I was trying to root the Xperia ION phone.
I followed all the the steps mentioned(HERE) & flashed the kernel available HERE.
BootLoader is unLocked
Now after flashing the kernel, the device had gone in bootloop mode.
I could access the recovery, but thats it.
When i tried to boot to system from recovery, it once again started bootloop.
So, from recovery i wiped the whole system partition of my fone {wipe data}.
Now there is not bootloop, when the phone starts it just gets stuck at SONY logo & after that it doesnt go any further.
While starting it displays a pink LED, so i can go into recovery by pressing VOL-UP key & from recovery i can go into BootLoader FastBoot Mode.
But i cannot get the green led to get into flash mode.
I dont know which type of bricked device is this HARD or SOFT BRICK.
But please help.
What should i do further so that i can again use the phone.
Currently the phone's battery is completely dead.
dharmil007 said:
I was trying to root the Xperia ION phone.
I followed all the the steps mentioned(HERE) & flashed the kernel available HERE.
BootLoader is unLocked
Now after flashing the kernel, the device had gone in bootloop mode.
I could access the recovery, but thats it.
When i tried to boot to system from recovery, it once again started bootloop.
So, from recovery i wiped the whole system partition of my fone {wipe data}.
Now there is not bootloop, when the phone starts it just gets stuck at SONY logo & after that it doesnt go any further.
While starting it displays a pink LED, so i can go into recovery by pressing VOL-UP key & from recovery i can go into BootLoader FastBoot Mode.
But i cannot get the green led to get into flash mode.
I dont know which type of bricked device is this HARD or SOFT BRICK.
But please help.
What should i do further so that i can again use the phone.
Currently the phone's battery is completely dead.
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What firmware version were You on? I think using old kernel with new firmware made Your device soft brick. Try using a kernel which is of same firmware version as Your's.
Did You install drivers for flashmode? Because You need to flash the Your official firmware ftf via flashmode.
Else if You are able to access Your device on pc while being in recovery, find a rom with kernel in it and try the command:
Code:
push /pat/to/ROM.zip /sdcard
and then flash the rom.
Thanks buddy.
But i already solved the issue.
By going into the flashMode nd flashing the stock firmWare
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Hey all - I have spent about 9 hours at this so far and thinking I may have bricked my Xperia Arc.
Here is an outline of where I am right now:
Phone previously on CM7, rooted & had CWM recovery.
Spotted the Team Xperia ics v2.5 and decided to give it a look.
Phone froze on splash screen - I stayed patient but an hour later, still nothing.
After this, I'm not really sure where I went at this stage!
The situation right now is that I have stock SE LT15i_4.0.2.A.0.42_Generic+Global flashed to phone.
On boot, the splash image comes up, then a disconcerting white triangle with yellow exclamation point..... uh oh!
The phone continuously reboots through that loop.
Tried accessing bootloader (power on, toggle vol buttons) but the phone just goes straight by to boot loop.
Checked what I can connect to and can use flashboot to connect in both flashboot mode and fastboot mode.
SuperOneClick freezes (Not Responding) on restarting adb sever stage (I've made sure adb.exe has not been running prior to this)
Completely stuck now - any help rewarded through contributions - sure you'd be saving me the cost of a phone....
Thanks for any help!
Tony
You must press the back button to go in fastboot mode. That's the buttons left. If you press it on starting the phone, your led turns blue.
If it works, try to flash the firmware again.
If your phone's bootloader is unlocked then use fastboot to boot a kernel(if you're trying to run.42 then doomlords gb kernel), once that's flashed wipe dalvik cache via cwm and reboot.
I can't find anything about this on the Xperia Play forum so I have to ask now, I just unlocked my bootloader, SO glad I did, but it seems that after playing with some kernels, I can't even get past their splash screens! I've used LuPuS, FXP, and Mjolnir. It'll show the splash screen, vibrate and the led will light up. I've tried holding volume down and leaving it alone. Nothing happens, it just sits there. ADB says no device is plugged in as well so I can't try adb reboot recovery. I'm going to flash the R800X 2.3.3 FTF then reflash the Mjolnir Kernel, flash it's Wifi module, then install Glazed ICS. If anyone knows why it does this, I don't plan on turning my phone off UNTIL I know a solution to the stuck splash screens. Thank you!
EDIT: It starts doing that when I restart into recovery from the phone, I forgot to mention that, I haven't just rebooted the phone's system yet. I'll try that and get back to you once I install Glazed.
EDIT2: I powered off and booted for the second time and it didn't get stuck. I guess for the time being, I'll stay away from Reboot Into Recovery on the phone and just use the recovery-play.img.
Okay, now my phone needs to be reactivated... Can't see the number pad so I have no way of pressing One. Help please???
EDIT: I'm an idiot, I had to activate it while it was on stock gingerbread first.
Generally, after you flash a room, in that rom zip file the kernel is the boot.img, you need to extract and flash that boot.img so the rom would be able to boot.
First install FlashTool, in the flashtool folder there is a driver file to install the ADB drivers for Xperia devices, select all the drivers that apply to the Play to install.
Enter flash mode (hold Search button).
Flash the kernel: fastboot flash boot boot.img
If all fail, you can use Flashtool to flash the stock tft file to restore the phone to factory state.
Selim873 said:
Okay, now my phone needs to be reactivated... Can't see the number pad so I have no way of pressing One. Help please???
EDIT: I'm an idiot, I had to activate it while it was on stock gingerbread first.
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Had the same problem, dial *228, instead of pressing one (since the dial pad is not yet visible) just stay on the line and they'll activate it. That's how I got mine activated.
Note: I have a sony xperia pro mk16, there was no phone selection for it, so i chose to post on arc forum; however, solutions should be same or similar
Note2: i am a bit noob at rooting and cmw and all that
Story: I had ics and finally decide to try to upgrade to jb with custom cm10 rom. i first rooted the device and installed cmw with x-part. I attempted to install the firmware but it quickly gave me a status 7 error. so i just rebooted and it loaded to a reset ics firmware perfectly fine. after an attempt to download another version of cm10 jb, i tried installing that firmware. after a long wait on installing:..., the log finally gave me another status 7 error. so i rebooted again HOWEVER, it is STUCK ON the SONY logo.
i tried pulling out battery and repowering but nothing changes. holding power with repeated volume down or hold volume up button doesnt do anything. i can connect to sony pc companion but it says i need to fully turn on my phone to update/repair.
i can get it to flashmode using flashtool, but when in flashmode it just leaves a blank screen that wont do anything, i would have to pull out the battery and repower it, which would lead me back to the SONY logo.
PLEASE HELP
ilikecloud said:
Note: I have a sony xperia pro mk16, there was no phone selection for it, so i chose to post on arc forum; however, solutions should be same or similar
Note2: i am a bit noob at rooting and cmw and all that
Story: I had ics and finally decide to try to upgrade to jb with custom cm10 rom. i first rooted the device and installed cmw with x-part. I attempted to install the firmware but it quickly gave me a status 7 error. so i just rebooted and it loaded to a reset ics firmware perfectly fine. after an attempt to download another version of cm10 jb, i tried installing that firmware. after a long wait on installing:..., the log finally gave me another status 7 error. so i rebooted again HOWEVER, it is STUCK ON the SONY logo.
i tried pulling out battery and repowering but nothing changes. holding power with repeated volume down or hold volume up button doesnt do anything. i can connect to sony pc companion but it says i need to fully turn on my phone to update/repair.
i can get it to flashmode using flashtool, but when in flashmode it just leaves a blank screen that wont do anything, i would have to pull out the battery and repower it, which would lead me back to the SONY logo.
PLEASE HELP
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My guess is that you tried to flash a JB rom without flashing the custom kernel because your bootloader is locked. Not every rom is working with stock kernel. CM10 and AOKP as far as i know need custom kernels like Lupus and fxp139. To flash a kernel you must have unlocked bootloader. So until you decide if you will unlock your bootloder or not, you can allways use flashtool to flash stock Sony firmwares found here:
stock firmware: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1642480
here
download the original ICS firmware (somewhere in this forum)
add to flashtool and wait till the pop up asks you to attach your phone in flashmode
attach in flash mode and let flashtool do its magic
now... unlock your bootloader using official or s1 tool method
download CM10 again
inside there will be a boot.img
power off your phone, hold down settings button and attach usb cable..
now you should see a blue LED light
FASTBOOT flash the boot.img and the flash the ROM
press thanks if i helped!!
I was using PA rom for a few months and everything was fine until my gnex suddenly bootloop for no reason. Wasn't flashing a new rom, or tweaking anything. Phone just crash and when i try to reboot it, it just stuck in a bootloop. Showing google, then animation screen and afterwards reboot again back to google and animation and keeps repeating.
Phone info:
-rooted
-bootloader unlocked
-on custom rom (PA ROM)
Attempt to fix problem:
-flash a diff rom ( still boot loop )
-factory reset,wipe system cache etc. ( still boot loop )
-flash factory image 4.3 ( still boot loop ) [All is done through adb, manually flash each radio,bootloader, system etc one by one ]
-flash factory image 4.0 ( still boot loop )
So currently i'm on stock android, stock recovery, stock bootloader, stock baseband etc. But it is still bootlooping, anyone know what can i do?
ps, i did search through the forum, most people got pass this problem through flashing stock image, but mine doesn't
did you erase and then flash userdata?
Similar to my problem, hope it someone knows an answer.
Same problem!
Not to hijack your thread, but I'm having the same problem -
My phone was charging and working fine. I left the room and came back and the phone was stuck at the "Google" bootloader screen. I pulled the battery and reinserted. It went to the Cyanagen boot animation, then froze. Subsequent battery pulls resulted in it freezing at the Google screen.
I can not access recovery (power + vol up + vol down), but I can access the Odin download screen (power + vol down). Odin will connect to my phone, but I can't reflash the stock firmware. After attempting to flash the firmware my phone shows the phone-triangle-computer screen regardless of what buttons I push during start up. I can still connect to Odin, but can't reflash stock. I receive the "complete write failure" message each time. I've tried switching USB ports and USB cords without success.
Sprint SPH 700
Rooted with bootloader unlocked
Running Cyanagen ROM
Any tips? Do I need to reload the PIT file? Thank you!
TSRibeye said:
Not to hijack your thread, but I'm having the same problem -
My phone was charging and working fine. I left the room and came back and the phone was stuck at the "Google" bootloader screen. I pulled the battery and reinserted. It went to the Cyanagen boot animation, then froze. Subsequent battery pulls resulted in it freezing at the Google screen.
I can not access recovery (power + vol up + vol down), but I can access the Odin download screen (power + vol down). Odin will connect to my phone, but I can't reflash the stock firmware. After attempting to flash the firmware my phone shows the phone-triangle-computer screen regardless of what buttons I push during start up. I can still connect to Odin, but can't reflash stock. I receive the "complete write failure" message each time. I've tried switching USB ports and USB cords without success.
Sprint SPH 700
Rooted with bootloader unlocked
Running Cyanagen ROM
Any tips? Do I need to reload the PIT file? Thank you!
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I finally got thru the phone to pc fail screen by using a older version of Odin(3.04).Then the flash went thru w/o a hitch. Is your PC recognizing the Phone? If not the drivers may need to be uninstalled and reinstalled. I had to use the samsung usb cord and no other also.
Zepius said:
did you erase and then flash userdata?
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yup i did that....fastboot erase userdata and also fastboot erase data. still boot loops
Flash factory image via fastboot,
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bunodosoma said:
I finally got thru the phone to pc fail screen by using a older version of Odin(3.04).Then the flash went thru w/o a hitch. Is your PC recognizing the Phone? If not the drivers may need to be uninstalled and reinstalled. I had to use the samsung usb cord and no other also.
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Yup, my PC recognizes the phone. I can push partial tar files (for example, recovery only) to the phone just fine. I'll try a different version of Odin. Thanks!
Hi,
Recently my devices start to boot loop suddenly so, i decide to flash the custom rom back.after flashing the custom rom,the device still boot loop then i try to get into TWRP Recovery mode but it would not appear, then i proceed to flash the TWRP Image recovery (suspecting the recovery already missing during the flashing rom ) via FASTBOOT once the process done, i had disconnect the cable and suddenly the device screen wouldnt turn on even though i pressed the power button for a long time.
Please help.
Thanks.
asen[email protected] said:
Hi,
Recently my devices start to boot loop suddenly so, i decide to flash the custom rom back.after flashing the custom rom,the device still boot loop then i try to get into TWRP Recovery mode but it would not appear, then i proceed to flash the TWRP Image recovery (suspecting the recovery already missing during the flashing rom ) via FASTBOOT once the process done, i had disconnect the cable and suddenly the device screen wouldnt turn on even though i pressed the power button for a long time.
Please help.
Thanks.
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Connect phone with PC and check if you Notification light turn on or not.
If it's still on, your phone got hard bricked (maybe because you mess with custom roms and TWRP). Next time follow Flash guide in each custom roms.
You can use unbrick hardbrick method (free) or get service (paid). I recommend try free method first but when use SP Flash tool, remember ONLY use "Download Only" (Some stupid local shop can use Format and you can lose IMEI too, so careful).
You can find that method easily on: Youtube, XDA, Github, Telegram,...
If you have any error, you can reply here or join Telegram group to get help.
hi i already using SP Flash tool but i stuck at this level..