Hi guys, I'm new with Xperia phones and also new with rooting,flashing and using recoverys..
I installed a new rom on my device (iHackers rom). When i started installing I had like 25% of battery. When I finished the installation (I didn't flash recovery again because I did that with the help of my computer before, so file - zip was not on my phone) I rebooted my phone. So here's where the problem begins. My phone wouldn't turn on. Black screen all the way. Tried the red button near the SIM card, tried power button and volume up/down, tried power button..nothing powered my phone on, but vibrations were there. The red LED is blinking when i charge the battery (idk if it's even charging). If I take the phone out of the charger, the red LED stops blinking. I can't turn my phone on or get into the recovery mode even after 20 minutes of charging on 220v.
Guys please help..I'm in panic here.
trpincek said:
Hi guys, I'm new with Xperia phones and also new with rooting,flashing and using recoverys..
I installed a new rom on my device (iHackers rom). When i started installing I had like 25% of battery. When I finished the installation (I didn't flash recovery again because I did that with the help of my computer before, so file - zip was not on my phone) I rebooted my phone. So here's where the problem begins. My phone wouldn't turn on. Black screen all the way. Tried the red button near the SIM card, tried power button and volume up/down, tried power button..nothing powered my phone on, but vibrations were there. The red LED is blinking when i charge the battery (idk if it's even charging). If I take the phone out of the charger, the red LED stops blinking. I can't turn my phone on or get into the recovery mode even after 20 minutes of charging on 220v.
Guys please help..I'm in panic here.
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Fastboot or flashmode working or not ?
The first your mistake was to flash with 25% of battery. It's wrote everywhere to do a installation with a fully charged phone. Now probably in the middle of the installation the phone died and the installation was not completed and this mean your phone is corrupted and dead. The only advice I have now for you to left the phone under charger all night, next day with phone switched off keep push volume down and connect the phone via usb to PC, if the PC will recognize the device and it will install drivers flash a Stock FTF straight a way.
eclyptos said:
The first your mistake was to flash with 25% of battery. It's wrote everywhere to do a installation with a fully charged phone. Now probably in the middle of the installation the phone died and the installation was not completed and this mean your phone is corrupted and dead. The only advice I have now for you to left the phone under charger all night, next day with phone switched off keep push volume down and connect the phone via usb to PC, if the PC will recognize the device and it will install drivers flash a Stock FTF straight a way.
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The installation was finished. I was in recovery after installation of the rom, when i pressed reboot button. Nothing is working at the moment..red led still blinking..
trpincek said:
The installation was finished. I was in recovery after installation of the rom, when i pressed reboot button. Nothing is working at the moment..red led still blinking..
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Your battery is dead. Does the phone feel warm? Leave it plugged in to charge for a while (at least a few hours, maybe overnight) and it might come back.
Like the OTA warnings says, do not try to flash your phone if less than 50% battery is available. If you do, you are only asking for trouble.
xasbo said:
Your battery is dead. Does the phone feel warm? Leave it plugged in to charge for a while (at least a few hours, maybe overnight) and it might come back.
Like the OTA warnings says, do not try to flash your phone if less than 50% battery is available. If you do, you are only asking for trouble.
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When I woke up in the morning the phone was not warm..it was hot..the whole day i was trying to bring it back to life but there were still only vibrations. When I connect it to my computer, the drivers get installed, but the power on button and combination power button+volume down don't work. The only combination that works is power button+volume up(the phone vibrates 3 times but still stays in the same condition). FlashTool doesn't recognize the phone either.
hold power+volume up. then phone vibrates 3 times and should switch off. wait a minute then try to switch it on just normal. does it slightly vibrate?
now try this again, now with charger pluged in. what happens then?
punkt said:
hold power+volume up. then phone vibrates 3 times and should switch off. wait a minute then try to switch it on just normal. does it slightly vibrate?
now try this again, now with charger pluged in. what happens then?
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I think i have solved it..I left phone charging for 3 hours (without heating up), and then i plugged it in my computer. In PC Companion (yeah I never thought it would be that easy), i could restore my phone without even powering it on. I'm now downloading updates..But when I connected, flashtool detected that my fone is in flashmode.
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trpincek said:
I think i have solved it..I left phone charging for 3 hours (without heating up), and then i plugged it in my computer. In PC Companion (yeah I never thought it would be that easy), i could restore my phone without even powering it on. I'm now downloading updates..But when I connected, flashtool detected that my fone is in flashmode.
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Just wants to said same thing - it's probably in fastboot mode but the battery is dead, just plug it and try flashtool or fastboot.
But O.K.
One advice - guys already post that, I posted that many times as well but...
Never, never, never do that if your battery isn't fully charged.
Charge battery to 100% and restart to TWRP and check your battery percentage...
and you'll see why - it never shows correct info.
The other day I was flashing ROM and had 87% when I flashwd and boot my battery shown 36% and stayed on 36% for a few hours...that's not problem when you are in OS but when you stuck on powered off device - it could be very tricky to power it back.
That's why you can't update official ftf if you don't have more than 50% of battery power...
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Hello I'm new to xperia Z1.
I also rooted and installed ihacker rom v3.
My battery was fully charged. But after installation my phone is not starting.
In flash mode when I try to flash the stock it disconnects and reconnects. I'm not even able to install stock rom now.
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Ok while I was typing phone flashed the stock rom. I think this problem is with ihacker rom?
legalmantra said:
Hello I'm new to xperia Z1.
I also rooted and installed ihacker rom v3.
My battery was fully charged. But after installation my phone is not starting.
In flash mode when I try to flash the stock it disconnects and reconnects. I'm not even able to install stock rom now.
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Ok while I was typing phone flashed the stock rom. I think this problem is with ihacker rom?
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No it's not.
Ihackers is working without any problems...
I said that many times but I'll repeat...
When you are flashing ROM (ftf) through flashtool, don't connect device immediately.
Open flashtool, select ftf and hit start.
Wait until flashtool say "connect device"
Then plug usb cable while holding vol down.
That way you'll prevent device to restart while it's waiting flashtool to prepare ftf...
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trpincek said:
Hi guys, I'm new with Xperia phones and also new with rooting,flashing and using recoverys..
I installed a new rom on my device (iHackers rom). When i started installing I had like 25% of battery. When I finished the installation (I didn't flash recovery again because I did that with the help of my computer before, so file - zip was not on my phone) I rebooted my phone. So here's where the problem begins. My phone wouldn't turn on. Black screen all the way. Tried the red button near the SIM card, tried power button and volume up/down, tried power button..nothing powered my phone on, but vibrations were there. The red LED is blinking when i charge the battery (idk if it's even charging). If I take the phone out of the charger, the red LED stops blinking. I can't turn my phone on or get into the recovery mode even after 20 minutes of charging on 220v.
Guys please help..I'm in panic here.
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I have similar problem, but my battery is still over 85%, and i got this problem when i try to flash cwm recovery with fastboot... what should do?
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Hi guys,
I'm wondering if anyone can shed any light on what to do next. I've got an 6903 Xperia Z1 (LB, not rooted, 4.4.2) that seems to be stuck in fastboot or flashmode, with no screen showing and only a red light (some of the time). I've read up everything I can on the boards and have charged it for 18 hours (twice) but to no avail.
Here's what happened:
I used a Chinese car charger that I probably put on upside down (which might mean it shorted the battery).
This put it in a reboot loop that went Sony --> Xperia --> blackness --> Sony etc
I flashed C6903_14.1.G.1.534_[NUT] (no exclusions) which put it in a Sony --> Sony reboot loop.
I then flashed C6903_14.3.A.0.681_Generic_Global-1277-2880_R5C which didn't make any difference.
I flashed C6903_14.1.G.1.534_[NUT] (excluding kernel, baseband - I don't know why) and this put it into black screen only mode (with some steady red LED sometimes).
I charged it for 18 hours.
From here I couldn't get it into flashmode or fastboot mode UNLESS I short the battery with the same charger.
Once I shorted the battery again I managed to get it into flashmode (permanently, I think) and do a "repair" on the Sony Bridge for Mac up to the latest android. It went fine, apparently, but unplugging it didn't allow it to be turned off or turned on again. It seems like now when it's plugged in it's always in flashmode (or I can put it in fastboot mode). I can flash whatever I want, it seems, but to no avail.
I have since flashed both the above FTFs.
Any suggestions for what to do next?
Thank you!
Press and hold both the power button and volume up button until it vibrates 3 times.
Then do a repair again.
Then throw that Chinese charger in the bin
then flash a 534 ftf, install dual recovery then flash the rom of your choice.
gregbradley said:
Then throw that Chinese charger in the bin.
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..lol..
gregbradley said:
Press and hold both the power button and volume up button until it vibrates 3 times.
Then do a repair again.
Then throw that Chinese charger in the bin
then flash a 534 ftf, install dual recovery then flash the rom of your choice.
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Thanks Greg - I've spent the last day trying to get my phone to respond again... no vibrations, no turning on or off. Just the red LED. Hmmm.
Leave it on charge for 24 goes and try again
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I was on the .270 FW but lost root and the bootloader got locked as upgraded using PC companion. So i downloaded an older fw 534 and downgraded my phone. Then rooted by phone. Till this point the phone was fine. Later i installed the latest dual recovery and unlocked the bootloader using the adb method and then. I had created a 270 pre rooted rom using the prf creater which had the latest dual recovery flashfile and supersu and flashed it using the dual recovery. Then i tried to wipe the device but it kept saying that unable to mount system. Then i rebooted but my device never started.
No led, no screen light, no vibration when using all keycombo. let the phone charging for 12 hours. Now i see red led blinking - for 3 sec the red led will be on and for 2 sec it goes off. Is it kaput or is there a way to revive the phone?
You will have to try and downgrade to the 108 firmware located here: -http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2469191
You cannot upgrade to 270 from android 4.2.2 which is your 534 firmware this is probably why your phone will not turn on.
Get firmware 108 for your device
Using FlashTool to flash 108 to handset
Then root and install Recovery
The install pre-rooted 270
demon148 said:
You will have to try and downgrade to the 108 firmware located here: -http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2469191
You cannot upgrade to 270 from android 4.2.2 which is your 534 firmware this is probably why your phone will not turn on.
Get firmware 108 for your device
Using FlashTool to flash 108 to handset
Then root and install Recovery
The install pre-rooted 270
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How to flash when i cant even start my phone?
ravi_buz said:
How to flash when i cant even start my phone?
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When using Flash Tool, when you have loaded the 108 firmware it when it asks you to plug your phone in, while your phone is turned off, press and hold the volume down button, and connect your phone to the USB cable which is plugged into your PC.
demon148 said:
When using Flash Tool, when you have loaded the 108 firmware it when it asks you to plug your phone in, while your phone is turned off, press and hold the volume down button, and connect your phone to the USB cable which is plugged into your PC.
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I cant do that, thats what i am trying to say. Nothing happens when i do any key combos. if i plug in the usb the led blinks red as i said in op. so flash tool cant detect flashmode
ravi_buz said:
I cant do that, thats what i am trying to say. Nothing happens when i do any key combos. if i plug in the usb the led blinks red as i said in op. so flash tool cant detect flashmode
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4.2.2 upgrade to 5.0 ? What a joke.
ravi_buz said:
I cant do that, thats what i am trying to say. Nothing happens when i do any key combos. if i plug in the usb the led blinks red as i said in op. so flash tool cant detect flashmode
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Press volume up and power button for 10+ seconds..i know there is no response from phone but just do it. And also dont try to press any button unless instructed in later steps..
Now let the phone drain battery just put the phone and forget it for 24 hours+
After 24 hours plug in charger and let phone charge for 3-4 hours
Now open flashtool and prepare flashtool to flash. 108 ftf
Now once dialogue box appear with phone animation
Take yout phone and press and hold volume down and plug in data cable ( check drivers and cable before to make sure the are okay)
Release volume down button as soon as dialogue box disappears..
Report back..!!
kathanpatel1001 said:
Press volume up and power button for 10+ seconds..i know there is no response from phone but just do it. And also dont try to press any button unless instructed in later steps..
Now let the phone drain battery just put the phone and forget it for 24 hours+
After 24 hours plug in charger and let phone charge for 3-4 hours
Now open flashtool and prepare flashtool to flash. 108 ftf
Now once dialogue box appear with phone animation
Take yout phone and press and hold volume down and plug in data cable ( check drivers and cable before to make sure the are okay)
Release volume down button as soon as dialogue box disappears..
Report back..!!
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Got fed up and gave it to a local store, Will hear back from them on monday. If they cant fix it will do what you said.
ravi_buz said:
Got fed up and gave it to a local store, Will hear back from them on monday. If they cant fix it will do what you said.
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No worries.. And remember your phone is not hard bricked if you see any led or vibration in device..
Soft bricked devices can be recovered easily with few tips and tricks never give up..!
I got my z1 in even stranger situation it didnt even showed any sign of life just device got mildly hot and i could feel it, i just waited for it to cool down and then charged it for few hours and tryed to flash ftf, phone got its life back...
Ok so im dealing with a possible Hard Bricked Xperia TL, unlocked sim (not sure about bootloader)
well it started out as so.
one night the phone was supposed to be charging but it was not. The charger was extremely hot and sometimes the phone would be as well. The battery went 100% dead and from what i heard is that i should NEVER let it get that way.
so then i tried to charge the phone but all that would happen was that the red power led would flash and go away. and if i press the power button it would flash 2 times and not boot. no matter what happened i could not the phone to charge. then i tried to do the "rubberband trick" Placing the rubberband over the bower button and trying to let it charge while plugged into the wall with another charger. and it would stay on a steady red light for a bout 10 or so minutes and then stop.( rumor is that it wont charge that way without a sim card in the slot but i dont know about that, Plus the customer didn't leave the sims card.
anyway so i assumed that the phone needed to be reflashed with flashtool so i downloaded the correct FTF and attempted to flash the phone. I was able to get to both flash mode and fastboot mode at the time. But whenever i started flashing the rom after about 10 minutes allmost at the end of the process while it was flashing the system partition it would report a error
ERROR - Read error :31 : A device attached to the system is not functioning.
ERROR - Error flashing. Aborted
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i tried many times to do this.
about 2 times i got the sony logo to flash for 1 second then back to not responding...
now after trying some more its even more unresponsive. I cant even get to any modes. no flashmode or fastboot.
and when i plug in the charger the power led flashes once and does nothing else even if i hold any or all buttons while plugging in the charger.
and when i plug it in to my computer the computer makes the noise that a usb device is plugged in.
in device manager the phone pops up as
"QHSUSB_DLOAD" with a triangle prompting that The drivers for this device are not installed.
anything i can do?
EDIT: QHSUSB_DLOAD drivers are installed and read by S1 tool but another error occurs.
Anyone?
hey everyone,
I recently got a warranty replacement of my xperia z3 compact. It came with the latest 5.1.1. I downgraded to .77 (kitkat) through flashtool, rooted, installed the latest dual recovery. In TWRP, I restored one of my old TWRP backups, which was a .28 (lollipop 5.0 I believe). When I press reboot after restoring, the phone won't turn on anymore. No LED or anything. When I plug it into the charger, the LED blinks red. When I hold down the power button while charging, the LED light became solid red.
Flashtool doesn't recognize the phone. What else can I do? Did I corrupt the bootloader? Any advice is appreciated. Thank you.
happened to me, just flash any stock firmware with flashtool (it doesnt need to be recognised) and do not plug in until it tells you to.
then follow the instructions and wipe everything
hope it helps
xpzx said:
happened to me, just flash any stock firmware with flashtool (it doesnt need to be recognised) and do not plug in until it tells you to.
then follow the instructions and wipe everything
hope it helps
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I tried flashing with flashtool, but when I plug the phone in when asked to, flashtool does not recognize the phone being plugged in.
Do you know why this happened? Did I do anything (downgrade firmware, flash wrong firmware) that caused this to happen?
I cant tell what did it, because flashing any rom will brick mine to this state, and what do you mean by not recognised? Does it say preparing files for flashing? does it give the 'press volume down and power button' pop up?
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I cant tell what did it, because flashing any rom will brick mine to this state, and what do you mean by not recognised? Does it say preparing files for flashing? does it give the 'press volume down and power button' pop up?
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yes, after it's done preparing files for flashing, a popup appears which tells me to plug in the phone while holding the volume down button. When I plug in the phone, nothing happens. The flashing process doesn't start
c19932 said:
yes, after it's done preparing files for flashing, a popup appears which tells me to plug in the phone while holding the volume down button. When I plug in the phone, nothing happens. The flashing process doesn't start
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Do you be sure to hold the power and volume down button before and during the time you plug it in, until the pop up disappears?
Had something similar, but flashtool magically fixed it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/z3/...elp-thread-t3164306/post69146576#post69146576
I know it's a late reply, but my Z3c is rooted and running marshmellow. My phone would do the same thing, I thought it was bricked. After monkeying and monkeying it finally came back. The problem was I let the battery drain all the way to 0, and even while plugged in for a bit it didn't do anything. I think it liked it when I would plug it into my laptop instead of the power outlet. From then on, I haven't had the problem because I try to avoid the battery going completely dead.
Although the last time I did by accident, it did come back after plugging it in. My suggestion? Try plugging and charging it in your laptop and then turn on.
c19932 said:
hey everyone,
I recently got a warranty replacement of my xperia z3 compact. It came with the latest 5.1.1. I downgraded to .77 (kitkat) through flashtool, rooted, installed the latest dual recovery. In TWRP, I restored one of my old TWRP backups, which was a .28 (lollipop 5.0 I believe). When I press reboot after restoring, the phone won't turn on anymore. No LED or anything. When I plug it into the charger, the LED blinks red. When I hold down the power button while charging, the LED light became solid red.
Flashtool doesn't recognize the phone. What else can I do? Did I corrupt the bootloader? Any advice is appreciated. Thank you.
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is your PC detect your phone in fastmode ?
press and hold volume down and connect to your flashtool in your pc
Hi Guys,
I really need your help unbrick my Xperia Z1 C902.
Here's what happened:
I tried to flash a custom rom that wasn't compatible VIA AROMA ( I had MiUi 7 custom rom ) and it is now dead. It won't boot. No sign of life. No Vibration when pressed vol up+Power . Hard reset ( via sim slot ) has no affect on the Phone. No recogniztion to USB on laptop ( tried other USB cables as well ).
I have left the phone be charged overnight assuming the flash took a toll on the battery ( it was about 30% when I flashed the phone )and in the morning there was a red LED. Assuming the battery had enougfh power I tried to turn it on, connect to Laptop, Fast boot mode, flash mode but with no luck.
Day2:
Left the phone connected to the stock charger for about 20 hours or so.
No LED lights. No vibrations. No sign of detection on the laptop.
Sony Companion will not detect my phone via fastmode as well.
This phone is out of warranty so I was hoping you can help save some bucks before I take it to the Sony centre.
I looked through XDA all day but nothing has helped me bring my phone back to life.
EDIT:
I have downloaded India Stcok ROM via Xperifirm and tried to flash it but the flashtool does not detect the phone. Fastboot and Flashmode both does not detect the phone. Strange thing is, when I plug the phone to laptop holding the Vol down button, a red LED blinks for few seconds but the fastboot does not work ( as my phone has bootloader unlocked )
ADB does not work - No devices connected.
If there is anyway I can flash or install TWRP recovery ( or any for that matter ), I have the old working MiUI rom in the external SD card.
I will owe you a beer or two and a dinner if you 're able to bring my phone back to life. Please I am desperate.
Sudhir Kota said:
Hi Guys,
I really need your help unbrick my Xperia Z1 C902.
Here's what happened:
I tried to flash a custom rom that wasn't compatible VIA AROMA ( I had MiUi 7 custom rom ) and it is now dead. It won't boot. No sign of life. No Vibration when pressed vol up+Power . Hard reset ( via sim slot ) has no affect on the Phone. No recogniztion to USB on laptop ( tried other USB cables as well ).
I have left the phone be charged overnight assuming the flash took a toll on the battery ( it was about 30% when I flashed the phone )and in the morning there was a red LED. Assuming the battery had enougfh power I tried to turn it on, connect to Laptop, Fast boot mode, flash mode but with no luck.
Day2:
Left the phone connected to the stock charger for about 20 hours or so.
No LED lights. No vibrations. No sign of detection on the laptop.
Sony Companion will not detect my phone via fastmode as well.
This phone is out of warranty so I was hoping you can help save some bucks before I take it to the Sony centre.
I looked through XDA all day but nothing has helped me bring my phone back to life.
EDIT:
I have downloaded India Stcok ROM via Xperifirm and tried to flash it but the flashtool does not detect the phone. Fastboot and Flashmode both does not detect the phone. Strange thing is, when I plug the phone to laptop holding the Vol down button, a red LED blinks for few seconds but the fastboot does not work ( as my phone has bootloader unlocked )
ADB does not work - No devices connected.
If there is anyway I can flash or install TWRP recovery ( or any for that matter ), I have the old working MiUI rom in the external SD card.
I will owe you a beer or two and a dinner if you 're able to bring my phone back to life. Please I am desperate.
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Hi.
You have flashing led that means there is some hope first press and hold hard reset button for 15-20 seconds under sim cover then realizes it. Now plug in charger and dont touch the phone before 4-5 hours. Let it charge even though red led comes on.
After that disconnect your phone and don't turn it on wait for 5 minutes.
Also do check if the flash tool drivers are properly installed (window 8 and newer needs you to disable driver signature enforcement) use flashtool version 0.9.19.0, dont know why but this version works best for me.
Flash *.108 firmware (available in xda) also do always check hash after downloading.
Now try to flash the firmware as normally we do and hope for the best. This method worked fine for me many times.
Good luck..! [emoji111]
The flashing Red LED is bringing back some really bad memories of my own Hard brick. Try what kathanpatel suggests first - holding the reset button down.
Are your symptoms identical to this?:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2574764
There is a link to a post with instructions on recovering from the hard brick. Good luck.
Sudhir Kota said:
Hi Guys,
I really need your help unbrick my Xperia Z1 C902.
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The red button in a sim slot won't have any effect unless your phone is connected to the charger (not computer). Connect the charger, press and hold the red button for about 10 seconds until there is vibration. Then immediately push and hold the power button for a few seconds.