So I was downloading the corona indie bundle from the amazon app store when I got a notification showing I had low memory, I tried moving stuff to the sd card including the indie bundle that was actually not done downloading the contents (within the app, the app was already on the phone). I then pressed the back button and opened the app again, at this point, I did not have a data connection and the app force closed. I then tried opening up the facebook app and that forced closed as well. I figured turning the phone off and then on again would fix the issues but not all the phone does is go from showing the Sony Ericsson logo to the Android logo and then it cycles back to the Sony Ericsson logo and so on. I've tried looking for ways to reset the phone on google but have had no success. I've tried pressing and holding the back and search keys simultaneously while pressing and releasing the power button and also pressing and holding the volume down button and power and different variations of button but nothing has worked. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
johulu85 said:
So I was downloading the corona indie bundle from the amazon app store when I got a notification showing I had low memory, I tried moving stuff to the sd card including the indie bundle that was actually not done downloading the contents (within the app, the app was already on the phone). I then pressed the back button and opened the app again, at this point, I did not have a data connection and the app force closed. I then tried opening up the facebook app and that forced closed as well. I figured turning the phone off and then on again would fix the issues but not all the phone does is go from showing the Sony Ericsson logo to the Android logo and then it cycles back to the Sony Ericsson logo and so on. I've tried looking for ways to reset the phone on google but have had no success. I've tried pressing and holding the back and search keys simultaneously while pressing and releasing the power button and also pressing and holding the volume down button and power and different variations of button but nothing has worked. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Rooted or not...?
not rooted, i think the boot loader's locked too but i'm not sure, got it off ebay and it didnt say anything o the sort.
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Hi, I recieved a new update for my Xperia S today so I started updating it. However, My laptop went to sleep mode while updating and the update stopped due to loss of internet connection and now my Phone won't turn on. Help!
try volume up (hold it) and press the power button(hold)
so hold both volume up+ power
you should get one vibrate (keep holding) followed by three vibrates.
try powering after that
spartan_107 said:
Hi, I recieved a new update for my Xperia S today so I started updating it. However, My laptop went to sleep mode while updating and the update stopped due to loss of internet connection and now my Phone won't turn on. Help!
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Hold your volume down button while connecting USB cable and use PC Companion to restore.
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Scratchling said:
Hold your volume down button while connecting USB cable and use PC Companion to restore.
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alsaqr said:
try volume up (hold it) and press the power button(hold)
so hold both volume up+ power
you should get one vibrate (keep holding) followed by three vibrates.
try powering after that
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i tried both but still its not starting...please help.
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Hi!
After searching extensively on xda and talk.sonymobile, I still wasn't able to find a solution to my problem. So I'm posting my problem here.
I own an Xperia S (obviously ); Build No.: 6.0.A.3.75.
Can anyone tell me how to set the Facebook photo of a contact as the default photo for that contact?
Cause I had an Xperia arc earlier and all I had to do was simply go to contact>edit>scroll down to the facebook data>tap on the photo and select it as the contact photo.
This seems impossible with the SXS as I've tried syncing and re-syncing the fb, google contacts & twitter contacts a hundred times. I can only tap on the gmail/google contact data for the contact and select it as the default photo but not on the fb data. i.e. the fb picture.
please help me out!
Thanks.
OK so I have had Sony Ericsson Xperia play for about a year its been a good phone but about a month ago I started having to press the power button more than once to turn it on. From there it only got worse I started having to press it 6 or 7 times but i knew it wasn't the power button because when it was off fully and i held down the power button it would vibrate as normal but would not boot. Its got the point now that it wont boot at all and the PC wont recognize it. So when it turned on after 27 goes I tried resting it with Sony update service it completed with success and reset my phone but didn't remove the problem so I tried following a guide on how to return it to stock using flash tool once again successfully completed the reset but didn't remove the problem. I've spent hours looking for a fix and found many people with the same problem but they fixed it with a update I hope I don't need to buy a new phone I liked this one any suggestions would be helpful thank.
First time at using these forums.
It was previously just in a bootloop and didn't want to turn on the screen at all. Managed to somehow boot it up today and factory reset (AGAIN) and connected to my less used Google account just to be safe (less data to sync).
Previous problem I had is still there however. When I click the menu button even lightly (not holding down), it opens up Assistant. Voice commands haven't crashed the watch yet but if I click on Assistant settings or anything else, screen will turn black and it won't reboot. Only way to reboot it to place it on the charger and hold down the power button.
I also have a logcat from Bluetooth debugging. Log ends when watch shuts down after clicking anything on Assistant. Started logging right after startup and all I did was install some updates which took a while.
Nothing extraordinary at the bottom of the log stands out to me but I'm probably not as good as some of you at reading logs. There seems to be several errors occurring.
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/...3adc70142c5126ad2237d3ba19c9908a88177/log.log
Also video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OAWlFwCF2Y
I did all the updates on Play Store (WearOS, Google etc) but problem still persists.
Any help is really appreciated.
my xperia iii just started acting up. I tried to log in to siriusxm and the screen timed out because I was away for a bit. I tried to turn the screen back on when it got stuck in accessibility mode with the screen off and constantly fired the Google assistant. pushing and holding power does nothing except fire off the assistant three more times. if I can't get it to come back to me I can do a factory reset since I just received this phone yesterday and haven't done much with it. anything I can do here?
This isn't normal behavior. If you can return it.
Assuming you didn't install something stupid it's likely a firmware or hardware issue.
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Was this a new device? Rooted?
Are you sure that you long pressed the power button and not the Google Assistant button by mistake?
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my xperia iii just started acting up. I tried to log in to siriusxm and the screen timed out because I was away for a bit. I tried to turn the screen back on when it got stuck in accessibility mode with the screen off and constantly fired the Google assistant. pushing and holding power does nothing except fire off the assistant three more times. if I can't get it to come back to me I can do a factory reset since I just received this phone yesterday and haven't done much with it. anything I can do here?
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Try pushing and holding power + vol up until it vibrates it'll force restart the device.
1. bought via swappa, listed as mint.
2. unrooted
3. it was the power button. it's below the volume rocker, first button on the side. the assistant is the second (and smaller) button on the side.
4. eventually the phone unfucked itself. I did nothing but wait. this actually happened a second time later on except this time the screen displayed my wallpaper at least. I rebooted as soon as I had control and so far so good. I will try power + vol up next time. btw I'm guessing it may have been a software issue. I was moving from a note 8 that had a bixby specific app that got transferred and activated. however a similar thing happened to me with a galaxy tab 4 (without any kind of software mod) so I don't know. I had to wait for that device to unfuck itself too.
ctkatz said:
1. bought via swappa, listed as mint.
2. unrooted
3. it was the power button. it's below the volume rocker, first button on the side. the assistant is the second (and smaller) button on the side.
4. eventually the phone unfucked itself. I did nothing but wait. this actually happened a second time later on except this time the screen displayed my wallpaper at least. I rebooted as soon as I had control and so far so good. I will try power + vol up next time. btw I'm guessing it may have been a software issue. I was moving from a note 8 that had a bixby specific app that got transferred and activated. however a similar thing happened to me with a galaxy tab 4 (without any kind of software mod) so I don't know. I had to wait for that device to unfuck itself too.
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Try Safe Mode. It will temporarily disable a lot of user-space configurations that can cause boot loops. It's good for broken launchers, bad widgets, impossible settings, etc.
Take the microSD card out too. Google worked hard to disable expandable storage starting with Android 11. There's the floppy-disk-slow, absolutely useless SAF and nothing else. Performance workarounds from other phones, even if they're as simple as legacy mount options, will cause bootloops.
Hello.
First of I'm a fan of this forum for a couple of years now but never had a chance to have an account until now (Still a total newbie), anyhow I tried to fix it myself for weeks now searching and looking for almost everything I can both Google and here but no avail. desperate as I'm now I decided to start this thread.
My phone is Sony Xperia XZ1 G8342, the problem is boot looping as I stated the possible reason I think it's because of low internal storage (64GB) I used around 90%, and yes I did clean up the cache from time to time but its keep building up back again. I have had experience with this problem before (only once) around 5 months back it kept looping so I force shut down > turn it on again repeat this process for the whole morning and suddenly it's back to normal.
How it started.
I charge the phone and Google play probably automatically updates all the apps, which is really dumb of me to turn this function on, then it freezes and starts restarting.
My goal.
I know people will tell me just be done with it and re-flashing or use a Sony PC companion. but in this phone, there's a data that hold dear to me, I know this sounds stupid in some aspects and yes it's totally my fault for not backing up some of these data and still relying on a 5-year-old phone. But I hope to fix it without losing all of these data and at least be able to access it for backing up.
More info on my phones.
None root.
The phone can turn it on normally but it's will restart itself once it reaches the Xperia logo (FYI: booting > Sony logo > Xperia logo)
When connecting to the PC and holding volume up the led light will turn blue (I'm not sure if this is Fastboot mode or something else) PC will detect as Android devices when checked on Device Manager.
When holding volume down + power then keep holding volume down the phone will vibrate after reaching the Xperia logo but still to no avail.
Sim card and Sd card are removed, same result.
The battery is replaced about 2 months ago.
All other parts except the battery are original.
It can charge normally.
USB debug mode is off. (very unfortunate)
I don't think XZ1 has recovery mode which really sucks since older models have it and newer ones also have it.
Any solution or suggestion is very welcome here, I'm not a native speaker my apologies for that.
I don't want to list what I have done so far because the way I have tried might not be correct, I might miss some tiny details or maybe I could try it again if you guys suggest.
Regards.