newflasher.1

.TH NEWFLASHER 1
.SH NAME
Newflasher \- Flash firmware to Sony Xperia phones
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B cd firmware-dir && newflasher
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
This experimental software allows you to flash firmwares acquired
through XperiFirm to Sony Xperia phones including and newer than
the XZ Premium.
.SH CAUTION
.PP
Newflasher was made for testing and educational purposes.  The author
is not responsible for what you do on/with your device using
Newflasher.  You must agree that you are using Newflasher on your own
risk.  The author is not responsible if you brick your device or
anything else!
.SH USAGE
.TP
Optional step 1 (Windows only):
If you have missing flash driver just double click exe and confirm
driver extraction, small executable will become available, double click
it and install driver.
.TP
Optional step 2:
This step is optional but recommended: Dump the trim
area.  Trim area contain per device unique units which keep device config,
sim lock, sim lock hash, so in case of hard brick it is recommend to have backup!
Without those backup getting out of hard brick without those backup is impossible.
Do in mind if you hard brick your phone this doesn't mean you will be abble to get
out of hard brick, an hardware tool will be need, even having hardware tool doesn't
guarante success.
.TP
Step 1:
Download the right firmware for your device using XperiFirm tool and
change into the firmware dir created by XperiFirm tool.  Before you run
Newflasher, do keep in mind that the Newflasher tool is programed to
flash everything found in the same dir!  So the tool flashes all .ta
files, all .sin files, boot delivery (whole boot folder),
partition.zip, in short all files found in the directory!  If you do no
want to flash something, just move file which you do no want to flash
OUT OF THE FOLDER!  Partition.zip and .sin files can be flashed only if
you extract partition.zip into newly created folder called partition!
.TP
Step 2:
To start flashing phone put your phone into flash mode, run Newflasher
and wait, wait, wait, until your device gets flashed, thats it.  Look
into log to see if something goes wrong!  If all right you are done.
If not post your log so I can look!  Happy flashing!
.SH FEEDBACK
Don't forget to report your opinion, sucess, reports, logs, and so on.
Your suggestions are welcome!
.PP
.I https://forum.xda-developers.com/crossdevice-dev/sony/progress-newflasher-xperia-command-line-t3619426
.PP
.I https://github.com/newflasher/newflasher/issues
.SH AUTHOR
Mujeni
.SH CREDITS
.PP
Without @tanipat and his pc companion debug logs this tool will never
be possible!  Thank you a lot for your time providing me logs!  (By
the influence of others, he was disappointed me with last post, but I
still appreciate his help and can't forget it.)
.PP
Without @thrash001 who helped testing our tool I never be continue
building our tool since I don't have device for testing, thanks mate!
.PP
Didn't forgot @beenoliu, thanks mate for testing!
.PP
Thanks to @porphyry for testing linux version!
.PP
Thanks to @Snow_Basinger for providing sniff log from 2018 device and
for testing on his 2018 device.
.PP
Thanks to @frantisheq for testing Newflasher on his 2018 device and
for notify about doublefree bug.
.PP
Thanks to @serajr for providing me some logs which helped me to figure
out some things related to 2018 devices.
.PP
Thanks to @noelex for helping in Xperia 1 implementation.
.PP
Thanks to GitHub member RedL0tus for testing on Mac.