OK guys so I got my xperia zl today, updated to 4.3 (.569), unlocked the boot loader, then tried flashing a CWM, now the phone is utterly and totally bricked, I tried the volume buttons + power button trick nothing, won't turn on at all, no fastboot, no flashmode, pc companion wont recognize it, the only thing I can get out of it is a single vibrate if I hold down the reset button at the back but even after that I get nothing, at all, the only thing that does anything is holding the reset button, any help would be greatly appreciated and if one of you magnificent people can get my phone working again I will send you money through paypal as a thank you,
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DracoManX69 said:
OK guys so I got my xperia zl today, updated to 4.3 (.569), unlocked the boot loader, then tried flashing a CWM, now the phone is utterly and totally bricked, I tried the volume buttons + power button trick nothing, won't turn on at all, no fastboot, no flashmode, pc companion wont recognize it, the only thing I can get out of it is a single vibrate if I hold down the reset button at the back but even after that I get nothing, at all, the only thing that does anything is holding the reset button, any help would be greatly appreciated and if one of you magnificent people can get my phone working again I will send you money through paypal as a thank you,
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go to service centre they wont recognise if the phone has unlocked bootloader or not bcoz it doesnt start !so they will jst replace it tell them that u were updating it to 4.3 and afterwards it didnt boot.dont tell them u have unlocked bootloader or any WARRENTY RELATED STUFF.u will get a new one for free
DracoManX69 said:
OK guys so I got my xperia zl today, updated to 4.3 (.569), unlocked the boot loader, then tried flashing a CWM, now the phone is utterly and totally bricked, I tried the volume buttons + power button trick nothing, won't turn on at all, no fastboot, no flashmode, pc companion wont recognize it, the only thing I can get out of it is a single vibrate if I hold down the reset button at the back but even after that I get nothing, at all, the only thing that does anything is holding the reset button, any help would be greatly appreciated and if one of you magnificent people can get my phone working again I will send you money through paypal as a thank you,
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This phone doesnt have any Volume +/- power button trick. It ONLY has the yellow reset button. Its a pain in the A*S!
Try a few things first.
1) When you hold down the yellow reset button, are you ONLY holding it down for a few seconds, and it vibrates ONCE?
Have you tried holding it down for 10 seconds, until it vibrates TWICE, indicating it has powered off completely, and THEN try connecting it?
2) If step 1 got your phone to power off completely try:
-Connecting your phone to your PC via USB with the volume DOWN button held and see if you get a GREEN L.E.D. If you do you have
successfully entered flash mode, in which case you can simply flash an FTF file with flashtool.
-Connecting your phone to your PC via USB with the volume UP button held and see if you get a BLUE L.E.D. If you do you have
successfully entered fastboot. From here, as long as you have ADB and your devices drivers installed on your computer, you can flash
a boot.img or "Kernel" with a fastboot command in a command window (fastboot flash boot boot.img). The easiest way to get a kernel or
boot.img with a baked in recovery is to download the latest Cyanogenmod, unzip and extract the boot.img, and flash it via fastboot.
Since you have an unlocked bootloader already, your device should be able to use an AOSP kernel.
From there you should be able to at least boot into recovery, and flash something from your SD card.
Id recommend just flashing the latest Cyanogenmod just to get your device up and running. From there you should be able to follow steps
get back to stock if thats what your looking for.
I hope at least one of these options work.
If not, like that last guy said, take it to a service center and get it checked out.
GOOOOD LUUUUCK!!
bhavstech said:
go to service centre they wont recognise that if the phone has unlocked bootloader bcoz it doesnt start !so they will jst replace it tell them that u were updating it to 4.3 and afterwards it didnt boot.dont tell them u have unlocked bootloader or any WARRENTY RELATED STUFF.u will get a new one for free
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Yeah man that would've been my first guess at what to do if i didn't get it fixed but FUKKEN SOLVED YESSSSSSSSSSS, intially all i could get was a single buzz holding the reset button, but then (out of fustration) i decided to hold it past the first vibrate, then 3 vibrates happened in a row, next thing i know flashmode and fastboot mode working :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :good: :good: :good: :good: :victory: :victory: :victory:
DracoManX69 said:
Yeah man that would've been my first guess at what to do if i didn't get it fixed but FUKKEN SOLVED YESSSSSSSSSSS, intially all i could get was a single buzz holding the reset button, but then (out of fustration) i decided to hold it past the first vibrate, then 3 vibrates happened in a row, next thing i know flashmode and fastboot mode working :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :good: :good: :good: :good: :victory: :victory: :victory:
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haha yeah i had to hold my down for a bit longer idk why, and it vibrated 3 times, then i got it back into fastboot/flashmode and fixed it from there, but thanks anyway
DracoManX69 said:
haha yeah i had to hold my down for a bit longer idk why, and it vibrated 3 times, then i got it back into fastboot/flashmode and fixed it from there, but thanks anyway
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All ZL's are like that. Hold down till 1 vibration for reboot. Hold down till 3 vibrations for power off. The yellow reset button will not power on the device however. I figured I'd check just incase my power button decided to go for a sh*t.
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Hey guys, currently 3AM here and Ive been racking my brains for hours trying to get something ...anything to happen. Im stuck on the GPE boot screen (just a black screen with "google" in white), when I hold down Power+Volume+ it simply reboots and I end up back on that screen. The device was rooted (CWM) and was running 4.4.2, it was originally running sense but Ive been using stock for quite some time now without issue. I tried installing the new OTA update for Android 5.0 and thats when this happened. As Im getting nowhere, my current next step is to get some sleep and leave the phone to simply run out of battery (as I currently cant even turn it off, the screen is stuck on), and hopefully thatll get me somewhere. In the meanwhile, if anyone can offer some guidance it would be greatly appreciated, from what I can tell, it isnt bricked - but it may as well be because I have no way of interfacing with the thing (that Im aware of). Google has also failed me as I cant find any similar cases and most of the guides assume am able to access my device via ADB or Recovery.
Im willing to do whatever to get this phone working as I planned to factory reset anyway.
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: Title should say cant access recovery! it was late =[
are you able to get the device into fastboot? you should be able to flash an RUU zip if you can.
I had the same problem. Use power + volume up to switch off and immediately just press the vol down button. You might have to try it a lot of times for it to work. It took me atleast an hour to do it lol.
jdgreat4 said:
I had the same problem. Use power + volume up to switch off and immediately just press the vol down button. You might have to try it a lot of times for it to work. It took me atleast an hour to do it lol.
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Thank you so much! managed to get it into bootloader, massive relief! Thanks for the help guys.
Hi Guys,
My Z1 Compact is stuck on the initial loading screen when you first turn it on, so it just says SONY in the middle and xperia on the bottom and does not get any further. It got into this state after I turned it off by holding Power and Volume Up. I have tried various combinations of buttons to try force it into a recovery mode of some sort but does not seem to get there. I can get it into fastboot mode but it is still bootloader locked and I do not really know all the command in this interface.
Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
kdodz said:
Hi Guys,
My Z1 Compact is stuck on the initial loading screen when you first turn it on, so it just says SONY in the middle and xperia on the bottom and does not get any further. It got into this state after I turned it off by holding Power and Volume Up. I have tried various combinations of buttons to try force it into a recovery mode of some sort but does not seem to get there. I can get it into fastboot mode but it is still bootloader locked and I do not really know all the command in this interface.
Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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Which ROM version? Rooted? Recovery installed? Any mods applied, etc.?
levone1 said:
Which ROM version? Rooted? Recovery installed? Any mods applied, etc.?
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Hi Guys, I have solved the issue. Looks like the bootloader was corrupt. Re-imaged phone using flash tool.
Connect the flash tool by holding the the volume down and connecting via usb.
Then flashed the image off the flash tools website. NOTE: you have to connect phone after the "preparing files" stage otherwise phone will disconnect before flashing commences.
Anyone needs help with this specific issue please post, it was frustrating as hell trying to resolve.
Hey all,
So a few months back i got the screen changed at my local store, they did a ****ty job and the volume buttons have always been sticky, today they finally got completely stuck so i held down the power button and powered off the phone so i could try and mash they free (probably a bad idea but what else could i do?).
Got the buttons alittle free but now when i went to turn it on its stuck in a boot loop only getting to the white htc logo, if i hold down the vol dwn button i get a silver htc logo instead and occasionally i get the red charge notification led to come on too but then it goes back into its loop.
Somehow after hours of playing with the buttons ive managed to get it into the bootloader screen, the fisrt time i tried recovery and it sent me back into the loop. so is there anything else i can do at this point. i desperately need this phone for work tomorrow. Will the download mode or bootloader option help me? it took like an hour of button mashing to get this screen up so i dont want to waste it.
If I can just get the phone started again i dont care about the volume for now i can get it fixed later with a new screen i just really need my phone.
Sorry for the spelling its 11pm here and im rushing
TIA!
Joel
If you're still in the recovery screen, try to restore a backup.
If not, try "adb reboot-recovery" from an adb shell in command prompt. I had about 3 seconds with adb access with the blue text at the top during the boot loop. This got me into recovery mode to restore a NANDROID.
Sounds like you might have a stuck button though?
Hello everyone
I need help, I tried to unlock my boot loader and root in the process I have bricked my pixel 2xl. It doest turn on, can't boot into recovery and whatever.
Pc detects the phone as
QUALCOMM HD-USB OD LOADER 9008.
Is there any way I can get it to work?
Any lead will be much appreciated.
chethansharmakp said:
Hello everyone
I need help, I tried to unlock my boot loader and root in the process I have bricked my pixel 2xl. It doest turn on, can't boot into recovery and whatever.
Pc detects the phone as
QUALCOMM HD-USB OD LOADER 9008.
Is there any way I can get it to work?
Any lead will be much appreciated.
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If you can't get it to turn on you're in trouble. But try holding the power button, like for a minute. Time yourself. If it tries to boot let go of the power button. If tries to boot but won't, then do the same think except this time continue to hold the power button until the device vibrates. It'll try to boot a few times but wait for the vibration.
Thank you. I have tried switching on, with volume key combo etc. No result.
try it ,