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Hey guys, i bought an x10 yesterday, the seller told me straight up that it wont boot, red led flashes 3 times thats it. (he tried to restore his unit with seus after it randomly crashed). When i met him, i swapped his battery for mine and no more red led but still wont boot. I was able to get it in flash mode so i figured, restore with seus and all would be ok. When i got home, tried restoring with seus and when i got close to the end, it failed. Keeps telling me my battery is dead but when i pop it in my other x10, its at around 80%. So, started flashtool and tried it that way but fails towards the end of the process. Even the new flashtool 3.0 didnt work. Gave up for a bit but then retried. seus failed twice but on 3rd try, it worked. Now, the phone will vibe when i hit the power button, green led flashes and screen kinda turns on but no SE logo, then powers off and restarts the boot (still no SE logo). I put in a full battery and left it that way all night. this morning, red led blinking 3 times again. I changed the battery and it still tries to boot but ends up in a loop. Ive been searching all kinds and no fix is available from what i understand. im really confused atm. hardware issue?
Could be motherboard..
This may not apply to the X10 but my sister's X10 Mini Pro went through a fairly similar issue. The phone was stuck in a bootloop with the SE logo, bootanimation, repeat. No matter what we tried, we could not get it to boot properly. She hadn't made a backup and banned me from doing a repair flash of the firmware so I was trying a load of other options (all the while telling her that the only way out was a flash).
I have an EP900 battery charger so randomly decided to charge up her battery to 100% and give it a try. Boom, booted up perfectly. Used the battery down to 20% and tried to reboot, bootloop again. For some reason the phone doesn't boot without a fully charged battery (didn't try charging it with the phone, only the external charger).
Dunno if this will apply to you, but it may be worth a shot. Otherwise, I'm inclined to think you have a mobo problem. Maybe the seller tried unlocking the bootloader and bricked it?
so.say.we.all said:
Maybe the seller tried unlocking the bootloader and bricked it?
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Thats what i thought at first, who knows.... Bout the battery, i tried a fully charged one too but no go. Also,tried to repair my phone with pc companion but still wont boot up... out of options, im 99% sure its the mobo as well...
Not sure, what the issue is, but you can try the following:
1. Try charging the battery for quite a while, and forget about the phone for 2 hours, for me a few months back. I slept while xrec was on, and in the morning it was showing me the red light......I charged it for two hours which brought my phone back to life.
2. You can use SEUS to update your phone, which will wipe the entire thing and get you a fresh new GB stock. Then you can play with it.
sudip.h said:
Not sure, what the issue is, but you can try the following:
1. Try charging the battery for quite a while, and forget about the phone for 2 hours, for me a few months back. I slept while xrec was on, and in the morning it was showing me the red light......I charged it for two hours which brought my phone back to life.
2. You can use SEUS to update your phone, which will wipe the entire thing and get you a fresh new GB stock. Then you can play with it.
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1. Battery isnt the problem, as i have 2 to play with
2. Tried that, but either it fails, or if it does go thru, it still wont boot.
It wont even show the "Sony Ericsson" when its powered up. Can it be possible, the guy played around and messed up the files required for this unit to boot? Is that even possible?
slikk76 said:
1. Battery isnt the problem, as i have 2 to play with
2. Tried that, but either it fails, or if it does go thru, it still wont boot.
It wont even show the "Sony Ericsson" when its powered up. Can it be possible, the guy played around and messed up the files required for this unit to boot? Is that even possible?
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if you destroy tthe kernel - yes.
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I have had this Atrix 4g for about a year now and it has worked fine. I did a factory reset on the phone because I was giving it to my girlfriend. After the reset the phone would start up in fastboot (without me turning it on). While it was on i installed all the apps set up her motoblur account but once i needed to reboot the phone it would be another factory reset. Everything would be erased and it would fastboot again. I tried to turn fastboot off but I wasn't able to. I rebooted it a couple of times trying to fix it. Even tried another factory reset but using the bootloader (holding the vol - + PWR) and resetting from there. I looked for many solutions online but to no avail. Now the phone won't even turn on. When i plug it in to a charger the LED turns on (green) but it is completely unresponsive. I was running the latest software that was available for the phone (gingerbread 2.3.4 i think). I left it on charge for a day, and it wont work either. Right now I have it plugged into my USB and the green LED is on but it is completely un responsive. Any help or advice to what is going on?
Any help is much appreciated
Thanks
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I have had this Atrix 4g for about a year now and it has worked fine. I did a factory reset on the phone because I was giving it to my girlfriend. After the reset the phone would start up in fastboot (without me turning it on). While it was on i installed all the apps set up her motoblur account but once i needed to reboot the phone it would be another factory reset. Everything would be erased and it would fastboot again. I tried to turn fastboot off but I wasn't able to. I rebooted it a couple of times trying to fix it. Even tried another factory reset but using the bootloader (holding the vol - + PWR) and resetting from there. I looked for many solutions online but to no avail. Now the phone won't even turn on. When i plug it in to a charger the LED turns on (green) but it is completely unresponsive. I was running the latest software that was available for the phone (gingerbread 2.3.4 i think). I left it on charge for a day, and it wont work either. Right now I have it plugged into my USB and the green LED is on but it is completely un responsive. Any help or advice to what is going on?
Any help is much appreciated
Thanks
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I read in some forum that the problem is the sleep of death. Sometimes i have that problem and the only solution is to make a combo of pulling out the battery and connect/disconnect the charge, suddenly it boots.
Some people said that the problem is that the atrix doesn't read well the level of the battery, but it's still surely unknown
joelorona said:
I read in some forum that the problem is the sleep of death. Sometimes i have that problem and the only solution is to make a combo of pulling out the battery and connect/disconnect the charge, suddenly it boots.
Some people said that the problem is that the atrix doesn't read well the level of the battery, but it's still surely unknown
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I have heard about that, and I have tried that MANY times, at least 50+. Would it be worth it to buy a new battery perhaps or is it a problem with the phone itself?
MacMarkus said:
I have heard about that, and I have tried that MANY times, at least 50+. Would it be worth it to buy a new battery perhaps or is it a problem with the phone itself?
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I can't say that maybe the battery is the problem because i don't k ow the conditions of it, but you can try to charge it with an external wall charger and see what happens.
In my case i was sure that my battery was full because i charged it before the combo.
Anoter thing i noticed while the process was that sometimes my phone doesnt boot if it has the back cover on, i had to remove sometimes to turn it on, maybe there is a piece of hardware failing in ny device
I recently decided to root my Xperia Z Ultra and used a modified version of towel root to successfully achieve this, but had no custom recovery. Then using an app I flashed a ROM, the Google Play Edition of android kitkat, which afterwards I was asked to reboot my phone. It just shut down and on charge the notification flashes red, when I hold down power and volume up to reboot it buzzes three times but nothing else, and if I hold down volume up while plugging it in the notification goes blue and stays blue but my PC doesn't recognise it. In Sony PC companion I would be able to repair it by resetting everything, but I am unwilling to do this as I think that it might be a battery issue and it requires an 80% battery to reset. I really don't want to pay someone to fix this so any light would be appreciated. I can give more info if needed.
Thanks
You still have a locked bootloader. Flash a FTF to get back on stock and then unlock the bootloader
Thanks
blueether said:
You still have a locked bootloader. Flash a FTF to get back on stock and then unlock the bootloader
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Thanks for the quick response, when using a Sony tool to reset my phone it said I need 80% + charge to do so, because the screen won't turn on I don't know how much charge it has so I didn't use that tool. Does flashing a FTF require much charge? Because I'm not sure if its charging at all at the moment. I'm glad it might be such a simple solution and if I don't need much charge then hopefully I can fix it!!!
blueether said:
You still have a locked bootloader. Flash a FTF to get back on stock and then unlock the bootloader
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Hey, I have flashed an FTF but the phone still will not boot and now has a continuos red light on charge. I'm thinking this is a battery issue so how would I go about fixing this?
EDIT: The phone has now booted and is working fine! thank you so much!
DavidNorris said:
Hey, I have flashed an FTF but the phone still will not boot and now has a continuos red light on charge. I'm thinking this is a battery issue so how would I go about fixing this?
EDIT: The phone has now booted and is working fine! thank you so much!
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If you do plan on unlocking bootloader be sure to backup your TA partition beforehand.
Hi, I have the same problem. Stuck on black screen with red charge light on. I'd be interested to know how u fixed it. Thanks.
Falcor77 said:
Hi, I have the same problem. Stuck on black screen with red charge light on. I'd be interested to know how u fixed it. Thanks.
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First try to charge the phone for a bit in a different outlet like 4-6 hours
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First try to charge the phone for a bit in a different outlet like 4-6 hours
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Yeah I did that but it was still 'stuck' I fixed it by holding down both volume buttons then also the power button for about 10secs. There was a small vibration and the light went off. After that just switched it back on and bow it's all rooted and running perfectly. Thanks guys.
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First try to charge the phone for a bit in a different outlet like 4-6 hours
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Yeah I did that but it was still 'stuck' I fixed it by holding down both volume buttons then also the power button for about 10secs. There was a small vibration and the light went off. After that just switched it back on and now it's all rooted and running perfectly. Thanks guys.
hi,
i'm new in the forum.
i have an issue:
my tablet doesn't turn on.
i've try to turn it on with the recovery mod (power button and volume up) but nothing...
i put it on charge for something like 4 hours but nothing, no led blinking, no vibration.
what can i try now ? (after pray i mean)
thank you guys
onetwoitsthewu said:
hi,
i'm new in the forum.
i have an issue:
my tablet doesn't turn on.
i've try to turn it on with the recovery mod (power button and volume up) but nothing...
i put it on charge for something like 4 hours but nothing, no led blinking, no vibration.
what can i try now ? (after pray i mean)
thank you guys
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I had a similar issue 2 times with months in between , no response from power+vol up , no lights when charging , no response from pressing on the red button behind the flaps, last time it happened after a reboot from an update and still having plenty of battery left.
I tried putting it on the charger for a whole day with no result , put it back in the box to return it , decided to let it rest a few days first , since someone had the same issue and it magically came back to life when he got back from a vacation.
So i try to turn it on 2 days later and it worked again magically indeed, functions totally restored till this day.
Hope this helps a bit
icyrev said:
I had a similar issue 2 times with months in between , no response from power+vol up , no lights when charging , no response from pressing on the red button behind the flaps, last time it happened after a reboot from an update and still having plenty of battery left.
I tried putting it on the charger for a whole day with no result , put it back in the box to return it , decided to let it rest a few days first , oksince someone had the same issue and it magically came back to life when he got back from a vacation.
So i try to turn it on 2 days later and it worked again magically indeed, functions totally restored till this day.
Hope this helps a bit
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I'm seriously thinking to assistance...
Thank you.
Byt
onetwoitsthewu said:
I'm seriously thinking to assistance...
Thank you.
Byt
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If it's like the Z1 Tablet you could try a complete power down by pressing the volume up/down, and power button for several seconds, then try to do a recovery via the Sony PC companion (so long as you can get into flash mode), if it works you'll loose all data, but it's worth it IMO
icyrev said:
I had a similar issue 2 times with months in between , no response from power+vol up , no lights when charging , no response from pressing on the red button behind the flaps, last time it happened after a reboot from an update and still having plenty of battery left.
I tried putting it on the charger for a whole day with no result , put it back in the box to return it , decided to let it rest a few days first , since someone had the same issue and it magically came back to life when he got back from a vacation.
So i try to turn it on 2 days later and it worked again magically indeed, functions totally restored till this day.
Hope this helps a bit
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I've got something like this going on too. Plugging it into a blackberry playbook charger seemed to give it a charge when the OEM charger wouldn't work. It came back to life. I've also noticed that the tablet won't sleep properly while charging. I plug it in, hit the power button to sleep, and it wakes it self as though I plugged a charger in. And so I cycles dimming the screen to sleep and then seconds later like u tap the power button to get the screen to wake. Something s definitely wrong.
onetwoitsthewu said:
hi,
i'm new in the forum.
i have an issue:
my tablet doesn't turn on.
i've try to turn it on with the recovery mod (power button and volume up) but nothing...
i put it on charge for something like 4 hours but nothing, no led blinking, no vibration.
what can i try now ? (after pray i mean)
thank you guys
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I'd the same on my SGP511 yesterday when rooting failed. Just charge for an hour using Sony charger, then press POWER + VOLUME for more than 60 seconds. It vibrates three times and resume from death. Cheers!
It seems like some of these boards may be failing. I think this issue is related to the screen not powering off while charging issue. Users are reporting that Sony is repairing the devices by replacing their main boards. I wonder if there is a known issue with z2 tabs that Sony is aware of.
My z2 tab has both of these problems. I flashed a factory ftf to it and it still had the problem. This is what led me to believe that it was hardware related as it didn't used to do it running cm11 or stock firmware.
I had this happen to me once or twice, though in my case I could recover via power + up/down (can't remember lol) .
In the end my tablet developed other symptoms (namely inability to magnetic charge, and screen stays always on when charged) so i sent it off for repair and they replaced the motherboard.
Hasn't happened since, though I only have had it back for a few weeks. Touch wood.
wintermute000 said:
I had this happen to me once or twice, though in my case I could recover via power + up/down (can't remember lol) .
In the end my tablet developed other symptoms (namely inability to magnetic charge, and screen stays always on when charged) so i sent it off for repair and they replaced the motherboard.
Hasn't happened since, though I only have had it back for a few weeks. Touch wood.
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Does replacing the motherboard mean fully stock and locked boot loader with present DRM keys?
Fatal1ty_93_RUS said:
Does replacing the motherboard mean fully stock and locked boot loader with present DRM keys?
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Yep as in these tablets the flash/CPU/RAM etc. is baked into the mobo so its more or less getting a new tablet internally.
to my shame I updated it without remembering you can only root the older firmware which it did come with ROFL.... oh well the only thing I use root for is adblock
I've just posted my version of events regarding this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xpe.../strange-experiance-xperia-z2-tablet-t3044275
wintermute000 said:
Yep as in these tablets the flash/CPU/RAM etc. is baked into the mobo so its more or less getting a new tablet internally.
to my shame I updated it without remembering you can only root the older firmware which it did come with ROFL.... oh well the only thing I use root for is adblock
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Can't you just use flashtools to downgrade your tablet back to the rootable 4.4.2 firmware?
I managed to downgrade my xperia z2 4g tablet with flashtools application.
Only hiccup was that i accidentally put my tablet in bootloop while i tried to downgrade it, after that i just rooted and installed dual recovery. With that dual recovery i could flash pre rooted 4.4.4 and so i still have my drm keys and ps4 remote play app.
For whatever reason, last night, my phone started acting as if the battery was low but even at 100%. My screen is dimmed, the red LED is always on, and restarting doesn't seem to help. Anyone seen this, know what the heck I can do to fix it?
Other tidbits of information:
The red LED is only on when the screen is on. If the screen is shut down or another LED notification is shown, the red LED turns off for that brief time
Activating Stamina mode *further* decreases the brightness.
The unit is dim when first being powered on, through the boot screen, etc
It happened last night while charging my phone. It was quite hot for a little bit and then dimness
maybe trying a factory reset
do you install any app that dim the screen?
I did try to factory reset, but to no avail. As I mentioned, it's dim when it's first booting, so I don't think it's software.
rainbowtuba said:
I did try to factory reset, but to no avail. As I mentioned, it's dim when it's first booting, so I don't think it's software.
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Next step is to do a software repair via Xperia companion if it's still the same after that it'll probably need to go to a Sony service center..
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