Killed the Sony M2 Aqua... soft keyboard...
So, I sorta thought that I had got this phone to encrypt itself, but it didn't. So I was trying again last night, and it finally did it. But then, after it said 100%, now when it boots, the keyboard app dies and I can't enter my unlock password.
But that's not all of it yet - I can get it to go into fastboot and flash modes, but because I disabled some things in developer mode settings (to secure it) I can't now flash the bastid. When I try to flash it, it just reboots itself and goes back to the encryption unlock screen and tells me the keyboard doesn't work.
So now I have something to 'amuse' myself with over the next day or two. I am not used to these sony devices and they don't give you access to the fastboot or recovery menu, so there is no way to make it do a factory reset, either. And of course, finding good, useful information about it is a nightmare. I suppose xda probably will have a solution somewhere in there, but now I have to find it.
I have thought of the idea of finding someone with a usb keyboard and an otg cable so I can unlock the phone and enable the developer mode shit. Well, we'll see
Update
Fortunately, there was a way to get it to work. The FlashTool just needed to be let to do the setup stuff, with the new/old 4.4 rom selected, it 'prepares' it, and then brings up an instruction screen how to get it to switch to flash mode. Then it reflashes.
To be honest, I miss lollipop, I am going to upgrade it directly this time. Benefits of having it rooted have been dubious at best, and since I reflashed it many apps have been forgetting their configurations, the steemfest app was not showing its data on the display...
CYANOGEN FRICKIN MOD! 13!!1
Well, for a change after much doom and horror, I found there was a cyanogenmod 13 image that supposedly should work with a Sony M2 device. I installed it. It ran. I b0rked it fiddling with trying to get the recovery back to install the Gapps zip. So I reflashed, re-enabled all the dev powers, dug around and found the right boot.img file, flashed it again in fastboot, then after a couple of false starts with the wrong file, I got it working, and this time I scheduled TWRP to flash CM13 and then Gapps. Now, 100% back up and running, it even remembered all my apps and redownloaded, reinstalled (maybe they even have configs as I had them)...
So there will be a post coming soon to show off the pretty CM13. w00t
Rough bud, the sonys are locked up tighter than a nun's *%$#!
Volume up and power held should give you recovery
yeah, nope. bootloader locked or unlocked, same nothing (it just reboots). Something to keep me entertained ;)
I have an sony z2, the wiki says volume up and power, but I have to hold both volume buttons and power to get it to go into the bootloader. Thankfully the z2 just sits by the fan and mines monero now. I couldn't stand using that sony phone
mines monero??? yeah, volume-down and power is fastboot, volume-up is flashmode.
I like this little m2 aqua, it's not that bad actually, best overall in terms of hardware and software that I have owned in some years. It handles the tumbles and if I could get the bits, it would be fully waterproof, it has a lanyard loop hole (so many new phones don't have this essential feature)... The only thing that sucks about it is that it is old, 900mb of ram, dual core processor, it struggles a bit with new apps.
I use the minergate mobile app on spare android devices. Heats them right up though. Id only do it with phones and tablets you don't care about
du har bra ide
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