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Recovery wont boot

Hey everyone, I installed recovery on my phone and it worked fine but after doing so I tried to install a ROM. This ended up with my phone being bricked and so I flashed the original FTF file and now it works fine again. I rooted the phone after this and installed recovery and it said it installed properly with no errors. I then tried to boot my phone in to recovery by pressing either volume key when the green led shows up with the sony splash screen but nothing happens. I've tried it loads of times using both up and down volume keys but it does not go to recovery anymore. Any help?

nathjr said:
Hey everyone, I installed recovery on my phone and it worked fine but after doing so I tried to install a ROM. This ended up with my phone being bricked and so I flashed the original FTF file and now it works fine again. I rooted the phone after this and installed recovery and it said it installed properly with no errors. I then tried to boot my phone in to recovery by pressing either volume key when the green led shows up with the sony splash screen but nothing happens. I've tried it loads of times using both up and down volume keys but it does not go to recovery anymore. Any help?
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sorry but what recovery are you using

TWRP/CWM I've tried both of them neither of them boot up the phone just boots up as normal even if I press the volume keys. I've installed the CWM for locked bootloader now though and it still wont work, that being the case my phone is a locked bootloader.

what device are you using and which recovery?
i rmb ZL has issues with CWM recovery like this.
Z, havent encounter any yet.
If you cant boot into recovery then try installing it again.

nathjr said:
TWRP/CWM I've tried both of them neither of them boot up the phone just boots up as normal even if I press the volume keys. I've installed the CWM for locked bootloader now though and it still wont work, that being the case my phone is a locked bootloader.
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have you got superuser/super su installed and working ? when flashing recovery supersu asks for ADB approval

Well it would be an Xperia Z being in this category of the forum? But Ive tried re-installing and removing completely and installing again. Each time it seems to install correctly but even if the green led comes on at start up it wont boot in to the recovery mode

I even tried using XZRecovery to install it on the phone itself but that didnt let me boot in either

have you got superuser/super su installed and working ? when flashing recovery supersu asks for ADB approval

Maddhouse said:
have you got superuser/super su installed and working ? when flashing recovery supersu asks for ADB approval
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Yeah sorry for not answering previously I do have it installed but as I said, I gave XZRecovery su permissions and it installed TWRP recovery then I rebooted but this didnt work either. I just tried Recovery Reboot from play store and it just gives my phone a normal reboot

nathjr said:
Yeah sorry for not answering previously I do have it installed but as I said, I gave XZRecovery su permissions and it installed TWRP recovery then I rebooted but this didnt work either. I just tried Recovery Reboot from play store and it just gives my phone a normal reboot
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Okay try installing this one dont know of anyone which this hasnt work for, before go into supersu and look at app's, has ADB got a green or red hash

I tried that one before and it didn't work. Just checked my superuser and it seems it doesn't even have ADB listed, just some rooted apps I've used. I tried setting it to always allow in preferences but that didn't change anything.
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do this
1-flash "another" ftf file
2-repair it with sony update service
3-go to settings > backup and reset > factory data reset (internal wipe)
4-root
5-install CWM
do not try to restore your previous rom or whatever. especially when youre jumping from one rom to another.
Start fresh.

This will probably work but I used the unbranded ftf file on a clean install so im not sure how much differentit'll be
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LitoNi said:
do this
1-flash "another" ftf file
2-repair it with sony update service
3-go to settings > backup and reset > factory data reset (internal wipe)
4-root
5-install CWM
do not try to restore your previous rom or whatever. especially when youre jumping from one rom to another.
Start fresh.
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I tried to do this but when I connect my phone to a pc nothing comes up, no pop-up, nothing on the phone, it doesnt even charge. It does charge however when I put it in a plug socket.. I think this could have something to do with it in the first place, my problem still isnt resolved what else can I do?

Are you stuck at step 1?
Try the newest flashtool (I think people are having issues with it, but worth a try) or the v4 flashtool.
And try another ftf file, don't use the same one that you used, or trying to use.

My I9000 running GamerzROM just half-bricked itself

I would have never thought that I could brick my device without... doing something wrong. Here I come, completely helpless at this point.
Earlied today the phone had worked just fine until I turned 3G on, it wouldn't actually turn it on. I tried Aeroplane mode which didn't help, so I held power button and chose to reboot. This is when the problem starts. The phone booted itself successfully through its logo, then Devilkernel logo, and lastly showed the GamerzROM logo (which is actually the Nexus logo) and kept showing this flashing logo forever. Even after 30 minutes.
CWM works just fine.
I noticed that while booting it makes a single loop (Samsung logo -> Devil logo -> Samsung logo -> Devil logo -> Nexus logo).
I've wiped partition cache and dalvik, put the ROM and Gapps on external sd and flashed again. Nothing changed.
I am also worried about the battery - when I plug the charger the device turn on (the way mentioned above) and I have no idea whether it's charging or not, at the moment I am at 24% of battery so it's risky to flash without a charge.
Please, I need some advice to fix this, without loosing my data on the phone. I could flash another ROM, but that obviously means data/factory reset.
Thank you in advance!
EDIT: I've just checked in CMW and the phone is actually charging. Battery percentage rose up.

Have you tried to return to stock ROM ?
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I've made a nandroid backup to a external SD and wiped data. The phone "amazingly" works, although I've lost all my configuration and data (maybe I'll retrieve it somehow from the backup files).
Must have been corrupted files or something.

Hmmm im running gamerzrom too since first day and i didnt have anything like this.
Did you change/update kernel?
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Nope, I didn't touch anything. Just changed the DPI once I flashed the ROM.
Well I couldn't have said a bad word about GamerzROM until yesterday's incident.
Hope it never happens again.

HELP xperia z problem-cant solve it

hi guys, yesterday i did some flashing of roms just like i do almost every day or so, and i didnt like the rom(flyme rom) i flashed so i just tried to restore the previous rom which was the existenz rom .... so using TWRP, i put that to restore and i went to eat something but after a couple of minutes, i went to my phone to see if it was completed and it was powered off by itself... ( the phone was not completely charged but it had at least 50% of battery so i dont think battery is the issue here).....so after that,i powered it on and it stuck in a bootloop so i realized that the restore wasnt successful.... so i went into the recovery and i did a factory reset and i tried to flash another rom cm11 based (that i had been using some days ago) and the flashing was successful ( with gapps and ssu...) so i rebooted but nothing.... my phone powered off as it should but when it powered on, sony logo appeared (as it should) and then it suddenly powered off again..... i couldnt even enter the recovery cause it immidiately turned off 2 seconds after sony logo appears.....so i went into fastboot mode and i flashed a kernel of cm11 just to be able to enter at least the recovery .... successfully flashed boot.img but again couldnt enter the recovery...the same as before.....then i realized that if i tried to power on my phone while it was charging ( wall charger) it could boot and even enter the rom but still after some seconds it immidiatly powered off by itself for no reason...then i didnt know what else to do so i had a last chance.to flash an ftf....so i flashed one successfully using flashtool and the same problem again..... then i flashed another one ( older ftf ) but nothing..... then i tried to charge my phone until full ( i could see in TWRP the percentage) and then i powered on but the same..... however it did open whithout charging ....but again after some seconds it powered off again.... so i went in TWRP and i left it there open all night to drain all the battery ...and i noticed that it drained until 1% and then it took it about 1 hour to power off ....i mean it was on 1% with screen on for more than an hour.... so i think that the battery has to be reseted or something..... i dont know what to do.... i have unlocked bootloader, i have no warranty , and i dont even know what is causing that so please if somebody knows something about that tell me....
(btw before all that happened, my battery was fine...i could spend many hours with screen on.... i had not noticed any damage to the battery or something)

Try to flash a stock ftf to your phone from flashtool

tjlm21 said:
Try to flash a stock ftf to your phone from flashtool
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They already did. Read before posting.
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A partition or partitions could be corrupted, and formatting is the only way to fix that. Not sure if flashtool formats before writing images - so..
1. Fastboot a kernel (boot.img) .
2. Boot into recovery and format EVERYTHING, including /data/media.
3. Power off phone.
4. Flash an ftf.
Good luck:thumbup:

shoey63 said:
A partition or partitions could be corrupted, and formatting is the only way to fix that. Not sure if flashtool formats before writing images - so..
1. Fastboot a kernel (boot.img) .
2. Boot into recovery and format EVERYTHING, including /data/media.
3. Power off phone.
4. Flash an ftf.
Good luck:thumbup:
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thanks for posting but i already did that.... i will buy a battery and i hope that solves the issue :/

[Q] Soft Brick

Hi,
I flashed CM 12 on stock rooted Android 4.4.2 and that soft bricked my phone as I had forgotten to unlock my bootloader and I think I also didn't wipe /data
I cleared cache, dalvik cache and /system only before the install. I still had access to fastboot though so I unlocked the bootloader and flashed boot.img from CM12. After this I used "fastboot reboot" and after some time the phone showed SONY logo then purple symbol, I pressed volume down to get into recovery which didn't work and this happened once again. After this I tried to use fastboot again but this no blue led came up and instead a red led lit up after a delay of few seconds.
I have currently left the phone for charging through a wall socket as I remember the battery being around 15% when it all began.
Any ideas?
EDIT: The phone booted up into CM 12 but all of my data is missing.

archit12 said:
Hi,
I flashed CM 12 on stock rooted Android 4.4.2 and that soft bricked my phone as I had forgotten to unlock my bootloader and I think I also didn't wipe /data
I cleared cache, dalvik cache and /system only before the install. I still had access to fastboot though so I unlocked the bootloader and flashed boot.img from CM12. After this I used "fastboot reboot" and after some time the phone showed SONY logo then purple symbol, I pressed volume down to get into recovery which didn't work and this happened once again. After this I tried to use fastboot again but this no blue led came up and instead a red led lit up after a delay of few seconds.
I have currently left the phone for charging through a wall socket as I remember the battery being around 15% when it all began.
Any ideas?
EDIT: The phone booted up into CM 12 but all of my data is missing.
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you cant go to cm12 without wiping your data!! now, your whole data is lost! also you have lost your drm keys, so you wont be able to get warranty services, cause sony is able to notice that you have unlocked your bootloader. Also you wont get acces to sony features like bravia engine or video unlimited in future, even when your back on sony stock rom.
for the future: take a nandroid backup and after that flash a custom rom!

mo120697 said:
you cant go to cm12 without wiping your data!! now, your whole data is lost! also you have lost your drm keys, so you wont be able to get warranty services, cause sony is able to notice that you have unlocked your bootloader. Also you wont get acces to sony features like bravia engine or video unlimited in future, even when your back on sony stock rom.
for the future: take a nandroid backup and after that flash a custom rom!
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HI sir, I backed up my previous rom/file/thingy, but i'm stuck in bootloop and I cant access nuts dual recovery it sends me to cyanogen recovery. If you have any thoughts I would really appreciate it, don't care what the steps are just want to get my phone somewhat working angain, thanks

mo120697 said:
you cant go to cm12 without wiping your data!! now, your whole data is lost! also you have lost your drm keys, so you wont be able to get warranty services, cause sony is able to notice that you have unlocked your bootloader. Also you wont get acces to sony features like bravia engine or video unlimited in future, even when your back on sony stock rom.
for the future: take a nandroid backup and after that flash a custom rom!
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The no warranty thing is bullsh*t lol don't worry about it I had a Asus transformer with unlocked bootloader and I bricked the touch screen driver -> replaced for free
Hard bricked my XZ1 which was unlocked -> replaced for free
I don't know any company where unlocking voids your warranty

skadoosh_meh said:
HI sir, I backed up my previous rom/file/thingy, but i'm stuck in bootloop and I cant access nuts dual recovery it sends me to cyanogen recovery. If you have any thoughts I would really appreciate it, don't care what the steps are just want to get my phone somewhat working angain, thanks
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Flash Tool than root, install nut recocery and restore your backup

need help, regarding xperia T lt30p cant turn on

hello everyone!
i have a few questions. and i have done my research yet i still find no solutions so i will ask here
this is my story...
-root,unlock bootloader,flash cm12 android 5.0.1, ran cm recovery
-running fine for around 2 weeks.
-in those 2 weeks there has been times where phone drained to 0 its battery, then charged it then it was fine
-suddenly one day. charged it after it drained completely. then wont turn on.would boot up to 'sony' screen then repeatedly reboot and do the same thing again.
-could enter recovery, but when trying to reflash rom, phone would reenter boot loop
-have tried charging for days.
-have tried removing battery, same thing
-then used flashtool, relocked bootloader, reflashed stock firware, now cant get into recovery, flash successful, yet phone still cant turn on pass sony screen.
is it a battery problem?

just to add, ever since the first time it started having this problem, i could never get the phone to turn on at all without plugging it in .

Hi Jetdin
had the same problem with my XT a year ago, when a powerbank somehow "nuked" the battery-logic... After that, I had the pleasure to know what a deep-discharge feels like :-/
To revive my XT, I had to replace the Firmware... I did it this way, maybe you can try a "factory reset", maybe it already works out for you...
1. loading it (turned off) 24h with original recharger (don't try to turn it on)
(1a - if you can reboot it to save apps, data, files - do it)
2. reboot into TWRP - and do a factory reset
...and try your XT; with luck, this already solved your problem... if not:
3. get the new image of your choice - i downloaded whiteneos 12.1 - works like a charm... and copy it to an sd-card
4. after (re)loading the XT - boot into TWRP - and install the new image...
...reboot and hope this solved the problem...
Good luck!!
Edit:
that it only stops at the sony-logo sounds like "operating system not working" - maybe a "higher" OS-version will do the trick?

Thanks for the reply theunlucky.
I have tried most of those.
The cm12 was on Android 5.0.1
The stock firmware for the Xperia T only goes up to JB huhu

Jetdin said:
Thanks for the reply theunlucky.
I have tried most of those.
The cm12 was on Android 5.0.1
The stock firmware for the Xperia T only goes up to JB huhu
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you cant get pass the sony logo?
unlock your bootloader again
1. download whiteneos cm
2. extract the boot.img and flash it via fastbootmode
3. reboot
4. if you see a led hit vol + ( or vol - ) several times until the led color changes
5. now you should be in recovery... try to flash cm12.1 from whiteneo and reboot
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I can do that with a locked bootloader is it sir?
How do I relock my bootloader?or do the steps u give also unlock the bootloader?sorry for all the Qs