[Help] Bricked Xperia S - Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion

Hello XDA,
So here's the deal:
I was running on a custom firmware (nova rom) and nova's ota popped an update. I ran the update, everything went smooth, mobile restarted, installed etc ... restarted again and booted! After the sony logo, the mobile hanged (not able to reboot, to turn off by any mean)
I had to wait for the battery to be completely dead, then I put it in the wall charger => phone's led is red , so i presume the mobile is charging
I tried after a complete day of recharge to turn it on => impossible
My computer doesnt recognize it in any mode, i can't get into fastboot, flashmode no matter what key combination I do
So i spent the couple last weeks reading (since i dont have warranty) about this problem and I passed through many blogs/forums but nothing helped.
To resume: I know that my mobile turns off when the battery is dead and that it recharges since the red led appears
I cannot turn it on, connect to pc or anything , it just doesnt react
I don't know if I should throw the mobile, or if there is any way of fixing it, that's why i am asking you here guys if you have any idea :crying:

grsgs said:
Hello XDA,
So here's the deal:
I was running on a custom firmware (nova rom) and nova's ota popped an update. I ran the update, everything went smooth, mobile restarted, installed etc ... restarted again and booted! After the sony logo, the mobile hanged (not able to reboot, to turn off by any mean)
I had to wait for the battery to be completely dead, then I put it in the wall charger => phone's led is red , so i presume the mobile is charging
I tried after a complete day of recharge to turn it on => impossible
My computer doesnt recognize it in any mode, i can't get into fastboot, flashmode no matter what key combination I do
So i spent the couple last weeks reading (since i dont have warranty) about this problem and I passed through many blogs/forums but nothing helped.
To resume: I know that my mobile turns off when the battery is dead and that it recharges since the red led appears
I cannot turn it on, connect to pc or anything , it just doesnt react
I don't know if I should throw the mobile, or if there is any way of fixing it, that's why i am asking you here guys if you have any idea :crying:
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[Q] Defy bricked in weird fashion, help!

I'll be as brief as I can! Been using a app from the Market called Friendcaster on my rooted Defy running a pays ROM(I cannot remember which one, but it was a early Froyo, been using it for months). Noticed phone running hot after Friendcaster updated, and got a memory warning, turned out Friendcaster was constantly syncing and filled phones memory. Went to delete app, saw a fix, so installed that. Restarted phone, soon started syncing constantly then, and when ever I went into contacts phone locked up. Deleted app, rebooted, and phone went into a boot loop. Went to recovery, cleared phone storage. Phone refused to boot. Tried flashing SKTJRD-3.4.2.74.sbf flash it got to 100%, but never went to complete, even after leaving a few hours.
Phone now won't respond, won't go into recovery, only gets white LED when you connect USB, RSD lite does not see phone. Not sure if the McGuyver hack will help, the battery gets hot if you put phone on charge, and tried a fully charged battery from a visitors phone and still with no response, I understand you only need to do this if battery is flat and you cannot charge phone.
I've had a good search around on here, and on Google but can't find anything that seems to help, frustrated, I might be a new n00b, but this is the first time I haven't been able to solve a problem with a bit of Googling ARGH! Plus my phone doesn't work.
Hope you guys can help, if not what's the chance of Moto/Voda UK swapping out/repairing phone if I send it in?
If you have a new full battery, Can you put Defy into Bootloader mode?
If it cant, it should be realy brick
You should try this thread...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1206708
Try to :
Uninstall RDS and the drivers;
Reboot PC;
Reinstall newer dirvers and rds (the 4.9 version);
Reboot PC;
Connect Defy with USB, wait 1 minute, if not recognized try to press power button and wait 1 min. If not recognized yet, try click on Config-->DeviceID and try both options.
If not recognized yet... try another pc, try another full battery... if this doesn't work there's nothing left to do.
The McGyver trick is dangerous! Don't charge your battery with this method more than 15 minutes!

[S/SL/AS/Ion]General bricked device thread

So, I've been seeing A LOT of threads regarding bricked devices (be it soft or hard bricks). So, I decided to create this thread, so everyone with bricked devices post here for help, instead of filling our forums and XDA servers with a load of topics with the same stuff.
If someone knows of a general unbricking thread, please PM me or tag me with a link so I can post on this post.
I will PM a mod to pin this thread to top.
To all brickers,
Before posting, try this thread:{RECOVER SOFT-brick}[2012 XPERIA's]Recover ALL 2012 XPERIAs from SOFT-brick
Remember to give the author thanks
Xperia S Return Back To Stock!
Pre-Requisites
For All The New Users..
If You Did Something Wrong
If nothing is working out
Not Able to Fix
Need to Return Back To Original Firmware?
Here is the Guide For You
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GUIDE for Better Understanding With Pictures And Images For New Users
Explained Step By Step
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Just a tip: Try downloading Sony Update Service and following the instructions if you get a green LED blink on your phone, which is way simpler to recover without any problems.
Guys My ION LT28h got bricked during a recovery using CWM.
First It was a soft brick, i did something , random pressing of buttons made it worse. its on HARD BRICKED STATE now. Its been more than 5 weeks.
So after some research i found out that my Kernel is ****ed up. My phone is Boot loader Locked, so i cant flash the Kernel separately.
Now few of our fellow xda members told me to unplug the battery cable from the motherboard.
I have successfully disconnected the battery cable from motherboard, i kept it disconnected for one whole night.
Whats the next step ?
Will i be able to flash it with flash tool after connecting the battery to motherboard back ?
Will i be able flash the busted Kernel to a working stock kernel ?
Accidentally messed up and soft bricked Ion- LT28h.
xperia Ion LT28h
ROM: JB 4.1 Pure CyanogenMod Based on CM 10 FXP 218
kernel: GI Kernel v3 or v5
Recovery: TWRP and CWM
Rooted and Unlocked Bootloader
Hi guys, above mentioned were my previous settings. Had occassional reboots and sometimes it was kinda laggy that's why i decided to flash it to another ROM - supposedly to ParanoidAndroid. After following steps to install PA, my phone was on bootloops, was in a hurry then freaked out, i tried soft and hardreset, and tried booting on recovery both on twrp and cwm to flash properly as what was instructed however i may have flashed the wrong zips interchangeably with other roms and kernels resulting to a total messed up ion. i could have restored immediately to a saved CWM or TWRP backup right away however, i only stopped resetting when my phone suddenly stopped responding, no Sony logo, no Xperia logo, no boot, just backlight on, does not turn off, soft and hard reset no nothing. i guess until the battery went dead, then i charged it the whole night.
after reading most threads on recovering softbricked phone, mainly this {RECOVER SOFT-brick}[2012 XPERIA's]Recover ALL 2012 XPERIAs from SOFT-brick thread, and after a couple of days of red led, i constantly charged, i patiently waited(2days) still no green led, however i found out that i can access fastboot. (blue led).. i managed to get to this fastboot mode(blue led) ONLY after i soft reset or power+vol.up/1 vibrate the phone once the backlight lits up- on&off - for about less than a minute then it goes back to red led. (i'll be calling that stage as backlit-on&off-then-back-to-solid-red-led cycle) but then again if i go to fastboot, it will stay in fastboot mode during flashes and it stays there until the battery runs out and goes back to red led. then i charge my phone again, but
during fastboot mode, i have tried flashing the kernel, system and boot image. all via Fastboot command prompt.
and all were successful. there were combinations like, flashing only the kernel, tried flashing kernel and system, tried boot image only, tried all the same time, tried system only, tried different kernels, system and boot img, BUT STILL my phone wont even give me the sony logo screen.
then i thought i may need to wipe cache and userdata so i also erased cache and userdate a couple of times via fastboot mode command prompt. and yes fastboot does detects my phone. it can reboot to bootloader or just the normal fastboot reboot. so i have no issues regarding phone and pc via using fastboot command prompt. and Same thing - all flashes were successful,
i have flashed i think more or less than a total of 50 times, flashing different combinations. Still it goes back to brick mode.. backlit-on&off-then-back-to-solid-red-led cycle.
i'd like to add that i have also tried flashing via fastboot mode using Flashtool. (thunder icon+selecting 'fastboot mode'). i have flashed the kernel and system, tried kernel only, tried both same time, tried system with boot.img tried flashing kernel with boot.img too, tried different combinations. again, all were successful, but still same result.
it only goes back to backlit-on&off-then-back-to-solid-red-led cycle.
a couple of days after it went to green. flashmode finally! thinking everything will now be alright, i decided to flash it using flashtool via flashmode. I connected phone to pc, after the solid red led and after backlit-on&off-then-back-to-solid-red-led cycle. and the it goes back to red led then the backlit on&off cycle, after observing my phone for hours i then knew that after, i guess about a hundred cycle of backlit on&offs it really does go to green led by itself and if i'm connected to the pc and flashtool it stays on green led or flashmode, however if im connected only on a wallcharger it goes to green led but will only stay there for like 1-2 seconds then goes back to red led and then the backlit on&off cycle.
then i thought just maybe my battery really needs to die as mentioned, since upon plugging my phone on to a wall charger it goes immediately to red led and there's really no response on the phone except only if you gonna wait for the backlit on&off cycle the n press power + vol up then it will respond and go to fastboot mode or power+vol down which goes to flashmode. then i decided to reset the battery by carefully unplugging the ribbon cable and i did. well, initially it did (led was off for a moment then changed to blinking red then solid red) but i have to go to work that time and had to continue only after coming home from work, and that did not resolved it.
i may have flashed my ion a hundred times or so to this date, still no luck. i have finally decided to re-locked my bootloader- and yes it is successfully locked now. - thinking PCC/SEUS/SUS would get it back to life but i'm wrong - it just cant detect my phone. PC companion detects it as Phone/Tablet only then after selecting Ion on the phone list it always says my device is upto date and no available software. (sad)
I also noticed that flashtool does not detect my phone as LT28h. It only says that it is connected to flashmode. Is that an issue too. I have tried diff versions of flashtool from 9.6 to 9.11 all same. i have also installed fastboot and adb as well as flashtool drivers, it sayas all were successfully installed however if im connected via flashtool flashmode, none seems to be detected on device manager, tried reinstalling and manually installing the sony sa0103 adb interface driver however after installing i get an error unable to start device. even if my phone is connected still the device on devicemanager still has an excalamation point. i'm using windows 8. i have flashed successfully before when my phone was in good state, however now that im on brick mode it seems that all flashes i've done did not push thru. also those times that i have flashed my ion via flashtool it says something like:
phone should be connected with usb debugging on and enabled install on unknown sources. i have tried flashing it using win7 pc phone was not detected still, however flashtool stated and detected my device was connected on usb debugging mode, but have has errors during flashing though.
since my bootloader is now locked im unable to flash now via fastboot. before bootloader status says- rooted now bootloader status is- ROOTABLE.
i previously owned xperia neo and have managed to flash it successfully without any issues, also this is the 3rd time i had bricked my ion and managed to fix it before..
i also want to ask regarding flashing back to stock - does that mean any stock firmware can be selected? can be .233 / .68 /.20 or the latest ICS 6.1.E.3.7? coz i have basically tried to all of those mentioned. also is the reason that my flashes were not successful is it because i was currently on 4.1 JB ROM and im flashing 4.0 ICS stock? I also have TWRP and CWM backups on my PC and on internal SD card, is there a way for me to flash or restore those backups via flashtool?
I'm running out of options, i'm desperate and on the verge of giving up.
i dont want to believe that i have totally messed up and hard bricked my phone. I do believe that there is a solution to this, and my phone can be recovered without sending it over to repairshop.. Today is the 3rd week and still struggling to get my phone back to life (even just the sony logo) . any suggestions before i unlock again my bootloader? please help. Any help will be gladly appreciated, and many thanks to everyone for spending time on reading my messed up and soft/hardbrick ion experience.
If you brick your device while flashing kernel and device do not respond any way then follow this little difficult but 100% sure method.
- Dissemble your phone.
- Disconnect battery ribbon from motherboard.
- Reconnect battery ribbon.
- Fastly connect USB cable while holding vol +/-
- Flash Kernel or FTF FW.
Just looking for some direction on my Xperia Ion that recently got bricked while attempting to update to JB software.
Currently, it has no response except for plugging into charger giving a solid red light. I am unable to get it into flashmode and have already disassembled and disconnected/reconnected the battery to reset it.
Im gonna guess that the kernel is royally efed up at this point, Im unable to get it into a bootloop either.
What is the next step to solve this issue? Any help is greatly appreciated!
Droiiiiiiiiid said:
Just looking for some direction on my Xperia Ion that recently got bricked while attempting to update to JB software.
Currently, it has no response except for plugging into charger giving a solid red light. I am unable to get it into flashmode and have already disassembled and disconnected/reconnected the battery to reset it.
Im gonna guess that the kernel is royally efed up at this point, Im unable to get it into a bootloop either.
What is the next step to solve this issue? Any help is greatly appreciated!
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Did you try SUS ? Official update service ?
Droiiiiiiiiid said:
Just looking for some direction on my Xperia Ion that recently got bricked while attempting to update to JB software.
Currently, it has no response except for plugging into charger giving a solid red light. I am unable to get it into flashmode and have already disassembled and disconnected/reconnected the battery to reset it.
Im gonna guess that the kernel is royally efed up at this point, Im unable to get it into a bootloop either.
What is the next step to solve this issue? Any help is greatly appreciated!
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I think that you should charge it more to be able to go into flashmode. Maybe until the red light will go off or it'll turn into green. Then try to go into flashmode. Good luck
MozzieZ said:
Did you try SUS ? Official update service ?
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I was going to but that requires my device be in Flashmode.
Droiiiiiiiiid said:
I was going to but that requires my device be in Flashmode.
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Read this, maybe it will help you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2344896
This is my first time got hard brick on my phone. I'm flash wrong ROM (it made for S but I flash it on SL) now my phone totally dead. When I put on wall charger it show constant red led and off several minutes later, try disassemble phone and disconnect and connect ribbon doesn't help to get flashmode and fastboot mode. Any help would be very appreciated.
EDIT: After disconnect ribbon battery I got notification on flashtool "device connected with usb debugging off" but led remains on constant red. Should I try rubber band tricks?
ahlulnugraha said:
This is my first time got hard brick on my phone. I'm flash wrong ROM (it made for S but I flash it on SL) now my phone totally dead. When I put on wall charger it show constant red led and off several minutes later, try disassemble phone and disconnect and connect ribbon doesn't help to get flashmode and fastboot mode. Any help would be very appreciated.
EDIT: After disconnect ribbon battery I got notification on flashtool "device connected with usb debugging off" but led remains on constant red. Should I try rubber band tricks?
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After disconnecting and connecting back the battery cable , you wont get access to flashboot/flashmode instantly. disconnecting the cable will reset the phone.
If you are getting red led means , its charging on low power. You should keep on wall charging for some hours , say 12 + hours.
After that try flashing the kernel alone , first . you will have to hold the flash mode button for sometime. say 5-10 minutes. then if u have enough charge in your phone it will flash the kernel alone. if u are successful in flashing the kernel, then charge again for some hours , 2-4 hours then try to flash the entire ROM.
Read the Thread Recovering Bricked Phones. This will help. I recovered my phone following the method shown in that thread.
Be patient bro, you can recover your phone, just that it will take some time
Captain Droid said:
After disconnecting and connecting back the battery cable , you wont get access to flashboot/flashmode instantly. disconnecting the cable will reset the phone.
If you are getting red led means , its charging on low power. You should keep on wall charging for some hours , say 12 + hours.
After that try flashing the kernel alone , first . you will have to hold the flash mode button for sometime. say 5-10 minutes. then if u have enough charge in your phone it will flash the kernel alone. if u are successful in flashing the kernel, then charge again for some hours , 2-4 hours then try to flash the entire ROM.
Read the Thread Recovering Bricked Phones. This will help. I recovered my phone following the method shown in that thread.
Be patient bro, you can recover your phone, just that it will take some time
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Thanks for your fast reply, but I'm already put on wall charger 1 day, and the red led got turn off (no led at all). I think I'll try rubber band trick tonight and leave it till morning.
Hey guys I'm having a problem with my Acro S... It's bootloader is unlocked.
It was soft bricked due to a command I ran on Terminal Emulator (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0). After inputting that command I safely turned off the phone (Long press Power button, Choose Power off). After turning off, phone was completely dead, no response. It was on 80% battery for sure. It happened last week Saturday (July 20). I then charged my phone for 2days+. On the first day (July 21), no red LED appeared, on the 2nd day (July 22), constant red LED appeared, 3rd day (July 23), red LED disappeared. I then prepared my flashtool for flashing the JB firmware .211 KERNEL ONLY. So I plugged in my phone with volume down pressed, I pressed it for 15mins! My finger was f*cked, after 15mins... nothing happened, RED LED just disappeared and I just heard the Windows USB sound. Flash process didn't start, phone didn't give me a GREEN LED. I tried it again and again and miserably same thing happens, can't go to flash mode. Tried the same with volume up button for fastboot mode but still nothing happens, the RED LED just disappears!
Should I just leave my phone charging on the wall socket even if the RED LED disappeared? To get green LED?
SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME! I NEED MY PHONE SO BAD! :crying:
i was installing the prerooted/deodexed stock lt28h rom through cwm in the middle of instalation my phone rebooted and came into a sony bootloop i forced it shutdown by pressing power and volume up now its not starting not even charginig what to do please help :crying::crying:
Flash Tool
Be calm and sit back now put your phone to charger for whole night and then next day download flashtool and a firmware for you device and fladh it your device will breath again.......
tejasvi1 said:
i was installing the prerooted/deodexed stock lt28h rom through cwm in the middle of instalation my phone rebooted and came into a sony bootloop i forced it shutdown by pressing power and volume up now its not starting not even charginig what to do please help :crying::crying:
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we have desame problem my phone is not charging no ligths/led and cant power on after pressing power and up because im stuck in boothllop after afgrading via OTA.
theprint said:
we have desame problem my phone is not charging no ligths/led and cant power on after pressing power and up because im stuck in boothllop after afgrading via OTA.
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thks for sharing but i have alraedy solved my hard brick problem my phone is back and running normally

after switching off, it turned to automatically shut down at sony logo

Hi guys,
I am in trouble.
My only phone is C6502 and I flashed it with 5.1.1 taiwan rooted rom yesterday.
My procedure was:
1, use flashtool to make it as rom 4.4.2 230 and rooted
2, use cwm to flash it with 5.1.1 rooted taiwan rom
at the beginning, everything went well. however, after updated several apps in google store, it automatically shut down for several time. I opened sim card back and used a stick to power off. after restarting, it stuck at the SONY logo and automatically and repeatedly restart. I have to power off with a stick for the second time. Since this second, trouble came. No matter what I did, it just automatically shut down at the SONY logo. I tried to flash it back to several roms and nothing changed. (no green light while flashing). Still stuck and shut down at the sony logo (different roms ha
ve different styles of logo, so it shut down at different sony logos). Charging doesn't work. it showed the red led first following with a green blink, and then no more light. The flashtool cannot recognize it as ADB mode but as flashmode.
Could you please help me. I hope you guys could let me know what was going on and how can I unbrick it.
Thank you for your time in advance. Wish you the best.
ekk84 said:
Hi guys,
I am in trouble.
My only phone is C6502 and I flashed it with 5.1.1 taiwan rooted rom yesterday.
My procedure was:
1, use flashtool to make it as rom 4.4.2 230 and rooted
2, use cwm to flash it with 5.1.1 rooted taiwan rom
at the beginning, everything went well. however, after updated several apps in google store, it automatically shut down for several time. I opened sim card back and used a stick to power off. after restarting, it stuck at the SONY logo and automatically and repeatedly restart. I have to power off with a stick for the second time. Since this second, trouble came. No matter what I did, it just automatically shut down at the SONY logo. I tried to flash it back to several roms and nothing changed. (no green light while flashing). Still stuck and shut down at the sony logo (different roms ha
ve different styles of logo, so it shut down at different sony logos). Charging doesn't work. it showed the red led first following with a green blink, and then no more light. The flashtool cannot recognize it as ADB mode but as flashmode.
Could you please help me. I hope you guys could let me know what was going on and how can I unbrick it.
Thank you for your time in advance. Wish you the best.
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did it work? anything happened? what did you do? how did you do? im facing a similiar situation.
ekk84 said:
Charging doesn't work. it showed the red led first following with a green blink, and then no more light. The flashtool cannot recognize it as ADB mode but as flashmode.
Could you please help me. I hope you guys could let me know what was going on and how can I unbrick it.
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It's common ZL behaviour on broken battery controller (attached to battery). Reflashing will not help (it's hardware bug) but changing the battery (and it's faulty controller) definitely bring your Xperia back to life. I did it twice on mine (1st time it was not charging at all, stuck on Sony logo on boot, 2nd time it worked only with power cord connected).
After changing battery, just reflash it via official Sony PC Companion (if your bootloader still locked), then do whatever you want )
p.s. If you don't want wait / can't find new battery, you also can try short-pin method with current one. Idea is to bypass it's controller, so it will charge / work again. Search XDA to find out which pins need to be connected.

D855 Stuck in Bootloop-- Light Sensor and Vibration Still Work

I'm having a weird problem. Yesterday I was using my phone as I normally do-- texting, playing simple puzzle games, etc.-- when I noticed the battery was at about 2%. I wasn't very concerned so I tried to send one last text before it died. Shortly afterward it died with the usual "Powering Down" alert. I thought absolutely nothing of it and once I had access to a charger, I did what I normally do: I turn on my phone, wait for it to get past the LG splash screen, and I plug it in once it gets to the boot animation. I do this so my phone will turn on instead of going into charge only mode. Also, like usual, my phone's screen dimmed seconds after the boot animation began (I assume from my automatic light sensor settings), and I could feel it vibrating a little (also something it typically does upon boot).
However this is as far as it got. I was very confused when about an hour later, the phone still hadn't completed boot. I removed the battery, inserted it again, and tried once more telling myself that I would wait as long as I could instead of just an hour. Booting the second time gave me identical results-- everything is normal (light sensor response and vibration indicating the phone is powering on) yet it gets stuck. The only difference is that this time I got to see the entire bootloop.
After the boot animation screen has run for a while, I get the usual "Android is starting.... Optimizing app ## of ##" (#= actual numbers). Once it finishes, instead of booting my phone, it begins the boot animation again. If left alone it will cycle between the boot animation and the "Android is Starting" screen indefinitely.
TL;DR:
1. ) Caught in bootloop between boot animation screen and "Android is Starting... Optimizing app ## of ##" screen.
2. ) The screen still dims and there are little vibrations that usually tell me the phone is about to turn on.
I have tried:
- a hard reset- this yields only a slightly stronger vibration and it starts the bootloop again.
- Download mode- this does the same as the hard reset
- Removing battery for a while- no results
- Full charge to completely dead to full charge again on charge only mode- no results
I am running CM13 Nightlies from late February (not completely sure which exact date). Which I flashed without issue about a month ago. I do have Xposed and run various modules, but I was using nothing at the time and hadn't for about a month. My computer recognizes my phone as an LG G3 Device, but refuses to access any files.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Phone not starting.
First remove phone battery, insert it again, do not start phone. Connect your phone to original charger and charge it, while charging with the charger start your phone. Your phone should start if yes/no report me immediately. Your phone battery is failing to start your phone (Due to Low Voltage in battery). Replace with original battery.
jit1108 said:
First remove phone battery, insert it again, do not start phone. Connect your phone to original charger and charge it, while charging with the charger start your phone. Your phone should start if yes/no report me immediately. Your phone battery is failing to start your phone (Due to Low Voltage in battery). Replace with original battery.
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Alright, I removed the battery, reinserted it (without turning the phone on) plugged it into the wall charger (seeing the charge only battery animation), and attempted to turn it on. Whenever I try to turn my phone on after plugging it in, I get the LG splash screen followed by the battery charging animation. It never reaches the boot animation. I'll let it charge for a while and try again.
Thank you for the advice!
Okay, I let the phone charge completely and attempted to turn it on whilst plugged into the wall charger again. Unfortunately I had the same issue. The phone shows the LG splash screen and then the battery charging animation again-- no boot animation.
musiceas66 said:
Okay, I let the phone charge completely and attempted to turn it on whilst plugged into the wall charger again. Unfortunately I had the same issue. The phone shows the LG splash screen and then the battery charging animation again-- no boot animation.
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just start with a full reflash , if it doesnt boot up its simply broken
Jhinta said:
just start with a full reflash , if it doesnt boot up its simply broken
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Yeah, I'm trying to avoid a full reflash/data wipe. Since I haven't messed around with any Xposed modules or root apps, I also haven't backed up anything for quite a while. No abnormal apps were running before the battery died, which leads me to believe this can be solved somehow without a full wipe.
Also, I tried to use my boyfriend's battery to boot up my phone. I thought it might be a bad battery-- as some people on-line have mentioned. Unfortunately, it still refused to boot and it produced the same bootloop.
You see , if and not and this and that dont help . te only way to save files is to get acces by recovery or boot, you cant boot but possible you have recovery so start saving your files you need. when you have or dont have your files . you stil need your system to boot for that to happen, it needs to work. so flashing a default rom with wipe sould work if it doesnt you flash original if that doesnt work its dead
Verstuurd vanaf mijn LG-D855 met Tapatalk
I think I forgot to mention, I cannot access recovery mode. I have the latest TWRP installed, but attempting to boot into recovery gives me the same results-- endless bootanimation/ "Android is Starting" bootloop.
So no acces at all . so what do you do ? Read above! Anyway good luck
Verstuurd vanaf mijn LG-D855 met Tapatalk
Solved
I fixed my problem. It turns out I was being an idiot and got the method of entering recovery mode on the LG G3 confused with my Samsung tablet. I should be able to fix the bootloop on my own now. Thanks everyone for your help! Cheers to idiocy.
Hey, I have the exact same issue right now. Did you solve your problem, and how? I tried removing the battery and charging with original charger to 100%. I connected it to my PC, went into Download mode and clicked "Restore Upgrade Errors" in LG PC Suite. It successfully flashed the firmware update, then it said "Android is starting.... Optimizing app ## of ##". But after that it restarted into bootlop again. Also I noticed that sometimes it vibrates, and my LED (light sensor) doesn't light up anymore.
Any advice? I haven't tried replacing the battery yet.
simon710 said:
Hey, I have the exact same issue right now. Did you solve your problem, and how? I tried removing the battery and charging with original charger to 100%. I connected it to my PC, went into Download mode and clicked "Restore Upgrade Errors" in LG PC Suite. It successfully flashed the firmware update, then it said "Android is starting.... Optimizing app ## of ##". But after that it restarted into bootlop again. Also I noticed that sometimes it vibrates, and my LED (light sensor) doesn't light up anymore.
Any advice? I haven't tried replacing the battery yet.
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Hi i have the same problem with my lg g3 d855, after a reflash hi is start and do android optimazig after the tel is start and do this over and over. help please
Hi, the solution that worked for me was to
1. install drivers
2.install LGUP
3.flash "LGD855P_D855P10a_04" - found here https://drive.google.com/file/d/18tlmVNK_ba0jIapJy-Sz5wamxbIXh8xH/view

Nexus not booting up. Only fastboot and download mode while charging

Hello there everyone! Let me explain my problem:
Backstory
I have a Samsung Galaxy Nexus GT-i9250 maguro since 7-6 years or so. I've been flashing some roms into it and everything went well since a week ago.
I had installed from a very long time this version of CM "cm-13.0-20160921-NIGHTLY-maguro" and I have not updated it, so I basically was running that from a very long time.
Three weeks ago the phone started behaving strangely, it was closing automatically, and I thought that it was a temperature problem (being a very hot summer) so I did not worry too much.
Everything was working fine, charging and connecting via USB .
Problem
Last week the phone once again died and I tried to boot it up normally as I would normally do, but nothing happened, not even the Google logo popped up.
So I removed the battery and put it back in, the phone booted up to the Google logo, then after two or three seconds the Google logo flashed like brightness went up to 100% and black screen.
Went into fastboot, booted TWRP to see if that was working, and the recovery was working fine.
Things got worse.
At the moment
I cannot get the phone to do anything if it's not connected to a power source.
If the phone is connected via USB, or charger, I can get it to go ONLY on fastboot, and download mode. If I unplug the phone while on fastboot or download mode, the screen brightness goes up to 100% for half a second then it glitches out and goes into black screen immediatelly. I can not access bootloader nor recovery mode from fastboot, because the phone reboots, shows the Google logo and then it dies.
What I tried
Thinking that maybe the ROM went crazy, I followed this guide to flash the phone with all the original ROM and recovery (I downloaded "yakju-jwr66y-factory-4cadea65" and followed the instructions of the guide).
Nothing changed, if the phone is not connected to a power source, it is basically dead, if I put it to a power source it shows the charging logo for a second, then black screen, and I can only boot up fastboot and download mode.
I don't know if this might help but I've also tested the battery voltage and it seems to be fine.
Last thing, if I connect the phone to the PC (with the battery or without) every 2 seconds it shows up that an unidentified device is being detected.
I currently am using a laptop running windows 8.
On my desktop computer the same thing happens (the device detection) but from device manager I see a OMAP4400 (something like that) popping up but at the moment I cannot use my desktop PC since I'm traveling.
I would really like to know what happened to my phone, any answer will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Update [solved]
After doing some research and trying different methods I gave up. But then I realized that maybe trying the stupidest thing could be the solution, so I went to a phone shop and asked them if they had some sort of test battery that I could plug in my phone temporarily to see if it was booting up.
Turns out, it was the battery.
I bought a new battery and now the phone runs smoothly like it's new.
I feel so dumb and I'm so sorry if I've made some of you people waste your time by reading the poem of the first post.
Hopefully this will someday help someone that will have the same problem of my GT-I9250!
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