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Bricked Ion - any gurus able to help?

So, been rooting, fiddling, installing ROMs, etc for a couple years. By no means am I an expert, I can just do research and read. I've had bootloops, and crashes, and all the same issues everyone else on this forum has had over the course of learning this stuff. So, when my phone wouldn't boot up even into recovery, I didn't sweat it at first. But, well, I've tried everything and nothing works. I can't boot, I can't charge it. Nothing works.
So, here's the breakdown.
Lt28i
Was running stock
Phone was rooted
CWM recovery
Bootloader is unlockable via regular means.
Hated it since a recent update. Phone was slow and i wanted JB. So i started the process.
I installed a new kernel, was in the process of installing a new ROM, but the instructions said to delete /system. I did.
From that point on, phone would not boot. Would not charge and would not get into recovery.
I can't connect via adb/fastboot.
It's a brick sitting on my desk. I've since gotten an HTC one, which IS AWESOME guys, but I hate having a perfectly fine piece of hardware just sitting on my desk collecting dust, (not to mention hate admitting defeat) so I'd like to get it working and either give it to a friend or sell it. Can anyone help.
Symptoms. As soon as i plug it in, the red light goes on. After about 15 minutes, the sony logo comes on with the red light off for just under 10 mins or so, then black screen and red light on. So, it's in a kernel boot-loop of sorts, but never gets past it and therefore doesn't charge. I've left it unattanded for over a week to drain the battery, hoping it'll reset, but no change. Immediately the red light goes on when plugged in. No way to boot into recovery. No way to connect to fastboot.
Any ideas?
Have tried the following:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1849170
and a bunch of others. None has worked.

So your bootloader is locked?
You can't flash any custom kernel on locked bl.
First, connect your phone to a wall charger for whole night.
Then use Update Service or PCC to repair it.
Remember: do not connect your phone to PC until it ask you to do so.
Press vol down when connecting to PC.

cities516 said:
So your bootloader is locked?
You can't flash any custom kernel on locked bl.
First, connect your phone to a wall charger for whole night.
Then use Update Service or PCC to repair it.
Remember: do not connect your phone to PC until it ask you to do so.
Press vol down when connecting to PC.
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sorry, my mistake. The plan was to flash a kernel, but i never got around to it. I had looked into unlocking the bootloader, but wanted to see if I could get any good JB roms first. Sorry about that false info.
I have both let the phone die completely, or so I think, unless it keeps its charge for over a week and charged it for about 40 hours. Like I said, it does the bootloader boot loop which seems to keep it from charging. I never get to the screen where it shows the charging icon, so I can't tell, but I've definitely left it on a charger (not PC) for at least a day and a half. No go.No amount of pressing vol down works.

Does flashtool work on bricked phones?

lewis021 said:
Does flashtool work on bricked phones?
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Yes, Unless your device is hard bricked meaning it wont show any led or wont do anything basically

AndroidHoneyComb said:
Yes, Unless your device is hard bricked meaning it wont show any led or wont do anything basically
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Well, that's why I'm hopeful, cause the led does light up immediately on plugin. And the Sony logo screen shows up for a few minutes, then disappears. I have tried flashtool, but it won't connect. No go.

vijn said:
Well, that's why I'm hopeful, cause the led does light up immediately on plugin. And the Sony logo screen shows up for a few minutes, then disappears. I have tried flashtool, but it won't connect. No go.
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Your either using flash tool wrong (Hold the down button while plugging in the usb to go in flashmode and then flash the ftf quick before flashmode restarts of being idle) The Sony logo is still there so there should be no reason to send it in until all possible repair techniques have been used

AndroidHoneyComb said:
Your either using flash tool wrong (Hold the down button while plugging in the usb to go in flashmode and then flash the ftf quick before flashmode restarts of being idle) The Sony logo is still there so there should be no reason to send it in until all possible repair techniques have been used
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Well, I've used flashtool a whole bunch of times. Sure from time to time there's an issue with it, but I've tried different versions and none has been successful. And I'm very familiar with the "getting into flashmode" process. And yes, I would agree with you that if the sony logo shows up, then there's gotta be a way, but I'm telling you, it's just not happening. I've tried 100 times.

vijn said:
Well, I've used flashtool a whole bunch of times. Sure from time to time there's an issue with it, but I've tried different versions and none has been successful. And I'm very familiar with the "getting into flashmode" process. And yes, I would agree with you that if the sony logo shows up, then there's gotta be a way, but I'm telling you, it's just not happening. I've tried 100 times.
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Does Flashtool show anything after you connect your phone to PC with flashmode?
"Drivers have to be installed" or somethimg?

vijn said:
Well, I've used flashtool a whole bunch of times. Sure from time to time there's an issue with it, but I've tried different versions and none has been successful. And I'm very familiar with the "getting into flashmode" process. And yes, I would agree with you that if the sony logo shows up, then there's gotta be a way, but I'm telling you, it's just not happening. I've tried 100 times.
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If you can see the Sony Logo then it has to work, Hold the down key, while plugging it in and it will show a green led... I had the same problem as you (cause I do things that sony may not like, on my phone)
1. Make sure you have the correct drivers installed.
2. Turn your phone off and unplug USB cord.
3. Hold the VOLUME DOWN button while inserting the USB cord.
4. You should see your small notification light in the top right of the phone turn green.

AndroidHoneyComb said:
If you can see the Sony Logo then it has to work, Hold the down key, while plugging it in and it will show a green led... I had the same problem as you (cause I do things that sony may not like, on my phone)
1. Make sure you have the correct drivers installed.
2. Turn your phone off and unplug USB cord.
3. Hold the VOLUME DOWN button while inserting the USB cord.
4. You should see your small notification light in the top right of the phone turn green.
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Ya, first of all. I can neither turn the phone on or off. I have no control of it. It "turns on" when it wants and off when it wants. But when i say turns on, it only turn onto the sony logo screen after about 20 mins of being plugged in, when I guess the charge is just enough to allow it to start the boot process. Then the sony logo screen turns on, until that tiny charge dies and the phone turns off and the red LED comes on. Process repeats over and over again. I even put a rubber band on the phone to keep the volume down button pressed so that when the charge does reach the right level for the boot process that the vol down button will trigger recovery, but no deal. If this is the only way to get this thing working, is what you've recommended above, then phone is completely bricked, cause the phone has been like this for 2 weeks and nothing has worked. I know i have the drivers, cause up until this issue, flashtool worked fine. But the PC doesn't even recognize that there's a device plugged in at all now, cause the phone never boots. So, it's like plugging in a usb HDD that is off. I didn't really expect anyone to have a solution, cause i've done extensive research and tried almost everything I've read that seemed relevant, but I still had hope. I suspect the only way to fix it is to open it and connect directly to the mobo in some other way, but i don't have the tools or resources for that. Not even sure I can send it in to be repaired cause it's rooted. Unless someone has a eureka solution, my only option is to send it in to a 3rd party repair guy. Any other thoughts?

The most important thing is: what have you done to your phone before?
Flash something or edit something?
To turn off your phone, long press power + vol up until 3 vibrations.
Then connect your phone to a wallcharger for whole night.
(Do not use PC cable... It won't charge much...)
Then flash stock ftf via Flashtool.
Sent from my LT26i using xda app-developers app

Just read my first 2 posts in the recovery thread sticky'd in the general section.
Then reinstall ALL drivers available in flashtool.
Then use the rubber band trick from my thread. Make sure that the rubber band pushes the button in.
Sit back and wait ,believe me this is the hardest step.
From my Xperia LT28at ION

ToledoJab said:
Then use the rubber band trick from my thread. Make sure that the rubber band pushes the button in.
Sit back and wait ,believe me this is the hardest step.
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I laughed at the method simplicity, and got amazed on how effective is it.

So when you connect the phone to your PC while holding the volume down key...no green light, and its not recognized by your PC at all, right? Assuming you're using windows; does windows try to install any drivers or anything? Are you prompted in any way that a device has been connected?
and did you try the above mentioned? Hold UP and power button for like 10 seconds...you'll feel it vibrate once...then a few seconds later it should vibrate 3 times...I bricked my phone to some degree Sunday...only I had no response whatsoever...no led while charging, or otherwise...and literally no response from anything...until i tried that vibrate 3 times thing...and it booted right up after...

NO GO!
Well, I've tried it all. @ToledoJab I've read and reread that original post a bunch of times. followed all instructions, in fact, I had read that post many times before even posting in this forum with no luck, but I thought I'd be patient and try again, Used the rubber band technique. Nothing. Seems, when the rubber band is used, the phone doesn't even start the boot process, meaning never shows the sony logo screen.
@jtr what no one seems to understand is, there is absolutely no response to using the power button to turn this on or off. No vibrate, nothing. There are only 2 states. 1. When plugged into wall or PC, LED is red and after 20 mins Sony logo shows up if the vol down button isn't pressed. 2. When not plugged in no led.
Flashtool has been open for 2 days, phone has been plugged in, with rubber band. Drivers installed. Phone is never recognized because it never turns on. it's in perpetual red light on mode.
I don't know guys. I'd say this is an official brick. Not sure there's any way to fix this without opening it up. Still open to any ideas, but please read what I've posted because all the recommendations so far have been things I've already said I've tried, and numerous times. I can't imagine there's anything else to try, but thought I'd update you guys nonetheless.

cool, i understand.
If the volume down key is preventing it from going into that boot loop, though...it seems to be responding to physical input to some degree...
Have you tried any of this without a sim card? I know that sounds trivial, but after a full week of messing with mine a fresh sim-less start knocked out several bugs...and i hadn't read much of that on xda, but the AT&T return directions suggested a without sim boot up as the first thing to do? and at the time, i too, was dealing with some sort of varying degree of brick.
There are also varying ways to drain a permanent phone battery...i wouldn't say thats the best way to go about this, but a friend of mine has a screwed up car charger that does exactly this...which he's kept to bring his samsung nexus out of hard bricks multiple times...i'd say that's definitely a last resort though...the stuff you'd need would only be a couple bucks at radio shack i'd imagine haha.

If you get the Sony screen you should get in to flash mode, and I say should.
With the phone plugged in to PC with flashtool ready to flash, try to do a one vibration reset at Sony screen then immediately press and hold volume down.
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ION Stuck at SONY Logo

My Xperia Ion is stuck at Sony Logo when i switch it On.
Nothing responding.
I kept the battery to Drain and now i plugged it to wall charger i get a solid red led.
I checked all the threads related to soft/hard brick but seriously im confused big time. What should i do now ?
Now my phone has been charging for 30 minutes.
i dont know what happened , is it soft / hard brick ??
i tried to restore my cwm backup and it showed successful. And when i booted this happened.
The screen is Off sometimes and it turns on and shows SONY LOGO. what should i do ?
But when the screen is off the red led is on.
Please somebody help. I'm really panicking. i can't think properly.

Think you are on XZX. Am I right? Try reflashing the ROM.

pharix said:
Think you are on XZX. Am I right? Try reflashing the ROM.
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No bro.You didnt get the picture. My phone is not booting. Its stuck on SONY logo .
I was on XZX2 v2. But i reflashed back to stock. then this happened
im not able to flash .

Use flashtools to flash a stock ftf making sure you choose the wipe options. Do not exclude anything.

Captain Droid said:
No bro.You didnt get the picture. My phone is not booting. Its stuck on SONY logo .
I was on XZX2 v2. But i reflashed back to stock. then this happened
im not able to flash .
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Now I get it. I thought you can go to CWM. Sorry.

Spectre51 said:
Use flashtools to flash a stock ftf making sure you choose the wipe options. Do not exclude anything.
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I can't get in to Flashboot option ( green led). When i connect the phone by pressing the Vol Down button the Led is RED and its solid.
The power button doesnt work, i mean i cant switch on the phone.
When its plugged to the wall charger , its solid red led and after sometime screen turn on itself and the SONY LOGO appears . thats it. I cant do anything else. Nothing responding.

Captain Droid said:
I can't get in to Flashboot option ( green led). When i connect the phone by pressing the Vol Down button the Led is RED and its solid.
The power button doesnt work, i mean i cant switch on the phone.
When its plugged to the wall charger , its solid red led and after sometime screen turn on itself and the SONY LOGO appears . thats it. I cant do anything else. Nothing responding.
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can you get into fastboot mode?
using flashtool,
select fastboot mode
flash the stock kernel
remove and reset the phone
enter flash mode
then flash the stock ftf
happened to me once... this worked for me
Sent from my Xperia ion using xda premium

xyge said:
can you get into fastboot mode?
using flashtool,
select fastboot mode
flash the stock kernel
remove and reset the phone
enter flash mode
then flash the stock ftf
happened to me once... this worked for me
Sent from my Xperia ion using xda premium
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A hard bricked phone won't do any thing no matter what is done. If a light or anything reacts then you have some level of soft brick.
Use the rubber band trick to flash back to stock.
The solid red led means low level charging. Low level charge is on until the battery level is enough to start kernel charging (battery icon screen)
When the red led goes out but before the phone turns on is the tiny time frame you have to enter flash mode. So you use a rubber band to hold volume down.
Read about the trick in my recovery thread in my signature.
From my Xperia LT28at ION

ToledoJab said:
A hard bricked phone won't do any thing no matter what is done. If a light or anything reacts then you have some level of soft brick.
Use the rubber band trick to flash back to stock.
The solid red led means low level charging. Low level charge is on until the battery level is enough to start kernel charging (battery icon screen)
When the red led goes out but before the phone turns on is the tiny time frame you have to enter flash mode. So you use a rubber band to hold volume down.
Read about the trick in my recovery thread in my signature.
From my Xperia LT28at ION
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I kept the mobile connected to my pc with the rubber band trick, its been 8 hours now, still the Led is Solid RED.
Its not charging i think. flashtool did not detect the phone till now.

Captain Droid said:
I kept the mobile connected to my pc with the rubber band trick, its been 8 hours now, still the Led is Solid RED.
Its not charging i think. flashtool did not detect the phone till now.
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Long time ago I faced a same problem. My phone stuck at RED light. I just dissemble the phone and disconnect battery cable from motherboard and reconnect the cable. Then I hold power button and volume + button until 3 vibrate. (10 second). Now the phone is off. After that I connect phone to computer while holding volume down button and flash stock ftf.
Give it a try.

pharix said:
Long time ago I faced a same problem. My phone stuck at RED light. I just dissemble the phone and disconnect battery cable from motherboard and reconnect the cable. Then I hold power button and volume + button until 3 vibrate. (10 second). Now the phone is off. After that I connect phone to computer while holding volume down button and flash stock ftf.
Give it a try.
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That too i saw in one post. But i cant find any slots/screws to open and i don't have the right set of tools to open the phone.
right now im so mindf***ked. How to open the phone?
I have only one phone and i bricked that.
Edit: I found the screws, inside the two small covers on bottom and up right ? But i got no tools to open that screw

Captain Droid said:
That too i saw in one post. But i cant find any slots/screws to open and i don't have the right set of tools to open the phone.
right now im so mindf***ked. How to open the phone?
I have only one phone and i bricked that.
Edit: I found the screws, inside the two small covers on bottom and up right ? But i got no tools to open that screw
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Which screw? Star Screw or Plus Screw? If you don't have screw driver you can open Plus screw using Knife and Star screw using Minus screw driver.
DO IT ON YOUR OWN RISK.
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pharix said:
Which screw? Star Screw or Plus Screw? If you don't have screw driver you can open Plus screw using Knife and Star screw using Minus screw driver.
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Yeah its STAR Screw. Approx 7-8 total adding both sides.
Im not gonna open it, anyways i'm giving the phone to service centre. i don't have time to wait for the battery to charge / Drain or anything.
Hope they can fix this in matter of hours.

For future reference, you will need a torx t6 ( or t5 cant remember exactly) for the star screws. The ion is easy to take apart, hope they fix yours.
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there is a solution
hey im minda new here but not new to rooting n so on.... i was attempting to root my ion lt28i with the doomlord kernel and when i was to flash back stock kernel i accidentally flashed it to system lol (i was sleepy)... but when the phone got stuck on sony screen i came here and was told the battery had to drain b4 attemping another flash i left my phone for half a day it was still on i got fed up and pressed the camera vol -, vol + and power keys all at once then the screen turned off.... i think i may have stumbled on to the hard reset procedure so for those who are stuck on sony logo u can do the same it works i feflashed stock jb rom and rerooted not life is great and all ir right with the world :angel:
ps for battery drain issues install setCPU on rooted rom and turn down clock it saves a tonne of battery hope this helped

venom1553 said:
hey im minda new here but not new to rooting n so on.... i was attempting to root my ion lt28i with the doomlord kernel and when i was to flash back stock kernel i accidentally flashed it to system lol (i was sleepy)... but when the phone got stuck on sony screen i came here and was told the battery had to drain b4 attemping another flash i left my phone for half a day it was still on i got fed up and pressed the camera vol -, vol + and power keys all at once then the screen turned off.... i think i may have stumbled on to the hard reset procedure so for those who are stuck on sony logo u can do the same it works i feflashed stock jb rom and rerooted not life is great and all ir right with the world :angel:
ps for battery drain issues install setCPU on rooted rom and turn down clock it saves a tonne of battery hope this helped
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What's the use of bumping the old thread?
Sent from my LT28h using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

UchihaDareNial said:
What's the use of bumping the old thread?
Sent from my LT28h using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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At least they are trying to help out in the q&a section to get the 10 posts.
Most new users just spam the forum with useless posts.
This thread has had its time.
For more help please check out the sticky threads.
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Xperia play red light and pc companion troubles

I have looked into it many time, but for some reason my case is different in some way. my xperia play, instead of turning on blinks red when i hold the power button or plug it into a charger/USB no matter which outlet or port. people say that i can restore the phone with the PC companion, but my computer wont detect it and by extension neither will the PC companion by any means. I've had this problem before and i fixed it on the same phone, but i don't remember how. i need help to revive my phone a second time

Bedlam5 said:
I have looked into it many time, but for some reason my case is different in some way. my xperia play, instead of turning on blinks red when i hold the power button or plug it into a charger/USB no matter which outlet or port. people say that i can restore the phone with the PC companion, but my computer wont detect it and by extension neither will the PC companion by any means. I've had this problem before and i fixed it on the same phone, but i don't remember how. i need help to revive my phone a second time
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Hello,
If you can get the phone into flashmode, you can probably use Flashtool to flash the correct firmware to restore your phone. Here are a couple of threads that should help you:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38237999
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2054486
Good luck!
Sent from my SCH-I605 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

If it blinks 3 times red it means the battery is completely dead and you will have to find a way to charge it externally ..... Some people report that if they leave the phone on the charger for a day that that works but its hit and miss.....if its a solid red led I believe that the trim area is damaged and you will need a j-tag to repair it

Thanks for the help guys, I'll try both methods.

i got a same problem a months ago, i just charge my battery with desktop charger then flash it with S1 tool and connect it with jtag box

[Help] Bricked Lumia 1020 - Blank Screen - USB Undetected

My 1020 got bricked while flashing through WPInternals.
In the middle of the flashing the USB got disconnected and after that I have blank screen. The power button pressing does make phone vibrate. Also soft reset combination makes vibration. However I am not getting anything on my laptop on USB connection. No connection notification. Nothing on device manager. I tried combinations to get it detected but nothing works.
So the question is, Is there any way I can blindly send force flashing to one of the USB port and make it happen ?
JTAG is the only option ?

Removed the display. Disconnect the battery. Remove the protective cover from the processor. Looking at the diagram R3209. Complete with a thin wire the resistor into the casing and at the same time connected to the computer. Defined as "Nokia Emergency Connectivity". After that, you run WPInternals, and continue from the point where the error occurred.

booker50rus said:
Removed the display. Disconnect the battery. Remove the protective cover from the processor. Looking at the diagram R3209. Complete with a thin wire the resistor into the casing and at the same time connected to the computer. Defined as "Nokia Emergency Connectivity". After that, you run WPInternals, and continue from the point where the error occurred.
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Honestly, I did not understand what to connect to what.

Remove the display
The picture 1 shows what you need to remove. CAREFULLY remove all protection, or only in the marked area.
The picture 2 shows what you'll see under the removed protection. Looking for R3209 marked in the picture 3
After it is found, connect USB cable TO THE PHONE. NOT TO THE COMPUTER. The cable should be connected ONLY by phone
For one or two seconds before doing a short circuit of the resistor R3209 on the metal area of the body (picture 4), AND THIS TIME connect it to your computer
The phone shall be determined by the computer as "Nokia Emergency Connectivity" or "CareSuite Emergency Connectivity"
Run the program WPInternals
Make or restore the bootloader or unlock the bootloader. Depending on where you broke the phone last time.
After the program sends the phone into reboot, connect a known-CHARGED battery WITHOUT DISCONNECTING the computer. The phone should start to boot.

Have you tried all the options in WP Internals first? Including instructions on how to recover from bricked phone? I haven't got the application in front of me, but I seem to remember there are different flashing modes you should probably experiment with before opening up your phone.

GeoffreyK said:
Have you tried all the options in WP Internals first? Including instructions on how to recover from bricked phone? I haven't got the application in front of me, but I seem to remember there are different flashing modes you should probably experiment with before opening up your phone.
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There are no longer any options. The phone is not defined in any way. And no the program will not see it without initializing it as a device in the system. The only option is to short out the memory, so she rebooted. What I'm suggesting. The operation is not difficult and takes no more than 10 minutes for anything.

try to charge the phone, at least 1 hour, then try to make hard reset, that works for my

GeoffreyK said:
Have you tried all the options in WP Internals first? Including instructions on how to recover from bricked phone? I haven't got the application in front of me, but I seem to remember there are different flashing modes you should probably experiment with before opening up your phone.
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Yeah, phone is not detected by USB connection. I have already changed USB flex cable of the phone so its not an issue.
jeovanyerazo said:
try to charge the phone, at least 1 hour, then try to make hard reset, that works for my
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Phone does not hard reset without OS in the memory.

booker50rus said:
Remove the display
The picture 1 shows what you need to remove. CAREFULLY remove all protection, or only in the marked area.
The picture 2 shows what you'll see under the removed protection. Looking for R3209 marked in the picture 3
After it is found, connect USB cable TO THE PHONE. NOT TO THE COMPUTER. The cable should be connected ONLY by phone
For one or two seconds before doing a short circuit of the resistor R3209 on the metal area of the body (picture 4), AND THIS TIME connect it to your computer
The phone shall be determined by the computer as "Nokia Emergency Connectivity" or "CareSuite Emergency Connectivity"
Run the program WPInternals
Make or restore the bootloader or unlock the bootloader. Depending on where you broke the phone last time.
After the program sends the phone into reboot, connect a known-CHARGED battery WITHOUT DISCONNECTING the computer. The phone should start to boot.
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I will try this, need time to open the phone again. Specially I have never opened the processor part before.

Try what I told you, it's a software problem not hardware. Try hard reset.

jeovanyerazo said:
Try what I told you, it's a software problem not hardware. Try hard reset.
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its a software problem only, but as I have described - mobile is not getting detected via USB and as the previous flash did not happen completely there is no OS in the memory. The phone only vibrates on power or reset combination.
On connecting the charger the start button blinks once in a while and thats the only response I am getting.

booker50rus said:
Remove the display
The picture 1 shows what you need to remove. CAREFULLY remove all protection, or only in the marked area.
The picture 2 shows what you'll see under the removed protection. Looking for R3209 marked in the picture 3
After it is found, connect USB cable TO THE PHONE. NOT TO THE COMPUTER. The cable should be connected ONLY by phone
For one or two seconds before doing a short circuit of the resistor R3209 on the metal area of the body (picture 4), AND THIS TIME connect it to your computer
The phone shall be determined by the computer as "Nokia Emergency Connectivity" or "CareSuite Emergency Connectivity"
Run the program WPInternals
Make or restore the bootloader or unlock the bootloader. Depending on where you broke the phone last time.
After the program sends the phone into reboot, connect a known-CHARGED battery WITHOUT DISCONNECTING the computer. The phone should start to boot.
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Super cool man, thanks. I opened only tiny window from protective cover and sorted R3209. USB was detected and restored the Bootloader. Flashing was easy after that.

booker50rus said:
Remove the display
The picture 1 shows what you need to remove. CAREFULLY remove all protection, or only in the marked area.
The picture 2 shows what you'll see under the removed protection. Looking for R3209 marked in the picture 3
After it is found, connect USB cable TO THE PHONE. NOT TO THE COMPUTER. The cable should be connected ONLY by phone
For one or two seconds before doing a short circuit of the resistor R3209 on the metal area of the body (picture 4), AND THIS TIME connect it to your computer
The phone shall be determined by the computer as "Nokia Emergency Connectivity" or "CareSuite Emergency Connectivity"
Run the program WPInternals
Make or restore the bootloader or unlock the bootloader. Depending on where you broke the phone last time.
After the program sends the phone into reboot, connect a known-CHARGED battery WITHOUT DISCONNECTING the computer. The phone should start to boot.
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Hi,
My 1020 got bricked while flashing with WPInternals and now won't switch on. No Vibrate when I push the power button either. I would like to try this method but can't figure out how to remove the protective plate on the CPU. I cannot find any help on Google nor YouTube. Can someone please enlighten me on which way the metal cover opens please?
Thanks in advance.

I've tried the same thing with a lumia 525 but accidently broken the resistor.. Can I do something with it?

Sometime you have to wait a few minutes or so for the phone to behave properly, especially with a blown firmware running.
There are many modes to a phone and each will be a different device to the PC.
There is normal mode
there is flash mode
there is emergency mode
and there is a recovery mode too.
and a couple of other modes uefiflash/bootemmc/bootmsc too.
each of these modes can be accessed by a combination of button presses that seems to change from phone to phone.
there is plug into usb port holding down volume up.
there is plug into usb port, hold down power and press volume down.
there is plug into usb port, hold down power and hold down volume up.
there is plug into usb port, hold down power, release, then press volume up
and like I mentioned before if the phone has a flat battery is will cycle from 0-5% battery charging then cycle 5-0% and reset the phone. it sometimes takes up to 5 min with the phone connected, trying multiple restarts to get the phone to appear to windows. sometimes it will appear and disappear, if you interrupt the boot process by having wpinternals running it will not disappear again and sometimes you have to do a complete reset cycle by holding down the power button until it vibrates with it still plugged into the pc, then immediately do another reset cycle.
the phone can crash on boot, so it fails to appear and in my experience it's behaviour is not consistent at all. boot one minute shows in device managed and then can take 10 minutes sometimes before it appears again. it seems to be very erratic behaviour. so keep at it.
opening up the phone and removing the metal shielding from the pcb to get access to the bypass test points should be a god damn last resort and not some first step as suggested to the op.
expect many pcb's to be damaged by this advice.

Ok, so I managed to remove the cover but a bit confused about the instructions for the resistor. Is there a special sort of wire I need to touch the resistor with while performing this "shorting" procedure or will any wire do? Intructions seem a little vague to the non electronically minded...

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Intructions seem a little vague to the non electronically minded.
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and still you've gone as far as removing the shielding?
if you think you can safely do it, the instruction state you need to short resistor R3209 as the phone boots. short means contact both sided of the resistor with something conductive and of the right shape and size to only touch those two parts of that resistor. maybe needle pointed tweezers or some tiny screwdriver?

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and still you've gone as far as removing the shielding?
if you think you can safely do it, the instruction state you need to short resistor R3209 as the phone boots. short means contact both sided of the resistor with something conductive and of the right shape and size to only touch those two parts of that resistor. maybe needle pointed tweezers or some tiny screwdriver?
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Dude, thanx for your help! I have some metal tweezers. Do I need to put plastic protective cover on the end or them? Ive got some bubble wrap!
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All I seem to get is the Windows light coming on when I try to perform this. It also come on when I press volum down or volum up button and insert the usb.
Actually, the light comes on when I put it into the electric charger (not pc charger) as well, but stays on for longer.

BeLlSiBuB said:
Dude, thanx for your help! I have some metal tweezers. Do I need to put plastic protective cover on the end or them? Ive got some bubble wrap!
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All I seem to get is the Windows light coming on when I try to perform this. It also come on when I press volum down or volum up button and insert the usb.
Actually, the light comes on when I put it into the electric charger (not pc charger) as well, but stays on for longer.
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you just need to charge the battery.

jethro tarw said:
you just need to charge the battery.
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Really?
Can WPInternals kill a battery when it "Stopped working" and crashes?
Ahh, I thought you said "Change the battery". The battery was fully charged when it got bricked. I'm not sure how to charge this battery. I left it on charge for about 4 hours before attempting shorting procedure. I don't thing it is charging while plugged in now despite that light breifly coming on.

Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 is all that is left from my M8

Hi,
my M8 doesn't turn on anymore. Already tried to change the battery, already tried to start it with VOL+ vor a couple of minutes, tried VOL+ and VOL- for a couple of minutes - nothing. I can't get into bootloader, i can't boot the phone - BUT:
- After connecting the phone to the PC a device "Qualcomm HS-UB QDLoader 9008 (COM10)" shows up
- When putting the charging cable only half the way in the charging LED turns on for 1-2 seconds and then off again
- When trying to do the VOL+ and Power method the charging LED turns on very short every 10-15 seconds as long as i hold the keys
Is it completely dead? Or can i try to flash something with qualcomm tools from here? Its a non-provider phone (HTC_102 i think) and the android variant.
The last thing i did was htcdev unlock after i got it from htc repair where they replaced the motherboard. i installed twrp and then miui7 and after this viperrom and leedroid. With miui it turned on but not every time (i don't know why) but after leedroid it doesn't even get into bootloader.
I don't think this is rom related and more of a hardware issue but maybe you have some ideas. The phone seems to be dead anyway, so let's try something.
Thanks

Dacoco said:
- When putting the charging cable only half the way in the charging LED turns on for 1-2 seconds and then off again
- When trying to do the VOL+ and Power method the charging LED turns on very short every 10-15 seconds as long as i hold the keys
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What color charge LED?

Orange

Dacoco said:
Orange
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I have the same issue. Same indicators. Just happened after charging overnight phone seems completely dead. Tried everything. (Light trick, Volume Up & Down w/ Power)

For the most part, if you've charged the phone for several hours, and all your are getting is orange/red LED (I would call it red, but maybe I'm not remembering it correctly) and the button combos don't work, its probably bricked.
Try holding power+Vol up for a minute or so (it will sometimes take that long to reboot, in certain circumstances). Also try Power+Vol up+vol down (but it sounds like you did already).
Also try the button combos with or without the charger attached and plugged in. In can think of at least one user, that had success with the charger plugged in, when they had lost all hope.
Basically, the device will come up with the Qualcomm Download message on your PC anytime the phone is not powered on. So it can be an emmc failure, or a dead battery. You can try replacing the battery, but that can just end up as a disappointment (which looks like may be the case for the OP). Or you can even have the Qualcomm message come up, if the charge is too low. I've had that happen once, gave me a heart attack. Red LED, and no response to button combos. I let it sit on charger for a few hours, then holding power+vol up for a minute made it boot, much to my relief.
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Orange
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I would have been more hopeful if it was a green LED, appearing for a second when you connected the charger. That would have made me think maybe the charge port is just loose.

Same problem
having the same problem and i have noticed that when I plug it to pc then I shows qgusb dloader and when I press power button or any other button combination then I stop showing as qgusb dloader it appears as device is unplugged and then if I replug it then it won't show anything nor led neither qhusb..But after 10 min or so if I plug it then it again shows led and qhusb and I have also noticed one more thing that if I plug it in charger then led just blink for some microseconds but when I plug it to pc led blinks several times dim solid for 2 3 seconds is there any hope?
I reached this stage by installing unknown ROM .
By the way I have one more HTC one M8 but its from different career (at&t) and it's also rooted and custom rom installed but its in very bad condition just working but i m thinking about replacing motherboard or battery so i can fix it it this idea succesfull ?

narshi shukla said:
I reached this stage by installing unknown ROM .
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What do you mean "unknown"? Do you mean, you can't remember exactly which ROM you flashed?
I presume you don't mean you flashed something, without knowing what it is.
Do you remember anything about the ROM?
What carrier version of the M8 are you talking about?
S-on? If so, its hard to brick this phone with s-on.

Hello All,
I have the exact same issue ...
It started by showing messages like "android core/services has/have stopped". I rebooted, then there was no mobile network connection -> No IMEI.
I had no worries, that happened also in the past and I could solve it with a dirty flash.
Then I went to Recovery, dirty flashed my ROM (Android Revolution), phone rebooted and started building application cache.
At some point, it started, then some more caching and ... boom, blackout.
It doesn`t respond to anything. No power+volume combination, anything.
I have even opened it up and removed the battery connector.
Without battery, when I connect it to the power source, via USB, the RED light turns on for a second and the Off. ..
Also, when connected to the PC, it is identified as : " Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 " .
Are there any repair possibilities, besides motherboard replacement ?
Thank you in advance.

dachriss_13 said:
Hello All,
I have the exact same issue ...
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Please don't post the same question to multiple threads. One place is enough. It makes it confusing to those trying to help you, and it's therefore against forum rules.

Understood, won`t happen again.
Thank you.