Unlocking Bootloader on Xperia Z3 compact

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@petefoth

OR you are not running fastboot in the same directory as you downloaded the recovery image. In which case, you should either cd to the directory containing the downloaded files before running fastboot flash recovery ... or copy the downloaded files to your current working directory.

Hope that helps

Yes, thank you. That worked. At least I hope so. Each of those commands took about a second to execute, and then the screen went gray until I held the volume up and power together.

@chrisrg

Now boot up the recovery that you have just flashed by holding vol down and power button until phone vibrates: let it boot into recovery.

What worked was holding volume up with the power button.

@chrisrg

Plug the phone back in again.

Is this in fastboot mode or normal mode?

@aleam

If this worked fine, you will boot into recovery. If the recovery.img that you flashed was /e/ recovery (downloaded from dev), enter in the option (with the volume keys) “factory reset” and do the format data, cache and system.

I am trying all different combonations of power button and volume up/down. Nothing gives me the option to factory reset.