Hello guys, My Z3+ Is one and half years old now. Yesterday tested its waterproofing ability in the swimming pool, everything was working for an hour then suddenly the touchscreen stopped working and afterwards the power button also stopped working.
Volume and camera shutter buttons were working, then i though to let it dry out a bit for few hours.
The phone was completely dead after drying it out. After a long day i tried to charge the phone, it turned on but now only sony logo appears and red light blinks and vibrates three times and restarts continuously as i plug the phone to the charger.
The phn doesnt turn on with the power button, it only does when its connected to the charger. Please help if someone had this issue or any suggestions
Remove back cover of your phone, then remove display connector and clean it and reconnect it. I got the same issue but after doing this it works for me.
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Alright, so I was clumsy enough to drain my Xperia SEVERAL TIMES.
Honestly I blame the software or calibration, but also myself, since it didn't shut down when it should.
The following would happen, that my phone wouldn't charge. No red LED, nothing. Then when it showed, after countless tries and different power sources, it finally did. It worked like 3 times. Then it started shutting down at 30%, then once when I was using it at 50%. All of a sudden. Since then, it died. It didn't charge, even after I left it for 2 days on the charger. I tried every week, but nothing would happen. Eventually the phone would start vibrating when plugged into the charger, and just die after exactly 30 minutes, every time, giving pulses of vibration.
I opened up the phone, disconnected the battery, and pressed the connector of the vibration motor.
When the vibration is non-stop, even whent he phone is off, it's because of a faulty vibration motor itself, or its connector!! I only had to press it and it stopped.
I left the battery disconnected for 1 to 2 weeks, I don't remember. When I felt the CPU cover, it was kind of electrocuting me. I put a paper between the black strip that leads between the battery and the motherboard, to which somehow the electrocution stopped. I left it charging for 2 days, with the RED led full on all the time. I gave it little hope, but I still pressed the power button mutliple times through out the charging time. This morning, te RED led was Dark Red, very weak. I pressed PWR + VLM DOWN and it gave a little pulse.
It's alive again! I let it charge to 100%, made immediately a backup, and I'll see if it will keep working. I will have to send the phone back to Sony anyway, as I think that the vibration motor will start acting up again as soon as I pick up the phone from the table (it's that sensistive yes). Also, I cannot leave the paper there, and I just want a full functioning phone. Only need to get the silicone glue strip from a distributor that I know so I can properly close it off.
I didn't send it because I needed my data, basically.
I would say, if your phone doesn't react to anything and you're out of warranty, it's worth it to keep trying to charge it, or take the shortcut and buy a new battery, open the phone and connect the new battery. It's really that simple. Otherwise, it might be your motherboard that's dead.
I hope this could help some future troubles of XDA's. Maybe make a new sticky, as this question comes along quite often?
Hi guys,
My Xperia won't boot up, and vibrates non-stop.
I decided to take off the back cover, and take a look. After some investigation, I noticed than when I press the flex cable connector of the PWR, VLM UP and DOWN on the motherboard, it boots up.
Then is stopped doing it like this.
Now I noticed, when I press around the vibration motor connector, it stops vibrating, but when I press the bottom-right corner of the battery, it starts vibrating again. While pressing the vibration motor connector, the battery bottom right corner, and the flex cable connector of PWR and Volume, suddenly it booted again to charging mode, and now I turned it on again..
It charged from 2% to 10%, 2 times it noted that the battery is low, which means it somehow stopped charging in between, or, lost connection with the battery as it should.
Note that this is unreliable, as the phone tends to shut off at any given moment. It suddenly freezes for 2 seconds, goes off, and the red light blinks 3 times.
Note2: I've done this "pressure-therapy" a number of times, and most of the times the battery is always drained, even when I charged it to 100% the last time.
I'm not an electric engineer, but something is telling me that the battery gets drained through another source then it should. Can we call it a short-circuit? I'm not sure if the battery is messed up. Maybe some components are touching which shouldn't after I have dropped the phone.
I'm going through the same routine again and will see what the phone does when I turn it off.
Also, the date of the phone is always the same date, but that's probably because I don't have automatic time and date settings enabled.
Yesterday I went to the pool and took a few pictures underwater. The pressure sensor test showed no sign of a faulty waterproofing (did it right before dipping the phone), and I actually used it in the water many times. When I got out of the pool, the phone, with 70% battery, was turned off. I dried the phone and checked all the flaps, no problems detected. Flaps were in their right place and no sign of water could be detected inside.
When I turned it on, as soon as it booted into android it said "turning off..." and immediately switched itself off. I let it rest for a while, and noticed it then started booting up and turning itself off, in a loop. No hardware key combination seemed to be able to prevent this.
As soon as I got home, the phone was dead. I plugged it in the wall charger and the infamous 3 blinks of the red led appeared. I tried to charge it with everything I've got in the house, and from totally unresponsive I got to the point where the phone shows the sony boot logo, and then reboots.
Pushing the yellow reset button gets me 3 rapid vibrations, but then the phone keeps booting the sony logo and rebooting, in a loop
The water damage indicators are clean, I don't think water ever entered the phone but I still can't quite get my head around such a huge coincidence. Talk about occam's razor..
Do you have any suggestions? I'd prefer to solve it on my own than having to buy a substitute for the summer (I don't think Sony would repair it before August, knowing their timing)
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Pyres said:
Yesterday I went to the pool and took a few pictures underwater. The pressure sensor test showed no sign of a faulty waterproofing (did it right before dipping the phone), and I actually used it in the water many times. When I got out of the pool, the phone, with 70% battery, was turned off. I dried the phone and checked all the flaps, no problems detected. Flaps were in their right place and no sign of water could be detected inside.
When I turned it on, as soon as it booted into android it said "turning off..." and immediately switched itself off. I let it rest for a while, and noticed it then started booting up and turning itself off, in a loop. No hardware key combination seemed to be able to prevent this.
As soon as I got home, the phone was dead. I plugged it in the wall charger and the infamous 3 blinks of the red led appeared. I tried to charge it with everything I've got in the house, and from totally unresponsive I got to the point where the phone shows the sony boot logo, and then reboots.
Pushing the yellow reset button gets me 3 rapid vibrations, but then the phone keeps booting the sony logo and rebooting, in a loop
The water damage indicators are clean, I don't think water ever entered the phone but I still can't quite get my head around such a huge coincidence. Talk about occam's razor..
Do you have any suggestions? I'd prefer to solve it on my own than having to buy a substitute for the summer (I don't think Sony would repair it before August, knowing their timing)
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is it root? unlock bootloader?
which firmware version?
what you get when connect to computer?
does flash tool or PCC detect it?
give more info for better solution
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root with locked bootloader, fw 23.1.A.1.28 debloated by serajr, the phone is dead, I can't access the recovery and when connected to PC it doesn't get recognized.
The flash randomly flashes red or red+green+red, if I press the volumeUP button the led becomes blue (but still won't get detected by PC Companion, FlashTool for PC (Emma), Sony Bridge or FlashTool for Mac.
As soon as I unplug the phone, the notification led shuts off, as if the phone has no charge whatsoever.
When plugged to the wall charger, the screen turns on and either shows a battery (screen size) with a red stripe on the bottom and the lightning in the corner, or it gives a little vibration and shows the xperia logo (it looks like it's booting up), then turns off and repeats it in a loop.
Hi,
My brother's Z1 got in to a pool yesterday. After a couple of minutes, the phone shut down, and then turned back on. When it turned on and he got to the homescreen, the phone was working all by itself, randomly opned apps and was shut down, and then started again. And it went on like this for a couple of hours.
I told him to open all the flops, remove SD card and SIM card and whenever the phone turned on, hold the power button and the volup up button, so it didn't turn on. Today, the phone's battery was dead, so he had to charge it in order to turn the phone on. The problem is when he connects the charger, the red led begins to blink and the phone vibrates in three times rows. Like it vibrates three times, takes a little break, and then vibrates three times again.
Any suggestions, or are the phone completly dead? :/
Thanks
Skanin said:
Hi,
My brother's Z1 got in to a pool yesterday. After a couple of minutes, the phone shut down, and then turned back on. When it turned on and he got to the homescreen, the phone was working all by itself, randomly opned apps and was shut down, and then started again. And it went on like this for a couple of hours.
I told him to open all the flops, remove SD card and SIM card and whenever the phone turned on, hold the power button and the volup up button, so it didn't turn on. Today, the phone's battery was dead, so he had to charge it in order to turn the phone on. The problem is when he connects the charger, the red led begins to blink and the phone vibrates in three times rows. Like it vibrates three times, takes a little break, and then vibrates three times again.
Any suggestions, or are the phone completly dead? :/
Thanks
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If your lucky it could be a faulty cable as my phone did the same thing until i got a brand new cable, it seems unlikely that the phone is dead if you get some responsiveness however it's still a possibility, i'd put the phone in a bag of rice with all the flaps open and all the cards removed, and leave it in the bag for around 48 hours, then attempt to power the phone back on.
My 2 months old z3c was not turning on from past 3 days. Last time i saw the mobile with 30% battery left, suddenly the phone switch off itself. When i try to connect to wall cahrger or PC, i saw only RED led indicator( no charging animation, no sony logo, no vibration ). I have tried key combination to turn on mu device, but nothing worked,......... If anyone know the solution pls reply
On the left side of your phone, in the flap on the downside, there is right next to where you put your SIM card slot a yellow button. try pressing this one for several seconds, it will force shutdown your phone completely.
Here is a guide: http://support.sonymobile.com/gb/xperiaz3compact/userguide/Resetting-your-device/
maybe this helps
Thanks man, you help me to revive my phone