I don't know what it is with my luck...
But I really need help.
So I flashed a custom ROM, the Hybrid Revolt Rom to be exact, and accidently disabled the recovery.
So I tried to flash TWRP via flashtool and now all I have is a blank screen when I boot up.
PLEASE HELP
I was able to solve my own problem, yet again. I apologize for panicking...
But I am willing to explain how I fixed it.
So the problem was that I had installed the Revolt Rom only to realize I wanted a different one. Unfortunately, I disabled recovery mode. So I had no form of recovery to flash it. From here, I tried to flash TWRP using flashtool, which evidently did not work and wound up leaving me with a phone that only had one display option: Blank Screen. lol And I panicked.
However, I calmed down and searched XDA. There was another form where a guy had killed his xperia almost as bad as I did. And if his Xperia Z still isn't working, then maybe this will help. (He flashed a GS3 ROM on his XZ)
I used the flashtool to flash DoomKernel, first. I had to turn of the device, forcefully, but holding the power button and volume up until it vibrated once, then three times, consecutively. From there, I got it into fastboot mode by holding down the volume up and reconnecting the device to the computer.
I was able to successfully flash the kernel, and then I powered off the device again and disconnected it from my PC. Finally, I held the volume down button down, reconnected it, getting into flashmode. From there I flashed TWRP, which somehow gave me CWM... But I'm not complaining...
Now I just did a clean wipe, installed the ROM I wanted, and am about to reboot.
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I can't turn on the donwload mode, reboot to system, even flash something.
Any ideas?
you have to fix bootloader,maybe you must use JTAG box for it.good luck
Problem solved
OK. I "magically" rebooted to download mode and flashed cwm via odin.
In the morning I was hurrying and didn't write everything here. The recovery was working, the theme was for bigger resolution and I've just seen part of the screen. Before I chose in ROM Manager to reboot to twrp so everytime it booted, it was the twrp. I took out the battery, then put it again, turned the phone on and hold the combination of buttons to get to dwnld mode. I hold it and hold and after 3 reboots I've seen the dwnld mode screen. I was never so happy
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I hope you learned a lesson here today. You cant just flash sh*t to your phone.
The "soft brick" is maybe my new tradition. Earlier I had SE X10MP and I've also softbricked it. That was my 1. Android phone and I didn't know how to fix it. After some time I knew much more about Android and my device. Then I noticed that I could fix it myself. In service they just reflashed the soft. That was everything xd
Okay, here's what happened.
I installed CWM recovery and installed custom ROM (Cyanogen Mod 7)
Since the kernel did not support it, I flashed the Kernel using Flashtool.
It flashed successfully and asked me to unplug the phone.
I left the phone connected to USB and left it for quite some time (maybe 1/2 hour )
All the while, the green LED was showing up meaning it was in Flash or Fastboot mod or whatever.
When I finally removed the phone, the led turned off and then nothing would happen.
When I tried to power on, nothing happened. (no vibration, no led, no screen flash, nothing)
A thing to be noted is that this was my first time and I had downloaded almost 2gb of unlocking, flashing and rooting tools and some of 'em were open.
Now the phone is hard bricked with no response to any input.
Please suggest any method to fix this without taking it to the SE Service.
I searched everywhere, but couldn't find.:crying::crying::crying:
albinkc said:
Okay, here's what happened.
I installed CWM recovery and installed custom ROM (Cyanogen Mod 7)
Since the kernel did not support it, I flashed the Kernel using Flashtool.
It flashed successfully and asked me to unplug the phone.
I left the phone connected to USB and left it for quite some time (maybe 1/2 hour )
All the while, the green LED was showing up meaning it was in Flash or Fastboot mod or whatever.
When I finally removed the phone, the led turned off and then nothing would happen.
When I tried to power on, nothing happened. (no vibration, no led, no screen flash, nothing)
A thing to be noted is that this was my first time and I had downloaded almost 2gb of unlocking, flashing and rooting tools and some of 'em were open.
Now the phone is hard bricked with no response to any input.
Please suggest any method to fix this without taking it to the SE Service.
I searched everywhere, but couldn't find.:crying::crying::crying:
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First of all,did you tried to unlock bootloader?
if not then try to flash stock ROM(which includes STOCK kernel)
and btw this
albinkc said:
All the while, the green LED was showing up meaning it was in Flash or Fastboot mod or whatever.
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When I tried to power on, nothing happened. (no vibration, no led, no screen flash, nothing)
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doesnt make any sense....if LED was green AFTER you flashed kernel than your phone should turn on
Anyway try to flash using FLASHTOOL (IT SHOULD WORK)
yeahh
if you didn't Unlock Bootloader your phone, maybe u got Softbrick
just flash the 2.1 firmware
download from my signature
cheer
I tried to unlock bootloader and got a boot loop.
Then i flashed the 343 FTF but it continue and now i dont have recovery to shut down the phone.
I think the battery will go 0% soon.
how can i at least shut the phone down? pls..
Sry to create a Thread but i dont have much time to search more :/
EDIT:
I finally got the phone to start, so i'll tell the "history" here to people that get the same problem as me, and ask some question before do anything wrong again.
History:
1- I was on .343, rooted, bootloader locked. Decided to install the 1.253 rooted version with dual recovery. Everything was fine, working great.
2- Then i passed to unlock the bootloader. Followed that thread... everything seemed normal again... disconnected the phone and powered it up.
3- The boot loop started. Got the sony logo, the lights flowing, and restarted... again, again, again
4- I entered TWRP tried to do a factory reset, got a error message... can remember what, but something about mounting...
5- Shut down the phone using TWRP. Opened flashtool and flashed the .343 TFT, Everything ok again, unpluged the phone and started it. (Didnt choose to wipe data and cache).
6- The phone boot loop again. That time without recovery. I got desperate and posted that topic.
7- Finally got the phone to shut down.(thanks boyob32). power button+volume up until it vibrates 3 times.
Basically is that.
SOLUTION:
Searching more calmly i found that thread. Used the Flahstool again (that time wipping data and cache).
The phone finally started up!
Now some question to not make myself a fool again.
1- What could i made wrong?
2- I'm a little scared to try to unlock bootloader again... Since i got no error when doing it first time, is it already unlocked?
3- when i was using flashtool with the phone in bootloop got some errors messagens regarding drives. Before that everything was OK. Should i install them all over again?
4- Can i unlock the bootloader before update to .253?
thanks again. you guys are great!
PS: I can't edit the topic title, sry for that.
Hold the power button and volume up together, after a while it will switch off.
Xperia Z
boyob32 said:
Hold the power button and volume up together, after a while it will switch off.
Xperia Z
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Thanks man!!
i edited the post with details of what happanned and so. thanks again
Having gotten a spare Xperia SP, I decided to venture into the realm of flashing custom ROMs. This was the first time I did anything of this sort with an Android device. So, here is what I did to it today:
At first, I successfully rooted, installed recovery and flashed CM12. After fiddling with it for about an hour and not finding anything super exciting, I decided to try out other ROMs. I did a facotry reset, wiped the data and cache, and was about to flash CM11 (I forgot that it required an unlocked bootloader, which I don't have, and the recovery console told me so). Maybe at this point I should have just reflashed CM12, but I chose (not even sure why at this point) to exit recovery instead. After this, the phone keeps getting stuck on the Sony logo (although on the second attempt to turn it on, it did display a screen showing that wrench icon, indicating some sort of configuration activity going on, but never moved past that either). I tried flashing two different stock ftf roms with flashtool, both fail with this error: Processing of system.sin finished with errors. One of them will cause the phone to shut off after about a minute on the logo instead of remaining stuck on it indefinitely.
Maybe I should mention that this phone did not exactly work flawlessly for some time, even before I started experimenting with it. Here are the main things that I can remember it doing:
-Lags on even the basic functions, apps often crashing, despite doing a very recent hard reset.
-Battery drains very fast sometimes (like going from 55% to 0 in about 2 hours with almost no usage).
-A few months ago, it would periodically freeze and reboot itself, but that problem seemed to disappear with time.
Did I do something stupid to that phone, or are there internal/hardware problems that have manifested themselves in this way? I won't be horribly upset if I killed it (after all, knowing that something of this sort may happen was exactly the reason why I was not doing all this on my main phone), but I certainly would like to get it back up and running.
Download Flashtool v0.9.18.6 from official site.
Option 1: Flash stock.
or,
Option 2: Flash tangerine-7.1.elf via 'fastboot mode' to directly get TWRP, then flash any ROM you want.
https://dl.cubeserver.eu/TechnoSparks/tangerine-stuffs/tangerine-7.1.elf
nandan21 said:
Download Flashtool v0.9.18.6 from official site.
Option 1: Flash stock.
or,
Option 2: Flash tangerine-7.1.elf via 'fastboot mode' to directly get TWRP, then flash any ROM you want.
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Thank you for your reply. I have a few questions:
I downloaded the flashtool version that you mentioned (from the official site), but avast detected malware in it. Should version 9.19.8, the one I tried yesterday, work fine?
What is exactly considered "stock rom"? Is it exclusively the version your phone came with, or is it firmware of any version/carrier branding, as longs as it is made for your phone model by the manufacuter?
It looks like my phone actually won't stay in flash mode. I select fastboot mode in flashtool, a window pops up asking me to plug in the phone. I press the volume down button and plug it in, the LED glows bright green, but nothing happens in flashtool. After a few seconds, the LED goes red and the Sony logo appears on the phones screen (as if it was going to turn on), and my computer makes a sound as if the phone was ejected. The phone shuts off a minute later, goes into flash mode again, and the cycle repeats.
UPDATE
Nevermind everything I wrote before, I was able to successfully re-flash stock. Turns out I did in fact have some crappy version of flashtool that didn't work, and I found anolder version without malware.
Strangely, the infected flashtool version was the one I dowloaded from the official site... Something is fishy here.
Anyways, thanks a bunch for your help!
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Thank you for your reply. I have a few questions:
I downloaded the flashtool version that you mentioned (from the official site), but avast detected malware in it. Should version 9.19.8, the one I tried yesterday, work fine?
What is exactly considered "stock rom"? Is it exclusively the version your phone came with, or is it firmware of any version/carrier branding, as longs as it is made for your phone model by the manufacuter?
It looks like my phone actually won't stay in flash mode. I select fastboot mode in flashtool, a window pops up asking me to plug in the phone. I press the volume down button and plug it in, the LED glows bright green, but nothing happens in flashtool. After a few seconds, the LED goes red and the Sony logo appears on the phones screen (as if it was going to turn on), and my computer makes a sound as if the phone was ejected. The phone shuts off a minute later, goes into flash mode again, and the cycle repeats.
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Use flashtool 0.9.19.8 because that is what everyone is recommending now, Stock rom defines as what it originally comes from your phone which is manufactured by sony. To get into fastboot mode turn off your phone by taking off the cover off your xperia sp and use a pin or pen to press into a small dot and you will get 3 vibrations.
This guide is not written by me, so give credit to chris10286
Step 1. Download a kernel with twrp embedded im sure I used dooms kernel as far as I remember. There are many others just do a simple google of xperia sp kernel with recovery.
Step 2 . take phone case off the back hold button in on lower bottom for 10 seconds you will get 3 vibrations . good leave it at that.
Step 4 . open flashtool let it load completely. Now plug USB into your phone also have it into your PC ! Whilst plugging in hold down volume button to enter flashmode your phone should be green . hold up for fast boot mode which is blue either too let's you flash a kernel but fast boot mode requires "elf" kernel.
Step 5. Locate kernel install and then boot phone up whilst press the volume up button as its booting recovery mode will be accessed now flash rom of your choice or use Sony PC suite to go back to stock. Make sure you have stock kernel and bootloader locked or else it won't let you..
Use this thread to help you since i had the similar problem which involved my phone: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=63660062#post63660062
If none of my methods work please ask zenith to help you or ask anyone in the xperia sp forum to help you since im not a developer but ran into a similar problem to yours.
I hope this helps you out in someway as it did me good luck.
Thanks Nandan
Thank you, I very much appreciate that you took the time to write this long post to help me out. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I found a solution to my problem - by using flashtool 9.18.6 (the one that wasn't working was actually newer).
Hallo, yesterday my phone kinda got laggy so i thought to my self hmm why not flash a new firmware. Aftewards i said to my self, why not go even further and flash lingeageos 16 and thats when it starts going down. The phone would crash or black screen (volume and power key still work and show their UI on the screen) while the rest of the screen was black. I panicked and quickly wiped everything system,internal storage and all that via TWRP recovery. Now i face a even bigger problem. I cant flash anything onto my phone. The Flashtool requires some drives which i installed as the program instructed but with no great result. I put the device in flash mode by holding volume up key and putting the usb cable into the phone and still nothing i can do. I tried various tools to convert the FTF firmware into zip so i can flash it with TWRP that luckily still works. If i try to flash anything i get the error: 7 or bootloop/stock on loading screen. What should i do?
UPDATE: I flashed a stock rom via newflasher, so for anyone in situation like me, where they phone is a very essential part of they everyday life and everyday responsibilties. Then i recoomend this guid for you, it says everything you need to know when you are in a situation where nothing works: https://www.xperiablog.net/2018/01/...-firmware-for-xperia-xz-premium-xz1-and-more/