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First, please, I tried tons of different things. I'm a linux kernel hacker too, although I never hacked android related stuff yet.
When I try to turn the phone on, it just quickly blinks the green line, vibrate and nothing else happens.
It was running firmware version 1.6 fine until I tried to upgrade the phone using a windows xp running in a vmware VM. I tried companion, SEUS and FlashTools. All left the phone running with the yellow exclamation mark after.
I continue trying to flash it until suddenly even the exclamation mark stopped showing up.
After that I moved to a native windows installation and SEUS went all the way through updating the phone, but the phone never turned on again. It just happened what I described above.
I already tried everything I came across with in the forums: flashing versions 2.1 and 1.6 from different places, with different versions of the FlashTool, and SEUS, and the companion .... it always goes all the way through, saying all ok, but when I turn on the phone: same-o. just quickly blinks, vibrate and dies.
Any idea? had I really hard broken my phone?
Please, any direction would do.
Interestingly - I have excatly the same situation with my partners phone. Attempted to downgrade to 1.6 using a couple of methods - editing build.prop and then SEUS and flashing this firmware.
Problem I have now is SEUS says I have the latest firmware and doesn't offer an update - I guess this is because the version of the software that is installed is higher than what is currently avaiable to the CDA I have put in the build.prop
Next I tried putting 2.1 back on from this thread.
The phone will not boot still it does excatly what you have said - blinks, vibrates and then turns off!
Thank you for the reply. It is good to know Im not alone
In my case SEUS always says there is a newer version and flashes the phone. It goes all the way to the end and says the upgrading was successful.
Would it be possible that although the phone "accepts" being flashed, it is not actually writting anything to a persistent state?
Is there a way to verify if what I flashed is really there? Otherwise SEUS should way nothing to upgrade, since it already did it all the way through successful.
easy question:
are you sure you have battery remaining to start it up and flash? if not, try to charge the battery on another phone.
I guess so.
I'm using a multimeter to measure the power of the battery, which varies from 3.6 to 4.1 volts, depending on how long I leave it on the charger.
So although the phone gives no indication of being charged, I guess that measure is enough to say it is being charged, right?
I've even just tried Omnius Server, which flashed perfectly fine, but still the phone won't boot Its completely dead now
Yep. I also tried that. Wasted money..
So far no change.. the thing is still a brick.
.. well, a brick is at least heavy enough to actually deal some damage when thrown..
Hah Just getting it exchanged now - tried everything - given up!
well, just in case you have it on warranty, go ahead
take it to the shop
repair
stop wasting time and money... go to a GSM SERVICE... you need service tool to revive your phone if it's deadboot...
i use setool to flash sony-ericsson phones and it's the best flash tool...
if it's bootfcked, then you need jtag's...
@sanyyous
setool will flash the phone just like SEUS or FlashTool will, right? or it will do some other kind of flashing witchery?
and jtag you mean hardware debug and service, right?
the issue is: I bought the phone in London and I'm in Brazil now. So either I fix or I see a trash bin in this little x10's fate.
setool flashes the same way than my tool,but it has more tricks afterwards for some other things.
For me it sounds like :
1.) False USB-Port or Cable
2.) False nand
Please try to following:
Go into your car with a laptop and flashtool on it -> Start the engine and pull down the AC to the coldest state it can do.
hold your phone DIRECTLY with the battery in Front of the cold airstream.
Flash it now
I have recovered a few dead phones so, the problem is that they get too hot and the nand shows errors while temporary placing the flashimages -> If so the loader rejects the image because of checksum fail.
-> Give it a try, if it don't work you have to send it to service.
Regards
Bin4ry
Man.. I will try as soon as I get home... and if it works.. expect a good donation.
Out of curiosity - did it work?
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I still couldnt try.
In Italy now. I'm going back to Brazil only Feb 3rd.
Meanwhile I'm trying to convince my gf that she couldnt break the phone even further for trying. Hopefully I'll lure her into doing it until this weekend.
Firgers crossed.
Bin4ry said:
setool flashes the same way than my tool,but it has more tricks afterwards for some other things.
For me it sounds like :
1.) False USB-Port or Cable
2.) False nand
Please try to following:
Go into your car with a laptop and flashtool on it -> Start the engine and pull down the AC to the coldest state it can do.
hold your phone DIRECTLY with the battery in Front of the cold airstream.
Flash it now
I have recovered a few dead phones so, the problem is that they get too hot and the nand shows errors while temporary placing the flashimages -> If so the loader rejects the image because of checksum fail.
-> Give it a try, if it don't work you have to send it to service.
Regards
Bin4ry
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If this works, it's a miracle.
Maybe trying the fridge would have the same result, but all that ice could damage the phone .
Good luck and I really want to know if it works.
Yeah, on the fridge the moisture would probably ruin the phone even further. .. if thats at all possible.
And believe me, no one would wanna see if it works more than me.
<girlfriend-apeal>
you see, everyone wants to know if that works. please, you wont ruin the phone further just by trying it )
</girlfriend-apeal>
My wife's x10 is OK, so it would just be out of curiosity for me .
Good luck.
I got my gf to try but it didnt work
I'll try it myself when I get home next week, but I dont think thats gonna work..
Anyway, I drop by next week to comment on the final status.
Thanks for the replies so far.
fabioroger said:
First, please, I tried tons of different things. I'm a linux kernel hacker too, although I never hacked android related stuff yet.
When I try to turn the phone on, it just quickly blinks the green line, vibrate and nothing else happens.
It was running firmware version 1.6 fine until I tried to upgrade the phone using a windows xp running in a vmware VM. I tried companion, SEUS and FlashTools. All left the phone running with the yellow exclamation mark after.
I continue trying to flash it until suddenly even the exclamation mark stopped showing up.
After that I moved to a native windows installation and SEUS went all the way through updating the phone, but the phone never turned on again. It just happened what I described above.
I already tried everything I came across with in the forums: flashing versions 2.1 and 1.6 from different places, with different versions of the FlashTool, and SEUS, and the companion .... it always goes all the way through, saying all ok, but when I turn on the phone: same-o. just quickly blinks, vibrate and dies.
Any idea? had I really hard broken my phone?
Please, any direction would do.
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i tried to install the gingerbread theme but after i moved the framework file into system/framework folder my phone rebooted by itself and blocked to SE logo screen.... i wanna flash the phone but i'm unable to switch usb debugging mode on..... any suggestions to turn the usb debugging on or flash the phone witout it....???? tnx in advance 4 any suggestion
Hi guys,
I have a problem with my x10 mini pro. There are some similar posts here but nobody exactly describe what is happening to me. So my problem:
One day i have been in subway, phone working properly everything fine. THan suddenly 3G icon has disappear and wouldnt go back. So i decided to restart the device. But since i turned it off, i cannot turn it back on again...
I have tried to take out the simcard, take out mempory card, multiple time reflash by SEUS but still cannot turn it on.
I cna charge the phone with no problem, i can flash it with no problem, but i cannot use it at all.
When i press power button, phone shortly vibrate as he is turning on, than display get a bit brighter (not white, just lights up its easy to notice from profile). and than after few seconds get black again. And like this it continue until it drains battery, only without vibrating. every cca 5 seconds display light up and than get black again. So i guess its rebooting all the time. I have tried all tricks like pressing power+home button, still nothing.
I think i just need really wipe out the whole phone and flash it again. Is it possible somehow? I feel like reflashing by SEUS is not real hardcore flash, is there anything stronger i can try?
I am willing to try anything if anybody has an idea, since its not working anyway so i dont care what i try.
Thanks for advices !
try binary's flash tool, it helps every out. use it in the same way you would SEUS
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=826455
Dan53 said:
try binary's flash tool, it helps every out. use it in the same way you would SEUS
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=826455
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I try this already... Still the same
Try to flash 1.6 back.
I had the same problem, didnt ever find a way to fix it so had it replaced under warrenty. may be your only way on this problem im afraid.
I tried 1.6 - didnt work
Problem is that i have no warranty.... I just gave it to my friend who is going to singapore, she knows some official SE shop, so maybe i will get it fixed, but im not sure if it wont be for the same money as new phone...
Well the phone is under a year old so it will be covererd under se warranty unless they think you broke there warranty in any way. I would flash it back to your original FW before having it looked at and wipe your sd card.
I bought it in chinese market (Its not a copy) without any receipt or anything, I dont think so they will took it as a warranty. I have done all of this. Flashed to my original FW, wiped everything, nothing works...
did u try SEUS ?
is your phone getting detected via SEUS in flash mode ? what happens when :
1. Take off the battery for 30 secs
2. connect the phone to usb
3. Power on the phone with back button pressed.
if SEUS detects u should be able to flash it. The flash tool also should be working.
x10 was running on freex10 beta 3, and then i wanted to try gingerbread, so i downloaded it, flashed baseband using flashtool 0.2.5 and when i unplugged phone, se splash screen comes up and nothing else, android does not boot, i have tried flash with some nordic rom but it did not help. what can i do ? help
Run Sony ericsson update service on your phone.
5xL-Gaming said:
Run Sony ericsson update service on your phone.
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Seus does not working...failed
Use updated flashtool (0.2.6)
Not really possible that the green light doesn't show up when u press the back key and plug it in... could u go into xRecovery?
finally seus done it well, but after a few sessions. regards
for other users that might have the same problem:
flash mode will not work unless the battery is well charged (in my case battery had to be over 50%). so:
don't panic.
turn off phone completely (if it won't exit from the boot loop, remove battery for few seconds).
plug in charger and let it charge for couple hours. try flashing.
i was stuck with this issue one long night
Dis something similar and I'm seeing the same result, battery was at about 40-50% when I flashed it. I plugged the charger cable in but there is no light indicating that its charging, and I can't get back into xRecovery , anyone have any suggestions? I'm also at work and we work on macs here, is there any mac osx compatible tool out there that can bring my x10 back to life?
So, sort of long story, i'll cut it short
-Got an old X10, had stock 2.3.3
-Rooted it
-Did not unlock bootloader, got kinda scared.
-Tried to install FeraLab custom ROM, it failed probably because of sdcard permissions; i accidentally wipe /system /data /cache
-stuck at first Sony Ericsson screen
-Somehow managed to flash a 2.1 stock rom with flashtool, after an hour of different combinations of enterring flash mode and pulling the battery
-Tried to install FeraLab again, this time it went through
-After install, rebooted, phone shut down during boot up process
-Will not turn on at all. Even when plugged into a PC, wall, not plugged in, pulling battery, etc.
I think what happened is that FeraLab needed a newer baseband than the 2.1 stock rom had. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get this sucker to even turn on? Not a single LED is on when plugged in, giving me the impression that it's not charging.
If the battery has drained out, it might take some time before it kicks in and indicates that it is charging.
If the ROM has failed somehow, it might not show that it is charging at all, but might be charging.
Either way: Let it charge "blindly" for a while, and see what happens.
Once it does boot up to some level or shows life-signs, let it charge fully before you'l attempt a ROM flash.
The flash/recovery mode needs a full battery, and reason is that the external power isn't used even when connected while in flash/recovery mode.
If you happen to be in bad luck, and the ROM failed as a result of a drained battery, you might have to charge the battery externally. Use an external battery charger made for 3.6 volts Lithium Polymer batteries, and make sure to align the + and - terminals properly.
I can recommend the multicharger from Powerbase, called C-734U:
http://www.powerbasehk.com/product.php?id=148
Using it myself to charge the X10 battery, as well as other batteries from other devices I have.
EDIT:
(For some reason, powerbase has taken back that it'll charge Lipo batteries, but when I bought mine, it was described as a li-ion, li-poly and Ni-MH charger, and it't ability to charge li-poly batteries was the very one reason to why I bought it.
I suspect PowerBase does not want to take responsibility if anything happens to the li-poly-batteries, as they are known to be more dangerous than other types.)
I've left it on the wall charger all night, no response or anything. Luckily, I bought a new battery a few days ago, so when that comes in, hopefully it will be charged enough for this thing to boot.
Do me a favour are u able to take screebshot of settings, about phone menu and post it here? Need to see ur baseband and kernel
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laneyofdeath said:
Do me a favour are u able to take screebshot of settings, about phone menu and post it here? Need to see ur baseband and kernel
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Dude his phone wont start up. How come he'll be able to take a screenshot
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Dude his phone wont start up. How come he'll be able to take a screenshot
Sent from my LT26i using xda premium
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Yeah, i'm not sure what he expected. But, good news! Now for some reason my phone started blinking red whenever I tried to turn it on! I guess the battery completely ran out or something. It also blinks every now and then when plugged in, so I guess it's charging. The previous owner of this phone said that it had some battery problems, so that's why I ordered that new battery. I'll let it charge for awhile and let you guys know what happens.
Okay, after getting my new battery, the phone will still not turn on. I think i've figured out two behaviors:
1. If the battery is nearly completely out of charge, it will flash a red light
2. If the battery has charge, it will not do anything at all.
Anyone know how to fix this?
While trying to turn on the phone, after long-press power button, do you get a flash from status led & short vibration?
From my XPERIA X10S v8.2 on kCernel @ 1.19ghz
ToledoJab said:
While trying to turn on the phone, after long-press power button, do you get a flash from status led & short vibration?
From my XPERIA X10S v8.2 on kCernel @ 1.19ghz
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No vibration, the red LED flashes three times, and that is , as I said before, what happens when the battery seems to not have any charge. If I have a charged battery it does absolutely nothing.
Have you removed sim & sd card and tried. I know it sounds dumb but when I flashed a bad kernel I had to try to connect flash mode like 10 times. Finally I left the phone unplugged from pc, started flashtool and started flashing. I only put battery in phone just before holding back key. I never connected USB until tool said to dis-connect phone and connect in flashmode.
i wish you luck, I know how I felt when it went wrong
From my XPERIA X10S v8.2 on kCernel @ 1.19ghz
FireFreek said:
So, sort of long story, i'll cut it short
-Got an old X10, had stock 2.3.3
-Rooted it
-Did not unlock bootloader, got kinda scared.
-Tried to install FeraLab custom ROM, it failed probably because of sdcard permissions; i accidentally wipe /system /data /cache
-stuck at first Sony Ericsson screen
-Somehow managed to flash a 2.1 stock rom with flashtool, after an hour of different combinations of enterring flash mode and pulling the battery
-Tried to install FeraLab again, this time it went through
-After install, rebooted, phone shut down during boot up process
-Will not turn on at all. Even when plugged into a PC, wall, not plugged in, pulling battery, etc.
I think what happened is that FeraLab needed a newer baseband than the 2.1 stock rom had. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get this sucker to even turn on? Not a single LED is on when plugged in, giving me the impression that it's not charging.
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Try to flash any latest kernel via flashtool . Go for doomkernel . I think its software issue . Try this first .
Almost same here please help..
Last night battery ran out of charge & phone switched off.. then i plugged the charger it doesn't charge.. after some time i tried turning on.. Vibrates with the green LED but nothing happens then..
Note: This is not the 1st time i'm letting my phone drain, but facing this problem for the 1st time..
Rom : Spikelabs GB Gaming rom
Kernel : Ferakernel v23 beta6
I tried another battery, charger, data cable.. Tried flashing stock & spikelabs kernel., but of no use..
Any help is greatly appreciated..
Thanks in advance.. :good:
Something like that happened to me not long ago!
I was trying to flash some ROMs and I messed up then my phone wouldn't turn on!
But Miracously, I could flash a Stock 2.3.3 which fixed the problem!
At first, I used Sony PC Companion, which helped a lot- and after I screwed it for the second time, I used FlashTool-
I don't know if this was helpful, but I hope your x10 will be fixed soon!
yeah try the PC Companion first, it helped me too a couple of weeks ago
No luck...
Hi friends..
Tried to repair using PC companion, but was able to connect only in flash mode, unable to proceed software update..
I previously tried flashing stock GB using flashtool thrice. Still couldn't switch on the phone.. What else may i try..
Thanks friends..
ashok weird said:
Hi friends..
Tried to repair using PC companion, but was able to connect only in flash mode, unable to proceed software update..
I previously tried flashing stock GB using flashtool thrice. Still couldn't switch on the phone.. What else may i try..
Thanks friends..
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try flashing kernel other than spikelabs (e.g. feravolt,doom,achotjan,zkernel..etc.)
sanababitz said:
try flashing kernel other than spikelabs (e.g. feravolt,doom,achotjan,zkernel..etc.)
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Tried Ferakernel, Stock GB kernel, etc bro.. No luck..
Flashed Stock GB firmware more than 3 times still no luck :crying:
SEUS not working _ couldn't connect to network..
SUS does not have x10 enlisted
Went to 3 service shops at - Ritchie street, Chennai. They simply said harware issue (Short in board) and gave back the phone.
Now given at a better service centre. Will get back on monday it seems. Will update the status friends..
Thanks..
Here also they said the same reason friends.. Short in board..
Is there any way i could recover the phone???
Hi there. First of all, sorry about my english, but i'm spanish
I was reading a lot, and i cant find a solution to my phone. It sudently becomes a brick just when charging (with anothers phone charger) and the battery was lower than 10%
It doesn't work, and don't response to any of all solutions i've read (Take out SIM, SD card, remove battery and wait... ) no way... Screen never come back to iluminate again. Just, when pushing power buttom, the phone's vibrates.
So tired of the brick, i've arrived at this page. And I read this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1568792
And try to become my phone back...
At least, the phone enter in flashmode, and i can flash with flashtools... but the phone never come back... just the brick
I tryed to flash with the Xperia_2011_FreeXperia_ALL.ftf file and OK
Afther that, take out the USB and flash again with one ROM i get from here:
Xperia Mini Pro (SK17i)
4.0.2.A.0.42 - http://www.mediafire.com/?hevz3x5w9pqt24q
4.1.B.0.431 - http://www.mediafire.com/?j0bdx06zz5skvzt
But the phone never works. One time afther flashing with 4.0.2.A.0.42 i noticed, that trying to power on the phone, the red led shyne 3 times, and thats supposed to be the battery. But i don't know if the battery now is charged. I've left it hours charging, and hours too to the USB...
Supposedly, i cant flash without battery in the phone, but flashtools finish correctly
So... any idea?
There is something i can do?
Thank all of you who read this!
Its probably battery empty. recharge battery or get a friends and try
Sent from my X8 using Tapatalk 2
First make sure that your battery is really fine. Try another one.
If that fails, see if you can get your device into flash mode?(Switched off+Vol Down + USB cable)
If yes, try flashing a custom ROM. For example, download CyanogenMod from here, use Flashtool (guide) to flash the kernel provided in the downloaded ROM's ZIP file. Then, boot again into Clockword Mod Recovery(Keep pressing Vol DOwn button while boot or google for how to enter recovery for your phone). Copy the downloaded Cyanogenmod ZIP to SD card and install it via ClockwordMod recovery.
See if the above works.
bandarigoda123 said:
Its probably battery empty. recharge battery or get a friends and try
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But, if it was problem of battery, i suppose, that i can't finish flashing with flashtoolts. Not?
Milven said:
But, if it was problem of battery, i suppose, that i can't finish flashing with flashtoolts. Not?
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Try booting up your phone with the USB connector plugged in the PC (maybe it will charge the battery then)
Milven said:
But, if it was problem of battery, i suppose, that i can't finish flashing with flashtoolts. Not?
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At least my phone (LWW WT19i does not work without the battery with Flashtool. I'm not sure about your device.
Anyway try flashing a custom ROM like I said. Try unlocking bootloader first though from here
U said that red light show when try to on the phone.
Just try another battery.. It should work
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You said LED blinks 3 times so if the color of LED is RED then it indicates empty battery..
Hey, my problem wasnt the same as yours, but it helped for me when i got only service logo on screen.
On this link you find a "Play_v1.01_TA brick fix UPDATE" zip.
Download, unpack and flash it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1126358&page=10
I hope it will help u.
Milven said:
Hi there. First of all, sorry about my english, but i'm spanish
I was reading a lot, and i cant find a solution to my phone. It sudently becomes a brick just when charging (with anothers phone charger) and the battery was lower than 10%
It doesn't work, and don't response to any of all solutions i've read (Take out SIM, SD card, remove battery and wait... ) no way... Screen never come back to iluminate again. Just, when pushing power buttom, the phone's vibrates.
So tired of the brick, i've arrived at this page. And I read this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1568792
And try to become my phone back...
At least, the phone enter in flashmode, and i can flash with flashtools... but the phone never come back... just the brick
I tryed to flash with the Xperia_2011_FreeXperia_ALL.ftf file and OK
Afther that, take out the USB and flash again with one ROM i get from here:
Xperia Mini Pro (SK17i)
4.0.2.A.0.42 - http://www.mediafire.com/?hevz3x5w9pqt24q
4.1.B.0.431 - http://www.mediafire.com/?j0bdx06zz5skvzt
But the phone never works. One time afther flashing with 4.0.2.A.0.42 i noticed, that trying to power on the phone, the red led shyne 3 times, and thats supposed to be the battery. But i don't know if the battery now is charged. I've left it hours charging, and hours too to the USB...
Supposedly, i cant flash without battery in the phone, but flashtools finish correctly
So... any idea?
There is something i can do?
Thank all of you who read this!
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Hi Milven,
I got the same problem with you yesterday. Few hours sitting in front of my PC and hopeless.
I tried everything same as yours, finally I found and solve the case.
Install this http://www.sonymobile.com/global-en/tools/update-service/
And let it update your phone.
Done. It's back to brand new.
Hope you read this.
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Hi Milven,
I got the same problem with you yesterday. Few hours sitting in front of my PC and hopeless.
I tried everything same as yours, finally I found and solve the case.
Install this http://www.sonymobile.com/global-en/tools/update-service/
And let it update your phone.
Done. It's back to brand new.
Hope you read this.
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That's true. Try fixing it by using sony repairment. I did it and it worked for my phone. I hope it does for you
Sent from my Xperia, Asri Aisyah El Zahra
i've the same problem as you. charge your battery with desktop charger. not too long, i put the battery and flash firmware in flashtool. and it work. when the flashing done and the device on, my battery just 3% lol. flashing with flashtool only takes a few minutes