Sony Ericsson A8i hard reset

Before you buy a new cell phone or new tablet, please try the following procedure to repair your device. First charge your battery, backup your important data if possible and in most cases take out SIM and SD card. It is impossible to recover your data after doing a hard reset, so online backup is always important. For all of your data, a backup should be done on an external device, hard drive, raid system or media.

the hard reset the phone will reinstall the software included.

Note: Backup the files that you want to keep, before you perform a hard reset. You can backup files via a computer or a memory card.

firmware update with PC companion software

Download PC companion and install

PC Companion software A8i firmware update

Install PC companion on your PC computer. Follow instruction. For firmware update you need a micro USB cable. When the pc recognizing your XPERIA Ray it will install the necessary driver files.

After your XPERIA Ray connected press Start / in Support Zone

A8i firmware update

You can also use Sony Ericsson update service tool

X10 update service tool

PC Suite is out of date use PC companion software instead

If nothing works: As last resort do a Sony Ericsson phone repaire with PC Suite. Use this method to hard reset AFTER INSTALLATION----> TOOLS > PHONE REPAIR

Sony Ericsson phone repaire pc suite tools
http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/support/softwaredownloads/detailed/pcsuite/aino?cc=gb&lc=en

Sony Ericsson phone repaire pc suite tools

www.hard-reset.com

firmware update with PC companion software