Hi, I have had numerous problems with my AT&T Tilt that I have always been able to have fixed here. This time I must say it is the strangest. Whenever I turn my phone on it goes through the normal boot up. The ATT page comes up and then the 3G bars up come on. Next, the green windows 6.1 screen comes on. Then the phone flashes my personal information with the top portion saying that there is no service to be found. The battery meter reads full before the phone automatically shuts off. When I try to turn the phone back on after that it turns on in the boot loader mode with the multi color screen.
The screen reads:
KAIS1*0
SPL-3.56.0000
CPLD-8
with serial at the bottom of the screen, or USB if plugged into my computer.
Update!
When I turned my phone on without the sim card in it, the phone fully booted up and stayed on!
Have been unable to get it to boot up now with the sim card in since it turns on with the multi color boot loader screen about half of the time. Will post what happens when I get the phone to turn on!
What if you use another sim?
For troubleshooting purposes, I woudl reccomend trying to boot it up with a diffrent SIM in there... Sims CAN "go"... I had one go on me once and my phone would jsut lock up during booting (on my old Motorola MPX200 WM2003se)... Went to my carrier, and seeing as my sim was a few years old they upgraded me to a newer sim for free... Hope that is all your problem is
jmelgdog said:
When I turned my phone on without the sim card in it, the phone fully booted up and stayed on!
Have been unable to get it to boot up now with the sim card in since it turns on with the multi color boot loader screen about half of the time. Will post what happens when I get the phone to turn on!
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I am having the same problem, but I think I caused it. I had an older mobile pohone with a Cingular SIM card still in it. I swapped the SIM cards because I wanted to use the old phone, but did not want to lose the old card (I really don't know why...). Anyhow, now my Tilt will not recognize the new card when I stick it back in?!
I did search Google, and found this: http://forums.wireless.att.com/cng/board/message?board.id=cingular&message.id=106311
Tilt SIM problem
if it will recognize one SIM but not the other then it is most likely the Sim that is bad. try cleaning the gold contacts on the sim with a pencil eraser to take off any stains or dirt stuck to it.
My phone stays connected to usb while its not connected to a usb. and if i turn it off it has a circle that pops up on the screen for as long as i hold the power button but the phone wont boot.
Could this be because i recently flashed a new firmware?
Lenunited said:
My phone stays connected to usb while its not connected to a usb. and if i turn it off it has a circle that pops up on the screen for as long as i hold the power button but the phone wont boot.
Could this be because i recently flashed a new firmware?
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This a known HARDWARE fault with a percentage of the first batch that came to the UK, more noticably with UK "T-Mobile" & "Orange" Service Provider versions.
No amount of flashing/reflashing, pulling apart and cleaning etc will resolve this. Plugging a Micro-USB into the phone socket allows the phone to turn on yes? (it doesn't have to be connected to a power outlet/PC). Watch the memory card contents though as it's wiped 3 Micro SDHC cards because of this!
We've had three replaced by Orange/Samsung and finally the third went back two weeks ago.. needless to say Samsung have apologised (and Orange) again and have now sent us a new one of a different batch. All good, running 2.2 JPK
Basically send it back through your Service Provider, or via Samsung if it was bought SIM-Free
Advancedpcs
Yeah hey, great start of the week
Was listening music with walkman on my 19 day old Xperia V on commute to work this morning when suddenly noticing my first sleep of death after fiddling around with equalizer settings... well, music continued and only the screen didn't turn on anymore so I just continued to work.
There I pulled the battery but afterwords nothing. :crying: No Sony nor Xperia logo at boot, just screen backlight on for a few seconds and then off again after which you could guess a few touch buttons active since the phone vibrated to the touch on the lower part of the screen as if there was a keypad there. You were even able to turn off and on again that reaction as if the sleep button was doing its work as usual.
Taking out battery, SIM and microSD didn't help, also not pausing for longer time. Still same short black boot to invisible touch pad.
Went to the shop and got an exchange unit right away! Best thing... there was another guy there in the shop complaining about s.o.d.s but his V booted fine again after pulling the battery.
hope I'm the only guy with this problem...
BTW, got it stock with Jelly Bean on it and didn't root nor unlock
Cheers
Lyndon
PippeR_678 said:
Yeah hey, great start of the week
Was listening music with walkman on my 19 day old Xperia V on commute to work this morning when suddenly noticing my first sleep of death after fiddling around with equalizer settings... well, music continued and only the screen didn't turn on anymore so I just continued to work.
There I pulled the battery but afterwords nothing. :crying: No Sony nor Xperia logo at boot, just screen backlight on for a few seconds and then off again after which you could guess a few touch buttons active since the phone vibrated to the touch on the lower part of the screen as if there was a keypad there. You were even able to turn off and on again that reaction as if the sleep button was doing its work as usual.
Taking out battery, SIM and microSD didn't help, also not pausing for longer time. Still same short black boot to invisible touch pad.
Went to the shop and got an exchange unit right away! Best thing... there was another guy there in the shop complaining about s.o.d.s but his V booted fine again after pulling the battery.
hope I'm the only guy with this problem...
BTW, got it stock with Jelly Bean on it and didn't root nor unlock
Cheers
Lyndon
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ok, try to repair with SUS or PC Com.
When you repair finish, delete all data im internal memory, sdcard (all data), then repair again.Then copy data (music, video, not data of apps) back and try. May be SoD not show.
If the repair in SUS or PC Com can not work, may be your phone was brick. Send it back to Sony Center :good:
Hey, thanks for the Tip of how to try repairing...
But as I pointed out, fortunately the Shop I bought it exchanged my unit with a new one without a lot of discussing!
I have Z1 with latest stock firmware.
Yesterday My phone suddenly went off (could be went to empty battery) and won't start.
If I plug it to changer - screen lights up, shows SONY logo, then charging indicator and screen goes black after like 15s.
Clicking Power button forces phone to vibrate 3 times briefly, with led off. After a few seconds - led goes red, sony logo shows up, charging indicator.
I cant do anything else, without changer I cant even get these 3 vibrates.
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In the past a few times I was unable to start the phone with some chargers, if batter have been emptied, looked like they were too week to provide required current (on of them was 0.7A), but changing chargers usually helped to boot the phone. This time - it doesn't :/
Any ideas?
LukasLT said:
I have Z1 with latest stock firmware.
Yesterday My phone suddenly went off (could be went to empty battery) and won't start.
If I plug it to changer - screen lights up, shows SONY logo, then charging indicator and screen goes black after like 15s.
Clicking Power button forces phone to vibrate 3 times briefly, with led off. After a few seconds - led goes red, sony logo shows up, charging indicator.
I cant do anything else, without changer I cant even get these 3 vibrates.
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In the past a few times I was unable to start the phone with some chargers, if batter have been emptied, looked like they were too week to provide required current (on of them was 0.7A), but changing chargers usually helped to boot the phone. This time - it doesn't :/
Any ideas?
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Can you get into flash mode?
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Seems like semi brick
Read the gides they are tons of them
Leave it on a mains charger for 24 hours then try again. If that doesn't boot it, then flash a stock FTF or force a software repair on PCComapnion
I'll try to do software repair on PCComapnion. Looks like a good tutorialtalk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xperia-Ion/Detailed-Software-Repair-Instructions-using-Pc-Companion-Windows/td-p/249946?
Does this 3 short vibrates has some special meaning?
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I just noticed some fog under camera lenses, I have no idea how it got here :/
I've read that back cover is glued to the phone. Is it possible that this glue layer got faulty and let water in because phone was overheating? E.g. playing some games was cousing it to get really hot.
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Can you get into flash mode?
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No.
But I don't know if my phone is off, or just screen is blank. But after pushing off button (the red one next to SIM), holding volume down and plugging to PC - nothing happens.
Sometimes windows tells me that malfunctioned USB device was connected :/
Download flashtool by Androxyde. Search an good ftf and download it into the firmware folder from flashtool. Your phone must be powered off now. Open flashtool and click the lightning icon. Select flashmode and load the firmware. Wait till a new window appears and then press volume down. Hold it and plug in the micro usb cable from your pc to your phone. Flashtool now flashes the firmware and your phone is probably working fine again! Did you have any backups? I often backup my phone to prevent data loss in this kind of situations! Hope this works for you!
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LukasLT said:
Does this 3 short vibrates has some special meaning?
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Yes, it shutting Down. To be sure just keep pushing Volume UP + Power Button and when you will feel 3 vibration then you can be sure the phone is completely off. Hold Volume down and plug into PC, you phone should be recognize in Flashmode.
I took it to warranty service, apparently they had to replace main board :|
As far as they told me, they tried to reinstall software, but it failed.
Now I have Andorid 4.4 (was this already officially released for Z1 wordwide?)
My z1 totalled itself overnight... left on charge overnight and took it off charge and... nothing.. totally dead.. tried everything. . All of the button combinations even the red reset button but nothing. . No lights showing no vibration. . Have had to take it in to Vodafone for a repair.. I really am disappointed with this fone... I wont get it back until at least 6th May!.... wish I had waited for the m8 instead of getting this pile of junk...
Z1 vibrates three times and turns off! TRY THIS!
My friend, it happened with me and in my case I am sure it was caused by water even with the covers closed properly the water goes where it shoud not go. After my phone died I put It to charge and the sony logo appeared and started to charge normaly but when i tried to turn it on the phone would vibrate 3 times and start all over again on the charging screen.
The only solution was to use a hair dryer, First step: take your sim card and memory card out of the device sou the air can circulate better. Now use the hair dryer in the hot mode, becareful not to damage getting it too close to the phone but know that it should get hot enough to vaporize the water inside so it has to get a high temperature.
Move the hair dryer heating all sides of the phone and inside where you opened the covers. I had to do it for a long time to make it work again. the phone is working fine now, just as it was before.
Dont believe sony about been waterproof, it can become an expensive nightmare, only use in water if you really need, many people are having problem even with covers well closed and if you still do it, make sure you don´t press the power or volume buttons under water.
I hope it works for you!!
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My friend, it happened with me and in my case I am sure it was caused by water even with the covers closed properly the water goes where it shoud not go. After my phone died I put It to charge and the sony logo appeared and started to charge normaly but when i tried to turn it on the phone would vibrate 3 times and start all over again on the charging screen.
The only solution was to use a hair dryer, First step: take your sim card and memory card out of the device sou the air can circulate better. Now use the hair dryer in the hot mode, becareful not to damage getting it too close to the phone but know that it should get hot enough to vaporize the water inside so it has to get a high temperature.
Move the hair dryer heating all sides of the phone and inside where you opened the covers. I had to do it for a long time to make it work again. the phone is working fine now, just as it was before.
Dont believe sony about been waterproof, it can become an expensive nightmare, only use in water if you really need, many people are having problem even with covers well closed and if you still do it, make sure you don´t press the power or volume buttons under water.
I hope it works for you!!
Thanks a lot
Thanks a lot my friend, you save my day and my phone .
Tcheller said:
My friend, it happened with me and in my case I am sure it was caused by water even with the covers closed properly the water goes where it shoud not go. After my phone died I put It to charge and the sony logo appeared and started to charge normaly but when i tried to turn it on the phone would vibrate 3 times and start all over again on the charging screen.
The only solution was to use a hair dryer, First step: take your sim card and memory card out of the device sou the air can circulate better. Now use the hair dryer in the hot mode, becareful not to damage getting it too close to the phone but know that it should get hot enough to vaporize the water inside so it has to get a high temperature.
Move the hair dryer heating all sides of the phone and inside where you opened the covers. I had to do it for a long time to make it work again. the phone is working fine now, just as it was before.
Dont believe sony about been waterproof, it can become an expensive nightmare, only use in water if you really need, many people are having problem even with covers well closed and if you still do it, make sure you don´t press the power or volume buttons under water.
I hope it works for you!!
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My friend, it happened with me and in my case I am sure it was caused by water even with the covers closed properly the water goes where it shoud not go. After my phone died I put It to charge and the sony logo appeared and started to charge normaly but when i tried to turn it on the phone would vibrate 3 times and start all over again on the charging screen.
The only solution was to use a hair dryer, First step: take your sim card and memory card out of the device sou the air can circulate better. Now use the hair dryer in the hot mode, becareful not to damage getting it too close to the phone but know that it should get hot enough to vaporize the water inside so it has to get a high temperature.
Move the hair dryer heating all sides of the phone and inside where you opened the covers. I had to do it for a long time to make it work again. the phone is working fine now, just as it was before.
Dont believe sony about been waterproof, it can become an expensive nightmare, only use in water if you really need, many people are having problem even with covers well closed and if you still do it, make sure you don´t press the power or volume buttons under water.
I hope it works for you!!
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Yes! Exactly, at least about the not-really-water-proof part... Happened to my gf's Z1. We left the phone in rice for a whole 24 hours and that did it for us... A little less agressive than the dryer, but same cause/result.
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Hello,
after the touchscreen of my Sony Xperia Z broke down, i decided to repair it by myself with an old Sony Xperia Z, which was damaged by water. So I took the battery and mainboard of the phone with the broken touchscreen and put it in the phone with the water damage. All worked fine, and the phone is working, except for the power button. If I press the button only for a moment, the phone goes to sleep, but the screen pops up again a few seconds after. Sometimes also the shutting down menu pops up.
So my question is if there is a way to repair that by myself (maybe I damaged a cable), or if I should go to a repair shop?
Thanks for answers.
P.S. Sorry for my english, I am a non native speaker.
DH27 said:
Hello,
after the touchscreen of my Sony Xperia Z broke down, i decided to repair it by myself with an old Sony Xperia Z, which was damaged by water. So I took the battery and mainboard of the phone with the broken touchscreen and put it in the phone with the water damage. All worked fine, and the phone is working, except for the power button. If I press the button only for a moment, the phone goes to sleep, but the screen pops up again a few seconds after. Sometimes also the shutting down menu pops up.
So my question is if there is a way to repair that by myself (maybe I damaged a cable), or if I should go to a repair shop?
Thanks for answers.
P.S. Sorry for my english, I am a non native speaker.
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Could it be that I damaged the Flux cables which are under the battery pack, when I tried to put the battery out?
DH27 said:
Could it be that I damaged the Flux cables which are under the battery pack, when I tried to put the battery out?
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this ^^^ or the cable is not connected well