Click on the Flash button (the one with a lightning symbol in the toolbar of the application).ġ2. The indicator LED, near the micro USB port on the phone, will show a green color.ġ1. Once that is over, keep the Back button on the phone pressed, and connect the USB data cable. Wait for the application to sync devices from Github.ġ0. Now start the FlashTool utility from the Windows "Start" menu.ĩ. DO NOT SWITCH IT ON OR PRESS ANY BUTTON.Ĩ. Insert both a sim card, and an SD card.ħ. Power off the device by pulling out the battery.Ħ.
FASTBOOT DRIVER XPERIA RAY SOFTWARE
You Exit Sony PC Companion and any other Flashing software if you have them open / running in the background.ĥ. Install the Flashtool utility by opening the downloaded installation file.Ĥ. įirmware for LT18i (LT18i_4.1.B.0.587_Generic Global World.ftf - 379MB - hosted on Google Drive): ģ. Download the flashtool utility and the firmware from:įlashtool Utility: Download the Windows version from. The flashtool works great on Windows 7.Ģ. Keep it charging for around 1 hour or more - that should give it enough juice to live through this.ġ. Else, you might end up bricking the phone irreversibly. Make sure your phone battery has enough charge to complete the flashing process. Given the currently useless state, that seems a pretty good bargain. Note that this will wipe all your data - this does a factory reset to the phone. Thanks to Androxyde's Flash Tool (we now have the following working method to fix this. None of the normal stock methods seem to be able to fix this - hard resetting / recovery mode / PC Companion mode /. One of the biggest problems is that the phone enters a 'bootloop' (reboots, after some delay turning the screen on, shows a black screen with the Sony logo, and a bit later, another screen with the Xperia logo, and then restarts, and this keeps happening again and again until you pull out the battery to power it off).
FASTBOOT DRIVER XPERIA RAY UPDATE
The last available software update (Build number 4.1.B.0.587) is based on Android 4.0.4, and works good except for a few critical bugs that the unsupported users now have to live with. The only sadness is that the item is out of support - both on the software as well as hardware sides, primarily because Sony and Ericsson parted ways. The Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S LT18i, an excellent phone of its times, is still a pretty decent phone to live with with all that Sony goodness in it.