Hello,
My Xperia S which I bought in August 2012 doesn't boot anymore. A few weeks after I bought it, I unlocked the Bootlader and installed custom Kernels and ROMs and it worked fine all the time. I was on KA 22.1 SSpeed and Advanced Stock 17 and wanted to try something else, so I installed XZXperience 2 and the Elite V2-Kernel.
Well, after that, the phone worked fine but I noticed some heavy battery drain. Charging took waaay longer than usual (full charge about 4 hours with the plug) and the drain was immense. BetterBatteryStats showed me a Deep Sleep of 98 % while I lost about 15 % of battery life in ONE hour, that can't be somehow. The phone however worked still fine.
So I decided to flash the Advanced Stock Kernel again but the drain didn't stop, it was as before. I thought that the Battery Stats are maybe corrupted, so I let the phone discharge itself completely (didn't take long) and wanted to charge it fully. When I plugged in the charging cable, the first unusual thing was, that the red light appeared instantly upon connecting. Normally it would take a second or so. The second thing is, there was no logo, no battery symbol, just nothing but the red light when I plugged the cable in.
I slept a night and after I woke up, I disconnected the cable and wanted to start the phone, but nothing happened. Still, the only thing the phone does, is lighting red, when it's plugged in. Fastboot or Flash-Mode don't work, the computer doesn't recognize anything.
So...what to do? it appeared after I flashed the new ROM and Kernel, but I don't think it has something to do with them...the drain was also there with the Advanced Stock Kernel. Although I must say, that I often had flashing errors, often the device said something like:
format_volume make_extf4fs failed on /dev/block/mmcblk1p2
To me, it looks like the battery has a deep discharge and is dead, but I don't know, what could I probably do before sending it in? If the battery is dead the warranty should still be there, even with the unlocked bootlader, am I right?
Best regards
when you power on your phone what happen?
Ur phone boots while charging,but not charging.If this the case keep ur phone in ur hands for 10-15 min.Enter into recovery while led is pink.Flash other kernel.Else take the battery out charge it,enter into recovery flash other kernel
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mharckk said:
when you power on your phone what happen?
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The phone doesn't start at all, nothing happens, when I push the power button.
RISHI RAJ said:
Ur phone boots while charging,but not charging.If this the case keep ur phone in ur hands for 10-15 min.Enter into recovery while led is pink.Flash other kernel.Else take the battery out charge it,enter into recovery flash other kernel
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I can't go into recovery, because the phone does nothing, I can't start it. There's still warranty on the phone, so I'd rather not like to remove the battery...
ok so its no screen at all,
when u pressed power+volume up for 10 seconds does it vibrate?
Already tried, it doesn't...even after holding for minutes.
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Already tried, it doesn't...even after holding for minutes.
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You could open the phone and disconnect the battery, or let the phone sit long enough for it the battery to die.
This will reset the phone.
Only problem is how long to let the battery die, as there is no way to tell.
Once the phone resets make flashtool ready to flash just the kernel, and use a rubber band to hold the volume down button in.
With flashtool waiting and button pressed plug in to PC.
It should give red led for about 10 minutes then flash.
You can read more tips & tricks in the RECOVERY thread in my signature.
From Jaramie's LT28at
Well, the incident happened a few weeks ago and after I charged it over night and it didn't work, I left it there for nearly two weeks and nothing has changed so far. In your post, you said, that you had to wait for 51 hours until your battery died but two weeks is quite long I think...
What do you suggest? I think, I'll send it in, if the battery is broken, the warranty should cover it.
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Well, the incident happened a few weeks ago and after I charged it over night and it didn't work, I left it there for nearly two weeks and nothing has changed so far. In your post, you said, that you had to wait for 51 hours until your battery died but two weeks is quite long I think...
What do you suggest? I think, I'll send it in, if the battery is broken, the warranty should cover it.
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I would call Sony and get the ball rolling on a warranty claim.
Sorry for your loss, and good luck
From Jaramie's LT28at
Sliverer said:
Well, the incident happened a few weeks ago and after I charged it over night and it didn't work, I left it there for nearly two weeks and nothing has changed so far. In your post, you said, that you had to wait for 51 hours until your battery died but two weeks is quite long I think...
What do you suggest? I think, I'll send it in, if the battery is broken, the warranty should cover it.
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Simple fix I think. This has worked for Xperia S and Xperia U. Both phone i brought as "DAMAGED". LOL. Battery is toooooo dead for the phone to detect it..... Use a wall charger to charge the battery up . I used a charger off ebay ($2 including post) that was for a Galaxy I9000 battery (old phone) and used wires and taped them to the battery..... Didn't even need to fully charge it! just like a jump start sort of thing...
Came up with the idea as at work we have to "jumpstart" car batteries to trick the charger into charging them
If you have a DC power source that puts out 4.2v at 350mA +/- 50mA then TRY IT and please let me know.
Stifilz
Well, I have a lithium charger for round-type-batteries, but we're talking about lithium here and if the battery is really damaged, it could be quite dangerous to charge it. The output of the charger is 1A, too, quite a bit higher.
I tried a last thing and took the battery out but it still only shows a red light while charging, so I'm going to try to send it in.
R: Xperia S dead?
IT happened The same for Me...
I was very worried..
I plugged to charge for 21h... Unplugged but Nothing!!
So i replugged iT and watched for 1H.. Suddenly IT Booted(But opened only logo Sony And Crashed!) So i Tried to unplugg and power on the phone but nothing.. No booted!!
So after 25m iT rebooted and like a furet i dropped my phone from The table and like a crazy tried to go in recovery.. So it Gone in Recovery i've Wiped ALL And Reinstalled Fw-Kernel.
So now i'm using The Xperia S
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Well, I have a lithium charger for round-type-batteries, but we're talking about lithium here and if the battery is really damaged, it could be quite dangerous to charge it. The output of the charger is 1A, too, quite a bit higher.
I tried a last thing and took the battery out but it still only shows a red light while charging, so I'm going to try to send it in.
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Still not going then??? Might as well order a charger for a couple of bucks off ebay...
All right, I got my phone back from the support, they repaired it and it's working now.
mharckk said:
ok so its no screen at all,
when u pressed power+volume up for 10 seconds does it vibrate?
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i have the same problem, if i put to charge just red led comes.
and if i press power+vol up nothing happens.. some time later the red led went off so then i tried power+vol up i got 3 vibration,
but phone is not booting, so i tried to charge later red led came in while but now power + vol up is also not working.
please help. i have Xperia SL (LT26ii), sorry for bad english.
Thank you
paddukutti said:
i have the same problem, if i put to charge just red led comes.
and if i press power+vol up nothing happens.. some time later the red led went off so then i tried power+vol up i got 3 vibration,
but phone is not booting, so i tried to charge later red led came in while but now power + vol up is also not working.
please help. i have Xperia SL (LT26ii), sorry for bad english.
Thank you
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have you tried this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1849170
you didnt brick it did you?
Thanks
mharckk said:
have you tried this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1849170
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Thank u sooooo much buddy..
i got enough knowledge by this link, but i tried different tweak method to get my phone back with help of this link which you suggested..
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So I had this phone for a while now its starting to act up.
I pretty much killed the phone to 0-1% then plugged it in to charge and left it for 8 hours (sleeping), I wake up and find it only charged 3%, wow seriously? I fiddle around with it and it goes back to 0%?
Problem? Anyone had similar issue?
P.S I did search first, couldn't find any...
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So I had this phone for a while now its starting to act up.
I pretty much killed the phone to 0-1% then plugged it in to charge and left it for 8 hours (sleeping), I wake up and find it only charged 3%, wow seriously? I fiddle around with it and it goes back to 0%?
Problem? Anyone had similar issue?
P.S I did search first, couldn't find any...
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Are you using a custom recovery ?
MrPhilo said:
So I had this phone for a while now its starting to act up.
I pretty much killed the phone to 0-1% then plugged it in to charge and left it for 8 hours (sleeping), I wake up and find it only charged 3%, wow seriously? I fiddle around with it and it goes back to 0%?
Problem? Anyone had similar issue?
P.S I did search first, couldn't find any...
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It's probably a dead battery or hardware issue. I'd go to your seller and ask him what to do. Most likely you'll get a new device!
TIP: Try to charge it through your USB-port in your laptop/pc, perhaps the power supply is damaged?
I've had this problem. It's not really a problem, and it's easy to solve.
Find a different charger, like an iphone charger (worked for me) but other chargers than the HTC One will work :-D
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Its completely turned off now, im charging it but the red light just keeps flashing on an off, gonna leave it in for 1-2 hours and see how it is.
Okay, I left it for around 1 hour but the red light has stop flashing, problem?
Anyone? I tried another charger like the iPhone but same result... HELP!
Have you tried holding the power button down for 10 seconds, it equivalent to a battery pull, and then see if it will charge.
John.
are u using custom recovery?
Now, the CWM Recovery has a bug that the phone cannot be charged when power off
I've faced your situation, I got into bootloader, flash back the official recovery first through bootloader, try your phone can be charged when power off
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Have you tried holding the power button down for 10 seconds, it equivalent to a battery pull, and then see if it will charge.
John.
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I can't turn the thing on but I connected the usb via to the computer and the notification is blinking red, I assume its charging, the thing is yesterday I unlocked the bootloader (was at 95%), rooted it etc then started playing with it until it reached 1% and left it to charge overnight but it only went to 3% :/
Hopefully it charges fully after 8 hour of leaving it plugged in to computer while I go to work.
I would not leave you phone charging unattended, as lin-ion battery sometimes vent flames, when they are faulty and you don't want your house burning down.
John.
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I can't turn the thing on but I connected the usb via to the computer and the notification is blinking red, I assume its charging, the thing is yesterday I unlocked the bootloader (was at 95%), rooted it etc then started playing with it until it reached 1% and left it to charge overnight but it only went to 3% :/
Hopefully it charges fully after 8 hour of leaving it plugged in to computer while I go to work.
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I would not leave you phone charging unattended, as lin-ion battery sometimes vent flames, when they are faulty and you don't want your house burning down.
John.
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Hmmm, I might bring it to work, but I can't get it swapped due to bootloader, fml.
H-Cim said:
It's probably a dead battery or hardware issue. I'd go to your seller and ask him what to do. Most likely you'll get a new device!
TIP: Try to charge it through your USB-port in your laptop/pc, perhaps the power supply is damaged?
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That tip about plugging it into my laptop absolutely worked! I was panicking for a bit because my phone was stuck at the 0% boot screen and I thought it was bricked. But I followed this tip and it instantly started charging. Thank so much
Hello! let's just cut to the chase. I need help..
Couple of days ago I got tired of waiting for the new ota for my phone so I decided to root.. unlocking bootloader went well, installed newest cwm, made a backup of my rom and chose renovate 3.0 as my first rom to try... everything works normal and I update the faux kernel on the rom to version 5b01.. all works normally at this point.. I play games, listen to music, surf the web.. yesterday I then updated the kernel to 5b03.. I went playing dark knigt rises (btw a very good game) and the phone heats up pretty much (which I think is normal as the game is quite heavy and I use wilkyys game booster app). I play about 15minutes and I get the message that the battery is running low, I plug the charger in and continue.. five minutes go and the phone freezes and the screen goes black.. the phone is connected to the charger and the charging light blinks red.. the phone won't start, even when pressing the power key for 10seconds. I can get to the bootloader and recovery _when_ the phone is connected to the charger thou.. if I unplug the charger the phone won't do anything. I search the problem on xda and find some threads about similar problems.. eventually after changing from the wallcharger to the usb charger on my pc (did this many times..) the red light goes solid and I press power and the phone boots normally.. weehee I made it!! or so I thought..
Next day: I woke up and the phone was in charger all night. Battery reads 100%. I load "system tuner" and experiment with undervolting my phone (only -50mv) and run some benchmarks and everything seems working.. I start to download an app from the play store.. the phone freezes and again the same flashing red light is to be seen, I thought it could be because of the undervolt but I'm not sure anymore.. and now I haven't got the phone in working condition.. I have now got the phone in recovery for about three hours and there should be enough juice for it to start but it wont..
I also restored my backup but that didin't help.. with the getvar battery-voltage command it reads about 2500mv which should be enough to atleast power it on?
Hi
elmonen said:
Hello! let's just cut to the chase. I need help..
Couple of days ago I got tired of waiting for the new ota for my phone so I decided to root.. unlocking bootloader went well, installed newest cwm, made a backup of my rom and chose renovate 3.0 as my first rom to try... everything works normal and I update the faux kernel on the rom to version 5b01.. all works normally at this point.. I play games, listen to music, surf the web.. yesterday I then updated the kernel to 5b03.. I went playing dark knigt rises (btw a very good game) and the phone heats up pretty much (which I think is normal as the game is quite heavy and I use wilkyys game booster app). I play about 15minutes and I get the message that the battery is running low, I plug the charger in and continue.. five minutes go and the phone freezes and the screen goes black.. the phone is connected to the charger and the charging light blinks red.. the phone won't start, even when pressing the power key for 10seconds. I can get to the bootloader and recovery _when_ the phone is connected to the charger thou.. if I unplug the charger the phone won't do anything. I search the problem on xda and find some threads about similar problems.. eventually after changing from the wallcharger to the usb charger on my pc (did this many times..) the red light goes solid and I press power and the phone boots normally.. weehee I made it!! or so I thought..
Next day: I woke up and the phone was in charger all night. Battery reads 100%. I load "system tuner" and experiment with undervolting my phone (only -50mv) and run some benchmarks and everything seems working.. I start to download an app from the play store.. the phone freezes and again the same flashing red light is to be seen, I thought it could be because of the undervolt but I'm not sure anymore.. and now I haven't got the phone in working condition.. I have now got the phone in recovery for about three hours and there should be enough juice for it to start but it wont..
I also restored my backup but that didin't help.. with the getvar battery-voltage command it reads about 2500mv which should be enough to atleast power it on?
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2500mv is far too low for lithium ion batteries. There are protection mechanisms in most lithium ion batteries that will trigger at 2.7volts or lower putting the battery and its protection circuitry into deep sleep.
From the battery university: http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/charging_lithium_ion_batteries/
Li-ion should never be discharged too low, and there are several safeguards to prevent this from happening. The equipment cuts off when the battery discharges to about 3.0V/cell, stopping the current flow. If the discharge continues to about 2.70V/cell or lower, the battery’s protection circuit puts the battery into a sleep mode. This renders the pack unserviceable and a recharge with most chargers is not possible. To prevent a battery from falling asleep, apply a partial charge before a long storage period.
If this is the case you may not be able to recover easily. We can only assume something went wrong with the phones firmware that caused it to deeply discharge and now protection measures have kicked in.
Regards
Phil
hmm.. thanks for the answer.. last night I got the charging light to stay solid when I plugged the phone in and I was so happy.. but I was so stupid and tried immediatly to turn it on.. it even started and got to the quietly brilliant screen, but died pretty soon and the red light started blinking again.. then I realised I should have kept it charging for a while before trying to turn it on... god damn it..
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elmonen said:
hmm.. thanks for the answer.. last night I got the charging light to stay solid when I plugged the phone in and I was so happy.. but I was so stupid and tried immediatly to turn it on.. it even started and got to the quietly brilliant screen, but died pretty soon and the red light started blinking again.. then I realised I should have kept it charging for a while before trying to turn it on... god damn it..
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When lithium batteries are deep discharge (below 2.7volt) changes take place which can cause short circuits in the battery, recharging then becomes dangerous, hence the battery goes into a form of safety mode, it's like a fuse blowing. It may never take a charge again, or if it does, the battery life will be less than before.
Hope it recovers okay however if it really did hit 2.5volt it could be permanently damaged now.
Regards
Phil
mine was doing that for a while. Keep it plugged in, if the wall charger doesnt work hook it up to a computer. it will turn on again...
simple keep the phone on charge for few hours and dont touch it.
Ok back to the problem.. the phone was in charger yesterday for about 12hours.. and still won't show any signs of recovery.. blinking red light continues... I might just have to accept that I have to send it in to repair... sigh.. and I think I have to pay for it..
As I said in my first post I have restored a nandroid backup of which I made as soon as I installed cwm.. so I should be at stock firmware? allthou I can't confirm it as I can't get the phone to boot but cwm said restore was succesful.. next step is to install original recovery and relock the phone, am I correct? so next question is.. is there anyway to do this as everytime I try to flash something with flasboot I end up with "failed: low battery"...?
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Ok back to the problem.. the phone was in charger yesterday for about 12hours.. and still won't show any signs of recovery.. blinking red light continues... I might just have to accept that I have to send it in to repair... sigh.. and I think I have to pay for it..
As I said in my first post I have restored a nandroid backup of which I made as soon as I installed cwm.. so I should be at stock firmware? allthou I can't confirm it as I can't get the phone to boot but cwm said restore was succesful.. next step is to install original recovery and relock the phone, am I correct? so next question is.. is there anyway to do this as everytime I try to flash something with flasboot I end up with "failed: low battery"...?
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I've experienced this kind of problem when I drain the battery flat; naturally, I crapped myself like everyone else since there's no easy way to remove the battery like you would for any other phone.
All I did (and still do) when this happens is hold the power button until the main buttons flash white a few times, let go and it should reboot the phone..
two minutes pressing power button, nothing happens
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two minutes pressing power button, nothing happens
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did the buttons even flash??
Try holding vol down + power until you get a response, then try holding the power button again ..
for me the key was to get the buttons to flash white, thats when i knew things were gonna be ok! :highfive:
kennylovesyou said:
did the buttons even flash??
Try holding vol down + power until you get a response, then try holding the power button again ..
for me the key was to get the buttons to flash white, thats when i knew things were gonna be ok! :highfive:
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no response! only response is that when it's in charger I can get to to blootlader and recovery with the vol- power combination..
If it won't charge read this thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1658084
Helped me out with similar problem.
Hope this helps.
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Amicushia said:
If it won't charge read this thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1658084
Helped me out with similar problem.
Hope this helps.
Sent from my HTC One X using XDA Premium HD app
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Tried that :/ won't work.. as my phone doesnt restart with the script.. only way to get a response from it is to press power and vol down when in charger...
Thanks for the suggestion thou.
all right.. quick update.. I have sent the phone in for repair.. so just waiting for the repair bill
Ok... update (don't know if anyones interested..) Today I got at txt message from my carrier that the phone is now ready.. and what do you know.. it was covered by warranty. They changed the motherboard and the screen module (I had one dead pixel) needless to say Im pretty happy now.
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Ok... update (don't know if anyones interested..) Today I got at txt message from my carrier that the phone is now ready.. and what do you know.. it was covered by warranty. They changed the motherboard and the screen module (I had one dead pixel) needless to say Im pretty happy now.
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Don't you just love it when that happens.
I had a rooted phone and my warranty was probably void. A week ago I dropped the phone screen first onto a concrete floor and I expected the worst. Picked it up and turned it on and to my surprise, the screen hadn't cracked. Used it for 5 minutes and it worked as it normally would. When I got back home and wanted to make a call, the screen wouldn't turn on. The lights for the buttons would light up but the screen would remain blank. Calls and texts would come through so the phone worked, just without the screen. After about 10 minutes of tinkering, the screen turned on and I heaved a sigh of relief thinking all was normal again. But when I locked it and tried unlocking it, the screen refused to turn on again. At this point I assumed there would be a loose connection between the MB and screen.
I took the phone to a few repair shops around here to find out how much they would charge and I got quotes around $200. So I decided to try taking it to the vodafone store to see how much it would cost to get HTC to repair the phone. The guy over the counter inspects the phone and finds no physical damage to the screen and says that they'd be glad to replace the phone right then and there at the price of me losing all my data as that would be unrecoverable. I told him I'd be glad to have a replacement on the spot. So in the end, I guess I got a good deal.
Lucky you !
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I had the same problem last night:
phone charging with the HTC wallcharger, alarm set.
the device did not ring: it died during the night.
At first, impossible to boot (rom or hboot) or to charge it. I plugged it on my PC and the red light started to flash. One hour later, it was still flashing, so I tried to turn it ON
It turned ON but repported 2% battery only. (ok, that's why it was refusing to boot)
4 hours later, ON and plugged to the HTC wallcharger (that I verified of course), it was still 2%
After three reboots, plug/unplug several times, suddenly battery displayed 44% instead of 2%
Battery monitor repports that indeed, the device charged for the 1st part of the night, then suddenly and very quickly discharged to 0 while plugged, with no particular app to drain the battery.
During the 4 hours it was plugged and ON, it remained 2%, then a sudden 44% after a reboot.....
What the hell is that???? I've now cleaned cache and battery stats in recovery and I'm letting it charging to see if it goes above these 44%
Weird, I really thought my battery had just died....
EDIT: 2 minutes later, it now repports 46%, so seems to charge correctly. But I need to know what happened, I usually relay on my phone alarm to wake up, and if it happens again, it could be a real problem. Maybe I should flash an other recovery, even if I never had a single problem with it?
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did the buttons even flash??
Try holding vol down + power until you get a response, then try holding the power button again ..
for me the key was to get the buttons to flash white, thats when i knew things were gonna be ok! :highfive:
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I have drained battery, been charging all night with a flashing red LED. No response. Now when I plug it in it still flashes red. When I hold the power button (also power+volume down) the main buttons start flashing white, but no response from the phone whatsoever.
When I let go the power button during the flashing, the lights either go out or stay on..
Any ideas? Thank you!
Hi! Last night i had like three percent battery when i left it for the day. Today, in the morning, the phone was dead. Now, i thought maybe there was a little bit of power left, so i turned it on. It worked for like 15 secs and then turned off again because of the battery running out. I went up and put it on charge and it didn't turn on ,the led just flashed red three times, repeatedly til' I released the power button. I have now tried with three different wall chargers, includin the original, and also two different usb-cables. Everytime, just the three red led flashes again. Is there anything i can do besides replacing the micro-usb charging port, and if that really is the only option, is it just soldering to replace it, is there any instructions. Btw i'm running CM10 (unlocked bootloader) if that helps. Thanks in advance! :fingers-crossed:
EDIT: Okay, it really seems like this port is indeed broken. Will try to replace it myself and see how it goes along.
Aleebaan said:
Hi! Last night i had like three percent battery when i left it for the day. Today, in the morning, the phone was dead. Now, i thought maybe there was a little bit of power left, so i turned it on. It worked for like 15 secs and then turned off again because of the battery running out. I went up and put it on charge and it didn't turn on ,the led just flashed red three times, repeatedly til' I released the power button. I have now tried with three different wall chargers, includin the original, and also two different usb-cables. Everytime, just the three red led flashes again. Is there anything i can do besides replacing the micro-usb charging port, and if that really is the only option, is it just soldering to replace it, is there any instructions. Btw i'm running CM10 (unlocked bootloader) if that helps. Thanks in advance! :fingers-crossed:
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Hey bro it is not a serious problem.just connect charger to the phone and leave it for about 15-30 minutes the phone automatically charges and shows charging logo.
If I helped press thanks.
AjayRockstar said:
Hey bro it is not a serious problem.just connect charger to the phone and leave it for about 15-30 minutes the phone automatically charges and shows charging logo.
If I helped press thanks.
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It will not react at all, even after a full night in the charger.
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It will not react at all, even after a full night in the charger.
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after using fuel gauge app, it atleast charges but gets drained very fast and also the phone gets very hot....its HW problem
I have had my LT28h Xperia ION for about 1 year now, but as of last week it seems to have developed a fault. I have tried the usual hard resets, wiping the phone of all data etc and restarting completely fresh, but to no avail.
Every so often (usually when the battery gets below 70%, the phone spontaneously does what looks a like a soft reset. What I mean by this is the screen cuts out, then 2 seconds later the phone restarts itself, loading through the 'SONY' screen etc until it reboots. I would have normally said that I think the phone is simply restarting itself, but it looks more like a soft reset because whenever i purposefully soft reset my phone (power/up buttons for 5 seconds) the screen cuts to black, but does so by fading the screen to black, going through a yellowy/orange colour (as if the LCD screen is bleeding)... This is what the screen does whenever it does this restart too, leading me to think it is a soft reset.
Sometimes when the phone restarts, it says the battery has 1% left, although there is well over 50% (if i turn the phone off manually and turn on again, sometimes it will say the true 50-70% battery status) and sometimes it says it has the correct battery %.
It usually does these restarts when I am doing something, like taking a photo/video or using an 'intensive app'.
I am using the latest 4.1.2 official OTA software, with a rooted phone (I have tried removing the root, but it still has the same problem so re-rooted it).
If anyone has a similar problem, or knows something I don't, I would be very grateful for your replies. I am praying it is not the battery, as ION's have stupid 'non-removable' battery's, and I don't know if I can be bothered taking apart the phone etc...
Thanks in advance
James
Did you try to flash the whole firmware again?
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Did you try to flash the whole firmware again?
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I have not done that no. I will try giving that a go in Flashtool when I get back to the USA (I am in Mexico at the moment).
Thanks
James666PKR said:
I have not done that no. I will try giving that a go in Flashtool when I get back to the USA (I am in Mexico at the moment).
Thanks
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I have tried factory resetting, Flashing a new FTF with flashtool and still it keeps soft resetting. It does seem like a battery problem, so I drained it completely of all charge, then plugged it in to the wall charger over night. Now all it does when plugged in to charge is strange:
Red LED comes on as if it is charging, then 5 seconds later the LED turns off, phone starts to boot (screen comes on but does not even reach the 'SONY' bootup screen), then after 2 seconds it turns off again... then the red LED comes on again for 5 seconds, turns off, screen comes on for 2 seconds, then it turns off again... repeat...
I am going to leave it plugged in to see if it eventually reboots, but if anyone has any ideas that may help, I would be gratefull!
(P.S. I have tried hard resetting, and hard powering off by holding power and +volume key for 5 and 10 seconds respectively, but it just restarts back into this loop)
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Bump... Phone has charged for 2 days straight, it stays on a solid red light, and it is completely unresponsive when unplugged.
When it is plugged in, I can try and do the hard reset, but it then just goes into the same loop as before. chargind (red LED), then not charging/booting up for 2 seconds, then restarts to charging etc...
It just doesn't seem to be able to get enough charge from the wall charger to fill the battery enough for the kernel to kick in..
A little update, after fiddling around with button combinations (this time by holding power/volume up/volume down all at once), I can get the phone to be recognised by the computer as an SEMC Flash Device by device manager. When I open up flashtool though it says:
-Device Connected with USB Debugging off
-For 2011 devices line, be sure you are not in MTP mode
This is odd because I always have USB debugging ON.
I cannot do anything with the device in Flashtool, OR Sony PC Companion, and I cannot boot into fastboot/flashmode at all, the phone is still just unresponsive to volume down when I plug into the computer, and also volume up etc...
Looks like my phone is completely bricked! Booooo
Any advice would be met with smiley emoticons!!!
It is the battery
Hi, I had exactly the same issue, the phone used to restart like a soft reset, then it came nack with only 1% of battery.
As Sony only knows to say "Repair the soft with PC Companion" which obiously is not the problem, I decided to buy a brand new battery considering that I am from Panama, and I had to buy it through ebay, the location of the item was China, so I had to way 1 month to get my battety.
I changed it, and tataaan the phone worked without any problem... I sold it a week later. But yes dude it is the battery I can tell u for sure it is 100% the battery
xgalt507x said:
Hi, I had exactly the same issue, the phone used to restart like a soft reset, then it came nack with only 1% of battery.
As Sony only knows to say "Repair the soft with PC Companion" which obiously is not the problem, I decided to buy a brand new battery considering that I am from Panama, and I had to buy it through ebay, the location of the item was China, so I had to way 1 month to get my battety.
I changed it, and tataaan the phone worked without any problem... I sold it a week later. But yes dude it is the battery I can tell u for sure it is 100% the battery
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Awesome! thanks for that, much appreciated. I have already ordered a battery (again from china) about 2 weeks ago, so i hope it will arrive in a couple of weeks. Now for the tricky part of replacing it!
Thanks a bunch!
Help sony ion battery not charging but booting up
:crying::crying::crying:Welll I have a rooted sony ion running 4.1.2 and iv been tweaking my phone with pimp my rom and I had cwm recovery and then I flashed twrp recovery and I set the cpu govener to performace and a reboot and then I noticed the battery was crazy. I had it connected it to a wall charger and the phone keep discharging extremely fast!!! The battery woint go up 4 percent. and then I went to twrp recovery and did a factory reset and wipe chache and dalvik chache and reboot same problem. Then same problem. Then I flash the official 4.1.2 on my phone with flashtool same problem. Then I went to sleep and left it charging like for 10 hours. Then I turn on phone again it was worse. When I turn on my phone it would just shut down after a second. And after flashing firmware I lost recovery and root, Help!!!!!!!!!!
Fahadcraft said:
:crying::crying::crying:Welll I have a rooted sony ion running 4.1.2 and iv been tweaking my phone with pimp my rom and I had cwm recovery and then I flashed twrp recovery and I set the cpu govener to performace and a reboot and then I noticed the battery was crazy. I had it connected it to a wall charger and the phone keep discharging extremely fast!!! The battery woint go up 4 percent. and then I went to twrp recovery and did a factory reset and wipe chache and dalvik chache and reboot same problem. Then same problem. Then I flash the official 4.1.2 on my phone with flashtool same problem. Then I went to sleep and left it charging like for 10 hours. Then I turn on phone again it was worse. When I turn on my phone it would just shut down after a second. And after flashing firmware I lost recovery and root, Help!!!!!!!!!!
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Well it doesn't sound like the same problem as mine, but I just changed my battery (it's quite fiddly, but if you are good with your hands, you can follow step by step guides on youtube), and then it worked perfectly! It is most likely your battery.... FYI you can get Android 4.4 kitkat now for your ion.. I have it, its great... just search the forums!
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James666PKR said:
Well it doesn't sound like the same problem as mine, but I just changed my battery (it's quite fiddly, but if you are good with your hands, you can follow step by step guides on youtube), and then it worked perfectly! It is most likely your battery.... FYI you can get Android 4.4 kitkat now for your ion.. I have it, its great... just search the forums!
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Thanks for that final post. I am having identical issues that you have described in other posts. The SONY website goes nowhere on the issue.
So, what's a good price to pay for a battery? And, how long did it take to get it?
lesmfunk said:
Thanks for that final post. I am having identical issues that you have described in other posts. The SONY website goes nowhere on the issue.
So, what's a good price to pay for a battery? And, how long did it take to get it?
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Pretty sure I got mine from Amazon (it was ages ago, I forget) but i know you can get them from eBay too, just use some common sense and google it .
I got mine form hong kong in about 1 week along with a set of tools.. Managed to change the battery in under 30 mins.
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James666PKR said:
Pretty sure I got mine from Amazon (it was ages ago, I forget) but i know you can get them from eBay too, just use some common sense and google it .
I got mine form hong kong in about 1 week along with a set of tools.. Managed to change the battery in under 30 mins.
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Thanks for the tip on the tools. Just ordered one from China thru eBay for $25 CAD with shipping. There are cheaper ones, but no tools.
I'll reply to this thread once I fix it.
can anybody tell me the reiable link to order battery...
hi,
i have the same issue....can anybody tell me the reliable link to order a battery for my xperia ion LT28i.....
i got confused when tried to search on google...
i am fron Mumbai, India....
and also tell me if its easy to change the battery myself......from the youtube videos it looks like i have to dissamble the phone totally.....this is terrifying for me as i am not an engineer (i am a doctor)?
any video link which shows how to replace battery easily.....without dissambling that much of things....?
Not easy to change, but possible if you follow the youtube video.
I received the battery in exactly 3 weeks and took about an hour to change. I tore the audio jack from the sim card module so I was without sound until I replaced that part as well. Be careful.
There is an issue with the charging system of this phone. My new battery is starting to fail, I think. It has difficulty accepting a charge if I let it go down to 1%.
I have another year on contract so I'm thinking of buying another new battery.
This is obviously a defect.
Xperia Ion
James666PKR said:
A little update, after fiddling around with button combinations (this time by holding power/volume up/volume down all at once), I can get the phone to be recognised by the computer as an SEMC Flash Device by device manager. When I open up flashtool though it says:
-Device Connected with USB Debugging off
-For 2011 devices line, be sure you are not in MTP mode
This is odd because I always have USB debugging ON.
I cannot do anything with the device in Flashtool, OR Sony PC Companion, and I cannot boot into fastboot/flashmode at all, the phone is still just unresponsive to volume down when I plug into the computer, and also volume up etc...
Looks like my phone is completely bricked! Booooo
Any advice would be met with smiley emoticons!!!
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I'm having that same problem now @James666PKR, Did your Sony Xperia Ion works normal when your change your battery?
Hello,
I've tried to solve this on another thread but was instructed to make a new thread to get more visibility.
Last night I set the latest update to start 5am. I had about 50-70% battery and the phone was connected to nearly full 13000mAh power bank.
This morning when I woke up I was wondering why doesn't the power bank indicate any charging light so I picked my phone and it was dead. I clicked power bank and it started charging. So the thing what happened here was that the phone started updating and somehow rejected the charging current of the power bank which made the power bank to stop charging. After that the phone started updating firmware, drained all battery and got bricked.
You might ask why the hell would I use power bank when I update firmware? Well, it does automatically charge when I plug it in, so it should have stayed on all the time. It also provides enough power to charge the phone for more than 2 times, so I would consider it as being same as being charged from a regular charger, because its also as fast so has quite the same charging current. It is a mystery how did the phone reject charging current and how did not the power bank start recharging as fast as possible.
The problem
The phone is being bricked. I have charged it today about 3 hours with power bank, 1,5 hours with computer and now around 4-6 hours with regular charger. If I try to hold reset / power / volume- / volume+ / power & volume+ / power & volume- any of those for at least 10 seconds, nothing happens. Only thing that happens is the red led stops blinking and stays on red when I hold power. Sony companion wont recognize it. I accidentally tried to fix firmware which orders to hold vol- and then connect but it doesn't connect. The reason this was an accident is that I absolutely do not want to lose all my files, so I need to somehow get my firmware working again without losing pictures, videos or text messages (notes there) or voiding my warranty. So luckily I didn't manage to get the fix firmware to work cuz it should delete everything. Also pressing reset for 2 minutes does the same so I discard that option for now. The battery should be full by now, I have also tried changing the charger after I noticed I had 2 identical Sony chargers one charging power bank and another on this z5p and only that one charging power bank was hot and another one charging phone was maybe a little warm. After I changed them the situation became opposite.
Is there anything I could do to save my files and make this crap work again? It is quite frustrating now because the most important thing are my files, not even the overpriced phone (and I guess factory reset can get it work but thats the last option, I absolutely need those files:crying
PS. sorry for so long story.
sorry for the typos.
Now the charger is only a little warmer than room temperature, but still blinking red and not responding.
XperiassinceZ1 said:
Hello,
I've tried to solve this on another thread but was instructed to make a new thread to get more visibility.
Last night I set the latest update to start 5am. I had about 50-70% battery and the phone was connected to nearly full 13000mAh powerbank.
This morning when I woke up I was wonderhing why doesn't the powerbank indicate any charging light so I picked my phone and it was dead. I clicked powerbank and it started charging. So the thing what happened here was that the phone started updating and somehow rejected the charging current of the powerbank which made the powerbank to stop charging. After that the phone started updating firmware, drained all battery and got bricked.
You might ask why the hell would I use powerbank when I update firmware? Well, it does automatically charge when I plug it in, so it should have stayed on all the time. It also provides enough power to charge the phone for more than 2 times, so I would consider it as being same as being charged from a regular charger, because its also as fast so has quite the same charging current. It is a mystery how did the phone reject charging current and how did not the powerbank start recharging as fast as possible.
The problem
The phone is being bricked. I have charged it today about 3 hours with powerbank, 1,5 hours with computer and now around 4-6 hours with regular charger. If I try to hold reset / power / volume- / volime+ / power & volume+ / power & volume- any of those for at least 10 seconds, nothing happens. Only thing that happens is the red led stops blinking and stays on red when I hold power. Sony companion wont recognize it. I accidentally tried to fix firmware which orders to hold vol- and then connect but it doesn't connect. The reason this was an accident is that I absolutely do not want to lose all my files, so I need to somehow get my firmware working again without losing pictures, videos or text messages (notes there) or voiding my warranty. The battery should be full by now, I have also tried changing charger after I noticed I had 2 identical Sony chargers one charging power bank and another on this z5p and only that one charging power bank was hot and another one charging phone was maybe a little warm. After I changed them the situation became opposite.
Is there anything I could do to save my files and make this crap work again? It is quite frustrating now because the most important thing are my files, not even the overpriced phone (and I guess factory reset can get it work but thats the last option, I absolutely need those files:crying
PS. sorry for so long story.
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From what I understanded before, I thought you charged 7 hours directly to an outlet, but you switched between powerbank, and pc too?
Well this is kind of my mistake because I said try connecting it to pc in between.
After reading this more detailed explanation, I would strongly suggest to just leave it charging directly to an outlet.
For atleast about 6-8 hours just as a first try to try to solve the issue (hopefully) without having to take more desperate measures lol.
So start with charging again, sorry for the misunderstanding.... it is partially or maybe mostly my fault :silly:
Post back here tomorrow
koekoek91 said:
From what I understanded before, I thought you charged 7 hours directly to an outlet, but you switched between powerbank, and pc too?
Well this is kind of my mistake because I said try connecting it to pc in between.
After reading this more detailed explanation, I would strongly suggest to just leave it charging directly to an outlet.
For atleast about 6-8 hours just as a first try to try to solve the issue (hopefully) without having to take more desperate measures lol.
So start with charging again, sorry for the misunderstanding.... it is partially or maybe mostly my fault :silly:
Post back here tomorrow
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Thanks for still helping me out here
I'll leave it charging "from the wall". However power bank also provides high power and I'm worried about the charger temperature, so could it just charge it very very slow cuz no heat is building up. Anyways, it should have charged like 3 times by now but ill give it 10 hours now. Ill update here later what happens.
No problem, I kmow how it sucks to have a bricked phone.
I just did a quick research on XDA and found this thread: http://forum.xda-develaopers.com/showthread.php?t=1849170
it is really alot to read... but if you want to have the best chance to unbrick your phone and hopefully still have all your files, I think you should read it before you take any other drastic actions.
I think this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33032165&postcount=2 is the most interesting for you
You will need flashtool to save your phone, but this doesn't automatically means you have to flash the full firmware (which will erase all files on the phones internal storage).
I know you are hesitant to use flashtool but at some point I think you have no other options sometimes.
BUT.... dont worry, MAYBE you are lucky and just flashing the kernel part of the firmware might fix your problem.
Im not going to add it here as I dont want to be the one to blame when accidentally providing the wrong file for your phone lol.
So I think you should read that guide and see what exactly applies to your issue, and then before you do anything just ask in that thread for help.
Start by telling you aren't even familiar with flashtool yetso they can help you faster. And let them help you to (if needed) correctly flash the correct kernel file to your device.
I think they can help you much better than me, because they have more knowledge,
and know better how to put all info it into context to make it understandable for people who aren't really familiar with al this.
Also it saves me alot more typework lol.
Ill still keep an eye to your thread to see if you manage to fix your brick and maybe answer (some questions) when I have time.
Better to just ask questions in the recovery thread, but who knows... if you post double and Iknow the answer, ithat would be luck and get you back into your phone faster hopefully
Enough writing for today..... your welcome :silly:
Good luck, be patient, and dont worry (like they also mention in the recovery guide)
XperiassinceZ1 said:
Thanks for still helping me out here
I'll leave it charging "from the wall". However power bank also provides high power and I'm worried about the charger temperature, so could it just charge it very very slow cuz no heat is building up. Anyways, it should have charged like 3 times by now but ill give it 10 hours now. Ill update here later what happens.
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Ok it has been charging for about 12 hours extra now, total 24h. Still blinking red. not connecting to PC, still reacting to hold power / hold power and hold vol - with continuous red. Reset wont do anything.
XperiassinceZ1 said:
Ok it has been charging for about 12 hours extra now, total 24h. Still blinking red. not connecting to PC, still reacting to hold power / hold power and hold vol - with continuous red. Reset wont do anything.
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Copied from above linked thread:
YOU NEED TO RESET YOUR PHONE!
If your phone is soft-brick and does nothing when, -the buttons are pressed, -a charger is plugged in, -or if the screen is still ON then....
The memory chips need lose power to clear the bad data and reset the phone. Either by the battery going dead or by unplugging the battery.
You can to leave the phone on a charger to see when the battery dies. Usually the battery will not charge in a soft-brick state and will die while still plugged in. After the reset you should then get the red led. However if you get a red led immediately when first plugged in and no response but red led for a long time, then you may need to leave the phone unplugged and let the battery die.
Only after the chips reset will you get the red led. The RED LED should mean the phone is charging in 'low battery level charge mode'.
Once you get the red led, after the reset, do NOT try to turn on the phone. If you try to start the phone now without fixing the problem you will have to start all over.
So maybe if keeping it plugged for so long doesn't work, leaving it unplugged and wait for the battery to die will help?
Ask for more help in the thread I linked
Was bored @ school, so was looking for some more easy to follow info for you.
Have a look at this thread too, mainly im talking about just trying to see if flashtool can reccognize the phone and if not, read and follow the driver install section and see if that changes anything
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=928343
@XperiassinceZ1 Any update on this yet?
I took the phone to repair 2 days ago and told them to take off battery and make only soft reset. No information yet :/
If they cant help me to fix phone or get files ill read the threads, but I guess if they cant do a thing neither can I
XperiassinceZ1 said:
I took the phone to repair 2 days ago and told them to take off battery and make only soft reset. No information yet :/
If they cant help me to fix phone or get files ill read the threads, but I guess if they cant do a thing neither can I
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Don't give up to easy man[emoji14]
I'm sure you can get your phone working again but you have to take the time to read threads and try everything you can
Okay. Let us know when you got it back from repair shop
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koekoek91 said:
Don't give up to easy man[emoji14]
I'm sure you can get your phone working again but you have to take the time to read threads and try everything you can
Okay. Let us know when you got it back from repair shop
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Ok its ready to pick up from repair. They coudln't fix it. Lets take a look at those threads.
I don't know but I guess the service dude checked if the battery was dead? But still I'm thinking that it could be one possibility.
XperiassinceZ1 said:
Ok its ready to pick up from repair. They coudln't fix it. Lets take a look at those threads.
I don't know but I guess the service dude checked if the battery was dead? But still I'm thinking that it could be one possibility.
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Hey
Im not very suprised they couldn't fix it.
I wonder though if they even did anything, so you should ask them about what they did.
Once you have your phone back, I would start with this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19684920&postcount=2
If this doesn't help, you can proceed with the other threads I linked in earlier posts and give them a careful read
@XperiassinceZ1
Haven't heard in a while, I assume this means your phone is fixed or?
Was just curious lol.