Hi!
I have been using Xperia TX for a few months, and I have experienced freezing problems for about 4~5 times, this all happens while I was updating apps in the Play store.
The phone gets a bit laggy as soon as it started updating apps, and it freezes soon. I am not sure if it is considered "freeze", since the download/installing progress bar is progressing, however I was not able to give any input at this time, so after one minute, the screen turn off as the screensaver is set to one minute.
I can't do anything else since it is not accepting inputs, so I removed the battery and inserted it back, and power on the phone, then I will get a triangle with a screwdriver icon, just wait for about 15 seconds and it will get pass there and boots normally. Sometimes I don't even have to pull off the battery, the phone restarts automatically.
Above were my past experience, however my TX freezes while updating apps in the Play store again today, and it restarted automatically. It boots past both SONY and Xperia logo, but got stuck in the "flow" animation, and restarted itself, doing this over and over again, it seems that it have got into a boot loop.
Note that I am using stock Android 4.0.4 firmware, I can't remember the exact firmware version now.
Is there any troubleshooting I can do before trying to hard reset the phone?
Also I would like to know if someone have the same experience (system freezing while updating apps, and does not accept any inputs, requires a reboot) with me before?
Thanks!
even if you get out of the bootloop, there no guarantee that the issue of freezing will be gone.
i suggest you repair using pc companion and then upgrade to the latest JB rom.
Else download the latest JB .ftf and flash it using flashtool.
Thanks for your feedback!
Just flashed the phone with Sony Update Service, and it is working fine now.
Hello, this is my first post here and ofcourse I have a problem...
So yesterday I was rooting my Xperia Z, unlocked the debug mode and was able to access the recovery mode a few times. So I flashed my device to 4.2 version with a computer then I copied the 4.2.2 .tft file and the Kernel into my phones internal memory, turned my phone off, turned it on again, turned on the recovery mode, did the "Wipe data/Factory reset", wiped the catche partition, wiped the Dalvik cache, formated the system, formated the data and the cache. So then I went to install the prerooted ROM but my phoned seemed not to find it in the internam memory so I selected to reboot my device and since then it is acting all weird...
So the phone then tried to reboot but freezed at the Sony logo, the battery was about 89% and the phone started heating like it was working on its max, the phones battery died after about 2 or 3 hours, so ofcourse I tried connecting it to my PC to try to charge it but it just started to boot loop, I could hear the computer making a notification sound that the device is connected and after a few seconts it just disconnects. It seems that the phone isnt charging at all because after leaving the phone to charge for the whole night with a regular charger the phones LED was still red and was giving me 3 blinks when I tried to turn the device on. I think that if I could to access the recovery mode again I would be able to fix everything from there on my own...
Any help to fix this problem is welcome, I can provide more information about the problem if there are some questions
P.S. I already tried to remove the microSIM and microSD cards
flash the ftf file you have using flashtool
Richy99 said:
flash the ftf file you have using flashtool
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I noticed a really weird thing. It looks like it might be both technical and software problem. So earlyer I had the rooted 4.4.2 version but it started to bootloop when I turned on the camera, the device turned off when it was at about 60% battery. So I though to hell with this version and wiped everything again, installed the 4.4 version with flashtool but then the bootlooping started again, it went no further than the Sony logo, after about 2 hours of trying to get the damn thing on I took my fathers Galaxy S4 charger and pluged it into my phone, for my surprise the phone started charging and was displaying that battery icon in the middle of the screen, so now its about at 30% battery and trying to turn it on wont work, almost gets to the main screen and then instantly turns off. Ill try to charge it to about 80% battery and then try to turn it on. I suspect that the device thinks its battery is empty when it is actually at about 60%
FerretXing said:
I noticed a really weird thing. It looks like it might be both technical and software problem. So earlyer I had the rooted 4.4.2 version but it started to bootloop when I turned on the camera, the device turned off when it was at about 60% battery. So I though to hell with this version and wiped everything again, installed the 4.4 version with flashtool but then the bootlooping started again, it went no further than the Sony logo, after about 2 hours of trying to get the damn thing on I took my fathers Galaxy S4 charger and pluged it into my phone, for my surprise the phone started charging and was displaying that battery icon in the middle of the screen, so now its about at 30% battery and trying to turn it on wont work, almost gets to the main screen and then instantly turns off. Ill try to charge it to about 80% battery and then try to turn it on. I suspect that the device thinks its battery is empty when it is actually at about 60%
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Try flashing 4.3 Stock rom from flashtool
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Try flashing 4.3 Stock rom from flashtool
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Still boot looping, when I flashed it into 4.3 and it started up for the first time i got the message "process system isnt responding"
the phone reboots or powers off right after the sony logo. i am using a stock ROM. I switched to stock because i thought rebooting was due to some error with cm11. now i have tried doom kernel, williams kernel to make it work somehow, it doesnt work. tried installing a stock based ROM, xperianze, and cm11 but it shows in recovery that installation/flashing was done! but then again i cannot go past sony logo, not seeing xperia logo, cm11 boot screen or anything.
is it a hardware issue or a software issue? any possible solutions?
PLEASE HELP!
by the way it does not power off when in recovery.
Have you tried to flash a ftf file via flashtool?
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Have you tried to flash a ftf file via flashtool?
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yes i tried that, apparently it is affected (at times) by removing the sim or memory card) and it normally stays on for a while if its charging or if i dont use it and leave it on standby. for instance it stayed on for twenty minutes, the moment i opened camera it powered off. battery was above 80% then. on CM11
It works okay with full battery, when the battery goes lower the phone acts funny
the battery is acting weird too. percentage goes up and down, its 50% at one time 90 on another 70 after that. just having some mood swings
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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
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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?
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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?
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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.
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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 .
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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??