S3 Mini (i8190-N) Hard Bricked - Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

So today after i went home from school and connected my S3mini to USB on my PC, suddenly all buttons and touchscreen stopped working so i opened him pulled out the battery and than pulled it back in. Now it doesnt show any signals of life, no bootlogo no light on leds, no vibration. When i connect it to PC - PC starts searching for drivers but the phone disconnects inmidiatly. I was using Maclaw´s CM11 for like 2 months. Thanks for any help.

racik198 said:
So today after i went home from school and connected my S3mini to USB on my PC, suddenly all buttons and touchscreen stopped working so i opened him pulled out the battery and than pulled it back in. Now it doesnt show any signals of life, no bootlogo no light on leds, no vibration. When i connect it to PC - PC starts searching for drivers but the phone disconnects inmidiatly. I was using Maclaw´s CM11 for like 2 months. Thanks for any help.
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I readed something about an USBjig.
XXXX://xxx.androidpit.de/de/android/forum/thread/583494/S3-mini-haengt-imnBOOTLOOP-fest-Hilfe
Please change "XXXX" to "http" and "xxx" to "www". I´m too new to post a link. Sorry

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Dead xperia T

Well my GF had a lot of trouble with this phone, we replaced the battery 3 times due to them failing. Anyway I updated it to official 4.3 for her and left it totally stock, no root or anything. All was well for a few days. One night we left it charging, when we woke up it was still pretty dead. She used it for about 5 mins then it died, now it won't charge or switch on! Got it charging offline but still didn't take any juice. Flashed in flashmode several times, now if I connect to anything it goes straight into flashmode and still won't charge! I bought her a galaxy s2 for now but is there anything we can do? Is it possible it needs yet another new battery?
Just to add I tried all the fixes such as leave it on charge, remove battery, button combo etc. When it does "charge" it doesn't take any charge
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Try replacing the battery again and if this happens again it is definitely a hardware problem
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I don't want to start a new thread, so I will post it here. My Xperia T is a dead phone in the moment and I was searching the web and of course xda to find a fix (like for Xperia Z).
How it happened: Yesterday my phone was working like a charm with CM11. I wanted to sell it and so I was trying to flash a stock rom. The flashing aborted with error every single time (Processing system.sin). I was able to flash all the .sin except for system.sin
After the phone was a soft brick I could enter fastboot/flashmode and flash the kernel from CM11 and install it without any problems.
I tried several times to flash stock until my phone bricked. Now it is charging and nothing happens, no fastboot, no flashmode, no sign of life. Only when the battery is detached the LED flashes one time (red) when cable is connected
Edit: The phone was able to go in flashmode but after few seconds it disconnected, in reconnected in flashmode. Also the phone is now recognized by the computer as "qhsusb-dload"
Edit Update: When I connect the phone to the computer an press Vol+ and Power Button for a longer time, the LED turn on (red color) and the qhsusb-dload disappears from device manager. After 2-3 seconds the LED turns of and the device manager shows qhsusb-dload again.
Now I have connected the phone to wall charger with a rubber band on the power button and sometimes the red LED turns on and stays for a few seconds

[Q] My sony xperia sp wont turn on, dead probably?!

Hi guys! First of all, sorry for my english, its not my native language.
Yesterday my phone turned off because battery was too low. I put on charge for the whole night. Today when i waked up, i want to turn on my phone after disconnected from charge, but its wont turn on, just red light flash 3 times. I returned to charge but still cant turn on. Sometimes i got the sony logo, then i see the battery icon on screen, but still cant turn in. I have searched on the forums, and maybe its get bricked. I tried to connect the phone to pc, but sony companion and flashtool cant even recognize the device, but my pc see it as unknown device.
What can i do now?
Pls help guys! :crying:
ps: my phone running with cm11
jostee said:
Hi guys! First of all, sorry for my english, its not my native language.
Yesterday my phone turned off because battery was too low. I put on charge for the whole night. Today when i waked up, i want to turn on my phone after disconnected from charge, but its wont turn on, just red light flash 3 times. I returned to charge but still cant turn on. Sometimes i got the sony logo, then i see the battery icon on screen, but still cant turn in. I have searched on the forums, and maybe its get bricked. I tried to connect the phone to pc, but sony companion and flashtool cant even recognize the device, but my pc see it as unknown device.
What can i do now?
Pls help guys! :crying:
ps: my phone running with cm11
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It doesn't go to flashtool mode? If you have drivers properly installed, it should go to flashtool mode. Make sure drivers are ready and then connect USB cable to the phone and not to the PC. Hold down volume down and then connect to the PC. Green light should turn on. It means your phone is in flashtool mode. Flashtool will recognize it. Flash the ftf file. (If it is not happening, remove the back cover press power off button with pen or something until it vibrates three times. That will turn the phone off and then retry)
If you run into any sort of error, fee free to post here!
Happy flashing!
PS: If I helped you, press thanks!
shahrukhqasim said:
It doesn't go to flashtool mode? If you have drivers properly installed, it should go to flashtool mode. Make sure drivers are ready and then connect USB cable to the phone and not to the PC. Hold down volume down and then connect to the PC. Green light should turn on. It means your phone is in flashtool mode. Flashtool will recognize it. Flash the ftf file. (If it is not happening, remove the back cover press power off button with pen or something until it vibrates three times. That will turn the phone off and then retry)
If you run into any sort of error, fee free to post here!
Happy flashing!
PS: If I helped you, press thanks!
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Drivers arent installed, and i cant install now, because sony companion cant recognize the phone, any other solution to install the right driveres
jostee said:
Drivers arent installed, and i cant install now, because sony companion cant recognize the phone, any other solution to install the right driveres
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Download Ubuntu latest version from ubuntu.com and make bootable usb(I use powerISO for making bootable USB). Rest will be simple. Do it. I'll tell you later. You'll have to edit a file and install JAVA and run flashtool. Simple and straight!
Dont make it hard...
Let it recharge for at least 24 hrs (comment from Sony)
After that try again..
@up: How do you think it will work on Linux when even Windows cant recognise the phone? Bit pointless if you ask me..
Thank you guys for helping, it seems just my charger is broken. I get another from my friend, and after a hour charge my phone started!
It seems everything okay now, i not need to flash or start a recovery, just need an another charger
Thank you guys for your help!
mrjraider said:
Dont make it hard...
Let it recharge for at least 24 hrs (comment from Sony)
After that try again..
@up: How do you think it will work on Linux when even Windows cant recognise the phone? Bit pointless if you ask me..
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Actually, I was suggesting Linux because many users run into trouble while installing drivers on windows 8 or later. It was very simple on Ubuntu that's why I was suggesting it. And phone doesn't go to flashtool mode or fastboot mode unless proper drivers are installed.
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My sony xperia sp is stucked to the sony logo and its restarting all the time, i try all of the combinations with the keys and the charging and i try with the back 'off' key but nothing happens.... HELP ME!!!
stefannaumoski said:
My sony xperia sp is stucked to the sony logo and its restarting all the time, i try all of the combinations with the keys and the charging and i try with the back 'off' key but nothing happens.... HELP ME!!!
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Your problem has been discussed over and over again, meaning the answer to your question can be found using the search function.
Search for "bootloop".
I have simillar problem. I have CM11 installed for half a year now and everything was great. Yesterday my phone freezed and turn the screen off, after one minute it restared by itself and freezed again. After that it reboot by itself one more time freeze on the desktop and died forever.
hardreset on back side not working (i try to hold it down for 20 sec+ ). When i plug it in charger led turns red (i had it on charger for 8 hours and it is still red light and phone is dead).
PC companion cant connect to phone, flashtool can't connect, ubuntu can't connect. I will now connect it directly to PC and wait for few hours, but i am not sure if this will work. When the phone goes dead it was on charger with around 25% battery. Any idea what else to try?
Try an charger with more Ampere. I solved that problem charging with the ipad charger....
The best i can do is 1 Amp with car charger (from Plantronics, so i believe it is 1 amp). But still nothing after 1 hour
stronger charger i can't find. Any other idea? The phone is still dead. No vibrating, no detecting from PC only red led light when i start charging it. I am sure shutdown didn't happened because battery was empty, before it freezed it had 13% and then it was at 25% when it died (i was on call) that is why i know this.

[Q] Dead Htc One

I own a Htc One (m7) and I was making a backup of my sistem in CWM recovery and my phone suddenly turned off and i couldn't turn it on since then. About half day passed phone was 2hours on wall charger and about hour connected on my pc and nothing happens. Im really freaking out, is my phone dead or there is something i can do? It doesnt show any sign of life. When i try to power it up while connected to the PC by using volume down + power button i hear quick sound of usb connecting and disconnecting. Im helpless, if anyone knows anything please help...
pavo122 said:
I own a Htc One (m7) and I was making a backup of my sistem in CWM recovery and my phone suddenly turned off and i couldn't turn it on since then. About half day passed phone was 2hours on wall charger and about hour connected on my pc and nothing happens. Im really freaking out, is my phone dead or there is something i can do? It doesnt show any sign of life. When i try to power it up while connected to the PC by using volume down + power button i hear quick sound of usb connecting and disconnecting. Im helpless, if anyone knows anything please help...
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look here > http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2770684
I'll give it a shot, thanks!

[Q] phone is going to automatically attempt boot

hi.i installed android 5.0.2 via pc companion. after a day when i was charging my phone it suddenly turned off and after trying vol up + power and everything i turned off with hard reset button near sim slot.after that when i connect my phone to PC screen wont turn off,but when i connect it to wall charger it turns off just fine. but when i shut down my phon it starts booting automatically.i cant turn, phone is going to automatically attempt boot.
it jsut shows sony logo, shuts down and again shows sony logo
im facing the same problem here
i think thats hardware problem but nothing serioes
if you want to turn the phone off try hard shutdown after that until next time you connect to to pc or charger it will stay off after shuting down
and about pc....try on another pc
for me if i connect it to pc the screen will stay on ...and if i try to turn it off it will hang for a while and nothing happens when i attemp to turn the display on
but i connected it to another pc and everything was ok
the other thing is my phone is not charged while on magnatic charger
it says charging but nothing happens
i think it about 5 month now im having this problem
--N7-- said:
im facing the same problem here
i think thats hardware problem but nothing serioes
if you want to turn the phone off try hard shutdown after that until next time you connect to to pc or charger it will stay off after shuting down
and about pc....try on another pc
for me if i connect it to pc the screen will stay on ...and if i try to turn it off it will hang for a while and nothing happens when i attemp to turn the display on
but i connected it to another pc and everything was ok
the other thing is my phone is not charged while on magnatic charger,
it says charging but nothing happens
i think it about 5 month now im having this problem
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yes same here :/ magnetic charger wont charge. and when i scroll down in setting, it suddenly comes up again.the touch is doing something on his own
kambizsm said:
yes same here :/ magnetic charger wont charge. and when i scroll down in setting, it suddenly comes up again.the touch is doing something on his own
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try repair with pc companion or download ftf around here then flash using flashtool,
iedafarha said:
try repair with pc companion or download ftf around here then flash using flashtool,
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i have done it i even down graded to 4.4.4. the problem still remains

[Q] My Xperia SP bricked, wont start

Hey guys,
I need your help!
My Sony Xperia SP (C5303) wont start. It crashed while I was using it. Display faded and afterwards I am not able to turn it on.
I searched a lot but havent found anything useful to my problem. I found these articles(well more, but those are the most comprehensive ones):
Article 1 on xda
Article 2 on sonymobile
I tried everything what was mentioned in those articles. Nothing helped. Honestly I am a bit rusty with toying with my phone. I have been in to it on collage, but last few years I settled with what I installed back then ( eXistenz Ultra 3.0.0 I guess or similar version)
When I am trying to charge it red light is on. After a while (15 mins or so) red light disappear. When the phone is at least a bit charged and I try to turn it on it flashes red three times (not every time).
When I plug it in the computer while having Flashtool open it goes like this:
22/055/2015 13:55:27 - INFO - Device connected with USB debugging off
22/055/2015 13:55:27 - INFO - For 2011 devices line, be sure you are not in MTP mode
22/055/2015 13:55:28 - INFO - Device disconnected
22/055/2015 13:55:32 - INFO - Selected null
22/055/2015 13:55:32 - INFO - Flash canceled
I guess that is all I know now about the problem.
Please help
PS: I tried the turn off button in the back ( even holding it for like a minute )
From the above info i can only make out that your device is unable to connect to flashtool. Use USB cable of good quality.
You also try reinstalling flashtool
Phoenix854 said:
From the above info i can only make out that your device is unable to connect to flashtool. Use USB cable of good quality.
You also try reinstalling flashtool
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I installed Flashtool v 0.9.18.5, used three different USB cables (including sony original) still the same log. I do not think problem is in this
Can I offer some more specific information? Honestly I do not how else describe my fatal problem
Seems that your battery is completely discharged or you have drivers problem
Here you are step by step:
1- Connect your phone to wall socket and let it charge for 1 or 2 hours
2- After that force shutdown by pressing back reset button till vibrate three times.. Do not turn on the phone
3- Uninstall flashtool and any xperia flashing tools or drivers
4- Download and install PC companion from here:
http://www-support-downloads.sonymo...nloads/PC Companion/Sony PC Companion_Web.exe
5- Open PC Companion program and connect your phone to PC via USB cable while pressing your phone Volume down key
(You should hear windows new hardware plugged sound and your phone led will light with green)
6- follow PCC wizard to repair your phone
Hey, thanks for advice, OsGhaly.
Sadly I already did this - charged my phone from wall socket - pressed the back reset button (hold it) - nothing..no vibrations, nothing
Update: I have this problem for 2 weeks ( using another phone meanwhile), now I tried just for sake to charge it again (I tried everything 14 days ago ) after like 30 minutes it actually kinda turned on - it booted into the screen with charging battery. I was like whooah So I tried to turn it on. During loading graphics got messy again and screen blurred off. An everything is as it was. Broken.
Seems to me it somehow restarted over that 14 days (battery drained ?) and thanks to the fact that battery was depleted it kinda turned on. I guess it was a mistake to try turn it on immediately. I should have tried to reinstall the phone in that battery charging screen I guess. ¨So maybe I should just wait few days to let the battery drain again a try this ? Do not know :-/
But again what u have described I tried 14 days ago, did not work sadly.
Tecronx said:
Hey, thanks for advice, OsGhaly.
Sadly I already did this - charged my phone from wall socket - pressed the back reset button (hold it) - nothing..no vibrations, nothing
Update: I have this problem for 2 weeks ( using another phone meanwhile), now I tried just for sake to charge it again (I tried everything 14 days ago ) after like 30 minutes it actually kinda turned on - it booted into the screen with charging battery. I was like whooah So I tried to turn it on. During loading graphics got messy again and screen blurred off. An everything is as it was. Broken.
Seems to me it somehow restarted over that 14 days (battery drained ?) and thanks to the fact that battery was depleted it kinda turned on. I guess it was a mistake to try turn it on immediately. I should have tried to reinstall the phone in that battery charging screen I guess. ¨So maybe I should just wait few days to let the battery drain again a try this ? Do not know :-/
But again what u have described I tried 14 days ago, did not work sadly.
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Why u want to wait? U can simple press and hold the reset button for 8 sec or so till it makes 3 vibrations consecutively. After that charge your phone for 1h and then without booting it flash stock ftf via flashtool
When you unplug the back of the phone you have a yellow power off.
Plug your usb, push the off and power + and release when blue led appeare.
If don't work push long time (1mn) the off and retry
Sent from my Xperia SP using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
bobslesbricoleurs said:
When you unplug the back of the phone you have a yellow power off.
Plug your usb, push the off and power + and release when blue led appeare.
If don't work push long time (1mn) the off and retry
Sent from my Xperia SP using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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Thanks for response. But I already stated I tried this. Nothing happens. No vibrations, no leds, nothing.
Try to charge him, max 20mn if don't work tell me
What's kernel you use at last?
Sent from my Xperia SP using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
bobslesbricoleurs said:
Try to charge him, max 20mn if don't work tell me
What's kernel you use at last?
Sent from my Xperia SP using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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Nothing.
Rom is eXistenz 3.0.0
here is the thread with that rom:
link
I am not actually sure which kernel it is, since in the info it says something else than in installation guide. So please check for yourself because I could give you a wrong information
Still no progress. Please help
Tecronx said:
Nothing.
Rom is eXistenz 3.0.0
here is the thread with that rom:
link
I am not actually sure which kernel it is, since in the info it says something else than in installation guide. So please check for yourself because I could give you a wrong information
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eXistenZ uses stock kernel. I think you should try flashing your SP through some other PC.
Either your battery is damaged or USB socket problem
Nope, using another pc did not help. So I am still stuck with bricked phone. I would like to quote the article I linked in the first post because it exactly describes my problem. But in that article wasnt found a helpful solution either.
"...When I charge it, the red light on the bottom just comes and goes. Stays on for a few minutes, then goes off for a few minutes. I let it charge for almost 6 hours like this and nothing has happened. When I plug the phone into my PC you hear the USB connected sound, but right after you hear the disconnected sound, and nothing shows up in device manager. I tried the Vol+ and Power button combo and nothing happens. I tried holding the reset button on the back for 5-10 seconds and nothing happens. I get no vibrations at all. The phone is not detected in any program like SUS, Flashtool, or PC companion. Some times when I press the power button I get 2 red short flashes, I have no idea what this means as it's not consistent, and only happens every once in a while.... "
I have my phone in warranty but my display is cracked a bit and I not original software is installed on the device so I am not sure if warranty wasnt voided by those things. Please help.
Qouted article:
XDA Article
Tecronx said:
Nope, using another pc did not help. So I am still stuck with bricked phone. I would like to quote the article I linked in the first post because it exactly describes my problem. But in that article wasnt found a helpful solution either.
"...When I charge it, the red light on the bottom just comes and goes. Stays on for a few minutes, then goes off for a few minutes. I let it charge for almost 6 hours like this and nothing has happened. When I plug the phone into my PC you hear the USB connected sound, but right after you hear the disconnected sound, and nothing shows up in device manager. I tried the Vol+ and Power button combo and nothing happens. I tried holding the reset button on the back for 5-10 seconds and nothing happens. I get no vibrations at all. The phone is not detected in any program like SUS, Flashtool, or PC companion. Some times when I press the power button I get 2 red short flashes, I have no idea what this means as it's not consistent, and only happens every once in a while.... "
I have my phone in warranty but my display is cracked a bit and I not original software is installed on the device so I am not sure if warranty wasnt voided by those things. Please help.
Qouted article:
XDA Article
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Since u have not unlocked your bootloader you are still in warranty. Now only service center can repair ur phone. Dont tell them u have installed a custom rom or rooted ur device if u want to claim warranty.

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