I have a R800x Xperia play and it doesnt work no more.
Before whenever the battery would die out all the way to 0% and turn off automatically, it would take like 5 minutes of charging before it can reboot.(I would never let it go to zero but i let people use it and everytime they let it drain all the way and it bugs the sh*t! out of me, that cant even ask me for a charger!!)
anyways this last time it took over an hour of charging (with led indicator on) to be able to boot up. and before that i had left the charger on overnight and the led never turned on and i wasnt able to turn it on. And when it did start working it itwas out of nowhere after plugging it in multiple times.
This last time it was on yellow battery and i fell asleep using it so when i woke up it was drained all the way. (also i found it on the ground so it fell from my bed, but the screen is not cracked so idk if this has anything to do with the problem). I put the phone to charge and after like an hour nothing happened. 3, 4, 5 hours and same thing. i left it all night and still nothing no led no vibration! i bought a new battery thinking i might have messed up the old one letting it drain all the way (the extended battery for a r800i, dont know if that will affect it) and put it in, and nothing still. tried charging and still no led light.
i think that mayb the miniusb port is messed up and both my batteries are drained all the way! even the new one because this is an old device and they probably manufactured the battery a long time ago.
i have taken the phone apart and see nothing wrong, except for the flex cable looks a little damaged, i will upload a pic asap
So any suggestions on how to fix it myself?
thank you for any help!
Do you have a custom rom installed if so which one ?
Denzof said:
Do you have a custom rom installed if so which one ?
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thanks for reply. no i don,t i forgot to add that it is rooted and that the date on the phone was forwarded to like 2 months ahead of time (dont know if this will cuase any software issues)
i have 2.3.2 installed and could not update because i bought it off contract to use as a tablet/gaming.
i see a lot of mistakes on my original post n will correct em, lol thats wat happens when u up late
took my phone to get fixed and they said it was the usb port they charged $10 for the diagnosis, and told me they dont fix usb ports but that they could recommend someone and that it was gonna be $60. they sold me a universal seat charger and now it works!
I found a usb port replacement online for $6. Ive done a lil soldering in the past but not real good. does anybody have any tips, how to's, vids? ive searched online and havent hound anything.
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took my phone to get fixed and they said it was the usb port they charged $10 for the diagnosis, and told me they dont fix usb ports but that they could recommend someone and that it was gonna be $60. they sold me a universal seat charger and now it works!
I found a usb port replacement online for $6. Ive done a lil soldering in the past but not real good. does anybody have any tips, how to's, vids? ive searched online and havent hound anything.
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You can find on youtube videos of how to dissamble the Xplay.
Anyway if it's the miniusb port broken, why doesn't the phone boot up ?
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You can find on youtube videos of how to dissamble the Xplay.
Anyway if it's the miniusb port broken, why doesn't the phone boot up ?
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the battery was completely drained. n ithink the xperia play is one of those devices where it has to be ON to charge. now it charges through the port. i have let it die again, and it wont charge no more through the port. if i use the battery seat charger and as long as it has a lil bit of charge, it'll charge thru the port. but connecting the xperia with the pc, the xperia isnt recognized. so the usb port IS messed up, it'll charge but wont sync
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ok guys well i was given a moto tmobile defy from my fiances friend but she said she had dropped in water and after that the phone no longer turned on
when i plug in the usb cable i get the white led but black screen etc
when i plug in the usb cable itll recog it in the device manager (motousb device) then disappears after a sec
i tried to jump start it but no difference better yet when i hook it up as stated i get a power surge on my usb port
i even just tried to charge the battery
when i use the jump start methos i get no white led only when connected to usb
the battery didnt expand but im sure its the problem or is it something else?
wont be able to get another battery to test for a another few days
rsdlite doesnt recog it neither
what % that it is the batt dont wanna spend money on a batt if its not worth it
Put it in a bowl with rice to remove humidity leave it all day.
but If they passed several days since it got wet not think I will work, must be put in rice just gets wet
SORRY FOR MY ENGLISH :silly:
if i charge my arc s from ac or usb it will need 10 hours to recharge, if i use a little when is chargin it start to lower battery, get really a little amout of energy when charging its not different if from usb or ac, do is this a thecnical problem i have to ask repair center or can be software side fixed?
You could try a different battery, it might have come to the end of it's life and just needs replacing. How long have you had the phone and / or battery?
its less than 6 month, battery monitor widget say is good health
raniero1 said:
its less than 6 month, battery monitor widget say is good health
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There shouldn't be a problem with it then.
I know it means resetting everything, but you could try flashing the ftf again. It most likely won't fix it, but Sony would ask you to try a reset using pc companion before you send it back anyway.
I have clockworkmod installed but no unlocked bootloader, if i do a reset than can i restore everything from backup?
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I have clockworkmod installed but no unlocked bootloader, if i do a reset than can i restore everything from backup?
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Yeah, you can. Though you'll have to root again and install CWM, it wipes everything with a fresh install.
10 hrs from USB is acceptable..but not via AC...something is wrong dude..did you try with different charger? try samsung charger..note and S2 and S3 charger allows more current hence charges the phone very quickly.
ok ive made a fresh install from pc companion repair service, updated to ics, now is really worse, i put all the night the phone charging, it charged from 25% to 45% after 9 hours, if i use the phone just a little when is chargin it dont charge at all but get low battery. im the only one having this issue? i assume i will have to send it to sony support but i would like to understand what could is causing this, THIS IS FROM ONE MONTH, BEFORE IS ALWAYS CHARGED FAST, AND FASTER FROM AC, ive always charged the phone from usb via pc, occasionally charged by ac from cigar socket inside my car, this was a cheap sub socket i bought for 5 euro, could it be this?
now i cant use the phone at all, if i put it on cant charge because battery is used more than how much is recharged, i have to keep it off and wait, hope that reverting to gb will make the chargin time a bit faster, i want to keep it still awhile before send it to sony
ok ive made a fresh install from pc companion repair service, updated to ics, now is really worse, i put all the night the phone charging, it charged from 25% to 45% after 9 hours, if i use the phone just a little when is chargin it dont charge at all but get low battery. im the only one having this issue? i assume i will have to send it to sony support but i would like to understand what could is causing this, THIS IS FROM ONE MONTH, BEFORE IS ALWAYS CHARGED FAST, AND FASTER FROM AC, ive always charged the phone from usb via pc, occasionally charged by ac from cigar socket inside my car, this was a cheap sub socket i bought for 5 euro, could it be this?
now i cant use the phone at all, if i put it on cant charge because battery is used more than how much is recharged, i have to keep it off and wait, hope that reverting to gb will make the chargin time a bit faster, i want to keep it still awhile before send it to sony
Got one last idea for you. Try a different usb cable to charge it. The cable might just have worn out.
It shouldn't be the car charger, as long as it had the same charging rate as USB charging or AC charging.
nope, already tried a different cable, i cant understand whats wrong with this phone, ive recharged it 20% yesterday, ive put it on airplane mode before sleeping and today at morning after 9 hour it is 5% battery
and sony support in italy is really bad, ive to bring the phone to a collect center that will ship it to the support center ill have to wait 2 weeks to have it back
i just discovered that charge time from ac is 7 hour, from pc usb take more than 20, if i leave the phone to the usb with the pc off the phone totatlly drain the battery i dont know how
What the title said. And I searched this on XDA and found several threads but none that cater to my exact problem, and if there are then it was simply because I didn't want to/don't have the time to go through hundreds of threads. Anyways, My Xperia Play (R800a) from Rogers (Canadian Service Provider) has been nothing but trouble for me. I got it Christmas day in 2011 and it worked beautifully for around 6 or 7 months. Then it started acting up. Like battery draining real fast, then not charging, then charging, then working for a day then not working for a week and then another day it worked then it just died (or at least the battery).
So I gave up on it and popped my SIM in my old iPhone 3G. Well I recently just bought another BST-41 XPLAY battery from amazon and I have had probably a 1% increase in some sort of success with trying to bring this thing back to life. I remember I rooted it but I never didn't anything with the root. Moving along, the phone with its original battery would blink 3 times in a pattern for maybe 2-3 minutes then there would be no blinking lights. With my new battery it just continuously blinking 3 times in the same pattern it did with my old battery.
Phoned Sony support yelled at the, its not on warranty anymore and I don't know what to do with it. I have read it could be the charger or the USB port, or cord. But right now with the 3 blinking red lights I think it means its charging... I just don't know. I wish this phone would come back to life already. I tried PC companion too and it doesn't recognize my phone. Oh and when I charge it on my PC I get the same blinking red light 3x and its also just doing that continuously.
If one of you have a solution to this, without linking me to another thread, because I have spent the past year looking at ways to fix it and I ran into some threads on here that haven't helped me, then I would be forever in your debt! Right now I am on my knees praying for this thing its just ridiculous.
Blinking would mean that the battery's dead. You could try charging the battery with an external charger and not use your Play to see if the phone would turn on after the charge. If it does, then it's probably the usb port's fault on the device.
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Blinking would mean that the battery's dead. You could try charging the battery with an external charger and not use your Play to see if the phone would turn on after the charge. If it does, then it's probably the usb port's fault on the device.
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I think thats the case but im not putting any more money into this piece of junk.
hi, i hav been facing charging prob, my does not charge whn its remain on rather drains batt more quick but it was charging whn i turn it off but slow. i thought its the issue of sense 5 so i degrade to sense 4+ viper 3.8 but it got worse. idrained my batt and than put to wall charge for whole night but the charging led kept blinking and than it disappeared than again i unpluged and plug the cable to phn than it starts blinking and than again blinking of led disappeared. i thought it will take time to become stable so i left it charge for whole night. in the morning led was disappeared and i tried to turning phn on but it did not respond. than i plug it to pc and it started blinking without disappearing of led. i left it for the whole day to charge but the led didnt turned to green due curiosity i turned phn on and batt lvl showed 20% ......so plzz any 1 tell me wht can be the solution of the problem plzzzzzzzz:crying::crying::crying:
You probably have a dead battery...Someone who has seen this problem before could confirm.
The way you write is pretty hard to read, so you might wait a while until someone does confirm this .
1. Never charge the phone for the whole night.
2. I had the same problem. I changed my charger and now, it is perfectly charging. Try it.
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1. Never charge the phone for the whole night.
2. I had the same problem. I changed my charger and now, it is perfectly charging. Try it.
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thanx for suggestion, how much do i hav to pay for a new charger??
But you said you left it to charge via USB cable on your PC and it didn't charge properly. If you used the same USB cable with the charger, then the cable might be to blame. You should try a friends cable before buying a new charger.
If the charger does not work with the same USB cable you used to connect to the PC, your battery is most probably dead.
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1. Never charge the phone for the whole night.
2. I had the same problem. I changed my charger and now, it is perfectly charging. Try it.
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Charging all night isn't an issue.
The battery will charge to 100% then drop to 95% and back up, will cause no damage.
Also smaller and often charges are better for the battery as it slows the formation of crystals so the battery holds its capacity longer.
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But you said you left it to charge via USB cable on your PC and it didn't charge properly. If you used the same USB cable with the charger, then the cable might be to blame. You should try a friends cable before buying a new charger.
If the charger does not work with the same USB cable you used to connect to the PC, your battery is most probably dead.
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using different cable phn is getting charge but the charging speed is very slow, in 6 hrs it has charged only 64% and dont know wht to blame batt or charger???
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using different cable phn is getting charge but the charging speed is very slow, in 6 hrs it has charged only 64% and dont know wht to blame batt or charger???
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If you have used 2 different cables to charge and none worked properly, that is probably too big of a coincidence. Your phone has something broken; it's either the battery or the charging circuit in the phone. You should take it to a specialized phone service to see what's wrong. They will also try charging it before disassembling, and if there's nothing wrong with the phone, they probably won't even charge you anything.
If indeed they have to disassemble it, you should ask them if there will be any visible differences once they assemble is back. I had a cracked digitizer on my old One X and took it to service and replaced the display+digitizer(they come together) and, although the screen was new, it did not fit as snugly as before, so you could see light leaking out the side margins of the display.
They probably had many of these phones under repair and should know if this will be the case with your phone.
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If you have used 2 different cables to charge and none worked properly, that is probably too big of a coincidence. Your phone has something broken; it's either the battery or the charging circuit in the phone. You should take it to a specialized phone service to see what's wrong. They will also try charging it before disassembling, and if there's nothing wrong with the phone, they probably won't even charge you anything.
If indeed they have to disassemble it, you should ask them if there will be any visible differences once they assemble is back. I had a cracked digitizer on my old One X and took it to service and replaced the display+digitizer(they come together) and, although the screen was new, it did not fit as snugly as before, so you could see light leaking out the side margins of the display.
They probably had many of these phones under repair and should know if this will be the case with your phone.
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thnx bro, my phn is fully charged now but ill be visiting service center..
You can use/try every USB charger and cable you have in your house, I also charge my HOX with my iPad charger (only different cable ) no porblem at all. And it's no problem to charge your phone the whole night.
So, I'm on stock ROM and been using Sony charger.
My T2 Ultra Dual doesn't seem to take charge, even it chargers, it charges upto one percent. When I try to switch it on, it turns on and says "Battery Low, Shutting Down." I've tried Switching cables, chargers, sockets and tried with system. Any Help?
Can you tell if your phone even recognizes the charger?
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Can you tell if your phone even recognizes the charger?
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Sorry for taking so long, phone doesn't recognise the charger. It only recognises while the phone is switched off.. But doesn't charge
Also the service center guy said that both the battery and port are working good, but it doesn't hold the charge. It's out of warranty. And he said there might be a need to send it to head office
office. He asked me to submit it next week. I'm afraid of what cost he might say. So, I'm looking for help. Thanks in advance.
Never mind, have opened the housing of mobile. Cleaned the slot and charged it using chromecast's data cable..
It's now charging.
I'm having the same problem. Could you clarify what you meant by cleaning out the slot? It puzzles me that your (and my) phone still charge till 1% before you "cleaned out the slot". Thanks.
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I'm having the same problem. Could you clarify what you meant by cleaning out the slot? It puzzles me that your (and my) phone still charge till 1% before you "cleaned out the slot". Thanks.
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does your phone start??
I don't know I used to charge it all day long. Then I got frustrated and opened the housing and cleaned the slot with vodka. Yeah, Vodka. Even then it didn't charge, it stuck at 1%. then I connected it to my television and connected to chromecast cable. it worked. Don't know whats wrong. Even the service center guys couldn't figure it out, I sold it now.
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does your phone start??
I don't know I used to charge it all day long. Then I got frustrated and opened the housing and cleaned the slot with vodka. Yeah, Vodka. Even then it didn't charge, it stuck at 1%. then I connected it to my television and connected to chromecast cable. it worked. Don't know whats wrong. Even the service center guys couldn't figure it out, I sold it now.
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Thanks for clarifying! I checked the USB slot for dirt but no luck there. When the battery is at one percent, my phone does start but it shuts down pretty quickly. I gave up all hope on my virtually dead T2 Ultra. I've searched solutions for this problem all over the internet and it seems to be a very common issue with Sony phones. I bought the new Moto X instead and I'm generally much happier with it.
P.S. For the occasional reader who now wants to clean phone parts with liquor, make sure it does not contain sugar. Straight vodka is indeed a good choice. (Denaturated alcohol is better but not so easy to get.) There are also plenty of youtube video's explaining how to clean a USB port.
Haha didn't know that bro. ^^
Thanks for that. Will never do that again.