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.
44Blackhawk said:
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.
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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.
Sent from Rooted LT28at with ICS.
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.
Sent from my LT28at
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.
Sent from my LT28at
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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.
Sent from Rooted LT28at with ICS.
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.
Sent from Rooted LT28at with ICS.
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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.
Sent from my Sony Xperia™ Ion - ICS & Rooted
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.
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.
Sent from my LT28at
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It works friend thz
I've been working on this damn thing for nearly 3 hours now trying to install Lupus V6 kernel with NXT 1.3 ROM. I try to get into the recovery and for whatever reason it doesn't work, so I shut the phone off. Now the damn thing doesn't respond to anything. No button presses, the power button won't work, nothing is lighting up. Did I hard brick my phone? If so I guess I'm out $165, but it was too short of a ride.
Before anybody asks, I'm 99% sure the battery is fine, it was nowhere near dead during any of my flash attempts.
First off did you unlock the bootloader before you attempt to flash the kernel?
Can you get into flash mode by holding the Search button while connecting to the USB cable while the phone is off? If you can, follow this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2054486 Except that the guide said to exclude the kernel, do not exclude it since you are trying to restore it.
Bootloader was unlocked by Alejandrissimo, yes. The phone, unfortunately won't respond to any type of button pushing or combination and nothing occurs if I just attach the phone to my computer via USB.
Did you install the drivers that come with flashtool ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2054486 ) then check in Device Manager that it found your device by holding either search or back button when you connected it?
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Did all of that a long time ago. I'm hoping it's fixed now. I slid out the gamepad a couple times and just let it sit without a battery for a bit, and when I put the battery back in it booted again.
Is there ANY reason though why it would stop booting?
I tried to flash the Generic JB firmware on it yesterday and caused it to completely brick.
Is there an easy way to fix this? My laptop recognizes it as "SEMC Flash Device" but other than that the phone will not turn on, will not charge (no LED), or even reboot while pressing (volume key).
Is my phone busted? Someone please help me restore this, I have no other phone to use, and really need to get this fixed.
Try this
Does your phone Buzz once when you press power+ volume up?
if it does then hold it till it buzzed 3 times
then click this --- > http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1849170
Envious_Data said:
Does your phone Buzz once when you press power+ volume up?
if it does then hold it till it buzzed 3 times
then click this --- > http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1849170
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It doesn't vibrate at all.
Still
Still check the link in the last post and if nothing helps then send your Xperia For repairs
Envious_Data said:
Still check the link in the last post and if nothing helps then send your Xperia For repairs
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I really wanna keep this "new" situation appointed to this thread (in case this happens to anyone else):
alright I'm gonna start a "HARD RESET ON MY XPERIA ION LT28AT"
- The phone is completely dead, no LED when plugged in.
- Computer recognizes phone as "SEMC flash device"
Jim-X said:
I really wanna keep this "new" situation appointed to this thread (in case this happens to anyone else):
alright I'm gonna start a "HARD RESET ON MY XPERIA ION LT28AT"
- The phone is completely dead, no LED when plugged in.
- Computer recognizes phone as "SEMC flash device"
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You should really listen to the advice given and read all the stuff in the first two post of the linked thread. All of the answers are there for you. For a L28at the rubber band trick looks like a great option. But you must plug your phone in to your wall charger and leave it alone. If you mess with it before it starts looping it will only take you longer to get it going again.
It happen with my ion also.
Charge your phone upto 15 to 30hrs then you see yellow led,don't plug out wait for green led to come up.then flash your phone with stable firmware.
Sent from my LT28h using xda premium
I already searched everywhere and I'm loosing my hopes. I'm trying to revive a Xperia Ion and this is what I get:
When I plug the phone in the wall charger the red led turns on for some minutes and then turns off for some minutes, then on again, and stays in this loop, no matter how many days I keep it in the wall. I already changed charger and cable.
The same happens when I plug on PC, when the led turns off it is detected as "Somc flash device" in windows device manager and this shows in flashtool:
INFO - Device connected with USB debugging off
INFO - For 2011 devices line, be sure you are not in MTP mode
Nothing changes if I plug in pc with volume + or - pressed, it don't goes into fastboot or flashmode.
I hope you could help me. Thanks
So, today I've decided to root my Z1 Compact and install some custom roms. I've done this before on many other android phones without any trouble and today is the first time I ran into a brick (not sure whether it's soft or hard, I assume it's hard cause I cannot get into recovery anymore).
Basically, what I did was root the phone using Easyflash (the towelroot method), installed a recovery and then tried to flash PA the same way as I used to do on my other phones, but after the process my phone shut down and only gives a red blinking light while connected to the charger, powering on the device will only make it vibrate. The only thing that seems to "work" is when I hold the volume-up button + power and am connected to my PC, when I do that the device will show a blue LED, but other than that it's still unresponsive.
If anyone knows what to do here, or knows whether I should even bother or not, please tell me. I've tried searching and didn't come up with any relevant results.
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I've tried searching and didn't come up with any relevant results.
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"I've tried searching and didn't come up with any relevant results" = I'm lazy.
Try flashing a ftf file and report back. Xperias are different so you need to relearn a little. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2631291
Rzarector said:
So, today I've decided to root my Z1 Compact and install some custom roms. I've done this before on many other android phones without any trouble and today is the first time I ran into a brick (not sure whether it's soft or hard, I assume it's hard cause I cannot get into recovery anymore).
Basically, what I did was root the phone using Easyflash (the towelroot method), installed a recovery and then tried to flash PA the same way as I used to do on my other phones, but after the process my phone shut down and only gives a red blinking light while connected to the charger, powering on the device will only make it vibrate. The only thing that seems to "work" is when I hold the volume-up button + power and am connected to my PC, when I do that the device will show a blue LED, but other than that it's still unresponsive.
If anyone knows what to do here, or knows whether I should even bother or not, please tell me. I've tried searching and didn't come up with any relevant results.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/sony-xperia-z1-compact/help/lb757-how-to-update-to-rooted-108-t2822957
Just use my guide#5 to wipe the whole phone and reflash everything.
vol up + power will give you blue LED and it is fastboot mode. vol down + power will enter flash mode but no LED light.
XperienceD said:
"I've tried searching and didn't come up with any relevant results" = I'm lazy.
Try flashing a ftf file and report back. Xperias are different so you need to relearn a little. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2631291
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This is the first thing I tried, but it doesn't seem to recognize my phone under windows (even after installing the drivers).
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/sony-xperia-z1-compact/help/lb757-how-to-update-to-rooted-108-t2822957
Just use my guide#5 to wipe the whole phone and reflash everything.
vol up + power will give you blue LED and it is fastboot mode. vol down + power will enter flash mode but no LED light.
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Thanks a lot for the guide, the stupid thing I did was holding the power button and volume down cause it used to be like that with my previous phones. It seems to be flashing now, so hopefully all is well!
EDIT:Flashing ended succesfully but upon booting the phone the only thing I get is a flashing red led, so I'm assuming it's a hardware defect or I did something terribly wrong while flashing a custom ROM.
EDIT2: After holding volume up + power it shut down and then rebooted
I swear, troubleshooting a phone was never this hard/confusing on my HTC/Samsung phones :V but I'm glad it's not a paperweight
I agree that it's very confusing first, but that's mainly because there are so many old, confusing, wrong or incorrect guides. Once you understood how things work in general you start to like it. After getting used to it, I actually feel more comfortable than with my old devices.
Rzarector said:
Thanks a lot for the guide, the stupid thing I did was holding the power button and volume down cause it used to be like that with my previous phones. It seems to be flashing now, so hopefully all is well!
EDIT:Flashing ended succesfully but upon booting the phone the only thing I get is a flashing red led, so I'm assuming it's a hardware defect or I did something terribly wrong while flashing a custom ROM.
EDIT2: After holding volume up + power it shut down and then rebooted
I swear, troubleshooting a phone was never this hard/confusing on my HTC/Samsung phones :V but I'm glad it's not a paperweight
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If you can get in flashmode and also successfully flashed .ftf but still a no go then you should send it back to Sony.
It's working fine, it just seemed like the phone was still on after flashing. I turned it off by holding power and volume up, and it works fine now.
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
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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?
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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!!