need some advice water damage boot loop - Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi I need a little help
My sister has a xperia sp c5303 that she droped in toilet
Every thing seams ok with the phone just haveing trouble getting the phone to boot up
It truns on and I get both the sony and xperia logos and a little bit after that but then it reboots
I am able to re flash the stock rom useing the pc companion repair your phone
I was able to get the phone to fully boot once but when I truned it off it went back into the loop
I would appreciate any help and advice

few weeks ago got my xperia SP damage because i got caught in heavy rain.
my phone got into exactly situation as your sister's also,
because i cant shutdown the phone i just let it drain the battery till empty and leave it alone for 4-5 days without charge.
now the phone works without hardware proble, but the error sometimes still come (it just works ok for 1 weeks ago, till 3-4 hours it got into same reboot again)
i notice it works ok on recaf 4.4 ROM (not sure, but when i flash 4.2.2 or 4.3 ROM the reboots always come back) .
if its bootloader unlocked i suggest you flash kernel with recovery ( so if after few days you want to try to turn on the phone but it still reboots u can shut it down from recovery). thats my experience tho, good luck for your sister and sorry for my english.
Glenn160 said:
Hi I need a little help
My sister has a xperia sp c5303 that she droped in toilet
Every thing seams ok with the phone just haveing trouble getting the phone to boot up
It truns on and I get both the sony and xperia logos and a little bit after that but then it reboots
I am able to re flash the stock rom useing the pc companion repair your phone
I was able to get the phone to fully boot once but when I truned it off it went back into the loop
I would appreciate any help and advice
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Come clean and go to a repair centre. The internal system is damaged and thats causing the boot problems. To fix this you need to get it fixed ;(
Dont know how much it can cost tho.

Put your phone in a bag of rice or that silica gel leave it there for 3-4 days. Make sure your phone is not waterlogged. wipe all of it with a towel BUT DON'T BLOWDRYER it.

FlashTool
Have you already use FlashTool to flash the software new ??? it

XplayerLP said:
Have you already use FlashTool to flash the software new ??? it
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I have used sonys recovery flash tool

Glenn160 said:
I have used sonys recovery flash tool
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But have you use This too?
http://www.flashtool.net/download.php

XplayerLP said:
But have you use This too?
http://www.flashtool.net/download.php
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No but sonys one seamed to flah ok but I will give it ago willing to try anything

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Xperia TX freezing & restarting after JB update

hi everyone....
my brother updated his xperia tx to jelly bean using flash tool before 3 hours... nothing showed in flashtool or the phone about any problem in flashing
in the last hour the phone started to restart & freeze
it's freezing suddenly & you cannot do anything but taking out the battery
can a factory data reset help?? also we have a backup on PC companion so is it recommended to return it on the phone??
Try repair option in PCC.
Tapatalked from my TX
i have problem using FXP212.
My TX goes in endless rebooting. Tried flashing again but same luck. I m downloading FXP210 to try now.
i did repair but its same thing i don't know what to do with it anymore, i would like help if anyone could give
should i downgrade to ICS and download again from PC companion?
smarda7a said:
i did repair but its same thing i don't know what to do with it anymore, i would like help if anyone could give
should i downgrade to ICS and download again from PC companion?
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Did you do the repair or did you restore the backup?
Click on the update software option and then when it says you have the latest software click on repair my firmware
gregbradley said:
Did you do the repair or did you restore the backup?
Click on the update software option and then when it says you have the latest software click on repair my firmware
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yea that what i did really twice already and i even reset the phone fully but im not sure whats wrong with it, it keep rebooting from time to time :/
smarda7a said:
yea that what i did really twice already and i even reset the phone fully but im not sure whats wrong with it, it keep rebooting from time to time :/
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which one! I asked if you repaired or restored a backup.....
If you repair the phone it should be exactly like a factory shipped phone.
My only other thing to say will be have you got anything in your sd card (Both internal or external) that may be causing this? Any init.d scripts that reduce voltage etc...try deleting the contents of the sdcards and repairing again. (Obviously back anything up you want to keep)
gregbradley said:
which one! I asked if you repaired or restored a backup.....
If you repair the phone it should be exactly like a factory shipped phone.
My only other thing to say will be have you got anything in your sd card (Both internal or external) that may be causing this? Any init.d scripts that reduce voltage etc...try deleting the contents of the sdcards and repairing again. (Obviously back anything up you want to keep)
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i did repaired twice from PC companion and did once i think from the phone itself, and i don't have Scards its only the phone internal storge..
when i did it first in flash tool it didn't give me any error and then i did repaired it twice from pc companion however whats strange in ICS i never had the reboot problem
and if i remember correctly it only delete the programs etc, but the photos/music etc it never left the phone with both options i did...
so you suggesting to also wipe internal storage and repair to see if it reboot or not? i already have back up for all stuff so it won't hurt to try
thanks alot really for helping and sorry for my bad english ^^;
If you have a backup then try it.
Have you got a bootloop or do you have some reboots? What i mean is, does the phone actually boot up and only reboot occasionally or is it just bootlooping?
gregbradley said:
If you have a backup then try it.
Have you got a bootloop or do you have some reboots? What i mean is, does the phone actually boot up and only reboot occasionally or is it just bootlooping?
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nah it freeze and reboot when i use it after certain amount of time, sometimes when it reboot it doesn't even give me option to enter my password
the phone start up like there is no lock
I also have this problem with my LT30a. This started the very first time I flashed a Rom ( locked bootloader) that was meant for an LT30p. Sense then I have reverted back to my stock ROM, still have the issue but not so often.
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so now i did wipe to internal storage and did repair and such now im facing new problem the phone turn off and and when i try to switch it on...it wont work i have to remove battery and insert it again to make it work, any idea?
How this end up? Anyone has find a solution for this problem? I have xperia t with same problem. The phone mostly freezes and restarts on long listings like fb/twitter feeds, messages...
i have TX same on my device freeze and some times don't wakeup only when battery pulled out

Xperia TX bricked (only showing sony logo then a triangle with an exclamation mark)

Please help me guys, I have no one else to turn to. My parents are gonna kill me if they find out what I did to my phone.
So my phone accidentally fell at school with the bluetooth still on.So I put the battery pack, power it on, but then it started to go on a boot loop i.e.
Sony logo-->Xperia Logo-->color animation-->black screen. But after 3-4 hours, it managed to do a complete boot! But I noticed that the bluetooth wasnt turning on. So stupid me, I restarted the device, then it started to go on a boot loop again. I got home and I tried it a couple of times more with the power and volume rocker combinations... didnt work either.
I even started using pc companion. didnt work (kept on doing the same thing
SUS --> same thing
NOW: I tried it using a different computer so I went to an internet shop and downloaded pcc and sus. I started pc companion... but halfway through the download... MY PHONE RAN OUT OF BATTERY and didnt finish the update. :'( Now, whenever I'm booting the phone, I only get the Sony logo and A TRIANGLE WITH AN EXCLAMATION MARK AND A PHONE UNDERNEATH.....
PLEASE HELP ME! My Phone is a Sony Xperia TX Lt29
Last Version before the crash: JB 4.1.2
No root (Noob here)
please... please. i dont know what to do. thank you in advance to anyone who can help me
calm down.
Charge the phone until it is fully charged.
Download PCCompanion and do a fresh install of it.
Run PCCompanion and choose software update.
Use the option to repair your phone, then follow the instructions.
Let us know how you get on
PS
This will only do a software repair, if something broke because you dropped it (Which it sounds like) you are going to have to come clean and tell your parents to get it fixed.
HI gregbradley '^^
gregbradley said:
calm down.
Charge the phone until it is fully charged.
Download PCCompanion and do a fresh install of it.
Run PCCompanion and choose software update.
Use the option to repair your phone, then follow the instructions.
Let us know how you get on
PS
This will only do a software repair, if something broke because you dropped it (Which it sounds like) you are going to have to come clean and tell your parents to get it fixed.
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR REPLY!!! really thank you :'(
I already did something with the phone because I've been doing a lot of searching on the net lately...
I reinstalled the software using Sony Update Service (SUS) and it booted normally! (but sadly it was only during the FIRST BOOT UP) when I turned off the phone to re insert the sim card and micro sd, It started doing it again... but then, after 6 or 7 tries, it managed to skip past the sony logo-->xperia--> logo-->color animation? and do another complete boot
Now I decided to go to settings and do a complete factory reset cause I thought it would fix everything... but it didn't. It started doing the same thing, and I had to give it 10 or 12 tries before eventually booting up again. When it booted up normally, I was even able to play music with it and change the settings like brightness, volumes, equalizers, and even arrange widgets!
SITUATION NOW:I turn on the Wi-fi and it's in a boot loop again and I'm charging the phone up to 100%
(i did the vol.up vol down power combination before charging)
gregbradley, is it because of our slow internet connection??? (it took me like 4 nerve racking hours to finish the update) but sus was able to complete the download and install the software... what the f*ck is wrong with my phone (((( ohgod
AND:
I'll follow your instructions when the charge is complete...... and I'll be back to you with the results.God I hope this works.Thank you again.
Have you tried only partially flashing part of an ftf file. I know when my phone was on the brink of death I discovered that if I only flashed part of an ftf using flashtool that it would work. I think I would check everything that has exclude (ie: Exclude System) and it would work for me. Its not the end of the world though as the phone does work. Just a bootloop. If you can get it into flash mode then just exclude everything except System, Kernel, and baseband if I'm not mistaken.
hi Cammarratta '^^
Cammarratta said:
Have you tried only partially flashing part of an ftf file. I know when my phone was on the brink of death I discovered that if I only flashed part of an ftf using flashtool that it would work. I think I would check everything that has exclude (ie: Exclude System) and it would work for me. Its not the end of the world though as the phone does work. Just a bootloop. If you can get it into flash mode then just exclude everything except System, Kernel, and baseband if I'm not mistaken.
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Thank you for the reply man '^^
um... to tell you the truth, I have no idea how to partially flash a tft file, let alone flashing. O_O (see how noob i am?) its saddening. So am I in the point right now where my phone's problem is unsolvable via pc companion or sony update service??? Plus I've been doing some searching here on xda and I saw this thread about xperia TX users updating to version b 167 and that their bootloaders are now locked.
This is what my phone is exactly doing whenever I try to boot it up:
Sony Logo---->Xperia Logo----> Color waves animation?---> FREEZE-->black screen then the Sony Logo again.
Whenever I try to boot up for the 2nd time this happens:
Sony Logo----> Black Screen---> Phone turns off---> Sony Logo again
(((
You have flashtool yes? If you load up like you're going to flash a ftf file. Once you click to load up the ftf file it'll pull a menu where you pick what you want to flash. On the right side of flashtool that's where the exclude part is. That's where you have to check the *exclude option. The same thing happened to me when I accidentally flashed a T cm10 rom on my phone. I had to partially flash a ftf file to get it to boot. It should work but since you're not familiar with flashtool its going to make it a bit harder for you in the end. :/
carloptimus3d said:
Please help me guys, I have no one else to turn to. My parents are gonna kill me if they find out what I did to my phone.
So my phone accidentally fell at school with the bluetooth still on.So I put the battery pack, power it on, but then it started to go on a boot loop i.e.
Sony logo-->Xperia Logo-->color animation-->black screen. But after 3-4 hours, it managed to do a complete boot! But I noticed that the bluetooth wasnt turning on. So stupid me, I restarted the device, then it started to go on a boot loop again. I got home and I tried it a couple of times more with the power and volume rocker combinations... didnt work either.
I even started using pc companion. didnt work (kept on doing the same thing
SUS --> same thing
NOW: I tried it using a different computer so I went to an internet shop and downloaded pcc and sus. I started pc companion... but halfway through the download... MY PHONE RAN OUT OF BATTERY and didnt finish the update. :'( Now, whenever I'm booting the phone, I only get the Sony logo and A TRIANGLE WITH AN EXCLAMATION MARK AND A PHONE UNDERNEATH.....
PLEASE HELP ME! My Phone is a Sony Xperia TX Lt29
Last Version before the crash: JB 4.1.2
No root (Noob here)
please... please. i dont know what to do. thank you in advance to anyone who can help me
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just let it plug in with the charger and keep your phone on for day, usually that will fix it after a few hours with that logo running
Use a battery charger, charge for at least half the entire batt and then follow the thread on flashing, download some files while charging to minimize downtime
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Hey guys...... ))))
First and foremost, thank you for all your replies.. really helped me a lot (
It's okay now guys! '^^ I re installed the software via Sony Update Service and it worked. At first I thought the phone was a goner cause it didn't manage to do a complete boot right after the installation. (Phone was stuck on the Sony Logo) But then the next morning, I tried it again and it worked!!
BUT: What I fear now is that the phone might suddenly crash again if I turn on the WI-FI (just like what happened in my previous attempts) If the phone crashes, I fear that the phone would start going on a boot loop again.So basically, I'm just using the phone for media purposes only i.e. Walkman, Gallery,Camera, Movies.
Any thoughts on this, cool, awesome people of xda? '^^ (cant update my apps and google now f*ck)
just.. sad. I miss Flipboard,Modern Combat 4, My Daddy Was a Thief, Real Racing 3, DEAD SPACE (((
one question...
Did something broke inside my phone when it fell?? If yes... WHAT EXACTLY IS IT?? why is it behaving this way??? Why does it keep on boot looping??? should I go and let an expert open it????
carloptimus3d said:
First and foremost, thank you for all your replies.. really helped me a lot (
It's okay now guys! '^^ I re installed the software via Sony Update Service and it worked. At first I thought the phone was a goner cause it didn't manage to do a complete boot right after the installation. (Phone was stuck on the Sony Logo) But then the next morning, I tried it again and it worked!!
BUT: What I fear now is that the phone might suddenly crash again if I turn on the WI-FI (just like what happened in my previous attempts) If the phone crashes, I fear that the phone would start going on a boot loop again.So basically, I'm just using the phone for media purposes only i.e. Walkman, Gallery,Camera, Movies.
Any thoughts on this, cool, awesome people of xda? '^^ (cant update my apps and google now f*ck)
just.. sad. I miss Flipboard,Modern Combat 4, My Daddy Was a Thief, Real Racing 3, DEAD SPACE (((
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If it's only when you start the wifi it's an hardware problem.
Send it to service
hello
Cammarratta said:
You have flashtool yes? If you load up like you're going to flash a ftf file. Once you click to load up the ftf file it'll pull a menu where you pick what you want to flash. On the right side of flashtool that's where the exclude part is. That's where you have to check the *exclude option. The same thing happened to me when I accidentally flashed a T cm10 rom on my phone. I had to partially flash a ftf file to get it to boot. It should work but since you're not familiar with flashtool its going to make it a bit harder for you in the end. :/
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What version for ftf version for xperia tx should i flash???? the ics one??? the latest??? helppp
and should i check everything that's in the exclude option?
The latest one, and don't exclude anything
Sent whilst sat on the toilet.

DEAD or DEATH BOOT/battery totally drained

So my phone's not yet fixed since the 25th of December due to sudden death - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2585068
We had it checked again last Thursday, January 3rd. The technician said that the replacement of motherboard is not yet clear to be the best solution as the technicians from the Sony Service Center hadn't opened the phone yet. He said that it might have been a cause of a dead or death boot. Has anyone heard of it? He says not only Sony phones are experiencing this dead or death booth, even other brands. Kind of random.He said that the phone somewhat hangs, the screen isn't on but the system is still running which causes the phone to become warm or hot. And he also said that this lead to the battery getting totally drained. As per him, once the battery is totally drained it won't get charged even if I try to charge the phone for a number of hours. So what he will do when I get back to him on Monday is he will first try to shock the battery to see if it will be revived (which I hope this is just the case) and then dload some firmwares or softwares to fix the unit.
I hope this ordeal will be solved this following week as it's been so inconvenient on my part and I terribly miss my phone.
One of possibility is that they will open the back cover, pull out the battery and charge it to full, then they put it back and flash the stock firmware. With battery charged they have enough time for flashing and the phone should turn on. If it's Sony Center to do that they will also seal the phone as original to get fully working waterproof.
eclyptos said:
One of possibility is that they will open the back cover, pull out the battery and charge it to full, then they put it back and flash the stock firmware. With battery charged they have enough time for flashing and the phone should turn on. If it's Sony Center to do that they will also seal the phone as original to get fully working waterproof.
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I really, really, really hope it'd work. For the waterproofing it would be fine to take it to the Sony service centre just to have the full waterproofness back.:good:
Just flash kernal from,any firmware by flash tool,and put your cell phone on charge.,it will charge... The same thing happen to me
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shahzaib.khan said:
Just flash kernal from,any firmware by flash tool,and put your cell phone on charge.,it will charge... The same thing happen to me
Sent from my C6903 using xda app-developers app
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Flashmode not working and fastboot too the deviice is HARD BRICKED !!!
Meni30 said:
Flashmode not working and fastboot too the deviice is HARD BRICKED !!!
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Have you managed to find a way to fix it?
I think my phone is hard bricked becuase its stuck on the Sony logo and my pc wan't detect it and none of the buttons work
SpawnCube said:
Have you managed to find a way to fix it?
I think my phone is hard bricked becuase its stuck on the Sony logo and my pc wan't detect it and none of the buttons work
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Hey guys, do the devs a favour: NOT EVERY SIMPLE BOOTLOOP IS A BRICKED DEVICE!!!
Just go to recovery and wipe everything, it then should boot without problems.
if it doesn't, first check yourself (e.g. did you flash a 4.4 kitkat without flashing a new kernel for it?)
the answers for nearly all problems are here on xda-developers ... just read, read and read and understand ... if you don't know, what you do with flashing your device, what the partitions data / cache / system are for, what a kernel is or what the differences between stock roms, custom rom releases and nightly builds is, you simply SHOULD NOT flash your device.
If you understand what you are doing and if THAT ALL doesn't help you and you think you have a problem noone else have (i allready had such a thing with my defy+, it got bootloop and it was a dead memory chip) THEN (and just then) post your problem here. The devs simply don't have the time to help everyone who simply can't read the existing threads.
Thanks (and dont get angry on me, just saying so you can do it better the next time)
DJ_Synergy said:
Hey guys, do the devs a favour: NOT EVERY SIMPLE BOOTLOOP IS A BRICKED DEVICE!!!
Just go to recovery and wipe everything, it then should boot without problems.
if it doesn't, first check yourself (e.g. did you flash a 4.4 kitkat without flashing a new kernel for it?)
the answers for nearly all problems are here on xda-developers ... just read, read and read and understand ... if you don't know, what you do with flashing your device, what the partitions data / cache / system are for, what a kernel is or what the differences between stock roms, custom rom releases and nightly builds is, you simply SHOULD NOT flash your device.
If you understand what you are doing and if THAT ALL doesn't help you and you think you have a problem noone else have (i allready had such a thing with my defy+, it got bootloop and it was a dead memory chip) THEN (and just then) post your problem here. The devs simply don't have the time to help everyone who simply can't read the existing threads.
Thanks (and dont get angry on me, just saying so you can do it better the next time)
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Thanks, you just said what I wanted to say.

Phone Bricked :( drivers needed

I got my phone a week ago used. I had previous xperiance (no pun intended :crying: ) with a xperia ray and had it running all types of roms. Wanting to have the same experience i tried to flash cm11 for locked bootloader and it all went wrong. I didnt even flash it. I was formating the cache and cmw touch froze. I waited 5 min and nothing happened. So i did the off thing in the back and now it gets stuck on sony logo. If conected to the computer nothing happens but green led then red and stops at sony logo. I tried flashtool but it says no drivers and i cant find them. I used sus and it cant detect phone. Pc starts to install something when plugging in but then stops. I have c5306. Can someone walk me through this?:crying: I had 4.3 so i dont think sus would work. Even if i cant fix does anyone know where i can have it repaired in victoria bc for cheap? I bought it mint for 125 from friend and dont want to spend over 50. Maybe even 25.
Thanks,
Ethan
I said it before, there's no such thing as a fully bricked Xperia SP unless you're having hardware issues.
Try installing the following drivers: http://doomlord.xperia-files.com/download.php?dlid=Rmxhc2h0b29sLWRyaXZlcnMtMS41LTIwMTQwMzE4
Then run flashtool again in order to flash your ftf file.
Thanks for your reply but I already fixed it. I earlier tried sus to fix but it wouldn't get recognized so I thought that pcc wouldn't either. But last night I was in a very passed off mood that I tried it and.it worked! Now I'm on stock 4.3 rooted with towelroot. I don't think I'm gonna go for custom rim until I have unlocked bootloader. I will take a look at drivers though. Thanks

Zony Z1 C6902 No signal

Hey guys. I got this problem:
One day in the morning the cellphone lost signal and never got it back. As i believed it was a software issue (coz the cellphone was on and suddenly signal dissapeared) i tried to flash a ROM and do a lot of stuff. In Venezuela we have no Sony Center. At the end my cellphone finished with CM11 and no IMEI. If u have any solution for this, I'll be really grateful. Thanks in advance for ur time.
Try wiping all data and flashing a full FTF using flashtool, if that doesnt work,then im afraid u r gonna have to get a new phone:good:
How many roms have you flashed anyway?
Provide some more detailed info about how and when this happened.does the phone detect the sim card?
Does the stock sony rom by any chance go on a reboot loop when starting ,because that happened to me when my old xperia z's baseband died:angel:
Good Luck,I hope you fix your phone quickly
masterofnocrack said:
Try wiping all data and flashing a full FTF using flashtool, if that doesnt work,then im afraid u r gonna have to get a new phone:good:
How many roms have you flashed anyway?
Provide some more detailed info about how and when this happened.does the phone detect the sim card?
Does the stock sony rom by any chance go on a reboot loop when starting ,because that happened to me when my old xperia z's baseband died:angel:
Good Luck,I hope you fix your phone quickly
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Thanks for writting. It started suddenly, i though it was an update. I've flashed like 4 ROMS (dont remember which ones tho). The cellphone detects SIM Card but cant register to any network. When I installed other ROMS it got on a reboot loop. I also think maybe i have to get a new phone and use this one as a mini tablet. Once again, thanks for leaving an answer
edbk201 said:
Thanks for writting. It started suddenly, i though it was an update. I've flashed like 4 ROMS (dont remember which ones tho). The cellphone detects SIM Card but cant register to any network. When I installed other ROMS it got on a reboot loop. I also think maybe i have to get a new phone and use this one as a mini tablet. Once again, thanks for leaving an answer
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Yeah,you are gonna have to get a new phone,
This is the same thing that happened to my old Z
masterofnocrack said:
Yeah,you are gonna have to get a new phone,
This is the same thing that happened to my old Z
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Thanks for answering. Bad news tho
Flash full FTF of .757
That should help....I have this before...

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