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[Q] Xperia Bricked after update-Already flashed. Help!

Hello there. I recently bought an unlocked Xperia Play from Ebuyer. I then rooted it successfully. But the problem is, my phone automatically updated itself one morning, causing it to be bricked. As I have already flashed the phone before I knew how to do it, but this time when I press the power button, my phone only vibrates once and nothing else happens, and only when I keep pressing the power button it just keeps vibrating.
When the USB cable is connected to my laptop, the phone has a Green light if that is of any help to you.
Thank you in advance. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
---Another problem I seem to be experiencing is the main drivers for the phone appearing as "Flash Device" but on my main computer it was seen as Android. Sadly, my power supply for my main PC failed (Not having much luck, am I?) and I can only use this laptop. Do you possibly have drivers for my XPeria Play for Windows 7 64 bit that would see my phone as Android? Or, could it be because my phone is bricked that it's only being seen as a Flash Device.

Ah... don't worry, it happened to me too not so long ago, it can be fixed. What you gotta do is relock your bootloader so it unbricks itself, while loosing root. Search here in the forums for something called Blagus Relock Bootloader Script. That green light you see there, that indicates your device is either fully charged, or it is in flash/recovery mode. Make sure to enter that mode before doing anything with it by holding the BACK buttoj (NOT the search button) while plugging in the USB cable to the phone. Search for the script I said before using fastboot or flashtool, I don't remember quite well. I'm new here so I can't give you the link, but good luck anyways! This will fix the problem, just re-unlock the bootloader again and you'll be fine. BEWARE, though, if you flash a new custom ROM after that, you will break the baseband/radio. You MUST re-flash a new, updated 2.3.4 firmware for you R800i/a/x/etc, DON'T use a generic from UK if your phone isn't from UK, and use US version if yours actually from America. I believe there's a difference but I did use first "generic" UK 2.3.3, then it bricked, relocked the bootloader, and flashed an updates firmware, totally generic, 2.3.4 that was made specifically for R800i and showed up differently than the other in flashtool. It has a new screenshot function which was pretty awesome, which wasn't my case since I was flashing CM7. Good luck!
EDIT: I usually hate doing this on forums, but since I'm new and my post does actually help I must say FIRST! I'm so happy right now

I have the same problem with my daughter's Play.
However it is originally an unlocked phone bought in Singapore. No rooting, no custom kernals, no nothing. It is original.
After installing the Firmware through PC Companion, she got the instruction to unplug the phone, remove and reinsert the battery and power up.
The Play vibrated once when the power button was pressed and then nothing....
I subsequently tried reflashing again with Flashtool but no difference. I see the .sin being flashed in but the same thing happened on power up... vibrate once and then nothing...
Any suggestions? Help?

How do you check if the phone is set to receive over the air updates automatically?
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[Q] Damaged my Xperia Play ...Please help me out...!!

I had recently flashed my phone with a custom rom (I do that all the time, when a new rom comes up, for testing) But because battery drain issues with custom roms, i decided to go back to the stock firmware, so i flashed my rom with the ver 4.0.1.A.0.283_(1247-6212). When i connected my phone to my wifi network it showed, a new update that was available i.e 4.0.1.A.0.42 ver. so i downloaded it via wifi and when it started installing the update, my phone suddenly switched off. And nw it wont turn on...I tried flashing it again, the flashing process successfully completes but still the phone wont switch on. When i press the power button it just vibrates for short time and a green light (flashing light) flashes on and off. The fone wont enter into fastboot mode. when i plug it to the usb the green light glow even if i dont press the back button.... what do i do...
any help would be appreciated ...thank you in advance.

Did you unlock the bootloader? You cannot update OTA with it.
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yes the bootloader is unlocked..

i wonder if your phone can be resurrected by Alejandrissimo

That's what happens when you don't follow instructions.. There are many, many warnings all over these forums about OTA causing problems with an unlocked bootloader.
Sent from a Galaxy far, far away

Did u try to fix the problem with Flashtool (flashing a stock rom on ur phone)

Yeah...I'ld be really carefull the next time....Can be repaired or i'll have to find a SE service center.. ??

Yeah ....flashing completes ... but it doesn't start, Does the same thing ....when i press the power button it just vibrates...

Try to flash a new kernel on it with a guided Tutoril...u will find one here or try to boot the RecoveryPLAY.img with fastboot too

I cant enter the fastboot mode....if i press the search button and plug the usb nothing happens for sometime and the fone enters the flash mode. so i guess that i'll have to recover the boot ...i guess its corrupted...

now i have the ultimate solution...relock the bootloader again, then flash a stock rom on it...it will work fine again!!
Link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1134334
A stock rom u can find here!

Nope doesnt work ..

For some minutes i ****ed up my old device...i tested it...it works!

Hey i fixed it...
For any future reference if a ur phone dies refer this thread...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1126358
Use this tool to fix your bricked(dead) Xperia Play
http://www.multiupload.nl/Q103V01CV1
Thanks for all the reply...
thread Closed ...

Works!
Thank you! My phone is up and running again

[Q] Help with boot loop and drivers

Hello XDA,
I have used your services in the past but this time I'm stuck. Usually I had better luck just using the search function for what I needed but this time I can't seem to find what I need so this is my first post. Yes i basically I troll
Anywho, my ion is stuck in a boot loop (barely gets to the home screen and freezes then repeats that over and over and over) and when I hold the volume down plus power button, I get the green light which I read is flash mode, my problem is when I try to start the flash process I get a warning that says "must install drivers first".
How can I do that with the phone being in a boot loop and it won't sit long enough for the computer to recognize the phone and download the necessary drivers?? It seems like the computer only wants to download drivers when it's on and not in flash mode.
Currently I did what I'm assuming is a hard reset. Held the volume down and power button past the 3 vibrations then I had to let the phone sit for 16+ hours charging. The red light turned on eventually and it has finally turned off again. I think it is ready to be flashed except I'm not sure what to do.
I purchased the phone second hand and it has already been upgraded to ICS 4.0.4 I believe and it had a lot of junk on it. All I want to do is wipe the hard drive (and all its content) and install a fresh copy of ICS 4.0 and just get it back to factory.
Thanks for helping out this confused troll
Oh just in case your wondering, I was deleting apps and the previous owners email accounts when it crashed and thats when it went into a boot loop. Thanks again for your help I really do appreciate it.

The drivers are in the flashtool folder, /flashtool/drivers. Run the exe. Select your model & fastboot & flashmode drivers. Then keep trying it should get recognized and then flash. However it may take several attempts
Good luck
~Jaramie
Sent from my ION

ToledoJab said:
The drivers are in the flashtool folder, /flashtool/drivers. Run the exe. Select your model & fastboot & flashmode drivers. Then keep trying it should get recognized and then flash. However it may take several attempts
Good luck
~Jaramie
Sent from my ION
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I'm doing something wrong I think because I'm not finding what your referring to...
I opened the flash tool and even tried running it as administrator-clicked on help - check drivers - and all I get is ( list of ADBLOCK drivers/none, List of fast boot devices - none)
Even under firmware selections all I see under devices is the x10/ version - v1/ branding - blrelock. I seen screenshots under firmware and there is usually a list but for some reason mine doesn't have that. I downloaded the .ftf file so technically it should work right? Or am I missing something here??

ToledoJab said:
The drivers are in the flashtool folder, /flashtool/drivers. Run the exe. Select your model & fastboot & flashmode drivers. Then keep trying it should get recognized and then flash. However it may take several attempts
Good luck
~Jaramie
Sent from my ION
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Never mind!! I think I just found what you were talking about!! Thank you!!!!!!!! I'll keep you posted....

Please ask all questions in Q&A. Thread moved there.

need help with my bricked xperia play r800a

first, I will explain my phone condition.
from off power. If I try to turn on by holding power button, I can feel it vibrates as normal when it turn on to boot up. But for my xplay, its screen show nothing and it seem that the screen does not turn on at all. Then if I plug it to pc from this condition, the pc will ring detect device sound and unplug device sound and detect device sound and unplug device sound, repeat and repeat forever. So I have to pull off battery to turn the phone off. But flash mode and fastboot still work with flashtool.( as you all know plug usb with back button and search button)
what I have done so far to solve this is :
- I have tried to flash stock rom R800_4.0.2.A.0.79 and r800a_2.3.3_US Generic via flashtool in flash mode. flashing is complete but my xplay still remain unbootable.
- flash doomkernel via fastboot with flashtool. process complete but again, problem is not solved.
any help ?

So let me get this straight, you flashed a firmware and your phone is still unbootable and just has a black screen? hmm strange.. Have you tried Sony PC Companion?

Xplay21 said:
So let me get this straight, you flashed a firmware and your phone is still unbootable and just has a black screen? hmm strange.. Have you tried Sony PC Companion?
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PC can not recognize my device just as I told on the thread that PC ring the sound of detect and remove, detect and remove on and on...........

still wait for solution.
so quiet.......

kokcona said:
still wait for solution.
so quiet.......
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I'm sorry no one could help you out as of yet, this issue does seem quite rare so we can expect why you haven't gotten any help and sorry bout that. I would probably flash the different types of firmware and see if theres any hope there, or you can send your phone to repair and that should be your last to resort solution.

When did this happen and how? Such things do not happen without a history, we need to know what you did/tried before to see if we can fix it!
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Remove phone and insert it then hold back button(or search button i dunno, but don't turn it on) until the power button shows blue light(or green) and insert the usb cable into the computer. You must tick the two box when flashing stock rom. Check No final verifications and Reset Customizations. Are you trying to use stock rom with doom kernel?
I had this problem too.

Have you tried flashing different Kernels and ROMs?

Bin4ry said:
When did this happen and how? Such things do not happen without a history, we need to know what you did/tried before to see if we can fix it!
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I had used several custom rom before, the last custom rom is something with lupus kernel (sorry I cannot remember its name). At that time, I have many problem about performance such as when I got a call (the phone start to ring and vibrate) the screen won't show anything, I have to wait for several second before screen show up and I can recieve the call.
One day during on a trip, I designed to turn the phone off and pull out sim card. and used my friend's iphone4 during the trip. When I back home. I tried to start my xplay again. But the phone won't start anymore, it become the state as I mention in this thread.

ryanperez said:
Remove phone and insert it then hold back button(or search button i dunno, but don't turn it on) until the power button shows blue light(or green) and insert the usb cable into the computer. You must tick the two box when flashing stock rom. Check No final verifications and Reset Customizations. Are you trying to use stock rom with doom kernel?
I had this problem too.
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I have not tried 'No final verifications and reset customizations' yet. So I will tried this when I got my phone back.
ps. I sent it to sony service center last week. Yesterday, they call me that it is hardware failure, and they don't have spare part. But I think they just cannot figture it out what is the problem and don't want to bother with old phone. So I call it back. still wait it to be back in my hand.

kokcona said:
I have not tried 'No final verifications and reset customizations' yet. So I will tried this when I got my phone back.
ps. I sent it to sony service center last week. Yesterday, they call me that it is hardware failure, and they don't have spare part. But I think they just cannot figture it out what is the problem and don't want to bother with old phone. So I call it back. still wait it to be back in my hand.
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Atleast good news for you, i just read your answer and have to tell you that i have no idea too sorry ... Maybe it is really hardware failure.
Regards

[HELP] Bricked (?) Xperia S

Hello everyone!
I opened this thread because my current situation seems different from ones I found on this forum, but if you think otherwise please direct me to links that I might need. Before I start with explaining please have in mind that I am quite newbie to anything regarding Android platform and consequently my actions might not have been the smartest ones there. So let me start: I think i hard bricked my Xperia S. I had my Xperia running ROM 1252-0023_6.2.B.1.96_GENERIC-user that i found on this forum. It was a temporary solution, I wanted to put a stock ROM and was about to flash another stock ROM before that. While flashing with flashtool an error occurred (unfortunately I didn't save log file) that had to do something with system.sin . Anyways, my phone is atm unable to turn on, I do not have recovery and I can't even connect it to flashtool (flashtool does not recognize my phone, pressing volume down and connecting to PC doesn't do anything). Only response that I get from my phone is from holding volume up and power button at the same time (it vibrates once, then 3 times).
LONG STORY SHORT: does anyone have any suggestion what can I do with phone that probably has no recovery, can't be turned on and flashtool seems not to recognize it? Thx in advance, I will provide more info on my phone if needed.

blade415 said:
Hello everyone!
I opened this thread because my current situation seems different from ones I found on this forum, but if you think otherwise please direct me to links that I might need. Before I start with explaining please have in mind that I am quite newbie to anything regarding Android platform and consequently my actions might not have been the smartest ones there. So let me start: I think i hard bricked my Xperia S. I had my Xperia running ROM 1252-0023_6.2.B.1.96_GENERIC-user that i found on this forum. It was a temporary solution, I wanted to put a stock ROM and was about to flash another stock ROM before that. While flashing with flashtool an error occurred (unfortunately I didn't save log file) that had to do something with system.sin . Anyways, my phone is atm unable to turn on, I do not have recovery and I can't even connect it to flashtool (flashtool does not recognize my phone, pressing volume down and connecting to PC doesn't do anything). Only response that I get from my phone is from holding volume up and power button at the same time (it vibrates once, then 3 times).
LONG STORY SHORT: does anyone have any suggestion what can I do with phone that probably has no recovery, can't be turned on and flashtool seems not to recognize it? Thx in advance, I will provide more info on my phone if needed.
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Try the rubber band trick from here.

Ur xperia s is working noww?
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