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[UNRESOLVED / CLOSED] Friend of mine getting a white screen

EDIT - No sollution found!!
Please examine this thread if you have similar problems, but please don't ask how we got it fixed. The phone was just done for, dead, bricked, whatever you want to call it.
Good luck with yours!
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Hey people,
A friend of mine is getting a white screen on his Galaxy Y, can't do anything with it. Even a hard reset (as found on the internet) doesn't work. (Hard reset being holding volume up, center button and power button).
Does anyone have experience with this problem?
Tim
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First state what happen?
Try remove battery and power on again. If its not work try volume down home button then power button. If the download mode appears flash stock rom again using odin..
Sent from my GT-S5360 using xda premium

timmiej93 said:
Hey people,
A friend of mine is getting a white screen on his Galaxy Y, can't do anything with it. Even a hard reset (as found on the internet) doesn't work. (Hard reset being holding volume up, center button and power button).
Does anyone have experience with this problem?
Tim
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Thats NOT a hard reset! Pull the battery, and insert it again. Now do your "hard reset". As in, holding volume up+home+power key together until you see the Samsung logo. Do a data wipe and restart. If that doesnt work, search for flashable firmware packages in the Development section. If that doesn't work either, replace your phone.

Hey guys,
Thank you both for your replies.
rockerblood said:
First state what happen?
Try remove battery and power on again. If its not work try volume down home button then power button. If the download mode appears flash stock rom again using odin..
Sent from my GT-S5360 using xda premium
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Stating what happened: He just suddenly had a white screen, unable to do anything with the phone. Rebooting, pulling the battery etc. didn't do anything.
Your second option didn't work either unfortunatly.
Raol Emostar said:
Thats NOT a hard reset! Pull the battery, and insert it again. Now do your "hard reset". As in, holding volume up+home+power key together until you see the Samsung logo. Do a data wipe and restart. If that doesnt work, search for flashable firmware packages in the Development section. If that doesn't work either, replace your phone.
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Sorry about that, I just read in about this phone, since it's not mine, and I already forgot about the second part.
Unfortunately, neither of this works. Every boot method gets him a white screen. Since he rooted his phone about a week ago, looks like he's going to need a new one.

timmiej93 said:
Hey guys,
Thank you both for your replies.
Stating what happened: He just suddenly had a white screen, unable to do anything with the phone. Rebooting, pulling the battery etc. didn't do anything.
Your second option didn't work either unfortunatly.
Sorry about that, I just read in about this phone, since it's not mine, and I already forgot about the second part.
Unfortunately, neither of this works. Every boot method gets him a white screen. Since he rooted his phone about a week ago, looks like he's going to need a new one.
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try flashing the ROM using Odin from the PC

Might Odin be the same as Samsung Kies in dutch? Or is this an external program?
Assuming it's this program: http://odin-win.sourceforge.net/
Now how does this work? I've been flashing my phone for quite a while now, but I'm not familiar with this program. Can I just download a ROM (stock) from the developers part here?

timmiej93 said:
Might Odin be the same as Samsung Kies in dutch? Or is this an external program?
Assuming it's this program: http://odin-win.sourceforge.net/
Now how does this work? I've been flashing my phone for quite a while now, but I'm not familiar with this program. Can I just download a ROM (stock) from the developers part here?
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its a tool for windows which lets you flash firmwares. You need to connect your phone to your pc is download mode.
Search Google and you will get lots of tutorials explaining the process.
Sent from my SK17i using xda app-developers app

Okay thanks for all your help guys.
My friend tried everything you people suggested, but nothing worked. He just had an expert look at it and it's just totally bricked. Gotta buy a new one. Thanks for trying anyway!

Sorry for bringing this up again, but I kinda feel sorry when people brick their devices. Yours doesnt have to be a brick. Read this. The instructions are on the first page. There's a link to Odin too. Hope for the best!

Raol Emostar said:
Sorry for bringing this up again, but I kinda feel sorry when people brick their devices. Yours doesnt have to be a brick. Read this. The instructions are on the first page. There's a link to Odin too. Hope for the best!
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Haha don't mind bringing it up . I asked for help, so I should at the very least be gratefull for every try! So first of all, thank you for your suggestion. I'll send this to my friend an have him take a look at it. I'll keep you updated if it works or not.

SGY white screen HELP!
timmiej93 said:
Haha don't mind bringing it up . I asked for help, so I should at the very least be gratefull for every try! So first of all, thank you for your suggestion. I'll send this to my friend an have him take a look at it. I'll keep you updated if it works or not.
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plss help me my SAMSUNG GALAXY Y GT-s5360 !! only white screen ?? how cant i fix it ?? i go to the recovery mode but WHite screen also ??

Iam faced same problem on my galaxy y
that is hardware problem
you need to change "DISPLAY IC"

[Q] Samsung t989 Galaxy S II - Bootloop HELP please :(

I downloaded the Jedi Mind Trick JB 2 ROM and installed it via clocwork mod recovery .. That went fine but it took me a few days to realize I didnt have a working video camera anymore on my phone.. so I thought to flash a stock ROOTed rom instead...
Then I found this threat about an updated version of Jedi Mind Trick's ROM labled JB 3.. So I wiped as much as I could in recovery and chose to format all the options it gave me in recover , Format system , data , cache , emms(or something) .. and now when I boot the phone , it shows the first flash screen , and the samsung logo starts to shimmer then it reboots back to the splash screen and repeats this process everal times before just going black and sitting there..
So I've successfully bootlooped my phone doing this..
MY PROBLEM -- I don't know how to charge my phone or connect to it to install anything else..
Is this a serious problem? How can I charge my phone to continue troubleshooting it? It still has some battery to try some things but I don't know how to hook it up to transfer any other roms to it via USB cable and PC in it's current state..
I'm very computer savvy but I'm trying to learn this phone modding stuff and I realy hope I didn't brick my phone in this process.
Can someone please help me out here? I'll be on the forums religiously until I figure this out.
What should I start doing first??
Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks!

still working at it
I think I'm at the point of having to use ODIN to flash a new rom since i cannot simply copy this rom to the sdcard to use clockwork to flash it .. Am I correct on this ?
For some reason this rom I found (should be stock rooted tmobile gSII rom) does not want to open from ODIN's PDA button cause its in .zip and not .tar or anything... I'm not sure how to flash this rom with ODIN ( I'm not even 100% sure this is how its supposed to go) Any suggestions ?

phew
UPDATE - So I managed to research enough to find out that there is no way to flash a CUSTOM rom with ODIN.. SO I had to download a stock (presumably rooted) t-mobile rom and flash THAT ...
Now I'm back up with a rooted rom and will begin re-installing clockwork and then my custom deodexed rooted rom afterward.
Thanks for all who almost kinda tried to care to reply in this past 2 hours =) -- As previously mentioned.. I am a nerd.. I just suck at phone modding. Haha
So , looks like I'm in the clear now and don't need any more support on this particular topic yet.

zarklon said:
UPDATE - So I managed to research enough to find out that there is no way to flash a CUSTOM rom with ODIN.. SO I had to download a stock (presumably rooted) t-mobile rom and flash THAT ...
Now I'm back up with a rooted rom and will begin re-installing clockwork and then my custom deodexed rooted rom afterward.
Thanks for all who almost kinda tried to care to reply in this past 2 hours =) -- As previously mentioned.. I am a nerd.. I just suck at phone modding. Haha
So , looks like I'm in the clear now and don't need any more support on this particular topic yet.
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Is this true? Through a recommendation (haven't done anything to my phone from rooting/flashing KANGSJUGGERNAUT2 years ago), I tried to flash CM10 and ended up with a bootloop myself. Tried flashing through ODIN but it kept crashing; does anyone know why?
Afterward, I tried to reflash it through CWM and from then on bootloops into a installation process that never completes.
For some reason my CWM turned super slow, freezes/hangs and reboots after a few minutes.
I gave the phone to a friend who does this stuff on the regular but he said my initial flash wasn't complete cause in download mode says I'm still running official? No clue.
I was told this via email/chat: "No luck, it won't even boot anymore, I think I'll just bring it back tmrw morn
10:43 PM
Sorry I'm at a wedding (yea I know random) I left my phone with coat check
OK I've narrowed down the reason but not the solution, you had an AOKP based ROM which fundamentally is based on CyanogenMod, but it wasn't correctly flashed as the phone still thought it has factory ROMs still running
11:10 PM
Clockworkmod(even though it was working before) wasn't accessing the partitions of the phone correctly so it wasn't properly wiping or flashing properly.
11:12 PM
So basically from the first time you flashed cwm it didn't flash properly then the next time you flashed using the new recovery it didn't flash anything it was supposed to do itself properly , so basically it was a chain of events in addition to a bad boot loader, that's why it never went to recovery or download mode correctly
11:13 PM
That's something that had to do with the way the phone was built meaning you may of had a bad bootloader from the very begin and are now feeling the synptoms
Basically, and I would hate to be the reason or partially the reason you have a dead phone, basically it was a matter of coincedencr that it happened as this could of happened at anytime, once you have a bad boot loader its pretty much down hill from there"
Any helpful insight as how I can rectify this? is my phone truly dead? Sorry about the quoted format, it was copied and pasted.

If I were in your boat, I'd use Odin and flash the stock 4.1.2 ROM.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

tronmech said:
If I were in your boat, I'd use Odin and flash the stock 4.1.2 ROM.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
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The phone won't turn on, unable to go into recovery and download mode; plugged in usb (hear connection beep but pressing power button plays disconnect button) to no avail. What can I do to unbrick?
Stock 4.1.2? Possible over a hardbricked T989 with old 2.3.6?

JahJahLoO said:
The phone won't turn on, unable to go into recovery and download mode; plugged in usb (hear connection beep but pressing power button plays disconnect button) to no avail. What can I do to unbrick?
Stock 4.1.2? Possible over a hardbricked T989 with old 2.3.6?
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sorry but i have to assume that you are not doing the 3 button recovery or download mode right.
Pull battery, put battery back in, hold power button & Vol +/- untill you see SAMSUNG on the screen ---> let go off power button(keep holding
Vol +/- button) .....u will see recovery. (assuming you did flash cwm before).
Let me know.
hit thanks.

sam.balia1012 said:
sorry but i have to assume that you are not doing the 3 button recovery or download mode right.
Pull battery, put battery back in, hold power button & Vol +/- untill you see SAMSUNG on the screen ---> let go off power button(keep holding
Vol +/- button) .....u will see recovery. (assuming you did flash cwm before).
Let me know.
hit thanks.
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I believe I am doing it correct, I have been entering recovery and download mode many times, right before I soft bricked it.
And sorry, no, I've tried many times, many methods and my phone is confirmed as entirely hard bricked.
SUPAR SAD, but thank you!

dont give up
JahJahLoO said:
I believe I am doing it correct, I have been entering recovery and download mode many times, right before I soft bricked it.
And sorry, no, I've tried many times, many methods and my phone is confirmed as entirely hard bricked.
SUPAR SAD, but thank you!
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you can try using adb and put the phone in dl mode.
sometimes its as easy as pull battery and wait awhile (20 min or more) and try again.
if you've exhausted all possibilities, you can use a jig to force a dl mode.
let me know

sam.balia1012 said:
you can try using adb and put the phone in dl mode.
sometimes its as easy as pull battery and wait awhile (20 min or more) and try again.
if you've exhausted all possibilities, you can use a jig to force a dl mode.
let me know
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I don't know what adb is, or how to use it; I have, however seen my friend RDP to my desktop and do something and used the term 'adb' in his attempt to code through the phone.
I've done that battery waiting period, for nearly an hour and still no result.
After doing some researching, I have found that many people have stated a USB JIG would not be applicable to a 'hard bricked' phone. I really wanted to try as it looked like the most, simple and inexpensive solution.

JahJahLoO said:
I don't know what adb is, or how to use it; I have, however seen my friend RDP to my desktop and do something and used the term 'adb' in his attempt to code through the phone.
I've done that battery waiting period, for nearly an hour and still no result.
After doing some researching, I have found that many people have stated a USB JIG would not be applicable to a 'hard bricked' phone. I really wanted to try as it looked like the most, simple and inexpensive solution.
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If you know for a fact that you bricked your s2, maybe wrong rom or kernel that u flashed by accident then.....
contact these guys.... http://brickedmyphone.com/contact-me/
good like and click thanks if you agree.

sam.balia1012 said:
If you know for a fact that you bricked your s2, maybe wrong rom or kernel that u flashed by accident then.....
contact these guys.... http://brickedmyphone.com/contact-me/
good like and click thanks if you agree.
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Lols, you're really fishing for them "Thanks"; you got it buddy. Very swift responses. :cyclops:
Anyway, I'm still searching the net for anymore possible solutions.
Thanks.

JahJahLoO said:
Lols, you're really fishing for them "Thanks"; you got it buddy. Very swift responses. :cyclops:
Anyway, I'm still searching the net for anymore possible solutions.
Thanks.
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fishing for them ???????
what the hell does that even mean? it seems that brick did hit u in the head!!!

sam.balia1012 said:
fishing for them ???????
what the hell does that even mean? it seems that brick did hit u in the head!!!
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It might as well have... :crying:

[Q] S3 won't stay booted.

I can get into recover,download mode, or the rom boot screen but phone turns off right after. It won't stay on long enough to change roms or backup anything. Does anyone have any suggestions of what to do? Thanks in advance

Can't not can...stupid tablet won't let me edit.

Please Specify your Rom and Kernel. If on Stock, do a factory reset.

Perseus71 said:
Please Specify your Rom and Kernel. If on Stock, do a factory reset.
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I'm on Cyanogenmod with stock Kernel from Cyanogenmod, never changed my kernel. It was working fine for months then just rebooted on its own and won't stay on since. Unfortunately I'm stock and I'm not even sure it will stay on long enough to do anything to it.Its also not the battery. This video shows exactly whats happening to mine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J61jghxz-Vc

If it can stay stable in Download mode, then you can Odin Flash Root66. Once that's done, flash recovery again and the Rom.

Perseus71 said:
If it can stay stable in Download mode, then you can Odin Flash Root66. Once that's done, flash recovery again and the Rom.
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That's the problem I can't. Is there any other options. I'm not worried about backups or anything I just want it fixed.

The video points to Recovery only. Have you tried to boot into Download mode (the kind that has yellow triangle and Downloading message ) ?

Perseus71 said:
The video points to Recovery only. Have you tried to boot into Download mode (the kind that has yellow triangle and Downloading message ) ?
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Yeh I've tried recovery and download. Neither one stays on for more than 5 seconds and in download mode after clicking up to go into download mode the phone restarts.

Could be hardware, could be softbrick. Can you try the De-Bricking thread's instructions ?

Perseus71 said:
Could be hardware, could be softbrick. Can you try the De-Bricking thread's instructions ?
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Trying to find it now. Can you point me in the right direction with a link??

Pivo99 said:
Trying to find it now. Can you point me in the right direction with a link??
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Here you go.

Perseus71 said:
Here you go.
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I'm beginning to think its a hardware problem. I got it to boot into recovery long enough to factory reset, load a new rom, and gapps. I rebooted and it loaded for a few seconds and turns off. It booted again and went to the optimizing apps screen then shut off before it could finish. Does this sound like it could be a software problem?

Pivo99 said:
I'm beginning to think its a hardware problem. I got it to boot into recovery long enough to factory reset, load a new rom, and gapps. I rebooted and it loaded for a few seconds and turns off. It booted again and went to the optimizing apps screen then shut off before it could finish. Does this sound like it could be a software problem?
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I got the phone to boot into cyanogenmod but in the set up screen it failed again. Really getting annoying and I can't figure out how to fix it.

Pull battery. Then put it back. Does it try to turn on by itself? Could be the power button issue many others have had.

DocHoliday77 said:
Pull battery. Then put it back. Does it try to turn on by itself? Could be the power button issue many others have had.
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YES thats it I was thinking there might be a problem with the power button...Is there a fix on this or a thread anywhere?

There have been many threads posted with this issue, and some did manage to just buy the part and fix themselves. No instructions though thst I'm aware of.
I'd suggest you google galaxy s3 or t999 teardown.

DocHoliday77 said:
There have been many threads posted with this issue, and some did manage to just buy the part and fix themselves. No instructions though thst I'm aware of.
I'd suggest you google galaxy s3 or t999 teardown.
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Found a few posts and people just thump around the general area of the power button and that seems to be a temporary fix and it worked for me for a little while. It's gonna work long enough to revert everything to stock and send in. Thanks you two for your help

[Q] Xperia Z1 Compact HARD BRICKED

So I had a custom firmware on my Z1C and I followed a tutorial and how to go back to stock firmware.I followed the instructions and now my phone is hard bricked. My phone's led lights either flashes red, does one short flash of red and then one long one, or when it's plugged into a wall charger it's green. I tried all different variations on turning on the phone but it won't simply turn on. There were other tutorials on using Sony Companion and other updaters but that didn't work because everytime I'd plug my phone in. My PC recognizes an ADB driver but the it says it failed.
I think this would help me fix it but I don't quite understand how to do this. I already opened up my phone but can someone please explain on how to do this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2682255
I tried using this link and the one I provided before combined but I think I need certain downloads or something to do it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2646405
Can someone basically just show me how I can unbrick my phone the way using the test point and GND. Please, my phone really needs to come back, and It'd be cool if you showed me how to go back to the official stock rom too. HELP ME PLEASE

Would be good to know which custom rom you had, which tutorial you followed and which rom you installed to brick it

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So I had a custom firmware on my Z1C and I followed a tutorial and how to go back to stock firmware.I followed the instructions and now my phone is hard bricked. My phone's led lights either flashes red, does one short flash of red and then one long one, or when it's plugged into a wall charger it's green. I tried all different variations on turning on the phone but it won't simply turn on. There were other tutorials on using Sony Companion and other updaters but that didn't work because everytime I'd plug my phone in. My PC recognizes an ADB driver but the it says it failed.
I think this would help me fix it but I don't quite understand how to do this. I already opened up my phone but can someone please explain on how to do this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2682255
I tried using this link and the one I provided before combined but I think I need certain downloads or something to do it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2646405
Can someone basically just show me how I can unbrick my phone the way using the test point and GND. Please, my phone really needs to come back, and It'd be cool if you showed me how to go back to the official stock rom too. HELP ME PLEASE
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=55544665&postcount=37

sidahmxd said:
So I had a custom firmware on my Z1C and I followed a tutorial and how to go back to stock firmware.I followed the instructions and now my phone is hard bricked.
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That sucks man, are you gonna buy a new one? I mean a bricked phone is per definition not fixable.
...So is it really bricked or did you just **** up and want help with it? Change your topic.

Rekoil said:
That sucks man, are you gonna buy a new one? I mean a bricked phone is per definition not fixable.
...So is it really bricked or did you just **** up and want help with it? Change your topic.
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iI don't know man, when I opened my phone before I got the reply I messed up the battery wire thing so I bought a new one online and I'm waiting for it to come. I hope I just ****ed up. :l

[Q] Unable to boot into recovery mode with rooted Z1 Compact...?

Hi guys,
Hope you're all well and enjoying the weekend! First off, i have googled and searched my ass off,but still can't find a solution for this. Basically my Z1 Compact will not bot into recovery mode. I used the EasyRoot tool yesterday, which appears to have worked fine. I then installed SUperSU and ROM Manager which also seemed to work fine. So, as I want to install the 4k and 120fps recording mod I then of course went to boot into recovery mode to deox my ROM...
...and no joy. I literally cannot get it to boot into recovery. I have tried:
, it just goesto the Xperia logo and then right into the normal boot process
Using ROM Manager option
Using Quick Boot app
Pressing Vol+ at boot (both by holding and clicking it repeatedly)
Dancing around the phone while singing
If anyone has any ideas I would be very, very grateful. I genuinely could find any a solution that helped when searching the forum. Thanks in advance.

Have you actually installed a recovery?, there is no stock one. It's a shame all your Googling didn't lead you to the stickys.

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Have you actually installed a recovery?, there is no stock one. It's a shame all your Googling didn't lead you to the stickys.
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Ahhhh crap, that was indeed the missing piece of the puzzle. I genuinely didn't see it from my research, so thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

XperienceD said:
Have you actually installed a recovery?, there is no stock one. It's a shame all your Googling didn't lead you to the stickys.
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ok, sorry for the stupid question, but i'm also having the same issue. yesterday, after MUCH trial and tribulation (on a mac) was able to unlock the bootloader (per sony's recently published instructions) and then when i went to root the phone, could not boot into recovery mode to save my life. found this here, and of course there must not be a recovery partition on the phone, but how do i get one? i have googled and found many instructions but they are all for PC, which does me not good.
i did manage to instal SUperSU on the micro sd card which is seen by the phone.
i'm completely new at this, completely lost, completely frustrated, and using a mac to top it off. any help is GREATLY appreciated!!! i'm kind of dead in the water without it.
thanks!!

chnacat said:
i have googled and found many instructions but they are all for PC
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This is the best I can do, let us know how you get on. fastboot xperia mac

XperienceD said:
This is the best I can do, let us know how you get on.
thank you!! i was able to get a recovery installed, but now the phone boots to the sony logo and then a black screen. i haven't been able to get much further, but i definitely can get to the recovery boot now, so thank you!!!!
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chnacat said:
XperienceD said:
This is the best I can do, let us know how you get on.
thank you!! i was able to get a recovery installed, but now the phone boots to the sony logo and then a black screen.
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Make sure you flash the right files for the right firmware, but at least you're a step further.
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