Hi guys, so I recently came across my old phone and just remembered all the things I had on it. However when I try to switch the phone on, nothing happens. I've left it on charge for a few hours and still nothing. I tried to turn it on again (even during the charging process) and still nothing. I then gave it the old soft/hard reset by holding down the power+volume down button for 15 secs, nothing. Then held down all the buttons....nothing, no vibration, no form of life whatsoever.
When I plug it into the PC, the sound of a device being connected plays, then the disconnect sound follows about 3 seconds after. I tried the soft reset method when I plugged it into the PC and after about 10 secs, the same sounds played as if my computer had detected a device but then disconnected it. This must mean there's some sort of life in the phone right? Any chance anyone knows a solution to this?
Charged it for about 4 days, still no sign of it turning on!
After charging, press and hold Vol-down and On/off buttons together for a longer time. It should vibrate and switch on.
Best regards,
Joachim
Related
My 5.0 is hard bricked. Black screen, won't charge, won't turn on. When plugged into outlet or computer, still black screen.
I rooted it back in December with no problems until today. Decided to plug it into an outlet to charge it since battery was around 50%. After about 30 minutes, used it to check weather, etc., then I did a quick push of the on/off switch to turn off the screen. About 2 minutes later, went to turn it on and got the black screen. I decided to leave it plugged into an outlet for about 1 hour and still nothing.
Looking at other, similar, bricked posts for the 5.0, doesn't seem applicable to this completely dead device (wasn't installing a rom or doing anything unusual).
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Solved
I was able to fix the problem, without losing any data, by going into recovery. For others who may run into similar issues, I did the following:
Pressed the power and volume up key simultaneously for about 10 seconds until the SAMSUNG logo appeared.
Selected 'reboot system now' and pressed the home button.
Hello everyone,
I got a question. Yesterday, my phone shutdown do to no more battery. Once I got home (about 1h30 after), I plug-it into my computer for a good slow charge. I noticed the led was blinking red instead of staying on, but I though it was due to critical low battery. After 3 hours, still the same. I try to open it but nothing happened. Then, I noticed that when I touch the screen or button, the phone vibrate.
I then unplug and try again, same thing. I try plug into the wall charger, samething.
Then I proceed to hold the power button for 5 seconds. All three touch button start flashing and stayed on, but no joy, still vibrate when touching anything with screen turn off (not just no backlight, no image at all).
I manage to found out that holding the button nearly 10 seconds, it force a reboot and then was OK and charged at 70%.
I'm wondering what's the deal here. Is it a problem with the stock rooted rom?
Thanks
nodiaque said:
Hello everyone,
I got a question. Yesterday, my phone shutdown do to no more battery. Once I got home (about 1h30 after), I plug-it into my computer for a good slow charge. I noticed the led was blinking red instead of staying on, but I though it was due to critical low battery. After 3 hours, still the same. I try to open it but nothing happened. Then, I noticed that when I touch the screen or button, the phone vibrate.
I then unplug and try again, same thing. I try plug into the wall charger, samething.
Then I proceed to hold the power button for 5 seconds. All three touch button start flashing and stayed on, but no joy, still vibrate when touching anything with screen turn off (not just no backlight, no image at all).
I manage to found out that holding the button nearly 10 seconds, it force a reboot and then was OK and charged at 70%.
I'm wondering what's the deal here. Is it a problem with the stock rooted rom?
Thanks
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
it's because of TWRP
Ok. What must I do when phone get out of battery then? Yesterday, I tried for 30 minutes before it started
Sent from my HTC EVARE_UL using xda app-developers app
Hello, been googling this and it constantly brings me to this forum.
However my Xperia P is unmodded/rooted or whatever.
Situation:
Phone won't turn on or even charge no matter what I try. I don't even get a red charging light or any screen activity. Tried an number of chargers, sockets and USB ports. Left it over night, no change.
Trying the various "Hold down the volume button and turn it on" tricks google turns up has had no effect either.
I have not tried using the sony repair option yet because it says it will delete anything on internal storage! This phone has no SD card slot and everything is saved on the phones 16gb internal storage. This is what I care about the most, I have photos and videos from nostalgic events such as a wedding that I really REALLY want to recover. I don't care if my phone goes up in flames, its whats on it that I really want!
Background:
Two days ago it ran out of battery overnight (was pretty sure it was near full before I went to bed.) Left it in the charger the next day after I noticed it was off and came back to it a while later to see it still wasn't turning on HOWEVER I was getting the red light and the sony boot up screen and then back to black screen as there was no power. I was not paying a whole lot of attention at this stage however as I was returning home from a trip. Just assumed the cable was off and it never got a charge.
Came home and began charging it that night, again, red light still worked when I tried to turn it on indicating it had low battery,
But when I came back to it, AGAIN it still had no charge. But by this stage no more red light no more phone activity.
I've no idea what's happened. Phone has been annoying me the past 6 months with randomly running out of battery out of the blue and poor performance but I was not expecting this. Really don't want to lose those photos or vids, is there ANYTHING I can try?????
Thanks for reading.
@Sisko-ire
Have you updated firmware with flashtool or PC Companion before?
Do you know how to and can test if you can connect the phone in flashmode (phone off, connect to USB while pressing volume down key).
Try pressing power + volume up for about 10 seconds, see if you get the (1+) 3 vibrations to turn it off before you try flashmode.
Thanks for the reply.
ChikeD said:
@Sisko-ire
Have you updated firmware with flashtool or PC Companion before?
Do you know how to and can test if you can connect the phone in flashmode (phone off, connect to USB while pressing volume down key).
Try pressing power + volume up for about 10 seconds, see if you get the (1+) 3 vibrations to turn it off before you try flashmode.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
As mention I have tried the various 'hold down button' options mentioned on various posts before. Phone does not respond. Zero vibrations... nothing.
I have used the PC companion to update my phone (android update from what I can guess). Not used flashtool before.
Holding down the volume key and plugging in the USB does nothing.
Sisko-ire said:
Thanks for the reply.
As mention I have tried the various 'hold down button' options mentioned on various posts before. Phone does not respond. Zero vibrations... nothing.
I have used the PC companion to update my phone (android update from what I can guess). Not used flashtool before.
Holding down the volume key and plugging in the USB does nothing.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
One thing reported to fix similar problem was to disconnect the battery, but didn't work for another user, worth a try though.
If you still havent gotten it working, there is a way to force charge the battery. Look at my thread, got some pics there.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2644772
hello! sorry, i'm completely new with this kind of stuff so please bare with me ;_;
i've recently dropped my xperia z2 phone into water and it won't turn on. charging the phone only shows a red LED and disappears once disconnected. the battery shouldn't be flat since it was 80-90% when dropped. i've tried holding the power button + volume up, which made the phone vibrate (three times i think?), but no longer does anything when power+volume up is pressed. when plugged into a computer, it says the usb device has been installed correctly, but it still does not read.
i feel there's not much that can be done, but i've put the phone in some rice for several hours now praying. is there still hope for me? ;__;
Hi I'm really hoping someone can help me. I received a Sony z2 tablet spg521. I was told it was new but it would not power on or charge, and the charge light would sometimes blink red. Well I got the fixed or so I thought by doing a soft reset and then pc companion...sounded simple but spent a couple days trying to be successful. Sometimes my computer would recognize it sometimes it wouldn't.... Any way I finally got it out the blue dont know what the difference was I was just happy it finally worked... I then fully charged...yadayada and used it flawlessly for about a week... It would turn on and off, battery held charge like its supposed to, everything seemed to work.....then I went to power off but hit the restart by mistake....no there is no power again and this time it will not do a soft reboot.....no light ever....computer will not recognize ever....I have been trying off and on for a few days.....among-est my research to try to correct it seems like this is very common....when i shut it off the battery was over 50%..so how can something work fine then just die like this??? Ive seen that sometimes with sony if you disconnect the battery and the reconnect this will work... does anyone know? does anyone have any advice before I take apart this cherry tablet to try the battery thing???
I would really appreciate any insight as I have fixed many of my own problems and for others from advice on this site. Have a wonderful day and thank you!!! :silly:
ok today i tried to use flash-tool that Ive read about on this site....when it asked to plug n device computer recognized it and red light came on, but flash-tool did not recognize it....torn between letting it set and seeing what happens or trying to get the flash-tool to work, I chose the flash-tool...bad mistake when I went to try to reconnect and see if the FT would see it..it was no longer recognized by the computer and no light but computer did say USB device not recognized and not installed correctly.....now I already have the right drives so now Im really confused..tried a couple more times with same results and then once again nothing...no light no soft reset no recognized at all by computer not even not recognize USB....so disappointing loved the tab but this is insane that sony does this as its not user error but sony error and they dont even man-up and try to make it like you dumb or something....will try again..when i calm...
reset the device by pressing power+volume(up or down) for several seconds. It seems like a toasted one, possibly caused by putting magnetic charger on wrong polarity.
Thank you yes Ive tried all kinds of resets I have found...I agree seems fried but I would not know how. I have not used a magnetic charger...only the regular sony one that came with it....
So last few days I have tried off and on again....now computer recognizes by making noise when connected and disconnected but does not show up...PCC does not recognize it.....flashtool says its connected in log but when it asks for it to be plugged in it never leaves the screen telling you how to connect....when I try to connect the charge light comes on for about 4-5 secs then turns off....still no vibrate when try to reset still no light when plugged to a charger.....I want to get another one but I am scared this will happen again....gonna chuck this one as if time is money then I have well exceed the worth in time... I only got this because some time ago a sony z1 came my way and I so love it...i recently upgraded to z3.....i have a lg pad but screen got broke so I got the sony tab....maybe Ill just fix the lg
perrytallirico said:
So last few days I have tried off and on again....now computer recognizes by making noise when connected and disconnected but does not show up...PCC does not recognize it.....flashtool says its connected in log but when it asks for it to be plugged in it never leaves the screen telling you how to connect....when I try to connect the charge light comes on for about 4-5 secs then turns off....still no vibrate when try to reset still no light when plugged to a charger.....I want to get another one but I am scared this will happen again....gonna chuck this one as if time is money then I have well exceed the worth in time... I only got this because some time ago a sony z1 came my way and I so love it...i recently upgraded to z3.....i have a lg pad but screen got broke so I got the sony tab....maybe Ill just fix the lg
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Mine is kinda toasted and this is how it works. Whenever I have a problem, I have to reset by pressing power + volume up, as soon as I hear three vibrations, I turn it on by pressing power button. Otherwise this tablet will just repeat sony logo and no boot. If you have bought one "NEW" make sure to return or replace it. If you want to enter fastboot mode, repeat the resetting routine and pressing power button to turn on, but also right after that or even simultaneously press volume up to enter fastboot mode with usb cable inserted, or volume down to enter flash mode. either way, your unit is toasted and sony sucks.
Well, I have the same problem, and isn't fun. Just very extreme rare cases it turns on the screen charging the battery, but doesn't turn on sadly
I did a happy boot today after 3-4 months off with several times trying turn it on, and did all the tricks from all treats about SOD
Last weekend I did a full charge from deep red to green light and battery animation on screen at start, but no luck.
I put it back in the box
This weekend I got some visitors, one of them asked about the tab, told him it didn't work and showed to him
Pressed the power button and to my WERY BIG surprise, it vibrate and turned on as nothing was wrong
The battery was only 54% after one week off. it received a update (264) and I installed as normal, turned off and on again as normal and happy I was
Sent from my SGP521 using XDA Free mobile app
DDz_1888 said:
Mine is kinda toasted and this is how it works. Whenever I have a problem, I have to reset by pressing power + volume up, as soon as I hear three vibrations, I turn it on by pressing power button. Otherwise this tablet will just repeat sony logo and no boot. If you have bought one "NEW" make sure to return or replace it. If you want to enter fastboot mode, repeat the resetting routine and pressing power button to turn on, but also right after that or even simultaneously press volume up to enter fastboot mode with usb cable inserted, or volume down to enter flash mode. either way, your unit is toasted and sony sucks.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
thank you