I like so many other have recently received my gTablet. I have done nothing so far except to charge it and start it to become acquinted with the interface.
When I powered on this morning the system seemed to hang at the gTablet logo. After about 1 minute I pressed the power on button to power off. The next time I restarted I had to go through the whole startup sequence again.
The only thing I noticed that changed is the background. Before it was leaves falling on water, now I have a ocean view.
Has anyone else experienced something similar?
Thanks
Yes, this happened to me too. I updated it, and after two or three startup/shutdowns I got the setup wizard. I did not get this when I started it up the first time.
I then found that I needed to re-install flash. The wallpaper can be changed back by long pressing the screen and selecting Wallpapers -> Live Wallpapers.
I've had a problem on my xperia play, but I don't think its specific from it, because I m on stock...
1 out 10 times I trie to turn it on, it stops on the boot animation.... don't freezes, just don't go any further, the animation keep going... I've noticed that if I touched the screen sometimes it vibrates, only the bottom part, because I was in the unlock screen, I just can't see it, then you unlock and touch on the screen and launch a random app, and then the screen goes as normal....
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On my Galaxy S I've similar isue.
When the phone is completely booted I've seen the bootanimation yet until the power button is pressed
Hi, so sorry for the vague thread title, but really, there's no other way to describe it. So here's what happened.
For the past few weeks (or month), my Xperia Ray has had a problem of switching on after it was put into standby mode, i.e. after i pressed the lock button. The screen would light up, however would remain blank. So all I would get is a bright black screen.
I could have lived with this for a few more months (until Xperia Z gets released in my country D: ) however this problem started getting worse. At first, after pressing the home button, the volume rockers and/or the lock button for about 20 times, the screen would turn on (finally). Despite it giving me that bright black screen, i could still operate the screen. I could still try to unlock it because of the haptic feedback on my lockscreen. I could still change music tracks on my music widget on my lockscreen. In short, the screen worked perfectly, only that it kinda wouldn't show. However, for the past week, the only way to turn it back on would be to do a battery pull and switch on the phone again. And it recently developed a problem of giving me that bright black screen again when I switch it on, causing me to do about 5 battery pulls before being able to actually use my phone again.
I did get fed up with this problem, being a heavy user of my phone. Therefore, today I decided to try to do a factory reset of my phone, intending to wipe the dalvik cache + clear all user data, thinking it might help my bright black screen problem. However, I found that I couldn't boot into recovery because all my phone would do was to give me that bright black screen again! So after many battery pulls, I managed to boot up my phone normally and do a factory reset under the backup & restore tab in settings. Of course, the phone tried to reboot itself, but of course, just gave me the bright black screen.
I kinda gave up at this point, and did many battery pulls and boots, however, all I got was either
1. the terrible bright black screen
or less frequently
2. the free xperia project logo then the terrible bright black screen.
I did get very fed up, so I plugged it into a wall socket to charge it. However, since about an hour or two ago, I realised it may be on bootloop. When I plug it into a wall socket, the free xperia project logo shows up and then an even brighter black screen shows up for about 3-5 minutes, then those two repeat endlessly. The notification light doesn't show that it's charging at all.
Okay here's background info on my phone.
- Is rooted
- Bootloader is unlocked
- CM 9.1 is installed
- Was running GO Launcher (if that helps)
- had a custom boot animation
- I think i deleted an apk for the google start up configuration thing...the one that asks if you have any google accounts you want to connect when you switch on your phone for the first time. I'll search up the correct apk name if you need it.
- Is about a year old (got it last early April)
- is a Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray (in case you didn't notice haha)
- battery level was about 20%+ when I did a factory reset (terrible of me I know)
- I have tried to caliberate the battery a few months ago
That's all the background info I can think you need. Please do let me know if you need any other info. If you need the logcat text of what happens when I hit the lock button at the top of my phone and the phone gives me the bright black screen (the early stages of this problem), let me know and I'll dig it up. I think I've bricked it, but I can't boot it into recovery so I can't do anything. And I did all I could google for the bright black screen problem which I won't tire you by specifying here. Please do help me. It seems as if the worst of evils has befallen my phone. Now I'm stuck here with my phone crazily on bootloop beside me. Please please do help.
Flash stock rom
Just try flashing a stock rom with Flashtool. If the problem persists, then it could be a hardware problem. Flashing a stock ftf takes care of all software issues. Get the stock ics FTF file and place it in firmwares folder of flashtool. Start flashtool and select flash mode. Then choose your ftf and press ok. Then wait until it prompts you to connect your phone. Then, just turn off your phone, while holding the power button down attach the USB cable. The LED notification should turn green and wait until it finishes flashing.
flash extended stock kernel and then the stock ftf firmware file...
hit thanks if i helped u
I have the same problem on my Xperia Mini (ST15i) I use Pureness rom and Mesa Kernel... ((
Benlux1 said:
I have the same problem on my Xperia Mini (ST15i) I use Pureness rom and Mesa Kernel... ((
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Hi, if your phone can still be switched on and hasn't progressed so far in being destroyed, you could try downloading the Disable Auto Brightness app for Xperia phones from the Play Store. I've read somewhere that the screen might not turn on because of the auto brightness. I'm not sure if it actually helps, but perhaps my phone would have died faster without it. I've read of people changing their battery, doing battery calibrations or changing their screen to fix the problem. But before you change the hardware, I suggest that you check the hardware first. If the Disable Auto Brightness doesn't work, do a Nandroid backup and store the backup somewhere safe. Then flash the stock firmware to your phone and try to get it to switch on. Do flash the firmware before your phone runs out of battery because you never know, your phone may decide to refuse to charge your battery anytime. Then try to switch it on. If your phone goes into a bootloop (like mine now) really consider getting a new phone or sending it for repair or try all day to fix it if you use your phone alot. I'm still trying to fix mine.
I flashed the original firmware for my phone, tried to turn it on, was very happy when I saw the original Xperia logo, but then I realised it was on bootloop. When I tried to charge it, it immediately turns on and goes into bootloop again. Logcat doesn't detect my phone, so I can't obtain the logcat of what's happening. I haven't tried to replace the battery of my phone because I couldn't find a supplier. But I'll go on trying to fix my phone until the day that it really breaks down. Good luck with yours and keep us posted.
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Hello everyone, today I came reporting another problem I had with the Xperia M4 Aqua.
After my device returned warranty for breaking in my pocket, the device seemed to work perfectly, it was a new device. Today at around 05:00 AM (GMT -3) I went to sleep and when I woke up called the wifi and went back to bed, spent about 5 minutes I found strange that the device had not notified me of nothing and then when I got him, he was very hot (~ 42 ° C) and was off, I tried to turn it several times, but did not answer me. So I use the OFF button that was in the microSD slot, but no answer. Then I hung up the phone and called in volume - and power button, and he called, however, the supposed screen unlock it features a black screen only shows the notification bar (I can also pull it down), and back button. When I press the camera button, it opens the camera and it works normally, I can take pictures and see her in the gallery, but when he is in the gallery and I touch the screen, it comes back to black screen, the strange thing is that he does not ask for a password lock screen, and even shows other buttons besides the back button. The battery when I went to sleep was about 95%, and now 62%. The settings have been reset, but my applications are there.
I will send my device to Sony again, the device is more time with sony than me. I am very disappointed with the Sony handsets, thinking seriously if I will continue with the handsets it.
My Togari (with standard Sony Lolipop ROM) battery charge was at17% so I have connected it to a charger.
It did not get the red light on for some reason so I have switch the phone off. The red light came on and I have charge to 37% so I thought I switch the phone on. So I did that but instead the usual quick start up the phone went to black screen with a white popup message about checking 200 applications. It went from application 1 to 200 and the message changed to “Android is starting” in bold and the red arrow rotating next to text :”starting applications” below. This started two hours ago and still continuous this same. Looks like the phone got stuck in some kind of a loop. Attempted to press the power button to switch it off but to no avail. Any thoughts how to recover would be greatly appreciated?
krystan1 said:
My Togari (with standard Sony Lolipop ROM) battery charge was at17% so I have connected it to a charger.
It did not get the red light on for some reason so I have switch the phone off. The red light came on and I have charge to 37% so I thought I switch the phone on. So I did that but instead the usual quick start up the phone went to black screen with a white popup message about checking 200 applications. It went from application 1 to 200 and the message changed to “Android is starting” in bold and the red arrow rotating next to text :”starting applications” below. This started two hours ago and still continuous this same. Looks like the phone got stuck in some kind of a loop. Attempted to press the power button to switch it off but to no avail. Any thoughts how to recover would be greatly appreciated?
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Resolved. I switched the phone "OFF" using power and volume up pressed together. Restarted and is OK.