So I tried to relock my BL and restore it to the stock so I could send my phone to the lab for a broken screen replacement.
I flashed stock OS, it worked great, messed around with locking the BL with the flashtool, and all I left was restoring my DRM keys from the backup I created..
I couldn't make it so I found somewhere that I might need a real super user help and not the kingroot one..
so after alot of fastboot modes I've been entered, I shut down the device one more time to flash the other old ROM for the SU,
and when I tried to enter fastboot by plugging in the cable, I noticed the device won't turn on..
no response, dead, no vol down+ power to force restart, no fastboot, nothing.. the only living signal I get is by plugging power cord and the led is blinking red or blinking to my press on the power button..
Also I read some where about the hidden yellow super reset button.. it managed to do 3 vibrations but thats it.. still bricked..
Is there anything to do?
I didn't ruin anything physical or flashed something wrong it simply died for no reason.. what the hell happened?
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So I did a stupid thing and didn't do my homework. I flashed CM 10.2 for Xperia T (Mint) on my rooted Xperia TL but didn't unlock the bootloader first. The phone won't boot. Just a black screen. If I hold the power button, it vibrates once, but nothing comes up on the screen. No LED light indicating charging while plugged in.
Have I just destroyed the phone?
lhamilton1807 said:
So I did a stupid thing and didn't do my homework. I flashed CM 10.2 for Xperia T (Mint) on my rooted Xperia TL but didn't unlock the bootloader first. The phone won't boot. Just a black screen. If I hold the power button, it vibrates once, but nothing comes up on the screen. No LED light indicating charging while plugged in.
Have I just destroyed the phone?
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No. A custom kernel won't work on a locked bootloader, so that is essentially your problem. Just put your phone in flash mode and use flashtool to flash a stock FTF and it should boot up just fine.
Antiga Prime said:
No. A custom kernel won't work on a locked bootloader, so that is essentially your problem. Just put your phone in flash mode and use flashtool to flash a stock FTF and it should boot up just fine.
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Flashtool says my phone is locked and can't be updated.
lhamilton1807 said:
Flashtool says my phone is locked and can't be updated.
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Then maybe put your phone in fastboot mode and flash the kernel first... IDK, I did that once and I'm pretty sure that's how I fixed it. With 7zip you can extract the "kernel.sin" file from the FTF, and use Flashtool in Fastboot mode to flash that kernel.
Thanks. I've been trying to put it into fastboot and can't get it to work. From what I have read, I need to hold power+volDown, right? I've held power + volUp to get it to vibrate three times, then connected it with the power & volDown buttons held and nothing - no blue light for fastboot mode. I've currently got it plugged in (using the oem Sony cable) with a rubber band around the power & volDown buttons. Maybe that'll work... I dunno. The led is just staying red, and I can't see it listed as a fastboot devices by typing "fastboot devcies" when cmd is open in the correct folder in the sdk... Any ideas on how to get this done?
Thanks for your help, everyone.
lhamilton1807 said:
Thanks. I've been trying to put it into fastboot and can't get it to work. From what I have read, I need to hold power+volDown, right? I've held power + volUp to get it to vibrate three times, then connected it with the power & volDown buttons held and nothing - no blue light for fastboot mode. I've currently got it plugged in (using the oem Sony cable) with a rubber band around the power & volDown buttons. Maybe that'll work... I dunno. The led is just staying red, and I can't see it listed as a fastboot devices by typing "fastboot devcies" when cmd is open in the correct folder in the sdk... Any ideas on how to get this done?
Thanks for your help, everyone.
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It's a bit hard to understand what you're trying to do
Fastboot mode = just press vol.up, keep on pressing, connect USB, when you get a blue light release the vol. button
Flash mode = just press vol.down, keep on pressing, connect USB when Flashtool is ready to flash the FTF, when you get a green light release the vol. button
As you can see, you don't have to press the PWR button (only pwr + vol.up to reset, but you already know it).
Usually it's enough to flash a new FTF... I don't know why you get that error: maybe a wrong button combination or maybe you didn't install the drivers needed for flashtool.
If your battery is almost discharged, the fastboot method is good to flash only the kernel in order to recharge the battery and then flash an entire FTF.
I guess your device is ok.
Anyway, have you already seen this guide?
I'll give it a shot. I can't seem to get it into flash mode or fastboot mode, though. When I hold down the Volume up or volume down button and try to plug it in, the light stays red and the computer makes a "connect" sound (Windows 7 - rising tones), then multiple "disconnect" sounds (falling tones). The light stays red and the phone is not connected.
I'm downloading a stock firmware and flashtool and will report back when I've tried it some more.
lhamilton1807 said:
I'll give it a shot. I can't seem to get it into flash mode or fastboot mode, though. When I hold down the Volume up or volume down button and try to plug it in, the light stays red and the computer makes a "connect" sound (Windows 7 - rising tones), then multiple "disconnect" sounds (falling tones). The light stays red and the phone is not connected.
I'm downloading a stock firmware and flashtool and will report back when I've tried it some more.
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I suggest removing the battery, if you have the chance.
Keep the battery removed and press and hold power and volume up buttons simultaneously. Then plug the phone to your computer and you'll enter fastboot mode.
I revived my XV with the same red led that way.
Had to remove the battery before it would work, tho.
Good luck bro!
Sorry it took so long to get to this. I've just been using my backup in the meantime.
I took the battery out and plugged it in like you suggested. Worked like a charm! I've got it flashed and running now. Thanks!
I was using an app called bootbox I changed the boot screen animation. I backed up the original boot screen animation. I also did an online nandroid backup to the sd card 01, removable. I saw another boot animation I wanted to try but bootbox doesn't give the option to delete a previously downloaded boot animation. After the second boot animation the phone would go into a bootloop. So I powered it up and held down the power button. I restored it with the backup without wiping the phone. It gave me a missing boot error. Now the device is hard bricked with only the led occasionally on green when holding down the power button with it plugged into my laptop with the battery out. Then the led just sits flashing red in second intervals. It won't come on period. Is there a way to get my phone out of this hard brick status? Thanks. I have the X Rockers rom installed on it, it's rooted, with an unlocked bootloader and Android 4.3. When holding down power and volume buttons it no longer vibrates, just the LED either comes on green for 10 seconds if just the power button and blue for 10 seconds with power and volume buttons. The LED stays solid then after 10 seconds shut off and nothing. Thanks.
In your case, if flashtool or other tool doesn't work at all, you better to bring your device to SC. or upgrade your device..
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darinthereal said:
I was using an app called bootbox I changed the boot screen animation. I backed up the original boot screen animation. I also did an online nandroid backup to the sd card 01, removable. I saw another boot animation I wanted to try but bootbox doesn't give the option to delete a previously downloaded boot animation. After the second boot animation the phone would go into a bootloop. So I powered it up and held down the power button. I restored it with the backup without wiping the phone. It gave me a missing boot error. Now the device is hard bricked with only the led occasionally on green when holding down the power button with it plugged into my laptop with the battery out. Then the led just sits flashing red in second intervals. It won't come on period. Is there a way to get my phone out of this hard brick status? Thanks. I have the X Rockers rom installed on it, it's rooted, with an unlocked bootloader and Android 4.3. When holding down power and volume buttons it no longer vibrates, just the LED either comes on green for 10 seconds if just the power button and blue for 10 seconds with power and volume buttons. The LED stays solid then after 10 seconds shut off and nothing. Thanks.
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It's not hardbricked. Green led = Flashmode / Blue led = Fastboot mode.
If it's flashing Red than most likely your battery is depleted. Since it doesn't seem to be a kernel problem, try charging your phone normally, or get a replacement battery, or use a universal battery charger, then you can try booting into Recovery and use ADB to delete the bootanimation.zip file that most likely is preventing the phone from booting up (or any other file, don't know what Bootbox does).
If that is too complicated for you, you can always connect it in flashmode and flash a stock rom again, since your bootloader is unlocked. Just remember the key here is to charge your battery.
cool but
Antiga Prime said:
It's not hardbricked. Green led = Flashmode / Blue led = Fastboot mode.
If it's flashing Red than most likely your battery is depleted. Since it doesn't seem to be a kernel problem, try charging your phone normally, or get a replacement battery, or use a universal battery charger, then you can try booting into Recovery and use ADB to delete the bootanimation.zip file that most likely is preventing the phone from booting up (or any other file, don't know what Bootbox does).
If that is too complicated for you, you can always connect it in flashmode and flash a stock rom again, since your bootloader is unlocked. Just remember the key here is to charge your battery.
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How do I get into recovery or flashmode and what is adb? Bootbox simply changes the boot animation. The phone ? also doesn't vibrate. When you connect it to the laptop it makes the usb connect sound then 10 seconds later the usb disconnect sound happens. Thx A.
Hi!
I have a weird problem with my Xperia SP 5303.
I managed to install fxp custom rom (FXP347-cm-11-20141122-UNOFFICIAL-huashan.zip) and it was working until I used Backup-TA to restore my DRM keys (I did the backup before unlocking bootloader).
After restore (it said it was successfull) then my phone restarted and never completed the boot again.
When I hold the power button, a green light flashes briefly, the phone vibrates and nothing else happens.
Reading other posts about this problem, I tried:
- Holding power and volume up (blue light flashes briefly and nothing else);
- Holding power and volume down (green light flashes briefly and nothing else);
Apparently, if I plug the usb cable I can get to flash mode or fastboot mode. But I don't know what to do.
I already tried to to shutdown through the "Off" button near the battery. Nothing happens.
Any Ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Igor Diniz
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igordiniz81 said:
Hi!
I have a weird problem with my Xperia SP 5303.
I managed to install fxp custom rom (FXP347-cm-11-20141122-UNOFFICIAL-huashan.zip) and it was working until I used Backup-TA to restore my DRM keys (I did the backup before unlocking bootloader).
After restore (it said it was successfull) then my phone restarted and never completed the boot again.
When I hold the power button, a green light flashes briefly, the phone vibrates and nothing else happens.
Reading other posts about this problem, I tried:
- Holding power and volume up (blue light flashes briefly and nothing else);
- Holding power and volume down (green light flashes briefly and nothing else);
Apparently, if I plug the usb cable I can get to flash mode or fastboot mode. But I don't know what to do.
I already tried to to shutdown through the "Off" button near the battery. Nothing happens.
Any Ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Igor Diniz
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Forget it. I managed to fix it using Flashtool and stock rom in flash mode.
This thread can be closed.
The core reason of why your phone was bricked is that you restores the TA backup on a custom ROM! You should only restore such backup on a stock ROM
TechnoSparks said:
The core reason of why your phone was bricked is that you restores the TA backup on a custom ROM! You should only restore such backup on a stock ROM
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Hi!
Yeah, I didn't realize it at that moment. It's my first customization on a Sony device and I thought I should restore the TA backup no matter what.
Fortunately I had Flashmode and Fastboot mode working so I could undo my mistake.
Thanks anyway. I have my FXP 4.4.4 running butter smooth. Much better than stock slow bloated ROM.
So the thing is, I decided to buy this phone from another person a few days ago while it was still working but it had this one problem where the owner told me about how the phone can't be shutdown unless the battery runs out of power. Any time you shut it down, it simply reboots instead. I thought it was most likely a problem I could fix after flashing, so I decided to buy it.
Using Flashtool I was able to see that if timed pressing the buttons and plugging it into my computer right before the reboot started, I could boot into flashmode. This phone came in the 4.4 KK firmware and the 10.5.1.A.0.292 Generic NCB build, so I flashed an older kernel and rooted it using Towelroot before reflashing the 10.5.1.A.0.292 Generic NCB kernal. After rooting (and testing if root apps can shut it down which didn't work either), with a locked bootloader I installed the XZDualRecovery using the method here because I was finding it so hard to unlock the bootloader and Flashtool wouldn't do it either. It automatically booted into TWRP recovery menu but when I tried to flash a ROM (existenz Ultimate 3.5 to be precise), it simply made the screen go black for a second and took me back to the recovery menu. So figuring it was a bad download, I downloaded a smaller ROM but when I rebooted I accidentally went into PhilZ Touch menu instead. Deciding to do the usual wipe before flashing, here's where I messed up like an idiot. I saw an option along the lines of "Wipe CLEAN for flashing ROM" or something and trusted it so much despite it saying it's gonna wipe the system partition clean as well (I still don't know why I accepted even when warned of that).
So basically now I have a system that boots the SONY splashscreen and then goes black with the back light still on unless the battery runs out. I can't shut it down no matter how long I hold the power button and if I restart, it boots back to the same thing. I have no recovery menu now thanks to my genius idea of wiping the system, and the only thing I can enter is flashmode. So when I try to flash an FTF firmware (I tried every firmware I could get) back into the phone with Flashtool, it would simply say "preparing for flashing" for about a minute before it says "device disconnected" because the phone decides to exit flash mode and boot normally. I have a locked bootloader (with bootloader unlocking allowed), so I can't flash recovery menus. When I try booting by holding the VolumeUp key and plugging it in, it enters flash mode only with the red LED on and I still get the same results on Flashtool.
Was wondering if there were any ways around this that I might have missed before deciding to open the phone and change the hardware? And if it comes to that, what would I need to change (have always been a software guy when it comes to phones)? Any tips and advice would be appreciated.
TLDR: Have a bricked c6603 from wiping the system, that can't shutdown and keeps rebooting and refuses to be flashed.
If you have time before the phone reboots, hold Volume UP and the power key for 15 seconds. The phone will vibrate once at 10 seconds. Keep holding the keys until you feel 3 vibrations. This will hard power down the phone.
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^I've tried this and it simply boots back up again.
Hmm. That should definitely shut the device down, not restart it.
Sounds like there could possibly be an issue with your power button. I've heard of issues with the power button after water damage. Have you checked the water ingress indicators under the flaps? If any are red, it points to earlier damage from water.
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kingvortex said:
Hmm. That should definitely shut the device down, not restart it.
Sounds like there could possibly be an issue with your power button. I've heard of issues with the power button after water damage. Have you checked the water ingress indicators under the flaps? If any are red, it points to earlier damage from water.
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Seems like you're right, I just checked it and it indeed has a faded red color on it. Do you think if I take the phone apart it the power button could be fixed or should I swap something else inside this from another Xperia?
7ty6er said:
^I've tried this and it simply boots back up again.
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I experienced this problem
Pls hold down volume When u connect your phone to pc via flashtool,
It will connect in flash mode
After that , just flash 0.230 kernel via flash mode ( kernel not rom )
Then disconnect your phone
Turn it off ( hold power button and volume up till it vibrates 3 times )
Then before it turn on again , hold down the volume down and connect it to pc via usb and this time flash 0.283 Rom ( not kernel )
This worked for me
I was flashing my phone and half way through my computer lost power. Now the phone does not start. I can't get it into fastboot, or flash mode.
Pressing 'vol up' + 'power' doesn't work either. Anyone knows how to repair a hard brick?
boringpie said:
I was flashing my phone and half way through my computer lost power. Now the phone does not start. I can't get it into fastboot, or flash mode.
Pressing 'vol up' + 'power' doesn't work either. Anyone knows how to repair a hard brick?
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Does vol down + power work?
Does the charging animation show up?
Does the led emits a light?
At least you could say the support that your device turned of while applying a firmware update and that they need to give you a new device :silly:
MartinX3 said:
Does vol down + power work?
Does the charging animation show up?
Does the led emits a light?
At least you could say the support that your device turned of while applying a firmware update and that they need to give you a new device :silly:
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No charging animation.
if I press vol up + power longer enough the red light will turn on, but it still can't be detected by the computer.....
btw, yesterday I updated my phone to firmware 52.0.A.8.25_R5B and install the new twrp but it was stuck in a boot loop, so I repeat this process four times and still no luck, until the fifth time my PC died on me bricking my phone........
boringpie said:
No charging animation.
if I press vol up + power longer enough the red light will turn on, but it still can't be detected by the computer.....
btw, yesterday I updated my phone to firmware 52.0.A.8.25_R5B and install the new twrp but it was stuck in a boot loop, so I repeat this process four times and still no luck, until the fifth time my PC died on me bricking my phone........
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Did you "fastboot boot twrp" or "fastboot flash boot twrp"?
Weird, I hope the IT guys can help you.
same problem? you have solution?
Does holding volume down + power while plugging the phone into a computer show a green light?
how to repair hard bricked phone?
SOMC Flash Device show only
my Phone Model SOV37 Japan Au
i am try to Global Rom Flash Done
H8216_Customized IL_52.0.A.11.3-R2B
Sony Xperia XZ2 (SOV37 Convert To H8216 )
Bootloader Unlock Done TWRP Root Done
Phone Normally Open Global
2nd time try to Flash this file SOV37_KDDI JP_52.0.C.5.295-R13B
Flash Done but my phone hard bricked show only SOMC Flash Device.
No charging & if I press vol up + power longer enough the red light will turn on, but it still show only SOMC Flash Device. computer.
i need help Sir