Hey,
My Xperia mini started going crazy today- it turned off, and i noticed that the phone is EXTREMELY hot...i took out the battery for few minutes, waited for it to cool, and tried turning it on. the moment i put the battery in- same thing happenned, it went to extremely high temperature in 30 sec.
thinking it's a battery problem, i tried using a different one...but no luck.
so, i took out the sim card and put it in a different phone...after i took it out, i tried turning the xperia on again, and it turned on just fine...no overheating or anything...thinking that maybe it came back to life, i put the sim back in...but it overheated again, without turning on...
so...what is wrong with my phone? why does inserting a sim card causes it to overheat so much and stop working?
(btw, i tried putting in 2 different sims, the result was the same).
thanks,
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Good evening.
Well, i know there are like hundred other threads about dead HD2's, but this is strange:
I bought this used HD2 yesterday, 1 year old, never used with stock ROM. I have been using it all day today, after it was recharged all night. But the well known freezing issue started about late afternoon, and i took the battery out and replaced it, and it worked fine again. It did until i went to bed, where i just checked my facebook, and wanted to close down and sleep. Then it froze again, and now it won't start at all. I also charged the phone for about 40 minutes this evening. When i try to turn on the phone, it either vibrates shortly, or light up the hardware buttons, but no screen. I took the battery out and in again, nothing. Tried to charge it, no red lamp, nothing. No bending pins under the battery, i can't hard reset. When i tried to hard reset it, i could hear the sound, like when i turn the volume up and down, so it must be turned on, just not the screen. Tried to put small paper-bits under the battery, nothing. Now i will try to charge it all night, but it won't work, i think.
Also, i tried to lick the battery, and yes, it works.
Is the phone dead? Should i call the service-provider and get it repaired?
Thanks in advance and merry christmas!
so it seems (if i am right) the problem is possibly your screen. correct? (or more, right?)
can you boot into bootloader? doesn't seem like you can....
one option to see if your phone is working and your screen is bust is:
http://www.mymobiler.com/
never used it myself, but you can see your phone on your computer. if all looks normal there, well then your screen is bust. if not, and you can't get into bootloader, then it seems the phone is all bust.
Well... Now it works again after having the battery out all night, inserting it, waiting just 15 minutes and then turning it on! Is there a way to avoid this? Some fix or something?
I suspect that the reason it was onsale
I thhink we have the same problem here,.... is your device getting a little warm on the back....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=826119
Zzzzzhit.....
I bought a X10i a few months ago, then the USB port broke. I sent it back to the eBay seller for a new one. I picked it up yesterday. At first, it was ok.
When I started rooting/flashing 2.1, I started getting random crashes while booting. Tried other ROMs, including official Gingerbread, but it always crashed at the lock screen. Tried to take the SD card out, and it didn't help. Then I took the SIM card out and that worked for a bit. It seemed like a bad SIM card.
Then, it started crashing even without the SIM card. I took everything out and it was still crashing. After repairing the gingerbread, the screen stopped working.
Currently, when I press the power button, the green LED flashes briefly and the unit vibrates (sometimes short, sometimes long). The screen, however, is completely dead. It doesn't light up at all, not even with "SONY ERICSSON".
Any help? I'm wondering if there's a problem with the screen.
I may end up ditching this and getting a Xperia Neo from Newegg. Ironically, it's $50 cheaper now than the price of this X10i on eBay back in July. I'd rather not have to switch, though.
Edit: I took the case apart to check the various ribbon connectors (I don't plan on returning it anyhow). They were ok. What the eBay sellers do is they take apart the entire kit and resell the original components at a higher price. When you buy one, they grab a mainboard, stick it in the case color you want, throw in some OEM charger/cables/battery, and then ship it in the original box. That's why you might receive a black X10i while the box and its IMEI label say that it's white.
Were you able to complete a flash successfully? If so what Rom and BBand are you on?
Well, after the screen stopped working, I used Flashtool to successfully flash generic gingerbread. After it didn't work, I used PC Companion. PCC successfully repaired, but the screen still doesn't turn on. I know it is running something, though. The battery gets warm.
Edit: After repairing, I think I should be on BB 71.
Edit 2: I should mention that I have two batteries (one official, one OEM that came with the phone) and the EP900 charger. Both batteries were charged overnight, so it's not a dead battery problem.
Edit 3: I was looking at some Xperia Neo/Arc threads and they mentioned that the Trim Area may have been damage (or something like that). I'll try flashing the device with the same generic Gingerbread after I get home to see if that helps. My bootloader is still locked. Might even try a 1.6 ftf.
I've tried 2.1.A.435, 2.1.B.0.1, 3.0.1.G.0.75, and SE PCC. None are working. I'm still getting a single green LED flash and vibration. No more, no less.
Edit: Also tried SEUS. No dice.
Edit: No problems flashing anything, so it is clearly some sort of soft brick. Changing thread title to reflect this.
I hate to say this to anyone, but I think you may have a hardware problem. I hope I'm wrong but the things you have done should have fixed the problem, in my thoughts the main power board," mother board" may be faulty.... Hope I'm wrong.
Yeah, I thought all that flashing would have fixed it. I'm leaning a bit towards a bad flash or something. I'll probably return to the X10 one day and replace some parts.
I just hope the Neo I just ordered won't be as temperamental. I guess I just got lucky and never had any problems with my trusty G1.
My friend's X10i also have this problem, it will connect in flash mode ONLY when I took the battery out for 10 seconds then put it back in.
The phone doesn't have sim or sd. After I flash the generic 2.3.3 it will boot, but it will randomly shuts off and does not turn on.
I have to take out the battery for 30 minutes+ then it will boot, but it will still randomly shuts off while charging or just idling for an hour or so..
x126 said:
My friend's X10i also have this problem, it will connect in flash mode ONLY when I took the battery out for 10 seconds then put it back in.
The phone doesn't have sim or sd. After I flash the generic 2.3.3 it will boot, but it will randomly shuts off and does not turn on.
I have to take out the battery for 30 minutes+ then it will boot, but it will still randomly shuts off while charging or just idling for an hour or so..
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By "Does not turn on" do you mean at all, or won't boot?
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By "Does not turn on" do you mean at all, or won't boot?
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You are right, the phone died again just now. When I press the power button it does NOTHING at all, if I take out the battery for 10 sec and put it back in it will vibrate and still doesn't turn on. If I take the battery out for 30 minutes then it will boot and run perfectly fine only for an hour before it dies again.
Recently I have noticed that my phone is only lasting about 4 hrs from a 100% charge. It seems to be getting hotter than normal from regular use. I tried so resets, and looking at what is using the battery the most. Other than the screen, nothing stood out. Decided to try a battery pull. This is where some weirdness started. When I put the battery back in, the phone would not turn on, even though the battery had a charge. I discovered that when I plugged it in and then tried to turn it on, I would get a large grey battery graphic on the screen with a rotating ring in the middle until the phone recognized the battery. Once it was recognized, and the battery showed some green, I was able to turn it on. It doesn't seem to be the battery, because I swapped batteries with my wifes phone, and her phone starts up normal, and mine is the same. My phone is rooted and bootloader unlocked using Adam's method. Even tried a factory reset and installed Clean Rom, no change.
I've seen people with other charging problems, but not a problem like this.
Any help/suggestions?
Thanks
So I've had this phone for 8 months and really like it. Runs fine and does everything I need it to do.
I decided to put a new sim into it, I removed the old one and put in new one.
Worked fine, Data/LTE was fine.
Then a couple of minutes later bluetooth and wifi turned itself off.
I try to turn them on, but they start turning on, but turn off again in 2-5 seconds.
Also wifi sometimes stays on,but won't connect to a network. It also doesn't find any network at all.
Even trying to pair my smartband with NFC does nothing, it make a beeping noise, signaling it's working.
Only thing I can think of, is that the small white piece of paper in between the sd card slot came out a bit.
This only happened once I went to remote the old sim and checked sd card.
Is this a hardware fault?
I am not sure if this is the right place to ask but I have some serious issues with the phone. I bought a Sprint LG G5 for about 290$, quite a bargain I would say. I got the phone, and it seemed to be in working order. Then when I updated the phone, the G5 started to bootloop. After a couple hours the phone seemed to sort itself out. It was okay for a while, so I put in my ATT sim card (so I can use it as my main phone) and the phone did not recognize the sim card, which i realize now because sprint uses CDMA and ATT uses GSM. But after I took out the Sim card the phone started to freak out. It went through a bootloop phase again until it just shut off for a long time. I put it on the charger thinking the battery must be dead and let it sit overnight. The next day it didn't seem to turn on. No response at all, until I took out the battery a couple times and then presto it started to work.
The next day, the phone started acting funny again. It was freezing now and then and restarting. I took out the battery and i put it back in. It seemed to do okay there so I put it back on the charger since it was a bit low and went to go eat. After I came back, I found the phone dead. The phone was quite warm, and was just dead. Nothing turned on, tried the power button for 30 seconds and nothing. I tried hard resetting and nothing worked. I thought it was the battery but there is a charge since I put my tongue on it and i felt it tickle quite a bit. The phone gets warm on its own, which is weird since nothing comes out of the display, not even the LED works.
Anyone know whats wrong?
Sorry for the long post.
send it to repair or refund it. there could be so many things wrong like faulty hardware or software