Bootloop stuck on 'SONY' - can't get to fastboot - Sony Smartwatch 3

Hi everyone,
I seem to have run into a problem. I tried patching/rooting my Sony Smartwatch 3 to get NFC running on it, but I have probably done something wrong along the way. Right now I'm stuck in a bootloop with only the 'SONY' screen visible for about 8 seconds, before it reboots. I can't power it down by holding the power button, it simply doesn't do anything. Has anyone come across this before and managed to fix it? I'm not sure what to do right now other than wait for the battery to die and hope that I can boot into fastboot after that.
Thanks!
Azlond

Well, waiting for the battery to die helped. I managed to get to fastboot and flash a new image onto the watch.

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[Q] Help/advice required please - stuck at boot logo, will not enter bootloader.

Hi guys, let me preface this by saying I am not a total noob so I have tried the usual tricks to get into the damn bootloader.
I rebooted my phone and when it was restarting it goes to the HTC boot logo, after a few minutes of waiting I realised that this situation was not changing anytime soon so held power button and allowed the device to reboot. As it did this I hold down the volume key as normal - vibrate, big white screen with the HTC boot logo again.
I have tried this a few times, always with the same result, the phone does not want to go into the bootloader for some reason I cannot figure.
Now I am looking for either a brute force way to get in or a nifty trick one of you might have found, as my phone is just sat on the HTC boot screen I need to get this dealt with ASAP so swift responses are REALLY appreciated.
thanks
Just to add, I am trying to use adb, so far I can use the reboot-bootloader command and the phone will reboot, flash up the bootloader and then back to the htc boot screen again. I am trying a fast fingers way to get into recovery (hoping I can select it quickly before it decides otherwise)
I think I may have a way in although would still love a bit of guidance.
I can now get to the bootloader, any attempts to get to CWM leads me to see the very first hint of the CWM logo but then it goes straight back into bootloop again at the HTC screen. I can send adb commands but get an error message when I try anything via fastboot or just waiting for device.
Right now I dont really mind if I have to flash each of the boot.img, CWM, rom - any of it from scratch, as long as I can resurrect the thing and most importantly get it done before I fall asleep - I doubt that the screen on constantly is going to do the phone any good
**edit, I can get into fastboot. I tried the fastboot reboot-bootloader command and it worked

Stuck in boot loop - need to power down?

I stupidly got my phone stuck in a boot loop whilst trying to update my rom
I can easily fix this once I get home but I am currently at work without the means to do so
All I want to do is power down my phone so it doesn't waste all the batts but everytime I turn it off it boots up again automatically
Does anyone have any idea how I can solve this (a dumb problem which I created myself)
Its a little worrying as I don't want to lose 100% power whilst stuck in this loop
Thanks for your help
Just found I can power down via fastboot
Problem solved
Thanks anyway

Probably bricked, don't know what to do

Hey all,
So like about a year ago I installed twrp and rooted my one m8s and couldn't care less to update anything but everything was working fine.
Recently I bought a new phone so today I thought lets wipe the device and factory reset it. Well thats where it went wrong.
After the reset it tried to boot but was just stuck on the white screen with the HTC logo.
I then held the power + vol up, which triggered something and showed an other logo for a second then just going dark, but the device is still on and backlit.
I cant get out of this for some reason neither will the device turn off. When i connect it to my pc it gets recognized but I cant get into storage.
Also adb and fastboot won't see the device and the htc_fastboot.exe I got from here throws an adbwinapi.dll missing error.
I am really stuck on what to do and i was hoping maybe someone could help me out here?
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Bart
EDIT: got the phone to turn off when the battery died and was able to boot into fastboot from there, lets see where this gets me.
EDIT #2: Welp I fixed it I suppose. If someone please could remove this thread since I can't

H815 does not start or enter recovery

Hi,
a few hours ago I dropped my G4 H815. The back fell off and the battery got out. I put the Battery back in and after a few tries I could load the device. However, I just can`t start the phone now. When I press the power Boutton, nothing happens.
When plugging in the microUSB-Cable the screen turns on and I sometimes see the screen with the LG Logo, but no matter how often I try, it does not boot into recovery (the volume down key was always a bit tricky though). It just goes on to the Screen saying your battery is loading and it´s at 100%.
I can reach Download-Mode, but I do not see any way to force a reboot from there.
My Bootloader is unlocked and the device is rooted. Im running TWRP and LineageOS 14.
Norkzlam said:
Hi,
a few hours ago I dropped my G4 H815. The back fell off and the battery got out. I put the Battery back in and after a few tries I could load the device. However, I just can`t start the phone now. When I press the power Boutton, nothing happens.
When plugging in the microUSB-Cable the screen turns on and I sometimes see the screen with the LG Logo, but no matter how often I try, it does not boot into recovery (the volume down key was always a bit tricky though). It just goes on to the Screen saying your battery is loading and it´s at 100%.
I can reach Download-Mode, but I do not see any way to force a reboot from there.
My Bootloader is unlocked and the device is rooted. Im running TWRP and LineageOS 14.
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Well it sounds like the infamous Bootloop at least the symptoms are the same. The Bootloop issue is not caused by dropping the phone but while booting Android as this is a very CPU intensive process.
Ilapo or not I would take a backup with SALT before anything else.
You can also boot to fastboot and assuming you haven't installed the nougat v29 bootloader stack you can just boot TWRP temporary by using
fastboot boot twrp.img
(where twrp.img should be my latest TWRP version preview 144 or higher)
Sent from my LG-H815 using XDA Labs
No Bootloop. It seems like the power Button is broken. Using SALT I could reboot the phone and it starts and works normal. The knok-on feature makes this situation, at least temporally, bearable.
I will probably try to fix the Button.

Pixel 3XL - constant bootloop

So I updated to Android 11 on Tuesday, and all seemed fine. Last night my phone was trying to install an app, and seemed to freeze.
After a few minutes, I forced it to shut-down (power + vol down) and it started to reboot. It got to the G logo with the small bottom bar animation for a number of minutes and eventually kicked back into Recovery mode.
I decided to try rebooting, and it started to reboot, got to the Google logo (the full word, not the "G"), and then kicked back into rebooting.
The phone now constantly reboots and even if I get into fastboot mode, it only stays in fastboot until I hit a key (vol up/down or power) and it then reboots into constant bootloops described above.
If I don't push a button on fastboot mode, it will just start booting anyways after about 3-5 seconds.
Does anybody know of what I could do? Not sure if replacing the battery would help (e.g. a power issue) or if it may be a corruption of the flash memory and that the system and underlying partitions are corrupt leading to nothing I could do to repair the phone.
I have really enjoyed this phone, but I am afraid that this phone is all-but-dead and unusable.
Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
B.D.
You can try flashing the stock rom from recovery or from fastboot.
Had something similar on an og Pixel... Turned out to be a broken power switch.
I had a weird issue last week. Phone would freeze after a couple of minutes and would reboot. It would also boot loop while connected for charging (wireless and corded.). The battery would not charge. I would shut down the phone and when I plugged in the charger, it would boot loop. The battery finally discharged to 0% and shut off. I plugged the charger in and it remained off. I let it charge to 100% and it's been working for the past week without issue. I'm not sure what happened.
I would suggest letting the battery drain to 0% and go from there. HTH
I updated my 3XL to Android 11 two days ago and since then I have caught it rebooting at seemingly random times, though only when it is on the wireless charger. I guess it's back to Android 10 for now. Hopefully reverting a Pixel is as easy as it was on the Nexus. Thanks Google.
BostonDan said:
So I updated to Android 11 on Tuesday, and all seemed fine. Last night my phone was trying to install an app, and seemed to freeze.
After a few minutes, I forced it to shut-down (power + vol down) and it started to reboot. It got to the G logo with the small bottom bar animation for a number of minutes and eventually kicked back into Recovery mode.
I decided to try rebooting, and it started to reboot, got to the Google logo (the full word, not the "G"), and then kicked back into rebooting.
The phone now constantly reboots and even if I get into fastboot mode, it only stays in fastboot until I hit a key (vol up/down or power) and it then reboots into constant bootloops described above.
If I don't push a button on fastboot mode, it will just start booting anyways after about 3-5 seconds.
Does anybody know of what I could do? Not sure if replacing the battery would help (e.g. a power issue) or if it may be a corruption of the flash memory and that the system and underlying partitions are corrupt leading to nothing I could do to repair the phone.
I have really enjoyed this phone, but I am afraid that this phone is all-but-dead and unusable.
Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
B.D.
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Are you familiar with how to use commands in platform-tools to flash stock images? How did you upgrade? OTA? Are you rooted? Is it unlocked or Verizon variant? If unlocked, do you know how to unlock the bootloader?
jjlane86 said:
Are you familiar with how to use commands in platform-tools to flash stock images? How did you upgrade? OTA? Are you rooted? Is it unlocked or Verizon variant? If unlocked, do you know how to unlock the bootloader?
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I am proficient in using the bootloader. Phone has been bootloader unlocked since day one.
I upgraded to Android 11 with ota and all was good for a day (rooted with Magisk canary). Then the phone started acting up, first not booting system and then bootlooping.
I can get into the bootloader (fastboot) but only for maximum 3-5 seconds before the phone reboots, or if I hit any button (vol up/down) the phone reboots. Also, if connected to my computer the USB does not recognize fastboot anymore (before it reboots anyways)
I think it's dead, Jim.
Cheers,
B.D.

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