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  Flashtool is one of the most useful pieces of third-party software to help upgrade/downgrade or change regional firmware for Sony Xperia devices. Developer Androxyde has updated the utility to version 0.9.25.0 which adds support for 2018 Sony Xperia handsets, including the Xperia XZ2 and XA2 range.    A word of warning if you already have existing FTF firmware files though, they will not work in this latest version of Flashtool. You will need to recreate the FTF firmware file with version 0.9.25.0 of Flashtool. You can download the latest version of Flashtool here .   Do you Know about Flashtool? Click Here .

Flashtool is a S1 flashing software that works for all Sony phones from X10 to Xperia Z Ultra. They all use the S1 protocol for flashing firmwares. This program was originally made to flash sin files downloaded by SEUS or PCC. Based on a command line tool written by Bin4ry (Andreas Makris), I brought a user interface to sin files flashing. We worked together to add more features to the tool such as rooting methods implementation or TA backup / restore Then I took the lead and got some advice and help from him occasionally on some features like rom cleaner or bootloader unlocking. From time to time, sin files have been bundled into what is now well known FTF (Flash Tool Firmwares) and more features have been implemented. But flashing firmwares is still the core of Flashtool (that is updated at least to follow Sony improvements around sin files) and the reason of its name. Flashtool can also easily unlock the bootloader of the phone using the...