I am currently trying to fix a friend's Xperia Play r800a. It seems to be having a few different problems and together they are making it all difficult to get it going again. First off I have no real knowledge of toying with an Android phone. I browsed some threads on here, used Google and tried to use Flashtool to get the original operating system on it but all were a no go. I'll try and describe the problems to the best of my abilities and maybe someone can offer some help.
This is what I know from what he remembers he did to the phone. He said that the phone started t only boot to the Sony logo and then it would hang until the battery died or the phone was reset. If plugged in with a wall charger then it would allow him to get to the screen where he would enter his password but the touch screen wouldn't work. He then flashed it using Flashtool and at that point it would boot to a black screen and that's it.
-It hangs on a black screen, no logo or anything is present and it happens regardless of whether it is plugged into a wall charger or not.
-It is not found when plugged into the USB port (Windows 7 PC) and shows up as an unknown device. After a few minutes it is found by the PC but sometimes will randomly go back to an unknown device.
-I sometimes get a red light which blinks three times when I press the power button on the phone. I am currently charging it to see if it was a matter of being a dead battery or something worse (I heard it could be a hardware failure).
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
My Xperia Play has done This I asked a Mate (Jinx13) He said Il do a hardcore Testpoint process. After I have done this My Phone will Vibrate and Nothing I was Playing Rayman today and it Locks and Hardware Keys Do Not respond.
Then Touchscreen Stopped Working. Indeed This is a Hardware Failure I have got this and Re-Flashing with Blinking SETOOL2 and Resseting it Wouldn't work. I Then Re-Locked By fastboot SIM and Bootloader (Maintained DRM) and Now Dowloading R800i O2-UK From SETOOL Support and 3-UK one and I will Upload them for US people for Warranty they Become indeed handy . I now Am Going to O2 shop I was Running 2.3.4 .42 GENERIC.But I am Not allowed to Give you the FW's Only by Re-Uploading I Can. Anyway My Brave Soldier Died (Hardware Failure) Its the Screen Components.Im Not Rooted anymore and Re-locked with S1-Tool.
If this happens to you My advice is Dont Flash Alpha ROM's They can make Your device Coo Coo. And OC can Damage.
Basically I boot My phone with a 3600MAH Mugen Battery 89% Battery From the Last time It was on. Im afraid your friends Phone is Dead Maybe a Hardware Failure Most Likly and I am now Officialy Out of the Game.
But O2 Gave me 3 Year warranty!!!!! For £100 When I Purchased it. So I am Going to O2 in Stevenage and Say this What actually happend:
"I Purchased My Xperia Play on August 17th Through Online Store ; I have never had a Problem With My device Untill This week : I have had these Issues:
*Touchscreen Wont respond Cleaned Several Times.
*Random Reboots
*Red Light when Phone had 50%+ Battery
*Would Take 6 Battery Pulls to Turn on (Would Only turn on Earlier during the week)
*Lagged In games.
*Running O2 Branded Software
*No Screen Brightness or Signs of Working Screen.
*Would Not charge Unless turned On
*Camera Would Not work Unless Wifi Was not on I dont know why?
So Basically This Phone had a A fault since Day one I always had Camera Fails.
bluetoon said:
I am currently trying to fix a friend's Xperia Play r800a. It seems to be having a few different problems and together they are making it all difficult to get it going again. First off I have no real knowledge of toying with an Android phone. I browsed some threads on here, used Google and tried to use Flashtool to get the original operating system on it but all were a no go. I'll try and describe the problems to the best of my abilities and maybe someone can offer some help.
This is what I know from what he remembers he did to the phone. He said that the phone started t only boot to the Sony logo and then it would hang until the battery died or the phone was reset. If plugged in with a wall charger then it would allow him to get to the screen where he would enter his password but the touch screen wouldn't work. He then flashed it using Flashtool and at that point it would boot to a black screen and that's it.
-It hangs on a black screen, no logo or anything is present and it happens regardless of whether it is plugged into a wall charger or not.
-It is not found when plugged into the USB port (Windows 7 PC) and shows up as an unknown device. After a few minutes it is found by the PC but sometimes will randomly go back to an unknown device.
-I sometimes get a red light which blinks three times when I press the power button on the phone. I am currently charging it to see if it was a matter of being a dead battery or something worse (I heard it could be a hardware failure).
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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okay lol i don't know if that second post helped but is the phone unlocked? by any chance if it is, you can never really brick your xperia, from experience i kept flashing re flashing cusom kernal all day i get the same loops etc, but always fixable, also flash tool should fix your phone if that is you got the right ftf file for the brand like i have verizon and it have a verizon.ftf file, other than that i need more info about the phone not how it bricked, like what was it running at first etc. Try sony software reflashing repairing if that doesn't work use flashtool and see if you get an error with that
I cant enter fastboot or recovery lol
Xperia4life said:
I cant enter fastboot or recovery lol
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lol xD oh danm only possible way i think is to try flash tool and downloading the ftf file for your phone and let me know if you get any errors
biggyhead said:
lol xD oh danm only possible way i think is to try flash tool and downloading the ftf file for your phone and let me know if you get any errors
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my phone is having the exact same problem, it wont recover through pc companion and flashtool wont even work cause I cant get my phone into flashmode.
are there any other tricks that might get my beast running again?
NevErSn0w said:
my phone is having the exact same problem, it wont recover through pc companion and flashtool wont even work cause I cant get my phone into flashmode.
are there any other tricks that might get my beast running again?
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How are you trying to get into Flashmode?
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OK, so, my phone started displaying a static like image when I unlocked it, then eventually led to only working if I slid the screen up. I decided this may be a problem with the firmware so went to install Cyanogen 7.2 (I think it was) so I formatted system and the Cyanogen mod didn't install. Now my CWM only works when it feels like it, other times it sticks on the DoomKernal screen. If I try and put my phone into flash/fastboot mode the LED on the top will flash the colour which corresponds to the right mode, but after that it goes back to the DoomKernal screen.
Is there any way to fix this?
Pocoryu said:
OK, so, my phone started displaying a static like image when I unlocked it, then eventually led to only working if I slid the screen up. I decided this may be a problem with the firmware so went to install Cyanogen 7.2 (I think it was) so I formatted system and the Cyanogen mod didn't install. Now my CWM only works when it feels like it, other times it sticks on the DoomKernal screen. If I try and put my phone into flash/fastboot mode the LED on the top will flash the colour which corresponds to the right mode, but after that it goes back to the DoomKernal screen.
Is there any way to fix this?
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Seems like a hardware issue. Might wanna check your flex cable. As for the CWM issue, my Play did that after being water damaged. Only certain ROMs would flash and my touch screen didn't work :S
Sent from my R800x using xda premium
CTU_Loscombe said:
Seems like a hardware issue. Might wanna check your flex cable. As for the CWM issue, my Play did that after being water damaged. Only certain ROMs would flash and my touch screen didn't work :S
Sent from my R800x using xda premium
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Thanks man, I did discover that even when CWM looks like it isn't working, it's actually running but the screen hasn't changed
Hello!
I have a really weird problem with my xperia play. Tomorrow after the phone turned off because of empty battery, it stucks after the boot animation. However I'm able to lock/unlock it, it still shows the animation. I can even unlock the phone! But the display is always showing the SE logo
It seems like nobody else had this problem before. Before it turned off I played Asphalt 6 and i also set up the supercharged v6 script in the same session. I tested Chainfire3d that day but I also removed it correctly again and I removed some bloatware that day. It's an R800i, stock firmware and stock bootloader, but it's rooted. Does anybody know how I could fix it without reflashing the ROM? Of course I would do so if necessary.
EDIT: When I turn it off correctly it is almost instantly shut down.
EDIT2: Ok, forget it. Sorry that I spammed the board, I now simply unlocked and flashed it.
Thanks in advance
xxxxl25
xxxxl25 said:
Hello!
I have a really weird problem with my xperia play. Tomorrow after the phone turned off because of empty battery, it stucks after the boot animation. However I'm able to lock/unlock it, it still shows the animation. I can even unlock the phone! But the display is always showing the SE logo
It seems like nobody else had this problem before. Before it turned off I played Asphalt 6 and i also set up the supercharged v6 script in the same session. I tested Chainfire3d that day but I also removed it correctly again and I removed some bloatware that day. It's an R800i, stock firmware and stock bootloader, but it's rooted. Does anybody know how I could fix it without reflashing the ROM? Of course I would do so if necessary.
EDIT: When I turn it off correctly it is almost instantly shut down.
EDIT2: Ok, forget it. Sorry that I spammed the board, I now simply unlocked and flashed it.
Thanks in advance
xxxxl25
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I have been reading around this forum for awhile now, and i have experienced my play being stuck on the boot logo, what always seems to work is when i use flashtool and flash the firmware to its original state. that might work, it doesnt hurt to try
xXAzzkika808Xx said:
I have been reading around this forum for awhile now, and i have experienced my play being stuck on the boot logo, what always seems to work is when i use flashtool and flash the firmware to its original state. that might work, it doesnt hurt to try
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This works with locked bootloader? Oops. But TrueAnchestor ICS is a really great experience. **** warranty.
xxxxl25 said:
This works with locked bootloader? Oops. But TrueAnchestor ICS is a really great experience. **** warranty.
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it's works on locked/unlocked bootloader
erwinstyd said:
it's works on locked/unlocked bootloader
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Too late Now it's unlocked.
Hello everyone.
My frined just gave me a Xperia Play so i can play around with it and see if I can fix it. Now the problem is that it boots fine, shows Sony Ericcson , take a while and then shows a very strange screen just like that of the tv with no signal , like that with the flies one. can't post links.
So, i use flash tool to reflash it with R800i_4.0.A.2.368_World fw. Again the same thing. The bootloader is unlocked so i flashed with the Lupus kernel and no thing and again with doomkernel which seems to be working with this specific rom only but again this time the animation stays and then shuts down. The animation takes too long. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?
Thanks in advance.
Cheers.
krat0s15 said:
Hello everyone.
My frined just gave me a Xperia Play so i can play around with it and see if I can fix it. Now the problem is that it boots fine, shows Sony Ericcson , take a while and then shows a very strange screen just like that of the tv with no signal , like that with the flies one. can't post links.
So, i use flash tool to reflash it with R800i_4.0.A.2.368_World fw. Again the same thing. The bootloader is unlocked so i flashed with the Lupus kernel and no thing and again with doomkernel which seems to be working with this specific rom only but again this time the animation stays and then shuts down. The animation takes too long. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?
Thanks in advance.
Cheers.
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go through this buddy http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-play/help/backlight-t3017943
Hello everyone
I have been a silent follower of xda from past 4 to 5 years and never had to ask for help
as I could figure out my way through when i get stuck untill now
My Xperia ZL loops on Sony Logo
My phone does enter FLASHMODE and FASTBOOT mode and im able to flash ftf Firmware without any errors in flashtool
but when it asks to unplug and restart my phone i get the same loops
I have tried yellow button Soft reset (stays in a loop after reboot)
i have tried yellow button Hard reset (Powers off after 3 vibrations)
I gave it to sony service here in India(Hyderabad) they are suggesting me to replace the motherboard which costs 24,000 INR/-(Seriously?)
i bought the phone 2 years back for 29,000 INR/- and now they want me to pay 75% of the price I strongly believe they follow their blind
rules of pushing the customer to go for motherboard replacement if they are not able to revive the phone after basic software flashing
but i still believe i can recover my phone if all the gurus out here can help me out
The phone still didnt go dead till now(some battery left may be still looping) ill try once again if the battery dies completely
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Tried flashing New 5.02 lollipop ftf, after successful flashing with no errors
unplugged it and tried to turn it on
Now red LED flashes 3 times but the device doesnt start
connected it to a wall charger and now i can see the kernel charging screen with battery symbol showing the charging
after some 7% charging indicated i tried to start the phone and the same inevitable loops with sony logo come back
Just plug it in and let it charge for a couple of hours, if it still bootloops, try Sony's Flashtool EMMA. I know people say it's ****, but it fixed my phone when I was in the same position as you.
Dead Metal said:
Just plug it in and let it charge for a couple of hours, if it still bootloops, try Sony's Flashtool EMMA. I know people say it's ****, but it fixed my phone when I was in the same position as you.
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Will try it out and let you know Thanks
Edit: Tried using emma tool but it says No services available for your device
in the supported devices list http://developer.sonymobile.com/services/flash-tool/supported_phones/
there is C6503 but no C6502
i see you can fastboot your devices.. Why not trying the Cyanogenmod for a moment?
Sent from my C6502, but already thinks to leave it for Lenovo Vibe Shot or Asus Zenfone Zoom
daniLaLaLaLaLa said:
i see you can fastboot your devices.. Why not trying the Cyanogenmod for a moment?
Sent from my C6502, but already thinks to leave it for Lenovo Vibe Shot or Asus Zenfone Zoom
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I think we need to access recovery to install the cyanogen mod zip right
i tried flashing TWRP boot image earlier with no errors in flashtool
but if i unplug and restart, it is the same story and im unable to enter recovery the phone loops on sony logo
Ill give it a try once again and let you know
is there any other way to flash cyanogen mod if not from recovery
thanks in advance
EDIT: Tried flashing CM
If i let the battery die till i get red led flashing 3 times
Im able to get to the recovery
installed CM and rebooted same old loops are back again
Now i feel all the doors are closed
ocizer said:
I think we need to access recovery to install the cyanogen mod zip right
i tried flashing TWRP boot image earlier with no errors in flashtool
but if i unplug and restart, it is the same story and im unable to enter recovery the phone loops on sony logo
Ill give it a try once again and let you know
is there any other way to flash cyanogen mod if not from recovery
thanks in advance
EDIT: Tried flashing CM
If i let the battery die till i get red led flashing 3 times
Im able to get to the recovery
installed CM and rebooted same old loops are back again
Now i feel all the doors are closed
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Have you even tried to flash any .img file containing TRWP using flashtool? plus, when connecting the USB cable, use the white button under the cover to turn it off, then on, instead of the normal power button. After these steps, flash a NEW .ZIP rom Usin TRWP
Sent from my Xperia ZL using XDA Free mobile app
Krllo said:
Have you even tried to flash any .img file containing TRWP using flashtool? plus, when connecting the USB cable, use the white button under the cover to turn it off, then on, instead of the normal power button. After these steps, flash a NEW .ZIP rom Usin TRWP
Sent from my Xperia ZL using XDA Free mobile app
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I have flashed Clockworkmod img from FASTBOOT
and got into recovery and installed Cyanogenmod.zip along with Gapps with no errors
but when i click on reboot to system same old loops
ocizer said:
I have flashed Clockworkmod img from FASTBOOT
and got into recovery and installed Cyanogenmod.zip along with Gapps with no errors
but when i click on reboot to system same old loops
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Well. Try different roms, some must work. Or try a different recovery..
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Krllo said:
Well. Try different roms, some must work. Or try a different recovery..
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Sent from my Xperia ZL using XDA Free mobile app
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Tried Carbon KK also no result will try few other and let you know
no.you will not solve it.It's battery problem.Try to replace it.Or wait till i give u a link.As i know you r out of warranty & will do something to revieve your phone.
here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-z/help/hardware-fix-xperia-z-charging-booting-t2760911
CAUTION: IT IS FOR XPERIA Z >BUT IF U KNOW CORRECT POINTS THEN TRY IT for ZL on your OWN RISK.
otherwise as i said try to replace whole battery will have more chances to bring back to life.18-20 $ will be enough.
dev neo said:
no.you will not solve it.It's battery problem.Try to replace it.Or wait till i give u a link.As i know you r out of warranty & will do something to revieve your phone.
here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-z/help/hardware-fix-xperia-z-charging-booting-t2760911
CAUTION: IT IS FOR XPERIA Z >BUT IF U KNOW CORRECT POINTS THEN TRY IT for ZL on your OWN RISK.
otherwise as i said try to replace whole battery will have more chances to bring back to life.18-20 $ will be enough.
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I did it on my phone.
Here is the link. But was for a different trouble... Dunno if will work for you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3122255
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dev neo said:
no.you will not solve it.It's battery problem.Try to replace it.Or wait till i give u a link.As i know you r out of warranty & will do something to revieve your phone.
here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-z/help/hardware-fix-xperia-z-charging-booting-t2760911
CAUTION: IT IS FOR XPERIA Z >BUT IF U KNOW CORRECT POINTS THEN TRY IT for ZL on your OWN RISK.
otherwise as i said try to replace whole battery will have more chances to bring back to life.18-20 $ will be enough.
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I now strongly believe its battery problem too should i ask sony service to replace battery or ist it something i can do it on my own
ocizer said:
I now strongly believe its battery problem too should i ask sony service to replace battery or ist it something i can do it on my own
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http://sony.yt/topic/7326-english-t...ate-boot-in-sony-xperia-zl-c6502-c6503-c6506/
Sent from my Xperia ZL using XDA Free mobile app
sony service centre ! They never do repair on z series.If it's in warranty drop it on service centre .they will give you a refurbished phone.
IF warranty is over you can ask them .But i m 100% sure they don't do repair as many other countries.Depends where you live.
you can do it on your own @ your own risk.Remember battery is slightly glued underneath the screen.
Always remember to order battery with that cables and connection.
Sorry for long reply .But in this kind of matters we are frustrated & you don't want to waste money & our phones.
use button
use the tiny button beside sdcard press that untill 3 times vibrate and hold button vol down in flasmood mode
Try boot with USB cable connected to 1.5A+ charger with good cable.
No Hope guys tried everything im pretty sure its battery problem but the service center guys dont want to listen to me at all
all they want me to do is get it replaced for a new phone for 24,000 INR (360$) are you kidding me? for a Xperia ZL
Im even ready to give away the phone if someone wants to help me out
I have the same problem with my ZL. Service center refused to replace the battery, so I asked someone else to do it. That however didn't fix the problem. When I push at the back between the flashlight and XPERIA the phone will switch off. When I disconnect the battery and connect it again it will start-up again. I removed the screw below the camera module, as fastening that one also made the phone turn off. There is something wrong with the motherboard. I always had my phone in a flip case and it didn't even have a single scratch on it. First time it went of was while making a video. Possibly overheating caused this problem or damaged a circuit at the motherboard. Very disappointed, phone was just 2 month out of warranty, first time off was within but that doesn't count.
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I have the same problem with my ZL. Service center refused to replace the battery, so I asked someone else to do it. That however didn't fix the problem. When I push at the back between the flashlight and XPERIA the phone will switch off. When I disconnect the battery and connect it again it will start-up again. I removed the screw below the camera module, as fastening that one also made the phone turn off. There is something wrong with the motherboard. I always had my phone in a flip case and it didn't even have a single scratch on it. First time it went of was while making a video. Possibly overheating caused this problem or damaged a circuit at the motherboard. Very disappointed, phone was just 2 month out of warranty, first time off was within but that doesn't count.
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Im never getting a Sony again
I moved on to Nexus 6 I hope Motorola doesnt treat its customers the same way
ocizer said:
Tried flashing New 5.02 lollipop ftf, after successful flashing with no errors
unplugged it and tried to turn it on
Now red LED flashes 3 times but the device doesnt start
connected it to a wall charger and now i can see the kernel charging screen with battery symbol showing the charging
after some 7% charging indicated i tried to start the phone and the same inevitable loops with sony logo come back
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I was in the same boat as you with my refurbished ZL. Flashed anything, doesn't boot. Then battery full drained and only red light. Service told me it's motherboard circuit. I didn't lesten them, bought cheap battery and replaced it by myself: and Xperia worked like a charm but only 3 months ))) New (cheap) battery got trouble on GPS route suddenly. And phone worked only with power cord connected, shutdown without. New battery will again fix it )