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[Q] Arc Bricked? Stuck in bootloop, Unrooted & cannot access bootloader

Hey all - I have spent about 9 hours at this so far and thinking I may have bricked my Xperia Arc.
Here is an outline of where I am right now:
Phone previously on CM7, rooted & had CWM recovery.
Spotted the Team Xperia ics v2.5 and decided to give it a look.
Phone froze on splash screen - I stayed patient but an hour later, still nothing.
After this, I'm not really sure where I went at this stage!
The situation right now is that I have stock SE LT15i_4.0.2.A.0.42_Generic+Global flashed to phone.
On boot, the splash image comes up, then a disconcerting white triangle with yellow exclamation point..... uh oh!
The phone continuously reboots through that loop.
Tried accessing bootloader (power on, toggle vol buttons) but the phone just goes straight by to boot loop.
Checked what I can connect to and can use flashboot to connect in both flashboot mode and fastboot mode.
SuperOneClick freezes (Not Responding) on restarting adb sever stage (I've made sure adb.exe has not been running prior to this)
Completely stuck now - any help rewarded through contributions - sure you'd be saving me the cost of a phone....
Thanks for any help!
Tony

You must press the back button to go in fastboot mode. That's the buttons left. If you press it on starting the phone, your led turns blue.
If it works, try to flash the firmware again.

If your phone's bootloader is unlocked then use fastboot to boot a kernel(if you're trying to run.42 then doomlords gb kernel), once that's flashed wipe dalvik cache via cwm and reboot.

[Q] Always stuck on Splash Screen

I can't find anything about this on the Xperia Play forum so I have to ask now, I just unlocked my bootloader, SO glad I did, but it seems that after playing with some kernels, I can't even get past their splash screens! I've used LuPuS, FXP, and Mjolnir. It'll show the splash screen, vibrate and the led will light up. I've tried holding volume down and leaving it alone. Nothing happens, it just sits there. ADB says no device is plugged in as well so I can't try adb reboot recovery. I'm going to flash the R800X 2.3.3 FTF then reflash the Mjolnir Kernel, flash it's Wifi module, then install Glazed ICS. If anyone knows why it does this, I don't plan on turning my phone off UNTIL I know a solution to the stuck splash screens. Thank you!
EDIT: It starts doing that when I restart into recovery from the phone, I forgot to mention that, I haven't just rebooted the phone's system yet. I'll try that and get back to you once I install Glazed.
EDIT2: I powered off and booted for the second time and it didn't get stuck. I guess for the time being, I'll stay away from Reboot Into Recovery on the phone and just use the recovery-play.img.

Okay, now my phone needs to be reactivated... Can't see the number pad so I have no way of pressing One. Help please???
EDIT: I'm an idiot, I had to activate it while it was on stock gingerbread first.

Generally, after you flash a room, in that rom zip file the kernel is the boot.img, you need to extract and flash that boot.img so the rom would be able to boot.
First install FlashTool, in the flashtool folder there is a driver file to install the ADB drivers for Xperia devices, select all the drivers that apply to the Play to install.
Enter flash mode (hold Search button).
Flash the kernel: fastboot flash boot boot.img
If all fail, you can use Flashtool to flash the stock tft file to restore the phone to factory state.

Selim873 said:
Okay, now my phone needs to be reactivated... Can't see the number pad so I have no way of pressing One. Help please???
EDIT: I'm an idiot, I had to activate it while it was on stock gingerbread first.
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Had the same problem, dial *228, instead of pressing one (since the dial pad is not yet visible) just stay on the line and they'll activate it. That's how I got mine activated.

[Q] Stuck on Sony boot logo after cmw jb update attempt

Note: I have a sony xperia pro mk16, there was no phone selection for it, so i chose to post on arc forum; however, solutions should be same or similar
Note2: i am a bit noob at rooting and cmw and all that
Story: I had ics and finally decide to try to upgrade to jb with custom cm10 rom. i first rooted the device and installed cmw with x-part. I attempted to install the firmware but it quickly gave me a status 7 error. so i just rebooted and it loaded to a reset ics firmware perfectly fine. after an attempt to download another version of cm10 jb, i tried installing that firmware. after a long wait on installing:..., the log finally gave me another status 7 error. so i rebooted again HOWEVER, it is STUCK ON the SONY logo.
i tried pulling out battery and repowering but nothing changes. holding power with repeated volume down or hold volume up button doesnt do anything. i can connect to sony pc companion but it says i need to fully turn on my phone to update/repair.
i can get it to flashmode using flashtool, but when in flashmode it just leaves a blank screen that wont do anything, i would have to pull out the battery and repower it, which would lead me back to the SONY logo.
PLEASE HELP

ilikecloud said:
Note: I have a sony xperia pro mk16, there was no phone selection for it, so i chose to post on arc forum; however, solutions should be same or similar
Note2: i am a bit noob at rooting and cmw and all that
Story: I had ics and finally decide to try to upgrade to jb with custom cm10 rom. i first rooted the device and installed cmw with x-part. I attempted to install the firmware but it quickly gave me a status 7 error. so i just rebooted and it loaded to a reset ics firmware perfectly fine. after an attempt to download another version of cm10 jb, i tried installing that firmware. after a long wait on installing:..., the log finally gave me another status 7 error. so i rebooted again HOWEVER, it is STUCK ON the SONY logo.
i tried pulling out battery and repowering but nothing changes. holding power with repeated volume down or hold volume up button doesnt do anything. i can connect to sony pc companion but it says i need to fully turn on my phone to update/repair.
i can get it to flashmode using flashtool, but when in flashmode it just leaves a blank screen that wont do anything, i would have to pull out the battery and repower it, which would lead me back to the SONY logo.
PLEASE HELP
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My guess is that you tried to flash a JB rom without flashing the custom kernel because your bootloader is locked. Not every rom is working with stock kernel. CM10 and AOKP as far as i know need custom kernels like Lupus and fxp139. To flash a kernel you must have unlocked bootloader. So until you decide if you will unlock your bootloder or not, you can allways use flashtool to flash stock Sony firmwares found here:
stock firmware: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1642480

here
download the original ICS firmware (somewhere in this forum)
add to flashtool and wait till the pop up asks you to attach your phone in flashmode
attach in flash mode and let flashtool do its magic
now... unlock your bootloader using official or s1 tool method
download CM10 again
inside there will be a boot.img
power off your phone, hold down settings button and attach usb cable..
now you should see a blue LED light
FASTBOOT flash the boot.img and the flash the ROM
press thanks if i helped!!

[Q] Help, in serious problem with my phone after trying to install Cyanogenmod

So today for the first time tried to mess around with my phone, but i failed miserably. I rooted my phone with Kingo ROOT, and then followed the instructions on the wiki page, but at step 4 things got messed up, my phone got stuck at the SONY logo with the blue light turned on and it wouldnt do anything, so i removed the battery, now it boots up at the cyanogen recovery but i cant do anything from there , everytime i close the device when i boot it , it boots to this menu. I have tried everything to get it back to normal but nothing seems to work. I will tell exactly what i did in order to reach in this state. I downloade the nicki nightly cm, and moved the boot.img to my platform-tools folder in which i run on command prompt the following commands :
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot reboot
After that my phone gets stuck and i can only access Cyanogen Recovery, does anyone have any idea what to do?? :crying: :crying:

Have you tried flashing the rom using cyanogen recovery?

Xperia S LT26i stuck in bootloop trying to go from MIUI to 6.2.B.1.96

Hi everybody.
A friend gave my dad his old Xperia S, which was running MIUI. My dad gave it to me because he wanted "proper Android".
ADB worked, CWM Recovery was installed, no root seemed present. I first tried downloading a ROM and flashing from CWM, but it was a no-go, I got a "status 0" error.
No problem, I thought. I installed Flashtool, downloaded one of the 6.2.B.1.96 ROMs (Movistar branded, for Spain) via Xperifirm and flashed it. It didn't work if I went straight to flash mode, it waited at "Reading device information" or something like that. I had to turn on the phone, connect it, chose the flash options in Flashtool and *then* putting the phone in flashmode. If
Now the phone is stuck in a bootloop. "SONY" -> XPERIA" -> Rainbow colors -> Movistar Logo -> "SONY" -> "XPERIA"...
I can only stop the bootloop by long pressing Power + Vol Up for 10 seconds, until the phone vibrates three times.
I can flash things, but I actually don't know what I am supposed to flash in order to get a working phone
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance

reycat said:
Hi everybody.
A friend gave my dad his old Xperia S, which was running MIUI. My dad gave it to me because he wanted "proper Android".
ADB worked, CWM Recovery was installed, no root seemed present. I first tried downloading a ROM and flashing from CWM, but it was a no-go, I got a "status 0" error.
No problem, I thought. I installed Flashtool, downloaded one of the 6.2.B.1.96 ROMs (Movistar branded, for Spain) via Xperifirm and flashed it. It didn't work if I went straight to flash mode, it waited at "Reading device information" or something like that. I had to turn on the phone, connect it, chose the flash options in Flashtool and *then* putting the phone in flashmode. If
Now the phone is stuck in a bootloop. "SONY" -> XPERIA" -> Rainbow colors -> Movistar Logo -> "SONY" -> "XPERIA"...
I can only stop the bootloop by long pressing Power + Vol Up for 10 seconds, until the phone vibrates three times.
I can flash things, but I actually don't know what I am supposed to flash in order to get a working phone
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance
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I would recommend flashing a unbranded firmware. Also, do You have bootloader locked or unlocked?

Thanks for the answer.
A couple of hours ago I reflashed the same ROM checking the "wipe" options and everything is working as it should
If it hadn't worked I'd have tried your advice, thanks again.