Sony Flashtool allows flashing and updating the Android firmware on your Sony smartphones manually.
For Sony Flashtool to work, you just need the FTF file of your firmware and you can flash it easily on the phone.
For the past few years, the tool has been getting consistent updates with all the new Android firmware rolling out. The Android Nougat update for Sony smartphones just started rolling out and right before the updates began, a new version of Sony Flashtool also landed in. The new version 0.9.23.0 of Sony Flashtool supports Android Nougat FTF files.
This means you can now obtain the FTF files of Nougat firmware and flash them using the Sony Flashtool.
Flashing Nougat FTF files wasn’t possible on the previous versions of the Sony Flashtool.Apart from flashing the Nougat update, Sony Flashtool can now backup TA partition by making the use of dirtycow exploit by rayman. The USB log parser is more accurate now. Here’s the change log.
C4 and C5 users please do not flash using Flashtool. It will brick the device. M5 users please do use FSC when flashing or it will brick your device.
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