Hello there,
I'll tell you what I did..
My phone is new & I wanted to root it
So I Opened the Bootloader & when I finished I couldn't find a root for my firmware which was I guess 75
So I didn't root!
When i found out that ICS was about to released I decided to close the boot loader so I can update my phone from PCC
So I followed the steps here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1527159
Only I downloaded the re-locker from another link (in Arabic forum)
I used Flashtool 0.8.0.0
Any ways I faced some errors relocking the bootloader
So I redownload the re-locker from the previous (xda-developers) link
& I chose loader.sin when I flashed it
& it worked fine!
But it said that my phone will reboot & it hasn't I reboot it my self & everything was OK..!
When I tried to update it to ICS via PCC & Update Service
I faced errors like everybody else
But when it finally was able to update my phone via Update Service
It downloaded the system & it started to install & from all of the sudden it failed
After that my phone is died for about 21 hours now
No matter how I charge it, How I try to turn it off, turn it on
It's either hang on Sony logo on the screen or turned off
either no light even when I charge it or red & sometimes green
I left it charging during my sleep for 8 hours & nothing has changed same issues
I just wanna see a life on my phone
It's totally new
Anyone can help?
I think this issue is kinda similar to mine
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1724591
cause I have tried the 3 times vibrate thing & only it helped to turn off my phone from the Sony logo & it turns it self again
& now it's not even working
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I got this phone from ebay, and it worked a few days before I flashed it so I know it's not hardware or a bad flash on their part because it was stock when I got it. Anyway, I flashed the generic fw through flashtool and it was working fine for awhile until one day it froze and nothing was responsive. The battery died, and I recharged it and threw it into flash mode to repair the firmware through SEUS, and it got it working for awhile until it happened again. So instead I went ahead and used flashtool to put AT&T's fw back on the phone. After I did that, the phone now only vibrates when I turn it on and then does nothing. If it does do something, it just continuously vibrates until I pull the battery. I tried using SEUS and Flashtool to flash another fw because I can get it to flash mode, but it says failed everytime no matter what firmware I use. And SEUS fails right up front when trying to repair. Any ideas?
Pull out the battery....plug the usb cable...run latest flash tool...click on flash button..when it is searching for the fone then put back the battery with pressing the return key.
Recheck the latest driver for 2.3.3
Did it work?
Dude are you aware of rooting procedures?
First you should flash the stock rom back in, then you flash some pre-rooted GB rom. Threads on X10 Android Development are full of options.
jeancca said:
Dude are you aware of rooting procedures?
First you should flash the stock rom back in, then you flash some pre-rooted GB rom. Threads on X10 Android Development are full of options.
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Dude did you even read my post?
I've been a member here for 3 years and have been flashing Android to phones ever since then. I have looked at the troubleshoots but they were all giving a failed flash. Not to mention this has nothing to do with root or GB, I was talking stock firmware, this brick happened before SE pushed out the GB update.
To subhanker.ds, thank you for the input, I'll give it a shot.
EDIT: Just got the same error
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As per your screen shot, debugging mode is of....but it is not possible to on now as ur phone is dead.
I think somehow jeancca is correct...use rooting process..(no need to flash any rom)..it will automatically turn on debugging mod & then you flash ur rom...
Hope ur prob will be solved dear...
I've tried several rooting methods that and they all state I should turn on Unknown Sources and Debugging. But I cannot do this, is there a way that will force it into usb debugging as you said?
Actually at the time of flashing debugging mode automatically turn on...
Anyway i'm not getting any clue...although you can try to flash only system.sin file.then see what will happen....best of luck...
I've tried everything I can think of and I still can't get it to work. A new symptom has came up though, when I try and connect it to my PC, it will go into flash mode but after awile the LED goes off but is still recognized by the PC as being in flash mode. Same goes for when I plug it into the charging cable.
Bump.
Sorry for doing it, but is there anyone out there that can help me?! I had to think I have a $200 paperweight.
Hi..... I mentioned this on another post but thought I might see if this might help you. Although I didn't mention the use of other Flashtools in the other thread, I did end up trying Flashtool 2.8.0 and 2.9.1 and the latest edition. In the end I ended up going with the 2.8.0 to start fresh and since that was the one that was used for An Android 2.1, I flashed back to 2.1. With a few instances like those you mention I tried this and worked out.
What I did was open my devices and printers (control panel) and noticed the SEMC USB or IDE blah blah......The device pops up when connecting my phone. I would flash my phone and the go to the "Turn on phone and check debug" and ..... Same as you green light (Flash) would go on and then nothing.
What I did was unplug my phone and Uninstall the device used (SEMC USB or IDE, it named itself differently on an occasion or two) and then started my Flashtool then tried again. Goto Flashtool and prepare your Flash and wait for it to load up (took some time once or twice but....) connect your phone and try again.
I have been messing around with a bunch of apps and FW's and ROMS and lately Unlocking the BootLoader.
Some you can just goto Task Manager and Stop the ADB.exe processes but this uninstall worked excellent for me when needed.
Hope this solves your issue. Good Luck. Oh you may not need the other Flashtools but I have them on file just in case because 2.9.1 gave me a problem before when doing something. You might be able to do with whatever Flashtool you are using but just thought I would share my experience.
I have the same problem . i I flashed it with X10i rom but work for while and after 1 or 2 hours hanged and when i remove the battery it's hang in sony ericsson .
After that I flashed it with SEUS and upgrade to official rom 2.3.3
and has the same problem .DO THINK IT IS A HARDWARE PROBLEM
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Hi..... I mentioned this on another post but thought I might see if this might help you. Although I didn't mention the use of other Flashtools in the other thread, I did end up trying Flashtool 2.8.0 and 2.9.1 and the latest edition. In the end I ended up going with the 2.8.0 to start fresh and since that was the one that was used for An Android 2.1, I flashed back to 2.1. With a few instances like those you mention I tried this and worked out.
What I did was open my devices and printers (control panel) and noticed the SEMC USB or IDE blah blah......The device pops up when connecting my phone. I would flash my phone and the go to the "Turn on phone and check debug" and ..... Same as you green light (Flash) would go on and then nothing.
What I did was unplug my phone and Uninstall the device used (SEMC USB or IDE, it named itself differently on an occasion or two) and then started my Flashtool then tried again. Goto Flashtool and prepare your Flash and wait for it to load up (took some time once or twice but....) connect your phone and try again.
I have been messing around with a bunch of apps and FW's and ROMS and lately Unlocking the BootLoader.
Some you can just goto Task Manager and Stop the ADB.exe processes but this uninstall worked excellent for me when needed.
Hope this solves your issue. Good Luck. Oh you may not need the other Flashtools but I have them on file just in case because 2.9.1 gave me a problem before when doing something. You might be able to do with whatever Flashtool you are using but just thought I would share my experience.
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Thanks a lot, I will give this a shot as soon as I get home. I'll keep my fingers crossed that this may help me and the others having this sort of issue.
Mobark, I don't think it's a hardware issue. For awhile I was thinking it was a dead screen, but from the people I have heard that did indeed have dead screens, they have lines in the center of the screen while my screen just doesn't turn on.
Hi everyone i am having the same problem my phone only vibrates for sec and the green led just flash for sec than nothing but my phone goes into flash mode but the flash aborts i have also made a thread in which i fully listed my progess and software i used http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1257581
Nope, didn't seem to work. I think my problem is the phone doesn't want to stay in Flash mode for some reason.
I fix this error, i download and flash this, next i updated in SEUS, my phone is Xperia Play
Sorry for my bad english.
Ok, so I upgraded to 3.0.0 and tried flashing the generic fw again to no avail. And as far as above, the firmware isn't for the x10, it's for the Play, Arc, and Neo.
This is what i did
Not sure if this will work for you but this is how I fixed my phone.
When I first changed the rom on my phone i was on baseband 435. I never changed the baseband with the custom rom install.
My friend factory erased the phone and then it would take 45 - 50 mins to finish booting (would turn on i would see se logo and 50 mins later I'd get to a stock "slide to unlock screen" upon doing so i would get a black bg with the custom batt meter and clock at the top. it also dected the sd wasnt plugged in.
While the phone was on, Sony Ericsson pc Companion would say please mount sd card, and that i couldnt do.
While trying to use flashtool 2.9.1 it would say please put the phone in debuggign mode.
At this point, your ss shows you making it further than i did. because mine wouldnt make it past the date/time (yours starts flashing an fails some way through).
I tried 4 roms and none of them worked.
Then i found http://www.multiupload.com/9H20YEXEHR and After updating to flash tool 3.0.0, and using the stock rom that i posted the link to, It worked. but i had to try a few times. At http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=920746 There are 3 different stock roms for x10a (I used the first one in the x10a list)
I used the one that matched my baseband. Try an match yours if you know it.
When i connected usb, the phone would not turn on. The phone would only turn on with batt in. So i connected usb, held back and put batt in.
Doing this worked, I held the back button until the flash completed.
Also as a note, I did not change the bootloader, that could be why it would boot after 50 mins or so.
I hope this helps.
-Mike
Hi guys, I've had a look around for this, but I can only find the solution for bootloaders that are unlocked. I suspect my Ray WASN'T unlocked. I accepted the OTA 2.3.4 update, thinking it would be fine. But the phone now shows the exclamation mark. I can get into both the recovery and fastboot modes (green/blue LED).
None of the recovery solutions are working for me. Is there a way for me to fix this, or will the phone have to go to a Sony Ericsson shop.
The official PC software from SE won't restore it either.
it is wise to go to sony shop , they will fix it
Not sure if this will solve your problem, but it solved mine:
The problem was with the bootloader. So I tried FlashTool_0.2.9.1_FOTAUnbrick which brings a small firmware information to reset the bootloader.
The problem I was having was to be able to correctly connect the phone to the flash tool. My phone's USB connection was constantly going up and down. So I decided to uninstall all the tools and drivers and install them from scratch.
In short, here's what I did.
Installed Update_Service_Setup-2.11.10.7.exe from sony ericcsson in order to get the USB drivers to work.
Followed the instructions of the Update_Service and flashed the latest update available for my phone (2.3.4). This didn't solve the startup problem, just installed the latest update.
I ran the Update_Service again and restarted the process has if I was going to flash again, but after the Update_Service detected the phone I canceled the installation. (I did this just to make sure the phone was connected in FlashBoot)
Then I installed FlashTool_0.2.9.1_FOTAUnbrick.exe, opened the folder of the application and ran X10FlashTool.exe
Hit Flash button and the program opens a Firmware Selection window with a preloaded firmware with two reseting contents (loader.sin, preset.ta). Hit OK button and waited until the program indicated the flash process was finished. The process of flashing takes a few minutes and we need to be patient. It might even seem like it's doing nothing but we just have to wait.
After finishing the flash process the program invited me to disconnect the phone and turn it on. I did so and the phone took probably a minute or so to startup. At first I thought it didn't solve the problem, because it was taking so long to start, but it did solve! So I waited patiently and the Sony Ericsson logo showed up giving me a new hope. After that I had to wait another 4 or 5 minutes for the phone to finish applying the new firmware mentioned in point 2. (There's no visual information of the conclusion process so you might wonder the phone might have hung.) Just waited and everything got back to normal with the benefits of the new firmware 2.3.4 (instead of the previous 2.3.3).
I hope it helps someone having the same issue.
xperia ray said:
it is wise to go to sony shop , they will fix it
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Might not fall under warranty.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1568792, check my tutorial, there is a guide to unbricking.
Hi All,
Sorry fo my bad english.
I am a dead meat a few days ago as my XMP totally dead.
It was happened when I was trying to flash back my XMP from ICS back to GB when suddenly the USB cable got unplug by accident.
The process went error, and my XMP totally dead. Only vibrates after the power pushed without logo flashing.
I tried to take out the battery, sim card and etc but nothing happened. It able to get into flash mode but not detected by PC.
Find this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1568792 and flashing with Xperia_2011_FreeXperia_ALL.ftf file (running well) but not get my phone back.
Trying to flash again with ICS ftf but also still not working.
So sad, like Milven http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1863171.
So I found out the solution (even I do not want to try again if its really the solution) but this is working and get my phone back on with a brand new.
Step:
1. Go to this page http://www.sonymobile.com/global-en/tools/update-service/
2. Download and install the updater software
3. Once step 1 and 2 done, plug in the phone to PC (flash mode)
4. Run the program from step 1 and follow the instruction to do update on the air.
5. Get your phone back on after all done.
Hope it might help anybody else who face the same problem as mine. :silly:
Hello! So.. I have a problem and i sincerely don't know what to do. 3 days ago, after a day of use (everything went ok for a while) i came home, i grabbed the charger and pluged it into my phone so it can..charge(nothing out of ordinary). After like 1 hour, i took my phone, unpluged it from the charger and pressed the on/off button to open my phone, check my gmail,facebook, the usual..buuuuuut it won't open..
For the first couple of minutes i thought it was just a bug and tried to restart it(take the battery out, wait 1 minute, put it back in, press "the button" and so on) but still it would not start. RESEARCH TIME!
After this, i went online from my laptop and started looking for explanations regarding why is my phone (i am trying to avoid the word but..) maybe "bricked"..
Here is a video i found online that explains what my phone is behaving like: "*SOLVED* SAMSUNG GALAXY S2 wont turn on, in description"
(i can't post links )
IMPORTANT
- My S2 has the official software ( JB 4.1.2)
- Never rooted my phone
- Never tryed to change anything to the software
- Did a couple of factory resets in the last 1 and a half year just to refresh it(so it is not such an old phone)
- It is not under warranty
Ok.. after 1 day of research i tryed the following methods:
-went into recovery mode and did a factory reset to it, erased the cache, rebooted it etc..still nothing
-when i saw it was not working, i went further into the download mode. Odin on my computer, official firmware downloaded(4.1.2) ready to go..
After i waited for a couple of minutes so Odin would do it's magic, the little window( In odin, the one with factoryfs, cache,hidden etc.) reached the "Reset" status, the blue bar on my phone dissapread and it started to reboot.. but here everything got out of control.. my phone started to reboot like this: samsung logo on for a few seconds, and then the green android with the blue things spinning appeared on the screen but just for one second, and then, it was gone...and the phone started to repeat itself.. i mean the logo and the green android again and again, without any improovment and way to stop it.. so i pulled the battery out and started thinking for other solutions..
OK, after i saw this, i tried again with the 4.1.2 one, and then with the 4.0.4 one(i thought maybe an older soft would help me) but still it wouldn't go through all the way( ok honnestly i think this one was the one that wasn't stuck rlly on the green android screen but on the samsung startup screen with the S sign on)..
the end..
Sorry for the long story but i really don't know what to do with my phone
I am willing to listen to any solution you guys can offer..thanks :good:
Keep flashing different firmwares and take a look at this guide
forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/help/guide-26-12-flash-stock-firmware-rom-t2365701
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/general/guide-t2345831
Hi
a few weeks ago I had the battery drain issue caused by the Google Play services.
Uninstalled the update, stopped it.
Due the fact I always got the yellow triangle with the explemation mark I was sick and tired of it and contacted the helpdesk at Sony.
Their solution, whipe & rstart..
So done that, and indeed, for a week or 2 the battery drain was gone, but last week it started again.. overnight 20 to 30% battery down...
So, looked up some info abt a new ROM te be installed. (had this done on my old Samsung S3 as on Iphone 4S)
I found this how to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVyROuDCAcc
I unlocked root access, got a preinstallation of 4.1.2. (till half way the clip), didn't do a factory wipe, format phone etc,
but phone worked again ok, battery drain was gone, but with android 4.1.2 is back to the old ages, I decided to complete the whole clip & execute it (after backup data) to proceed with factory whipe, cache wipe , whipe davik cache etc..
Then I suppose to install zip.. (In first step I copied the generic file (http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-z/general/stock-rom-xperia-z-c6603-10-5-0-230-t2785946) onto phone internal storage (made to be sure also a copy onto the SD card). )) but I cannot find the ZIP file back on the phone nor on SDcard...
phone restarted and now it just plain stuck on the sony screen and that's it..
I tried again via flashtool to flash phone, but at a certain point you need to replug the USB connection again, but whatever I do, flashtool is not detecting this action.......
Anybody any idea to solve this?
Or did I messed up big time on this one?
thx
Regards
Didier
Flash a full firmware using flashtool.
We've all had this issue before. You may get away with just kernel.
Also you do realise that your in the Z2 forum, Do you have a Z2 or Z?
@rowlers
in the picture i see a Z1, this is a odd thread isnt it?
and note to OP, please do not crossflash anything
this means using a rom or custom kernel for Z1 on a Z2 for example, or and other devices for that matter
HI
Thx for the info
Yes it's indeed an experia Z , couldn't find the Z treat on forum (isn't it archieved?)
Got it solved last night, was able to get the sony via volume down, power button and flashtool finally saw the device and i was able to get the generic installed on it..
Many thanks anyway.
regards
Didier