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It wont boot up .... Help!!!

Ok after my sony ericsson xperia play did the software upgrade while on the charger, it will not boot back up!!
Not sure what happend, but when you press the power button, it only vibrates once but will not boot back up!
It just shows a black screen!!!!
I have sent it in to the shop and we are stuck as to how to get it on.
You can not even get into the boot loader screen!
Its been a week, and i don't know what the hell to do!!!
Some one please help!!!!

Does the power button light up green when you hold down the search button while plugging into a computer? If so, use flashtool to flash back to the stock firmware

Yes it dose, the tech guy and me have tried to do so, however the computer sees the device but dose not know what it is, however even when the files are finished it sitll dose not boot up!

jacklebott said:
Does the power button light up green when you hold down the search button while plugging into a computer? If so, use flashtool to flash back to the stock firmware
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If it lights up green then you cant get into fastboot, it should light up blue, if im not mistaken!
Is your phone Rooted, with BL Unlocked, and do you have CWM Recovery? You said you can not get into Bootload screen? Did you mean Recovery? Try pushing volume down repeatedly while pressing the power button, continue hitting volume down till you see the recovery screen. If you can get into recovery just do a nandroid recovery/restore, provided you did a back up prior to your issue.

It dose not light up blue, but it dose not go into the recovery screen at all, in fact when you press the power button, gives a small vibrate and the screen is still black!
Also when you put it on the charger the LED light is green, really frustrated.
However, I am new at this, like I said only had the device for a day, and this happened after I did a software update, so I am not sure what a CWM means, kindly clarify, think of giving instructions not just to a newbie, but to some one that has no clue what is going on! LOL sorry man I really am new to all of this, I just want it to work, so kindly provide me with step by step instructions that you would give to a five year old child.

Hmm... that's interesting. A CWM is a custom recovery. Green light when plugged in means its charging. It sounds almost like your phones LCD is not receiving a signal anymore, if that's the case, seeing as you wouldn't see anything on the screen in order to even do a recovery, I don't see a lot of options here. If its brand new, then its under warranty, take it back and exchange it.
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This has nothing to do with your LCD =|.
It's sony's stupid software bricking the xperia play for no valid reason ; happened to me as well.
Only fix is to download Sony Ericsson Update Service and keep on retrying the software update after it fails ; This is not the Sony Ericsson Pc Suite ; Also try removing the battery for 30 seconds after 6-8 retries on SEUS - happened to me a few times after the original occurence since i was trying to get back to complete stock.

Thanks for the input, I was lost on how to help out on this one! I thought it was only bricking the rooted unlocked phones.
XperianceIT
sent from my Xplay R800X, using XDA App!

Thanks, so I need to use the update app from Sony Ericsson?
I will try it, however would it work after I flashed it ?
I did a few times and it took the flash files, yet still wont boot up.

XperianceIT said:
If it lights up green then you cant get into fastboot, it should light up blue, if im not mistaken!
Is your phone Rooted, with BL Unlocked, and do you have CWM Recovery? You said you can not get into Bootload screen? Did you mean Recovery? Try pushing volume down repeatedly while pressing the power button, continue hitting volume down till you see the recovery screen. If you can get into recovery just do a nandroid recovery/restore, provided you did a back up prior to your issue.
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I wasn't trying to get him to use fastboot (blue light), I was saying to go into flash mode (green light)

Its still not booting up and the pc is now saying it dose not recognise my device!!
What to do????

As long as you can get into flash mode(green light, when you connect to pc) you're ok, wel re trying on seus and eventually it will work
Edit- it can take around 10 retries in my experience
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Nabeel_Nabs said:
As long as you can get into flash mode(green light, when you connect to pc) you're ok, wel re trying on seus and eventually it will work
Edit- it can take around 10 retries in my experience
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What do you mean by flash mode????
How do I connect my device to the PC since the PC is saying that the USB device connected is not recognised?

djskittel said:
What do you mean by flash mode????
How do I connect my device to the PC since the PC is saying that the USB device connected is not recognised?
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Connect it to your PC with USB, Then go to support Zone in Pc Companion then select Phone software update and click Repair and follow the instructions, it worked for me when pc companion decided to brick me...
EDIT: Or you could always Flash 2.3.4, tut here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20151540 just follow the first two posts, I believe it will work if Flashmode is still working (The tut will tell you how to get into there)
correct me if I have said anything wrong, was in a rush.

djskittel said:
What do you mean by flash mode????
How do I connect my device to the PC since the PC is saying that the USB device connected is not recognised?
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When you connect the phone to the pc does the led stay green, if it does that's called flash mode , keep.on tryimg seus to flash the phine, this is not included in pc companion and is separate software
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This happened to me to, so you are saying I should use SEUS to update over and over until it works?
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Nabeel_Nabs said:
As long as you can get into flash mode(green light, when you connect to pc) you're ok, wel re trying on seus and eventually it will work
Edit- it can take around 10 retries in my experience
Sent from my R800i using XDA App
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Should I do an update or the reset and update option in SEUS?

[Q] HELP!!!! Xperia Play R800i- wont turn on!!!!

Hey guys, my xperia play R800i wont boot. what happened was I was trying to flash original firmware through flash tool and then I get an error on flashtool and it says below "device disconnected" so im like what the heck. ill give it another go, right. but then when I go and plug it back into the computer while holding the back button the LED doesnt go green instead it flashes red, three times. and the computer shows it up as an unrecognized device. I cant to a repair through PC companion and I am not able to flash through flash tool, any ideas?
ps. it is locked boot loader and it says :bootloader unlock allowed: no
if that is any help.

Put your device on charge or wait a while. A suggestion that may work
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I left it on charge for eight hours straight and still the same result

Have you tried taking battery out for a few seconds then putting it back and try to turn it back on charger.
R800x-unlocked/ Aokp-m6/ 4.0.4

Lordomn said:
Have you tried taking battery out for a few seconds then putting it back and try to turn it back on charger.
R800x-unlocked/ Aokp-m6/ 4.0.4
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Yes, still no luck. I have tried everything. I am waiting to get a reply back from someone who can do it. I get my HTC Incredible S back in 2 weeks anyway, it just means that I dont have a phone.

NevErSn0w said:
Yes, still no luck. I have tried everything. I am waiting to get a reply back from someone who can do it. I get my HTC Incredible S back in 2 weeks anyway, it just means that I dont have a phone.
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Is it booting upto se logo???
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sorry but mine doesnt show the logo,when you press the on button it just blinks,3 times
i need assistance ASAP

It means insufficient charge you will need a different phone capable of charging it and charge it to 100% i know cuz it happened to me
Sent from my GBTweaked v7.1 r800x using Tapatalk 2

Try pressing the power button along with some other button to switch it on. Weird, but worked for me once on my x10 mini. in that phone, power + home worked for me twice

NevErSn0w said:
Hey guys, my xperia play R800i wont boot. what happened was I was trying to flash original firmware through flash tool and then I get an error on flashtool and it says below "device disconnected" so im like what the heck. ill give it another go, right. but then when I go and plug it back into the computer while holding the back button the LED doesnt go green instead it flashes red, three times. and the computer shows it up as an unrecognized device. I cant to a repair through PC companion and I am not able to flash through flash tool, any ideas?
ps. it is locked boot loader and it says :bootloader unlock allowed: no
if that is any help.
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just simply charge the phone then after a minute, slide the d-pad and I don't understand why it will turn on and it will work just fine..

Help asap please!!
Hi,
I am in the same situation here. I tried to flash my xperia play using flashtool with a "ftf'" for the r800a. Because it was initally flashed to r800i. The flash ended fine, but the phone wont start, it is not allowing me to flash it agai because for my pc the device is disconnected and it is not charging. I am really desesperated. Any ideas?!? I had already installed the drivers for the ZEUS flash and for my phone!
Thanks

[Q]R800i wont turn on! red light blinking 3 times.
My Xperia play(R800i) wont turn on after i update. I change from 2.3.4 to 2.3.3 to root my phone. After rooting, i update the software. It turns off by itself. I dont know what to do. When i pressed the on button it will blink red light 3 times. When i charged my phone, the light turns green. Green light means battery fully charged right? but why i still cant turn on my phone?
Bootloader: unlock
Root: Yes
Please help! its my new phone. Thank you!

you should not have updated your phone that way... looks like you semi bricked it... get in touch with Alejandrissimo whether it be on here or on his site... he should be able to fix it.

freewzeme hawk said:
My Xperia play(R800i) wont turn on after i update. I change from 2.3.4 to 2.3.3 to root my phone. After rooting, i update the software. It turns off by itself. I dont know what to do. When i pressed the on button it will blink red light 3 times. When i charged my phone, the light turns green. Green light means battery fully charged right? but why i still cant turn on my phone?
Bootloader: unlock
Root: Yes
Please help! its my new phone. Thank you!
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If you have updated phone using seus or pc companion then relock bootloader and flash ftf using flashtool then unlock bootloader Or if you used flashtool then you have broken .ta so contact alejandressimo
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Change battery !!

[Q] R800i completely bricked?

Hello dear readers and great XDA members,
Last summer I unlocked the bootloader of my Xperia Play R800i with the testpoint method. Everything worked fine: I installed CWM and loaded a FreeXperia version of CyanogenMod 9.1.
A couple of days ago, I wanted to finally update my ROM to a newer version since there had been so many releases since last summer. I loaded the new ROM and everything worked fine. However, some of the problems I hoped would've been solved by the update, weren't solved at all, especially the video capturing and panorama pictures. So I decided it maybe would be better to flash a new kernel.
I searched for a kernel, but couldn't find anything I liked. Then, I can't remember where, someone posted the "boot.img" files included in the FreeXperia CM9 ROM zip packages were kernel releases. So I decided to use flashtool and flash the boot.img as a new kernel.
This obviously didn't work and I tried some others. By the way: I couldn't boot into ClockWorkMod anymore since I tried to flash a new kernel. Only fastboot and flashmode would work.
I couldn't remember which kernel I used last summer, so I wandered the internet and eventually found that an X10 kernel was included in Flashtool. I though I remembered something about X10 from last summer, so I decided to stupidly flash that kernel to my Xperia Play.
After this flash completed, my phone doesn't respond to anything anymore. Following a list of things I tried (everytime after I tried something, I removed the USB cable and the battery to make sure the Xperia Play was turned off):
- When I press and hold the power button, nothing happens, not even the small vibrate always felt when the phone starts.
- Getting into fastboot mode doesn't work anymore (I tried with holding the search button and connecting USB, as well as some other buttons, nothing worked.)
- Getting into flashmode doesn't work either.
- No matter what I do, the phone won't give me a sign it's still alive. (no LED, no vibrate, no screen, nothing.)
- I tried the Sony Update Service, but that obviously doesn't recognize the phone
- Flashtool doesn't recognize the phone either.
- ADB doesn't recognize the phone of course.
- s1tool (the tool I used for the TestPoint bootloader unlock) recognizes I plug something in, but then gives an error it can't get access to it.
- I charged the battery overnight and tried all of the above again... still nothing works...
- When I plug in the phone to the PC, my PC recognizes something plugged in, but with the name QHSUSB_DLOAD in Device Manager.
(by the way: I am using Windows 8 Pro x64)
Is this phone completely dead or is there any way it can be saved? I was planning on keeping this phone at least until the end of 2013 or begin of 2014 before upgrading... An immediate upgrade is not in my budget and for now I have returned to my Nokia 5530 on Symbian, but that's nothing compared to Android :'(
Thank you very much in advance... I really hope someone can save my poor phone. I know I have been stupid, but I think I somehow panicked when I couldn't get the phone back into CWM and stupidly flashed the X10... Stupid stupid me.

Well I always update to the latest working kernel when I flash a new rom. The one working currently for me is fxp152 kernel.
Have you tried with battery, holding the search button, plug it in, then hold the Power button while still holding search.
Contact Alejandrissimo, he can probably help you.
Sent from R800at

eksasol said:
Well I always update to the latest working kernel when I flash a new rom. The one working currently for me is fxp152 kernel.
Have you tried with battery, holding the search button, plug it in, then hold the Power button while still holding search.
Contact Alejandrissimo, he can probably help you.
Sent from R800at
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Thank you for the response! Where do you find these kernels? Are those boot.img files included with fxp zip files the kernel images?
I hadn't tried to hold the power button after holding search button + plugging it in, but it doesn't work either
I will probably contact Alejandrissimo in a couple of days if I can't solve it myself or if nobody else can help me solve it...
Thank you!

same boat
ThirtyOne34 said:
Thank you for the response! Where do you find these kernels? Are those boot.img files included with fxp zip files the kernel images?
I hadn't tried to hold the power button after holding search button + plugging it in, but it doesn't work either
I will probably contact Alejandrissimo in a couple of days if I can't solve it myself or if nobody else can help me solve it...
Thank you!
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Hi, i have the exact same problem. Is there anything that can be done ... phone is totally dead, and everything is the exact same as you mentioned..
thanks
Tommy

try this it works
tommyforest123 said:
Hi, i have the exact same problem. Is there anything that can be done ... phone is totally dead, and everything is the exact same as you mentioned..
thanks
Tommy
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Pull the battery out put it in close the cover plug usb then hold power button and flashtool from androxide should detect it.

Qshusb error
Hi,
Can anyone help. Basically my phone is hard bricked. No logo, no flashmode or fastboot recovery. Totally dead. When i connect to pc - I get QSHUSB DLOAD error, the pc wont recognise my phone. I have tried flashtools but, I cant enter into flashmode ( holding down back while connecting usb...I know how to fix it if i can get my phone back into a softbrick.( getting the sony logo - being able to enter flashmode )..anybody have any ideas please. I have searched online for days with no answer. Xperia play 1 week old running 2.3.4. - i tried to install ics 4.0.4 gamer rom but pressed the flash x10 rom in flashtools by mistake ...

Rmontoya83 said:
Pull the battery out put it in close the cover plug usb then hold power button and flashtool from androxide should detect it.
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You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. i have read you say this over and over again and yet it doesn't work. you need to press back not power.

tommyforest123 said:
Hi, i have the exact same problem. Is there anything that can be done ... phone is totally dead, and everything is the exact same as you mentioned..
thanks
Tommy
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tommyforest123 said:
Hi,
Can anyone help. Basically my phone is hard bricked. No logo, no flashmode or fastboot recovery. Totally dead. When i connect to pc - I get QSHUSB DLOAD error, the pc wont recognise my phone. I have tried flashtools but, I cant enter into flashmode ( holding down back while connecting usb...I know how to fix it if i can get my phone back into a softbrick.( getting the sony logo - being able to enter flashmode )..anybody have any ideas please. I have searched online for days with no answer. Xperia play 1 week old running 2.3.4. - i tried to install ics 4.0.4 gamer rom but pressed the flash x10 rom in flashtools by mistake ...
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Hi Tommy,
I am very sorry for my late response. I haven't fixed my phone yet, but I fear only a hardware flash would work... I think I am going to try to get my phone back to the store where I bought it and I hope they'll fix it. If they don't, I will try to find someone who can hardware flash or ask Allejandrissimo (an Xperia bricked devices expert, it seems...)
I hope you will get your phone to work again! (And please let me know how you did it if you succeed). I will keep you updated if there is any progress. I am very busy at the moment though, so I don't know when I can get my phone back to the store. In the meantime, I have also bought a used Galaxy Nexus...
Greetings,
Sven
EDIT: I think I also accidentally flashed the X10 rom or kernel in the flashtool...

Could be easily fixed by flashtool, tried the same (flashing x10) and phone looked dead. The I toke the battery out and placed it back. Then I could enter flashmode and flash a stock ftf.
Sent from my LT22i using xda app-developers app

nickholtus said:
Could be easily fixed by flashtool, tried the same (flashing x10) and phone looked dead. The I toke the battery out and placed it back. Then I could enter flashmode and flash a stock ftf.
Sent from my LT22i using xda app-developers app
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Well, the problem is we can't enter flashmode or fastboot... Really no life to it...
But thanks for the input!

hi guys, ive rooted n unlock boot loader for my friend xperia PLAY with android 2.3.3 stok, after 2days he update his phone to 2.3.4..... now his phone did not reboot.. i can not set the phone to fastboot, only flashboot... then i try to falsh ftf.. when i try to reboot, only vibrate but no screen boot n green LED on the start button...can anybody help??.. sorry for my english..

ThirtyOne34 said:
Hello dear readers and great XDA members,
Last summer I unlocked the bootloader of my Xperia Play R800i with the testpoint method. Everything worked fine: I installed CWM and loaded a FreeXperia version of CyanogenMod 9.1.
A couple of days ago, I wanted to finally update my ROM to a newer version since there had been so many releases since last summer. I loaded the new ROM and everything worked fine. However, some of the problems I hoped would've been solved by the update, weren't solved at all, especially the video capturing and panorama pictures. So I decided it maybe would be better to flash a new kernel.
I searched for a kernel, but couldn't find anything I liked. Then, I can't remember where, someone posted the "boot.img" files included in the FreeXperia CM9 ROM zip packages were kernel releases. So I decided to use flashtool and flash the boot.img as a new kernel.
This obviously didn't work and I tried some others. By the way: I couldn't boot into ClockWorkMod anymore since I tried to flash a new kernel. Only fastboot and flashmode would work.
I couldn't remember which kernel I used last summer, so I wandered the internet and eventually found that an X10 kernel was included in Flashtool. I though I remembered something about X10 from last summer, so I decided to stupidly flash that kernel to my Xperia Play.
After this flash completed, my phone doesn't respond to anything anymore. Following a list of things I tried (everytime after I tried something, I removed the USB cable and the battery to make sure the Xperia Play was turned off):
- When I press and hold the power button, nothing happens, not even the small vibrate always felt when the phone starts.
- Getting into fastboot mode doesn't work anymore (I tried with holding the search button and connecting USB, as well as some other buttons, nothing worked.)
- Getting into flashmode doesn't work either.
- No matter what I do, the phone won't give me a sign it's still alive. (no LED, no vibrate, no screen, nothing.)
- I tried the Sony Update Service, but that obviously doesn't recognize the phone
- Flashtool doesn't recognize the phone either.
- ADB doesn't recognize the phone of course.
- s1tool (the tool I used for the TestPoint bootloader unlock) recognizes I plug something in, but then gives an error it can't get access to it.
- I charged the battery overnight and tried all of the above again... still nothing works...
- When I plug in the phone to the PC, my PC recognizes something plugged in, but with the name QHSUSB_DLOAD in Device Manager.
(by the way: I am using Windows 8 Pro x64)
Is this phone completely dead or is there any way it can be saved? I was planning on keeping this phone at least until the end of 2013 or begin of 2014 before upgrading... An immediate upgrade is not in my budget and for now I have returned to my Nokia 5530 on Symbian, but that's nothing compared to Android :'(
Thank you very much in advance... I really hope someone can save my poor phone. I know I have been stupid, but I think I somehow panicked when I couldn't get the phone back into CWM and stupidly flashed the X10... Stupid stupid me.
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Maybe you still have a chance! Bcoz I think you have completely damaged ta files+ semcboot which can only be repaired by se toolbox 3 which requires credits(money)( I m assuming it'll detect phone bcoz s1 tool recognized it with error ) if you have it than you can repair it or you can contact alejandressimo on gtalk.
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creative_md said:
Maybe you still have a chance! Bcoz I think you have completely damaged ta files+ semcboot which can only be repaired by se toolbox 3 which requires credits(money)( I m assuming it'll detect phone bcoz s1 tool recognized it with error ) if you have it than you can repair it or you can contact alejandressimo on gtalk.
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Really?! I really hope it'll work. I have a Galaxy Nexus now, but I desperately need a Gingerbread for testing my apps again...
Thank you!

Finally some one who has fixed a bricked phone
nickholtus said:
Could be easily fixed by flashtool, tried the same (flashing x10) and phone looked dead. The I toke the battery out and placed it back. Then I could enter flashmode and flash a stock ftf.
Sent from my LT22i using xda app-developers app
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When you phone was dead after you put the battery in did you hold the power button then it went in to fast boot instead of holding thback button CORRECT? ²
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ThirtyOne34;38604501 01 said:
Really?! I really hope it'll work. I have a Galaxy Nexus now, but I desperately need a Gingerbread for testing my apps again...
Thank you![/QUOTE
Message me in myinbox and I will give you # so I can walk you through it. I have bricked my phone many time and a lot of people will tell you I'm wrong. But I'm right all I ask is that you reply to this tread and post that I know how to fix bricked phones.
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Hello I have the same your problem, are you by any chance managed to solve it? I have sent you to the sony center and have called irreparable ._. If it is true that Alejandro can fix it I wonder what may be the relevant industry professionals sony

Arbiterandrea said:
Hello I have the same your problem, are you by any chance managed to solve it? I have sent you to the sony center and have called irreparable ._. If it is true that Alejandro can fix it I wonder what may be the relevant industry professionals sony
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Hello Arbiterandrea,
I am very sorry tot report that I wasn't able to fix my Xperia Play. I sent my phone back to the online store I bought it from and it arrived there 1 day before my guarantee expired. When I got my phone back, it was a brand new one with a different serial number, no screen protector, not a scratch. And it was for free thanks to my guarantee, even though I bricked it myself. (I just told them "it suddenly stopped working")
If you've got any guarantee left, you could try that, but if I understand correctly you already tried that... Then I think you should contact Allejandrissimo, I've heard many good things about him. I didn't contact him myself, though.
Good luck! And let me know if you have fixed it?
Greetings
ThirtyOne34

[Q] Bootloop!

I recently got around to trying to get CM11 on my Xperia M. After following Sony's official instructions on their World developer siteon unlocking the bootloader, my phone induced a bootloop. I also suspect that fastboot isn't working, as volume down + usb plug in doesn't activate the characteristic blue LED on the phone's base... I'm really stumped. Any help would be much appreciated. Another question, since I have no idea whether the whole process worked or not, will I be able to send it in to service, in case the situation's rough?

NickTheBrick said:
I recently got around to trying to get CM11 on my Xperia M. After following Sony's official instructions on their World developer siteon unlocking the bootloader, my phone induced a bootloop. I also suspect that fastboot isn't working, as volume down + usb plug in doesn't activate the characteristic blue LED on the phone's base... I'm really stumped. Any help would be much appreciated. Another question, since I have no idea whether the whole process worked or not, will I be able to send it in to service, in case the situation's rough?
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So you were trying to use flashtool to revert your phone back to Stock... I guess the phone is now hardbricked :C Cause most of the time when people unlock their bootloader and did something wrong, the chance of reverting it back is incredibly low... I guess you should bring it back to where you bought it :C and not to mention entering fastboot is not working :C

I see, thanks anyway for your input mate!

NickTheBrick said:
I see, thanks anyway for your input mate!
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:good:

NickTheBrick said:
I recently got around to trying to get CM11 on my Xperia M. After following Sony's official instructions on their World developer siteon unlocking the bootloader, my phone induced a bootloop. I also suspect that fastboot isn't working, as volume down + usb plug in doesn't activate the characteristic blue LED on the phone's base... I'm really stumped. Any help would be much appreciated. Another question, since I have no idea whether the whole process worked or not, will I be able to send it in to service, in case the situation's rough?
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I knw is that having bootloop after following the instruction sony introduced is just normal. You can fix it by flasing the 4.3 ftf.
Volume down + power is not fastboot mode it is download mode. You can only see green led flash once.

NickTheBrick said:
I recently got around to trying to get CM11 on my Xperia M. After following Sony's official instructions on their World developer siteon unlocking the bootloader, my phone induced a bootloop. I also suspect that fastboot isn't working, as volume down + usb plug in doesn't activate the characteristic blue LED on the phone's base... I'm really stumped. Any help would be much appreciated. Another question, since I have no idea whether the whole process worked or not, will I be able to send it in to service, in case the situation's rough?
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Fastboot mode is volume up (+) and power.. Then plug usb make sure adb driver installed in your computer...
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fahrulridwan03 said:
Fastboot mode is volume up (+) and power.. Then plug usb make sure adb driver installed in your computer...
Sent from my C1905 using xda premium
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He mentioned that fastboot isn't working.. Read the post again.

AndyPhoenix9879 said:
He mentioned that fastboot isn't working.. Read the post again.
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actually he said that fastboot doesnt start when connecting usb + volume down. That combination does not start fastboot, it starts flashmode. Fastboot is activated while connecting usb + volume up.

Flashmode problem\flashing problem

Hey, my accidentally bricked my xperia s and now I'm trying to flash a stock kernel. Now phone is boot looping I can open flashmode without a problem while holding power button and volume down but the problem is that it restarts when flashing. All drivers are installed and device manager says that it's semc flash device. thanks fo any help. log here postimg.org/image/fju7lxrg3/

Just make sure you have sufficiently charged...while its turning on or you see boot animation or Sony logo press n hold power+volume up...then try to enter to flash mode

nageswarswain said:
Just make sure you have sufficiently charged...while its turning on or you see boot animation or Sony logo press n hold power+volume up...then try to enter to flash mode
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i had removed battery and charged it with an universal charger and i'm entering into flashmode without any problem just that my phone restarts when I start flashing.

Have you unlocked your boot loader

nageswarswain said:
Have you unlocked your boot loader
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yep i unlocked it. More ideas?

Flash doomlords kernel via fastboot....then reboot to system....if it will not boot successfully then push a ROM zip by adb push and flash it....one more thing just check whether your phone is connecting to PC via fastboot or flashmode.
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The best way to check is by flashtool...open flashtool software on PC and then connect your phone via fastboot/flashmode and see the status at PC flashtool....if its connecting then flash stock ftf and if not then 1st install drivers..

nageswarswain said:
Flash doomlords kernel via fastboot....then reboot to system....if it will not boot successfully then push a ROM zip by adb push and flash it....one more thing just check whether your phone is connecting to PC via fastboot or flashmode.
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The best way to check is by flashtool...open flashtool software on PC and then connect your phone via fastboot/flashmode and see the status at PC flashtool....if its connecting then flash stock ftf and if not then 1st install drivers..
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yep, now i broke my xperia s even more. It can't even boot properly i think now it has a hard brick. No lights, no signs of life but when connected to pc it shows something like QHSUSB_DLOAD, is it possible to fix it at home?

temorinkaari said:
yep, now i broke my xperia s even more. It can't even boot properly i think now it has a hard brick. No lights, no signs of life but when connected to pc it shows something like QHSUSB_DLOAD, is it possible to fix it at home?
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Is it charging or not?BTW what you have done?

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Is it charging or not?BTW what you have done?
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There was a red light while charging for an hour or so but after a while it disappeared and now im left with dead phone. I don't even know how it happened, i was on cmw recovery and i formatted something, after i restarted my phone it started being like this. I heard that it's possible to repair boot by software called S1tool but i can't find any information about doing this on xperia s.

temorinkaari said:
There was a red light while charging for an hour or so but after a while it disappeared and now im left with dead phone. I don't even know how it happened, i was on cmw recovery and i formatted something, after i restarted my phone it started being like this. I heard that it's possible to repair boot by software called S1tool but i can't find any information about doing this on xperia s.
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Have you tried to recover it with flashtool

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Have you tried to recover it with flashtool
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I'm not able to boot into flashmode and fastboot mode. I'm telling you that my boot is dead.

temorinkaari said:
I'm not able to boot into flashmode and fastboot mode. I'm telling you that my boot is dead.
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Then you need some more may be a JTag.....

temorinkaari said:
There was a red light while charging for an hour or so but after a while it disappeared and now im left with dead phone. I don't even know how it happened, i was on cmw recovery and i formatted something, after i restarted my phone it started being like this. I heard that it's possible to repair boot by software called S1tool but i can't find any information about doing this on xperia s.
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I'm not able to boot into flashmode and fastboot mode. I'm telling you that my boot is dead.
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As far as I know, it is not possible to wipe partition from CWM (if You selected from one of the options from menu) which would lead to hard brick.
Let us start with basics. Can You tell Me which kernel You flashed to get CWM? Also, is there any vibration when You press and hold power button and volume up key together?

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As far as I know, it is not possible to wipe partition from CWM (if You selected from one of the options from menu) which would lead to hard brick.
Let us start with basics. Can You tell Me which kernel You flashed to get CWM? Also, is there any vibration when You press and hold power button and volume up key together?
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Doomlord kernel and there is no vibration at all.

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Doomlord kernel and there is no vibration at all.
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Can You give Me link of the kernel You used, just to see if it has any problems. Also, for how long did You hold the combination? You need to hold it for at least 10 to 15 seconds.

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Can You give Me link of the kernel You used, just to see if it has any problems. Also, for how long did You hold the combination? You need to hold it for at least 10 to 15 seconds.
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forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2305591 this one. Yes i know how that combination works, no luck at all, no reaction. I'm still think that my boot is dead.

temorinkaari said:
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2305591 this one. Yes i know how that combination works, no luck at all, no reaction. I'm still think that my boot is dead.
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Huh, that kernel should have worked. I asked for the combination duration since many people make mistakes there. Since we are clear of that, did You try the rubber band trick from here? That trick sometimes takes more than a day to work.

Yep i did that and i tried many different ways to make it work.. no luck. i got annoyed and i sent it to the repairs today...