Hello to all!
I had my Xperia P hard bricked during CMW installation and I am trying hard to fix it by myself, because I believe I lost the warranty because of it ...
So I ask: is there anyone who can help me with a possible JIG Xperia P?
or any other option to reinstall android on my phone, because he is really dead! no recognition usb, no hard boot, no battery charging, no flashing lights....
nothing seems to work!!! ...
can anyone help me please?
Thank you in advance!
Alex
Alex Rocha said:
Hello to all!
I had my Xperia P hard bricked during CMW installation and I am trying hard to fix it by myself, because I believe I lost the warranty because of it ...
So I ask: is there anyone who can help me with a possible JIG Xperia P?
or any other option to reinstall android on my phone, because he is really dead! no recognition usb, no hard boot, no battery charging, no flashing lights....
nothing seems to work!!! ...
can anyone help me please?
Thank you in advance!
Alex
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Bit more detail how you bricked it installing CWM. What exactly you done and where you get it from.
Try to shut it down, press power + volume up untill you feel (1+) 3 vibrations.
See if you can connect it in flash mode (connect usb to pc while you hold volue down), the led should turn green.
Xperia P hard bricked
ChikeD said:
Bit more detail how you bricked it installing CWM. What exactly you done and where you get it from.
Try to shut it down, press power + volume up untill you feel (1+) 3 vibrations.
See if you can connect it in flash mode (connect usb to pc while you hold volue down), the led should turn green.
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First I'd like to thank's for your help ChikeD!
Well.... I was trying to install the new CM 11 Nightly Build - a custom ROM build on Android 4.4.2 KitKat- on my Sony Xperia P device
I had rooted succesfully and was seaching for an app on google play store to provide access to "recovery mode" that works with my LT 22i to finish the installation of this new rom... i tryed lot of apps, but no one worked... and so I've found this app "Recover X" from LEDelete developer.
after install and run, this app show me one option to get access to recovery mode... i dont remember exactly, but i saw somethig like "CMW......" on screen. after download, I tryed to reboot my phone and then its completly dead!! i'd tryed any kind of possibility pressing buttons dowloading softwares and more but my computers didn't recongize it when connect USB cable...
vol+ / power dont work, vol- / usb dont work, no charging indicator, no lights blinks, nothing works! it looks like a motherboard without any operational system...
And I saw in some websites that exist one JIG for Samsung devices that alows recovery phones with problems like mine... so i wonder if is possible to find some JIG for Xperia P or any other possibility of reinstallation of android system
I hope i made myself clear because I'm still learning this language... that means I'm sorry for my bad english in advice...
If there is anything that you can't understand, please let me know
Thank's a lot!
Alex
If you had asked before I would have told you Recovery X won't work, didn't work the 2 times I have tried it, but didn't brick my phone eithr.
To incatal CM you didn't neet to root or install CWM since you need to flash it's kernel anyway.
Is your bootloader unlocked?
Was the phone fully charged when it happened, did it start boot and then died or just went black?
Have you tried to hold the power + volume up for 10-15 minutes?
To reinstall firmware you need flash mode (volume down while connecting to USB), have you flashed with flashtool or PC Companion before?
ChikeD said:
If you had asked before I would have told you Recovery X won't work, didn't work the 2 times I have tried it, but didn't brick my phone eithr.
To incatal CM you didn't neet to root or install CWM since you need to flash it's kernel anyway.
Is your bootloader unlocked?
Was the phone fully charged when it happened, did it start boot and then died or just went black?
Have you tried to hold the power + volume up for 10-15 minutes?
To reinstall firmware you need flash mode (volume down while connecting to USB), have you flashed with flashtool or PC Companion before?
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Yes i had reinstalled twice by flash tool and pc companion, holding vol down while connecting to USB, because the device was with very low performance.
When i was trying to get rebooted on "recovery mode" before the black screen, my battery was on 85%....
Yesterday i tried to do "hard reboot" holding the power + volume up for 50 minutes and nothing....
Actually what i really need is find a way to get some response of the system of this phone (by connecting in some jig, or doing something with the software or even the hardware...), because if my computer recognize the phone, i do believe that i'll can handle with reinstallation... in other words, my challenge now it's only get out from the black screen for any other operational response
One of my ideas is unmount rear cover and try to disconnect the battery cord for 10 minutes and see if something changes... but i'm fully opened to new ideas
I really believe that i'll succeed on this case with yours precious help!!
Thank you again for your assistance!
Alex
Alex Rocha said:
One of my ideas is unmount rear cover and try to disconnect the battery cord for 10 minutes and see if something changes... but i'm fully opened to new ideas
I really believe that i'll succeed on this case with yours precious help!!
Thank you again for your assistance!
Alex
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It might, worked for this guy http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2628715&page=2
ChikeD said:
It might, worked for this guy http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2628715&page=2
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Well... unfortunately remove the power cord did not worked... no changes! i confess that i was betting on this procedure... but ok! Let's keep searching for a new option!
Best regards!
Alex
Hello all, thanks for helping me out.
I did a very foolish thing. I rooted my phone and deleted a few bloatware apps that were apparently very important to the phone's functionality. I did not install any recovery software like CWM, fastboot, or anything. It was a stock phone that I simply rooted to remove a few apps. When I went to restart my phone, I found out that I bricked it. Now my phone will only enter Download Mode if I hold the up+down volume buttons and plug it in, or it will get stuck on the LG logo screen and a Security Error screen. A factory reset with the volume down + power will work, but does nothing to fix it.
My immediate issue is that when I plug my phone into the computer, the phone will recognize it has been plugged into a power source (it will either go into Download Mode if I was hitting the volume up+volume down buttons, or start trying to boot up but cycle through the LG logo screen and Security Error screen) but the computer will not acknowledge that anything has been plugged in. There is nothing new listed in the Device Manager. I have read other threads and searched around on the internet. The usual solutions are not working for me:
I have tried several other cables and computers to no avail. I have also tested my current computer/cable, and it worked for data transfer with another phone (Nexus 4)
I have tried cleaning out the contacts on the phone. They were not significantly dirty.
I have tried installing the drivers from LG and even the UniversalNakedDriver
I believe that if I could get my computer to see my phone, I could flash the stock rom back and restore it to working order via LGNPST. I know it is simply a software issue, because prior to my rooting the phone it was recognized by the computer.
Does anyone have any other solutions I haven't tried? Or is this something I need to go JTAG on?
My Toto tv lap one netbook boots to the Toto icon with the message: Boot into recovery mode. I forgot the password so I used Android Device Manager to wipe and reset to factory defaults. Now I'm stuck at the icon screen. I tried the recommended procedure to boot into recovery mode: Press reset button, unplug power cord, continue pressing reset button and replug power cord. Nothing changes. In the comments section of the one blog with the reset procedure. a lot of people wrote in that the procedure didn't work. No one has replied with another option. The netbook is a year old and worked fine, as I wrote, I just forgot the password. The problem, as I see it, is: I need to find a way to discover the proper procedure to boot into recovery mode or perhaps there is some software out there that would let me reinstall the os. I'm open to any suggestions. I appreciate you taking the time to read this and for any advice you may have. Thank you.
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hwally said:
My Toto tv lap one netbook boots to the Toto icon with the message: Boot into recovery mode. I forgot the password so I used Android Device Manager to wipe and reset to factory defaults. Now I'm stuck at the icon screen. I tried the recommended procedure to boot into recovery mode: Press reset button, unplug power cord, continue pressing reset button and replug power cord. Nothing changes. In the comments section of the one blog with the reset procedure. a lot of people wrote in that the procedure didn't work. No one has replied with another option. The netbook is a year old and worked fine, as I wrote, I just forgot the password. The problem, as I see it, is: I need to find a way to discover the proper procedure to boot into recovery mode or perhaps there is some software out there that would let me reinstall the os. I'm open to any suggestions. I appreciate you taking the time to read this and for any advice you may have. Thank you.
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hi, i have the firmware ...
send me a mail: [email protected]
and i will send you,
I have a samsung galaxy s3 i9300! While i was sleeping, i was charging my phone and when i woke up the phone was stuck at the initial logo screen of samsung! Then, i tried to press the home bottom power and volume up bottom to reset while it was doing that it went back again to the logo screen before being able to choose wipe cache and stuff! I tried it several times! Then as i was searching through net i saw that odin thing custom Rom and i thought that maybe i should give it a try! So i tried to installed it by connecting my phone to the laptop but my pc did not identify my phone! Then I tried again by connecting and disconnecting the pc with my phone and while doing so i pushed the button of Repartition at Odin. My phone was not identified so i have no idea if that happened! Now my phone does not even open, or charging! Please tell me if there is a way to make it work again!
It might be of some help to mention that my charger is a new one that i bought from bol.com and its not the original one! I have no idea if that affected somehow the mobile functioning.
No, you are unlikely to fix that. You can try a usb jig, see if download mode will start, but it sounds like partial SDS followed by user panic until it was hard bricked.
If it didnt show in odin you have a driver issue and the repartition wouldn't have happened.
Remove battery, sd and sim. Make sure the battery is charged.
Insert battery and hold home+vol down while pressing power once.
If the screen lights up do not let go of home+vol down until it has entered download mode. If the phone wont light up at this point you have a bigger problem.
Once in download mode install the samsung mobile device drivers on your pc, you might need to try different versions, and plug the phone into the pc's usb on the motherboard. Try to avoid using front mounted or shared ports as they are unreliable. If your phone doesnt interact with your pc try other drivers.
Sent from a stolen phone!
Hello everybody,
I bought the Nabi 2, as refurbished, for my little child and from the beginning I am having problems to turn it on or wake it up from sleep. It is not rooted, has everything stock and I have also applied all available official updates (OTA).
The problem is to turn it on, both from sleep or from powered down state. For example, being in sleep mode (display off) for a few hours, to wake it up I have first to press the power button for about 10 seconds, than release it and press again until... the start up Logo appears, as it was completely shut down! Maybe through pushing the power button first time I turn it off unintentional, so the second time it has to power up and load the OS? But just pushing the power button shortly will not wake it up at all from sleep mode... Is this a known problem and is there a solution for it?
Thanks in advance for each advice!
Conrad
Conrad-007 said:
Hello everybody,
I bought the Nabi 2, as refurbished, for my little child and from the beginning I am having problems to turn it on or wake it up from sleep. It is not rooted, has everything stock and I have also applied all available official updates (OTA).
The problem is to turn it on, both from sleep or from powered down state. For example, being in sleep mode (display off) for a few hours, to wake it up I have first to press the power button for about 10 seconds, than release it and press again until... the start up Logo appears, as it was completely shut down! Maybe through pushing the power button first time I turn it off unintentional, so the second time it has to power up and load the OS? But just pushing the power button shortly will not wake it up at all from sleep mode... Is this a known problem and is there a solution for it?
Thanks in advance for each advice!
Conrad
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The only semi known issue I have seen is when you put the tablet to sleep and it's charging. In some instances the tablet will lock up at some point after going to sleep. When you try to wake in up via power button it is locked up. When you hold the power button for 10sec you are hard powering it off and then it reboots. If yours wasn't charging then I haven't read much about anyone having a similar problem.
aicjofs said:
The only semi known issue I have seen is when you put the tablet to sleep and it's charging. In some instances the tablet will lock up at some point after going to sleep. When you try to wake in up via power button it is locked up. When you hold the power button for 10sec you are hard powering it off and then it reboots. If yours wasn't charging then I haven't read much about anyone having a similar problem.
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Thanks for your reply, aicjofs.
In my case it happens always, no matter if charging or not... and it's annoying.
Would rooting and installing a custom ROM solve the problem? If yes, is there a custom ROM dedicated to kids, similar with the stock one?
Conrad
Wrong Section Buddy !!!
StariX37 said:
Wrong Section Buddy !!!
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and why ???
StariX37 said:
Wrong Section Buddy !!!
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Ignore this guy. I have a friend with the same power on issue with her Nabi 2, and I'm interested to read the solution here.
...no other hints concerning my problem ?
Please, if somebody has an idea, just reply here.
Conrad-007 said:
...no other hints concerning my problem ?
Please, if somebody has an idea, just reply here.
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I'm still struggling with the random problems on my Nabi...
Is it possible to check the integrity and/or health of internal memory, find and mark bad blocks, etc. using a computer (Windows or Linux) connected through USB? If yes, how? Do I need to flash TWRP or something else on the Nabi before?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Conrad
Conrad-007 said:
I'm still struggling with the random problems on my Nabi...
Is it possible to check the integrity and/or health of internal memory, find and mark bad blocks, etc. using a computer (Windows or Linux) connected through USB? If yes, how? Do I need to flash TWRP or something else on the Nabi before?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Conrad
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The latest TWRP should have a section under the wipe menu where you can repair the file system which is probably easiest, although you need to be careful what you are doing in there as it is called the "wipe" tab for a reason. Should be able to go to wipe menu, select data partition checkbox, select change or repair filesystem(don't swipe to wipe, click the words check/repair etc) and select check in the next screen.
To do a filesystem check the partition can not be mounted so you do it from recovery not in Android. Since stock recovery you can't use ADB you pretty much need TWRP one way or another.
If you don't want to use the graphical interface in TWRP you can do it over USB with ADB and use e2fsck on the partitions after unmounting them, but it's going to be doing the same thing you will just see a more verbose version if you do it over adb.
Thanks a lot, aicjofs.
I will try to root and install first TWRP, as my Nabi is still untouched.
One thing I remarked: at the moment, when I go in the (stock) recovery and want to do a "Wipe data/factory reset", 2 lines are displayed before "-- Wipping data...": "E: missing bitmap stage_empty (Code -l)" and "E:missing bitmap stage_fill (Code -l)". After that, the wiping process seems to run normal, as I get the message "Data wipe complete." at the end.
Do you know what that lines are meaning? Could those lines help to debug the main problem ?
Update: NO WAY to get TWRP on my Nabi, regardless how hard I try...
NabiLab 2015 recognize the Nabi without problems, but as soon as I select "Recovery installer", Nabi should reboot-bootloader (I suppose), but hangs at Nabi Logo (the small icon in the middel of screen) forever. Also in Control Panel, the device is shown as ""Fastboot" with the error symbol and the indication that the driver should be installed again (but of course, when I try to do it, Windows tells me that the newest drivers for that device are already installed).
I also tried with using directly adb in a cmd window, with the same result, as soon as I type "adb reboot-bootloader" and press enter.
I am really out of ideas...
Conrad-007 said:
Update: NO WAY to get TWRP on my Nabi, regardless how hard I try...
NabiLab 2015 recognize the Nabi without problems, but as soon as I select "Recovery installer", Nabi should reboot-bootloader (I suppose), but hangs at Nabi Logo (the small icon in the middel of screen) forever. Also in Control Panel, the device is shown as ""Fastboot" with the error symbol and the indication that the driver should be installed again (but of course, when I try to do it, Windows tells me that the newest drivers for that device are already installed).
I also tried with using directly adb in a cmd window, with the same result, as soon as I type "adb reboot-bootloader" and press enter.
I am really out of ideas...
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The hang with Nabi logo is because the fastboot driver is somehow broke. You will likely have to install it manually. Which driver are you using?
I gave most of the driver options here http://forum.xda-developers.com/nabi-2/general/nabi-information-t3229119
aicjofs said:
The hang with Nabi logo is because the fastboot driver is somehow broke. You will likely have to install it manually. Which driver are you using?
I gave most of the driver options here http://forum.xda-developers.com/nabi-2/general/nabi-information-t3229119
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You were right! I've installed the "nacked" driver on a fresh windows 7 and now I have TWRP on my Nabi 2!!! Thanks a lot!!!
Now is there a way to get rid of the freezing problem when I attach the charger while Nabi is on? Right now, if I attach the charger this way, Nabi 2 will freeze completely and only a reboot can get the normal functionality back!?!
Charging the Nabi in "off" state works however...
Conrad-007 said:
You were right! I've installed the "nacked" driver on a fresh windows 7 and now I have TWRP on my Nabi 2!!! Thanks a lot!!!
Now is there a way to get rid of the freezing problem when I attach the charger while Nabi is on? Right now, if I attach the charger this way, Nabi 2 will freeze completely and only a reboot can get the normal functionality back!?!
Charging the Nabi in "off" state works however...
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I dont have Nabi2's anymore but both my kids tablets did the same thing. I never really found a solution. I did buy a cable from Nabi store that has the orange braid covering. It seemed to make a difference, but it still happened from time to time.
Happy New Year!
As I mentioned, I was finally able to install TWRP and did all wiping, cleaning, repairing tasks that were available
After that I flashed the "Nabixus 0.1beta for Nabi 2" ROM which worked very nice.
But... I still have the same problems starting up the Nabi!
When I finally succeed to start it (after many trials), it works well, but if I let it go in standby and wait more that a few minutes, I am not able to wake it up again and I have to do a restart (about 10 sec. hold the Power button down).
What I`m not getting at all: is this a software or a hardware problem? Can my Nabi 2 be repaired after all, or I just have to scrap it?
The last thing I could still think to try would be to repair the partition table through TWRP / Adb / Adb shell. Should I try it? Where can I get a good partition table for my NV7A and, after having it, which commands are required?
... aicjofs, please... help
Conrad-007 said:
Happy New Year!
As I mentioned, I was finally able to install TWRP and did all wiping, cleaning, repairing tasks that were available
After that I flashed the "Nabixus 0.1beta for Nabi 2" ROM which worked very nice.
But... I still have the same problems starting up the Nabi!
When I finally succeed to start it (after many trials), it works well, but if I let it go in standby and wait more that a few minutes, I am not able to wake it up again and I have to do a restart (about 10 sec. hold the Power button down).
What I`m not getting at all: is this a software or a hardware problem? Can my Nabi 2 be repaired after all, or I just have to scrap it?
The last thing I could still think to try would be to repair the partition table through TWRP / Adb / Adb shell. Should I try it? Where can I get a good partition table for my NV7A and, after having it, which commands are required?
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You can't repair the partition table from adb/TWRP. It's read only. You could through nvflash but I don't think the partition table could possibly cause the issue. I think you are meaning fix super blocks and inodes of the filesystem? Even that is a stretch if it's happening how you describe it but with a try. Did you try repair filesystem like we talked about earlier? If not backup all the data and try a wipe data. That will make sure to blow away and reformat the data partition.
It could be hardware. I know for sure the charging system causes it when plugged in but not about the first boot stuff or when it's not charging.
Thank you aicjofs for your answer,
yes, I did attempt to repair the system, data, cache and it was successfully. I did it several times. I also wiped everything a few times and installed the Nabixus ROM afterwards. Nothing helped. It's like the operating system needs to "get warm" somehow, because I have to try to power on the system many times, until I get it work... but after that, if the Nabi goes in standby, I have to start the whole thing over
How can I check for damaged blocks, etc.? If I can do it and find some, could they be marked as "bad" and isolated? Would it make sense?