This experimental software allows you to flash firmwares acquired through XperiFirm to Sony phones including and newer than the XZ Premium.
- Place the newflasher executable into the firmware folder (usually created by XperiFirm)
- Run Newflasher. Everything inside the folder will be flashed, so remember to remove files you don't want on your device beforehand.
Install development versions of zlib
and expat
. On Debian-based systems such as Mint and Ubuntu, this means:
sudo apt-get install libexpat-dev libz-dev
Download, build and install, assuming that ~/bin
is in $PATH
:
git clone https://github.com/newflasher/newflasher.git ~/.local/share/newflasher
make -C ~/.local/share/newflasher
ln -s ../.local/share/newflasher/newflasher ~/bin
make newflasher.[exe/x64/i386/arm32/arm64]
, exe referring to a Windows build, the rest being for Linux and Android.