This forum provides excellent instructions on how to revive your Xperia ION after something went wrong. Specifically, when your device goes into boot loop and then turns off, and you can't use soft reset or hard reset. Here is what you can do:
1. Discharge your device completely, which may take more than 24 hours;
2. Start flash tool and pick up your favorite firmware. Press OK. Let flash tool start preparing. Once you are instructed to connect your device, do
3. Connect your discharged Xperia ION to your PC and leave it there (instead of torturing yourself with recharge/discharge and catching that perfect flash mode). Yes, if you leave it connected, your Xperia will automatically turn on and into a flash mode, when battery is ready. Flashing will automatically begin.
Confirmed working on my AT&T Xperia ION.
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Btw why dun u think its better to flash a discharged phone rather than flashing a charged one
It is not that I think it is better to flash the phone with a fully charged battery. It is that sometimes (as it was in my situation), there is no other choice. I had a soft brick where the phone was dead with fully charged battery. The only thing that was alive was slight backlight. When I discharged the battery fully, and then started recharging, in about 15 minutes the phone would go into boot loop and then turn off again with slight backlight. I couldn't catch flash mode between loops. So, for me the only option was to do what I described in my original post. And by the way, this saves you plenty of time. Also, I believe, the phone still takes charge from PC while flashing (although I am not sure). Any way, I have successfully recovered my phone.
so i decided to flash hyperdrive rom to my phone. i had like 26% battery and i took the risk to flash the rom while charging the phone with cwm. when the rom was done flashing, the phone booted but was stuck on the first hyperdrive logo, not the animated one. so i turned off the phone and then turned it back on. but the phone didnt turn on and after pressing the power button for 10 sec approximately, the charging battery logo showed for a sec then the phone turned back off. need help plz !!
pull battery out for a few minutes and if that does not work, then i recommend just using odin to unroot and flash stock then re-rooting your device. just make sure to have it plugged in to so it charges at the same time. then reflashing hyperdrive with the battery fully charged.
mimosb96 said:
so i decided to flash hyperdrive rom to my phone. i had like 26% battery and i took the risk to flash the rom while charging the phone with cwm. when the rom was done flashing, the phone booted but was stuck on the first hyperdrive logo, not the animated one. so i turned off the phone and then turned it back on. but the phone didnt turn on and after pressing the power button for 10 sec approximately, the charging battery logo showed for a sec then the phone turned back off. need help plz !!
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This would have nothing to do with the rom or flahs really because honestly 26% is enough time to flash any rom. This sounds like a hardware issue but maybe not.
As previously suggested does doing a battery pull for at least a few minutes let the phone boot up at all ? If so just odin. If not its hardware dead
Did you clear data/cache/Davlik after flashing? Doesn't sound like a power problem, but you can always charge the phone while it's off. If you cannot get back to recovery, there's always Odin/Heimdall to flash your phone back to stock.
My note 2 has finally got stuck in a bootloop (refer to my previous thread) and I think I may have fixed it because I saw life with the "Samsung" logo after flashing the Android Revolution rom but disconnected the power cable because it always boots into that annoying "recharge" mode which claims the battery is at 100%. When I did that, the phone just switched off (as it has done recently) and won't turn back on without constant power supply.. I've tried leaving it to charge but it claims 100% and just keeps switching off..
The phone was (before the power issue) in a soft-brick and I have been flashing stock roms via odin in an attempt to solve the brick but after that it has been needing constant power.. Is there any solution?
I'm having a weird problem. Yesterday I was using my phone as I normally do-- texting, playing simple puzzle games, etc.-- when I noticed the battery was at about 2%. I wasn't very concerned so I tried to send one last text before it died. Shortly afterward it died with the usual "Powering Down" alert. I thought absolutely nothing of it and once I had access to a charger, I did what I normally do: I turn on my phone, wait for it to get past the LG splash screen, and I plug it in once it gets to the boot animation. I do this so my phone will turn on instead of going into charge only mode. Also, like usual, my phone's screen dimmed seconds after the boot animation began (I assume from my automatic light sensor settings), and I could feel it vibrating a little (also something it typically does upon boot).
However this is as far as it got. I was very confused when about an hour later, the phone still hadn't completed boot. I removed the battery, inserted it again, and tried once more telling myself that I would wait as long as I could instead of just an hour. Booting the second time gave me identical results-- everything is normal (light sensor response and vibration indicating the phone is powering on) yet it gets stuck. The only difference is that this time I got to see the entire bootloop.
After the boot animation screen has run for a while, I get the usual "Android is starting.... Optimizing app ## of ##" (#= actual numbers). Once it finishes, instead of booting my phone, it begins the boot animation again. If left alone it will cycle between the boot animation and the "Android is Starting" screen indefinitely.
TL;DR:
1. ) Caught in bootloop between boot animation screen and "Android is Starting... Optimizing app ## of ##" screen.
2. ) The screen still dims and there are little vibrations that usually tell me the phone is about to turn on.
I have tried:
- a hard reset- this yields only a slightly stronger vibration and it starts the bootloop again.
- Download mode- this does the same as the hard reset
- Removing battery for a while- no results
- Full charge to completely dead to full charge again on charge only mode- no results
I am running CM13 Nightlies from late February (not completely sure which exact date). Which I flashed without issue about a month ago. I do have Xposed and run various modules, but I was using nothing at the time and hadn't for about a month. My computer recognizes my phone as an LG G3 Device, but refuses to access any files.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Phone not starting.
First remove phone battery, insert it again, do not start phone. Connect your phone to original charger and charge it, while charging with the charger start your phone. Your phone should start if yes/no report me immediately. Your phone battery is failing to start your phone (Due to Low Voltage in battery). Replace with original battery.
jit1108 said:
First remove phone battery, insert it again, do not start phone. Connect your phone to original charger and charge it, while charging with the charger start your phone. Your phone should start if yes/no report me immediately. Your phone battery is failing to start your phone (Due to Low Voltage in battery). Replace with original battery.
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Alright, I removed the battery, reinserted it (without turning the phone on) plugged it into the wall charger (seeing the charge only battery animation), and attempted to turn it on. Whenever I try to turn my phone on after plugging it in, I get the LG splash screen followed by the battery charging animation. It never reaches the boot animation. I'll let it charge for a while and try again.
Thank you for the advice!
Okay, I let the phone charge completely and attempted to turn it on whilst plugged into the wall charger again. Unfortunately I had the same issue. The phone shows the LG splash screen and then the battery charging animation again-- no boot animation.
musiceas66 said:
Okay, I let the phone charge completely and attempted to turn it on whilst plugged into the wall charger again. Unfortunately I had the same issue. The phone shows the LG splash screen and then the battery charging animation again-- no boot animation.
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just start with a full reflash , if it doesnt boot up its simply broken
Jhinta said:
just start with a full reflash , if it doesnt boot up its simply broken
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Yeah, I'm trying to avoid a full reflash/data wipe. Since I haven't messed around with any Xposed modules or root apps, I also haven't backed up anything for quite a while. No abnormal apps were running before the battery died, which leads me to believe this can be solved somehow without a full wipe.
Also, I tried to use my boyfriend's battery to boot up my phone. I thought it might be a bad battery-- as some people on-line have mentioned. Unfortunately, it still refused to boot and it produced the same bootloop.
You see , if and not and this and that dont help . te only way to save files is to get acces by recovery or boot, you cant boot but possible you have recovery so start saving your files you need. when you have or dont have your files . you stil need your system to boot for that to happen, it needs to work. so flashing a default rom with wipe sould work if it doesnt you flash original if that doesnt work its dead
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I think I forgot to mention, I cannot access recovery mode. I have the latest TWRP installed, but attempting to boot into recovery gives me the same results-- endless bootanimation/ "Android is Starting" bootloop.
So no acces at all . so what do you do ? Read above! Anyway good luck
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I fixed my problem. It turns out I was being an idiot and got the method of entering recovery mode on the LG G3 confused with my Samsung tablet. I should be able to fix the bootloop on my own now. Thanks everyone for your help! Cheers to idiocy.
Hey, I have the exact same issue right now. Did you solve your problem, and how? I tried removing the battery and charging with original charger to 100%. I connected it to my PC, went into Download mode and clicked "Restore Upgrade Errors" in LG PC Suite. It successfully flashed the firmware update, then it said "Android is starting.... Optimizing app ## of ##". But after that it restarted into bootlop again. Also I noticed that sometimes it vibrates, and my LED (light sensor) doesn't light up anymore.
Any advice? I haven't tried replacing the battery yet.
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Hey, I have the exact same issue right now. Did you solve your problem, and how? I tried removing the battery and charging with original charger to 100%. I connected it to my PC, went into Download mode and clicked "Restore Upgrade Errors" in LG PC Suite. It successfully flashed the firmware update, then it said "Android is starting.... Optimizing app ## of ##". But after that it restarted into bootlop again. Also I noticed that sometimes it vibrates, and my LED (light sensor) doesn't light up anymore.
Any advice? I haven't tried replacing the battery yet.
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Hi i have the same problem with my lg g3 d855, after a reflash hi is start and do android optimazig after the tel is start and do this over and over. help please
Hi, the solution that worked for me was to
1. install drivers
2.install LGUP
3.flash "LGD855P_D855P10a_04" - found here https://drive.google.com/file/d/18tlmVNK_ba0jIapJy-Sz5wamxbIXh8xH/view
Help! I just got this phone and wanted to root it, so started flashing using Odin, couldn't flash because it turned out I had a slightly different firmware causing the phone to be stuck in a boot loop, with download mode and recovery mode still accesible.
Now that I have the right firmware, I can't actually flash it because the battery seems to have died during the boot loop while I was downloading the right files.
It has been on the charger for about 45 minutes now and nothing changes, no response on buttons, no battery indicator, nothing.
Would be really glad with any tips to at least get it to charge so I can boot to download mode and flash?
Also, trying to root probably triggered the knox bit, so that means all waranty is void right?
Edit: it seems to be in EDL-mode, any tips on what to do to restore the phone?
Did you solve your problem ?
Let charge your phone at least for an hour from an electrical outlet (not from computer).