Hi,
my Xperia SP got under a stream of water recently, and since then I've been fighting to bring it back to life.
I had a problem with the hard power-off button being constantly in pressed state, but I fixed it somehow.
Right now I am able to access fastboot and flashmode, however the phone gets stuck at the bootloader screen when I try to turn it on (kernel recovery isn't accessible, leds don't light up).
One weird thing I noticed is that when I just plug USB to the phone, instead of going to "charge-mode", it just enters flashmode?
I tried re-flashing the kernel, and the whole ROM, but it didn't change anything.
Is there anything else I could try?
Any help much appreciated.
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Hi, I´m having a problem with my phone. Possible Hardware, but I still have some hope. Yesterday, I was puting the phone to charge, but it didn't start charging. Only after the third try. This morning, when the alarm set of and I was going to stop it, the phone fell (half a meter) and now I cant turn it on. Power button doesn't do nothing. If I plug it to the charger or to the computer, it starts looping with the battery icon with a circle inside, then with the green battery almost full, and then all over again and again. If I press down while this happens I cand get into download mode. I Tried to flash a rom from odin (no repartition, only PDA, PHONE and CSC) and, and it went ok, but it didn't solve my problem. The loop still continues, but now the green battery doesn't apear. Instead for only half a second the "android icon" that apears while installing a rom apears. And it continues looping.
I already tried another battery. Flashing the rom from odin, the Jig doesn't power the phone, so I can't reset the counter ( I don't know if it was possible with my bootloader. I was on the leaked JB with Philz kernel). Is there anything else I can do with odin and the download mode? I don't know anything about pit files or anything else.
Instaled OLD bootloader with odin, but the jig still doesn't power on the phone
Thanks in advance.
Well, I think I'm going to give up. I'm sending it to samsung. I can't reset the counter, so I think warranty won't cover. If they say it's expensive the repair I was thinking I could open the phone myself and maby change the usb pcb. I found a video on youtube with the same thing that happens to my phone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDc46WUK95w
So I may have screwed up my phone. I wanted to do a complete fresh install and wiped all the partitions in TWRP (except external and usb).
Then before I got a chance to flash the rom my phone died (didn't realise my battery was low I know my fault).
Now it wont boot past the sony logo and I cant shutdown the phone. holding power does nothing tried holding it for over 30 seconds still nothing.
The phone has been stuck at the sony logo for over an hour and is starting to get very very warm.
Does anyone know how I can shutdown the phone to prevent damaging the battery/cpu? Have I hard bricked the phone? I hope flash tool can detect the phone at the sony logo because I can't shutdown to even boot to flash mode
I Do not have access to a computer at the moment.
Thanks in advance.
BULL3TPR00F said:
So I may have screwed up my phone. I wanted to do a complete fresh install and wiped all the partitions in TWRP (except external and usb).
Then before I got a chance to flash the rom my phone died (didn't realise my battery was low I know my fault).
Now it wont boot past the sony logo and I cant shutdown the phone. holding power does nothing tried holding it for over 30 seconds still nothing.
The phone has been stuck at the sony logo for over an hour and is starting to get very very warm.
Does anyone know how I can shutdown the phone to prevent damaging the battery/cpu? Have I hard bricked the phone? I hope flash tool can detect the phone at the sony logo because I can't shutdown to even boot to flash mode
I Do not have access to a computer at the moment.
Thanks in advance.
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Hold Power and Volume Up. That should shut the phone off. If that doesn't work, try the off switch next to the USB Port.
When you do get access to a computer, download SUS and do a software repair to restore your phone to stock (only for locked bootloader). Alternately, you can download a stock .ftf file for your Z2 and flash it via flashtool.
Your phone is not hard-bricked, it is soft bricked. Hard Bricked means that the phone turns into an expensive paperweight dummy handset.
Hope this helps
BULL3TPR00F said:
So I may have screwed up my phone. I wanted to do a complete fresh install and wiped all the partitions in TWRP (except external and usb).
Then before I got a chance to flash the rom my phone died (didn't realise my battery was low I know my fault).
Now it wont boot past the sony logo and I cant shutdown the phone. holding power does nothing tried holding it for over 30 seconds still nothing.
The phone has been stuck at the sony logo for over an hour and is starting to get very very warm.
Does anyone know how I can shutdown the phone to prevent damaging the battery/cpu? Have I hard bricked the phone? I hope flash tool can detect the phone at the sony logo because I can't shutdown to even boot to flash mode
I Do not have access to a computer at the moment.
Thanks in advance.
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Force reset it like here: http://userguide.sonymobile.com/ref...product=xperia-z1#!Resetting-your-device.html
and do a factory reset. Go to recovery -> wipe data/ factory reset.
EDIT: or flash again your rom / kernel.
HussainQ said:
Hold Power and Volume Up. That should shut the phone off. If that doesn't work, try the off switch next to the USB Port.
When you do get access to a computer, download SUS and do a software repair to restore your phone to stock (only for locked bootloader). Alternately, you can download a stock .ftf file for your Z2 and flash it via flashtool.
Your phone is not hard-bricked, it is soft bricked. Hard Bricked means that the phone turns into an expensive paperweight dummy handset.
Hope this helps
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You are a life saver bro I been trying to figure out how to force off the phone for an hour tried every button combo except volume up for some reason (think I tried it but didnt work prolly wasn't actually pushing the button)
yeah I'm familiar with sus and flashtool so I should be good from here out just needed to figure out how to force the damn thing off. I been out of the sony game too long ive been with samsung since my x10 but now im back
Thanks again bro just happy its a soft brick.
Hi. My xperia Neo crashed, I tried to send a photo via bluetooth and the phone just turned off. I tried to turn it on, it appears the "SONY" screen, then the "XPERIA" screen, and then it restarts, over and over again with the same 2 screens. I searched topics, they say that I have to flash it, but I can't start the phone in flash mode, with power and back buttons, any software (Companion, flashtool) don't detect the phone. Is there any solution?
Just like death
adrianoancea said:
Hi. My xperia Neo crashed, I tried to send a photo via bluetooth and the phone just turned off. I tried to turn it on, it appears the "SONY" screen, then the "XPERIA" screen, and then it restarts, over and over again with the same 2 screens. I searched topics, they say that I have to flash it, but I can't start the phone in flash mode, with power and back buttons, any software (Companion, flashtool) don't detect the phone. Is there any solution?
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Hi, I´ve got similar problem. A year ago my Neo V went dead (I thought so). Just for fun, I tried to connect it to PC yesterday and what happened? It started charging and after few minutes I started it (YAAAY)! So I thought It was just some bug that disapiered after discharging. So I did a hard reset, to gain factory settings, repair the firmware via PCcompanion, everything was OK until I shove a memory card inside. After that it died again. Its not charging, no reaction after connecting to PC, no reaction on ON/OFF button, no reaction for button-hard-reset, no response while trying flashing with EMMA or FLASHTOOL, nothing... Does anybody knows what to do with it or do I have to wait again until it discharge and pray it would work after that?
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I have the same problem as you did it to solve? :crying:
So I rooted my HTC ONE S (villec2) today, and I wanted to flash a custom rom on it. I got a recovery (turned out to be a bad one, but it worked either way.... I noticed way too late it was made for HTC One M8) I got TWRP 2.7.1.0 and I got it working on my phone. I then backed up the system, and realized I messed up the recovery. In the meantime I got a CM 12.1 img on it and wiped the thing. The wipe removed the old Android system and the CM I downloaded was a bad download. If I go to recovery in the bootloader, it will just do the HTC white screen with "Entering Recovery" and the red warning logo but it won't get anywhere. It's just stuck there. So now, I'm stuck with a device that won't boot normally - just stuck on the white HTC screen, will boot into bootloader, and I want to know if there's a way of accessing the internal storage without being in the operating system. The worst thing is, there's no external SD Card, all just internal... Please god help me. I'm really stressing out about this since it's the only phone I have and if I lose it.... well I'm practically f-ed.... :crying: I know that I messed a few things up really badly and I'm not sure what state the phone is in.
Also just to add, the phone is barely loading up right now. I'm really scared since it's my only phone and it won't even boot normally right now. It's really acting strange, it was on 90% battery but now it might just be dead... i don't know.... someone please help
I honestly think I screwed it up.... All it does now is just a white flash / flicker when I hold the power button (both only power button and vol down) and that's it. I'm really disappointed right now but oh well.... Maybe just because the battery is not charged.... Also been looking around the other threads and looks like a lot of people had the same issue but with 0 replies...
hi friend
i ve bricked a phone once and i recover it with flashing stock rom
did you try the stock rom ?
cazawiman said:
hi friend
i ve bricked a phone once and i recover it with flashing stock rom
did you try the stock rom ?
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I have no way of trying the stock rom. I cannot access the phone itself because I deleted the OS. There's a weird thing, that if I plug the USB to the computer, it does the connect windows sound but the phone's internal storage is still not accessible.... So as it turns out I can get to the freaking bootloader but then it just turns off with a white flicker a second later.... I have no clue what to do :crying:
try to hook your device with windows and hold the Volume Down and Power
to see if it can detect it
cazawiman said:
try to hook your device with windows and hold the Volume Down and Power
to see if it can detect it
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Alright. I slept through the night and now I'm here trying to resolve this again. Status now, is that when I try to boot it up, it just shows a white flicker and won't turn on. no matter if i try to boot in bootloader or normally. The device doesn't appear to be charging when I plug it in because it doesn't show the LED light for charging. I think it's hard bricked. I tried other threads, showing bright light to the proximity sensor, but nothing happened.
//edit// - My bootloader was unlocked, and I was on S-ON (HTC ONE S, S3 villec2) that might change on your phone and might make the process different
So I fixed it. I will leave the tutorial for anyone in the future that might be having the same issue. If you "locked yourself out" of your system, eg. no OS, and broken recovery just plug it into the computer, try somehow getting into bootloader, go into fastboot and plug the usb cable to your computer so you're in Fastboot USB. Then you can flash a recovery on the phone using a fastboot command. I believe it's fastboot flash recovery _filename_. Just google that, there'll be plenty. Then you have the recovery and you're back on track. After that you can get the rom you wanted. Just don't make my mistake, and check if your device is exactly the same as the files you're downloading for it. I messed up there . Anyway, good luck everyone!
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Happy to hear that u have fixed your phone add "solved " to the title and add a fast tutorial for help purpose
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Hi guys. So I have been going through xda and Google for hours and hours trying solutions, to no avail. I almost never post on forums for help because I can usually find the solution. Not this time. This is my last resort next to throwing my phone out a window or praying for death's sweet release.
The facts: I have a rooted Xperia Z3v. I tried to upgrade TWRP in order to follow some directions on upgrading to Nougat. I flashed TWRP from 2.8.X.X to 3.X.X.X. I rebooted and it never made it to the Sony logo. Now, if I plug the phone in to either a wall socket or PC it vibrates, endlessly at three second intervals, each time with red LED. If I try to enter flash mode, then its the same but with a brief green led after the red. I can enter fastboot (the only way to stop it vibrating while plugged in) and my PC sees it, including Flashtool, but since my bootloader is locked permanently, I can't really do much with it.
When plugged into the wall-charger, I noticed that the charger's LED changes from "Active" to "Inactive" with every vibration. I'm pretty sure I'm in a reboot loop. The screen is totally dead and there's no logo, but every three seconds it kills it self and comes back.
I have tried everything I could think of.
What I have:
I have the stock firmware ready to go
I have TWRP backups on SD card and PC
I have Flashtool
I think my drivers are good, but not 100% sure
I can fastboot
I'm at my wit's end and losing hope.
Please, I'm open to any suggestions at all.