I'm running an Xperia Play R800a. I reciently rooted the phone (worked great). And then I began removing bloatware.
I made the mistakes of not backing up and not really looking into the things I was deleting. After I realized I messed up, I tried to do a factory reset of my phone.
This made matters worse as I just lost all my games, contacts, and everything else, and the firmware issues I had prior to the factory reset were still there.
I figure "Hey, I'll just load up new firmware". I downloaded the DooMLoRD Play zip for ICS, I followed the instructions to the que while doing this (Backed up, everything seemed to go smoothly), when I restarted my phone, the only thing that appears is the "Sony Ericsson" boot screen.
There is no LED on the power button, my computer recognizes something is plugged in when I plug it in, but not what it is. I cannot restart into CWM.
Is there any way I can fix this? Or did I essentially turn my phone into a useless hunk of plastic?
Please help.
You're alright if you can go into flash mode or connect to SEUS. Turn off the phone, hold the back key and plug it in, if the LED goes green youre golden, just follow this tutorial (with a Play .ftf of course)
http://www.theandroidsoul.com/tutorial-how-to-flash-a-firmware-using-flashtool-on-xperia-arc/
If not (and you've already tried SEUS) then this is your only option:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1322827
What you did was flash a ROM without its kernel. You need to have an unlocked bootloader in order to flash kernels.
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I'm on an R800x Verizon Xperia Play that I flashed to cricKet {but my phone flashing skills are neither here nor there with this issue} running 2.3.3 and an unlocked bootloader. I was listening to iHeartRadio and found that I couldn't unlock my phone after turning the screen on. I figured that the phone was being non-responsive, so I held the power button like I was going to turn it off, and it brought up the power off menu, but the digitizer still wasn't responding to my touch, so I did a battery pull. After turning it back on, it just sat at the Sony Ericsson logo for ten minutes. Figuring that it had something to do with some root changes I'd performed (font change, animation framework-res.apk customizations, new MMS.apk, build.prop changes, de-bloat, etc.), I booted up the latest Flashtool and flashed the 2.3.3 .ftf, but to no avail. I'm still stuck at the Sony Ericsson logo, and even after four re-flashes, I'm getting no change. Obviously, I can get into flashmode and fastboot, no recovery (CWM not installed), and no boot. It just won't proceed to the bootanimation like it should. I figure if it was a hardware failure, it wouldnt have stayed powered on and playing iHeartRadio, so I'm stumped. I don't get it. Somebody help. Any suggestions?
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I'm on an R800x Verizon Xperia Play that I flashed to cricKet {but my phone flashing skills are neither here nor there with this issue} running 2.3.3 and an unlocked bootloader. I was listening to iHeartRadio and found that I couldn't unlock my phone after turning the screen on. I figured that the phone was being non-responsive, so I held the power button like I was going to turn it off, and it brought up the power off menu, but the digitizer still wasn't responding to my touch, so I did a battery pull. After turning it back on, it just sat at the Sony Ericsson logo for ten minutes. Figuring that it had something to do with some root changes I'd performed (font change, animation framework-res.apk customizations, new MMS.apk, build.prop changes, de-bloat, etc.), I booted up the latest Flashtool and flashed the 2.3.3 .ftf, but to no avail. I'm still stuck at the Sony Ericsson logo, and even after four re-flashes, I'm getting no change. Obviously, I can get into flashmode and fastboot, no recovery (CWM not installed), and no boot. It just won't proceed to the bootanimation like it should. I figure if it was a hardware failure, it wouldnt have stayed powered on and playing iHeartRadio, so I'm stumped. I don't get it. Somebody help. Any suggestions?
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Wasnt able to download with flashtools myself. i downloaded sony pc companion 2.1. Go to support zone, then hit the link - **repair my phone** it downloads software to computer ( about 10 mins ) then after you choose the x play from the list - it asks to connect phone...only connect the phone at this stage...Bingo..hope works --
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Bump for any other suggestions/help. I'm willing to try anything at this point.
Try a new ftf or redownload yours it may be a bad download
sent from my Sony Ericsson Xperia Play™(r800x) Running Slimbean 3.0 using Tapatalk 2™
from what I've read from previous cricket users... if you didn't do a nandroid backup before you started flashing... you either have to flash the available ftf for cricket or go to your local shop & get them to flash their image to your phone... but I'm not too certain.
"We are the fire that will consume them, belly and bowel, head and heart, many flames of us, but one fire."
Been in the same boat.
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I'm on an R800x Verizon Xperia Play that I flashed to cricKet {but my phone flashing skills are neither here nor there with this issue} running 2.3.3 and an unlocked bootloader. I was listening to iHeartRadio and found that I couldn't unlock my phone after turning the screen on. I figured that the phone was being non-responsive, so I held the power button like I was going to turn it off, and it brought up the power off menu, but the digitizer still wasn't responding to my touch, so I did a battery pull. After turning it back on, it just sat at the Sony Ericsson logo for ten minutes. Figuring that it had something to do with some root changes I'd performed (font change, animation framework-res.apk customizations, new MMS.apk, build.prop changes, de-bloat, etc.), I booted up the latest Flashtool and flashed the 2.3.3 .ftf, but to no avail. I'm still stuck at the Sony Ericsson logo, and even after four re-flashes, I'm getting no change. Obviously, I can get into flashmode and fastboot, no recovery (CWM not installed), and no boot. It just won't proceed to the bootanimation like it should. I figure if it was a hardware failure, it wouldnt have stayed powered on and playing iHeartRadio, so I'm stumped. I don't get it. Somebody help. Any suggestions?
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Is your screen cracked or have a major scratch? If yes your digitizer is broke and needs to be replaced.
If no? Its software here is a fix.
The reason your stuck on the screen is simple. the screen you see is the bootloader it boots the system IMG. If it does not! that means their not talking to each other properly.
So in simple terms let's make them talk.
Google stock ftf,s xperia play on the Xda. next download them. next flash the UK version first you will get an Error and yes it will fail. But then flash the Verizon 2.3.3 3.0.1 version it should flash with no error if you do it second.
If you do it first it will fail i think their is files missing in the compile.
Next Google on the xda relock bootloader download the file and flash it too it should with no errors.
Now your phone should boot. Why you ask? Because you put the system back to what it was before you changed it.
Locked boot loader
Restored kernel
Restored system.
Now that its fixed. Unlock it and flash back to cricket and make sure you change you APN to get your MMS working again.
make sure and hit the thanks button .
I'm using a Verizon R800x with TurboKernel and (previously) TurboUI.
I wiped TurboUI to install a different ROM which turned out to be GSM, meaning I couldn't get signal, so I went to wipe that, as well. However, afterwards my phone would boot to 'SONY', then get a blank screen, before going black and rebooting again. It didn't respond to anything, until eventually I managed to get it into recovery mode. In TWRP recovery mode I wiped the cache, dalvik cache, etc. to clean up the messed up ROM.
Then, I went into the bootloader. However, this is where the real problem started. I can't stop getting the bootloader. I can't boot into flashmode to install different firmware, I can't boot into fastboot to install a different kernel, and installing a compatible ROM with the kernel just results in the same thing: it just goes into the bootloader.
Every boot, regardless of what I do, what I wipe, what I install, what I hold as I plug in the USB cable or whatever, I get the Turbo Kernel menu. Strangely enough, it consistently gives me the 'first time startup' message everytime it boots into it.
Worst of all is that Cosmic Dan has disabled PMs, closed the threads for all of his projects, deleted the mediafire links, and hasn't posted in over a month. I'm at a total loss; I can't flashmode or fastboot to change anything and I can't install a rom to just get my damn phone working again. I've never felt so clueless and helpless, I've been at this for hours.
EDIT: Just got Slimbean to install by going in via CWM and wiping/installing rather than TWRP; the system, yet again, reset TWRP settings and gave me the 'first time startup' message, but then booted into SlimBean no problem. My phone is working, but I want it back on Gingerbread, so not being able to fastboot/flashmode is still sort of a big problem.
EDIT 2: Tertiary problem, SlimBean has my phone recognized as an R800i rather than an R800x and as a result, most play store apps refuse to download as they're 'not supported on my phone', and the button configurations are messed up, so I can't even use the gamepad for emulators. In the event of never being able to solve this inability to flashmode/fastboot, is there a way to force it to recognize the phone as an R800x, perhaps by editing files in the root directory?
Check your build prop.... Change the model from r800i to r800x. That should help with that.
The phone does not need to be running in order to be put into fastboot/flashmode. Turn it off, hold the Back button (flashmode) or the Search button (fastboot) when plugging it into the USB cable. If you go into fastboot, the notification LED will be blue, for flashmode it will go green.
I actually have this same SlimBean setup (complete with the phone appearing as a r800i on the Play Store), but never had any problem reinstalling any of the apps I had on the phone previously. And this even includes the My Verizon Mobile app (which I have installed so I can find out the amount of data I've used as far as Verizon is concerned, since what they think is what affects the final phone bill in terms of whether I've gone over my limit or not ). Which apps are actually complaining about being incompatible that you had before?
I rooted, some weeks ago, with Towel Root and have been running fine. Last night, I used something to let me add TWRP and this morning, when i plugged by phone in, the screen went all cross-hatchy, like a tightly woven Irish wool blazer. It would clear up if I rebooted, but would come back when I plugged it in, or if I let it sit.
So.. I did a backup and a hard reset, and it got a little better. But TWRP is still there. So, I made the mistake of choosing format, which I'm guessing wiped all including the current image, and now I can only get to the LG screen, with the notification light up top flashing blue to green and back again.
There are several similar options for re-imaging the device back to stock, but I'm not sure which will work for me. I'm not sure holding the up or down arrows, power button, and plugging in simultaneously, will put me into recovery mode and let me install a stock image.
Is there a magic bullet, like there was for the Galaxy Nexus? Install an App on the PC, plug in the phone, push a button and it just goes?
I'm dead in the water right now, so some direction would be appreciated. Unfortunately, I can't try all the variations to see which works. I'm hoping I gave enough info to go on.
Thanks!
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I rooted, some weeks ago, with Towel Root and have been running fine. Last night, I used something to let me add TWRP and this morning, when i plugged by phone in, the screen went all cross-hatchy, like a tightly woven Irish wool blazer. It would clear up if I rebooted, but would come back when I plugged it in, or if I let it sit.
So.. I did a backup and a hard reset, and it got a little better. But TWRP is still there. So, I made the mistake of choosing format, which I'm guessing wiped all including the current image, and now I can only get to the LG screen, with the notification light up top flashing blue to green and back again.
There are several similar options for re-imaging the device back to stock, but I'm not sure which will work for me. I'm not sure holding the up or down arrows, power button, and plugging in simultaneously, will put me into recovery mode and let me install a stock image.
Is there a magic bullet, like there was for the Galaxy Nexus? Install an App on the PC, plug in the phone, push a button and it just goes?
I'm dead in the water right now, so some direction would be appreciated. Unfortunately, I can't try all the variations to see which works. I'm hoping I gave enough info to go on.
Thanks!
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You are going to want to go back to stock using the LG Flash Tool and a .tot file if you have the LS980, all other variants of the G2 use a KDZ file and the updated version of the flash tool.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2656275
Then if you get that cross-hatchy screen (which has been dubbed the "white lines issue") You will want to use Cloudyfa's fix.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=52414185&postcount=122
Hi all,
I know the title sounds like this has been answered a hundred times already, but I can't really figure out what's wrong with my Xperia S.
So this morning I woke up and wanted to check my messages. As always I had my phone charging over night. When I unlocked my phone it just hang for a while and then shut down (with that fade out effect of the LCD). As it was still plugged in the phone immediately turned back on booting into "charging mode".
And that's were the misery began.... The phone always shows the Sony logo, then Xperia, then again fades out and reboots. the first thing I tried was a soft reset, but this didn't change anything, as well as unplugging and then soft resetting.
So I then did a hard reset so that at least the phone is completely turned off, however, no matter what I did afterwards I always get a bootloop. (like holding Volume UP/DOWN and the power button)
The ONLY thing that worked so far was turning the phone off using hard reset and then press and hold volume UP and then connect it to the PC. The phone then boots into charge mode.
However, the phone is not recognised in this state (I tried PC Companion and Sony's flash tool as well as ADB) so I cannot flash any ROM on it.
So at this point I just want to factory reset my phone, even though I still have some images on the phone id like to back up first....
Any ideas/tools which might help me?
(I have already read [GUIDE] Recover 2012 and newer XPERIAs from SOFT-brick and some other articles about this topic)
Information about my phone:
Xperia S (bought via Three Austria)
Stock ROM, rooted
latest Version of Android 4.1
version number should be 6.2.B.1.96 (but cannot check obviously)
Best regards and thanks in advance
Znert
After an entirely random error saying my phone is somehow Encrypted, I went ahead and did a factory reset which didn't help. The phone was still booting into the same screen asking me for a code to Decrypt the data. So after some "quick" reading on these forums I've decided to RUU to stock. But the file I've chosen, even though it matched my version it was a Firmware, while the phone was S-ON. The device had never been Rooted or tampered with previously.
So now the phone does not boot at all. I've tried every button combination, but nothing seems to work. If I plug in the phone to charge the orange light flashes, endlessly. Even after I've left the device to charge for 6hours, the orange light still flashes.
When I plug in the phone to my PC, all I get it seems is this new device: QHSUSB_BULK, which shows with an exclamation mark next to it. I've read similar threads for different phones where they've unbricked devices while they were in this mode, is that even possible? I can hear Windows recognizing a device was plugged in, and if I press Power+VolumeUP, it will disconnect the phone and reconnect it, at least based on the sounds Windows is playing. The screen is Black at all times.
How badly have I bricked this device and is there any hope to revive it? Thanks to everyone who chimes in on this.
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After an entirely random error saying my phone is somehow Encrypted, I went ahead and did a factory reset which didn't help. The phone was still booting into the same screen asking me for a code to Decrypt the data. So after some "quick" reading on these forums I've decided to RUU to stock. But the file I've chosen, even though it matched my version it was a Firmware, while the phone was S-ON.
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Most likely it's a soft break. So you can fix it. First of all get yourself a working usb cable. Your's maybe broken.
Your phone's data partition had been encrypted. It never boots up completely without lux password. You could've format the data partition with a custom recovery such as TWRP. Instead you tried the reflash firmware but obviously it didn't finish and failed. All you need is reflash again but doing it correct way so it can finish. Your old data is gone atm. You will have factory reset phone at the end. Before giving you any instructions, you need to answer a few questions so anyone can help.
Have you ever updated your phone to marshmallow which is android 6? If no: You can recover it with voidzero's wonderful answer titled back to stock. Follow that exactly. If yes you can't flash old versions since they are using different bootloaders. Also you will have to reflash it manually. It's long and difficult for anyone who is new. If you don't know if it was updated. Just boot into bootloader then Fastboot mode, connect usb. Then use htc's Fastboot. Run htc_fastboot getvar all command. Paste output here.
Thanks for replying, risyasin.
Yes, I did update to Android 6. The problem is I'm not able to boot into the bootloader using the Power+VolumeUP keys, or any other combination.
Instead of flashing the RUU, or maybe turning to S-OFF(I still don't know if this would've made a difference), I flashed a firmware, one that matched my version. This is the exact filename: 0PKVIM[email protected]60201_20.05_018_F_release_479349_combined_signed
I've renamed it to 0PKVIMG.zip and booted using the Power+VolumeUP keys. For whatever reason, everything went OK, no errors whatsoever. In the end it told me to press Power to reboot the phone. I've pressed Power and nothing happened since.
If anyone can help me figure this out, I'd be forever grateful.
arrayy said:
Thanks for replying, risyasin.
Yes, I did update to Android 6. The problem is I'm not able to boot into the bootloader
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That is a big problem. I assume you never tried to go S-OFF (which is dangereous). While phone was S-ON. You could always boot into bootloader. That's one of the purpose of staying S-ON.
Combination is Power + Volume down. But if your phone is up & somehow can not continue to boot. eg: stuck at reading system or kernel etc. You can do a hard reset which is pressing Volume up + volume down + power for at least 15 seconds. phone will shut down. then you can try bootlader combination. Make sure it's has power on with light at screen edges you must look at carefully. After trying this if you still can not see bootloader. That's a problem beyond my experiences, so I don't have any idea to fix it.
I have never tried the firmware you have used. Maybe that firmware is not usable, broken or even dangerous.
We need to confirm that here. if anyone else tried and brick their phone with that.