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[Q] Bricked Xperia Z (rooted) after applying custom font

I have rooted my Xperia Z. I tried to apply custom font through iFont (Segoe UI, basically what I did was copying the font from Windows 8.1, to phone's internal storage, Xperia Z\Internal Storage\ifont\custom), I opened the app, tapped on the font and then applied it. Since the next step is to reboot the phone, I did so. The phone is now in a bootloop state, it shows the SONY logo, then XPERIA, then the colorful wave. During the wave, it lasts no longer than 1 second, the wave animation always gets stuck halfway across the screen, then goes back to SONY logo, XPERIA logo, the wave and repeats the boot.
I have tried some of the methods such as booting the phone into Recovery Mode. I was told to power off the phone, start it, then when pink LED lights up I have to quickly press Volume Up multiple times until the screen shows the Android logo (which is the green robot). The situation my phone in isn't quite like the expected; since it's in bootloop state, I have to force restart it (by holding Power button + Volume up and wait for a vibration), quickly pressed volume up several times. However, the LED only lights up blue color (not flashing), the screen stays black and nothing seems to be happening until a force restart is initiated.
Right now I don't think flashing ROMs or restore phone to factory setting are the solutions for me because I only started using this Xperia Z recently and didn't make a backup (who knew it'd be so fast that I literally killed it).
By the way, is there a possible way to access files during the blue LED part?

MegaRodeon said:
I have rooted my Xperia Z. I tried to apply custom font through iFont (Segoe UI, basically what I did was copying the font from Windows 8.1, to phone's internal storage, Xperia Z\Internal Storage\ifont\custom), I opened the app, tapped on the font and then applied it. Since the next step is to reboot the phone, I did so. The phone is now in a bootloop state, it shows the SONY logo, then XPERIA, then the colorful wave. During the wave, it lasts no longer than 1 second, the wave animation always gets stuck halfway across the screen, then goes back to SONY logo, XPERIA logo, the wave and repeats the boot.
I have tried some of the methods such as booting the phone into Recovery Mode. I was told to power off the phone, start it, then when pink LED lights up I have to quickly press Volume Up multiple times until the screen shows the Android logo (which is the green robot). The situation my phone in isn't quite like the expected; since it's in bootloop state, I have to force restart it (by holding Power button + Volume up and wait for a vibration), quickly pressed volume up several times. However, the LED only lights up blue color (not flashing), the screen stays black and nothing seems to be happening until a force restart is initiated.
Right now I don't think flashing ROMs or restore phone to factory setting are the solutions for me because I only started using this Xperia Z recently and didn't make a backup (who knew it'd be so fast that I literally killed it).
By the way, is there a possible way to access files during the blue LED part?
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You have working custom recovery? (cwm)?
Xperia™ Z (C6602) with Tapatalk

MegaRodeon said:
I have rooted my Xperia Z. I tried to apply custom font through iFont (Segoe UI, basically what I did was copying the font from Windows 8.1, to phone's internal storage, Xperia Z\Internal Storage\ifont\custom), I opened the app, tapped on the font and then applied it. Since the next step is to reboot the phone, I did so. The phone is now in a bootloop state, it shows the SONY logo, then XPERIA, then the colorful wave. During the wave, it lasts no longer than 1 second, the wave animation always gets stuck halfway across the screen, then goes back to SONY logo, XPERIA logo, the wave and repeats the boot.
I have tried some of the methods such as booting the phone into Recovery Mode. I was told to power off the phone, start it, then when pink LED lights up I have to quickly press Volume Up multiple times until the screen shows the Android logo (which is the green robot). The situation my phone in isn't quite like the expected; since it's in bootloop state, I have to force restart it (by holding Power button + Volume up and wait for a vibration), quickly pressed volume up several times. However, the LED only lights up blue color (not flashing), the screen stays black and nothing seems to be happening until a force restart is initiated.
Right now I don't think flashing ROMs or restore phone to factory setting are the solutions for me because I only started using this Xperia Z recently and didn't make a backup (who knew it'd be so fast that I literally killed it).
By the way, is there a possible way to access files during the blue LED part?
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Just flash the firmware using flashtool.
Just untick the datawipe box. :highfive:

Sony Xperia Z1 restarts after starting up

Hello everyone,
I have a Sony Xperia Z1 C6903 LTE, the screen got broken and it was glitching
Without touching anything on the screen, it would click and select randomly. Sometimes even make calls that i didn't issue which made it problematic for me
My father took the phone and replaced the screen at a store that I dont know anything about, but it was still glitching
Not as much as when it was broken but it is glitching and it is unbearable
I didn't use the phone for a while and now I want to fix it to give it to my sister
Went to Sony customer service and they said it would cost about $220, nearly the same price of the phone when I bought it
But he did mention that a format might fix it, I asked if he meant a factory restore but he said they would flash it for $40
I decided to flash it on my own but now the the phone starts up, Sony and Xperia logo then the colors appear
After that it says "NFC Firmware Update Wait while updating, Do not turn off your phone" then it restarts and loops again and again
The only way to stop the loop is by holding power and Vol up
I read other threads but nothing worked for me, please help :crying:

The issue has been solved by using the Sony Companion, doing a software restore got it back working normally
but the screen is still glitching, should i change it with a cheap screen for $53, or the original Sony screen for $212?

SOLVED: SP Gravely Ill: Suffered heart attack (vibrates 3 times)

I am posting this update in aid of future Xperia owners:
Problem: I seemed to have experienced the infamous Xperia "Red Light of Death". Phone vibrated 3 times continuously when charged. Screen never came on. Led was only ever RED, and only came on sometimes, sometimes solid, sometimes blinking twice. Computers were not recognizing the Xperia. Neither volume UP or DOWN button presses were ever recognized by any software on either the Win 7 or Win XP installations. However, on a couple of occasions, both computers recognized there was a device on the USB when doing a reset (reset + power). This caused them to try to install drivers. But the drivers, if installed, did not successfully allow any of the software tools to recognize the phone. Nor was the phone recognized in Device Manager, when connected, even when the UP or other buttons were pressed at connection time.
I asked for assistance on 4 or 5 of the net's biggest android forums on this... none came. So I was quickly giving up hope on the Xperia, since it seemed like there was nothing else to do. It might have taken water for all I know, when it was not in my hands, and the mobo might be quiched.
Solution: The phone is charging right now, the screen and color LEDs work fine, the original system is fully intact, and I did not need to reflash a new ROM or anything. However, I'm not exactly sure how I resolved the problem. I'll go through *some* of the steps that preceded this breakthrough. The breakthrough may (or may not) be due Sony's "PC Companion". This is an older version of what Sony now calls "Xperia Companion" (which did nothing good for me, so I went with the older software). "PC Companion" was also useless to me, since it kept insisting on not working unless you allow a connection for it to update itself. But the update always failed, with no clue as to why, despite a/v & firewall disabled. I found a comment where one user said he was able to do a bit more with PCC, once internet was disabled. So I tried that, and yeah, I could at least convince PC Companion to see if it could recognize the phone once the internet was disabled. But just like Flashtools, adb, the Sony Xperia SP drivers and all the other tools, it didn't recognize the phone was plugged in. At least, not the first few times I tried it, using various button combinations. (Up, Down & Reset/Power). Finally, I got a blue light and the PC (Win XP install) started loading drivers for the device.
I'm just not sure what triggered the change. Was it a reset/power combo operation? Was it a slight shift in the motherboard or USB connector that did it? Was it due to (the THIRD install of) PC Companion, or it would have happened with other software eventually? Its hard to say. I think these things contributed to the solution: PC Companion, the reset/power combo press, and just a lot of perseverance, most importantly. (3 days working at it in my case!). If you get this same problem with your Xperia, good luck to you.
(Trust me. You'll need it).
Lent my Sony Xperia SP (C5306) to someone, and it came back in a state where it vibrates 3 times when powering on or charging (it stops vibrating after a while, then starts again). And it won't boot or show anything on the screen, and only a RED led light comes on occasionally. So now I'm stuck on trying to flash a stock ROM on a Win7 system, using Flashtool 0.9.18.6, after installing the Flashtool drivers for "Flashmode" and the SP model, and PC Companion (PC Companion didn't fully install, because it demands updating, and fails on the update -- despite no antivirus installed, and the Windows firewall set to "enable all'). So now my problem is Flashtool won't recognize the phone on the "Please connect your device into flashmode" step, when I press Volume Down before reconnecting the USB cable. I've even tried taking the battery out for a few minutes, no dice.
At a certain point, after hitting the reset button and other buttons, Windows finally recognized there was a phone connected, and automatically installed USB drivers. Yet despite this, Flashtool still wouldn't flash the ROM. I do get 1 error in red saying "ROOT: THIS BUNDLE IS NOT VALID". Presuming this refers to the ROM, I made sure it specified it was for my model (C5306) and its even from the original carrier (Bell). In any case, it still goes beyond that error and proceeds to prepare the files for flashing.
So I'm not entirely sure what's preventing Flashtool from recognizing the phone, since it could be many things. My best guess is the soft or hard brick condition its in: since you can't power down the phone properly, and removing the battery is apparently not the same thing, its not getting to the trigger point that activates Flashtool's flashing. I'm right now trying the "rubberband trick". The idea is to keep the Volume down button depressed with a rubber band, and eventually, the battery wears down and maybe Flashtool recognizes it when it bootloops. I don't get that though, since Flashtool requires you plug the phone in via USB. And if its plugged in via USB, the battery should not ever run down, since its being charged by the USB port.
The phone was rooted, and IIRC, I think my bootloader is locked, so let's assume that. Can anyone help me along on this?

A few days ago, my Sony Xperia SP also could not start up and would keep on vibrating when connected to mains powered charger or USB port of PC. I just wish to record here my experience, hoping it will help some Xperia SP owners facing similar problems.
I tried various suggestions found in various forums but without success, gave up and bought a new phone. The very next day I did a final try. I charged it for around an hour just before I sleep and disconnected it when it was still vibrating. Next morning (yesterday), I pressed the Reset button (marked "OFF" on the back of the set with back cover removed), each lasting about 8-10 seconds. I did not felt any vibration. Anyway, I proceeded to press the power button on the side. And the set turned on! The battery status was shown as 100%. I connected it to my PC just in case drained down battery would cause it to shutdown. I saw a message indicating update was available and proceeded with update which was completed successfully. I downloaded an app and transferred my contacts to my SIM card. (Doing a backup with Xperia Companion will take many hours and I am not sure my contacts could be moved to a non-Sony phone if the Xperia SP fails again later). It has been 24 hours after my SP had revived and it has behaved normally so far.
My thought on this incident is that the problem was not due to battery or some hardware inside the phone. The problem was very likely due to incomplete software updating.

My phone doesn't boot

Maybe it is not the right place to ask but my phone started shutting down by itself many times during the day and also it became very hot.
So I decided to recover it through the Sony companion app. I did it many times because it never became usable but it turned black and now it doesn't show anything on the display and it isn't recognized anymore by Sony companion because it doesn't boot in download mode.
It can also be that it is dead in the middle of a recover done through Sony companion.
Now, if I connect it to the charger (or to the pc), it shows the red led for a while and it turns off. It seems that the phone “turns on internally” and then it turns off the red led.
If someone knows what is the problem and can help me, thanks.

Hi, some months ago, something similar happened to me. In that ocasion, I had to visit a technical service in order to
recover my device. They got it, although with last official version of Android. After this, I upgraded it to my choice.
Somebody told me that in these sites normally use "Emma" a flashtool for Xperia Sony. You can download it and try it.
You have to connect the phone to the computer, with Emma running in the computer, and simultaneously push power on
and volume down, if you are lucky, you´ll see that Emma recognizes the device and in the right bottom corner the official
Android for your device. Then you only have to flash the ROM. Obviouslly all data will be lost.
Luck ...

Xperia XZ3 Not turning on / booting up fully

Hello,
So I have a problem with my phone, I bought it as bricked and I am trying to fix it so I can switch from my s8 to this phone.
Anyway so the phone charges, goes in flashmode and fastboot mode and it shows the charging screen. But when I try to turn it on It first shows the sony logo then the xperia logo and then this white screen with three dots loading shows for a split second and then i get a black screen, the phone still makes a sound when i connect it to a charger.
I flashed the firmware via flashmode and via pc companion app (software repair) but still the same result, anyone have any other ideas?
I will also post a link below to a video of what it does.
Any help would be appreciated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGECY1vM1mw