I have an Xperia Play that I got off eBay (I know, I know, personal project - I do have another working one). Reported issue was that it wouldn't boot, but after messing with it, I found that it would 1/10 times if I pull the battery for a few seconds before trying. I was even able to flash a stock firmware again. However, the majority of the time, it won't boot into OS, fastboot, OR flash mode.
Here's why: QHSUSB_DLOAD
From my research, this basically means the bootloader is corrupt or somehow otherwise malfunctioning. When connected to a computer, it resolves to "Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 (COM3)" or whatever COM port it lands on, and it does this in fastboot and flash mode. Except for those rare instances where it acts like a normal phone.
I've spent most of the past couple of days digging around in forums, Google, and the Wayback Machine, trying to find a solution. Unfortunately, beyond trying a different computer and reinstalling drivers (both of which I have), the only solutions given are to use Omnius or s1tool/s2tool. They both seem to require payment for unlocking phones, which I don't need, but as far as I can tell should work fine for repairing the s1 boot, which I think is what I need to do. I've been following different guides that all say to remove the battery, connect the test points, and plug in the USB, but I can't get Omnius or the s-tools to work.
Is there any hope for this device? Can anyone who has gone through this before offer some suggestions? Alternatively, is there maybe a way I can just deal with the problem while still being able to use the phone without needing to pull the battery a bunch of times? The Xperia Play is still a great portable gaming system, so I'm hoping we'll be able to figure something out, as I know many other people are starting to acquire these from eBay and try to get them working, and may also run into this issue.
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I'm also having the same issue.
found this thread [Q] [Hardbricked]Xperia Play lifeless
CamillaHinchcliffe said:
Here's my problem, I wanted to flash a new ROM into my R800a but when I plugged it into my computer it detected the phone as a device called "Qualcomm HS-USB QDloader 9008" and now it does not turn on anymore .
Searching around Google I found that it doesn't turn on because the "SEMCboot" or "Trim Area" is damaged, but I've no idea how to fix that on my own.
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And this one [How-to] Repair Damaged Bootloader + Trim Area [Red Led][Unknown Device]
Alejandrissimo said:
Sometimes we can brick our devices by a bad unlock, flashing process, or simply bad luck.
The phone doesn't turn on and there is a Red Led Of Death when pressing power button. Even with a GREEN led when we plug the phone with back key pressed the computer detect the phone as "unknown device" so there is no chance to get fixed by Flashtool or SEUS/PC Companion.
Well this problem normally means that the bootloader is broken or damaged. So, in order to fix it we need to write a new SEMCboot and after this we were able to flash a full and fresh firmware with flashtool and unbrick our Xperia.
This process like unlocking process requires SETool dongle/box and a paperclip to make a testpoint to put the phone in flash mode and be able to write the SEMCBoot.
I can help to anyone with a bricked Xperia Arc/Play/Neo/Pro just make send me a PM.
Like unlocking process you will need this 3 programs:
SETool software for unlocking
USB Over network client for remote dongle
Teamviewer client for remote support and guide
THIS PROCESS IS FREE
anyway if you want me to buy a Dr. Peper just
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And finally, I found this thread in the Xperia SP forum [Guide]Zeus Flash Or qhsusb_dload Solved!!!!!
Almas008 said:
Thanks to mr @the_laser!!!!
Now those who have their phones in qhsusb or zeus flash device can revive their xperia sp to life back....!!!!!
Download attachement and run s1tool and click flash...
select attached sin file set and folow instructions....
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And also this thread S1 boot download driver.
Some of these fixes and threads are old/outdated, so I dont know what will work Ive already started to use some of the tips last night. I have found out that my phone does get detected as "Qualcomm HS-USB QDloader 9008" but that's as far as Ive gotten. Please read the threads and tell me what you find out, or try that works
I've already been through those threads, and several more like them. The immediate answer is to contact Alejandrissimo, but they've been MIA for years now. I shot them an email the other day, but I don't expect to hear back.
Things I've tried:
Xperia Companion (PC Companion) - doesn't recognize device
SEUS (Sony Ericsson Updater Service) - discontinued, can't connect to servers
S1tool testpoint method - doesn't recognize that a device is connected
Omnius - doesn't recognize that a device is connected
Flashing stock the one time I could get it to boot into flashmode
It looks like this method stands a good chance of working, but it requires an "APPSW .sin_file_set" file, which I haven't been able to acquire for the Xperia Play. From Googling around, it seems that's the blob file that gets downloaded when you get an OTA update or when using XperiFirm (which no longer gives Xperia Play as an option), but all I can find are recompiled *.ftf files. Those files do contain a bunch of *.sin files, but comparing the contents to what you find in a *.sin_file_set file, is too different; the latter has a different folder structure and a bunch of XML files that provide information to the phone. I'm not sure exactly just how necessary that structure is and I couldn't find a guide on recreating a *.sin_file_set file, just how to decrypt one to convert to FTF.
If you click that link to the tutorial for that process, you can download a *.sin_file_set for a different model of phone to see what it should look like.
Of course now I just stumbled on a guide to convert FTF back... I will have to try that.
EDIT: Okay, I grabbed the s1tool from that link and disabled my antivirus before using it. Did the testpoint procedure as described, and got this error:
llbug: [] open error: "The system cannot find the path specified"
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That might be because the bootloader is still locked. If I can get it to let me into fastboot, I may be able to change that.
EDIT 2: Got it into fastboot, verified the bootloader is locked. Ran the unlock command, but it failed. Tried doing it through s1boot and got the same error as before. Guessing there isn't anything else I can do at this point.
EDIT 3: Forgot to mention the process I tried before was with an FTF, since I discovered S1tool will use those after all (I used the version from that website I linked to). I still need to recompile a sin_file_set version and try that. In the meantime, I did actually receive a response back from Alejandrissimo, so we'll see where that goes and I'll report back.
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I have a Xperia S running cm 12.1 with unlocked bootloaders TWRP installed and i tried to partition my SD card [http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2584759] but clearly something went wrong and now the phone wont boot. I made a lot of research and tried everything but all the guides require to be able to boot into flashmode . My phone is dead the only sign of life is a red led when its charging which after some hours of charge will shut off. When the light is off and the phone connected on PC, the PC can recognize the device on unspecified devices (QHSUSB_DLOAD). i have installed all the needed drivers from Sony, google drivers from sdk, and adb drivers(adb wont see the device and i tried everything to do so, but nothing seem to work). I got a market for android on my pc called mobogenie that when i connect the phone it detects that a phone is connected but wont see what phone.The hardware reset buttons work but its useless in the current position. Concluding, the phone is bricked and wont open in fastboot-flashboot-bootloader-TWRP, its recognized as a device but not as "Xperia s" i got all the drivers and i want to flash the original firmware (already downloaded) to fix it. A possible problem is that the partition table is destroyed and after the flash it will hopefully be restored. The problem is not on the hardware but on software. I tried to trigger the download mode with the Samsung way (USB jig, 300k ohm ) but nothing happened as expected. Every solution i found required flash mode which is not accessible at the moment and i tried lots of things to go into fastboot(ever the rubber band trick,remove the battery etc). PLEASE help i dont know what to do, please help me flash it (i already got flashtool, Emma) or anohter solution. Thanks for the help in advance.
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i also took my phone apart to disconnect the morthermboard and reset the chips without letting the battery die, didnt work. Then i let the battery die but still no luck. I also tried from linux after following tutorial to install adb corectly but it wont see my phone.(it can see it in usb devices)
My phone recently became dead out of nowhere, I was using it like everyday, social media apps, outlook, whatever. The screen simply became frozen and I hard reset the device using the volume and power button trick. It restarted like nothing happened and after 15 or 20 minutes it became frozen again, only that after this, hard reset didn't work anymore and it never turned on again. I sent it to sony repair and they denied my warranty saying that my phone had some scratches on the body. My phone is barely a paper wheight since then. I decided to try recovering and all the stuff, I was pretty acquainted with old sony phones and did a lot of flashing back in the days, but I can find no much discussion about the XA1 Ultra. I'm struggling with a lot of errors in the flashing process, I believe that the device is not being recognized by my computer so if anyone can give me some advices on how to procedure here.
I've already faced this issues below:
1- No loader found. After some searches, I already found that some new sony phones don't need loader in the process of flashing, but yet flashtool insists in asking for it.
2- Flashing process gets stuck in "Reading device information". I'm aware that flashtool doesn't officially recognizes the XA1 Ultra (G3226), but I found some people commenting that they were able to flash this model after some patching, which I've already did unsucessfully.
3- Device disconnect from flashmode about 30s after process begin, usually in conjunction with the "Reading device information" issue. I don't know nothing about this yet.
I've tried run this process in 3 different pcs (win 7 and win 10) and I get the same issues in all of them. Don't know how to procede anymore and I'm really annoyed with a dead phone right now. If someone could help with any of these topics I'll be very grateful.
1: what's your flashtool version
2: I had to add my g3223 to the flash tool list to flash things
3: reading device information usually means something happened. I just kept closing flash and re opening till it worked. Also opening with admin rights is a must
I'm using flashtool latest version. I'm also always running it with admin permissions. I'm now stuck in this situation, the flashtool gives an error after a while trying to read device information. When my phone LED turns from green to red, i also hear a sound notification from windows saying that some device has been disconnected. I think that from this point I can't make progress with flashing because my phone keeps disconnecting from flashmode.
Try a different cord, try a different port. Don't use USB 3.0 ports. Reinstall the drivers under you root flashtool folder. Something is prevent from flashtool reading your driver information
lonewolfbtown said:
Try a different cord, try a different port. Don't use USB 3.0 ports. Reinstall the drivers under you root flashtool folder. Something is prevent from flashtool reading your driver information
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Otherwise,I think it’s your hardware fault regarding ram/storage
Hi, everybody
I had the brilliant idea to try to re-lock the bootloader after installing a custom ROM, now my Acquaris X Pro is bricked. ?
I realized that the only way to resurrect it is to use Qualcomm Flash Image Loader (QFIL) by loading the original firmware. The software starts and reveals the Qualcomm HS-USB Diagnostics 900E (COM3) interface and asks me to load the contents.xml file of the programmer.
I then downloaded the latest firmware from the official https://www.bq.com/en/support/aquaris-x-pro/support-sheet page and unpacked the archive, where I found the contents.xml file which I then uploaded to QFIL.
The status window indicates that the prog_emmc_firehose_8953_ddr.mbn file is missing and is trying to load from the BOOT.BF.3.3 folder, which clearly is not present. So I looked for this online and found the folder to download on a Git repository (https://git.szzt.com/yixing/ticai_src). I downloaded the folder and placed it in the path where QFIL expects to find it. I then reloaded the contents.xml file and it reports me the lack of an additional file: rawprogram_unsparse.xml belonging to a certain folder MSM8953.LA.3.0.1.
Unlike the first one, I can't find this last folder online. Can someone help me? ?
Hi @fede91it,
Sorry for the late answer - I have been quite inactive on xda recently
Unfortunately I don't have a solution for you right away, but I got a working X Pro with stock rom (+twrp and magisk) and a bit of experience with the "standard" tools like adb and fastboot. Never worked on such a low level like you though.
Does the tool you mentioned (QFIL) offer the possibility to grab contents from the phone instead of downloading it to it?
Maybe we can get the missing data from my phone?
Sorry for the dump/obvious question, but: What happens in the current bricked state when you turn the phone on? You can't enter fastboot and unlock..?
Another approach: have you tried contacting BQ? Maybe via their forum https://www.mibqyyo.com/. Possibly the missing files are device specific and you would need bqs help..
Thanks for your answer.
I have contacted BQ but they no longer deal with Android phones, I have no support from them.
As for you, thanks for your availability, but the files I'm looking for are for development and don't end up on my phone, so it's impossible to try to extract them from your phone.
By now I've changed phones and kept the Bq as a paperweight brick
fede91it said:
Thanks for your answer.
I have contacted BQ but they no longer deal with Android phones, I have no support from them.
As for you, thanks for your availability, but the files I'm looking for are for development and don't end up on my phone, so it's impossible to try to extract them from your phone.
By now I've changed phones and kept the Bq as a paperweight brick
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Hey, did you recover your paperweight? I'm in the same situation but with the BQ X PRO
I could not solve it. There are some files missing for the compilation, and I can't find them
Have you tried this method by only using the firehose? forum.hovatek.com/thread-31505.html
Hey, did you recover? I made the same mistake as you. I managed to repair ...
What I did was:
- I removed the battery cable (I did not remove the battery completely)
- I pressed on VolDown button and connected the phone via usb to the pc and immediately went into fastboot mode
- I opened the BQ app on the pc, I loaded the rom and put it to install the rom. It asked to unlock the bootloader (which is what we want) ... The ROM could not be flashed, but it is not important ... As soon as you unlocked the bootloader, the phone started up without a problem
fede91it said:
Hi, everybody
I had the brilliant idea to try to re-lock the bootloader after installing a custom ROM, now my Acquaris X Pro is bricked. ?
I realized that the only way to resurrect it is to use Qualcomm Flash Image Loader (QFIL) by loading the original firmware. The software starts and reveals the Qualcomm HS-USB Diagnostics 900E (COM3) interface and asks me to load the contents.xml file of the programmer.
I then downloaded the latest firmware from the official https://www.bq.com/en/support/aquaris-x-pro/support-sheet page and unpacked the archive, where I found the contents.xml file which I then uploaded to QFIL.
The status window indicates that the prog_emmc_firehose_8953_ddr.mbn file is missing and is trying to load from the BOOT.BF.3.3 folder, which clearly is not present. So I looked for this online and found the folder to download on a Git repository (https://git.szzt.com/yixing/ticai_src). I downloaded the folder and placed it in the path where QFIL expects to find it. I then reloaded the contents.xml file and it reports me the lack of an additional file: rawprogram_unsparse.xml belonging to a certain folder MSM8953.LA.3.0.1.
Unlike the first one, I can't find this last folder online. Can someone help me? ?
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Hello! Maybe it's too late, but I have the same problem as you and I found this post that talks about our mobile! In it you can find a lot of information, but also the links to download the stock ROMs and the flashing tool to get back to the factory Rom and unbrick the phone! I leave you the links below! Hope it also helps others with the same problem as we! Greeting
Post:
[HOW-TO] BQ Aquaris X Pro | [Stock-ROM] Unlock,Recovery,Root,Upgrade (TWRP/Magisk)
Hi everyone. :) This Post (post #1) shows the complete process of unlocking, flashing, rooting etc. in general, it may refer to old firmware and/or tool versions but the steps remain the same for newer versions. The chapters rely on each other...
forum.xda-developers.com
Link of stock ROMs and the flashing tool:
Support - Aquaris X Pro
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Hi,
Have you ever successfully got it to work again?
Thanks
rufus.wilson said:
Hi,
Have you ever successfully got it to work again?
Thanks
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Hi,
I managed to get everything working properly.
I installed the Lineage OS custom rom and it works 5 *, with a custom rom you should not block the boot loader, it was the mistake I made.
The solution I used I described 2 comments above
MigSantosPT said:
Hi,
I managed to get everything working properly.
I installed the Lineage OS custom rom and it works 5 *, with a custom rom you should not block the boot loader, it was the mistake I made.
The solution I used I described 2 comments above
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Hi,
Ah ok.
Just opened it, disconnected the battery. While pressing down VOL- button, I connected it to USB.
Nothing happens on the phone screen. I don't even see the blinking red light now.
Device manager shows it as 9008 COM port.
BQ flash tool doesn't recognise the phone.
I previously installed BQ drivers and rebooted.
Any other suggestions, before I close it back?
rufus.wilson said:
Hi,
Ah ok.
Just opened it, disconnected the battery. While pressing down VOL- button, I connected it to USB.
Nothing happens on the phone screen. I don't even see the blinking red light now.
Device manager shows it as 9008 COM port.
BQ flash tool doesn't recognise the phone.
I previously installed BQ drivers and rebooted.
Any other suggestions, before I close it back?
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It is strange because it usually shows something on the screen right away ... Pressing the Power button also does not appear anything?
Did you install the ADB drivers? After the ADB drivers are installed, the BQ program recognizes the smartphone
and it also opens doors to use the command line to do almost anything.
rufus.wilson said:
Hi,
Ah ok.
Just opened it, disconnected the battery. While pressing down VOL- button, I connected it to USB.
Nothing happens on the phone screen. I don't even see the blinking red light now.
Device manager shows it as 9008 COM port.
BQ flash tool doesn't recognise the phone.
I previously installed BQ drivers and rebooted.
Any other suggestions, before I close it back?
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the number 9008 sounds like the EDL mode and NOT the wanted fastboot mode which is required by the usual way of flashing via bq tool or fastboot/adb tools.
What is EDL Mode and How to Boot your Qualcomm Android Device into it
Android phones and tablets equipped with Qualcomm chipset contain a special boot mode which could be used force-flash firmware files for the purpose of unbricking or restoring the stock ROM.
www.thecustomdroid.com
sorry, no solution, only confirming..
hey guys, yeah i managed to brick my almost new phone, because i was dumb enough to fiddle around with tz files and whatnot in adb. i've used this forum to customize pretty much every single one of my phones before, but Xiaomi broke me lol.
Now my phone is a paperweight, I can't enter recovery, download mode, it's not recognized by fastoot, mi flash tool etc. I've tried pretty much everything i read on the internet, but i couldn't find a single guide for this particular phone so i had to mix and match every tip, so far no success.
my pc recognizes this device as Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008. I've read around that this is a good thing and I can reflash my software using QFIL, but I'm getting a Sahara Server Fail. Process stops right after trying to read the firehose file "ERROR: function: is_ack_successful:1134 SAHARA_NAK_INVALID_DEST_ADDR" which leads me to believe i've got a wrong file
this is likely because what i did was just download the official firmware and use prog_firehose_ddr.elf from there.
I tried doing this entire process in Win 10 test mode and i have disabled driver signatures, because some guides required that. I'm using the latest version of QFIL.
Now my questions are:
1. How do you enter EDL mode in this particular phone? I haven't found one particular way so i fiddled with what works - what i do is press Power and VOL- at the same time, this disconnects my phone from the PC, the LED starts blinking and when it stops blinking after about 15-20 seconds my PC recognizes the phone again. I've got a feeling this isn't the right way to do this, but when the LED is blinking my phone simply is not recognized by my PC.
2. What about the drivers? If my PC detects my phone, does it mean i've got proper Qualcomm drivers installed? I've read that some phones are super picky about those drivers, but i''ve reinstalled them a couple of times from different sources and i still get the error
3. Is there a way to download a proper firehose file for this phone from somewhere? i've found packages containing plenty of firehose files, but for some reason none of them seemed like they would be viable for this phone, i'm unsure if it's because of naming scheme of these files or what. Some guides require the programmer to be in .mbn extension, but the one i got is .elf
Thanks in advance for any ideas, I'm at the end of my rope here but I'm not ready to give up and take it to repairman just yet
Hello, I need help with my LG, the cell phone ran out of battery while updating firmware, now I cannot enter download mode, nor fastboot, and the recovery does nothing, when I turn on the cell phone it always ends up in a black screen with a text of the type "CMD" putting a number and something of "udc_start" and that's it.
windows 10 makes the normal beep but does not recognize the model, in the device manager "android device" appears with the warning sign that there are no drivers.
LGUP does not recognize the device
The only way I had to "make windows recognize it" was with "QFIL" and touching the two pins on the motherboard, in the program it says:
"qualcomm hs-usb qdloader 9008 (com4)"
I have never flashed a cell phone bios or a bootloader if I misunderstand (I am relatively new to android), I have only flashed "the operating system" in this case a 1gb .kdz
I have no idea how to do this, if I don't misunderstand, I need a .mbn (I think it's the bios), which is compatible with QFIL, which I couldn't find in all of google.
I've come across other .mbn of "similar" g4 models, I wonder if it will work if I at least try them.
They may not work perfectly, but at least turn on.
What do you suggest? I feel lost in an ocean t-t
Wachecheiro said:
Hello, I need help with my LG, the cell phone ran out of battery while updating firmware, now I cannot enter download mode, nor fastboot, and the recovery does nothing, when I turn on the cell phone it always ends up in a black screen with a text of the type "CMD" putting a number and something of "udc_start" and that's it.
windows 10 makes the normal beep but does not recognize the model, in the device manager "android device" appears with the warning sign that there are no drivers.
LGUP does not recognize the device
The only way I had to "make windows recognize it" was with "QFIL" and touching the two pins on the motherboard, in the program it says:
"qualcomm hs-usb qdloader 9008 (com4)"
I have never flashed a cell phone bios or a bootloader if I misunderstand (I am relatively new to android), I have only flashed "the operating system" in this case a 1gb .kdz
I have no idea how to do this, if I don't misunderstand, I need a .mbn (I think it's the bios), which is compatible with QFIL, which I couldn't find in all of google.
I've come across other .mbn of "similar" g4 models, I wonder if it will work if I at least try them.
They may not work perfectly, but at least turn on.
What do you suggest? I feel lost in an ocean t-t
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Check out this thread:
[GUIDE][9008][EDL|QDL][QUALCOMM ONLY] Unbrick via external sdcard (no QFIL!)The author is the definitive LG G4 hard-brick answer guy with possible solutions. You may be able to get some help there.
sdembiske said:
Check out this thread:
[GUIDE][9008][EDL|QDL][QUALCOMM ONLY] Unbrick via external sdcard (no QFIL!)The author is the definitive LG G4 hard-brick answer guy with possible solutions. You may be able to get some help there.
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I'll take a look at it, thanks
Seems like a similar problem as I had, that's not gonna work though. The only way to fix it is to use a firehose which you can use a one from a Cyanogen MSM8939 device.