So I'm trying to fix my friend's Xperia X10, it was stuck in a strange boot loop where it would load up the OS and then immediately shut the phone down. (Proper soft OS shutdown, not a power loss)
I read all the stickies in this forum and the General X10 forum, didn't find anything that helps.
I followed the guide here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1176025
I also messed around with the kernel upgrade/downgrade in the flashtool and tried to hard reset it (Left and right buttons at the bottom then power right?)
I also tried shell root in SuperOneClick but it always freezes at Waiting for Device.
Now the phone goes into flash mode fine when I hold down the back button and plug it in (at least I think it does, flashtool succeeds EXCEPT when I don't check the "Skip System" option, then it fails to flash)
It also doesn't turn on at all. If I plug it into an AC powered cable the led stays solid green. If I plug it into the computer the light blinks red at a constant rate.
When I try to turn it on unplugged, the led blinks red 3 times, then nothing, if I try to turn it on while it's plugged in, nothing happens.
It's an Xperia X10a, completely stock aside from what I've done to it, my friend never tried to root or install anything custom.
I'd really appreciate some help or an idea, I'm familiar with ADB but this phone doesn't seem to work correctly with it, flashtool seems to work fine though.
Hi all,
after successfully unlocking the bootloader and flashing CyanogenMod 10.1.0 RC2 boot.img via fastboot from Linux, I couldn't manage to boot the tablet again.
I tried several things (Emma, Flashtool, etc.) in order to relock the bootloader and/or flash a stock ROM, but I only could put the device into fastboot mode.
Things are getting possibly worse now: the red notification light is still, I can't neither reboot (pressing Power+VolumeUp for 5 seconds) nor halt (Power+VolumeUp for 10 seconds)...
What a mess! Anyone can suggest me how to fix this situation, please?
Alberto
This is why u shouldn't mess with your tablet.just use it as it came, not worth the hassle
bibe74 said:
Hi all,
after successfully unlocking the bootloader and flashing CyanogenMod 10.1.0 RC2 boot.img via fastboot from Linux, I couldn't manage to boot the tablet again.
I tried several things (Emma, Flashtool, etc.) in order to relock the bootloader and/or flash a stock ROM, but I only could put the device into fastboot mode.
Things are getting possibly worse now: the red notification light is still, I can't neither reboot (pressing Power+VolumeUp for 5 seconds) nor halt (Power+VolumeUp for 10 seconds)...
What a mess! Anyone can suggest me how to fix this situation, please?
Alberto
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ash6783 said:
This is why u shouldn't mess with your tablet.just use it as it came, not worth the hassle
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This answer is about as helpful as a heart attack lol
I can assure you that even us dev's run into issues like this, I soft bricked my new tab 5 times today (still trying to figure out this recovery/no recovery thing sony is doing lol).
Aberto, I had/did the exact thing today, first off I'm guessing you have a wifi only like I do right? Those roms/boot imgs won;t work it seems, Im learning as fast as I can so I can get a port for Baked for this tab, I own the wifi only so its my first priority.
Here's what I did, took allot of patience, so be prepared to try a bunch of times!
1. Unplug the usb cable
2. hold both vol + and - (I know this is not documented but stick with me here), then press and hold the power button until the led flashed "white" "3 times" (u will see one white flash, then after about another 20 seconds a second set of white flashes will begin, it will blink 3 times)
3. Plug in the usb cable
4. Make sure you have emma/drivers setup, since this is a windows only (boo!) tool you should here the usb device plug notifiction that it detected the "S1 Service Sony Mobile Communications AB"
This only lasts about 1 minute before it will go back to red led, launch emma and restore a stock image from sony, after its done, unplug the device, and hold power, it should come back to life!
Thanks nycbjr, I tried this morning before getting to work and I could "unlock" the red notification light.
This evening I'll try to get further in the process of resuscitating my tablet.
Thanks for the tips!
Alberto
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Alberto, I had/did the exact thing today, first off I'm guessing you have a wifi only like I do right? Those roms/boot imgs won;t work it seems, Im learning as fast as I can so I can get a port for Baked for this tab, I own the wifi only so its my first priority.
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Yep, I have a SGP312 (wifi only, 32 GB)
nycbjr said:
This answer is about as helpful as a heart attack lol
I can assure you that even us dev's run into issues like this, I soft bricked my new tab 5 times today (still trying to figure out this recovery/no recovery thing sony is doing lol).
Aberto, I had/did the exact thing today, first off I'm guessing you have a wifi only like I do right? Those roms/boot imgs won;t work it seems, Im learning as fast as I can so I can get a port for Baked for this tab, I own the wifi only so its my first priority.
Here's what I did, took allot of patience, so be prepared to try a bunch of times!
1. Unplug the usb cable
2. hold both vol + and - (I know this is not documented but stick with me here), then press and hold the power button until the led flashed "white" "3 times" (u will see one white flash, then after about another 20 seconds a second set of white flashes will begin, it will blink 3 times)
3. Plug in the usb cable
4. Make sure you have emma/drivers setup, since this is a windows only (boo!) tool you should here the usb device plug notifiction that it detected the "S1 Service Sony Mobile Communications AB"
This only lasts about 1 minute before it will go back to red led, launch emma and restore a stock image from sony, after its done, unplug the device, and hold power, it should come back to life!
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Thanks! I just saved my Tablet Z's life by your method!
It seems like no kernel I can flash now (SGP312 32GB WiFi) I flashed CWM-Based Recovery 6.0.3.2 twice, and m SGP312 died twice
yt92 said:
Thanks! I just saved my Tablet Z's life by your method!
It seems like no kernel I can flash now (SGP312 32GB WiFi) I flashed CWM-Based Recovery 6.0.3.2 twice, and m SGP312 died twice
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you are welcome! Im working with doomlord on getting recovery working foir the sgp311/12..
btw baked blackbean 9 is booting on the z tab.. few days I'll release it
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... after its done, unplug the device, and hold power, it should come back to life!
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You saved my tablet's life too! I could manage to restore Sony's factory ROM, and finally I can use it!
Thanks again nycbjr!
hmz
Glad I found this topic, but so far I can't get it to work.
Situation is the same I guess, red light, tried to flash the wrong img to my wifi only modell.
When I press all 3 buttons at the same time, the first white blink shows up after about 5secs, then there is a 3 blink sequence also in white after another 3-5secs. If I plugin the usb cable still holding down the buttons, no usb device is recognized, nothing happens..
If I keep holding down the buttons a 3 white blink sequence shows up again, followed by a white/red quick blink, then after 5 secs another 3 white blink sequence starts again, followed by a white7red combo et cetera. As soon as I release the buttons it turns to a constant red again.
Any more ideas or should I just keep trying?
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Glad I found this topic, but so far I can't get it to work.
Situation is the same I guess, red light, tried to flash the wrong img to my wifi only modell.
When I press all 3 buttons at the same time, the first white blink shows up after about 5secs, then there is a 3 blink sequence also in white after another 3-5secs. If I plugin the usb cable still holding down the buttons, no usb device is recognized, nothing happens..
If I keep holding down the buttons a 3 white blink sequence shows up again, followed by a white/red quick blink, then after 5 secs another 3 white blink sequence starts again, followed by a white7red combo et cetera. As soon as I release the buttons it turns to a constant red again.
Any more ideas or should I just keep trying?
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Normally it is the follows:
Hold Vol+ and Power.
1x blink = Reboot (doesn't help you in this case)
after holding it longer
3x blink = Shut down (device is switched off and in a defined state)
Drink a beer
open flash-tool and prepare the firmware to flash
Hold Vol- and plug the device to the computer
If the led turns green the firmware will flash
If not check what the flash-tool says in which state the device is
If the led turns red maybe the battery is to empty?!?
I don't know about the red led, but thanks for the hint.
Pressing only vol down when pluggin in the usb seems to have changed something. I tried power+vol down before but that didn't help.
Now flashtool seems to be working, it says it's flashing, but it seems to take ages. I'll let it keep on working for now (running since 10mins, but after "checking header" and "flashing data" there is no progress anymore...yet). I'll report back
I canceled it after 2h with no progress...damnit.
Does anyone have another suggestion?
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I canceled it after 2h with no progress...damnit.
Does anyone have another suggestion?
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With Flashtool it didn't work, but with EMMA it works! YES!
Thanks!
This also saved my tablet's life.
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I canceled it after 2h with no progress...damnit.
Does anyone have another suggestion?
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Hi, try flashing again with Emma but use a different USB cable i had a similar issue where the flash started then seemed to freeze so tried a different cable and it worked.
Edit: lol seems i missed your post where you tried again with Emma -_- glad you got it sorted though
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Normally it is the follows:
Hold Vol+ and Power.
1x blink = Reboot (doesn't help you in this case)
after holding it longer
3x blink = Shut down (device is switched off and in a defined state)
Drink a beer
open flash-tool and prepare the firmware to flash
Hold Vol- and plug the device to the computer
If the led turns green the firmware will flash
If not check what the flash-tool says in which state the device is
If the led turns red maybe the battery is to empty?!?
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you need a big kiss from someone thanks a million :good::good::good::good::good::good::good:
This worked for me, albeit after trying the first part (holding VOL+, VOL- & POWER) intermittently for 2 days.
What seemed to get the table/battery to reset was I connected the USB cable to the charger on a wall outlet on the second day. When I plugged in the cable the Red LED came on and stayed there. After an hour it was still red so I removed the cable and tried 1) pressing VOL+ & POWER (about 3 seconds), then 2) VOL- & POWER (about 3 seconds) and after a while the red LED went off.
Then I tried the VOL+, VOL- & POWER and it started blinking white once, then white again after a while, and I was able to continue with the instructions.
Thanks!
hi guys, as i stated in my title, when i charge it keep blinking red led(whenever i charge), won't connect to the pc, and i've charged it for at least 4 hours i have tried evry thing( power+ vol up) and hard reset at sd slot but nothing can change it now
it may got in some water(but not that many times, only rain, etc) and it keep restarting, and wont comeback to life, i can use for a few minutes, and at that time, i cant seem to charge my phone, and when i hard reset (power+up) it keep restarting until this point, and guys, i bring it to xperia care but they seems tobe helpless, i hope you understand what im saying, btw english is my 2nd language
Can you get to FastBoot Mode (With the phone off, plug it into the PC's USB port and immediately press & hold the UP volume key, the LED should go from Red to solid Blue.) If yes, Run Flashtool (installing it first, if necessary) and try to get to Flashmode (With the phone off, plug it into the PC's USB port and immediately press & hold the DOWN volume key, the LED should go from Red to off, but Flashtool will tell you that the phone is connected in FlashMode)
Have you flashed anything? The usual cause for the red flashing LED is by flashing a ROM or Kernel when you haven't unlocked the bootloader first.
OK, there are some ROMs and kernels which can be flashed on a locked bootloader.
Download an FTF for your phone from the FTF repository thread, and flash it using Flashtool.
Tunki said:
hi guys, as i stated in my title, when i charge it keep blinking red led(whenever i charge), won't connect to the pc, and i've charged it for at least 4 hours i have tried evry thing( power+ vol up) and hard reset at sd slot but nothing can change it now
it may got in some water(but not that many times, only rain, etc) and it keep restarting, and wont comeback to life, i can use for a few minutes, and at that time, i cant seem to charge my phone, and when i hard reset (power+up) it keep restarting until this point, and guys, i bring it to xperia care but they seems tobe helpless, i hope you understand what im saying, btw english is my 2nd language
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Before flashing, have you tried charging the phone through your computer's USB? See if that works.
Hi there,
So in my faults of rushing things today I think I have bricked my phone. I had Lineage and wanted to move back to the latest stock image. Since installing Lineage, I haven't been able to get into the "flash mode" that FlashTool requires to flash the FTF. So I thought I'd hotboot TRWP, did a Wipe of Everything and the plan was to then try flash at least another image from my SD card and try flash the FTF again. In my haste the phone rebooted instead with no system or anything
I can't do the following to aid in recovery:
- with phone off, if I hold down "volume down" and plug in usb cable, the green light comes in for like half a second and then that's it - just get's stuck on the Sony white background screen. No flashmode
- with phone off, if I hold down "volume up" and plug in usb cable, the blue light comes in for like 2 seconds max and then a red light flash and then a green light flash - that's it - then just get's stuck on the Sony white background screen.
I have tried Xperia Companion and repeatedly check adb devices also whilst trying the above and the phone is never recognised once
Any suggestions as to what else I can try? Otherwise this is perhaps now a paperweight
Ok. No idea how this worked but in desperation I just tapped power and volume up I believe at the same time and TWRP loaded even though it wasn't installed!? WTF!? There was an img file on my sd card of TWRP so unless it somehow got to load that, I have no idea how it came back up but I am one chuffed panda I have use of the phone again!
Lesson number two for me and anyone else... don't try get into fastboot mode using a charging port on a laptop. That is why I couldn't get in earlier. Sorry to have wasted any time reading all this crap guys. Sorry! Admin feel free to delete this whole nonsensical thread.
Been there, done that. Multiple times ???
Okay so my phone can't be turned on , when i try to turn it on it gets stuck to sony logo. Now i tried everything i could find on net i tried holding buttons until vibrates three times , i tried yellow off button , i tried turning him off and not touching him for a day and then charging for a day and again nothing new. When i connect it to pc via usb it gives a sound and pc see a new device but it stays as unknown i tried sonny companion and it doesn't work for it. I used flashtool and when i have turned flashtool and plug it with holding volume button up it recognize it , but when i try to flash it nothing happens. Basically while it recognize phone without trying to flash when i try to flash nothing happens , holding volume up gives a blue light , volume down a green but with volume down nothing happens at all pc doesnt react to it that way at all. I am probably rumbling but thats cause i don't really have experience regarding this sort of stuff , phone is out of warranty it was my sisters phone she switched to new one and i took this to see what can i do with it but as i said its stuck at that sony logo. I should probably add that is heating up about a finger or two down from camera position, somewhere half way between where camera is and sony logo on the back. Is there anything i can do or is it bricked for good ? As i said before i can't turn it on to give permissions to flash is there a way around that ?