Hi guys,
I was working on a fix for my rom. I made it, went to CWM and flashed it. Then rebooted and evrything was absolutely fine. Then I rebooted into to wipe cache and dalvik cache and did both successfully. When I rebooted, my phone got stuck at SONY logo. I held the volume up and power button for around 5 sec but the phone did not vibrate once. It did not vibrate at all. Instead the SONY logo slowly disappeared and the phone went to a blank screen( NOT powered off ). Then it automatically powered off. Then I tried flashmode, no luck. Nothing for fastboot too. Trying to power on/soft-reset/hard-reset is of no use. The phone does nothing.
I checked the soft brick thread . It said that hard reset will lock up the phone until the battery dies. But I did not do a hard reset at all.
Any help will be appreciated.
EDIT:- Flashtool says that phone is connected with USB debugging off. Nothing happens when I connect my phone to a wall charger too.
Thanks,
abcdjdj
abcdjdj said:
Hi guys,
I was working on a fix for my rom. I made it, went to CWM and flashed it. Then rebooted and evrything was absolutely fine. Then I rebooted into to wipe cache and dalvik cache and did both successfully. When I rebooted, my phone got stuck at SONY logo. I held the volume up and power button for around 5 sec but the phone did not vibrate once. It did not vibrate at all. Instead the SONY logo slowly disappeared and the phone went to a blank screen( NOT powered off ). Then it automatically powered off. Then I tried flashmode, no luck. Nothing for fastboot too. Trying to power on/soft-reset/hard-reset is of no use. The phone does nothing.
I checked the soft brick thread . It said that hard reset will lock up the phone until the battery dies. But I did not do a hard reset at all.
Any help will be appreciated.
EDIT:- Flashtool says that phone is connected with USB debugging off. Nothing happens when I connect my phone to a wall charger too.
Thanks,
abcdjdj
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The Sony Ericsson Update software detects your phone? :S
ruvelro said:
The Sony Ericsson Update software detects your phone? :S
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Can't go into flashmode at all, but flashtool says that the device is connected with USB Debugging OFF.
then u have hope... u will get it to connect eventually
XperiaMT27 said:
then u have hope... u will get it to connect eventually
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The guide says that after charging for some time, the red led should appear. But my phone had around 80% charge when this incident occured. Anyway, I have kept it for wall-charging now.[NO LED light appears - nothing just blank]
if charging does not help , letting the battery die out might bring the fone out of bootloop
XperiaMT27 said:
if charging does not help , letting the battery die out might bring the fone out of bootloop
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But there is no bootloop! The phone is just blank dead and is not responding to anything.
have u noticed the fone does not respond immediately after starting, even if its charging the led goes blank for a while and then comes back. ur fone might be stuck there
XperiaMT27 said:
have u noticed the fone does not respond immediately after starting, even if its charging the led goes blank for a while and then comes back. ur fone might be stuck there
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I have kept it for charging since 1/2 an hour now. Still no led. And I have not noticed anything like what you say. Anyway, what should I do then?
one thing for sure, if ur kernel is fine.. its just a soft brick. will take time and patience. best of luck
XperiaMT27 said:
one thing for sure, if ur kernel is fine.. its just a soft brick. will take time and patience. best of luck
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I am quite sure that it is not a hard brick so I will just wait. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. Thanks for your help
Have been charging the phone since around 3 hrs now. Still nothing. Should I continue charging it or should I just wait till the battery drains? Also, I think that removing and re-inserting the battery should work but I am scared to do that.
Please help me guys..:crying:
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abcdjdj said:
Hi guys,
I was working on a fix for my rom. I made it, went to CWM and flashed it. Then rebooted and evrything was absolutely fine. Then I rebooted into to wipe cache and dalvik cache and did both successfully. When I rebooted, my phone got stuck at SONY logo. I held the volume up and power button for around 5 sec but the phone did not vibrate once. It did not vibrate at all. Instead the SONY logo slowly disappeared and the phone went to a blank screen( NOT powered off ). Then it automatically powered off. Then I tried flashmode, no luck. Nothing for fastboot too. Trying to power on/soft-reset/hard-reset is of no use. The phone does nothing.
I checked the soft brick thread . It said that hard reset will lock up the phone until the battery dies. But I did not do a hard reset at all.
Any help will be appreciated.
EDIT:- Flashtool says that phone is connected with USB debugging off. Nothing happens when I connect my phone to a wall charger too.
Thanks,
abcdjdj
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go to sus and repair phone,worked for me
You said you tried hold VolUP+Power... Have you tried VolUP+VolDOWN+Power at the same time? Hold for like 5 sec or more...
Chronic2k13 said:
go to sus and repair phone,worked for me
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SUS is for locked bootloader and anyway that also requires flashmode ( green led ). My phone is absolutely dead. Tried EMMA for unlocked bootloader, but still phone refuses to go into download mode ( green led ).
the_biu said:
You said you tried hold VolUP+Power... Have you tried VolUP+VolDOWN+Power at the same time? Hold for like 5 sec or more...
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Nothing happens.
abcdjdj said:
Nothing happens.
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I had a similar problem. I rebooted my phone after wiping system, and the phone just showed a black blank screen. I just held VolUP+VolDOWN and then held Power too. After, I felt a vibration and released the buttons and the phone rebooted so I could get back to recovery TWRP. There I used adb to solve the problem.
Maybe you should just wait to your phone completly discharge... And then charge again.
the_biu said:
I had a similar problem. I rebooted my phone after wiping system, and the phone just showed a black blank screen. I just held VolUP+VolDOWN and then held Power too. After, I felt a vibration and released the buttons and the phone rebooted so I could get back to recovery TWRP. There I used adb to solve the problem.
Maybe you should just wait to your phone completly discharge... And then charge again.
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You must have actually pressed vol up+power only. One vibration means a soft-reset. Yes, I am waiting for the phone to get completely discharged. Following this - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33032165&postcount=2
" You need to leave the phone on a charger to see when the battery dies. " That's what I am doing. Thanks for your help.
Has anyone tried this tool - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2173363
Also, are there any other tools which can completely rebuild the bootloader and all other partitions?
There is a Qualcomm tool for your device, u tried that?
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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.
The $niper said:
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?
The $niper said:
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?
The $niper said:
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:
Last updates:
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.
goodnightPal said:
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,
I woke up to find my note2 stuck on the samsung logo, so i went to the recovery menu and cleared the cache. When I went to restart the phone, it wont start up.
1) Nothing appears on the phone
2) When i press the power button, the red light on top flashes but thats it
3) it doesnt go to recovery mode with the power, vol+
4) it doesnt go to download mode with the power, vol-
5) Battery should be fully charged, when plug into the phone and the wall, nothing happens even when i left it there for half a day.
6) Switched out with friends battery and nothing happens as well.
7) Plug into PC Mac, multiple computers, nothing happens on the phone or computer. Nothing is detected on that usb port.
Anyone know what I can do to try and fix this before I send it to a repair shop?
Thanks
I think u r missing HOME button to press while going recovery or download
jdomadia said:
I think u r missing HOME button to press while going recovery or download
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Just tried both with home button pressed. Same thing, nothing happens but the red light flashes.
Thanks
Which firmware version was there?
jdomadia said:
Which firmware version was there?
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Sorry man, I have no idea. I rooted the phone when i first got it and i haven't change/update anything since then. Got the phone around December 2012 in Hong Kong.
lilming263 said:
Sorry man, I have no idea. I rooted the phone when i first got it and i haven't change/update anything since then. Got the phone around December 2012 in Hong Kong.
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In switched off condition, if it takes charge then it must be go to DOWNLOAD MODE (home+power+vol.down). Then restock through odin or use 'mskip toolkit'
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lilming263 said:
Hi,
I woke up to find my note2 stuck on the samsung logo, so i went to the recovery menu and cleared the cache. When I went to restart the phone, it wont start up.
1) Nothing appears on the phone
2) When i press the power button, the red light on top flashes but thats it
3) it doesnt go to recovery mode with the power, vol+
4) it doesnt go to download mode with the power, vol-
5) Battery should be fully charged, when plug into the phone and the wall, nothing happens even when i left it there for half a day.
6) Switched out with friends battery and nothing happens as well.
7) Plug into PC Mac, multiple computers, nothing happens on the phone or computer. Nothing is detected on that usb port.
Anyone know what I can do to try and fix this before I send it to a repair shop?
Thanks
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few days it happened to my phone also, follow thread,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2351472
Good luck.
nitol said:
In switched off condition, if it takes charge then it must be go to DOWNLOAD MODE (home+power+vol.down). Then restock through odin or use 'mskip toolkit'
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The phone does not respond while the charger is pluged in and cannot go to Download mode.
apachiee_pk said:
few days it happened to my phone also, follow thread,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2351472
Good luck.
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Thanks, Looks like I'll have to send it in.
Hello.
few days ago i have benn installed Rom (2,7) on my Xperia S. I noticed the first reboot after installation dont always works, i mean phone will shutt down but dont turn on. my phone stopped turning on during SONY logo or when on display was triangle with tools. everyime my phone won't turn on i did a flash stock rom and everything was okay. yesterday i installen the same rom but v2,9 and after discharging my battery phone won't turn on. no response for flash mode or fastboot mode. sometimes when i start charging my phone is displaying SONY logo and shut down or sometimes triangle with tools. what can i do?
i'm sorry for my mistakes. i'm not perfect polyglot.
BaltazarIX said:
Hello.
few days ago i have benn installed Rom (2,7) on my Xperia S. I noticed the first reboot after installation dont always works, i mean phone will shutt down but dont turn on. my phone stopped turning on during SONY logo or when on display was triangle with tools. everyime my phone won't turn on i did a flash stock rom and everything was okay. yesterday i installen the same rom but v2,9 and after discharging my battery phone won't turn on. no response for flash mode or fastboot mode. sometimes when i start charging my phone is displaying SONY logo and shut down or sometimes triangle with tools. what can i do?
i'm sorry for my mistakes. i'm not perfect polyglot.
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Ok, first let the phone plugged into the wall outlet, not through usb. Let it charge at least 48 hours. After that, flash again the ROM. You should have enough battery for the flashing to go through without any problems.
P.S. While the phone is charging do not press any buttons. Do not try to power it on, just let it be.
skywalkerdroid said:
Ok, first let the phone plugged into the wall outlet, not through usb. Let it charge at least 48 hours. After that, flash again the ROM. You should have enough battery for the flashing to go through without any problems.
P.S. While the phone is charging do not press any buttons. Do not try to power it on, just let it be.
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ok, i will try it. my phone was charging 24 hours and still no response but during charging i was pressing buttons etc.
Try to hold power button + vol up, then wait for 3 vibration or you can check here :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38567003
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try this topic, it works for me
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1849170
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Try to hold power button + vol up, then wait for 3 vibration or you can check here :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38567003
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hernanrod said:
try this topic, it works for me
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1849170
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very helpful links. thank you!
I was able to flash my device. Flashing finished succeed but phone still won't to turn on :/
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device had too low energy to turn on. now everything is ok. this is quote which helped me:
~ If you get bootloops, try to flash between loops. As soon as you notice loop, hold volume down and plug the phone into PC with FlashTool ready. Once the loop starts you have very little time to flash, before the loops drain the battery. If you can not flash, the battery will have to die and phone reset. Then start over with red led.
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Hey guys,
about 8 or 9 hours ago I updated to 20140209 Nightly via CM Updater.
Everything went fine, phone booted as usual. But then after some minutes of using the phone started lagging got warm around the camera and the screen froze.
After that I pressed and held the power button until the phone rebooted.
Then things went weird. The phone seemed to crash while booting about 3-4 times.
Some times while the CM Boot logo was there, sometimes when the HTC logo what there.
And then the screen went black, Battery LED went off and the phone seems dead.
I cant get it back on. ADB doesn't work. Holding Power Button doesn't work.
And every other button combination (like Power+Vol. Down for 2min) doesn't work.
The phone was plugged into the wall charger for about 7 hours now and still not a single reaction.
Not even the PC gets any connection so its not APX I think.
Is there any way to fix this ?
.K' said:
Hey guys,
about 8 or 9 hours ago I updated to 20140209 Nightly via CM Updater.
Everything went fine, phone booted as usual. But then after some minutes of using the phone started lagging got warm around the camera and the screen froze.
After that I pressed and held the power button until the phone rebooted.
Then things went weird. The phone seemed to crash while booting about 3-4 times.
Some times while the CM Boot logo was there, sometimes when the HTC logo what there.
And then the screen went black, Battery LED went off and the phone seems dead.
I cant get it back on. ADB doesn't work. Holding Power Button doesn't work.
And every other button combination (like Power+Vol. Down for 2min) doesn't work.
The phone was plugged into the wall charger for about 7 hours now and still not a single reaction.
Not even the PC gets any connection so its not APX I think.
Is there any way to fix this ?
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Are you flash the boot.img from build 20140209 I thing there have kernel changes
Update compat-wireless from R5.SP6.01 to R5.SP7.01 this is kernel changes
Sounds more of a motherboard failure to me..
SlashSpeed said:
Sounds more of a motherboard failure to me..
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Not even close to me..As Thant say's did you flash boot.img? And try another ROM..
.K' said:
Hey guys,
Is there any way to fix this ?
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Connect the phone in charger and start in bootloader and try to go in recovery and charge the phone. After this flash the boot.img
Thant said:
Connect the phone in charger and start in bootloader and try to go in recovery and charge the phone. After this flash the boot.img
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Seems like the phone is completely dead.
I don't think it's software related.
I cant even boot into bootloader or recovery.
The phone simply doesn't do anything. :/
.K' said:
Seems like the phone is completely dead.
I don't think it's software related.
I cant even boot into bootloader or recovery.
The phone simply doesn't do anything. :/
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Try change the battery or try to find battery extendet pack to charge it from the back pin maybe the battery die just I think it is not the mainboard
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!!