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So after an unsuccessful ROM flash my phone was stuck at bootloader for quite sometime...i had a micro SD card reader and inserted it into multiple computers running XP, vista and ubuntu...they all registered that i had plugged something in but wouldn't show it as a disk drive...now i've already figured out how to access it but i put a new ROM image on it and tried to reflash but after the flash when my phone booted up it simply switched itself off... when i switched it back on it went back to the bootloader and tried to reflash the ROM. mid flash it just switches itself off... I realize that this is probably due to the charge level of the phone so i plugged it it but it will be off and charging then it will suddenly decide its got enough battery power and boot up to the bootloader screen until it dies again...how do i stop this vicious loop
tlglegacy said:
So after an unsuccessful ROM flash my phone was stuck at bootloader for quite sometime...i had a micro SD card reader and inserted it into multiple computers running XP, vista and ubuntu...they all registered that i had plugged something in but wouldn't show it as a disk drive...now i've already figured out how to access it but i put a new ROM image on it and tried to reflash but after the flash when my phone booted up it simply switched itself off... when i switched it back on it went back to the bootloader and tried to reflash the ROM. mid flash it just switches itself off... I realize that this is probably due to the charge level of the phone so i plugged it it but it will be off and charging then it will suddenly decide its got enough battery power and boot up to the bootloader screen until it dies again...how do i stop this vicious loop
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can you put your phone into bootloader mode (power and vol down together whilst powering on)? be a good idea to remove your sd card first.
cr1960 said:
can you put your phone into bootloader mode (power and vol down together whilst powering on)? be a good idea to remove your sd card first.
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I can't really manually put it into bootloader mode, but when the phone thinks its charged enough it will start up itself and go into bootloader mode
Does your phone say "RUUNBH" in the top right corner? Have you yanked out your battery then put it back in before charging? Those are the two things I would try. And BTW, in the future you shouldn't create two threads in different parts of the forum.
DaveTheTytnIIGuy said:
Does your phone say "RUUNBH" in the top right corner? Have you yanked out your battery then put it back in before charging? Those are the two things I would try. And BTW, in the future you shouldn't create two threads in different parts of the forum.
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yea im sorry its just my phones been down for days and its really bugging me and i just want to get this fixed and my phone does say RUUNBH in the top right corner and i have yanked out the battery waited a few seconds for good measure and put it back in before charging...it still just loops into bootloader before dieing and charging again
Phone started up again this is what it says in bootloader
RHOD300 32 M SS-BC RUUNBH in top right
SPL-0.85.Olinex
MicroP(LED) 0x0A
MircroP(KEY) 0x04
TURBO HW/TURBO SW
TP MFG DATA
then it has some numbers and code error under it with try again
then it says 218,842 calibrated
Okay, the problem is that the RUU flag is set, and the device won't do anything until that is cleared. What you need to do is establish a connection via MTTY. Follow the instructions here about how to connect to your device via MTTY. Once you get an MTTY connection established with your device (it may take awhile, MTTY is quirky like that), simply type
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set 16 0
You may need to manually soft reset the device. Then, I highly recommend flashing to a stock ROM using the microSD card method, before flashing another cooked ROM.
DaveTheTytnIIGuy said:
Okay, the problem is that the RUU flag is set, and the device won't do anything until that is cleared. What you need to do is establish a connection via MTTY. Follow the instructions here about how to connect to your device via MTTY. Once you get an MTTY connection established with your device (it may take awhile, MTTY is quirky like that), simply type
Code:
set 16 0
You may need to manually soft reset the device. Then, I highly recommend flashing to a stock ROM using the microSD card method, before flashing another cooked ROM.
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hey thanks Dave i plugged in the usb then i waited until my phone was charged enough to switch on and go to bootloader then i opened MTTY the USB port showed up i selected it and it connected no problem i typed in set 16 0 then the device reset and showed the touch pro 2 boot screen then my phone died and started charging...i left it charging overnight and this morning it booted up and started loading the ROM...after it was finished i hard reset it just to be sure and now it's working perfectly thanks very much i appreciate the help
Duplicate thread??
Dude!! you already opened this same thread here, and HERE. Why another??
Closing thread.
Don't do this again.
My phone got wet and now it starts up but gives me the black screen where I can press volumeup to hard reset, but it doesn't respond when I do this. I'm trying to flash it or do something to fully revert it to a brand new state, but I obviously can't use active sync and cannot get access to the phone's internal memory. How can I do anything?
flash through sd card. good luck with that. Hope you did try the phone completely
I was hoping there was a way to flash with just the sd card. Would you be kind enough to at least link me to where I could find instructions for this?
The phone is dry. It starts up fine and keeps on, stuck at that black screen. It's been a while since I got it wet.
Thanks.
8gkl said:
My phone got wet and now it starts up but gives me the black screen where I can press volumeup to hard reset, but it doesn't respond when I do this. I'm trying to flash it or do something to fully revert it to a brand new state, but I obviously can't use active sync and cannot get access to the phone's internal memory. How can I do anything?
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mutantblack said:
flash through sd card. good luck with that. Hope you did try the phone completely
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8gkl said:
I was hoping there was a way to flash with just the sd card. Would you be kind enough to at least link me to where I could find instructions for this?
The phone is dry. It starts up fine and keeps on, stuck at that black screen. It's been a while since I got it wet.
Thanks.
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Well it won't matter because it has water damage. Are the little stickers inside pink? If so then they will charge you for any repairs so it won't matter what ROM you have on..
Who will charge me for repairs?
I don't recall ever saying that I will give it in for repairs, because I am aware of the voiding of the warranty when the wet seal becomes pink. Because I realize all of this, I decided to give it a chance flashing the phone and starting it with a new install to see if that would work, as my last chance to get anything out of it.
8gkl said:
I was hoping there was a way to flash with just the sd card. Would you be kind enough to at least link me to where I could find instructions for this?
The phone is dry. It starts up fine and keeps on, stuck at that black screen. It's been a while since I got it wet.
Thanks.
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Try this way
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=550540
Thanks, but I checked those instructions out already, and they assume that I am able to use activesync with the phone. The phone doesn't boot far enough for activesync on my computer to recognize it. All I can do it insert the 16gb microsd card into my usb card reader and put whatever I want on it, and then back into the phone. I would think there is a way to just put the rom onto the sd card and put it into the phone, and then press some kind of bootloader startup key combination so that the phone goes straight to the installation.
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Thanks, but I checked those instructions out already, and they assume that I am able to use activesync with the phone. The phone doesn't boot far enough for activesync on my computer to recognize it. All I can do it insert the 16gb microsd card into my usb card reader and put whatever I want on it, and then back into the phone. I would think there is a way to just put the rom onto the sd card and put it into the phone, and then press some kind of bootloader startup key combination so that the phone goes straight to the installation.
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If you take a look a little further down the very same page that SonyEX1 provided, you will see this:
Flashing Via MicroSD Card
1. Make sure your microSD is Formatted to fat32 (you dont have to delete all files but it is safer if you do)
2. Download your prefered Rom from the Rhodium Rom Develpoment Page and unzip/unrar it to your PC
3. Goto the Roms Folder and rename the .nbh file to RHODIMG.nbh
4. Copy the RHODIMG.nbh file to the root of your MicroSD Card
5. Plug the MicroSD Card into the phone
6. Enter the BootLoader screen, you will first see a tri-color screen with the phone and SPL Information at the top
7. Follow the On Screen instructions to start the update
8. After flash has completed, press the reset button with the stylus to reset the device.
As has been stressed many a time on this forum, please make sure that you read through all of the instructions (entire page) very carefully prior to flashing.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=550540
Good luck.
Mike.
Thanks, I noticed that note at the end of the post, but the only rom that I think I would be able to flash is the stock one, because I don't have HardSPL. I can't get HardSPL because I can't activesync the phone to my pc. So I pretty much need the stock rom in nbh format to try anything at all.
I noticed that when I enter the bootloader and plug the phone in to my computer via usb, the computer detects something and says that an htc device is attached, but microsoft activesync still doesn't recognize it and the phone doesn't show up in my computer.
So I guess the search is on to find an .nbh format for the stock rom.
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Thanks, I noticed that note at the end of the post, but the only rom that I think I would be able to flash is the stock one, because I don't have HardSPL. I can't get HardSPL because I can't activesync the phone to my pc. So I pretty much need the stock rom in nbh format to try anything at all.
I noticed that when I enter the bootloader and plug the phone in to my computer via usb, the computer detects something and says that an htc device is attached, but microsoft activesync still doesn't recognize it and the phone doesn't show up in my computer.
So I guess the search is on to find an .nbh format for the stock rom.
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I am not sure what carrier you are on, but if you download the stock ROM from whichever carrier you need (or the generic HTC ones if you have an unbranded one) it should be an .EXE file.
You should be able to right-click on the .EXE and extract the contents into a temp directory using any decent compression software (I use 7-zip). There should be a RUU_signed.nbh file that you can rename, copy to your microSD and manually flash from there.
(And if you already didn't know, you enter bootloader mode by first powering off the phone, hold down the VOL Down key, and power the phone back up while holding the VOL Down key. You should then see the tri-color screen above. This part isn't mentioned in the instructions above and assumes you already know how to get into bootloader mode.)
Thanks. I didn't know that you could extract .exe's, so I have been searching and found someone's uploaded stock rom in .nbh format. I put it on the sd card and went to the bootloader with it. Right now, It's been at a white screen that just says "Loading...". This has been going on for the past 5 minutes without changing. I don't know how a successfull rom flash is supposed to look like, so I don't know if it's working or not.
Is it supposed to be moving or what? How long do I wait before snatching the battery?
UPDATE:
I guess the stock rom that I tried previously was faulty or something, because it was hung on the loading screen, so I downloaded the TMOUSA one from their website, extracted the NBH, and put it on the SD card. Everything started looking really good because I had a progress bar and it said something like Radio OK and something else was OK and it was loading the ROM, and then all of a sudden it rebooted into the bootloader, gave some kind of error that I can't really read because it is written on top of the other text in the bootloader, goes into the Loading screen to begin installing the rom, and then reboots again. This is the loop that takes place right now.
It seems like the problem is a dead battery though, because it started flashing fine that first time, and now the phone won't even turn on unless I plug it into USB power from the wall or a PC. But when I do plug it in, it just goes through this bootloader loop. So here is where I'm stuck.
It seems like I need a fully charged battery to attempt to reflash the stock rom or install any other rom because when the phone is in bootloader, it doesn't charge the battery, and I have no means of charging it.
8gkl said:
It seems like I need a fully charged battery to attempt to reflash the stock rom or install any other rom because when the phone is in bootloader, it doesn't charge the battery, and I have no means of charging it.
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you should be able to charge te phone when it is completely off/ Pull the battery out, put it back in (do not power it up), and charge it over night (or at leastfor a couple hrs)
If the phone was fine before you got it wet, what makes you think re-flashing the stock rom will make it better?
I once crashed my ROM while flashing and wasn't able to do at least anything.
There was no USB-Connection or something else.
At last I entered the bootloader and there the USB-Connection was working and my Computer recognized the Mobile. So I suggest you to try this. To enter the bootloader look for any tutorials around here.
Edit: Aaargh, havn't seen your last post, so forget about it
cjm1979 said:
If the phone was fine before you got it wet, what makes you think re-flashing the stock rom will make it better?
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Because as I've mentioned previously, after getting wet, the phone boots up into a black screen where it tells me that I can press the VolUP button to hard reset or anything else to soft reset. Pressing any keys at that point doesn't do anything and I can only shut it down by taking out the battery. So I decided to at least try reflashing the rom. It looked like it was installing fine with the last power the battery had, but now I have no hope.
8gkl said:
Because as I've mentioned previously, after getting wet, the phone boots up into a black screen where it tells me that I can press the VolUP button to hard reset or anything else to soft reset. Pressing any keys at that point doesn't do anything and I can only shut it down by taking out the battery. So I decided to at least try reflashing the rom. It looked like it was installing fine with the last power the battery had, but now I have no hope.
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i have heard of shops that charge batteries up but never seen one. I suppose you may be able to buy a stand alone battery dock if they do one for the Touch Pro 2. Dont you know anyone with the same phone that could charge it for you?
No I don't really know anyone with the same phone. I've called 4 shops and all said that they either don't have the same phone to put the battery in to charge, or can't perform this kind of service. I ended up taking apart a usb cable and formulating my own usb charger. Charging right now, will report on how this worked out.
Ok. This is the kind of device i meant.
amazon.com/European-Desktop-Cradle-Battery-Charger/dp/B002JJC7OW
Hello All,
Hoping someone will be able to assist me, though I'm starting to lose hope.
I have spent all day so far reading threads, and trying various suggestions and fixes, but nothing has really helped and I'm beginning to think the phone may just be kaput.
Initial issue was nothing out of the ordinary; woke up to find the phone was not responding so pulled the battery. After putting the battery back in, the phone would no longer turn on. Uh oh. Did the obvious, repull the battery, try again. Nothing. Connect to charger (nothing happens, no charging icon on screen). At this point I think the battery has died so I bought a new one. No change, phone still won't turn on and nothing happens when I plug it in to charge.
So now I connect it to my PC, and I get the installing hardware message trying to install the APX stuff which fails. After some research, I manage to get the APX drivers installed such that the phone is detected when I plug it in. More research, decide to try the AOI Toolkit to backup everything first. This works ok.
So now I try and enter recovery mode via Power key + Volume Down key. Nothing. Ok, change the recovery image then. Device is not detected via ADB method. NVFlash method instead then. The bootloader loads fine, the screen wakes up and shows the S/W Download... message. I figure this is a hopeful sign. I try all 3 (ics-cwm-5, ics-cwm-6, twrp-2.5). They all flash successfully. However, I can't enter recovery mode with any of them. Once I disconnect the phone, insert the battery and then hold down the Power + Volume Down buttons, nothing ever happens.
I've also tried the LG Update Tool and the Smartflash options, but the phone is never detected.
As a last resort I repartitioned. This also worked ok, but still no recovery mode.
tl;dr
Phone won't turn on, show as charging, or enter recovery mode. Works when connected as APX with AOI Toolkit.
Am I missing something? Doing something wrong? Any assistance is greatly appreciated. Thx.
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Okay, I'm bumping this thread myself (mostly because I'm an idiot and this could happen to me, too), but to give you my two cents: Have you tried the Full Brick Repair tool? You flash it through NVFlash and apparently "it cures any brick". Try it and tell us how it went.
NoDze said:
Okay, I'm bumping this thread myself (mostly because I'm an idiot and this could happen to me, too), but to give you my two cents: Have you tried the Full Brick Repair tool? You flash it through NVFlash and apparently "it cures any brick". Try it and tell us how it went.
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Thanks for the suggestion. The flash process itself completed without issue, but still nothing once the battery is inserted and the power button is pressed. I'm going to assume there is some sort of hardware issue at this point and consider the phone officially dead. Now, where's my hammer...?
xda_fanboy said:
Thanks for the suggestion. The flash process itself completed without issue, but still nothing once the battery is inserted and the power button is pressed. I'm going to assume there is some sort of hardware issue at this point and consider the phone officially dead. Now, where's my hammer...?
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Don't give up yet. Try smartflash and flash stock, or whatever. Seriously. Just keep on trying. I had a Samsung Captivate a year back and something similar happened where I woke up one beautiful morning, tried to unlock my phone: no response. I thought I had an SOD, so I pulled the battery out, reinserted: bootloop. Entered recovery, can't flash anything, unable to mount system/data partitions. Turns out my internal memory/ROM got fried. Yay. But until then, I tried every possible option. Wow, this turned out to be a bit depressing. Just try more stuff. After you've tried everything, and I mean everything, declare the phone dead.
I think i have a similar problem. Just woke up to find my phone to be dead. Tried the usual methods, nothing. Best it could do was from time to time show me a battery sign with a red triangle and a whtie exclamation mark in it. Then sometimes i manage to get into the recovery mode, there i tried practically everything. Used restore, it shows that restore was a success, but when i reboot my phone i get into an endless circle of bootloader icon appearing and dissappearing,
EDIT: somehow from the countless attempt it fired up.
Make sure to have the right bootloader before nvflashing unbrick roms....
xda_fanboy said:
Hello All,
Hoping someone will be able to assist me, though I'm starting to lose hope.
I have spent all day so far reading threads, and trying various suggestions and fixes, but nothing has really helped and I'm beginning to think the phone may just be kaput.
Initial issue was nothing out of the ordinary; woke up to find the phone was not responding so pulled the battery. After putting the battery back in, the phone would no longer turn on. Uh oh. Did the obvious, repull the battery, try again. Nothing. Connect to charger (nothing happens, no charging icon on screen). At this point I think the battery has died so I bought a new one. No change, phone still won't turn on and nothing happens when I plug it in to charge.
So now I connect it to my PC, and I get the installing hardware message trying to install the APX stuff which fails. After some research, I manage to get the APX drivers installed such that the phone is detected when I plug it in. More research, decide to try the AOI Toolkit to backup everything first. This works ok.
So now I try and enter recovery mode via Power key + Volume Down key. Nothing. Ok, change the recovery image then. Device is not detected via ADB method. NVFlash method instead then. The bootloader loads fine, the screen wakes up and shows the S/W Download... message. I figure this is a hopeful sign. I try all 3 (ics-cwm-5, ics-cwm-6, twrp-2.5). They all flash successfully. However, I can't enter recovery mode with any of them. Once I disconnect the phone, insert the battery and then hold down the Power + Volume Down buttons, nothing ever happens.
I've also tried the LG Update Tool and the Smartflash options, but the phone is never detected.
As a last resort I repartitioned. This also worked ok, but still no recovery mode.
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Phone won't turn on, show as charging, or enter recovery mode. Works when connected as APX with AOI Toolkit.
Am I missing something? Doing something wrong? Any assistance is greatly appreciated. Thx.
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Try to flash a new recovery image in apx mode.
And edit the /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 partition your self.
seek=6144 count=75 bs=1 / boot-recovery
Thanks for the added input and encouragement folks.
Just reporting an update:
Having been unsuccessful more times than I could count, I decided to physically disassemble the phone (normally Engineering fix #2, but performed out of order on this occasion). I have zero idea why it should have made a difference, as all I did was take it apart and then put it back together, but the phone has groaned back to life.
Of course, then sausage-fingers here managed to tear the digitizer cable when doing the final reassambly... /facepalm
Anyhow, I have a replacement on order, so I'm hopeful that when I receive that in a few days I'm back to a fully functional Optimus 2x!!
My xperia c6603 was sea water damaged a few weeks ago and was completely dead.
Yesterday, after washing it in distilled water and drying it, I was able to get it to go into fastboot and flashmode.
I used flashtool to load a new FTF, and it flashed it without any errors. But I can't boot. when i hold power button, it the red LED will blink 3 times sometimes. No vibrate.
I also used fastboot to flash a clockwork mod, but also cant seem to boot up.
What is going on?
1. Is the boot loader dead? If it were dead, would I be able to go into flash and fastboot and flash the device?
2. Is there still water or damage and the battery is not charging, and thats why it wont turn on?
3. Is there any way to recover user data in fastboot or flashmode? I would really like to get back my vacation photos.
Thanks for any help guys.
voytech_ said:
My xperia c6603 was sea water damaged a few weeks ago and was completely dead.
Yesterday, after washing it in distilled water and drying it, I was able to get it to go into fastboot and flashmode.
I used flashtool to load a new FTF, and it flashed it without any errors. But I can't boot. when i hold power button, it the red LED will blink 3 times sometimes. No vibrate.
I also used fastboot to flash a clockwork mod, but also cant seem to boot up.
What is going on?
1. Is the boot loader dead? If it were dead, would I be able to go into flash and fastboot and flash the device?
2. Is there still water or damage and the battery is not charging, and thats why it wont turn on?
3. Is there any way to recover user data in fastboot or flashmode? I would really like to get back my vacation photos.
Thanks for any help guys.
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Well, I think you've already answered to your question.
I don't think that you will be able to get your data back, 'cause water has damaged your phone's motherboard, in which, as you already know, all the data is being saved.
By the way, is your screen working properly or it doesn't show anything?
I suggest you to keep your phone with opened ports in a plate of rice for a night, that could help you.
Data recovery success from water damage
LaurynasVP said:
Well, I think you've already answered to your question.
I don't think that you will be able to get your data back, 'cause water has damaged your phone's motherboard, in which, as you already know, all the data is being saved.
By the way, is your screen working properly or it doesn't show anything?
I suggest you to keep your phone with opened ports in a plate of rice for a night, that could help you.
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Quick update,
I was able to get my data back!
The phone still does not turn on, the screen is blank, and no vibration, however I noticed that when I flashed the CyanogenMod boot image, windows did show the device, but couldnt find the driver. For some reason the hardware id of the device was different, so the driver didnt work. However when I manually editted the id in the driver info file, it took the ADB driver and I was able to pull files from the DCIM directory using ADB.
All the time the screen was blank, so I guess I was lucky that the phone silently booted into recovery and the recovery boot started the ADB bridge.
voytech_ said:
Quick update,
I was able to get my data back!
The phone still does not turn on, the screen is blank, and no vibration, however I noticed that when I flashed the CyanogenMod boot image, windows did show the device, but couldnt find the driver. For some reason the hardware id of the device was different, so the driver didnt work. However when I manually editted the id in the driver info file, it took the ADB driver and I was able to pull files from the DCIM directory using ADB.
All the time the screen was blank, so I guess I was lucky that the phone silently booted into recovery and the recovery boot started the ADB bridge.
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Great, that you were able to get your data back!
However, I still suggest you to leave your phone in rice, to ensure that your phone is without any water.
Or if you're sure, that your phone is water-free, you can try to reinstall different roms, maybe it would help
replace the battery
replace the battery or make bridge between the battery and the golden circles
Warning: LONG POST incoming ***
So I think I'm having the worst brick I've ever encountered on this phone, had tons of softbricks before and I could almost always sort them out easily, this one I'm having right now unforetunately is not the same case.
Current situation, phone won't boot up, no logo, no nothing, pressing power on button gives two RED blinks, holding power on gives continuous red led blink, now, vol. Up + power wont work anymore, same as hard reset of vol up+pwr with 3vibrates, it does work a few days ago but not anymore (I'm thinking about the issue of hard reset that results in about 50+ hrs or battery draining and recovery but not so sure if thats the case right now).
I've tried going flashmode but it just wont remain in flashmode, I can enter on flashmode briefly, proceed to flash stock ftf then somewhre along the process, (system.sin i think) phone exits flashmode then red led will show up. Fastboot wont work either.
Last observation i have is during wall charging, initially, when I connect to charger, no led light will show for about 3sec, then GREEN led will show and blink around 5times in about 1min, led disappears for a few sec then straight RED led will show for about 2min, and the cycle goes on and on, been monitoring like this for about 3hrs now, will continue until tomorrow.
Note: worst case, I think battery is flat dead thats why it wont charge, or something got fried during usage, never flashed antything for a few months, last thing I remember is I'm having a series of reboots, during long hours of mobile hotspot. Also worth mentioning, this phone auto reboots when it overheats during charging.
This may be a long shot but if anyone miraculously knows a workaround here other than getting a new one, then that'd be a huge help.
That's all, Thanks!
hi
I'm having a similar problem on my Xperia TL (LT30at). It was running on android 4.1.2 and I tried to flash it with a 4.3 ROM (originally built for LT30p, customized for US). During the process, there was an error while the flashtool was processing system.sin. In my case, there's no LED indication, no vibration, no nothing. The phone just won't respond to any button press combo (the battery was about 80% charged).
Plz help.
RESTORED!
Update: After long hours of battling this bricked mode, I've finally restored my phone! Stock FTF won't go through flashmode no matter what I do but luckily "Fastboot Trick" did the work along with numerous Trial and Errors, basically I was able to access fastboot by following and READING all of the instructions on xperia recovery pages here on XDA, from charging cycles, battery disconnect via opening the phone, flashmode/fastboot access, rubber band trick and so on.
Tried flashing kernel.sin from stock FTF (got into boot logo/bootloops with this), system.sin (can't fastboot flash due to huge file size), and lastly using my current roms (CM12.1 by neo) boot.img and flashing it via flashtool fastboot.this one did the trick allowing me to use my previous kernel along with my still un-wiped ROM data resulting to booting into it's previous working state.
Credits to @gregbradley , @Toledo_JAB and all that contributed to their tools and recovery thread (link below)
ALL IN ONE THREAD[Updated 12/3/13]Read me first!
[GUIDE] Recover 2012 and newer XPERIAs from SOFT-brick
The Key is as long as you're getting a response(if you don't get any, wall charge your phone for 4 ~ 24 hours and see if you can get a red led which then means you can still save your phone), vibrate, led blink, then you can bet you can still recover your phone. You just have to try everything you haven't tried before. That's all!
I had my T also similarly "bricked" last summer. Flashing always resulted in errors. Rubber band while powering helped, but only worked with original Sony charger. No luck with a Samsung one. After several reboots flashing went ok. The phone was stable only with battery almost full. After I replaced the battery, everything works well again. I guess the battery has been damaged by different chargers - a Samsung 2A (for tablet), in-car, and external battery pack. Currently evaluating CM 12.1
LiudasP said:
I had my T also similarly "bricked" last summer. Flashing always resulted in errors. Rubber band while powering helped, but only worked with original Sony charger. No luck with a Samsung one. After several reboots flashing went ok. The phone was stable only with battery almost full. After I replaced the battery, everything works well again. I guess the battery has been damaged by different chargers - a Samsung 2A (for tablet), in-car, and external battery pack. Currently evaluating CM 12.1
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Good thing replacing battery works for you, though I have recovered my phone, I think mines hotspot module got damaged already due to extensive usage and overheating from before (currently experiencing random reboots right now when data is on), gonna check to see if this is kernel or hardware related.
PS: WhiteNeo's NeoWave(KK) and CM12.1 ROM's(development stopped / best version though is 20151010 afaik) are the fastest I have tested yet. You should check them both .
Xperia TL (LT30at) Hard Bricked!!
Well, it’s pretty much obvious that I have hard bricked my phone.
I’ve been searching over the internet (especially on XDA) about this issue and I’ve realized that I’ve caused my phone’s bootloader to be damaged and that’s why it won’t boot at all. Before unlocking the bootloader, I did not make a TA backup (as I’ve seen in some posts that it is required to restore security units in case of boot failure) and now I don’t know how to fix my phone. Most likely, I need a suitable firmware for my phone to flash it with and hence to restore bootloader, but I haven’t found a firmware for my phone anywhere over the internet.
By the way, my phone is recognized as ZEUS flash device when I connect it to my pc, so I feel like there is a chance to recover it from this brick. I took it to a repair center, they tried JTAG but the guy said it didn’t work. The phone takes the dump but still doesn’t boot.
Could anyone help please?
kain_the_sly said:
Well, it’s pretty much obvious that I have hard bricked my phone.
I’ve been searching over the internet (especially on XDA) about this issue and I’ve realized that I’ve caused my phone’s bootloader to be damaged and that’s why it won’t boot at all. Before unlocking the bootloader, I did not make a TA backup (as I’ve seen in some posts that it is required to restore security units in case of boot failure) and now I don’t know how to fix my phone. Most likely, I need a suitable firmware for my phone to flash it with and hence to restore bootloader, but I haven’t found a firmware for my phone anywhere over the internet.
By the way, my phone is recognized as ZEUS flash device when I connect it to my pc, so I feel like there is a chance to recover it from this brick. I took it to a repair center, they tried JTAG but the guy said it didn’t work. The phone takes the dump but still doesn’t boot.
Could anyone help please?
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Not that sure when it comes to bootloader errors but I'll try to help, if it's detected on your PC, then you might still be able to recover it (mine is not even detected on my PC the last time it got bricked, but I got it fixed(detected) with proper driver installation: [Drivers] FlashTool Xperia Driver Pack (v1.5) [20140318] by @DooMLoRD), check troubleshooting section if you are using Windows 8 as you might encounter driver signature error during installation .
Question: Does it respond to any action? eg, vibrate, pressing power button just once(if it blinks red LED twice = phone is still alive), soft reset & hard reset, wall charging, fastboot or flashmode when connected to PC?
zakcaree said:
Not that sure when it comes to bootloader errors but I'll try to help, if it's detected on your PC, then you might still be able to recover it (mine is not even detected on my PC the last time it got bricked, but I got it fixed(detected) with proper driver installation: [Drivers] FlashTool Xperia Driver Pack (v1.5) [20140318] by @DooMLoRD), check troubleshooting section if you are using Windows 8 as you might encounter driver signature error during installation .
Question: Does it respond to any action? eg, vibrate, pressing power button just once(if it blinks red LED twice = phone is still alive), soft reset & hard reset, wall charging, fastboot or flashmode when connected to PC?
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No. It doesn't vibrate, no LED blink, no fastboot or flashmode. The phone is non-responsive to every button press. However, red LED blinks just for once when I connect it to my pc and when the battery is unplugged.
So far, I've a pretty sure idea that the phone is in "dead boot" and somehow I've to restore its security units / TA backup, as the boot partition is corrupted. Unfortunately, I don't have a TA backup. However, I could make use of TA backup from another working LT30at.
P.S. I'm using Windows 7 and there are no driver issues. The phone is recognized by my pc as an ZEUS flash device.
zakcaree said:
Good thing replacing battery works for you, though I have recovered my phone, I think mines hotspot module got damaged already due to extensive usage and overheating from before (currently experiencing random reboots right now when data is on), gonna check to see if this is kernel or hardware related.
PS: WhiteNeo's NeoWave(KK) and CM12.1 ROM's(development stopped / best version though is 20151010 afaik) are the fastest I have tested yet. You should check them both .
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Hi guys.
I have the same problem i tierd flashing the rom stock..it does't work..flash aborted and phone disconnected avain and again.
But when i remove the battery..phone in wallcharger it shows sony logo and keep restarting..no blinking led no vibration.
Any idea???
Mizouradio said:
Hi guys.
I have the same problem i tierd flashing the rom stock..it does't work..flash aborted and phone disconnected avain and again.
But when i remove the battery..phone in wallcharger it shows sony logo and keep restarting..no blinking led no vibration.
Any idea???
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Try install stock without battery and then plug it in when u start
alial04 said:
Try install stock without battery and then plug it in when u start
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Yes i did that...still have the same pb...end of flash session..phone keep disconnecting..and flash aborted!!!
Any advice?
Mizouradio said:
Hi guys.
I have the same problem i tierd flashing the rom stock..it does't work..flash aborted and phone disconnected avain and again.
But when i remove the battery..phone in wallcharger it shows sony logo and keep restarting..no blinking led no vibration.
Any idea???
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Bootloop usually means boot kernel problem, Can you fastboot? try to fastboot flash your previous ROM kernel and check to see if you can boot normally to your previous rom.
im not using an xperia tl but pretty much thw same issue with my xperia e3 d2212
red light keeps blinking its charging(no logo just saying) tried evry key combination triying to connect to pc says connected for a few secs n then it gets disconnected although i say that its connected im sayin it only based on the sound derz actually no new software or unknown software msgs popping plzzz help me out............ ty in advance
Sunderesh said:
im not using an xperia tl but pretty much thw same issue with my xperia e3 d2212
red light keeps blinking its charging(no logo just saying) tried evry key combination triying to connect to pc says connected for a few secs n then it gets disconnected although i say that its connected im sayin it only based on the sound derz actually no new software or unknown software msgs popping plzzz help me out............ ty in advance
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You mean red LED blinks during charging? Did you flash anything before this occured? Try first charging it for 2~4hrs, (also check if red LED still flashes during charging after a couple of hours), then try powering it ON... does it boot? If not, try soft reset with your phone (hold vol-up + power button for a few sec), it will vibrate ONCE, that means soft reset, power it ON... does it boot? If not, try hard reset this time (same method as soft-reset, this time hold the buttons longer, you will first get 1 vibrate, just hold it still, then you wil get 3 vibrates = hard reset).. power it ON... does it boot? If not.. try charging it a little longer and repeat the process, see if you can get it to boot that way.
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You mean red LED blinks during charging? Did you flash anything before this occured? Try first charging it for 2~4hrs, (also check if red LED still flashes during charging after a couple of hours), then try powering it ON... does it boot? If not, try soft reset with your phone (hold vol-up + power button for a few sec), it will vibrate ONCE, that means soft reset, power it ON... does it boot? If not, try hard reset this time (same method as soft-reset, this time hold the buttons longer, you will first get 1 vibrate, just hold it still, then you wil get 3 vibrates = hard reset).. power it ON... does it boot? If not.. try charging it a little longer and repeat the process, see if you can get it to boot that way.
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I will tell u my problem in detail I have a Sony Xperia e3 d2212 running stock 4.4.2 I rooted it without unlocking bootloader with" kingoroot" later saw a few privacy issues with kingo super user and used "supersume pro" to get super su as superuser and to get rid of kingosuper user
then tried an boot loader unlock with an app named "ez unlock" then tried flashing cwm
the mistake I did was that I flashed the cwm file which was made for my phone running 4.4.4
and now if it is low on battery the red led blinks only when I hold the power button
if I put it on charge for a few hours and then unplug the charger the red led keeps blinking all day long
let me know if u understood
sorry for the confusion though
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thank you for ur interest bro.......
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Bootloop usually means boot kernel problem, Can you fastboot? try to fastboot flash your previous ROM kernel and check to see if you can boot normally to your previous rom.
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thanks but i tried that...without result.cause the phone is not reconized and keep disconnecting
is that a driver problem??