Hi all,
I need an advice from you guys please:
My Topaz is not turning on, it simply does not do anything.
Last time I wanted to change the language but my battery was not fully charged, so in the process it suddenly turned off and since that time I am not able to turn it on, does not display nothing on screen when I press the on button it just vibrates continuously and not stop, and that´s it...
The charging light was on the 1st time I tried, but not the second time.
It is SIM unlocked but not hardspl´ed
Any advice would be great!
Thanks in advance
UPDATE 13-Mar-10
Today, I connected Topaz to wall charger, amber led turned for about 10 sec, then turns of, then vibrates, then nothing again.
I tried to do hard reset, nothing happened, then after some minutes the device is short vibrating every 1 min aprox, no led on, still can´t do nothing more.
EDIT: After 15 min of short vibrating every 1 min, now it´s completely dead again........
Thanks for reading,
Can you put it in bootloader? Is a hardreset possible?
Try to turn the phone off, remove battery, and insert it again. Then hold vol down and press power. Do you get red/green/blue (or whatever) colors?
If you do. let it boot until it says USB (perhaps need to connect usb to PC for it to change from serial to usb) and after that just run the topaz ruu and it should flash.
If you dont get it to start to 3 color screen try and hold up+down and press power.
yes, Vol down and powerbutton. should boot to serial/usb flash screen.
Thanks guys for your reply
Soon as I get home I´ll try and report back
Cheers,
Flash a stock ROM
jmkhenka said:
Try to turn the phone off, remove battery, and insert it again. Then hold vol down and press power. Do you get red/green/blue (or whatever) colors?
If you do. let it boot until it says USB (perhaps need to connect usb to PC for it to change from serial to usb) and after that just run the topaz ruu and it should flash.
If you dont get it to start to 3 color screen try and hold up+down and press power.
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Hi
Just check that if you try to reflash the ROM whether you should use a stock ROM vs modified ROM as you wrote that you do not have HardSPL on your Topaz.
Once you have successfully reflashed using stock ROM do a hard reset and then install HardSPL 1.83.
Good luck
Aussie
Still need help!!
Ok guys,
Let me explain you what happened:
None of the instructions above worked...
Can´t put on bootloader, hard reset nothing happens
When connected to wall charger amber led is on, if I press power button led turns off and vibrates, then led turns on again but nothing else happens.
Pressed down vol and power = Nothing happens
Pressed up/down vol and power = nothing happens
EDIT: Connected to PC and automatuically installed a qualcomm driver not detected also by WMDC
Disconnected from PC then connected again to wall charger and now amber led not turns on....
Please help!!
Any other advice please!
I really don´t know what else to do
Thanks in advance for taking your time on this thread
Per your PM, I'll certainly help you if I can.
Do you happen to know what caused it to brick? This will help determine how to bring it back. Did you attempt to flash a custom ROM w/o HSPL?
I am not an expert on this but have seen some chefs claim they can bring back a bricked device.
There is a program called MTTY that can usually get your phone to connect to your PC and there are functions to run in that program that can get it to a flashable state so you can reflash your shipped ROM.
Also search the Wiki for restoring bricked device, regardless of the model, it should be the same process. I think I have seen this in the Tilt(Kaiser) forum and maybe in the Fuze (Raphael) forum.
I haven't used this program in a while so I forget the commands but you should be able to find them in a search.
In the meantime I'll do a little research too and see what I can find out.
The main thing we need to accomplish is getting you back into bootloader mode.
1. Here is a link for recovering a Hermes and it has info on mtty.
Thanks a lot Bruce,
I have the original ROM and my Topaz is the unbranded model.
I was just trying to change language but battery was too low, then it turned of and you know the rest of the story.
I have it SIM unlocked but not hardspl´ed and I was not doing any ROM upgrade or so...
I´ll try to use MTTY and find about your recommendations, later report back.
I appreciate a lot your reply!
Cheers,
EDIT: Tested MTTY but in some point says "power on the unit " but that is what I can´t do, nothing happens
Will continue testing and searching...
This is from the Wiki. It may help. Says to use PUTTY instead of MTTY... with instructions.
Another thread on recovering device.
Bruce Inman said:
This is from the Wiki. It may help. Says to use PUTTY instead of MTTY... with instructions.
Another thread on recovering device.
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Thanks Bruce,
I went through both links but nothing...
The main prob is that I can´t even make it turn on...
Now when wall charger is plugged I do not have the charging led on, so I am really lost...
I do not have another battery to test but I don´t think is that because Topaz is almost new!
But Now I think it´s not charging the battery...
Hope any other idea can save me
If it is almost new try to send it to warranty!if it has the original hspl no prob then!is better then trying to reapair youself, with the cost of loosing warranty!
Good luck with that!!!
Thanks, but I do not have that option
I have high hopes with all the great team of XDA!
first thing first,you have to have power in your phone.....borrow the battery from someone or recharge your battery in somebody else's phone.......then try to go in to bootloader mode (volume button down and power button)..........
komsa said:
first thing first,you have to have power in your phone.....borrow the battery from someone or recharge your battery in somebody else's phone.......then try to go in to bootloader mode (volume button down and power button)..........
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Yep!
I ordered today another battery
Soon as I get it will report back.
Thanks,
Maybe this will help
It happened to me once. Nothing seemed to work. What did work, I left the phone charging for a day. First take ou the battery for at least a minute. Put it back on. Then connect the wall charger to the phone and let it charge. Hope this will help.
When it happened to me the LED wasn't working either, just connect the charger and let it charge.
Thanks,
I done that yesterday and left it all night but nothing...
I really hope is a battery problem, I´ll find out soon as I receive my new one
wrong place
Exactly samething happened to me.. the only difference was that I was using google maps and connected to my car charger. It somehow didn't charge and ran out of power and kept restarting whenever I tried to charge from a wall-socket.
This is what i did... worked for me.
Take out the battery from the back
Hold down the power button for at least 30 seconds to drain out the static charge.
Take out the sim
Plug in the USB to the phone (without the battery and without the sim)
With the phone connected, press the Red button at the back (soft reset)
Unplug the phone from the charger
Put the battery back in
Connect the USB to charge
Cross your fingers and say a lil prayer
Wait for 30 minutes
Turn it back on.
Lemme know how that goes 4 u
Thanks
I done all your procedure but after this point: [*]Connect the USB to charge
Led charging light did not turned on...
By now my only chance is to test with a new battery (which I will receive on thursday), but I do not have too many hopes as the device is almost new
I´ll report back on friday.
Thanks to all and I will be happy to receive any other suggestion
I was listening to music on my x10i, rooted, 2.1 nordic yesterday and for no reason it turned off. I cant turn it back on, holding the power button just makes the little led flash red. Plug into power supply, led flashed red. Hold power button and back button, flash red!
Any ideas?
is it fully brick???
red flashing = battery error
Maybe you drained it to the point that it can't do anything anymore. This phone needs to boot to charge. See if you can charge it in a display phone if the store will let you.
thanks, thats a good idea, i was going to buy a charger from ebay that takes the battery directly
try to take out the micro sd card. maybe its corrupted.
Just leave it to charge for a while and it should recover after few minutes...
bro... maybe bad motherboard!! same happened to me... battery wont charge.. m 100% sure!! ur board is bad contact SE... no other option!! its the worst fault in X10
In my casse when I overdraft my battery it toke almost 30minutes to get it back to work
So i got this new atrix it was working fine no problems but now it wont turn on
First of all it`s completely vanilla no rooting no firmware flashed no nothing.
I reboted it several time yesterday and it worked allright and after my battery was 15% i decided to shut the phone down and put it to charge on my pc.
Now in the morning a the same green led is flashing but when i press the power button (fingerprint scanner) it wont do nothing the screen stays black
I dont know what to do i remove and added the battery several time and still nothing PLEASE HELP ME
Try plugging it on the charger until the battery says 100%.then try booting it up.
if it didn't boot.if it's on warranty send it for repair.
thankyou prince it worked i had a defy in the past that phone didn`t had such requirements but anyway this one is moore cooler
have you tied performing a hard reset?
I just bought a new Xperia Go. Yesterday I was using it until the battery drained completely. Then I charged for the first time and stupidly I tried to turn it on. The first time I charged it showed the battery icon, but then when I disconnect it, it won't turn on. I plugged it on again but this time it didn't show the battery icon. The red led is turned on, but I can't get it to turn on. I tried vol up and power button at the same time but nothing. The worse thing is I can't remove and reinsert the battery because I don't know how and I don't have the required tools.
Please help! ;(
May the battery is completely drained!! Just plug-in the charger n after sometime it'll show the battery symbol
rolo143 said:
I just bought a new Xperia Go. Yesterday I was using it until the battery drained completely. Then I charged for the first time and stupidly I tried to turn it on. The first time I charged it showed the battery icon, but then when I disconnect it, it won't turn on. I plugged it on again but this time it didn't show the battery icon. The red led is turned on, but I can't get it to turn on. I tried vol up and power button at the same time but nothing. The worse thing is I can't remove and reinsert the battery because I don't know how and I don't have the required tools.
Please help! ;(
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try to charge it for few hours...
Ur phone is probably in the 1st situation of the following( xda calls this battery cycle i think )
1. Dead phone(no response at all)
2. Phone cannot boot but when trying to boot it shows a red led(which means the phone has a tiny amount of battery left)
3.Phone is charging and can boot
4. Phone is charged properly(100%)
So, in order to get to situation 4 u just need to charge ur phone for a while
Hi was your problem solved? I have the exact same problem right now... My Galaxy S7 was stolen about a month ago so i am using this rusty old thing and will only be getting the S8 by next week...
I have the same problem with my Xperia P.
Mokiwipeout said:
Ur phone is probably in the 1st situation of the following( xda calls this battery cycle i think )
1. Dead phone(no response at all)
2. Phone cannot boot but when trying to boot it shows a red led(which means the phone has a tiny amount of battery left)
3.Phone is charging and can boot
4. Phone is charged properly(100%)
So, in order to get to situation 4 u just need to charge ur phone for a while
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I have the same problem with my Xperia P. I tried charge it fully a few times but when I turn it on it doesnt on. When I reboot or restart it, still it doesnt turn on or even vibrate (doesnt vibrate even once but the lights when restart or reboot turn to purple, after few seconds SONY LOGO will appear then shuts down. NOTE: THE LIGHTS (red,orange,green&purple) WILL JUST APPEAR WHEN IT CONNECTS TO WALL CHARGER... IT DOESNT RESPOND AT ALL WHEN CHARGER IS NOT CONNECTED
Hope you help me, please. I badly need it. Thanks in advance!
Hello friends,
Sorry for making a new thread but i am little bit desperate.
I have a problem with my galaxy s3.Last night i left it with 5% battery and in the morning when i wake up the phone was shuted down,nothing special i just thought that the baterry was discharced.I puted the phone to charge and i tried to start it after an hour and the phone was still dead.I left the phone two more hours and the symthoms were the same.
When i say dead i mean that it does nothing,no light...nothing at all.
I have to mention that i tried to start the phone with another baterry and it was still dead.
I tried also to start it in boot mode by pressing power button ,volum up and home button in the same time and the phone was still dead.
What can i do in this case?..
My main problem is that i can recover my phone number that was saved in the phone.I have to tell you that i had my gmail configured on the phone,google play configured but i didn t syncronized the contacts and i am curios if the syncronizatios it is made automaticly ?
What options do I have to recover my data?
Thank you
catalin2013 said:
Hello friends,
Sorry for making a new thread but i am little bit desperate.
I have a problem with my galaxy s3.Last night i left it with 5% battery and in the morning when i wake up the phone was shuted down,nothing special i just thought that the baterry was discharced.I puted the phone to charge and i tried to start it after an hour and the phone was still dead.I left the phone two more hours and the symthoms were the same.
When i say dead i mean that it does nothing,no light...nothing at all.
I have to mention that i tried to start the phone with another baterry and it was still dead.
I tried also to start it in boot mode by pressing power button ,volum up and home button in the same time and the phone was still dead.
What can i do in this case?..
My main problem is that i can recover my phone number that was saved in the phone.I have to tell you that i had my gmail configured on the phone,google play configured but i didn t syncronized the contacts and i am curios if the syncronizatios it is made automaticly ?
What options do I have to recover my data?
Thank you
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1.Take out the battery and check that the gold contacts are O.K. then try and boot.
2. Leave the battery charging overnight so it charges fully and try to boot.
3. See if your PC recognizes the phone when you plug it in via USB.
OK try this:
1- take out the battery ( make sure that it still have some juice in it )
2- Keep holding the 3 button combo for download mode ( Volume down + Home + power buttons )
3- insert the battery while holding the 3 button combo.
If this doesn't work then u might have some hardware failure , not sure though.
Good luck > this happened to me before when I was flashing a ROM while the phone was charging but apparently it wasn't and the battery died before It was done flashing.
Same thing happened to my dad's s2 he left it charging overnight and it was dead by morning.
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catalin2013 said:
Hello friends,
Sorry for making a new thread but i am little bit desperate.
I have a problem with my galaxy s3.Last night i left it with 5% battery and in the morning when i wake up the phone was shuted down,nothing special i just thought that the baterry was discharced.I puted the phone to charge and i tried to start it after an hour and the phone was still dead.I left the phone two more hours and the symthoms were the same.
When i say dead i mean that it does nothing,no light...nothing at all.
I have to mention that i tried to start the phone with another baterry and it was still dead.
I tried also to start it in boot mode by pressing power button ,volum up and home button in the same time and the phone was still dead.
What can i do in this case?..
My main problem is that i can recover my phone number that was saved in the phone.I have to tell you that i had my gmail configured on the phone,google play configured but i didn t syncronized the contacts and i am curios if the syncronizatios it is made automaticly ?
What options do I have to recover my data?
Thank you
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Please read the SDS sudden death syndrome thread .
Reads as you need a new motherboard all non backed up data lost .