Try it with your own risk, I'm not resposible if you damage your phone and if anything else happens. Below instructions have been tested by me personally and were working.
I can't put any shortcut to my steps, since I'm not going to brick my phone again and test it
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My phone had an unlock bootloader.
What have I done:
- used my other charger to charge my sony xperia z ( Huawei charger and cable), but yet the screen is off and only red led is appearing
-changed the operating system that I used, since I was running on windows 8, I changed the pc and went to try my luck on windows 8.1
- installed flashtool and drivers( sony xperia z, fastboot and flash mode) with disable driver signature
- Installed Emma from Sony website, I think it helped with the drivers(though I didn't signin to the app)
- connected phone and as it only blinked a red light , on the computer it would automatically detect a new driver and install it
- I noticed now when opening the flashtool that it detected my phone with usb debugging off ( at least it found out something, rather than the first attempt on windows 8 it would show nothing ) , but it disconnects as It shows in the flashtool process
- tried every attempt to get into flash mode or fastboot but I failed
- unplugged the device and made sure it was off (because when I unplug it, the red led is still on, so I hold power button and volume + for few seconds until it turns off and then release those buttons)
- connected again the device, but now even debugging task on flashtool won't appear, ( when connecting it, it shows phone disconnected in the task of flashtool)
- unplugged the device again and now I went back to the flashtool drivers and ticked to install ( sony xperia z, sony xperia z tablet, fastboot and flash mode) and installed the drivers again
- plugged the device and on flashtool I hold power button and volume up(+) , so the red light goes off and I hear from the computer the device connecting and disconnecting , Held those buttons for 10 seconds and then I held volume down (-) only, so the phone led blinked red and green light and quickly went off.
-now my device is connected in flash mode , so I quickly flashed a (ftf) official sony rom
- tasks completed in the flashtool.
- booted the device and the screen is now on and the sony logo appeared( yaaaaay)
- phone booted and shows battery 2% , I ran quickly and charged it and now the phone is back on and everything works great.
... I know this was long to read, but It took my way too long to figure this, I hope that if there is anyone there who has a similar problem to try out what have I done and might get lucky.
Note: my phone had a blank screen and I couldn't do anything that time and I read hundreds of forums about this issue and tried almost everything, but it didn't work with me.
ALL OF THE ABOVE were of my own, I tried things around and messed a little and never thought that I would get my phone back running, but whatever I was trying was really tiring and It took me hours, to finally find myself, unbricking my Sony Xperia Z.
Thank me If this helped you:good:
cheers.
If you tried out every tip and nothing worked, give this a shot instead of asking again:fingers-crossed:
Thank you Bro. With your method i fixed my bricked XZ with red LED.
.FTF?
so, what's the .FTF filmware you flash it? i have a c6606 on bootstall and, sometimes, just dont boot
THAT IS THE Help & Troubleshooting FORUM YOU MOST POST THIS IN GENERAL FORUM!!
Thanks a bunch helped a lot
Sent from my C6602 using xda app-developers app
sony xperia z
such. I have a problem with my sony xperia z just does not turn me red LED lights only that color. more pressing volume. and power button vibrates four times. vibrates the first time after two seconds vibrates 3 times in a row, then try to turn it on and nothing happens can you help me and I do use q sony pc companion. alleged mind and I update it then try to turn it on and not someone tell me I can do
joey enrique said:
quetal. tengo un problema con mi sony xperia z no me enciende solo enciende el led color rojo solo eso. al presionar volumen mas . y boton de encendido vibra cuatro veces. vibra la primera ves luego de 2 segundo vibra 3 veces seguidas, luego trato de encenderlo y no pasa nada me pueden ayudar q puedo hacer ya use sony pc companion. supuesta mente ya me lo actualizo luego trate de encenderlo y no enciende
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Xperia Z HELP
My xperia z will go into fastboot and flash but wont work after i flashed it. HELP?????
Sony Xperia Z doesnt boot and vibrates 3 times
Ive got a Sony Xperia Z model C6603 4G/LTE
After ive got some issues with the moisture on the cameras,i got rid of them,also the backlight lcd has some water in it,but 95% i managed to get rid of it
The flaps was closed when it got moisture on the cameras
the main problem is,the Xperia Z worked fine untill it got dead,after heating up a bit the phone,not on of course,it was off by then,and got 3% of battery
now the Xperia Z vibrates 3 times and shows the red LED and then turns off,same procedure over and over again...with the charger hooked in
I tryed the Power + Vol Down,didnt help,aside of the sudden flickering screen
The Sony logo only appeares when i rapidly tap the power button but then shuts down completely
i flashed the ftf of Android 4.3 again via Flashtool with the help of the taping the power button...the flash was a success,but still no signs of booting up
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can't make the computer recognize the phone
Hi, i've been trying and trying to do this but I can't make the computer recognize the phone. The Red LED stays on and the phone just doesn't do anything. Sometimes when I press vol + and power, it will vibrate 4 times but that's about it. About 1 hour ago I plugged in the phone to the computer and it turned on, it showed me the charging screen and the computer recognized it. Then it shut down and it hasn't turned on again since. Right now it's plugged to the wall with the red LED on but doesn't do anything. Help please I miss my XZ.
ripadram said:
Hi, i've been trying and trying to do this but I can't make the computer recognize the phone. The Red LED stays on and the phone just doesn't do anything. Sometimes when I press vol + and power, it will vibrate 4 times but that's about it. About 1 hour ago I plugged in the phone to the computer and it turned on, it showed me the charging screen and the computer recognized it. Then it shut down and it hasn't turned on again since. Right now it's plugged to the wall with the red LED on but doesn't do anything. Help please I miss my XZ.
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Why dont you try flashing stock rom using flashtool?
androidtweaker1 said:
Why dont you try flashing stock rom using flashtool?
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Can't do it because the phone is dead. The computer doesn't recognize it, and I'm starting to think it's a battery issue. I left it charging overnight, today it had the green LED and the screen showed a full battery charge. As soon as I disconnected it from the wall charger, the phone died and when I connected it again the LED went back to red as if it hadn't been charged. So I think the battery might be dead, what do you guys think?¿
ripadram said:
Can't do it because the phone is dead. The computer doesn't recognize it, and I'm starting to think it's a battery issue. I left it charging overnight, today it had the green LED and the screen showed a full battery charge. As soon as I disconnected it from the wall charger, the phone died and when I connected it again the LED went back to red as if it hadn't been charged. So I think the battery might be dead, what do you guys think?¿
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looks like battery issue then
androidtweaker1 said:
looks like battery issue then
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I've been trying, and no I wast just about to update my earlier post. I connected it to the computer and it showed me the sony logo followed by the charging screen but it showed a full charge. I'm currently battling the computer because sometimes it will recognize it and sometimes it won't. Right now when it does recognize it it says S1 Service but haven't been able to move passed that because the phone reboots itself. Last time it happened the LED went red then green and then nothing happened. So I'm in the middle of that.
ripadram said:
I've been trying, and no I wast just about to update my earlier post. I connected it to the computer and it showed me the sony logo followed by the charging screen but it showed a full charge. I'm currently battling the computer because sometimes it will recognize it and sometimes it won't. Right now when it does recognize it it says S1 Service but haven't been able to move passed that because the phone reboots itself. Last time it happened the LED went red then green and then nothing happened. So I'm in the middle of that.
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Hold up volume key and connect to pc, see what happens
androidtweaker1 said:
Hold up volume key and connect to pc, see what happens
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did that and nothing happened. The PC recognizes the phone as Qualcomm - Composite #2 (connects and disconnects) and I can't get the phone into flashmode.
ripadram said:
did that and nothing happened. The PC recognizes the phone as Qualcomm - Composite #2 (connects and disconnects) and I can't get the phone into flashmode.
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volume up is fastboot
try holding down volume key and connection
Locked Bootloader
AhmedZadjali said:
Try it with your own risk, I'm not resposible if you damage your phone and if anything else happens. Below instructions have been tested by me personally and were working.
I can't put any shortcut to my steps, since I'm not going to brick my phone again and test it
_______________________________
My phone had an unlock bootloader.
What have I done:
- used my other charger to charge my sony xperia z ( Huawei charger and cable), but yet the screen is off and only red led is appearing
-changed the operating system that I used, since I was running on windows 8, I changed the pc and went to try my luck on windows 8.1
- installed flashtool and drivers( sony xperia z, fastboot and flash mode) with disable driver signature
- Installed Emma from Sony website, I think it helped with the drivers(though I didn't signin to the app)
- connected phone and as it only blinked a red light , on the computer it would automatically detect a new driver and install it
- I noticed now when opening the flashtool that it detected my phone with usb debugging off ( at least it found out something, rather than the first attempt on windows 8 it would show nothing ) , but it disconnects as It shows in the flashtool process
- tried every attempt to get into flash mode or fastboot but I failed
- unplugged the device and made sure it was off (because when I unplug it, the red led is still on, so I hold power button and volume + for few seconds until it turns off and then release those buttons)
- connected again the device, but now even debugging task on flashtool won't appear, ( when connecting it, it shows phone disconnected in the task of flashtool)
- unplugged the device again and now I went back to the flashtool drivers and ticked to install ( sony xperia z, sony xperia z tablet, fastboot and flash mode) and installed the drivers again
- plugged the device and on flashtool I hold power button and volume up(+) , so the red light goes off and I hear from the computer the device connecting and disconnecting , Held those buttons for 10 seconds and then I held volume down (-) only, so the phone led blinked red and green light and quickly went off.
-now my device is connected in flash mode , so I quickly flashed a (ftf) official sony rom
- tasks completed in the flashtool.
- booted the device and the screen is now on and the sony logo appeared( yaaaaay)
- phone booted and shows battery 2% , I ran quickly and charged it and now the phone is back on and everything works great.
... I know this was long to read, but It took my way too long to figure this, I hope that if there is anyone there who has a similar problem to try out what have I done and might get lucky.
Note: my phone had a blank screen and I couldn't do anything that time and I read hundreds of forums about this issue and tried almost everything, but it didn't work with me.
ALL OF THE ABOVE were of my own, I tried things around and messed a little and never thought that I would get my phone back running, but whatever I was trying was really tiring and It took me hours, to finally find myself, unbricking my Sony Xperia Z.
Thank me If this helped you:good:
cheers.
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Is it possible to do it with a locked bootloader?
weird phone is weird UPDATE!!
If one think something is weird,it can get weirder.
After a few months using my phone without the disabled powerbutton (see story below) I noticed I could not get the screen on by using volume up button, a brief moment I thought it died, but it turned out to be that the powerbutton is back, all things normal again.
The old story how it started :
I I came to this section after a desperate search on my wife's phone while on vacation in Turkey and my Xperia c6603 seemed to have died,
Chronological happenings:
Me and wife at pool
Me having idea,filming and take pictures in pool from wife.
Me thinking phone is watertight, (dangerous thoughts)
Me filming underwater for few seconds at only 10 centimeters of depth.
Phone starting act weird, lockscreen off, lockscreen on, loc....... Around 10 times, then black screen and vibrating : 1 vibrate, short pause, 3 vibrates, short pause, one vibrate.......don't know exactly how much because of me innerself panicking while acting normal on the outside.
Tried to switch on phone, no response...
Connected phone to external batterycasing and pressed charge, phone vibrated again the code of death
Now I realized water entered the phone and it probably entered trough powerbutton.
Me searched Google on wife's phone for this issue and found this thread, worsening my thoughts after read what agony ppl have gone trough when the "thing" happened.
Me opening all 4 """watertight""" (haha) doors to let water evaporate out, waterdamage indicators still white!
Tried several times starting phone after hour in the turkey's sun, 36 Celsius here today!
After while when I kinda gave up the screen was on, wich gave me back the year that I would die earlier because of the things happening to me while not showing on the outside.
Then noticed the text downleft in screen: safe mode!
Tried restart but powerbutton nonresponsive, noticed powerbuttonfunction shifted to volume up!! Wich looks like the phone somehow noticed something must be wrong with the powerbutton and made itself usable again by relocating this function to another button.
Phone is fully functional again, had to download app though to lock screen cause volume up only unlocks and pops up shutdown/Screenshot dialog when screen is on.
Dat weird phone!
Hi,
I have a problem with my Xperia Z. I can't start the device. I had this problem once before, and honestly I don't know what exactly I did, but it worked (I guess I connected new LCD, started device, then connected old LCD - it worked, so I glued on device and was using it. In the meantime I was flashing it 1000 times and doing whatever I read in web).
BUT when battery was 100% I decided to turn it of just to see if it will turn on (becasue I wanted to sell this phone, don't want any problems with selling not fully working phone) and gues what- it doesn't turn on....
Soft reset - vibrate working
Hard reset - 3x vibrate working
power on - vibrate working
flashmode - no problem
fastboot - no prolem
soft upgrade via PCC - no problem
soft upgrade via Flashtool- no problem
LED icon - working fine.
But it is just not turning on (LCD isn't showing anything, folder with files is not showing in computer).
Phone has locked (Unlock Bootloader Allowed:NO) bootloader so I'm rather limited. Warranty is of course not possible.
Looking forward to hear from you, hope you guys have any idea what to do.
partially solved- it is not software problem.
problem is with LCD - it is not possible to turn on the phone with this LCD (checked on second xperia z) but this weird LCD works normally when connected AFTER booting on with different LCD. Tested few times on 2 different c6603
Any ideas how is it possible ?
Your lcd broken
Sent from my C6603
Hello,
First, sorry for bad English.
Second, I need help to solve problem with sony xperia z (c6603). Broken front touch glass. How I can acsess to my phone (sms, photos, numbers....) from pc? USB debugging is off. Phone is locked with code. I cant enter code because some time screen touching is friezed, some time is just clicking one or other letter or symbol.... Then he was turned on, I tried to connect to pc, for photos from internal memory, but need to enter code, to let phone connect to pc. Now phone have discharge and turned off. Then I turn on, asking me the code(i cant enter it). There is some special programs to enable usb debugging, that you can connect to phone from pc and receive all needed information? in forums are many and different info, but i afraid to do one or other thing, that i don't lost all data.
Phone: Sony Xperia Z (C6603)
PC: WIN7
If need more info about pc or phone, please ask.
debugging = off
phone locked = with code
do you have installed recovery? if not, no chance without replace display.
SkorpasPK said:
Hello,
First, sorry for bad English.
Second, I need help to solve problem with sony xperia z (c6603). Broken front touch glass. How I can acsess to my phone (sms, photos, numbers....) from pc? USB debugging is off. Phone is locked with code. I cant enter code because some time screen touching is friezed, some time is just clicking one or other letter or symbol.... Then he was turned on, I tried to connect to pc, for photos from internal memory, but need to enter code, to let phone connect to pc. Now phone have discharge and turned off. Then I turn on, asking me the code(i cant enter it). There is some special programs to enable usb debugging, that you can connect to phone from pc and receive all needed information? in forums are many and different info, but i afraid to do one or other thing, that i don't lost all data.
Phone: Sony Xperia Z (C6603)
PC: WIN7
If need more info about pc or phone, please ask.
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get an otg cable and use a usb mouse i will work i have done it a few times