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[Q] Xperia S Bricked?

I was using XZXperience 2 on my Sony Xperia S, and then sony companion detected that i had firmware 6.1.A.1.45 and 6.1.A.55 was available, so just to give it a try, I installed that update, but that is a failed update, it says unfortunately music player stopped working, or unfortunately xperia keyboard stopped working etc. The main problem is that my system does not recognize my XS anymore, it says USB Device Not Recognized, so I cant connect it to Flashtool or PC Companion for repair. The Sad part is that I cant even connect it in Flash Mode, I tried a hard reset by using power button and volume up buttons, but no use. I should mention that once it recognized my phone when i turned off my laptop and removed its battery too, after restarting both phone and laptop, flashtool detected that phone was connected with USB Debugging OFF, though it was on, but as a try, I unchecked USB Debugging and then checked it again, and it worked. Now my Xperia S was connected in USB debugging mode, I tried to install busybox, rooted it, and tried to install CWM recovery,flashtool said that busy box was installed and phone was rooted, but it could not install recovery and I used another tool to install recovery,which had a bat file and it installs recovery automatically. But it didnt. After restarting my phone, the same issue appeared again, My PC does not recognize my Xperia S, tried previous procedure several times, but no use. Cant even repair it as my set cant go in flash mode. What can I do? have I bricked my Xperia S? I`m in Pakistan and there is no official Sony Mobile franchise as they dont launch their flagships in Pakistan. Please help me, considering I`m used to with rooting,flashing etc. How can I connect my phone in flash mode? Thank you.

C:/flashtool/driver
Open usb_driver.exe
Choose all the drivers you need (Xperia S drivers, flashmode driver & fastboot mode driver)
Your laptop should be able to detect your phone now.

[Q] Unable to use USB as data connection

Hi,
I have an Xperia Arc with PolygonKK 1.4 custom ROM.
I had a problem similar to what has been reported many times of Xperia S where the phone becomes soft brick if the battery was completely drained, and the phone was not starting or allowing me to recharge the battery. This problem was fixed by charging the battery outside the phone and then plugging it in and starting the phone.
The problem now is that neither my phone or my PC can detect that they are connected via a data cable.
I checked the cable with another phone, it works fine, and I am using the same PC that I have always used to handle my phone (on windows and linux).
When I try to access fastboot mode I see the blue LED but the PC detects nothing
Flash tool does not detect any mode connected (fastboot, ADB, Flash)
I tried cleaning the USB port with no result.
I think now that the port is damaged, but I still have a little hope that this is a software issue, is there a way to know what has happened to the phone?

How to unbrick Xperia S lt26i [already tried what other links in the forum say]

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)

I need help here please!!!!!!!!

Hi all, I have in my possession a Sony Xperia Z5 Premium (E6853) International version, recently trip and put it in a somewhat old PC running Windows XP, the phone was working perfectly until now, after having logged started to give problems , I explain in great detail:
When i connecting for the first time, the phone was powered off and would not turn on, then when connected to the PC, lit perfectly, but to my surprise, when connected to other computers, just start to charge, the phone did not recognize computers, i change the cable, nothing, restarting the phone, not even charge, nothing happend, when it goes out, and relit, the phone was connected perfectly fine, and loaded, this worked only once since then repeated the same process, and it did not work, now only charge when the battery reaches to 0%, and the phone does not turn off when I press the power off, only restarts, comes to the screen where advertised sony, and again restart,, the phone is running android 5.1.1 lollipop, and I tried to hard reset 2 times, download the full phone battery and give it charge, dont know what else to do, I need help if someone has happened something like this, greetings and thanks.
Sorry for my english...

My recommendation: Warranty repair/ replacement

Have you got Sony PC Companion installed?
What usb driver is installed? Did the PCC install the MTP driver on computers you connected to?
Check device manager on you PC when you connect your phone to it and see if it recognises your phone correctly otherwise try uninstalling the usb driver and connecting your phone once the Sony PC companion has installed the necessary drivers.
Also try factory resetting if you can see if that helps

I have windows 10 installed on my pc with all the drivers and, yes, has Sony PC Companion installed too, normally before the problem, i was conect my phone and it made a sound but now do nothing,, i try the factory reset twice and the problem persist, maybe the phone has drivers too and was corrupted somehow, all that is the PC problem, the other one is the charger problem....
i conect the phone to de charger and nothing happend same like PC, no charging at all, the only way to charge the phone is it gets out of power completely, dead, thats the only way to charge it but the battery is suffering with that way

Dead XA1 Ultra (G3226) - Brazil

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