Hi guys
I have got problem my xperia v death after power off.It dosent turn on and when i plug into charger no led no charging. Nothing, rom CM 10.2 stable, It happen when i format sd crd and turn off phone in cwm after that phone dont turn on
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Ok i removed battery and plug phone in usb now red led diode blink for 4sec but when i plug it which battery. Nothing
Was the phones charge less than 20 % at the time when you did the operation?
Use like a rubber band or something to tie down the power button and plug in charger. Should be able to charge up. Give it some charge and try to flash stock again.
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Was the phones charge less than 20 % at the time when you did the operation?
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USB charging mayby 30-50 % i dont remeber
How much time i must charg it beacouse when i try to charge this option ( i sit there 5 min) nothing like normal no led no charging animation
I thought I noticed when my phone has a low charge state, it does not want me to do things like restoring, updating core apps, or other significant changes to the system.
Charge it at least over night regardless what the charge indicator says.
peter-k said:
I thought I noticed when my phone has a low charge state, it does not want me to do things like restoring, updating core apps, or other significant changes to the system.
Charge it at least over night regardless what the charge indicator says.
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Hi the problem is its say nothing no led no animation do not know phone charges
Guys is better i pull out battery then plug in charger wall than i put battery back and wait now red diode blink red always without stopping but phone dosent turn on
PS I gave him a charge later on but the LED does not light up but after 2 minutes she started to flicker about 6 times red then again shone red, and so all the time
Hi everyone,
I currently experience exactly the same problem. I wanted to flash my CM10.2 to the last night build (CM11) on my Xperia V. I boot into recovery mode and wipe data / factory reset and wipe some data from sdcard. I finally choose the "Restart system" option. The phone turns off but never restarted. I think I wiped some important files from system or kernet. I tried all combinations of keys (vol- + power, vol+ + power, only vol- while plugin in usb etc) but nothing occured. No LED, no vibration, no screen on. My phone was charged around 65% when I started operations.
I tried to charge my phone via the wall plug. No led. I wait during more than 30 minutes but nothing changed (I was expecting the back of the phone a little bit warm as it usually the case when charging).
As Ghost4Fun, I noticed that if I pull out the battery and plug the device with wall charger and then put the battery back, the red led blink red 2-3 times but finally turn off. If I pull out the battery, plug the device on usb and hold vol- + power during few seconds, the red led blink. It continues to blink even after release keys. If I put the battery back, the red led stay lit during 1-2 seconds before turning off.
This xperia v is not the first android device I change rom and it's not even the first time I flash this phone. I already experienced some problem during flashing with infinite reboot, device stucked on boot animation, etc but this time it's quite different as nothing happen with keys. Hope it's not bricked and someone could help us.
OK no help close thread... i will send to services f****** SONY
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OK no help close thread... i will send to services f****** SONY
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Only what i discovered is i when the red led coming in charging than if u press volum + and power for half minut than u get constant led red it is normal?
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Only what i discovered is i when the red led coming in charging than if u press volum + and power for half minut than u get constant led red it is normal?
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Hmm this is good. If you press the power button now do you see red light? if you see that try holding power button and then put it on the charger! Worked once for my Xperia T
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Hmm this is good. If you press the power button now do you see red light? if you see that try holding power button and then put it on the charger! Worked once for my Xperia T
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dm led red switch off than i try to connect to my pc but nothing. No now it isnt red led when pressing power button
I aslo tried quite a lot of configurations with keys and power source (wall or usb) but the only thing changing is the led frequency (~30s, ~45s, ~1m). I leave the phone charging during the entire night and some hours today but it didn't change anything. I aslo tried to let it charge with some keys pressed by an elastic (I read the problem can be related to a flat battery). I haven't been able to have another color than red from the moment it turned off the last time.
I don't think the issue is from the battery as it was 65% charged when it died and even if the phone is plugged for hours, the led color doesn't change and the heat is ambient. The problem is that if it's not related to the battery, it must be software and the only way to fix it, is to make the phone recognized by the PC.
I also plan to send back the phone to Sony but as I'm not at home for the next week, I have 7 days to try to fix it myself :victory: Does anyone already send back a phone to Sony in this state? I mean, my phone is (was ) unlocked, rooted and with a custom rom, I'm really not sure they will fix it (I'm sure they can but not sure they want). Maybe the data I wiped and make the phone bricked will also hide it to them :fingers-crossed:
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I aslo tried quite a lot of configurations with keys and power source (wall or usb) but the only thing changing is the led frequency (~30s, ~45s, ~1m). I leave the phone charging during the entire night and some hours today but it didn't change anything. I aslo tried to let it charge with some keys pressed by an elastic (I read the problem can be related to a flat battery). I haven't been able to have another color than red from the moment it turned off the last time.
I don't think the issue is from the battery as it was 65% charged when it died and even if the phone is plugged for hours, the led color doesn't change and the heat is ambient. The problem is that if it's not related to the battery, it must be software and the only way to fix it, is to make the phone recognized by the PC.
I also plan to send back the phone to Sony but as I'm not at home for the next week, I have 7 days to try to fix it myself :victory: Does anyone already send back a phone to Sony in this state? I mean, my phone is (was ) unlocked, rooted and with a custom rom, I'm really not sure they will fix it (I'm sure they can but not sure they want). Maybe the data I wiped and make the phone bricked will also hide it to them :fingers-crossed:
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http://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xperia-Ion/Xperia-ion-hard-bricked/td-p/310905
i will try at week but if it wont help i send it to sony i too had custom rom
Thanks for your link (there is a limit of 10 messages before a member can post external link so I can't quote you ).
I tried to plug my device to the pc with the rubber on the volum - button during 15 minutes without any chance to make it recognized by the flashmode. I will plug it to the wall charger for the entire night and will wait. I never thought a battery can be as long to charge. If someone has the technical reason of this long charge when a device is bricked, I'm interested by the answer.
I will update you as soon as I have news.
@Ghost4Fun i think it is because of the broken boot.img inside the ROM, use FLASHTOOL, put the devices in fastboot mode then flash a kernel, maybe NK Kernel, it has recovery http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2223534
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@Ghost4Fun i think it is because of the broken boot.img inside the ROM, use FLASHTOOL, put the devices in fastboot mode then flash a kernel, maybe NK Kernel, it has recovery http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2223534
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if i could enter fastboot mode
Sony technicians are arrogant dim wittes fools. I just came from sony and xplain my problm.
The technician said i have a problem with the phones board but he was using the device whem he was navigating it.
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Ok, I'm really sweating bullets here...
I had installed Cyanogenmod ICS alpha2 on my TouchPad and had spent all day on that tablet - loving the new lease on life it had. Before I went to sleep last evening it had like 10% power left. I plugged it in with the official Touchpad charger and left it charging until I woke up the next morning - a full 8 hours later.
To my surprise, it had 0 power left. Nada. Zip. I had checked the outlet and it was fully plugged in at both the tablet and the outlet to the wall. I knew I had turned off the tablet.
Now that it has 0% power - how in the heck am I supposed to boot into Palm mode to charge the battery (as I have heard that that is a work-around)?
I could really use your help here - many thanks.
@kstagg
Not sure if its the same problem...but I noticed recently that whenever i let my tp go down below 10%...and i hook up the charger...it doesnt charge at all...even with charger hooked up..battery drains....So when its 0% and I boot into WebOS to charge to fully....
For your issue, if your TP is dead...do you see battery sign when hooked to wall charger? if you do then wait for some time (mine takes 15-20 mins)...it will boot up..if your android is default then it will boot into android....without removing it from the charger...boot it into webos and charge...
If you cant do this..get it fixed by HP
What does it do when you plug it in?
First take the power adapter and twist off the bottom part and put it back on. When you connect it, do you get the battery "charging" symbol?
What I do is let it charge enough to hit moboot, then if I catch it in time I choose webOS and let it charge a little then reboot to CM, unplug the charger for a few seconds, then reconnect it. If it boots direct to CM the first time (moboot default) it's going to stay 'charging' but doesn't change from 0%. In that case, reboot and either go to webOS or reboot into CM9 a few times till it shows 1%... then disconnect the charger a few seconds and reconnect.
No matter what level the battery is at, if you boot into CM with the charger connected it will not charge. You have to unplug it for a few seconds and then reconnect it.
When I am hooked to wall charger, I see the battery symbol with the red line on it showing that battery is extremely low - in my case battery is dead. It won't even boot up when I take it off the charger. I just get the power cord symbol.
I have even been able to turn off the touchpad completely (since the TP has been on 0% power) by holding in volume up and power buttons simultaneously. I have no idea how I knew to do this - perhaps it was desperation. So I have even attempted to charge it via the wall outlet and waited a couple hours that way - but no change. It still has squat power.
Everything I've read is that once you've rooted the touchpad to a different OS, HP will no longer support it. Not sure where I would go to get it fixed by them either? Please correct me if I'm wrong. Hopefully it won't come to that though. Besides, the Mrs would kill me. :]
mountaindewmi said:
What does it do when you plug it in?
First take the power adapter and twist off the bottom part and put it back on. When you connect it, do you get the battery "charging" symbol?
What I do is let it charge enough to hit moboot, then if I catch it in time I choose webOS and let it charge a little then reboot to CM, unplug the charger for a few seconds, then reconnect it. If it boots direct to CM the first time (moboot default) it's going to stay 'charging' but doesn't change from 0%. In that case, reboot and either go to webOS or reboot into CM9 a few times till it shows 1%... then disconnect the charger a few seconds and reconnect.
No matter what level the battery is at, if you boot into CM with the charger connected it will not charge. You have to unplug it for a few seconds and then reconnect it.
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Just tried twisting off the bottom of the HP charger and reattaching and am just getting the power plug icon.
I installed CM7 in my friends TP back when that was the current release and about a month ago it went dead, wouldn't power up at all (no battery icon) and they still took it and repaired it with no problems.
In your case though I think you are fine... just leave it charging in that screen for a while. Then do a home/menu + power button reboot (15+ seconds) and see if you can get moboot. It may go back to the charging screen but thats fine, give it more time and try again. A few of my coworkers have the same problem sometimes and they come running to me, lol.
mountaindewmi said:
I installed CM7 in my friends TP back when that was the current release and about a month ago it went dead, wouldn't power up at all (no battery icon) and they still took it and repaired it with no problems.
In your case though I think you are fine... just leave it charging in that screen for a while. Then do a home/menu + power button reboot (15+ seconds) and see if you can get moboot. It may go back to the charging screen but thats fine, give it more time and try again. A few of my coworkers have the same problem sometimes and they come running to me, lol.
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Guess you can add me to one of those unfortunate souls you can add to your list who keeps running back to you. :]
My question to you is - where did they take it back to? Do you have a URL showing a shipping address? Sure, HP HQ is a few miles away from me - but am not about to go knocking on their door and say "Yeah, uh - can you fix this?" Besides that is a corporate HQ - not a manufacturing plant.
I have two TPs and one (older one by about a month) has the connector going loose... It usually charges fine but once in a while, it fails to connect. Depending on the angle of the way the tablet meets the micro usb I will sometimes fail to connect it properly.
My other one has a very tight micro ubs port and it's hard to plug in, but it works fine everytime...
So my point is, make sure you have an actual connection when you plug in for charge.
Dunno if I'm just lucky or what, but my tp died on the way to work this morning, so I plugged it in when I got here, got the red battery symbol, and let it charge for about half an hour. Here is where I am now:
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I should also note that it died in cm9, showed the battery screen, then when I checked it next, it had 7% or so in cm9 as well. Never had to boot into webOS for anything.
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I installed CM7 in my friends TP back when that was the current release and about a month ago it went dead, wouldn't power up at all (no battery icon) and they still took it and repaired it with no problems.
In your case though I think you are fine... just leave it charging in that screen for a while. Then do a home/menu + power button reboot (15+ seconds) and see if you can get moboot. It may go back to the charging screen but thats fine, give it more time and try again. A few of my coworkers have the same problem sometimes and they come running to me, lol.
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OK, did exactly what you said and plugged it in w/battery indicator in the red and walked away for a few hours. When I came back just now so far it was at 93%. Can I get a Hallelujah?
Ok, can anyone tell me what to do to prevent this from happening again in the future? Do I have to do any routine cache cleanup (?) or other general maintenance? Will booting into WebOS to charge before battery gets too low always work?
Thanks again folks-
@kstagg
kstagg said:
OK, did exactly what you said and plugged it in w/battery indicator in the red and walked away for a few hours. When I came back just now so far it was at 93%. Can I get a Hallelujah?
Ok, can anyone tell me what to do to prevent this from happening again in the future? Do I have to do any routine cache cleanup (?) or other general maintenance? Will booting into WebOS to charge before battery gets too low always work?
Thanks again folks-
@kstagg
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Booting in WebOS before battery gets too low and charging in webos always works for me
Last time i drain my battery to 0% for the calibration. But it charges just fine after that.
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I'm glad it worked for you! I would say just don't let it fully drain, lol. If it does, just repeat the steps and you should be ok. And you don't need to boot into webOS when it is low, you can plug it in while in android and it will be fine, as long as the battery isn't at 0% which is when it shuts off.
Mine is actually at the same point right now, fully drained.
Sometimes mine doesn't charge....because the USB cord gets ever so slightly slightly unplugged from the adapter.
Be sure to try that in the future.
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Hi...I have a problem with my Rogers Xperia T with locked Boot loader, hoping someone might have had something similar and be able to help. I made a new thread due to so many types of Soft Brick and my problem being different than most.
My cell crashed randomly while using my phone weeks ago. Went to turn it back on and nothing but a flashing Red Light all the time when trying to turn the cell back on. I've spent countless hours reading all the suggestions on this forum,with no real luck yet.
After many attempts to fix my cell from all the great tips on this forum...like taking my phone apart to disconnect the battery,rubber band trick etc. Nothing has ever changed. It seems my cell is stuck in some type of Flash Mode Loop? I can get my cell to vibrate 1-3 times holding the buttons,but doesn't change anything.
When plugged into the charger or PC, my light goes from solid Red for a few minutes then solid Green. But the Green light only stays for a few seconds then it goes out,but it still stays in Flash Mode for a few minutes than back to the Red again,and keeps repeating this cycle. Making it very hard to Flash or Repair my phone due to Flash Mode never staying long enough to complete. But if I disconnect my battery than plug it into my PC I can Flash or use PC Companion successfully. But still doesn't change anything.
I just can't seem to get the phone out of this Loop to complete any type of battery recharge. If any one else has had this,any input would be greatly appreciated. I've spent weeks reading so many posts on the forum and internet about soft brick and nothing seems to work.
Thank You
I Had this problem too
WarSupport said:
Hi...I have a problem with my Rogers Xperia T with locked Boot loader, hoping someone might have had something similar and be able to help. I made a new thread due to so many types of Soft Brick and my problem being different than most.
My cell crashed randomly while using my phone weeks ago. Went to turn it back on and nothing but a flashing Red Light all the time when trying to turn the cell back on. I've spent countless hours reading all the suggestions on this forum,with no real luck yet.
After many attempts to fix my cell from all the great tips on this forum...like taking my phone apart to disconnect the battery,rubber band trick etc. Nothing has ever changed. It seems my cell is stuck in some type of Flash Mode Loop? I can get my cell to vibrate 1-3 times holding the buttons,but doesn't change anything.
When plugged into the charger or PC, my light goes from solid Red for a few minutes then solid Green. But the Green light only stays for a few seconds then it goes out,but it still stays in Flash Mode for a few minutes than back to the Red again,and keeps repeating this cycle. Making it very hard to Flash or Repair my phone due to Flash Mode never staying long enough to complete. But if I disconnect my battery than plug it into my PC I can Flash or use PC Companion successfully. But still doesn't change anything.
I just can't seem to get the phone out of this Loop to complete any type of battery recharge. If any one else has had this,any input would be greatly appreciated. I've spent weeks reading so many posts on the forum and internet about soft brick and nothing seems to work.
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Hi
I had this problem with my device in few days before and recover my phone and now he is works like a love song baby.
Your Situation: Soft/Reset without any vibrates with flashing red LED
You should know the "Battery Life Cycle" very good. but now i give u some steps to do:
Step1. Keep Calm and let your blood reach on your brain to think and analyze your each time situation.
Step2. Don't hit the Power Button in every situation anymore. this works makes damages on doing some future works-SO DON'T TOUCH POWER
Step3. Estimate the duration time from plug the wall charger to green LED. for example mine was 15 minutes.
Step4. Let the Battery Dies completely.
Step5. Plug the charger for half of "Step3" Estimate time. for example mine was 7 minutes.
Step6. Unplug the Chrager.
Step7. Plug the Charger for 10 minutes later after "Step6". between this 10 minutes, flash FTF file to be ready.
Step8. Do "Step5" to "Step7" for three times.
Why you should do these steps like this?
Because in flashmode level you need enough battery charge that's for in flashmode the usb cable do not send any electrical charge to device.
Step9. Bring your device to flashmode and flash your device ( [Vol-] + [Power] then LED should turns green
Maybe helpful, Be Success
milad.moafi said:
Hi
I had this problem with my device in few days before and recover my phone and now he is works like a love song baby.
Your Situation: Soft/Reset without any vibrates with flashing red LED
You should know the "Battery Life Cycle" very good. but now i give u some steps to do:
Step1. Keep Calm and let your blood reach on your brain to think and analyze your each time situation.
Step2. Don't hit the Power Button in every situation anymore. this works makes damages on doing some future works-SO DON'T TOUCH POWER
Step3. Estimate the duration time from plug the wall charger to green LED. for example mine was 15 minutes.
Step4. Let the Battery Dies completely.
Step5. Plug the charger for half of "Step3" Estimate time. for example mine was 7 minutes.
Step6. Unplug the Chrager.
Step7. Plug the Charger for 10 minutes later after "Step6". between this 10 minutes, flash FTF file to be ready.
Step8. Do "Step5" to "Step7" for three times.
Why you should do these steps like this?
Because in flashmode level you need enough battery charge that's for in flashmode the usb cable do not send any electrical charge to device.
Step9. Bring your device to flashmode and flash your device ( [Vol-] + [Power] then LED should turns green
Maybe helpful, Be Success
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Thanks alot for the great tip. It worked enough to charge my cell long enough to flash my stock ftf :good: But unfortunately hasn't changed anything on my cell.
It seems that i have the same issue, my bootloader is locked and as i plug in the phone the LED gets green and sometimes red, but the battery never gets warm, also the Display wont do anything.
I think this can be happening becouse the Connector is Damaged or something similar..
But spending more money seems like a waste for me
thexruss said:
It seems that i have the same issue, my bootloader is locked and as i plug in the phone the LED gets green and sometimes red, but the battery never gets warm, also the Display wont do anything.
I think this can be happening becouse the Connector is Damaged or something similar..
But spending more money seems like a waste for me
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Did you do anything to your phone to cause this? Mine just suddenly froze up and crashed with normal use one day? I've never dropped it or damaged my cell in anyway. I just don't get it
well... i bought it 2 weeks ago on ebay, as defective.
"only red led flashing" was the description, well, thruth is it had a huge fight with water, a long time ago.. many contacts were corrosive, the battery was molten at the contacts comming from within, the connector for the buttons/display was extreme corrosive.
I Cleaned it up and bought a new battery, hoping it would do the trick, but now im with this problem..
I think if i could get a cheap connector i would buy one just to try it.
Or another one on ebay.. just have to wait for one.
but say, did your battery get any higher temperature when its charged?
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well... i bought it 2 weeks ago on ebay, as defective.
"only red led flashing" was the description, well, thruth is it had a huge fight with water, a long time ago.. many contacts were corrosive, the battery was molten at the contacts comming from within, the connector for the buttons/display was extreme corrosive.
I Cleaned it up and bought a new battery, hoping it would do the trick, but now im with this problem..
I think if i could get a cheap connector i would buy one just to try it.
Or another one on ebay.. just have to wait for one.
but say, did your battery get any higher temperature when its charged?
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No the battery temperature stays the same,I can only charge my phone a very little bit.
Okay, thanks!
It showed sony logo the first time ever now 0o
I let it charge for ca. 30 min then the sony logo appeared but it stuck at it, so i wanted to reflash with sus but it wont accept the T..
Now i have a clue whats the error on my phone, the side buttons are oxidised and so pushed themself so they are pushed the whole time!
These tiny buttons are just ****ty..
When they are broken u need another connector, so thats my next step, maybe ur phone also has gettin often wet or something?
I would try without that connector an let the battery charge for some time, if your phone boots then u know whats up with it..
Hope u can understand what i mean.. My english isnt the best xD
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Okay, thanks!
It showed sony logo the first time ever now 0o
I let it charge for ca. 30 min then the sony logo appeared but it stuck at it, so i wanted to reflash with sus but it wont accept the T..
Now i have a clue whats the error on my phone, the side buttons are oxidised and so pushed themself so they are pushed the whole time!
These tiny buttons are just ****ty..
When they are broken u need another connector, so thats my next step, maybe ur phone also has gettin often wet or something?
I would try without that connector an let the battery charge for some time, if your phone boots then u know whats up with it..
Hope u can understand what i mean.. My english isnt the best xD
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That's great you made some progress. Did you do anything different this time when charging. Mine always does the same Red Light Green Light loop no matter what.
Can you get your cell to respond to the power button and volume down? or are your side buttons too damaged?
Do the rubber band trick to charge up your battery.
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Well.. the power button and the Vol- fell apart, and i lost the magnet inside, so i have to wait till i get a new cable untill i can test further...
Can take up to 2 weeks till i get one, getting something like that in austria is a very long story, i can only order it from Germany or somewhere else and that takes minimum 2 days or more.
The rubber band trick havent worked for me also.
Phone just Vibrated and restarted,vibrated and restarted,..
And my phone was alwas in Flashmode!
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The Left Cable is for Buttons and Display, just unplug it from the mainboard.
Then try to Load it, if the LED stops switching, it could be the Reason.
and test if anything happens when the battery is plugged out, could be that your battery is also dead an thats why it cant get charged.
€ i played another hour with this "T"hing..
i am now wery certain that its the buttons, what causes the flipping between red/green.
But an question, how fast did your LED change color? does it change every second or did it hold for some minutes and change then?
thexruss said:
Well.. the power button and the Vol- fell apart, and i lost the magnet inside, so i have to wait till i get a new cable untill i can test further...
Can take up to 2 weeks till i get one, getting something like that in austria is a very long story, i can only order it from Germany or somewhere else and that takes minimum 2 days or more.
The rubber band trick havent worked for me also.
Phone just Vibrated and restarted,vibrated and restarted,..
And my phone was alwas in Flashmode!
The Left Cable is for Buttons and Display, just unplug it from the mainboard.
Then try to Load it, if the LED stops switching, it could be the Reason.
and test if anything happens when the battery is plugged out, could be that your battery is also dead an thats why it cant get charged.
€ i played another hour with this "T"hing..
i am now wery certain that its the buttons, what causes the flipping between red/green.
But an question, how fast did your LED change color? does it change every second or did it hold for some minutes and change then?
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My cell when plugged into the charger would first go Red for 5 minutes than change to Green for 1 minute than no light for about 3 minutes than back to Red again.
Sounds like mine!!
Have u Dissassembled it yet and tried without battery/Buttons?
thexruss said:
Sounds like mine!!
Have u Dissassembled it yet and tried without battery/Buttons?
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Yes....but unfortunately nothing changes. Hopefully when your new parts come your cell will boot.:good:
WarSupport said:
Yes....but unfortunately nothing changes. Hopefully when your new parts come your cell will boot.:good:
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Some little news.. the new Cable with Buttons have arrived today, i installed it quickly, but it seems the phone havent changed it thougts abot starting...
When i just press the Power Button without USB cable plugged in, the Red led flashes 2 times.
If i push the power button and plugg it in for some time, it is a stable red light but the switching to green led and then red led starts again..
actually i plugged it in with pressed power button, LED stayed red for about 1h now.
now it switched to green, the phone vibrates, then the green led shows up for some secounds, then the LED dissapear, it vibrates again and then again green LED with no Display, it does this some minutes, than its again a stable red, for some minutes.
I let the rubber band all the time on the power button.
I tryed now to Flash the phone but i cant even get into Flashmode..
Without battery connected, i plugged in to the pc, it starts now to the Sony logo, but switches permanently between Flashmode and Sony logo.... WTF!!
thexruss said:
Some little news.. the new Cable with Buttons have arrived today, i installed it quickly, but it seems the phone havent changed it thougts abot starting...
When i just press the Power Button without USB cable plugged in, the Red led flashes 2 times.
If i push the power button and plugg it in for some time, it is a stable red light but the switching to green led and then red led starts again..
actually i plugged it in with pressed power button, LED stayed red for about 1h now.
now it switched to green, the phone vibrates, then the green led shows up for some secounds, then the LED dissapear, it vibrates again and then again green LED with no Display, it does this some minutes, than its again a stable red, for some minutes.
I let the rubber band all the time on the power button.
I tryed now to Flash the phone but i cant even get into Flashmode..
Without battery connected, i plugged in to the pc, it starts now to the Sony logo, but switches permanently between Flashmode and Sony logo.... WTF!!
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I'm sorry to hear the new parts didn't help Doesn't make sense! I was hoping your new parts would have solved the problem. It's doing the same thing as mine...except I can't get to the Sony Logo.
Maybe drain the battery and try again...also what happens when you disconnect the battery and plug it into the computer or charger and plug the battery back in right away while still connected.
WarSupport said:
I'm sorry to hear the new parts didn't help Doesn't make sense! I was hoping your new parts would have solved the problem. It's doing the same thing as mine...except I can't get to the Sony Logo.
Maybe drain the battery and try again...also what happens when you disconnect the battery and plug it into the computer or charger and plug the battery back in right away while still connected.
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Now i havent done anything with the phone for some time..
If i had connected the battery while starting without battery, it goes the same way. Green led, red led, green led...
But now i buyed another phone with bricked display, i put the mainboard from this into the first one i bought and tryed to start with the battery i bought, result: doesnt work!!!
Red led goes on when connecting to charger but after 10 min it disapears and nothing happens, i can soft and hard reset the phone, but it wont start at all!!
then i tried the battery from the Display bricked phone and it goes very well
so my theory is, that the battery that i bought ist just dead, i hope i can have a refund for it...
I could try the good battery with the "dead" mainboard, but for now im happy, that i have one T running.
Maybe i could get my hands on another T, then i would try it again.
Just as side note, the "dead" battery, had 2,7v as i got it and has 3,2v after charging for an ! week ! with the "dead" mainboard.
I havent looked at the "good" battery, but i have looked at an battery from an "J" that was fully drained, it showed 3,4v
T battery is marked as 4,2v and J battery is marked also as 4.2v, so my conclusion is that the new battery i bought was a faulty one!!
thexruss said:
Now i havent done anything with the phone for some time..
If i had connected the battery while starting without battery, it goes the same way. Green led, red led, green led...
But now i buyed another phone with bricked display, i put the mainboard from this into the first one i bought and tryed to start with the battery i bought, result: doesnt work!!!
Red led goes on when connecting to charger but after 10 min it disapears and nothing happens, i can soft and hard reset the phone, but it wont start at all!!
then i tried the battery from the Display bricked phone and it goes very well
so my theory is, that the battery that i bought ist just dead, i hope i can have a refund for it...
I could try the good battery with the "dead" mainboard, but for now im happy, that i have one T running.
Maybe i could get my hands on another T, then i would try it again.
Just as side note, the "dead" battery, had 2,7v as i got it and has 3,2v after charging for an ! week ! with the "dead" mainboard.
I havent looked at the "good" battery, but i have looked at an battery from an "J" that was fully drained, it showed 3,4v
T battery is marked as 4,2v and J battery is marked also as 4.2v, so my conclusion is that the new battery i bought was a faulty one!!
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Thanks a lot for your input. That's great after all you tried you finally have a working phone. I'm going to purchase a new battery and see what happens. It's a bit strange I had no signs of a weak battery. My battery lasted fine from day to day use? Defiantly worth a try. Thanks
WarSupport said:
Thanks a lot for your input. That's great after all you tried you finally have a working phone. I'm going to purchase a new battery and see what happens. It's a bit strange I had no signs of a weak battery. My battery lasted fine from day to day use? Defiantly worth a try. Thanks
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yeah u can try it!
but make shure that the battery isnt too old! but thats just my theory
wish u good luck with ur phone!
mine is just running awesome compaired to an arc ^^
but the camera wont focus.. lets see whats the trick about this
WarSupport said:
Thanks a lot for your input. That's great after all you tried you finally have a working phone. I'm going to purchase a new battery and see what happens. It's a bit strange I had no signs of a weak battery. My battery lasted fine from day to day use? Defiantly worth a try. Thanks
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After i recognized that my speaker has made some crazy noizes under calls i dissasembled it again and tryed the other mainboard.
It was really just the battery, the other mainboard now runs totally smooth!
Hope you can fix yours to!
This is a translated text :c. I speak spanish.
I got an Xperia C5302 SP (Stock Rom, no root, no unlocked bootloader, no recovery), not fully started because its battery was low and its firmware does not have offline charging mode.
The solution I found after 3 days. The key is flashing with flashtool firmware with support for offline charging. In my case C5302_12.1.A.0.266_1272-3116_R2B.ftf. Now, do the flash without battery load is not possible because a disconnection of Flashmode mode occurs during the process. The solution is to enter Flashmode mode with the battery disconnected from the phone:
(I was able to enter Flashmode mode by holding the Volume + button and Power, then connecting to the PC via USB. A green light will appear, sometimes goes, this does not create problems unless FlashTool show an error of disconnection).
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This way you can flash the firmware completely. After flashing, you must connect the Xperia SP to the wall charger. If all goes well the charge offline icon should appears for a few seconds and then disappear and show a red light.
Leave the phone charging an hour. Then turn on and the system installation process is performed.
Eso es todo.
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Nanostray said:
How did you disconnect the battery from the phone? I thought we couldn't get the battery out
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Remove the Cover Battery.
Remove the 10 screws.
Remove the back cover carefully (a connector remains attached to the cover).
...and remove battery connector.
How did you disconnect the battery from the phone? I thought we couldn't get the battery out
Nanostray said:
How did you disconnect the battery from the phone? I thought we couldn't get the battery out
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If you remove the cover you'll see a very small yellow button that can be pressed with a paperclip or pen... If you hold this button for a few seconds it acts the same as a battery pull
mrjraider said:
If you remove the cover you'll see a very small yellow button that can be pressed with a paperclip or pen... If you hold this button for a few seconds it acts the same as a battery pull
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You need to remove the connection to the battery permanently during the installation of the firmware.
Perform installation in Flashmode holding the OFF button does not give me good results because the connection was interrupted in the process.
Well when I get stuck in a bootloop I simply press the yellow button on the back to turn it off. After that I use the volume down and the cable to connect my phone to my computer in flashmode. Works always.
Nanostray said:
How did you disconnect the battery from the phone? I thought we couldn't get the battery out
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Remove the Cover Battery.
Remove the 10 screws.
Remove the back cover carefully (a connector remains attached to the cover).
Code:
i.imgur.com/IwOXnQR.png
...and remove battery connector.
Code:
i.imgur.com/dQlIwA1.png
mrjraider said:
Well when I get stuck in a bootloop I simply press the yellow button on the back to turn it off. After that I use the volume down and the cable to connect my phone to my computer in flashmode. Works always.
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That works only when you have enough battery or firmware with offline charging.
Yes but simply let the phone charge for a few hours the same will be possible....
mrjraider said:
Yes but simply let the phone charge for a few hours the same will be possible....
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I leave it for 48 hours connected to the wall charger. Result: The start happening until the animated screen, then restarts indefinitely until losing the little load on the battery. (The Flashmode only allowed to use the phone about 60 seconds. Insufficient to load a firmware completely)
During power up the phone do not charge the battery while still connected to the charger.
Obviously offline charging mode is not activated because the firmware of the phone does not have this mode.
manuedit said:
I leave it for 48 hours connected to the wall charger. Result: The start happening until the animated screen, then restarts indefinitely until losing the little load on the battery. (The Flashmode only allowed to use the phone about 60 seconds. Insufficient to load a firmware completely)
During power up the phone do not charge the battery while still connected to the charger.
Obviously offline charging mode is not activated because the firmware of the phone does not have this mode.
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You could try the service center or in case you have a recovery and you can acces it in this small amount of time, maybe you can charge your phone from recovery
Nanostray said:
You could try the service center or in case you have a recovery and you can acces it in this small amount of time, maybe you can charge your phone from recovery
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That is true but is a shame that the phone does not bring a recovery in its stock rom.
Service center = place? To Make the warranty valid?
manuedit said:
Remove the Cover Battery.
Remove the 10 screws.
Remove the back cover carefully (a connector remains attached to the cover).
Code:
i.imgur.com/IwOXnQR.png
...and remove battery connector.
Code:
i.imgur.com/dQlIwA1.png
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So, the purpose of physically removing the battery is to allow flashing a whole ftf [highlight] when battery is almost zero charge[/highlight], is it? If having enough charge for ROM flashing, no need to do this I suppose. Just asking for clarification.. . Thanks for the tip though.
Btw, you can enclose those pics in "img" BB code, [img][/img], so it's displayed. If pics are huge, cluttering the page, can enclose with "hide" code like this..
[hide][img][/img][/hide].
mrhnet said:
So, the purpose of physically removing the battery is to allow flashing a whole ftf [highlight] when battery is almost zero charge[/highlight], is it? If having enough charge for ROM flashing, no need to do this I suppose. Just asking for clarification.. . Thanks for the tip though.
Btw, you can enclose those pics in "img" BB code, [img][/img], so it's displayed. If pics are huge, cluttering the page, can enclose with "hide" code like this..
[hide][img][/img][/hide].
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Yes. When battery is almost zero charge and no way to charge (Phone without offline charge mode).
When I create the topic did not have permission to post links or images.
Man.! Thanks a lot. This is the only working method in Internet.
This Z1s was working fine
I used TWRP to recover a backup from another Z1s I had. I am not sure if it was a good backup.
When TWRP completed, I rebooted, and the phone failed reboot, and now will not turn on. Battery was under around 50-60% I think.
1) FLASHING RED light every second when connected to charger or PC.
2) Not recognized by Flashtool or Sony Companion.
3) Red button doesn't do anything
4) Cannot get this to do anything but flash red when connected to charger or PC/
Anyone know any ideas? Will the TEST POINT fix work for this Z1s c6916 ? There doesn't seen to be any mention of people bricking or fixing C6916 Z1s phones? THere doesn't see to be any repair files for the C6916 for unbricking .
Ideas?
Thanks
Tried another cable/charger?
I once had the concidence it was drained fully and the cable broken at the same time. Took me a while to figure that one out...
Maybe you have a look at this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2574764
EDIT: I've posted my flashing story..:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=56196049&postcount=471
Blinking red LED means mormaly Battery is dead.
I had this problem yesterday on 80% Battery...
I think, Batery Stats or smilar is corupted
Disconnect your device from your computer and try to shut down your Z1 by pressing power button and vol+ (Alternative you can try the reset button near SIM) Maybe it needs some tries
Charging on AC via wall plug may be necessary.
Reconnect in fastboot mode. Flash via fastboot a working boot.img incl. TWRP.
Reboot to recovery and restore a backup from your device. Don't try to reboot system. This will bring you back to yor blinking red LED... But the best way is to flash new Firmware via Flashtool in Flashmode.
Don't use backups from other devices. To recover containing apps and data you can try Nandroid Manager from Playstore . But sometimes restoring app data dont work (Different AndroidIDs...) You can also use Nandroid Manager to browse your backups and extract somthing. NM supports TWRP and CWM backups.
Thanks for reply but nothing is working.
I can get the phone to do a soft reset and get 3 vibrations, but phone will not go into flashmode (volume down plus POWER).
In other words, phone will not respond to FLASHTOOL or PC companion. routine. Tried multiple cables. Connected to a few different working wall chargers.
When connected to a PC, the phone will now do a connect , reconnect loop. switching from solid red, to no light, and back and forth., every minute or so.
me too
this happened to me when i was too impatient and now the battery is dead and i cant charge it
anyone know how to fix it? i dont really want to take it to sony or change a battery
Volume down then plug into USB
MasterHuanDuan said:
this happened to me when i was too impatient and now the battery is dead and i cant charge it
anyone know how to fix it? i dont really want to take it to sony or change a battery
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Did you try leaving it overnight on a charger? Did you try using PC Companion to restore the device to stock?
ok i solved it by charging it with 4 AAA batteries and a cut micro usb cable.
btw i couldn't connect to pc at all because the battery was dead, no bootloader or flash mode until i charged it with batteries
cut micro usb cable?
MasterHuanDuan said:
ok i solved it by charging it with 4 AAA batteries and a cut micro usb cable.
btw i couldn't connect to pc at all because the battery was dead, no bootloader or flash mode until i charged it with batteries
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Hi there I'm scouring the forums for somebody in a similar position to myself....
firstly, thanks in advance if you are able to even inch me in the right direction!
What is meant by a cut micro USB cable?
It seems very odd that charging via a charger that uses triple-A batteries as a source would make a difference, what made you think to try this and what actual difference would it make?
My Issue:
I stupidly hit backup from sdcard0 in CWM after having wiped the internal memory.... So this I guess is like backing up from a blank image? However I could be wrong on this point.
Now I get:
-No flashmode or fastboot is accessible....
-The phone turns on (sometimes with a vibrate, sometimes without), shows Sony splash screen then stays on a blank black backlit screen.
-The device gets much hotter than it does during normal operation, the battery seems to run out quickly after it is unplugged.
-The hard reset (inside of the sim card slot) resets the device with the 3 short vibrates as it always has
-If placed on charge the device wont stay in an 'off' state, always boots
-When connected to windows 7 x64, the device is recognized as "C6903" and has sony_adb drivers installed against it, (MTP is disabled in devices, I have also disabled auto-install devices in group policy because this was causing mayhem, PC Companion is also not running). Flashtool by Androxyde returns me an error saying device drivers must be installed, of course I have run through the driver installer and installed the correct Z1 drivers on the PC. It also informs me that I need to make sure the device isnt in MTP mode, which is why I've disabled and uninstalled the MTP driver under devices.
-I was briefly able to get adb to recognize the device on the command line but it was accompanied by saying "Unauthorized"
I've tried to include as much detail as possible to help my cause, and your post seemed to be fairly close to mine in terms of relevancy.
I've done a lot of trawling, and learned a lot on the way, certainly about android devices for future use! I certainly wouldn't have all the knowledge I have now unless I'd screwed up in the first place!
If any can lend any help that would be much appreciated!
Kind Regards
John
JJrmc said:
Hi there I'm scouring the forums for somebody in a similar position to myself....
firstly, thanks in advance if you are able to even inch me in the right direction!
What is meant by a cut micro USB cable?
It seems very odd that charging via a charger that uses triple-A batteries as a source would make a difference, what made you think to try this and what actual difference would it make?
My Issue:
I stupidly hit backup from sdcard0 in CWM after having wiped the internal memory.... So this I guess is like backing up from a blank image? However I could be wrong on this point.
Now I get:
-No flashmode or fastboot is accessible....
-The phone turns on (sometimes with a vibrate, sometimes without), shows Sony splash screen then stays on a blank black backlit screen.
-The device gets much hotter than it does during normal operation, the battery seems to run out quickly after it is unplugged.
-The hard reset (inside of the sim card slot) resets the device with the 3 short vibrates as it always has
-If placed on charge the device wont stay in an 'off' state, always boots
-When connected to windows 7 x64, the device is recognized as "C6903" and has sony_adb drivers installed against it, (MTP is disabled in devices, I have also disabled auto-install devices in group policy because this was causing mayhem, PC Companion is also not running). Flashtool by Androxyde returns me an error saying device drivers must be installed, of course I have run through the driver installer and installed the correct Z1 drivers on the PC. It also informs me that I need to make sure the device isnt in MTP mode, which is why I've disabled and uninstalled the MTP driver under devices.
-I was briefly able to get adb to recognize the device on the command line but it was accompanied by saying "Unauthorized"
I've tried to include as much detail as possible to help my cause, and your post seemed to be fairly close to mine in terms of relevancy.
I've done a lot of trawling, and learned a lot on the way, certainly about android devices for future use! I certainly wouldn't have all the knowledge I have now unless I'd screwed up in the first place!
If any can lend any help that would be much appreciated!
Kind Regards
John
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Ahhh...the situation of non system mode........Normally I always have this when I wipe system then turn off the phone and plug into the charger. Flashing ROM will solve this instantly...But for your case, I think the bootloader has some serious corruption (due to eMMC or the phone it self)
First, I dont really know much about all the details, this is what i think. sorry for the late reply btw
So i think theres this thing with phone chargers, my guess is that it connects with the phone's system to see how much its charged.
when the battery is around 100 or 99% full, the charger would stop charging and wait till it dropped to 98 or 97%. (i guessed the numbers)
batteries doesnt do all this complicated stuff, and if you leave it connected for too long it will damage your batteries.
In my case i waited for around 30 minutes using 4AAA batteries,
which means its supplying the phone 1.5v time 4 =6volts, a voltage higher than the standard sony charger,
i dont think it'll damage the batteries if you only connect them for a short time.
there are lots of ways to connect batteries to phones, google it.
actually im not sure how to do it myself because i actually used an interesting electronic part removed from a device
but its kinda hard to describe what it is, tell me if you want to know
after your phone is charged for some time you should be able to connect it to pc again
if it doesnt, charge it some more until you think your phone is gonna explode
once you connect to your pc you flash the boot.img file from your desired rom, most of the time it gives you a working recovery
twrp, no matter where it came from, it never worked with me, just saying
you should charge your phone in recovery afterwards, you dont need to do anything, just leave it plugged to a wall or pc while in recoevery
hope it works!
fun trivia: if you keep swiping down while in the cwm based recovery it will give you a rainbow mode. check it out
MasterHuanDuan said:
First, I dont really know much about all the details, this is what i think. sorry for the late reply btw
So i think theres this thing with phone chargers, my guess is that it connects with the phone's system to see how much its charged.
when the battery is around 100 or 99% full, the charger would stop charging and wait till it dropped to 98 or 97%. (i guessed the numbers)
batteries doesnt do all this complicated stuff, and if you leave it connected for too long it will damage your batteries.
In my case i waited for around 30 minutes using 4AAA batteries,
which means its supplying the phone 1.5v time 4 =6volts, a voltage higher than the standard sony charger,
i dont think it'll damage the batteries if you only connect them for a short time.
there are lots of ways to connect batteries to phones, google it.
actually im not sure how to do it myself because i actually used an interesting electronic part removed from a device
but its kinda hard to describe what it is, tell me if you want to know
after your phone is charged for some time you should be able to connect it to pc again
if it doesnt, charge it some more until you think your phone is gonna explode
once you connect to your pc you flash the boot.img file from your desired rom, most of the time it gives you a working recovery
twrp, no matter where it came from, it never worked with me, just saying
you should charge your phone in recovery afterwards, you dont need to do anything, just leave it plugged to a wall or pc while in recoevery
hope it works!
fun trivia: if you keep swiping down while in the cwm based recovery it will give you a rainbow mode. check it out
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I just want to say that i am really impressed with your idea about charging the phone with 4 AAA batteries. last year this day, 26 december, i bricked my phone while flashing that troubled version of 4.3 and went to service to get repaired it. and it took 4 months to change the phone for a new one. If i brick my device some day, i am writing your idea down to make the phone work again.
I used this
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Hi
I am stuck with a phone that won't boot, charge, or be detected by flashtool (or windows) and will not boot in flashmode/fastboot either.
I had plugged in the phone for charging when the battery was considerably low ~ 5-10% before I went to sleep. I remember the red LED glowing, meaning the phone must've been charging.
The next morning I check the phone, the LED was STILL red and the handset was kind of dead - no response at all, whatsoever. Even the reset button on the bacl panel doesn't work (no vibration).
The phone was running BlissPop (5.1.1) with Tangerine kernel.
Now when I plug in the phone for charging, nothing happens at all, not even the red LED. The LED does glow red for as long as I press and hold the power button while it is plugged in (both PC and wall outlet)
I took it to the service center; they say they'll have to change the motherboard. Obviously the phone is not in warranty and there is no way I can pay 10,000 INR that Sony is demanding for the job.
Someone somewhere in the forums suggested allowing the battery to drain completely, but I don't think my battery is holding any charge.
Can anyone help me out?
Thanks
msainani said:
Hi
Can anyone help me out?
Thanks
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1. Press and hold the reset button for 8 seconds and check if it vibrates. Now plug in charger as there is a possibility that phone is not booting because of insufficient charge.
2. Charge for atleast 20 min without switching on phone.
3. Make sure flashtool is installed properly and so as drivers.
4. Flash Stock ftf
If the above didnt work then try Fastboot mode and simply flash Tangerine kernel.
If nothing works, then its an hardware issue and there is no point in spending 10k in repairing.
Get yourself a brand new Moto G or yureka.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2717303 <- this guy had a pretty similar problem and managed to fix it
I was following the steps he provided: i plugged the phone to PC and held the power button pressed. Surprisingly the PC did recognize the phone after a while- but it was only momentarily and the red LED also stopped glowing. Unfortunately I haven't been able to reproduce a similar situation after that.
bump!