Hey, I'm in some trouble and I need some help please. Few hours ago I saw notification on my LWW that there is an update available, after agreeing and everything the phone shut off and now I can't turn it on. When i press the power on button the LED blinks once green and nothing. My phone was rooted and had some mods on in. Could this be the reason. After few searches I tryied to flash it with few older firmwares but nothing changed.
malkiqse4ko said:
Hey, I'm in some trouble and I need some help please. Few hours ago I saw notification on my LWW that there is an update available, after agreeing and everything the phone shut off and now I can't turn it on. When i press the power on button the LED blinks once green and nothing. My phone was rooted and had some mods on in. Could this be the reason. After few searches I tryied to flash it with few older firmwares but nothing changed.
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maybe you have unlock your bootloader.. if you already unlock bootloader you cant update from sony.. like PCC/OTA/SUS..
Download stock firmware and flash it via flashtool
Are u sure battery is not empty?
Battery was half empty, also I think bootloader wasnt unlocked, I tryied update OTA. After searching a bit more i did "6. Turning the "brick" into a smartphone" from the first aid topic and it worked flashed with older firmware and updated with seus to latets. All working now thanks.
malkiqse4ko said:
Battery was half empty, also I think bootloader wasnt unlocked, I tryied update OTA. After searching a bit more i did "6. Turning the "brick" into a smartphone" from the first aid topic and it worked flashed with older firmware and updated with seus to latets. All working now thanks.
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But then I think the bootloader is unlocked. Because if your bootloader is unlocked you can't update via ota, or your phone will brick...
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I tried to downgrade to 1.6 and now my phone wont turn on.
It will vibrate and the led will flash green? once during this vibrate but nothing more...
I cant get the thing into boot mode
Any help?
Z3X said:
I tried to downgrade to 1.6 and now my phone wont turn on.
It will vibrate and the led will flash red once during this vibrate but nothing more...
I cant get the thing into boot mode
Any help?
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Try repairing using PC companion.
Welcome to this side of flashing issue. I just recovered from it this morning after hours of search and flashing. Jerpelea said that Kernel has gotten mixed up and try to take the battery our for a while and then put it in and try to go to boot, Flash earlier 1.6 ROM I did the R16 and it worked, I had a hardtime flashing with R26.
Nimche said:
Welcome to this side of flashing issue. I just recovered from it this morning after hours of search and flashing. Jerpelea said that Kernel has gotten mixed up and try to take the battery our for a while and then put it in and try to go to boot, Flash earlier 1.6 ROM I did the R16 and it worked, I had a hardtime flashing with R26.
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Could you get into flash mode? I currently can not... I am bricking myself at the thought of my phone being bricked!!
I had the same problem a while ago and the only thing that worked was a firmware uploaded by jerpelea. Have a look at what I posted here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9206194&postcount=11
I had about the same problem with my phone a while back, I could still get it into flash mode if I was quick though. If you can get it into flash mode try and follow this tutorial on Youtube, it's a working way for downgrading from 2.1 to 1.6
ht tp:// w w w. youtube .c o m/watch?annotation_id=annotation_468774&v=K9qB8z6EjtY&feature=iv
If it bricks it will prolly brick after a few seconds, just pull out the battery and try again getting it into Flash Mode. Good luck
As stated on one of your other threads, until you've repaired your usb port posts like this are pointless.
I can angle it to get a connection. That's why I am continuing with this thread
But thanks
tie your x10 to a brick and throw it at a SE service centre.
Waste of a brick.
Hi there.... a similar thing happened to me. I have a UK T-mobile X10 which I had upgraded to nordic 2.1 and needed to downgrade back to 1.6 because I was getting a warranty exchange the next day.
I used the CDA method to change my phone cda back to uk t-mobile and the damn thing wouldnt downgrade via seus. Then I tried flashing to R2BA26 which bricked my fone...green light would come on and the damn thng would just vibrate!!!
I then flashed it with 2.1 Global generic from jeprelea's thread and everything is ok now!
XperiaX10iUser said:
As stated on one of your other threads, until you've repaired your usb port posts like this are pointless.
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@Z3X, you've started 3 threads on this same topic, here, here and here.
Not
I have two Xperia Rays, both with unlocked bootloaders and identical firmware. Yesterday, I installed the Gingerbread 2.3.4 OTA update on one of the Rays, which worked fine.
This morning, I performed the update on my second Ray. During the update, however, the phone suddenly stopped working. It did not respond to button presses anymore and wouldn't start or reboot, not even after a battery pull.
I noticed that the phone now seems to be in some sort of permanent download mode. The green led is on while connected to a pc. When connected to the charger, it doesn't show charging progress anymore. Fastboot mode (blue led) doesn't work.
I then tried flashing the generic 4.0.1.A.0.283 firmware using Flashtool, which was successful, but the phone still doesn't start. The update service of the SE PC companion recognizes the phone but says it cannot update until the phone is fully booted.
What could be wrong and is there any way to fix this without sending the phone in for repair?
You shouldn't ever update OTA with an unlocked bootloader for that exact reason.
Did you pull out the battery just to make sure that it is totally switched off?
Follow this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1116970
Read the getting back to Stock ROM section of the post.
Good luck.
The fact that the other Ray (also with an unlocked bootloader) could be updated OTA without any problems made me think that with the Ray, FOTA-bricking was no longer an issue...
Anyway, I just got my phone back to life using the FlashTool/FOTAUnbrick fix.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1126358
reamnl said:
The fact that the other Ray (also with an unlocked bootloader) could be updated OTA without any problems made me think that with the Ray, FOTA-bricking was no longer an issue...
Anyway, I just got my phone back to life using the FlashTool/FOTAUnbrick fix.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1126358
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ooo, didn't know they had an actualy fix for FOTA bricked phones
Hi everybody,
First of all, if I am in any way repeating something written somewhere else, I am sorry but I am quite newbie here and, even if I searched around this forum, I couldn't find any info about my specific problem.
This said, to the problem!
I have an Xperia Neo (europe) with 2.3.3 Android and yesterday I was signaled of a OTA update available. I then switched on Wifi, connected the phone to the power cable and started the update. After downloading everything, the phone rebooted and showed me an updating screen.
After a while, though, the phone turned off and....well, it didn't turn on anymore!
No sign of life from the battery led either!
Now, after some stunned panicking seconds, I started googling and came at this thread:
http://www.techofweb.com/technology/recovering-bricked-xperia-flashtool.html
and downloaded the last version of Flashtool from:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=920746
and the latest stock firmware ( MT15i_4.0.2.A.0.42_GLOBAL.7z ) from:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1258723
....I tried to flash the firmware with FlashTool and the operation completed, but when I try to turn the phone on now I just see a quick green blinking of the power led and then nothing else.
I tried to take out the battery, and also tried to flash an older (2.3.3) firmware, but the problem didn't go away.
Now, the phone is in warranty, not rooted and everything....I could bring it to Sony, but it would take 15 to 30 days to them, so I just wandered if there was anything I was doing wrong and that, if corrected, could save me a lot of time and efforts.
Thank you guys a lot!
Bye!
you downgraded from 2.3.4 to 2.3.3 ?
If so then you get 0% battery issue... Search about it in this forum
armando101 said:
you downgraded from 2.3.4 to 2.3.3 ?
If so then you get 0% battery issue... Search about it in this forum
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Downgrading to 2.3.2 causes battery issue...back to 2.3.3 no one reported battery problems.
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This is not specially meant for this case, but maybe this works: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1324707
It happened to me today morning. Just use Wotan server to flash new firmware.
hey there
i bought this cell yesterday and am facing the same problem i tried the SE update service but it did not work firstly it used to show the logo of a phone with an exclamation mark but now after trying the SEUS for a couple of times the screeen wont just turun on only the green light keeps flashing when the power button is pressed i searched all the threads but did not find any ftf file to flash the device .
1.i will be using flash tool to flash the device is it allright?
2.can the device be fixed or should i approach the service center?
3 can anybody please provide me with the firmware file link to download the firmware i have xperia neo v mt11i and i am a resident of india
could u bear with me for asking such questions and please reply it would be really helpful...as i am new to android platform
thanks in advance...
Try reading the previous post in this thread?
I'd be surprised if flashing firmware with Wotanserver won't fix it. Just go to wotanserver.com, follow the steps and flash.
Before u flash using flashtool or wotanserver, makesure u hold the back button while connect to usb until the green LED appear.
Hi,
I bought my neo just a month ago and I got an indication for a new update available for my phone yesterday. I did a FOTA and my phone just stopped booting.When I press the power button all I get is a blinking green light, nothing on screen.
I had unlocked my neo a while ago.
I tried flashing it to MT15i_4.0.2.A.0.42_Global version. Still nothing.
I have tried SEUS and PC companion. My phone gets detected but they say i have a modified software and thats it.
Please help me, it hurts having lost a month old phone......
Thanks in advance
Well i got my phone up and running.....
For those who are still struggling check out the following link.....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1324707
First of all , if your bootloader is unlocked-RELOCK IT.
After that , try flashing the stock firmware or use SEUS.
That's how i got my NEO V up and running.
No harm in trying the same method with NEO.
shaunshd said:
Well i got my phone up and running.....
For those who are still struggling check out the following link.....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1324707
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Yes, try this! It should work! If there are news just tell us!
When people go to bootloader unlock their phones, do they completely miss the prominent warning or what?
Some customers with unlocked boot loaders have experienced problems when they are accepting over the air upgrades (FOTA - Firmware upgrade Over The Air). For customers that have unlocked the boot loader, please do not accept any over the air upgrades. For additional information, check out the hints and tips from the community on the XDA forum.
http://unlockbootloader.sonyericsson.com/instructions
you are lucky you got your phone to reach 1month. mine didn't even reach 1 week!. i bricked when i tried to testpoint and ground to unlock bootloader. it never turned on. im not sure if i did the right procedure but the battery is in the phone and the phone is turned on when i do the TP ground thing to install the driver.. any idea?
SquallDNA said:
you are lucky you got your phone to reach 1month. mine didn't even reach 1 week!. i bricked when i tried to testpoint and ground to unlock bootloader. it never turned on. im not sure if i did the right procedure but the battery is in the phone and the phone is turned on when i do the TP ground thing to install the driver.. any idea?
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Please tell me what instructions did you follow?
Where did you read that phone needs to be turned on or even with battery inserted!?
Easy answer. Try WotanServer i had this problem too but i solved it via Wotan.
u Can Flashed Again By This Program :
http://www.wotanserver.com/en/sony-ericsson/se/xperia-neo-mt15/unlock-tool/debranding-flash
Very Easy To Use ...
I think OP solved his problem, as he wrote it at second post.
nvm..............
OK Im pretty new to Android flashing etc, so go easy please
Customer brought in X10i locked to Orange-UK and running firmware 1.6
I used flashtool to flash 2.1 rom and after flash completed, phone boots to SE logo (writing) and then is stuck.
I have tried updating using both SEUS and PCCompanion. Both say that they have updated the phone successfully but phone still does not start.
After flashing with PCC boot process was same problem as before except I briefly saw an image of a camera and a blue arrow pointing down to a phone.
After flashing with SEUS, the phone does not start at all. When I press the power button I see red led flash 3 times repeatedly.
I thought maybe battery has died, so I have connected to mains charger.
Now the phone seems flashes red led once (repeatedly) for about 2 minutes, then led changed to solid green for about 2 minutes,then powers-up to SE logo/writing and camera/blue arrow image briefly, before repeating the process again.
I am not sure if the phone is charging or not? (or maybe battery is not even depleted?)
I am trying to unlock the phone for my customer using SETool or (Omnia?) but both say that 1.6 is not supported and handset must be flashed to 2.1
Seems like I have fallen at the first hurdle
I have searched the www and read forums and tutorials etc and have been at this for nearly 7 hours solid now
Please help.
Thanks.
MK5
The red flashing light sounds like battery issue! Do you have another x10 to charge the battery?
Have you rooted the device and unlocked the bootlaoder?
If so and you can enter xrecovery and flash a custom ROM wolfs for example?
Simply power off the device unplug USB cable and just press back button repeatedly while it starts up!
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For future reference this application unlocks the sim lock of xperia x10i its free and simple to do
http://www.x10unlocked.com/
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Thanks for replying
Hi,
Thank You for replying.
You are absolutely right about the battery/flashing lights. I have charged the battery externally and the red flashing light issue has gone.
The phone now powers up to SE writing, then camera and blue arrow, then back to SE writing and stops.
The phone was fully working on Orange-UK before I flashed it. It looked as though everything on it was stock and it had never been flashed or updated ever.
I have not tried to root it or unlock bootloader (Im not even sure what unlocking bootloader means?)
What can I try next to bring this back to life?
Should I just keep trying to flash different roms?
Maybe I should try to flash stock Orange-UK firmware?
Thanks for your help so far, and look forward to your reply
MK5
help
Sorry I dont mean to double post or annoy anyone but please can someone help me with this.
Thats nearly another day and still I am stuck at SE logo/writing
I have flashed 5 or 6 different roms now, all with same end result.
I think I am missing something somewhere?
Do I need to upgrade/downgrade kernel?
and what is usb debugging setting? I set it to 'on' when phone was working at the very start, but I think now it is off.
Do I need this to be on before flashing? and if so, how do i do this if the phone is not booting?
Thanks.
MK5
You will need the phone to boot up to put debugging on! This needs to be on to root the device! It wont root without it. It makes sense why your stuck at se logo im sure if you flash the wrong firmware to the phone it wont boot up flash the orange firmware 2.1 or 2.3. British orange version then root using flashtool and use the program in the link above to unlock the sim
Let me know if it works?!!
Good luck!!
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1eyedmonster said:
You will need the phone to boot up to put debugging on! This needs to be on to root the device! It wont root without it. It makes sense why your stuck at se logo im sure if you flash the wrong firmware to the phone it wont boot up flash the orange firmware 2.1 or 2.3. British orange version then root using flashtool and use the program in the link above to unlock the sim
Let me know if it works?!!
Good luck!!
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Thanks m8, I'll give that a go. Battery has just died again, so giving it another charge just now.
Just a point to notw? - When i update the phone in SEUS, the process tells me that the update has completed successfully, but phone doesnt boot, and if I connect to SEUS again, it tells me that an update is available and this goes 'round in circles'
Is it possible that the phone somehow isnt actually getting flashed properly?
anyways will try the Ora-UK firmware first.
Should I look for stock 1.6 as that is what wason it originally? or can i go right ahead with 2.1?
Also where can I download these from? The only links I found for 2.1 orange were dead (megaupload)
Thanks for all your help so far m8. I appreciate it
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m8 you are a star
I got firmware from omnius and unzipped and made a couple of modifications (as per tutorial on the site)
flashed my newly created ftf file and the phone booted
Back to running stock 1.6
I need to make sure I do things properly this time.
Can you give me any pointers as to the correct tutorials to follow?
I just want to unlock the phone so it will accept a Vodafone sim card.
Not too bothered about debranding and custom roms etc.
Thanks.
MK5