Hi everyone, i have a problem with my Sony Tablet S, suddenly it's freezing and when i try to turned it back on it stuck on booting screen (with sony logo ).
then i checked to the internet and i found that i have to hard reset it, by holding down the + volume button and power button in order to get to the Android System Recovery. But then again no clue, i have tried reset to factory setting and keep stuck on boot screen. its frustating.
Prompt on my screen :
E: Fail to read boot logo flag
E: Cant Open / Dev/block/mmcblk0p5
(No Such file or directory)
E: Failed to Mount /cache (No such file or directory)
E: Cant mpunt/ cache/recovery/command
E: failed to mount /cache (No such file or directory)
E: failed to mount /cache (No such file or directory)
On the Android System Recovery there is Update System from SD Card, is there any possible ways that i can put Honeycomb virtual image on to the SD Card then make it as a bootable device, so i can boot from my SD Card.
Please help! thanks a lot !
If it was previously on Honeycomb, and you could find someone with a rooted Tablet running ICS from the same region and same version (WiFi vs 3G etc) then you might be able to recover it.
You would need to get them to install the rescue-bcakdoor on their device, allowing them to download the OTA update file. You could then try and ABD push that file onto your device's storage and install from the Recovery menu.
Just a thought! Otherwise, you could try sending it back under Warranty or something..
Disclaimer: This is by no means a tested solution and you may want to check on a few things before trying this. I take no responsibility for anything that happens as a result of this procedure. As always, I recommend trying Sony's Warranty and Repairs department for an official, warranty-valid repair.
Same problem here
I have the same problem with my Sony tablet s, i udated it to 4.0.3, it was working fine till yesterday when it would not start, its stuck at the logo, ive tried factory reset, but nothing changed, i did not have a recovery data either.
i would appreciate if some one would guide me how to fix it, either upload the ota update file, can i root it some how or flash it by using an UPDATE.Zip on memory card and try system recovery using android 3.2.1 ota file. please help
help me too
I got the same problem yesterday(29. May), it might be google did something via OTA. I'm using China version, changed region to US and upgraded it to ICS, but unfortunatlly, can't root in ICS now. Yesterday, it suddenly stuck and can't reboot any more. always stuck on Starting Screen. I called Sony Customer Center, and follow their struture to reset the tablet, but not help. Can any one help me to fix it....
InMyEyes said:
I got the same problem yesterday(29. May), it might be google did something via OTA. I'm using China version, changed region to US and upgraded it to ICS, but unfortunatlly, can't root in ICS now. Yesterday, it suddenly stuck and can't reboot any more. always stuck on Starting Screen. I called Sony Customer Center, and follow their struture to reset the tablet, but not help. Can any one help me to fix it....
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I'm not too sure about easy fixes (I'd have to work through it a lot more, which is tricky without the error), but I know that it can't be Google. Google neither could nor would release an OTA package that aggressively downloaded to the device, installed and then broke something at system boot-level. Doesn't really work like that.
arso123 said:
I have the same problem with my Sony tablet s, i udated it to 4.0.3, it was working fine till yesterday when it would not start, its stuck at the logo, ive tried factory reset, but nothing changed, i did not have a recovery data either.
i would appreciate if some one would guide me how to fix it, either upload the ota update file, can i root it some how or flash it by using an UPDATE.Zip on memory card and try system recovery using android 3.2.1 ota file. please help
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If you have this problem and you don't have a rooted tablet, you won't be able to downgrade. you must send it back for repair, since it can't reboot normally, sony won't detect any self bricking tracks, so warranty is still in the game, had the same problem to with Region Changer somewhere in V2.1 or something.
Goodluck.!
I have the same problem too, and I can't send it to sony service because it's not on sale in my country. I look forward to deal with it through sd card. Can't use USB connection. (not rooted too).
I have a similar issue, but mine seems to be stuck on the bootscreen animation (with the swirly yellow lines traveling from one side to the other). Haven't tried the power + volume up yet, will try that to see if I can hard reset. I was rooted on HC, but decided to take the ICS update so I believe that I'm unrooted at this point--still unsure though.
Regions - guarantee
Same problem here
Have tried all of the tips in this post...Still stucked with the Sony logo..
I bought my in Krakow, Poland, but lives in Norway... it has the /P on the back instead of the /N.
Do you know if the guarantee is worldwide? If I can drop this to a Sony shop in Norway?
I dont have the receipt anymore, because I claimed a refound from the company I work in...
Thanks
Rune
What color is on the tabblet?
Is it green or red?
I think if its green, there is no fix.
If its red, use the battery completely then recharge it until green light.
Try after that. Mine was fixed whit same problem.
Well, I've tried everything that I've found on the forums/internet to no avail. Just contacted Sony support and am having them send me a box to ship it back for repairs (luckily I only bought it last December). The operator on the phone says that it's most likely a hardware issue if it doesn't get pass the "Sony" logo. This leaves me a bad taste with Sony, won't be buying a tab or phone from them again.
I have had the same issue, so will be going back to Sony soon for a repair. Disappointed as I've only had it 6 weeks, but as long as the repair service is good I'll be ok.
Same problem here tonight. Unreal. Purchased last August. Won't buy another Sony again. First it was the constant soft resets in order to power on. Now this.
I got the same problem on my sony tablet s device too model SGPT111US/S anykne fixed this erorr yet?
Now i can't do any things because it stoped at logo SONY, please help, any flasher or rom support this device from pc ?
Just got off the phone with tech support. Couldn't even get it to do a factory reset. Stuck on system restore screen. Sending it in for repair. Very disappointing. Paid $500 for this thing. Didn't last a year. A few more weeks and I would have been out of luck on the warranty.
SCIONTX said:
Just got off the phone with tech support. Couldn't even get it to do a factory reset. Stuck on system restore screen. Sending it in for repair. Very disappointing. Paid $500 for this thing. Didn't last a year. A few more weeks and I would have been out of luck on the warranty.
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I Have no money for this, and i'm in vietnam, can't contact with any one.
No way to fix this ?
update, when i'm enter recovery mode, i enter ADB, run via cmd, adb can send reboot comand: adb reboot :cyclops:
then the tablet reboot, but still loop at sony, and i see windows is try to install MTP USB Device but un successful.
Any ideas ?
goldenfish said:
update, when i'm enter recovery mode, i enter ADB, run via cmd, adb can send reboot comand: adb reboot :cyclops:
then the tablet reboot, but still loop at sony, and i see windows is try to install MTP USB Device but un successful.
Any ideas ?
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What version did you have before boot loop? 3.2.1, 4.0.3?? Try to flash a us rom from recovery. You can find in my signature link.
Good luck
Chur
stifilz said:
What version did you have before boot loop? 3.2.1, 4.0.3?? Try to flash a us rom from recovery. You can find in my signature link.
Good luck
Chur
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it's 4.0.3,
custom rom from your link is zip file, i don't know how to flash this file, because the tablet can't mount sdcard ????
goldenfish said:
it's 4.0.3,
custom rom from your link is zip file, i don't know how to flash this file, because the tablet can't mount sdcard ????
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Oh didn't realise you can't mount, that is an issue then. Sorry you may be soft-bricked
Hope you can find something
Chur
Ok, so I wanted Ice Cream Sandwich on my Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant SGH-T959.
I found a Youtube video and eventually installed the passion ICS rom on my phone successfully. Then, I inserted my external sd card and took it back out with out unmounting it. This made my phone want to wipe all my (internal) sdcard data. So stupidly, I did. Luckily I have a recent backup. But then I did a reboot, and it said that the encryption failed and I needed to reset my phone. I complied. Then it would only go into the mod recovery screen, since I had no rom to reinstall (my sdcard wouldn't mount for some odd reason, even after I tried repeatedly). So I decided to start over. I used odin to revert it to what it came like. I unplugged it because it got stuck at cache.rfs and soft-bricked it. Luckily I know how to fix this so I got it back into odin, and I got it to work until it would have a blue reset box in the top left corner, and it said I removed my device. My phone then tried to reboot. It showed the vibrant screen, then crashed and showed the little swirl thing that it does before it shows the green charging battery, it would show that, then show that with the battery in the background, then crash and start again, never getting to the green battery. I tried unplugging it and booting it that way... it went to the vibrant screen and crashed yet again. Also can't get it to display the pink animation. I tried the odin thing again just to get the same result. I tried to boot into recovery mode and it won't even do that. It wont show the terminal thing to save its life. Any ideas? I can get it to the download screen. Any hope? (sorry for the in-depth story, but I thought it might help someone pinpoint what was wrong) I am sporting windows xp. Losing data isn't a problem for either my internal sdcard or external sdcard seeing as I have complete backups on my computer.
Thanks!
Help Please!
UPDATED!
I just tried again and it showed the terminal thing for the first time since I used odin. It will now show the green battery screen, it went into terminal and looked like it was doing stuff and it said that the data wipe failed. Boot Pattern still the same, goes to the vibrant screen and then crashes.
UPDATED YET AGAIN!
It will now go into recovery.
AND AGAIN
Now after I wiped it etc. in recovery mode and rebooted and now it just shows the vibrant screen and crashes over and over on its own.
here's a work around fix
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1580902&highlight=encryption
Not-Working Links, noncompaitibility with windows xp it doesn't restore to 2.1
So I tried that a bit ago and the pit file link to download doesn't work. So I used the default one for the vibrant. Didn't successfully run 2.1. Still same problem. Oh, and also, the whole command prompt open in that folder doesn't work on xp, only windows 7 or vista, I found a fix, but still it doesn't recognize adb as a command that is acceptable or whatever.
Thanks, but any other help?
I try Odin and when my phone shows data formatting..... it says data wipe failed afterwards. I think this is the problem.
blu422 said:
So I tried that a bit ago and the pit file link to download doesn't work. So I used the default one for the vibrant. Didn't successfully run 2.1. Still same problem. Oh, and also, the whole command prompt open in that folder doesn't work on xp, only windows 7 or vista, I found a fix, but still it doesn't recognize adb as a command that is acceptable or whatever.
Thanks, but any other help?
I try Odin and when my phone shows data formatting..... it says data wipe failed afterwards. I think this is the problem.
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Looking back... I didn't know what adb was and now that I have the android SDK installed I'm sure I would be able to fix. Too bad I sold it for an insanely low price. Ugh.
Galaxy S3 T999 rooted and flashed more than daily.
Hi there, i'm only really posting this out of desperation, I'm at my absolute wit's end with this tablet and i honestly can't suss out what's wrong with it anymore
I followed http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20032494&postcount=2 to try and install CWM and it worked, CWM is running and uses 6.0.12 i believe the version is without looking.
UNFORTUNATELY now i can't access anything via CWM, i can't mount, open or format any of the internal stuff like system, cache, log, emmc ect. I've tried reflashing different versions of CWM with no success via ADB, they just quite simply don't seem to be taking hold no matter how many times i reboot or reflash and also i can't boot into the OS anymore, which really sucks since it won't accept anything i try flash to it.
Now here's the real slap in the testes, The original firmware recovery seems to be now gone meaning i can't put the device into software update or firmware recovery or anything to try flashing with Livesuit, i'm sure there's something i'm missing somewhere can anybody help? Livesuit definately detects SOMETHING is going on when i hold the volume buttons and hammer the power button, my system beeps and LiveSuit pops up, but it only displays a blank error message which i'll take a screenie of, from there it refuses to do anything else.
I've also tried using USBDeview or whatever it's called to remove every trace of a driver related to anything remotely Android and gone that route but no luck again.
I've looked into and read (and re-re-re-re-read) every single post i can find about this but the threads have either gone or died out
EDIT - Another quick think i forgot to mention was that if i try to view the partitions or hardware info via ADB i get extremely limited info back which i'll post in as well when i get chance
Hi
I am really hoping someone can help me. I have been trying for weeks now to fix my phone: Samsung Galaxy S2 GT-i9100G. In July I stupidly updated from Gingerbread, which was working perfectly, to 4.1.2. Now my phone is practically useless. It switches itself off all the time, unless I just use it as a clock. Essentially I can only use it when it is plugged in. So I decided to try rooting it to do a battery calibration. With my mac I used heimdall to flash a rooted kernel and didn't get the full messages I expected: the final line about reattaching drivers was missing. Then when I used a terminal simulator or superuser on the phone I got an error: no su binary installed etc. So I decided to try using my linux machine last night. This time I got the full feed in terminal, so it looked like the installation was successful, but the same thing: the phone was not actually rooted.
I had also tried unsuccessfully to go back to gingerbread using the mac, no luck. Last night I was so frustrated that I decided to try installing cyanogenmod. At this point I have very little to lose: the alternative is to pay to unlock my old nokia and use that as an actual phone. I tried using the cyanogenmod wiki instructions (which I am not allowed to link to) but pushing to the sdcard didn't work. I got some error: is a directory. Note that when doing the factory reset through CWM recovery it said there was an error formatting the sdcard (something like android_secure. I should have written all of this down). Then I tried sideloading but I just got stuck on the sideload screen on the phone and had to restart the phone. I also found a guide about rooting through CWM recovery but it involves the same push method which just doesn't work. I guess that the problem is the sdcard formatting (note that after last night's factory reset I still have photos on my phone which shouldn't have survived) but I don't know what to do about it. I did try "format sdcard" from recovery mode but that failed.
I am comfortable with command line stuff but will need step by step instructions. I am not an expert at all, have just been reading a lot over the last few weeks trying to fix this. My flash counter now shows 14 or something (some resulted in soft bricking). I don';t know what I am doing wrong. Please help!
Try to flash it with Odin.
spider1029 said:
Try to flash it with Odin.
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I'd have to get hold of a windows machine (none at home or work). Why do you think that would work better?