Flashmode - XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I am having issues putting my phone is flash mode. When i attempt, it remains in the state for a little bit, then reboots up. HOw do you put it in flashmode to flash it?

Take the battery out for 10 seconds first.

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xperia x10a not boot or power on, just continuously vibrating.

hi!! my xperia x10a not boot or power on after flashing. the battery charge was poor during flashing and now the phone doesn't boot up, when i push the power key the phone vibrate but no power on and then the phone vibrate continuosly.
i charged the battery and refhlasing the phone using flashtool but nothing at all.
what can i do?
need help please!!
What did you flash to it exactly? Try flashing the original firmware.
i flashed the phone because when i update from 1.6 to 2.1 the phone restarted it self everytime! i need to get an externar charger to charge the battery before reflashing to the original firmware.
Flash back a 2.1 or 2.3.3 firmware, see if it helps, if it is atleast coming on a bit, do a repair via SE. Do check the files you're using and make sure they're legit before flashing them to your phone.
jowade1202 said:
hi!! my xperia x10a not boot or power on after flashing. the battery charge was poor during flashing and now the phone doesn't boot up, when i push the power key the phone vibrate but no power on and then the phone vibrate continuosly.
i charged the battery and refhlasing the phone using flashtool but nothing at all.
what can i do?
need help please!!
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I had the same problem.
Infact what I found is that charging itself need the firmware to be properly installed.
You have 2 ways to fix the problem.
First is that find a frnd who have an x10 and put ur phone battery into his and charge it for sometime.
Second is open flashtool, remove battery from ur phone, then connect the USB cable to PC and ur phone, and then press the back button and hold it and then insert the battery.
U will see the green light (means the phone is in flash mode) and also ur flashtool should be detecting the phone.
Now keep the phone like that for atleast 30 mins.
When phone is in flash mode, it actually charges the battery. (thats what I did).
After atleast 30 mins, remove the phone and check if its switching on.
All the best,
Also, while ur flashing a new ROM, always make sure that u wipe ur battery stats...
i charged the battery and flash the phone with flashtool to 2.1 and 2.3.3 but still the same problem.
by the way, the green light power on even without hold the back button, is like always be in flash mode.
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i got the same problem as you. When i press on/off button, it vibrates and green led flashes once, but then nothing more happends.
I tried to put in it flash mode, but it bootloops when i do that.
this is exact my phone problem, but i can't find any solution!
do you have any sugestion?

X10 stuck on SE boot screen, can't get flash to work

My x10 is bricked and won't boot past the Sony Ericsson screen. I have trouble getting it to turn on at all, it takes a weird combination of removing the battery and holding whatever keys. All I know is that it won't turn on unless I take out the battery, put it back in, hold the volume buttons, and press power. If i'm lucky, the phone will vibrate, and seconds later I'll have the SE screen. If there is no usb plugged in, it will go to recovery. I cannot, to save my life, get this phone into flash mode. I had it like an hour ago, but for some reason flashtool got stuck on reading device information, and I couldn't get it back into flash mode since then. Can someone help?
FireFreek said:
My x10 is bricked and won't boot past the Sony Ericsson screen. I have trouble getting it to turn on at all, it takes a weird combination of removing the battery and holding whatever keys. All I know is that it won't turn on unless I take out the battery, put it back in, hold the volume buttons, and press power. If i'm lucky, the phone will vibrate, and seconds later I'll have the SE screen. If there is no usb plugged in, it will go to recovery. I cannot, to save my life, get this phone into flash mode. I had it like an hour ago, but for some reason flashtool got stuck on reading device information, and I couldn't get it back into flash mode since then. Can someone help?
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try out the REPAIR option in SEUS or PC companion.
(also to get into flash mode follow the following steps in the same order as mentioned below :
1. remove battery and plug it in.
2. connect the usb to the x10 first.
3. finally connect the other end of the usb cable to the pc holding the back button. )
OR
you can also try out this method too
Okay, I finally got it working. But the problem is that sometimes it just randomly turns off, and doesn't turn back on again. And when it does I'm not sure why. It might be a battery but I've got three of them, and two of them are new. So it shouldn't be that. (BTW, I managed to root it, unlock the bootloader, and install FXP125 7.2 cyanogen mod. It works fine when it's turned on.) It's like it has moments where the phone works perfectly, turning on, being able to get to recovery and flash mode, and moments where it does absolutely nothing.
strange behaviour !
try to wipe cache partition and dalvik cache
or may be you could reinstall clockwork mod nd CM7 once again right from the beginning
also you should let the ROM settle before its regular use.
***EDIT***
i am also on FXP125 CM7 and so far no such behaviour.

[Q] Xperia P Rom Flashing Problem

I am trying to update my Xperia P via Flashing the New update .100 but When i Connect my phone In Flashmode,green LED shows up for only 45 seconds and then Phone goes to Charging.
Flashmode was working properly when i flashed .400 in my phone but Then i Rooted 6.2.A.0.400 via this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2249077
After this my phone is showing problem in loading the flashmode
I have tried a number of things but em unable to solve the mystery.
so please help me out!!
@saudmughal
45 seconds is about the time phone will stay in flash mode when not flashing, before it will change to charging.
Only connect the phone when asked to by flash tool.
Whait a bit before connecting in flash mode, or press volume up + power untill you feel 3 vibrations to make sure it's off.
i have the same problem in my device xperia sola :\ :crying:
ChikeD said:
@saudmughal
45 seconds is about the time phone will stay in flash mode when not flashing, before it will change to charging.
Only connect the phone when asked to by flash tool.
Whait a bit before connecting in flash mode, or press volume up + power untill you feel 3 vibrations to make sure it's off.
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So you mean to say that 45 seconds is normal & I should take the risk of flashing the phone?
wat if the phone gets bricked?
saudmughal said:
So you mean to say that 45 seconds is normal & I should take the risk of flashing the phone?
wat if the phone gets bricked?
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Yes, my phone go out flash mode after 45 or 50 seconds, I don't remember exactly but I timed it before, if it's not being flashed.
Flash at your own risk I am not telling you to do anything.

Bricked Device, Black Screen, No Boot Logo, Nothing happens L-21

Hello,
after i followed this steps below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=67816990&postcount=1686
After that i was able to boot "normally" with CM 13 version from 2016-07-19
I did a full wipe because of some force close.
Everything was running nice, i enabled the finger print.
This morning i installed 2016-07-20. (dirty flash)
after wiping dalvik screen turns black.
i already tried:
turn off your phone
put USB-cable in your computer (with drivers and fastboot installed)
press power + vol down and plug in USB-cable in your phone within 1 second
then you should be in fastboot mode (bootloader)
then you can flash twrp instead of stock recovery
then you can flash a rom or restore a backup
now you're not back at stock but don't have a brick
I am not sure if my phone is turned off.
I also tried to hold power for 10 seconds, 15 seconds 1 minute, longer
I got an usb amperemeter, it tells me, that the phone is charing with 0,09-0,24 A, while the screen is black
fastboot devices dont show a device
adb devices dont show a device
any ideas or suggestions? thanks in advance
Plug it into the PC hold volume Down and Power and wait until it boots in fastboot.
Demian3112 said:
Plug it into the PC hold volume Down and Power and wait until it boots in fastboot.
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i have done this procedure two hours ago, ... one hour ago,... and right now again (
after done it for 5 minutes (every time), again and again... around 50 times?! still nothing happens...
NOW, just in this minute, it vibrate and fastboot start up.
i did a reboot via: fastboot reboot
maybe it was try #51, atm rom is booting up and android is updating,...
will it happen again after next update? or after next reboot? i'm a little bit confused.
at least, thx for inform me, still todo the same thing
mad_tom said:
i have done this procedure two hours ago, ... one hour ago,... and right now again (
after done it for 5 minutes (every time), again and again... around 50 times?! still nothing happens...
NOW, just in this minute, it vibrate and fastboot start up.
i did a reboot via: fastboot reboot
maybe it was try #51, atm rom is booting up and android is updating,...
will it happen again after next update? or after next reboot? i'm a little bit confused.
at least, thx for inform me, still todo the same thing
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What you can do is Flash an extracted update.app an then apply the update though dload to get Back to Stock and then to CM.

3 Red Lights and Not Charging

my z5 Compact is taking forever to charge and even after I leave it in for hours, it still says it needs to be charged. When I unplug the phone from the charger and try to turn it on, I get 3 red lights. Holding volume up and turning it on only gives me 3 vibrations. Before this happened, I used the phone all the way till the battery shut down. After that, I can't get it to charge any more.
Sounds like you over-discharged the battery. You should always avoid using the phone to the point where it force shutdowns due to 0% remaining battery.
Try hard shutdown by pushing and holding the yellow OFF button in the flap for 10 seconds, then charge the phone for about an hour and try turning it on.
If that doesn't work, press and hold ALL physical buttons simultaneously (VOL UP, VOL DOWN, POWER, CAMERA) AND press and hold the yellow button for 10 seconds.
The phone should vibrate or something, I forgot, then charge the phone for about an hour and try turning it on.
Volume up + Power for hard shutdown.
Can you get into flash mode or fastboot mode?
Plugging the phone into your computer and entering fastboot mode helped me once:
So you disconnect your phone, do a hard shutdown to make sure it is off. Press and hold vol up and connect it to your computer. If a blue light shows up, at least the basic circuits and bootloader are ok
Keep your phone connected for 30 minutes and you should (well, might) have some charge again.
If you can get into fastboot or flash mode but still can't boot up, try reflashing your phone (if possible), esp. your boot partition.
try charge with QC2.0, adapter will charge device on 9v, its standar QC2.0, when your phone drain of battery until shut down, down turn it on. Your phone must connect to charger and wait untill 2%-4% of battery before turn on.
if charger fail, change your battery, dont force charge before IC power broken (dead)
Running on an imported 5823
IGNNE said:
Volume up + Power for hard shutdown.
Can you get into flash mode or fastboot mode?
Plugging the phone into your computer and entering fastboot mode helped me once:
So you disconnect your phone, do a hard shutdown to make sure it is off. Press and hold vol up and connect it to your computer. If a blue light shows up, at least the basic circuits and bootloader are ok
Keep your phone connected for 30 minutes and you should (well, might) have some charge again.
If you can get into fastboot or flash mode but still can't boot up, try reflashing your phone (if possible), esp. your boot partition.
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I am running on a 5823 imported from the UK (i think). Is it safe to flash boot.img prescribed for the 5803.
Also, where can I find a collection of boot.img for the 5823? I am not really sure I am doing this right.
Re-writing boot in fastboot mode will only work if your device is unlocked, and although unlocking should happen in the bootloader it is not something I would risk with an already bricked phone. Maybe as a last resort thing.
But IIRC just keeping the phone connected to your PC in fastboot or flash mode somehow bypasses some of the charging logic*, so just leaving your phone to idle might give you some basic battery charge to start with.
If you can enter those modes: You can re-flash your phone with stock firmware using the proprietary flash mode (Vol-Down when connecting to PC, green led should show up). Search for 'Xperia Flashtool' and/or 'XperiFirm', there should be lots of information, these tools help you download Sony firmware, too. I would not flash an image for a different phone type, I guess there is a reason why they made 2 firmwares
If you still only want to flash boot.img (= only the 'boot' partition on the flash as a raw image), you'll need an unlocked bootloader first. Also, if you already have an unlocked bootloader, you probably have installed a custom ROM (why else do you unlock your bl?). To avoid any more confusing error sources, I recommend flashing exactly the boot.img via fastboot that came with your custom ROM and that worked until now.
*Most likely bc there is no kernel to optimize (read: mess up) charging. I once had a Z5C with more-or-less blown charging 'stuff' and I was able to charge it in fastboot mode as a workaround.
Three red blinks is, afaik, a status message for a dead battery. It has been discharged below safety limits, and is no longer safe to charge.

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