivers folder of flashtool), connected my phone then clicked on ”Root” button my phone got rooted. Also clicked on ”Ask root permissions” then checked Allow on my phone 2. Then i clicked on ”xrecovery” option, then i clicked on ”optimise”. Here we got xrecovery installed on my phone.

During process my phone boot two to three times so don’t panic its required patience lot. I downloaded kuyadroid 3.2.209 in sdcard switched of my phone and switched on by pressing back button. First i backed up my current OS(2.1) and full wiped the data and tried to install above custom rom but i got baseband error. So i downloaded baseband file of x8 26.6 mb. I installed flashtool put the above baseband file (.ftf file) to firmware folder and installed flashtool.exe file with above mentioned gorden gate file. Then i clicked on flash button and then OK button.

Unplugged and Switched of my phone and by clicking back button (without swiching on the phone) plugged the cable it flashed the baseband on my mobile, switched on my phone with pressing back button, In xrecovry full wiped the data and installed custom zip from SD card 3.2.209 of kuyadroid 3.2.209 and rebooted my phone and got this rom installed this is best rom i ever seen its stable and fully working. That’s all i have to share with all you. In all above process it’s conclued that you have to patience in entire process, it is so easy and simple!!!! Any question then email me at ”ajinkyajagtap2010@gmail.com” thanks and have a nice updated gingerbread w8!!!!!!!!!!! Hey Naresh, here is link for flashtool: update baseband: ( after rooting the phone) extract 7z file to desktop, then put baseband file ( ) to firmware folder and install the torrent gate. Exe file from driver folder.

Run flashtool exe change language to English from menus click on flash and then ok. Disconnect and Switch off phone then by pressing and holding back button (without switching on the phone) connect USB it start flashing baseband. Switch on phone go to xrecovery by pressing back button and install kuyadroid. Hi guys, here is lot of stuff to share with u about my w8 E16i.

First i installed xrecovery by method first given by charlie it works fine. I installed flashtool and pc companion(or gorden gate exe file which is in drivers folder of flashtool), connected my phone then clicked on ”Root” button my phone got rooted. Also clicked on ”Ask root permissions” then checked Allow on my phone 2. Then i clicked on ”xrecovery” option, then i clicked on ”optimise”. Here we got xrecovery installed on my phone.

During process my phone boot two to three times so don’t panic its required patience lot. I downloaded kuyadroid 3.2.209 and 4.3.233 in sdcard switched of my phone and switched on by pressing back button. First i backed up my current OS(2.1) and full wiped the data and tried to install above custom rom but i got baseband error. After that i downloaded gingerdx v29 and gingerxperia v22 they got installed fine but they are not so stable to me. So i downloaded baseband file of x8 26.6 mb. I installed flashtool put the above baseband file (.ftf file) to firmware folder and installed flashtool.exe file with above mentioned gorden gate file. Then i clicked on flash button and then OK button.

Unplugged and Switched of my phone and by clicking back button (without swiching on the phone) plugged the cable it flashed the baseband on my mobile, switched on my phone by pressing back button, In xrecovry full wiped the data and installed custom zip of kuyadroid 3. Latitude D400 Video Driver Windows 7 on this page. 2.209 and rebooted my phone and got this rom installed this is best rom i ever seen its stable and fully working. That’s all i have to share with all you. In all above process it’s conclued that you have to patience in entire process, it is so easy and simple!!!!

Any question then email me at ”ajinkyajagtap2010@gmail.com” thanks and have a nice updated gingerbread w8!!!!!!!!!!! Guys, help me out here please.

I followed all the steps but gave wrong permissions to the 3 files. Now my phone is stuck on the white Sony Ericsson logo loop. I tried the PC companion method for recovery (the one Charles mentioned in one of the posts above). PC companion says that a Sony Ericsson phone has been detected and says to click on mount USB from the drop down menu on the phone. The problem is that there is no display on the phone when connected to the PC. Any help would be much appreciated.

Hi, I have successfully installed KuyaDroid on my SE W8. I followed the steps given by Charles and at the last step I was stuck with the “This baseband is not compatible with this ROM. Update to baseband: M76XX-TSNCJOLYM-53404015 first” error.

I already had this base band version on my phone, I also re-installed the base band using the “repair” link in my PC Companion. But it did not help.

I went through the entire comments section to find the link to download the 015 firmware which is required to overcome the above error. I downloaded the firmware file from the URL given by charles (.) and placed it into the “firmware” folder(this is a sub-folder found at the location where you have the flash tool.exe) of the “flash tool”. Connected my phone and flashed it with the firmware file that i downloaded. After flashing, I disconnected the phone, rebooted the phone. During start up I entered XRecovery (by pressing BACK button after pressing the POWER ON button). Now i did a “Factory Reset (full wipe)” and then “choose custom zip from sdcard”.

This time it worked. I got the message that the installation is complete. I rebooted the phone and i has KuyaDroid in my machine. I did a full wipe. Updated X8 baseband given by you. Then installed kuyaDroid v3.2.209. Rebooted and its getting stuck at the logo.

I removed battery and powered on again – repeated 4 times and each time getting stuck at the logo. I had to come to office today and hence I restored my phone back with xRecovery and now my phone is as before. But I desperately want to try custom roms like kuyaDroid. BTW, here’s another thing that happened, when I first tried to install xRecovery, my FileExpert couldn’t overwrite the xrecovery.tar and other files to system.bin, it was showing operation failed.

SO I tried xRecovery from the flash tool itself and it worked. Mentioning it here just to make sure that, it isn’t a problem due to that. I haven’t waited for 4 minutes maybe, but it looked like it got stuck. The turtle logo will be animating in the beginning and it gets kind of stuck without any animations.

I’ll try once again and wait for more time. Will post here if it works. Another doubt I had was in kuyaDroid ROM page, they mentioned we need CWM recovery for versions from 2.6.xxx and above. And I guess for GingerDX we need CWM recovery. If I want to try more ROMS, can I uninstall xRecovery and install CWM? And if I did that can I install kuyaDroid with it?? Just curious 🙂 •.

I am not charles.hhhh but don’t warry, I had a same problem as u when I going to install CWM, but u can get your original 2.1 back, but only u can it do if u backup your system before with xrecovery. (if u have a backup file on PC, copy it to ur xrecover/backup/ folder on sdcard.) put sd card to phone and swich on, when u see the sony Ericsson logo, press back button repeatly and goto xrecovery menu. Then goto goto and select ur restore file and restore it if it compete, reboot ur phone:-D •. I am not charles.hhhh but don’t warry, I had a same problem as u when I going to install CWM, but u can get your original 2.1 back, but only u can it do if u backup your system before with xrecovery. (if u have a backup file on PC, copy it to ur xrecover/backup/ folder on sdcard.) put sd card to phone and swich on, when u see the sony Ericsson logo, press back button repeatly and goto xrecovery menu.

Then goto goto and select ur restore file and restore it if it compete, reboot ur phone:-D sorry for the bad english;-) •. I am not charles.hhhh but don’t warry, I had a same problem as u when I going to install CWM, but u can get your original 2.1 back, but only u can it do if u backup your system before with xrecovery. (if u have a backup file on PC, copy it to ur xrecover/backup/ folder on sdcard.) put sd card to phone and swich on, when u see the sony Ericsson logo, press back button repeatly and goto xrecovery menu. Then goto -backup and restore- goto -restore- and select ur restore file and restore it if it complete, reboot ur phone:-D sorry for bad english.;-) •.

Hey charles, I think your way about install xrecovery to too hard to understand. I used a simple way intall it to my X8 (but I am not a ginius about it) do this download these file to ur phone 1. Xrecovery 0.1.zip 2.

Root explore.apk make a folder in sdcard and name it “xrecovery” extract zip to that folder install root explore.apk to ur phone, and open it, browse xrecovery folder. (there is a 3 file) copy one file and go back, go to system/bin folder in root, mount R/W and past it (after mount R/W, we don’t need to make permission) do this to other 2 files, remember to do it “ONE BY ONE” now ur x8 have a xrecover.;-) I think charles know this way, it is easy. I hope you have back up your data, you can repair the system by try this method: 1.Install the PC Companion (if not installed), open it. 2.Remove the battery, wait a few seconds then put it back, make sure the phone doesn’t power on by itself.

3.Hold the back key, now connect the phone to your PC with the usb cable, continue holding the back key, don’t turn on the phone. 4.Wait a few minutes for the system install new hardware click the “update” button on PC Companion, it will ask you to repair the phone system.

5.Follow the installation guide. Hey man, I can’t seem to copy the xrecovery.tar, busybox, charger files from my SD to my systems/bin, I’m using W8 and root explorer. At first, i was getting that read only error. So i clicked on the “Remount as R/W”, bypassed the read only error, BUT, I can’t seem to find those 3 files on my systems/bin, I have tried Root Explorer, File Expert, ASTRO, and Root Browser, I still can’t see those three files on my system/bin.

Although for the chargemon file, File Expert prompted me to overwrite an existing one, so I did, still no luck. Oh and BTW, every time I tried copying those files with diff root browsers, I reboot my phone and try to access xRecovery, and as you can see, I still can’t, that’s why I’m asking, no, I’m begging for your help •. OK, if you are still the stock firmware, try this method: 1. Download the xRecovery files in this thread:. Don’t just follow the guide in that thread, it is missing a important step. Copy files (xrecovery.tar, chargemon, busybox, charger) to SD card.

Copy this files to “/system/bin/” with root explorer. Set all those four files’ permission to: rwxr-xr-x long press on the file, select “permission” on the menu. Set it like this: V V V V V V V Double check everything before you reboot the phone, because it may let your phone stuck on sony logo! XRecovery should work after reboot.

I found this method by this thread: it seems the default xRecovery in FlashTool is not working in stock W8(E16i) firmware.