Hi there.
Got my X10 bricked.
How that happened:
Yesterday put my phone on vibrate/silent mode, shile was at cinema. Battery was about 15%. Later on I ffound that phone is off, thought it happened because of low battery. When I got home I've putted it on charge. Red light flashed few times. After about 2 hours I looked at it and no light was there. Phone didn't turn on. Took battery from another X10 (fully charged) and nothing happened. Tried to connect it to PC to reflash it, but no green LED appeared and PC told me, that unrecognized device found. After few PC restards even this disappeared. Just silence. None of buttons pressing configurations helped.
Tried with no SIM and SD cards. No change.
I have latest ROM on it and xRecovery.
Any ideas of what I could do?
hey dude one thing for ya.. you can never brick your x10 its not those old phones it a computer based/linux phone.. If you go through the forums you can find the info of how to unbrick x10 .. try Pc companion or go to sony website and try SEUS( Sony Ericsson Update service) it'll fix your phone up.ill do my best to post a link for ya if i can find it soon
here u go dude. read through this link and you'll fix your phone..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=828398
Thanks. But thing is that phone doesn't go in flash mode. No green LED is on. On first try I got "unrecognized device" from XP, now it's just silent on phone connection.
i think its more in hardware related because as far as i know eh you cant brick your phone. and battery drainage is far related to bricking..so i guess its a hardware problem..maybe you sat on it or something..because bricking is moreon software related.
try this
*remove the battery
*plugin charger to your x10
*hold the power button while inserting your battery.
just give it a shot..
It was in my wifes bag while that happened, but she has her phone just beside mine, so not shure it was because of some pressing on it or whatever.
Tried what you told me - no result. Tried pressing/holding power bttn before, while and after battery insertion.
Again, there was red LED at first, when I've plugged in charger yesterday, but later on it disappeared. I've charged my battery on another phone. Now it nearly full.
Try all solutions before u send ur phone for repair. I had to send my in to ATT and they said it was probably a hardware issue. So i hate to say that but i had the same thing. Sorry to tell u that my friend.that red light is a killer.
Sent from XDA Premium from my X10a rooted running 2.2.1 CM Rom from Rendeiro2005
got a similar problem.
my x10 will only vibrate and the led blinks green, but the phone won't start.
tries SEUS, pc companion, pc suite, flash tool. nothing helped.
any suggestions?
Well, mine won't even vibrate.
Voelker45, so you got replacement or they repaired your phone? Could you tell me wich part it was?
I bought my phone on ebay, so no way to send it back. And it was in August 2011, so anyway, I have to work that thing myself.
MsnSazabi said:
Well, mine won't even vibrate.
Voelker45, so you got replacement or they repaired your phone? Could you tell me wich part it was?
I bought my phone on ebay, so no way to send it back. And it was in August 2011, so anyway, I have to work that thing myself.
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Just PMed u back
Sent from XDA Premium from my X10a rooted running 2.2.1 CM Rom from Rendeiro2005
Install SEUS and run it. Select x10 and it will install drivers on your phone. Then plug in your phone and try to repair.
As I wrote before, x10 does not enters flash mode, so no way to reflash.
And looks like it's really hardware issue. Something with powering.
Ok, thanks everyone. Since I bought it on ebay and it would be unreal to send it back to seller and we don't have SE service centers here, I'll fight for my phone till the end)))
Maybe something from this thread will help http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=944322
Sent from my X10i using Tapatalk
Thanks, G-FACE.
Strange thing happened:
Connected x10 to charger without battery. No LED turned on. Left it for a few mins, pluged in battery. No result. Took usb plug out and ! phone turned on. As it was without SIM cars, I turn it off, took battery out, putted SIM in, battery in and... again, it's not turning on. Tried repeating that way - nothing. Must be some hardware connection problem near battery. Will disassemble phone tomorrow.
MsnSazabi said:
Thanks, G-FACE.
Strange thing happened:
Connected x10 to charger without battery. No LED turned on. Left it for a few mins, pluged in battery. No result. Took usb plug out and ! phone turned on. As it was without SIM cars, I turn it off, took battery out, putted SIM in, battery in and... again, it's not turning on. Tried repeating that way - nothing. Must be some hardware connection problem near battery. Will disassemble phone tomorrow.
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Please take photos if u find the problem and when u fix it. If u can of course. Not many photos go up of inside the x10 for those members who r way too curious. Lol
Sent from XDA Premium from my X10a rooted running 2.2.1 CM Rom from Rendeiro2005
Me again)
Strange things keep happen.
Here is the story:
Finally, got some star shaped screws yesterday and took apart my phone (thnx to McKebapp).
Non of IC were with readable names) So later on, after few hours of serching I found Xperia X10 scheme files (!!!). So the most probable faulty part would be Qualcomm PM7540 - power distribution IC.
Anyway, it was to hard for me to understand all that stuff in scheme, so I gave up(.
Assembled my phone back again. And just to... em.... have it done, lets say, I took out battery, pluged X10 in charger, pluged battery in. But it doesn't turned on again. So I took USB plug out abd - tadaaa - screen lightened.
Waited till phone loaded, turned it off again, pluged SIM and SD cards in, turned it on again - and it did! It turned on!
So, night passed and it still works.
Btw, yesterday I've rebooted it few times and it still was ok.
I don't know what was the problem, it could be bad contact, but there is no wires between battery and power distributing IC.
Anyway, X10 is back again)
I forced my battery in the wrong way (reversed polarity) after having a few too many drinks and dropping it...(ridiculous I know)...anyway the phone will not even turn on now. Plugging the charger in doesnt do anything, My computer doesnt even recognize there is a device when its plugged in.
Things I have tried:
New battery
New charger
Different outlet
Is there any way to reset the motherboard (if a fuse or something like that blew)?
Its under a year old so i still have a warranty with my carrier and the phone has no visible blemishes. Do you think they would be able to tell that I flashed my phone about 8 months ago?
Not sure but if u forced battery in wrong way u may of broke the contact points which is prob game over
Sent from my X10i using XDA App
No, the contact points are fine - Ive already had the phone apart and the even the connection to the circuit board is sturdy
why dont you go to PC companion, click on support zone and click phone software update and click on repair phone.. wait until it shows to choose your phone and follow the instructions.. i'm having the same problem before.. and i tried this.. it work
Ive tried that. PC Companion doesnt even detect the phone
search at youtube.. Repairing X10 Mini Pro via Sony Ericsson PC Companion.
i tried this.. and it works..
I had a similiar problem where I dropped the phone after a 'few' drinks. Problem afterwards was that each time I shook the phone or even put it my pocket or placed it on the desk etc, it would turn off and after awhile it wouldn't turn on at all. What I did, was place a wedge (bit of paper) at the bottom of the battery to keep it pushed close to the terminals and it now turns on and stays on fine. Also for some reason, the usb port damaged aswell. I just put a small screw driver in there to clean the terminals, and it works. Sometimes I have to jiggle the cable.
Hi everyone.
Sometimes I let my phone connected to my computer to listen to the music in it. When I connect the cable, it shows "charging" on the screen and the battery level grow up a little (5-6%) and then it start to drain like hell until the phone power off.
Is that normal? There's no way to make the phone charge wile connected to desktop? Why it start charging and then stop? ):
My phone is an sk17i with the CM7.2 ROM and Rage Kernel. Usage battery is normal, and this problem occurs with stock ROM too...
There's an software called "AI Charger", it recognize your phone and make the USB give more power to it, but only works with Apple products, there's nothing similar to Android Phones?
Thanks...
never had such a problem. I always charge my phone through computer only.
Maybe its a problem with your pc, try with some other computer
Sent from my Xperia Mini using XDA
hi everybody,
I need help...My xperia mini st15i has a big problem, that now I'm gonna explain you:
If i turn on phone normally (not charging) it starts normally, but if i enable 2G/3G network, and I try to surf the net, my xperia turns off and reboots continuosly...If i plug usb cable and charge battery i can use network for 15-20 minutes until phone turns off...to make it work, i need to remove battery and wait 5 minutes. Also battery charge is very very slow...to get a complete charge it takes 5-6 hours!
Note: USB cable does not get completely into the mini USB port of the phone, and cable moves.
What could that be? A battery problem? My mini is in stock rom, stock kernel and unlocked bootloader.
PS: sorry for my very bad english.
Thanks to who will answer and try to help me.
Well, This problem can be caused by many reasons.
- For reboot problem, Try to flash clean stock again and see if the problem is still there.
- About slow charging, maybe battery life is over. Buy a new battery.
- For the USB port problem send it to the repair center to change this hardware part.
Good-Luck fixing your problems
My phone has remained switched on, when I went abroad, after returning after 20-25 days you try to charging , but not light is charging, try to connect it via USB to the computer and nothing again, not responding can-not to light ..
I even overnight on the charger and again nothing ...
Is there some kind of similar experience ... or know what it could be?
Thank you.