An hour ago i have changed my customization number in build.prop to get updated and now my phone fails at restarting. after sony logo a blank screen comes up and then phone restarts again. boot animation don't show up.
Actually i didn't rooted phone. Like didn't fully root. An exploit that does it without unlocking bootloader. I was able to run root required apps but when i was trying to mount r/w mode, the phone was restarting itself before i do something. So i copied build.prop to another place, changed it, then in root explorer copied to /system. I managed it to owerwrite before phone restarts. When phone shutted down, didn't open, stucked at that point. Keeped restarting.
I know a lot of questions, topics opened about this but almost every solutions says that "repair over sony pc comp" or "repair over SUS". I tried both but in pc comp, program couldn't find my phone because it's turned off. when i open phone and connect wire it finds the phone but before pc comp finishes connecting phone restarts again. And in the SUS, i managed it to go into flash mode (volume down key and then connect.) It has found the phone (however green light didn't come out, no LED color was there) and SUS said there is no update for my phone, it's up to date. There is no repair button.
Besides there is another solution, flashtool. Will i lose my data if i use flashtool? I'm able to go into fastboot mode (blue light).
What can I do?
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Guys i can't belive now... Somehow i installed CWM recovery on my bricked xperia z. Now taking backup but the problem is when i connect to adb when phone is in CWM recovery mode i can't reach internal sd. WHY???
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hello all!
my phone was working properly (rooted but not boot unlocked)
pc companion told me there were a new version availlable (.253) I accepted, install, reboot, everything was fine.
I tried to backup my data in order to change the sd card to a bigger one...then it told me there was a problem while backuping so I did a reboot
this is where the problem begins:
now I have a white triangle with a screwdriver in it and a blue bar below it with an animation inside and it's stuck there...what does it mean for a start?
can you please help?
I'd like to recover it in order to get back my data (photos and video I wanted to put on the new sd card)
tried flashtool but it doesn't recognise the phone...
note: before doing all that, free space was low on my XZ internal storage (like 300 megs)
dave_id said:
hello all!
my phone was working properly (rooted but not boot unlocked)
pc companion told me there were a new version availlable (.253) I accepted, install, reboot, everything was fine.
I tried to backup my data in order to change the sd card to a bigger one...then it told me there was a problem while backuping so I did a reboot
this is where the problem begins:
now I have a white triangle with a screwdriver in it and a blue bar below it with an animation inside and it's stuck there...what does it mean for a start?
can you please help?
I'd like to recover it in order to get back my data (photos and video I wanted to put on the new sd card)
tried flashtool but it doesn't recognise the phone...
note: before doing all that, free space was low on my XZ internal storage (like 300 megs)
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Unplug your phone from the USB cable and then start, see if that helps
This is exactly what I've encountered, can't find much help in the web, re-flash with wipe cache no joy, in the end re-flash with wipe data boot normally, last backup was 4 days old, restore and lost 4 days game progress...
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That's strange.
Also had the same.
I updated to the .253 ROM and firmware etc and everything working fine.
I then rebooted after removing some system apps and got this.
I left it for a while and still stuck there.
Pressed a few buttons and still nothing then it suddenly rebooted (not sure if related to pressing the buttons or not) and everything was fine.
Then when it booted up it did the NFC firmware update so maybe related to that.
Not had it since and rebooted a few times.
Phil
thanks for replying guys.
problem really is that I can't use flashtool, for some reason I can't go in flashboot mode (green led right?)
and in fact I don't know all the key pressing procedures (if someone can post them all)
...but I think I got the press down and connect right, problem is that I have the green led for less than one second and then nothing...
dave_id said:
thanks for replying guys.
problem really is that I can't use flashtool, for some reason I can't go in flashboot mode (green led right?)
and in fact I don't know all the key pressing procedures (if someone can post them all)
...but I think I got the press down and connect right, problem is that I have the green led for less than one second and then nothing...
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Hi,
I also encountered this when I tried to use the old root method of .253. (yah, stupid of me but managed to salvage)
Just let it run for like 20 minutes or so and it will reboot subsequently. (As long as the progress bar still move, you should be ok)
Seems like a self-recovery process in place I guess.
yeah I guess you're right , but the first time was so long (more than 20 minutes ) so I thought it was dead...it is obviously some kind of self repair,
because now after a lot of reboots it suddenly started correctly after 5minutes of this blue bar moving....and now working? WTF?
things that I did in case it could help:
-used flashtool beta 4
-flashed a base .434 in blind mode (choosed xperia Z in the list)
-went into flashboot (press down and then plug usb) I had the green light for just a second...(I also installed EMMA drivers from sony , don't know if it helped)
-reboot then wait (I put it also on the docking bay , don't know if it helped as well but it made the blue bar go faster it seems, not sure tho...)
I used "hard boot" also : just jkeep pressing up and the power button until it vibrates 3 times.
maybe just puting it on the dock and then wait (quite some time) is enough (and makes sense)
I just had the same issue - WTF!!!
I just let it sit there for a while and it automatically started.
This is f*** crazy smart (stupid) phone.
DOn't know exactly what my wife did, but I doubt she flashed anything:laugh:
The battery died, she conncted to the charger, most probably with pushing some of the volume buttons and phone booted into Triange mode. Now it's stuk in this mode since an our.
I did Hard reset, but after phone is plug into wall charger it automatically boots in Triange mode.
This is in stock ROM without any modifications, unlocking, anything.
esselite said:
This is f*** crazy smart (stupid) phone.
DOn't know exactly what my wife did, but I doubt she flashed anything:laugh:
The battery died, she conncted to the charger, most probably with pushing some of the volume buttons and phone booted into Triange mode. Now it's stuk in this mode since an our.
I did Hard reset, but after phone is plug into wall charger it automatically boots in Triange mode.
This is in stock ROM without any modifications, unlocking, anything.
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Just wait - sometimes it takes a while but it'll eventually boot up.
I think [NUT] said somewhere that this is a repair of certain permissions by the phone itself. I've only ever had this for some minutes - but it is possible if the battery an out it could invoke this. Shouldn't be anything to worry about.
And I think fastboot is blue led - you could try flashmode.
I tend to do lots and lots of flashing and mods so I've seen it several times. The first time caught me by surprise and lasted for a long time...now I'm just used to it ..
In my case waiting in triangle mode did not helped. Was waiting 5 hours at work. I flashed with flashtool again stock ROM without wiping data and still no response.
FInally flashed with wipe and phone is running but all data gone. What a crap.
Hello all! So, I tried to install CM11, the one on this post.
Went into CWM, did Wipe data factory reset and formatted /system. when I tried installing the rom, it said operation aborted and it could not install it. No biggie, the post says to install cm10.2 before doing so.
So i Powered the phone off to copy the file over to the SD. To my surprise, now I can't get into CWM, Philz, TWRP, fastboot or flashmode. Whenever I press the back pin to power the phone off, it turns back on automatically before I have time to press the key and connect the USB cable. Furthermore, when I manage to do it quick enouhg, the green led lights up, but it fades away after 10ish seconds only to display the sony logo again, and a "can't recognize USB device" popup comes up in my PC. I've used flashtool with this same pc in the past, so I don't know what that is about. Also, whenever I try installng flashtool drivers again, just in case 2 things happen:
there is no xperia SP device listed and whatever i select it fails to install.
What can I do now? I had 4.3 with the eXistenZ Ultra ROM before all of this.
Damm, this is the first time this happens to me, I've been swapping roms for ever, and this is not even the first phone i do this in, had a galaxy s2 and a wildfire S before. I feel like such a noob
UPDATE!:
So I finally managed to fix it. I posted this after about 8-9 hours of trying to get into fastboot on the 3 different pcs in my household, all had the drivers at some point and i've worked with them and fastboot and this same phone previously, so I figured they'd still work. They didn't, I couldnot even get SUS to work. So i went to a 4th PC, installed SUS and the needed drivers and it only took like 40 minutes worth of tries. I'm in the software download part of the SUS, i'll keep this updated!
UPDATE2!:
So, it finished downloading but it suddenly disconnected, tried again for about 10 minutes and then got it going again. Downloaded the second time and installed it successfully. Leaving this up for future reference!
Bottomline: if you can't get into flashmode, try on as many PCs as you have available for at least 30 minutes each.
Don't use flash tools just install CM11 with CWM or something, use doomlord kernel to get CWM and install CM11 zip that's it.
Sorry locked boot loader didn't read it correctly don't use my advice .
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Don't use flash tools just install CM11 with CWM or something, use doomlord kernel to get CWM and install CM11 zip that's it.
Sorry locked boot loader didn't read it correctly don't use my advice .
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No problem, it kinda sorted itself out by brute force connections :> Dammed sony, locking the bootloaders for real. I even got the sim unlock code from my phone company and it's still not bootloader unlockable at the phone settings, even though i can now get any sim i want in it -.-
Long story short my sister upgraded to iphone so she left her xperia SP untouched for two days, which somehow drained all the battery ( i know it because LED blinked three times when I pressed power button). So I left it to charge for 3 hours using a wall charger & then following happened:
1. Sony logo came up.
2. Sony Auto repair mode activated. (Phone was perfectly working earlier).
3. Then the Sony rainbow wave kept on coming for hours.
4. A message popped up ‘Process system is not responding’ with option ‘wait’ & ‘continue’. I chose continue.
5. Phone was stuck on that screen for half an hour. Then I decided to switch off the pone normally. Power off popup screen came and screen froze on it for hours.
6. Then the process restarted and it has been the same way no matter what i try.
Solutions that I’ve already tried:
1. Repairing using Sony PC companion. Progress stay stuck at same point on all three of my PCs and then errors shows up. ( tried on windows 8.2/xp sp3/Windows 7 64bit).
2. Repairing using Flashtool. Everything gets loaded successfully but no progress has ever taken place. Even left it for a day but my phone’s battery died yet not flashed. Tried it on windows 7 and XP-SP3, with three different ‘*.ftf’. windows 8.1 is still pending.
3. I installed EMMA. It detects my device pretty well but as it is not rooted nothing further happens.
Installed all drivers prescribed in flashtool successfully. Reinstalled them after reinstalling flashtool and PC companion.
Tried rooting only kernel but didn’t work. It stayed stuck as well.
4. Updated java.
5. Took phone apart and pulled the battery ribbon out and repeated step 1-4. Still no success.
Any type of suggestions/help is really appreciated.
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Long story short my sister upgraded to iphone so she left her xperia SP untouched for two days, which somehow drained all the battery ( i know it because LED blinked three times when I pressed power button). So I left it to charge for 3 hours using a wall charger & then following happened:
1. Sony logo came up.
2. Sony Auto repair mode activated. (Phone was perfectly working earlier).
3. Then the Sony rainbow wave kept on coming for hours.
4. A message popped up ‘Process system is not responding’ with option ‘wait’ & ‘continue’. I chose continue.
5. Phone was stuck on that screen for half an hour. Then I decided to switch off the pone normally. Power off popup screen came and screen froze on it for hours.
6. Then the process restarted and it has been the same way no matter what i try.
Solutions that I’ve already tried:
1. Repairing using Sony PC companion. Progress stay stuck at same point on all three of my PCs and then errors shows up. ( tried on windows 8.2/xp sp3/Windows 7 64bit).
2. Repairing using Flashtool. Everything gets loaded successfully but no progress has ever taken place. Even left it for a day but my phone’s battery died yet not flashed. Tried it on windows 7 and XP-SP3, with three different ‘*.ftf’. windows 8.1 is still pending.
3. I installed EMMA. It detects my device pretty well but as it is not rooted nothing further happens.
Installed all drivers prescribed in flashtool successfully. Reinstalled them after reinstalling flashtool and PC companion.
Tried rooting only kernel but didn’t work. It stayed stuck as well.
4. Updated java.
5. Took phone apart and pulled the battery ribbon out and repeated step 1-4. Still no success.
Any type of suggestions/help is really appreciated.
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Okay, i am thinking you have troubles with drivers. Open up flashtool folder and go into USB drivers . Install it and see if your device detects it. Do not install drivers from by running flashtool.
By the way are you using the latest flashtool with latest drivers provided in its folder ?
I suggest you install a custom recovery (which you can get from a kernel even from flashtool by going into fastboot mode) and try to clear cache/ complete wipes. See if that helps. Make sure the recovery is specific to your android version. Do not flash a kernel which is based on 4.2 but you have 4.3 flashed etc.
Quote me back if you expect a reply.
Good Luck
Having gotten a spare Xperia SP, I decided to venture into the realm of flashing custom ROMs. This was the first time I did anything of this sort with an Android device. So, here is what I did to it today:
At first, I successfully rooted, installed recovery and flashed CM12. After fiddling with it for about an hour and not finding anything super exciting, I decided to try out other ROMs. I did a facotry reset, wiped the data and cache, and was about to flash CM11 (I forgot that it required an unlocked bootloader, which I don't have, and the recovery console told me so). Maybe at this point I should have just reflashed CM12, but I chose (not even sure why at this point) to exit recovery instead. After this, the phone keeps getting stuck on the Sony logo (although on the second attempt to turn it on, it did display a screen showing that wrench icon, indicating some sort of configuration activity going on, but never moved past that either). I tried flashing two different stock ftf roms with flashtool, both fail with this error: Processing of system.sin finished with errors. One of them will cause the phone to shut off after about a minute on the logo instead of remaining stuck on it indefinitely.
Maybe I should mention that this phone did not exactly work flawlessly for some time, even before I started experimenting with it. Here are the main things that I can remember it doing:
-Lags on even the basic functions, apps often crashing, despite doing a very recent hard reset.
-Battery drains very fast sometimes (like going from 55% to 0 in about 2 hours with almost no usage).
-A few months ago, it would periodically freeze and reboot itself, but that problem seemed to disappear with time.
Did I do something stupid to that phone, or are there internal/hardware problems that have manifested themselves in this way? I won't be horribly upset if I killed it (after all, knowing that something of this sort may happen was exactly the reason why I was not doing all this on my main phone), but I certainly would like to get it back up and running.
Download Flashtool v0.9.18.6 from official site.
Option 1: Flash stock.
or,
Option 2: Flash tangerine-7.1.elf via 'fastboot mode' to directly get TWRP, then flash any ROM you want.
https://dl.cubeserver.eu/TechnoSparks/tangerine-stuffs/tangerine-7.1.elf
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Download Flashtool v0.9.18.6 from official site.
Option 1: Flash stock.
or,
Option 2: Flash tangerine-7.1.elf via 'fastboot mode' to directly get TWRP, then flash any ROM you want.
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Thank you for your reply. I have a few questions:
I downloaded the flashtool version that you mentioned (from the official site), but avast detected malware in it. Should version 9.19.8, the one I tried yesterday, work fine?
What is exactly considered "stock rom"? Is it exclusively the version your phone came with, or is it firmware of any version/carrier branding, as longs as it is made for your phone model by the manufacuter?
It looks like my phone actually won't stay in flash mode. I select fastboot mode in flashtool, a window pops up asking me to plug in the phone. I press the volume down button and plug it in, the LED glows bright green, but nothing happens in flashtool. After a few seconds, the LED goes red and the Sony logo appears on the phones screen (as if it was going to turn on), and my computer makes a sound as if the phone was ejected. The phone shuts off a minute later, goes into flash mode again, and the cycle repeats.
UPDATE
Nevermind everything I wrote before, I was able to successfully re-flash stock. Turns out I did in fact have some crappy version of flashtool that didn't work, and I found anolder version without malware.
Strangely, the infected flashtool version was the one I dowloaded from the official site... Something is fishy here.
Anyways, thanks a bunch for your help!
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Thank you for your reply. I have a few questions:
I downloaded the flashtool version that you mentioned (from the official site), but avast detected malware in it. Should version 9.19.8, the one I tried yesterday, work fine?
What is exactly considered "stock rom"? Is it exclusively the version your phone came with, or is it firmware of any version/carrier branding, as longs as it is made for your phone model by the manufacuter?
It looks like my phone actually won't stay in flash mode. I select fastboot mode in flashtool, a window pops up asking me to plug in the phone. I press the volume down button and plug it in, the LED glows bright green, but nothing happens in flashtool. After a few seconds, the LED goes red and the Sony logo appears on the phones screen (as if it was going to turn on), and my computer makes a sound as if the phone was ejected. The phone shuts off a minute later, goes into flash mode again, and the cycle repeats.
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Use flashtool 0.9.19.8 because that is what everyone is recommending now, Stock rom defines as what it originally comes from your phone which is manufactured by sony. To get into fastboot mode turn off your phone by taking off the cover off your xperia sp and use a pin or pen to press into a small dot and you will get 3 vibrations.
This guide is not written by me, so give credit to chris10286
Step 1. Download a kernel with twrp embedded im sure I used dooms kernel as far as I remember. There are many others just do a simple google of xperia sp kernel with recovery.
Step 2 . take phone case off the back hold button in on lower bottom for 10 seconds you will get 3 vibrations . good leave it at that.
Step 4 . open flashtool let it load completely. Now plug USB into your phone also have it into your PC ! Whilst plugging in hold down volume button to enter flashmode your phone should be green . hold up for fast boot mode which is blue either too let's you flash a kernel but fast boot mode requires "elf" kernel.
Step 5. Locate kernel install and then boot phone up whilst press the volume up button as its booting recovery mode will be accessed now flash rom of your choice or use Sony PC suite to go back to stock. Make sure you have stock kernel and bootloader locked or else it won't let you..
Use this thread to help you since i had the similar problem which involved my phone: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=63660062#post63660062
If none of my methods work please ask zenith to help you or ask anyone in the xperia sp forum to help you since im not a developer but ran into a similar problem to yours.
I hope this helps you out in someway as it did me good luck.
Thanks Nandan
Thank you, I very much appreciate that you took the time to write this long post to help me out. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I found a solution to my problem - by using flashtool 9.18.6 (the one that wasn't working was actually newer).
Hi,
I've run in to some problem with my XZ3, H9436. I was restarting my device as i do from time to time but this time it got stuck on startup. I goes on normally until it starts showing the "xperia" logo in different colours and just freezes for some time and then reboots and it keeps doing this until i force it off.
I've tried to get into recovery mode by holding down power+volume up but to no avail. (Maybe it's the wrong combo?)
When the phone is connected to a windows computer it is being seen by the pc.
Pc companion sees it but don't allow me to do anything since the phone is locked.
The only option i can use in pc companion is the factory reset but that deletes my files and there are some .gpx files i would like to recover from the phone.
Am i out of luck or is there anyone who has any ideas that could help me get my files of my phone?
//N
EDIT: Of course i would like to be able to repair the current system and not reset everything, but that might not be possible? But if it is that would be great.