Is it hard-bricked (after flash attemp)?
With the recent ICS ROM release, I followed the posted instructions with my noob attempt at flashing ICS for the lt28i (not att). I got ICS on but after flashing GB 6.0.F.0.111 Firmware (the baseband only), the phone showed Sony logo a few times and went to a greyish screen (like it is still on?). The USB connection no longer works and I couldn't charge or force shutdown (power+volume up). So it is hard-bricked?
Try to hard reset your phone -power and volume up -hold until it vibrates.Then try to shut the phone and put into flash mode - volume down first and then usb
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That was one of the first thing I tried, no respond no matter how long I held it.
Try another cable first. Then see if you can get out back in flash mode.
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1. Press and hold both the volume up key and the power key for five seconds.
2. After your phone vibrates once, release the keys. The phone restarts automatically.
To force a phone shutdown
1. Press and hold both the volume up key and the power key for 10 seconds.
2. After your phone vibrates three times, release the keys. The phone turns off automatically.
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KEB64 said:
1. Press and hold both the volume up key and the power key for five seconds.
2. After your phone vibrates once, release the keys. The phone restarts automatically.
To force a phone shutdown
1. Press and hold both the volume up key and the power key for 10 seconds.
2. After your phone vibrates three times, release the keys. The phone turns off automatically.
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I think he's said he tried this and got no response from his phone. Based on that I'm guessing his phone is dead and can't get it to charge. Perhaps the cable is bad, it happens, at least you can rule it out.
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jeriku said:
I think he's said he tried this and got no response from his phone. Based on that I'm guessing his phone is dead and can't get it to charge. Perhaps the cable is bad, it happens, at least you can rule it out.
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I detailed it out to help differentiate between a restart and a forced shutdown.
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Hard reset/force shutdown didn't work for me
I tried to recharge the battery with a wall charger, and the screen powered off in around an hour and the red led turned on after another hour or so.
But the phone now couldn't power on and still not responding to USB connection or hard reset (the red led is still on whenever I plug in the charger or an USB port though)
EDIT: I got some respond, the phone now powered on by itself and keep on resetting at the Sony logo (stuck in bootloader?).
When I plugged it into the charger, didn't get the red led like usual, but when I plugged it into the USB port, the pc tried to detect the phone, but couldn't since the phone kept resetting.
Got some vibration for trying to hard reset (1) and force shutdown (3), but those didn't work as the phone powered on and reset by itself
I know it's not much help at this point but weren't you supposed to not flash the ics baseband and leave that gb file there? It sounds like your just stuck in a boot loop (soft brick) so something should get you back to working. Just be careful what instructions you follow next.
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My wild guess you flash with a low battery (or when the boot loop happened, it killed the battery). I don't think the phone can turn on by itself without a human touch. Reading your post - look like there was an error while you flash baseband. My suggestion:
1. If you still see the Sony logo, hold volumn up then hold power button until you fell the vibration. The phone will shutoff. Or if the phone off (black screen) - plugin the wall let it charge for at least 2 hrs. Don't do anything with the phone.
2. Reflash LT28i firmware, run flashtool on your computer (keep all wipes checked) until it ask for 'turn off phone and put in flashmode. Then hold down volumn down plugin the USB. This should revise your phone back to GB. After done, unplug and turn it on. You can setup anything you want or do it later. Make sure charge the phone again if battery is under 50%.
3. Flash ICS LT28h, run flashtool - uncheck all wipes and check 'exclude baseband'. Until it ask for phone in flashmode. Turn off phone, hold down volumn down plugin the usb. This should flash ICS to your phone. Unplug turn on and setup if you haven't done so.
Good luck.
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Got the phone to stay in flash mode instead of reboot after constantly trying to put it into flashmode.
Got ICS but back to the initial LTE issue which messed it up in the first place.
Thanks for all the advices.
kulimkan said:
Got the phone to stay in flash mode instead of reboot after constantly trying to put it into flashmode.
Got ICS but back to the initial LTE issue which messed it up in the first place.
Thanks for all the advices.
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The LTE issue is because you didn't read. Get a generic GB and use flash tool. Dont wipe, uncheck all the "Exclude" boxes EXCEPT exclude baseband. Flash and restart.
"Flash the Gingerbread 6.0.F.0.111 Firmware excluding everything except baseband and do not wipe data. This will give you ICS with LTE."
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28302842&postcount=1
I like a newb wiped and got a fatal error. I am going through the steps posted but am thinking I may have just bricked this thing. Not sure what to try from here as I am not getting much response from my device at all.
joe3681 said:
The LTE issue is because you didn't read. Get a generic GB and use flash tool. Dont wipe, uncheck all the "Exclude" boxes EXCEPT exclude baseband. Flash and restart.
"Flash the Gingerbread 6.0.F.0.111 Firmware excluding everything except baseband and do not wipe data. This will give you ICS with LTE."
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28302842&postcount=1
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That was the guide I followed actually.
At my second attempt (all unchecked except baseband), the phone powered on but got a lot of 'Sorry!' messages as some of the processes failed.
When I checked the phone stat, it went back to GB lt28i.
@zackspeed
try to charge the phone for a few hours and see if the red led turn on (at least that what I did to get some responds from my phone)
So I also had the phone come back to the Sony splash loop on its own. Will the phone continue to charge while its doing that??? I have a red light again and now just playing the waiting game I guess.
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1. Press and hold both the volume up key and the power key for five seconds.
2. After your phone vibrates once, release the keys. The phone restarts automatically.
To force a phone shutdown
1. Press and hold both the volume up key and the power key for 10 seconds.
2. After your phone vibrates three times, release the keys. The phone turns off automatically.
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It works friend thz
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HI Everyone i was playing with my sony ion from att for 2 days got it rooted flashed the 4.0.4 on it busybox worked flawless untill i installed the f...ing heap manager or something. suposebly helps improve the data usage for apps and etc. it restarted after the settings change it performed and got me into a loop. i could not turn it of it would blink the screen power off and on really fast, could not even get it to flash mode to fix it. after 5 min i held the power and vol+ together and the phone turned off and now does not turn on or respond to any cable plugins NOTHING i dont know what to do just got the phone please help:crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying:
roboshsobor said:
HI Everyone i was playing with my sony ion from att for 2 days got it rooted flashed the 4.0.4 on it busybox worked flawless untill i installed the f...ing heap manager or something. suposebly helps improve the data usage for apps and etc. it restarted after the settings change it performed and got me into a loop. i could not turn it of it would blink the screen power off and on really fast, could not even get it to flash mode to fix it. after 5 min i held the power and vol+ together and the phone turned off and now does not turn on or respond to any cable plugins NOTHING i dont know what to do just got the phone please help:crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying:
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Wait .... coffee yes... not busy
1. Let your phone go dead (Power and volume up +) or lights reset on and screen on to off phone > ok, pess power not run phone > ok. (can take about 3 to 10 hours, could be more depending on your battery level).
2. Test recharge your phone - You should get the normal charging red light always on (not ok red light on 10s off /on but red light on 10s off /on wait phone dead for time ok ). Wait Test 1-2 minute > no recharging.
3. Run Flashtool roms 2.3.7 - 0.72 > check next > ok > to need press capble.
4. Press capble with phone recharing on Computer (PC-Noterbook)
5. Wait 15-20 minute auto flash roms finish > ok > run phone and recharing. Phone run nomal.
Good jod.
roboshsobor said:
HI Everyone i was playing with my sony ion from att for 2 days got it rooted flashed the 4.0.4 on it busybox worked flawless untill i installed the f...ing heap manager or something. suposebly helps improve the data usage for apps and etc. it restarted after the settings change it performed and got me into a loop. i could not turn it of it would blink the screen power off and on really fast, could not even get it to flash mode to fix it. after 5 min i held the power and vol+ together and the phone turned off and now does not turn on or respond to any cable plugins NOTHING i dont know what to do just got the phone please help:crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying:
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You got a softbrick device now. Go read the 'recovery from softbrick steps' thread in general forum.
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You got a softbrick device now. Go read the 'recovery from softbrick steps' thread in general forum.
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Thank you for replying to my issue. I looked at the steps that you were talking about "softbrick recovery steps"
All those steps need the phone eather on or in recovery mode etc. As of right now my Ion is charging and as soon as it gets 10-15 min charge it turns on and starts looping shows the sony logo then restarts and again........ it does not power on from the botton it only turns on by itself, the botton is fine because the only way i can turn the phone off is by holding the vor+ and power btn, i tryed puting the phone into flashmode by holding the vol- and pluging it to pc. Thank you
When it starts looping like that you can try to get it to flash mode. Hold the power and volume up just long enough for it to shut off and as soon as it does let go of power and hold volume down. You should then be able to get it to flash mode.
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When it starts looping like that you can try to get it to flash mode. Hold the power and volume up just long enough for it to shut off and as soon as it does let go of power and hold volume down. You should then be able to get it to flash mode.
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Thank you very much for the good advise. i have tried to find that gap between the restarts to try and falsh but was without luck. And i tried again after the advise for nearly 2 hours holding the button pluging in and out and finely the green light appeared and was able to reflash the ics now works better than me lol. Thanks one more time:good::good::good::good::good:
I was going to flash the LT28i firmware on my LT28at just to check it out. I had flashtool ready to go but it wasn't detecting my phone. It wouldn't get past the pop-up that said to power off and hold the back button. (I pressed the volume down for the Ion while plugging the cable in) I exited flashtool and gave up since it really wasn't too big of a deal, I was happy with the stock firmware.
Here I am now and the phone appears to be completely dead. There is no LED when I plug it in to the charger and no vibrations or LEDs when I hold the power button. It still shows up in the device manager when I press the volume down as seen in the attachment but then I'm back to not having a driver. For the record, the only thing I had done was root the phone, my bootloader is locked. I don't know what on earth could have happened but I am positive that flashtool did not even start flashing when I exited it. I don't know what to do next. I already checked out this thread, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1849170 but nothing seems to be working. Thanks for the help. I apologize if this is in the wrong section.
Edit: I installed the Flashmode driver via the installer in the flashtool folder. One of the flashtool guides is based on an older version and states something like "install the XXX_ADB driver in the drivers folder of flashtool." I don't have that and the Ion isn't in the list of device drivers in the installer. See the attachment.
Edit2: The battery was around 77% when I started.
johnbyebye said:
I was going to flash the LT28i firmware on my LT28at just to check it out. I had flashtool ready to go but it wasn't detecting my phone. It wouldn't get past the pop-up that said to power off and hold the back button. (I pressed the volume down for the Ion while plugging the cable in) I exited flashtool and gave up since it really wasn't too big of a deal, I was happy with the stock firmware.
Here I am now and the phone appears to be completely dead. There is no LED when I plug it in to the charger and no vibrations or LEDs when I hold the power button. It still shows up in the device manager when I press the volume down as seen in the attachment but then I'm back to not having a driver. For the record, the only thing I had done was root the phone, my bootloader is locked. I don't know what on earth could have happened but I am positive that flashtool did not even start flashing when I exited it. I don't know what to do next. I already checked out this thread, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1849170 but nothing seems to be working. Thanks for the help. I apologize if this is in the wrong section.
Edit: I installed the Flashmode driver via the installer in the flashtool folder. One of the flashtool guides is based on an older version and states something like "install the XXX_ADB driver in the drivers folder of flashtool." I don't have that and the Ion isn't in the list of device drivers in the installer. See the attachment.
Edit2: The battery was around 77% when I started.
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Plug it into the wall charger and let it sit for awhile (might be a long while) until you get the red LED. It might take a day or so but it should come back to life. You can try flashing then. If that doesn't work let it charge longer. I had to let mine go two days then finally got the green led and could flash again. Look at the soft brick recovery thread for more info.
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Before you wait all that time, try this. Hold the volume up button and the power button at the same time. The phone will vibrate once, keep holding until it vibrates 3 more times. Now you should be able to try flashing again. Worked for me.
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I did this and the phone is back to normal. *phew* Scary.
Oddly enough, now I have a green LED when I never did before.
Hi:
In the last day i was trying to flash the LEAK 4.1.2 build 6.2.B.0.203 , using DooMLork kernel , the problem was facing me is that my phone still do reboot after the first logo.
Then my phone turned off and i can't do any thing like flash mode or fastboot or charge of vibrate , even no led.
After like 4 hours of charging my phone show red led apear and disapear evry 20 second.
Today in the morning i can see a red led that still apear all the charging time and nothing happen.
From 2 minuits suddenly i saw that my phone turned on and show the first logo "Free Xperia" and after 5 second getted dead again and the same , only red led.
Any help to get into flashmood?
Again i had the boot logo , i tried to press VPL up + Power bottom and it do restart , tried to get 3 viberates and after i had it dead again.
Hi folks, i bricked my phone too. i was on leaked JB too and its worked like a charm. i founded an article about Chainfire so i tried but the phone went bootloop and then i red how to uninstall it. need adb mode on recovery. but the leaked twrp kernel cannot be on adb mode so i decided i flash a regular ics cwm kernel. so i flashed than tap tap tap on sony logo but nothing happened but bootloop. tried a lot times but same. so i decided i flash back the leaked twrp and flash the rom again so pressed the power and vol up until 3 vibrations it powered off and thats all. doesnt respond. cant power off cant flash mode cannot fasboot mode. now is on wall charger but nothing happen. what should i do for now? please help i love my ion especially with JB. :crying::crying::crying::crying:
edit: and its full charged because it was on wall charger while i slept :/
edit: SOLVED
i couldnt wait so i disassembled and unplugged the battery cable than plug and its working!
goodnightPal said:
Hi folks, i bricked my phone too. i was on leaked JB too and its worked like a charm. i founded an article about Chainfire so i tried but the phone went bootloop and then i red how to uninstall it. need adb mode on recovery. but the leaked twrp kernel cannot be on adb mode so i decided i flash a regular ics cwm kernel. so i flashed than tap tap tap on sony logo but nothing happened but bootloop. tried a lot times but same. so i decided i flash back the leaked twrp and flash the rom again so pressed the power and vol up until 3 vibrations it powered off and thats all. doesnt respond. cant power off cant flash mode cannot fasboot mode. now is on wall charger but nothing happen. what should i do for now? please help i love my ion especially with JB. :crying::crying::crying::crying:
edit: and its full charged because it was on wall charger while i slept :/
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i couldnt wait so i disassembled and unplugged the battery cable than plug and its working!
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Lol i am not going to disassemble my phone. From some minuits i had my phone on and it showed Free Xperia logo but after 3 viberates i died.
I am waiting it to come on again and then i will try to flash the software without turn it off.
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Lol i am not going to disassemble my phone. From some minuits i had my phone on and it showed Free Xperia logo but after 3 viberates i died.
I am waiting it to come on again and then i will try to flash the software without turn it off.
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phone is for you not you are for your phone... have a tutorial on youtube, and its safe if you are do it smartly. i was impatient.. its your choice, your phone.
goodnightPal said:
phone is for you not you are for your phone... have a tutorial on youtube, and its safe if you are do it smartly. i was impatient.. its your choice, your phone.
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The reason why i don't want to do it because if i did it my phone will be cheaper because it will called "Fixed Phone".
Now i got the first logo again while it's connected to the PC , i tried to press VOL- but flashtool didn't detect it and came dead again.
Maybe the next time i can get into recovery , but what can i do?
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The reason why i don't want to do it because if i did it my phone will be cheaper because it will called "Fixed Phone".
Now i got the first logo again while it's connected to the PC , i tried to press VOL- but flashtool didn't detect it and came dead again.
Maybe the next time i can get into recovery , but what can i do?
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if its not working now is cheaper. but you have to tell nobody that you disassembled it to fix ur phone.
but if you have time try this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31618617&postcount=32
Thats what i am trying to do.
Now i get my phone on again , and i got into recovery and reboot it to fastboot , flashed stock kernel.sin.
Then i turned it on and it show sony logo then i did 3 vibrates to get it off to flash a stock rom but dead again.
Now i am thinking how to get to flashmode?
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Thats what i am trying to do.
Now i get my phone on again , and i got into recovery and reboot it to fastboot , flashed stock kernel.sin.
Then i turned it on and it show sony logo then i did 3 vibrates to get it off to flash a stock rom but dead again.
Now i am thinking how to get to flashmode?
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that what i tried me too, flashed stock with cwm tap tap tap but nothing happened.. once is working once not... try flash stock with twrp it is working.
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All what i can get ofter connecting to PC for a long time is the device start up and show Sony logo then the logo disapear and reboot then do it again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again then stop booting and got dead.
Edit 1: When it show Sony logo i tried to press VOL+ and connect the usb but no fastboot , the same with flash mode.
Edit 2: When it start rebooting wave again i tried to press VOL+ and - then it got stuck with black screen , Flashtool can detect it in USB debigging off mode and it can't be turned off with the 3 vibrates trick.
Edit 3: By removing the sim card the phone turned off. Now back to the first stage with only red led and after long time connecting to PC it show Sony logo then reboot.
The $niper said:
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All what i can get ofter connecting to PC for a long time is the device start up and show Sony logo then the logo disapear and reboot then do it again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again then stop booting and got dead.
Edit 1: When it show Sony logo i tried to press VOL+ and connect the usb but no fastboot , the same with flash mode.
Edit 2: When it start rebooting wave again i tried to press VOL+ and - then it got stuck with black screen , Flashtool can detect it in USB debigging off mode and it can't be turned off with the 3 vibrates trick.
Edit 3: By removing the sim card the phone turned off. Now back to the first stage with only red led and after long time connecting to PC it show Sony logo then reboot.
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I think: you should turn off but when it trying turning off it goes brick, get stuck... i dont know you have to turn off manual ( with disassemble) and connenct usb and vol up because now it cannot be in fastboot or flash mode. or you should leave it to full discharge than it will turn off but it may take several weeks.
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I think: you should turn off but when it trying turning off it goes brick, get stuck... i dont know you have to turn off manual ( with disassemble) and connenct usb and vol up because now it cannot be in fastboot or flash mode. or you should leave it to full discharge than it will turn off but it may take several weeks.
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Now it's not stuck , it's off and connecting to the charger with red led.
Than i don't know what should you do srry
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goodnightPal said:
Than i don't know what should you do srry
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No problem , thank you for trying help.
Charging for 10 hours , only red led.
while on a loop, press the volume down button and connect it to the PC. If it doesn't work, press power+vol up till it vibrates once keeping the vol down button pressed as well. if it goes into flashmode, forget everything and flash stock ftf.
on a red led situation, hold the vol down and connect it to PC. It will show no led but keep holding it for long, it will go into flashmode
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ARNOB said:
while on a loop, press the volume down button and connect it to the PC. If it doesn't work, press power+vol up till it vibrates once keeping the vol down button pressed as well. if it goes into flashmode, forget everything and flash stock ftf.
on a red led situation, hold the vol down and connect it to PC. It will show no led but keep holding it for long, it will go into flashmode
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I tried that to make it restart with one vibrate but no flashmode , i will try it again with holding the VOL- before i do the vibrate.
For the led when i connect it to the PC holding VOL- the red led apear , why?
**** **** **** **** **** **** me , whn it start the rebooting i pressed the VOL+ and = and the power bottom and it start to connect and dis connect again on MTP debugging off mode and after a while i got the green led and flash mode but the ftf waz compressed and while it's extracting the green led gone....
Fixed!!!!
This is small guide what to do:
1- Charge your phone with PC or wall charger until you get a stable red led (Stable led not flashing led) maybe that will take hours.
2- Now connect your phone to the PC , you will find the red led back again.
3- The idea now is that your phone will auto start after some time , you need to be holding the VOL- bottom before it start up that you can get a green led and you can flash the rom with flashtool.
Some times it got start up after like 4 minuits after you connect it to PC , and other times maybe it will take like 20 minuits to start. So you have to hold the VOL- bottom almost the time and there is no problem if you let the bottom for some seconds , but be carefull that it will suddenly boot up so you have to be holding the bottom.
If you success with rom flashing , connect your phone to the charger and wait until it will start first time and get dead , then start again normaly
Charge ur phone with wall charger (its faster than pc) until u get green led. After that, hold Vol - and connect the phone to pc.
Hi,
after running a rooted Kitkat for a year or so I thought I wanted to install CM12.1. So I wiped and flashed via CWM Recovery and also flashed some GApps (probably the wrong one). After flashing (with confirmation that everything was successful), I wanted to reboot but after clicking on reboot, the screen just went black. Waiting for 5 mins, nothing changed.
Pushing the Power-On button lets the phone vibrate once, that's it. Pushing Vol+ or Vol- together with Power-On does not change anything. Connecting a charger to the phone, let the red LED flash once.
What can I do to revive my phone....?
Suggestions or hints are greatly appreciated
aalemann said:
Hi,
after running a rooted Kitkat for a year or so I thought I wanted to install CM12.1. So I wiped and flashed via CWM Recovery and also flashed some GApps (probably the wrong one). After flashing (with confirmation that everything was successful), I wanted to reboot but after clicking on reboot, the screen just went black. Waiting for 5 mins, nothing changed.
Pushing the Power-On button lets the phone vibrate once, that's it. Pushing Vol+ or Vol- together with Power-On does not change anything. Connecting a charger to the phone, let the red LED flash once.
What can I do to revive my phone....?
Suggestions or hints are greatly appreciated
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Try holding power and volume up together for 8-10 seconds, just to make Sir it's totally powered off, then connect the charger and see if it starts charging. Older batteries don't do well in this phone. It wseems to me you might have had the sudden-battety-drain phenomenon when you flashed.
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Try holding power and volume up together for 8-10 seconds, just to make Sir it's totally powered off, then connect the charger and see if it starts charging. Older batteries don't do well in this phone. It wseems to me you might have had the sudden-battety-drain phenomenon when you flashed.
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Thanks, that seemed to have work. I am now a happy user of CM12.1 on my Xperia Z1 Compact
I just wiped my phone with TWRP using the "advanced" settings and ticked everything. Obviously not a good idea as I think I have wiped everything including the ROM from my phone. Any idea how to get it going again? It just goes to the "Sony Xperia" screen and stays there when booting. I'm not sure how to get back into TWRP (i used to get there from a utilities app that restarted the phone into recovery). I have TWRP backup on my computer before I did the stupid thing...
Thanks for any help!
I've tried to flash from Emma and and Xperia Companion but I can't enter Flashmode (hold the volume down button and connect to computer). It just automatically turns on and shows the Sony/Xperia screen and the LED is solid RED.
I let it run down over night and still unable to enter Flashmode.
I assume TWRP is still there as it was the program that wiped the phone. Any ideas how I can get into TWRP?
The computer does not recognise the phone either. It was rooted and had an unlocked bootloader before it happened.
Thanks!
Hold power down and press power button. Release power button when phone vibrates but keep holding vol down until you see twrp logo. If you don't see it after maybe 10 seconds. If nothing happens you can try pressing power button and when you see led light keep pressing or holding (try both) vol down. If that doesn't work then you can try flashing with flashtool. You can check my thread for downloads and instructions
col320ce said:
I just wiped my phone with TWRP using the "advanced" settings and ticked everything. Obviously not a good idea as I think I have wiped everything including the ROM from my phone. Any idea how to get it going again? It just goes to the "Sony Xperia" screen and stays there when booting. I'm not sure how to get back into TWRP (i used to get there from a utilities app that restarted the phone into recovery). I have TWRP backup on my computer before I did the stupid thing...
Thanks for any help!
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In sim card slot there is a small red button. Hold it down with toothpick or paper clip until you feel three vibrations. That will shut off your phone.
Now you can try Flashtool or Emma.
Thanks so far ... here is an update.
After letting it run down overnight it eventually let me get it into flashmode. Xperia Companion doesn't work (unlocked) but Emma is trying to work. It has taken a few hours to download the software as the phone only stays in flashmode for about 30 seconds but it was able to eventually download the software. Now it is trying to load it but it gets to 11% and the phone goes out of flashmode (but automatically re enters it without me doing anything) and the cycle continues. Is there any way to force it to stay in flashmode?
I've tried the suggestions above to get to TWRP but nothing seems to work.
I can think of 2 reasons. Either emma is broken (never used it, can't tell) or your connection to pc gets interrupted by bad cable or broken connector. Why don't you try flashtool instead of emma?
col320ce said:
Thanks so far ... here is an update.
After letting it run down overnight it eventually let me get it into flashmode. Xperia Companion doesn't work (unlocked) but Emma is trying to work. It has taken a few hours to download the software as the phone only stays in flashmode for about 30 seconds but it was able to eventually download the software. Now it is trying to load it but it gets to 11% and the phone goes out of flashmode (but automatically re enters it without me doing anything) and the cycle continues. Is there any way to force it to stay in flashmode?
I've tried the suggestions above to get to TWRP but nothing seems to work.
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Silly question, but did you recharge your battery after letting it run overnight?
PiixJu said:
Silly question, but did you recharge your battery after letting it run overnight?
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I wiped whole storage few times as he did (Without letting it run overnight tho) and you can't charge your battery without system or recovery. If your battery drains in this situation you are SOL
yeah I think that is my problem. The phone won't charge and that's why it only stays on for 30 seconds before losing connection.
Can I charge the battery out of the phone? I know it a pain to pull out ... but I've done it before as it needs changing every 12 mths or so.
Not sure about that. I mean there has to be a way to charge it outside phone but you would need special equipment since you can't just use random charger. Since you said you charged your batteries before you could try to use one of them and hope that they have charge in them for flashing. I saw that @munjeni has a lot of experience with this phones hardware so you could try and contact him and ask if he knows about contact points on motherboard for charging
Ok. Got it going again eventually. Not sure exactly what I did that made it work but FYI these are the things that I did that seemed to help:
Charged it on my ASUS tablet charger today - seemed to do a better job than the other charger I was using (it was a Nokia). It seems to hold a very small charge but was not charging the battery properly. Hooked it up to Emma which had already managed to download the software and put the phone under my laptop (trying to warm the battery to squeeze everything our of it). 355 seconds later it had copied the software and the phone was able to turn on normally again. The phone was getting to about 60% of the software copied across before I used the ASUS charger and the heating the phone technique.
BTW I couldn't get flashtool to work. It recognised the phone but stopped saying USB debugging was off.
Thanks for everyones help!!