Hi all
I have a xperia M (C1905), bootloader unlocked, not rooted, usb debugging ON. I tried flashing several custom recovery (cm12 nightly, twrp, cm11, archidroid) with fastboot. It works fine but when I reboot, after I click volume up during the pink light, it gets stuck on the sony logo with a light blue light. I checked with adb devices and my device is listed under recovery, however I'm not able to do anything else (wipe data, flash, etc.).
Would anyone have any idea of what's going on?!
Thanks a lot
u need to press volume down to go to recovery mode,
and which rom u are using now
I can't believe it was that easy... I had read somewhere that up or down didn't matter. And I was sure I had tried down too. Well. All good now!
Thanks again
Related
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.
Hi,
I've attempted the JB update
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1737899..
fastboot flash boot boot.img etc.. which said all was well..
But now find that my phone will not boot up, doesn't get past the Google and unlock screen.
I've tried all combinations of volume buttons, I can get to the fasboot menu where I can choose either Recovery Mode, Power Off, Start or Restart bootloader.
None of these appear to do anything, recovery goes to the google a screen followed by an Android on it's back with an exclamation mark over it.. then goes to the Google and unlocked icon screen and stays there...
I fear my phone is bricked... Please help..
bevnet said:
Hi,
I've attempted the JB update
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1737899..
fastboot flash boot boot.img etc.. which said all was well..
But now find that my phone will not boot up, doesn't get past the Google and unlock screen.
I've tried all combinations of volume buttons, I can get to the fasboot menu where I can choose either Recovery Mode, Power Off, Start or Restart bootloader.
None of these appear to do anything, recovery goes to the google a screen followed by an Android on it's back with an exclamation mark over it.. then goes to the Google and unlocked icon screen and stays there...
I fear my phone is bricked... Please help..
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1.) Your phone is far from bricked at all. You have access to the boot loader (i.e. the screen with the options). The recovery you're seeing is stock recovery. All you need to do is go into boot loader and fastboot flash recovername (CWM) and you will have your custom recovery back to wipe data and reinstall a rom or restore a nandroid backup
Mine is doing the same thing, weird thing is, it was working since yesterday on jellybean, it just randomly froze this morning and and now won't boot..
im currently at work so i don't have admin rights to do a fastboot flash..
any idea why it would randomly stop working when i havn't flashed anything on it besides the jb rom?
Sorted..
Thanks for the comments.. yeah i was over-reacting a bit there..
I downloaded the Galaxy Nexus Toolkit, got a stock rom form gopogle, flashed it.. back to normal, well, it will be after i restore the CWM backup i took.. phew..
Thanks again
Ian.
Still stuck
I'm also stuck in the same situation(google with the unlock screen). I fear I'm a little more stuck. I also can see the recovery/restartbootloader screen. However, everything I try still comes back to that same google screen and gets hung up. Need some help!
this has happened twice today and i think it from using volume+
Steelbully said:
I'm also stuck in the same situation(google with the unlock screen). I fear I'm a little more stuck. I also can see the recovery/restartbootloader screen. However, everything I try still comes back to that same google screen and gets hung up. Need some help!
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Boot into recovery, wipe cache, Reboot
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 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
Hi I have a rooted Z1 Compact with locked bootloader and xz dual recovery which I installed lollipop 5.1.1 on through twrp yesterday. Everything works fine the only problem is I'm completely unable to boot into recovery... any recovery. I've tried all combinations of buttons, downloaded quick root and tried to boot into recovery through ndr utils, rom and twrp manager but nothing works.. It just reboots as normal after hanging a little on the opening graphics. My volume buttons work fine, however when I boot up my phone where the led used to light up I noticed it isn't lighting up (although it is for texts/charging etc). Has anyone got any advice? I really need to get into recovery...
aine1001 said:
Hi I have a rooted Z1 Compact with locked bootloader and xz dual recovery which I installed lollipop 5.1.1 on through twrp yesterday. Everything works fine the only problem is I'm completely unable to boot into recovery... any recovery. I've tried all combinations of buttons, downloaded quick root and tried to boot into recovery through ndr utils, rom and twrp manager but nothing works.. It just reboots as normal after hanging a little on the opening graphics. My volume buttons work fine, however when I boot up my phone where the led used to light up I noticed it isn't lighting up (although it is for texts/charging etc). Has anyone got any advice? I really need to get into recovery...
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just flash recovery again and you will be fine http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2261606
aine1001 said:
Hi I have a rooted Z1 Compact with locked bootloader and xz dual recovery which I installed lollipop 5.1.1 on through twrp yesterday. Everything works fine the only problem is I'm completely unable to boot into recovery... any recovery. I've tried all combinations of buttons, downloaded quick root and tried to boot into recovery through ndr utils, rom and twrp manager but nothing works.. It just reboots as normal after hanging a little on the opening graphics. My volume buttons work fine, however when I boot up my phone where the led used to light up I noticed it isn't lighting up (although it is for texts/charging etc). Has anyone got any advice? I really need to get into recovery...
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If that doesn't do it, it may be an issue with new boot loader. Are you familiar with that? I don't know which ROM/kernel you're using, but booting into recovery w/ new bl only works starting w/ power off, and the right boot-recovery combo.