I know this section is probably dead, but in the event it is not, I was messing around with my old phone and it was rooted but I wanted to unlock the bootloader, so I got on here and found the same thread that I used several years ago about how to unlock it, and somebody said the r800at version is the only that can't be unlocked, but to check back because Sony might change that, so I went to the website, entered my phone model, and confirmed my email and then I had to enter my IMEI, and it gave my a code with instructions, but when I turn off my phone and hold down the search button while plugging it into my (Ubuntu) laptop with ADB and fastboot installed, my phone just regularly boots into the normal OS
Edit: I forgot which mode it is but I can hold the back button while plugging it in and the green LED will come on
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I know this section is probably dead, but in the event it is not, I was messing around with my old phone and it was rooted but I wanted to unlock the bootloader, so I got on here and found the same thread that I used several years ago about how to unlock it, and somebody said the r800at version is the only that can't be unlocked, but to check back because Sony might change that, so I went to the website, entered my phone model, and confirmed my email and then I had to enter my IMEI, and it gave my a code with instructions, but when I turn off my phone and hold down the search button while plugging it into my (Ubuntu) laptop with ADB and fastboot installed, my phone just regularly boots into the normal OS
Edit: I forgot which mode it is but I can hold the back button while plugging it in and the green LED will come on
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Have the save problem. Also Green LED is Flash Mode
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My phone won't boot now. Every time I press the power button, there's a single vibration and no other response. Plugging it in to my computer activates flashmode, however I've tried 2 FTF files, and neither have fixed anything, though both seemed to flash correctly. I cannot enter fastboot.
Halp?
Well, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1126354 at least got me to the SE screen... Let's see what happens
I may have panicked when posting this thread. THe linked solution worked wonderfully.
I've been working on this damn thing for nearly 3 hours now trying to install Lupus V6 kernel with NXT 1.3 ROM. I try to get into the recovery and for whatever reason it doesn't work, so I shut the phone off. Now the damn thing doesn't respond to anything. No button presses, the power button won't work, nothing is lighting up. Did I hard brick my phone? If so I guess I'm out $165, but it was too short of a ride.
Before anybody asks, I'm 99% sure the battery is fine, it was nowhere near dead during any of my flash attempts.
First off did you unlock the bootloader before you attempt to flash the kernel?
Can you get into flash mode by holding the Search button while connecting to the USB cable while the phone is off? If you can, follow this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2054486 Except that the guide said to exclude the kernel, do not exclude it since you are trying to restore it.
Bootloader was unlocked by Alejandrissimo, yes. The phone, unfortunately won't respond to any type of button pushing or combination and nothing occurs if I just attach the phone to my computer via USB.
Did you install the drivers that come with flashtool ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2054486 ) then check in Device Manager that it found your device by holding either search or back button when you connected it?
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Did all of that a long time ago. I'm hoping it's fixed now. I slid out the gamepad a couple times and just let it sit without a battery for a bit, and when I put the battery back in it booted again.
Is there ANY reason though why it would stop booting?
I've been searching through the forums for a while now and I've not found a fault like mine unless I've just completely missed it but I have an xperia play now when I got it, I was told it was dead but when I connected the usb cable it lit up with the amber light and when I press the power button I get a short vibrate but nothing more. Nothing comes on screen and the sony PC companion keeps popping up telling me that my xperia play is connected and it continues to do so every 10 seconds or so until I disconnect it, the sound it makes when a usb device is connected and disconnected can get rather annoying after a while.
I tried reflashing it but that didn't work, I flashed it most recently with R800_4.0.2.A.0.79.ftf and before that with Xperia Play_Release_Generic UK.ftf but nothing seems to change it, at first I thought it could be hardware that was failing like the screen had died but that wouldn't explain it connecting and disconnecting from the laptop every 10 seconds or so and also in the past 2-3 weeks that I've been messing around with it, I've had the screen come on twice but I can't replicate what happened to make it work, it just seemed to come on randomly, I have however managed to kill it the same way each time by sliding the phone open and pressing the power button to lock screen, each time I pressed it with the phone slid up, it killed it back to no screen coming on and it connecting and disconnecting.
I can enter fastboot and tried to flash a kernel but it told me the phone needed to be rooted to do so and I can't find a guide telling me how to root it without having to change settings on the phone, which I can't do.
If anyone has had this problem before or can help it would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Is it flashtool telling you that you need to be rooted? If so then your bootloader isn't unlocked.
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Is it flashtool telling you that you need to be rooted? If so then your bootloader isn't unlocked.
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Yeah flashtool is telling me that when I'm trying to flash a new kernel. I assumed that the bootloader needed to be unlocked to enter fastboot? or that's at least what I've read while searching for a solution. Can it be unlocked without having to do anything on the phone?
Yesterday evening my Google Pixel XL suddenly went off and won't boot anymore. I can get into the fastboot menu, but every option I select(recovery mode, reboot bootloader), doesn't do anything.
The phone is stock android 8.0 and has never been unlocked, rooted or anything. I have tried the following:
- Holding the power button for several minutes, it vibrates every minute(I think this is the simulated battery pull).
- Trying to flash it from fastboot with adb & fasboot, but this doesn't work because I can't unlock the phone from fastboot.
- Left it off for the whole night charging, but also this didn't help, I can still only boot it in fastboot.
I tried some options, but they all require a unlocked phone, which I cannot manage from fastboot mode. Is this just an RMA or are there any other things I can try.
Haven't left stock in a while so not sure if still doable but have you tried --> fastboot boot twrp, then flash the full ota?
same issue
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Yesterday evening my Google Pixel XL suddenly went off and won't boot anymore. I can get into the fastboot menu, but every option I select(recovery mode, reboot bootloader), doesn't do anything.
The phone is stock android 8.0 and has never been unlocked, rooted or anything. I have tried the following:
- Holding the power button for several minutes, it vibrates every minute(I think this is the simulated battery pull).
- Trying to flash it from fastboot with adb & fasboot, but this doesn't work because I can't unlock the phone from fastboot.
- Left it off for the whole night charging, but also this didn't help, I can still only boot it in fastboot.
I tried some options, but they all require a unlocked phone, which I cannot manage from fastboot mode. Is this just an RMA or are there any other things I can try.
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Today I had almost the same thing happen. Was typing then the phone froze. No response. Then turned off. Won't turn on. Can use power and volume down I too can get into fastboot menu, but like you, when i chose anything, i see the Google start screen for a split second and then it turns off again. It seems like it wants to start up but then something is preventing it. This is all stock. Google said go to uFixiBreak, they think its the motherboard and can't do anything. Of course warranty is up. I fear there is nothing to do. Has anyone helped you out yet?
kidh0tsh0t said:
Yesterday evening my Google Pixel XL suddenly went off and won't boot anymore. I can get into the fastboot menu, but every option I select(recovery mode, reboot bootloader), doesn't do anything.
The phone is stock android 8.0 and has never been unlocked, rooted or anything. I have tried the following:
- Holding the power button for several minutes, it vibrates every minute(I think this is the simulated battery pull).
- Trying to flash it from fastboot with adb & fasboot, but this doesn't work because I can't unlock the phone from fastboot.
- Left it off for the whole night charging, but also this didn't help, I can still only boot it in fastboot.
I tried some options, but they all require a unlocked phone, which I cannot manage from fastboot mode. Is this just an RMA or are there any other things I can try.
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Exactly what's happens with me. In my case i left charging over night and in the morning i couldn't even enter fastboot. Black screen all the time. Holding power button didn't nothing. Using fastboot buttons combination gave me some vibrations and that's all. I had to sent my Pixel to Google for a exchange. Still waiting my replacement device.
Check if warranty still covers your device and starts a RMA for a replacement.
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Today I had almost the same thing happen. Was typing then the phone froze. No response. Then turned off. Won't turn on. Can use power and volume down I too can get into fastboot menu, but like you, when i chose anything, i see the Google start screen for a split second and then it turns off again. It seems like it wants to start up but then something is preventing it. This is all stock. Google said go to uFixiBreak, they think its the motherboard and can't do anything. Of course warranty is up. I fear there is nothing to do. Has anyone helped you out yet?
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Exactly what's happens with me. In my case i left charging over night and in the morning i couldn't even enter fastboot. Black screen all the time. Holding power button didn't nothing. Using fastboot buttons combination gave me some vibrations and that's all. I had to sent my Pixel to Google for a exchange. Still waiting my replacement device.
Check if warranty still covers your device and starts a RMA for a replacement.
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Apologies for the late response, I kinda forgot I had this thread here
I started the RMA process the same day and I sent it to Google that day. They replaced the phone with a new/refurbished one that works now. They didn't tell me what the problem was or had any steps I could take to fix the problem(all the steps they had me go through didn't work)
So unfortunately sending it in for a RMA is the only thing I know about that works.
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Today I had almost the same thing happen. Was typing then the phone froze. No response. Then turned off. Won't turn on. Can use power and volume down I too can get into fastboot menu, but like you, when i chose anything, i see the Google start screen for a split second and then it turns off again. It seems like it wants to start up but then something is preventing it. This is all stock. Google said go to uFixiBreak, they think its the motherboard and can't do anything. Of course warranty is up. I fear there is nothing to do. Has anyone helped you out yet?
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I am having the EXACT same issue as you. Did you get the recent Android update?
Everybody have 128gb models?
Mine just did the same thing on the 6th last month. I can't boot further than the first Google logo, and OTA images do nothing. Completely stock and locked.
For reference, I have the standard size, 128 GB model. I can at least report that my flash memory is Toshiba, and the ram is from Hynix. I've been emailing with Google support for nearly 3 weeks now, and am unfortunately outside of the warranty.
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Mine just did the same thing on the 6th last month. I can't boot further than the first Google logo, and OTA images do nothing. Completely stock and locked.
For reference, I have the standard size, 128 GB model. I can at least report that my flash memory is Toshiba, and the ram is from Hynix. I've been emailing with Google support for nearly 3 weeks now, and am unfortunately outside of the warranty.
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I have the same model and it won't turn on too,have to RMA
I had this happen back in October, and again in November.
Yes, it happened to the same Verizon Pixel XL 32GB, bootloader unlocked.
A few days after it abruptly shut down. I woke up one morning, and it was fully booted, data intact.
And again in November. I did a full teardown to try and troubleshoot.
It ended up being the oem charger block.
1 broken pin in the block crossed 2 other pins, and that was that.
Flashed back to stock and wiped everything few days ago. Today all of a sudden I can't get past the bootloader unlocked warning and the OnePlus logo flashes for a split second then it keeps doing this repeatedly. I also can't switch off the phone because the power button doesn't seem to do anything and I also can't boot into recovery. Fastboot works but that doesn't last long either, it exits fastboot mode on it's own and goes back to the bootloop again, also during fastboot all the buttons are unresponsive. The phone is not detected when connected to a PC during this bootloop, but if I do try to boot into fastboot mode and then plug it in the phone shows up as QHUSB_BULK for a split second and disappears.
As of now it's been doing this for over two hours. What are my options? Thanks for any help in advance.
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Flashed back to stock and wiped everything few days ago. Today all of a sudden I can't get past the bootloader unlocked warning and the OnePlus logo flashes for a split second then it keeps doing this repeatedly. I also can't switch off the phone because the power button doesn't seem to do anything and I also can't boot into recovery. Fastboot works but that doesn't last long either, it exits fastboot mode on it's own and goes back to the bootloop again, also during fastboot all the buttons are unresponsive. The phone is not detected when connected to a PC during this bootloop, but if I do try to boot into fastboot mode and then plug it in the phone shows up as QHUSB_BULK for a split second and disappears.
As of now it's been doing this for over two hours. What are my options? Thanks for any help in advance.
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As I am someone with the highest levels of skill, I believe I will be able to assist you with the powers of Google.
This exact same scenario happened to me a couple weeks ago, but for different reasons. (I flashed magisk on a non magisk compatible ROM) This guide over on the OnePlus 3 forums helped out a lot. Just keep in mind the mini version probably won't fix it for you, only the full one fixed it for me. Probably should do the same. Reason I say is because when I did the mini, it did boot up ish, but the logo was all faded and wouldn't let me get to recovery or fastboot. Also it showed up as 900E in device managed instead of QS 9008. This made it so I couldn't use the tool to flash it anymore, for some reason. I forgot what I did to fix it from there, but don't do what I did .
https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/guide-mega-unbrick-guide-for-a-hard-bricked-oneplus-3.452634/
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As I am someone with the highest levels of skill, I believe I will be able to assist you with the powers of Google.
This exact same scenario happened to me a couple weeks ago, but for different reasons. (I flashed magisk on a non magisk compatible ROM) This guide over on the OnePlus 3 forums helped out a lot. Just keep in mind the mini version probably won't fix it for you, only the full one fixed it for me. Probably should do the same. Reason I say is because when I did the mini, it did boot up ish, but the logo was all faded and wouldn't let me get to recovery or fastboot. Also it showed up as 900E in device managed instead of QS 9008. This made it so I couldn't use the tool to flash it anymore, for some reason. I forgot what I did to fix it from there, but don't do what I did .
https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/guide-mega-unbrick-guide-for-a-hard-bricked-oneplus-3.452634/
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Yeah I saw this exact thread on the OnePlus forums, thing is I can't get it to power off at all. The power button is completely unresponsive even after holding it down for more than 40 seconds. I'm just going to give it another shot once it dies on its own, hopefully one of those methods will work. Thanks anyway though.
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Yeah I saw this exact thread on the OnePlus forums, thing is I can't get it to power off at all. The power button is completely unresponsive even after holding it down for more than 40 seconds. I'm just going to give it another shot once it dies on its own, hopefully one of those methods will work. Thanks anyway though.
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Yeah might just have to wait until it dies.
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Yeah I saw this exact thread on the OnePlus forums, thing is I can't get it to power off at all. The power button is completely unresponsive even after holding it down for more than 40 seconds. I'm just going to give it another shot once it dies on its own, hopefully one of those methods will work. Thanks anyway though.
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This has never failed!!! .. Unless its hardware
https://forum.xda-developers.com/on...mega-unbrick-guide-hard-bricked-t3405700/amp/
Turnoff.. hold the power button and both v+ and v-
For about 10secs.. hope it works for you
nunchez said:
Flashed back to stock and wiped everything few days ago. Today all of a sudden I can't get past the bootloader unlocked warning and the OnePlus logo flashes for a split second then it keeps doing this repeatedly. I also can't switch off the phone because the power button doesn't seem to do anything and I also can't boot into recovery. Fastboot works but that doesn't last long either, it exits fastboot mode on it's own and goes back to the bootloop again, also during fastboot all the buttons are unresponsive. The phone is not detected when connected to a PC during this bootloop, but if I do try to boot into fastboot mode and then plug it in the phone shows up as QHUSB_BULK for a split second and disappears.
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Sorry for replying old post. I have been facing this critical scenario for last two days. The phone never turned off, always looped through unlock warning. No, button working. Can you please share , what about your findings at the end ??