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[XPERIA X10 General] MrHassell:
USB port disabled - factory wipe

Thank you for this thread. I've seen many similar issues and was just hit with this

RED LED of death

- 3 blinks then nothing...

Messing with chargemon and charger in /system/bin/ - has certainly not been good, but I'm not convinced it was the entire problem, at least in my case I was running a version of Wolfbreak CM 6.5 v5 and let the battery get below 5% charge.

I should have turned it off, waited until I could charge again but I didn't! When I tried to recharge, the phone initially was giving green led's so it might have been possible to salvage easily.. I made a terrible mistake of going to xRecovery and waiting until the battery was so dead, there was really no way of recovering from this state and totally drained out the battery.

So I purchased a new BST-41 battery for AU $25. Maybe that was expensive for a clone, others are available for $4 on ebay but hey, have a look at this thread regarding Original VS. Fake BST-41 Battery - quite interesting!

This got my X10 working again... BUT I am unable to get into SEUS, Flashtool or make the charger work. The USB port appears to have been disabled and am unsure about the best way to reset to an operational state.

Will update this thread when I have found more :)

EDIT 1: It's all in the above post...

With the exception of maybe having to mess around with this a bit, it will eventually work. I didn't tape the button down because you need to release it but I've just seen green flashes.. I'm very close to getting this phone working again with SEUS and the back key..

EDIT 2: xRecovery > Factory Reset > Full wipe - you will be warned of loosing all user data - The moment you wipe the user data, the phone will recognise the charger and turn to a green LED. From this point let it reboot, it will go silly and you may even get a WLOD - White LED of death.

If you have got USB to connect, follow the standard method of using SEUS to restore a factory ROM and take it from there. TRY to remember not to let the battery go below 5% without a charger and invest in some spare battery's from eBay - cheap after all ;)

Connect via WiFi is only possible with LT15 (Arc) - SO-01c (Arc) - Neo (MT15) - Play (R800) - USB must be enabled for a connection to happen to the PC and this is where I'm still stuck..

EDIT 3: Turns out the problem is - USB Port needs to be re-soldered, it is broken contact and is intermittently connecting to the USB port.
[XPERIA X10 General] blade828:
This is what happened to my phone too. I ended up sending it away for repair because the USB port was broken. The phone would say it was charging but it actually wasnt. Im still waiting to get my phone back.
[XPERIA X10 General] shakeyabooti:
I thought it wasn't possible to brick an xperia x10, forgive me if I'm ring?
[XPERIA X10 General] CMoney87:
It wasn't bricked, it was faulty connection in the USB port not allowing their phone accept a charge. The red LED is from an uncharged battery.
[XPERIA X10 General] eghoti1:
Thanks OP, this worked perfectly. I'm glad I risked it with an amazing deal on craigslist. Kudos.
[XPERIA X10 General] OmegaRED^:
Only if you have access to the bootloader.
[XPERIA X10 General] vu2ikl:
Ok.. i think i bricked my x10.

My x10 always gave me problem at startup. I had to remove battery wait 5sec. Then again try booting. After few attempts it would boot. So i decided to reinstall 2.1. Downloaded seus. Installation till 90%. And unknown error window.

Service Center won't take it as its from different country.

When i try to boot it. It blinks green led and that's it.

Any suggestions?
[XPERIA X10 General] arkedk:
Can you get in flashmode?

If so then try and flash with FlashTool
[XPERIA X10 General] vu2ikl:
@arkedk thanks for the quick reply.

I m total noob. Can u please point me to the "how to" flash x10?

EDIT: i found this thread which discuss the flash at length.. will try and get back.
[XPERIA X10 General] vu2ikl:
red led flashing three times

yes. i could successfully flash the phone with 2.1.B.0.1 version just now. without error. but now i when i try to start the phone, it doesn't. instead, i get the red led flashing three times.

i put it for charging. the green led lights up showing it has started charging. but after roughly 15-20 seconds the green led fades off.

1. flashing was successful which means usb is not broken right?

2. have i bricked my phone? :p

3. How can i get my lovely x10 back to life?
[XPERIA X10 General] acmbc:
Have you flashed with SEUS or flashtool?

Try reflashing the rom as a first step.

If flashing with flashtool, does the sw detect your phone? Could you post the output to the screen as flashtool tries to flash? That would help!
[XPERIA X10 General] vu2ikl:
I used the flashtool, as SEUS was the only culprit who made my x10 to hibernate (i am still trying to wake it up :p )

sorry, i donno how to attach photo.. here is the link where i have uploaded that.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/63449931@N02/5771350239/
[XPERIA X10 General] arkedk:
Looks like you had a successful flash. How much battery did you have when you flashed?
[XPERIA X10 General] acmbc:
If the battery had drained dry flashtool wouldn't have finished flashing, would it though?

Can you have you tried to reflash?
[XPERIA X10 General] vu2ikl:
battery was very very low. but the phone is connected to laptop while flashing..wouldn't that be enough?

@acmbc: should i reflash?

when i kept x10 for charging, the green charging led lights up for 10-15 seconds and then goes off.. still kept it charging for couple of hours. and then tried rebooting. this time green :) led flashed. phone vibrated but nothing.

ok..i gotta confess. i tried the crazy solution mentioned on talk.sonyericsson which asked to keep battery in freezer for an hour and then try charging it. i did that. and when i put x10 for charging. for 20 seconds the green light was on.. but then it went berserk.. vibrating continuously. at once i took out the battery. and now i am scared as it is repeating this cycle when i charge it. green light->off->vibrate continuously.
[XPERIA X10 General] arkedk:
There's your problem. You must never flash with low battery. always flash with at least 50% or more. And no you're not getting power from the computer in flashmode only the battery is supplying that power.

If the flash was successful you could try and hook the phone up to the charger (wall charger) and let it sit there for a while. This might get it back to life.
[XPERIA X10 General] vu2ikl:
how do i charge my half bricked phone

ok.. thanks. i thought phone would get the power from computer.

but now i have one more question in front of me.

How do i charge my phone.

coz. when i connect x10 to wall charger it shows green light for some time and then starts vibrating untill i get the battery out.

if i connect x10 to the computer which i am doing now, it is flashing red light every 5 seconds. :(
[XPERIA X10 General] arkedk:
Looks like you had an unsuccessful flash then. If you got any other means of getting the battery charged then try that and see if you can flash it again.

If not, I'm afraid you'll have to take it to the service center.
[XPERIA X10 General] OmegaRED^:
I read the post from the op..

If the battery gets severely drained it may look like the phone is dead.

Just plug it in and sometime up to a hour later it will power up.
[XPERIA X10 General] vu2ikl:
I re flashed the x10 with 2.1.A generic instead of 2.1.B kept it to wall charging overnight.

Now the red led is no more.

When i switch it on.. it blips green led, vibrates a bit. But nothing after that..
[XPERIA X10 General] arkedk:
Looks like you found out what happens when flashing incorrectly with low battery. Only option I see is taking it to a service center and get them to fix it. Hope you still got warranty
[XPERIA X10 General] vu2ikl:
my phone is bricked

my friend also have x10. i put his fully charged x10 battery in my phone and re-flashed it. once with 2.1.0.A and once with 2.1.0.B. nope.. x10 just flashes green led, vibrates.then absolutely nothing.

those @#$@! sonyericsson service center guys refused to take my phone as my phone is from outside india, it is UK model i guess.

so only i can help myself it seems. but i am clueless.. have tried everything. :(

anyways.. thanks all you guys.. for your suggestion.

i will keep on trying something. i love my x10. i will not let it "just" die like that.
[XPERIA X10 General] OmegaRED^:
Did you try re-flashing to stock 2.1 after getting the green LED?
[XPERIA X10 General] vu2ikl:
yes i did. i used the SEUS to install 2.1. but at around 95% it gave message that installation failed.
[XPERIA X10 General] OmegaRED^:
Try using the flash tool instead.
[XPERIA X10 General] vu2ikl:
i tried the SE X10 Flasher by Bin4ry & Androxyde version 0.2.9.1, OS version 6.1.

is there any way to format my phone :p

thats how i install OS on my pc in case of major problem.
[XPERIA X10 General] vu2ikl:
and this is how i unbricked my x10

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!

yes.. i did not give up on my x10.. and it paid off..

thanks to all you guys... you rock! thanks for giving me suggestions! specially @arkedk and @OmegaRed

thanks for keeping my hopes alive :)

Here is i did it..

1. i installed the SE X10 flasher. (look #506 rendeiro2005 reply http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=928343&page=51

2. download the 2.1.B version mentioned in same thread. look for #2 of rendeiro2005.

3. REMOVE THE SD CARD (this did the trick for me)

4. flash the rom.

:cool:
[XPERIA X10 General] arkedk:
Congratulations. Happy to see you got life in your X10 again.

Always good to be persistent and try everything, especially when the customer center wouldn't do anything.
[XPERIA X10 General] OmegaRED^:
im happy its sorted.
[XPERIA X10 General] vu2ikl:
this is funny. now that i am able to bring my x10 back from dead. the old problem is back.

the problem is, if the sim card is inserted in phone. it goes in boot loop. and after 8-9 tries it starts properly (provided the wifi is off)

i am bit new to this forum.. should i start a new thread for this?
[XPERIA X10 General] vu2ikl:
Bump
[XPERIA X10 General] varshil:
Flash it once again with d flashtool or try repairing d phone with seus... Or else go to se customer care n gt ur phone serviced.. They would charge u Rs. 300 fr it...
[XPERIA X10 General] vu2ikl:
Repairing as in reinstalling..right?

And i wish those cust care ppl take my phone..but those ppl do not entertain if phone is not from outside india.
[XPERIA X10 General] varshil:
If u evr cum to Mumbai, than let me know ... hv sum contacts in se CC. . So MT b able to help u out... n ya I guess gv sum money to se CC people n tell them to repair ur phone... all what they want is money....
[XPERIA X10 General] vu2ikl:
Thanks buddy..i appreciate your help. Will see whether i switch to arc first or i come to mumbai first :p

What i want to try first is..will the restart problem which arised after 2.1 update will be solved if i update to 2.3.

Have anyone tried 2.3 gb version?

It should 1.connect to wifi

2. Camera should function. Thats it...

Any suggestion...
[XPERIA X10 General] varshil:
2.3 officially is not yet out.... But unofficial 2.3 is available on xda made by j n z... But camera is nt fully working.... I guess u should try updating ur phone with either seus or by flashing it with flash tool fr d last time.... Or try some of d unofficial roms.. They are amazing ones
[XPERIA X10 General] vu2ikl:
Thats what i want to know.

I m quite new to this thing bt i know flashing. And i want some "working" rom. Me not into gaming. But wifi and cam should work..

Can u suggest me a rom to start with. Which is your fav.?
[XPERIA X10 General] varshil:
u can try any 2.2 rom... all hv camera n wifi working n all r pretty smooth......
[XPERIA X10 General] lams09:
so i tried this method but i just go a few questions. when you said "reboot" after letting it update do i reboot it manually by holding the power button ? or taking out the battery. also is it supposed to blink green then get detected by my computer ? it does that and then blinks red again.
[XPERIA X10 General] vu2ikl:
It will reboot when itis done. U need notdo manually. Is your phone battery chrged?
[XPERIA X10 General] lams09:
yeah. it's charged. ill post an update in a couple hours to see how it goes. i gotta start over again cause i was messing with it =p
[XPERIA X10 General] blueowl0708:
I've had this flashing red light before... fixed it by taking the battery out and then plugging the charger cable in.. waiting until the light turned green.

Then took out the charger, plugged the battery back in.. boom, all working.
[XPERIA X10 General] lams09:
neither of the methods worked for me.
[XPERIA X10 General] vu2ikl:
Tell us..what happen when u tried to flash x10
[XPERIA X10 General] lams09:
when i flashed it. it's successful. it just tells me to go unplug, turn on and debug. but it wont turn on. all it does is vibrate once and stays off
[XPERIA X10 General] vu2ikl:
Exactly same thing hapened with me.

1. Keep your phone for wall charging for say 4-5 hours evenif the green light does not light up. Remember to take battery out for few seconds before u plug it in.

2. Download and install seus. Remove battery for few seconds. Put battery in. Follow instruction on seus. But when it says you may leave back key. Don't. Keep on pressing back key till complete process is done.

3. Switch x10 on. Wait for a complete minute and hope screen would light up.

4. If nothing. Try flash tool. Same thing which i mentioned for seus i.e. Keep back key pressed for complete process.

5. If this doesnt switch it on..go to step 1.

I recommend to use 2.1.b.0.1 firmware.

And also remove the sd card for these things.
[XPERIA X10 General] lams09:
it still didnt work.
[XPERIA X10 General] koala456:
When i used the method provided in the first post, the green led came up but then it stuck. i kept holding the back button and still won't flash, does anyone know whats the problem ?
[XPERIA X10 General] muksforu:
U need jtag to repair it. visit www.riffbox.com find nearest jtag user to repair ur handset.
[XPERIA X10 General] sanjaystar13:
Thanks dawn2k

dawn2k - Thanks a ton.

Had thought I had almost lost my X10i but its now up and running, all thanks to the steps mentioned. :D

One point that I would like bring out is - if we uninstall the device driver (mass storage driver) then it automatically turns the green led when we connect in flash mode (holding the back key). :)

Anyways, thanks once again. :D

Cheers,

Sanjay
[XPERIA X10 General] moritd:
same thing happend me to and i`ve fixed it but after that My signal strength is so bad i`ve no signal in my room and even out side of home ......just some places!

what should i do?
[XPERIA X10 General] 7hr08ik:
Semi-bricked
[XPERIA X10 General] smoke_weed:
When I did this I returned to 2.1 .. It was running perfect until I rooted my phone, then it kept doing the 3 blinking light and it won't charge ... Any help? I want my phone rooted again and running CM7 :\
[XPERIA X10 General] OmegaRED^:
*Snip*

FACEPALM....

tHE rED rOLLING LED... 3 flashes... RED

It means the phone battery is very... very empty.

1. Boot upcomputer

2. Connect the phone to your Computer.

3. Wait(!)

4. The LED will turn green, phone will begin normal charging cycle.
[XPERIA X10 General] pccobra:
Fantastico

:DThankyou thankyou thankyou....it worked!!!:D
[XPERIA X10 General] Devin-J:
duh! ofc this is how you un-brick a phone. the SEUS already tells what you typed here.
[XPERIA X10 General] OmegaRED^:
PEOPLE FORGET THAT RR-LED mostly means charge your phone!.
[XPERIA X10 General] adilator:
Red DOESN'T always mean charge your phone.

I have two X10's one of them is bricked and even when I put a fully charged battery in it, it flashes the red led once and then nothing...

Flashing it is not working either, SEUS detects it and then tells me it already ahs the latest firmware, Flashtool gives an error and won't do anything.
[XPERIA X10 General] tyrand3:
hmm its not work my arc suffered same problem and i just holding the back key and its recognized seus.

and then reboot boom red flashing again.

Am i doing it wrong ?

my english is not good :(
[XPERIA X10 General] Sib85:
well, i've just got my x10 thru other forumer. initially d phone is alr somehow 'bricked' with d usual red led blinking 3 times WITH its original battery

and

what i did is buy a new battery n the symptom changed, when i pressed d power button, the phone only vibrates and just that, no boot screen or whatsoever. clearly a different symptom with the other battery. :confused:

currently i'm trying to charge both the battery and tried to reboot the phone with all the methods tried in this thread. hopefully i can solve the problem by myself before sending it to the shop.

no more warranty anymore by the way... :(

update : currently i'm charging the phone with the original battery and the red led keeps blinking every second but the other battery doesn't have any led blinking or whatsoever and seems not charging at all. the weird thing is the new battery that i bought is alr been tested and works damn fine with other xperia x10 model

update 2 : i've already leave the phone to charge with the new battery and currently both battery when inserted gave the same red led blinks, won't even boot up. at this point, my only assumption would be the usb charging port is somehow broken and no other choice but to send it for repairs... :(

i appreciate it if someone have other alternatives for me to try but fyi my comp won't even detect the phone even in SEUS (latest version)
[XPERIA X10 General] snowcolt17:
what the hell. i have this﻿ problem. and for the life of me cant fix it.. ive held the back button for like 5 minutes.. when plugged into usb it flashes the red led.. and when i try powering it on it flashes 3 times. dunno..

i tried the tape method and after about 10 minutes the red light stops flashing...

if i knew how to take the expoxy off the micro usb port i would redo the solder on it.. but i dont think its hardware related
[XPERIA X10 General] dubleoseven:
I have the same problem, neither of the fixes written in this theme helps me. But my x10 is rooted, so I can't send it to T-mobile since the guarantee is void.

Did you manage to solve the problem? I'm crazy at the moment..
[Omnia 7 General] 17-apg:
I use the alarm feature in WP7 and have set it to repeat. The first time that the alarm plays it is ok. From th esecond time onwards the palyback is interupted quite often. I have found this on a HTC HD7 and two different Omnias that I have used. So it seems to be an OS fault and not device specific. ANyone else come accross this issue?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] duckbill22:
I have just moved back from Darky's 2.3.3 v10 RC3 to Darky 9.5 and have the impression that the screen is less crisp and lower resolution.

Is this possible? Perhaps I am just mistaken.

Darky 9.5
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Darky is the one to tell you .

jje
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] myrddral:
What i ahve noticed is that there's some sort of contrast tweak in 9.5 (probably the voodoo kernel's part) which renders my screen ugly and can see the stripes on a picture like a rainbow. However can be better looking in films... or they say so.

Stock firmwares and 2.3.3 doesn't have this since there's no implementation of the voodoo core yet.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Quagmire123:
I dont think it provides better graphics...
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Migue Lluesma:
Hey, I need help on something.

I have my x10 and I tried several 2.2 roms, such as MIUI and others. But I am finding a bug with my bluethooth headset in all of them. When playing music, there is at some points a pause of about 1 second, at different times. If somebody calls me when using the headset, after the phone call, the head set seems to not be connected at all so I have to connect it again.

Some 2.2 roms even freeze and restart after the phone call.

I am using the MW 600 from Sony Eriksson.

Can anyone help on this?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carlpereira1987:
If you're using wolfbreak's 2.2 rom, try installing the bluetooth fix that he has posted on the first page of his thread.(http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=945264&highlight=music+skips+bluetooth)

if that fails, check post 6728 here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=945264&highlight=music+skips+bluetooth&page=673

and post 6741 here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=945264&highlight=music+skips+bluetooth&page=675

If this doesn't solve your problem, please search the thread of the ROM that you are currently using. I'm sure other people have had similar problems and possible solutions would be posted there.

In the future if possible, always do a search before posting
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Migue Lluesma:
Thanks, I tried but it did not fix the problem. I am finding this situation with every 2.2 rom, and I have seen others with the same problem. If somebody calls me with the headset, after the phone call I cant keep using it for music, so I have to switch it off and on again.
[HD Mini Themes and Apps] sadslayer:
http://img829.imageshack.us/i/screenshot1ib.jpg

anyone can help me fix this strange error with IDS_ ?????
[HD Mini Themes and Apps] sadslayer:
i got that error after installed this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=7486753#post7486753 for romanian language

no one can help me with this ?

please
[HD Mini Themes and Apps] testerics:
Normaly, IDS problem appear when there is an incompatibility between original manilla and language pack of the software that is trying to modify.

Recomandation: install SpriteBackup, make a backup for your contacts and other media files that you want to save, transfer the backup file on the SD or PC and after this try a hard-reset.
[HD Mini Themes and Apps] sadslayer:
If i do a hard reset will go back to english but i still want to use romanian language btw i use now nsourm rom 1.70 no cht wwe
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fallenguru:
I've had the NS (i9023 on stock 2.3.3) for a few days now and I must say I'm generally rather impressed ... if only the GPS and other location sources didn't suck so much.

GPS (outside, on my top floor balcony):

With mobile data and wifi on it more often than not won't get a lock for tens of minutes, if at all. Even if it has a lock it'll lose it every few seconds. With both off it's actually somewhat usable - takes a while, the accuracy isn't too good (10 m does seem to be the best it can do), and the lock's rather erratic, but still, better than nothing. Makes the thing bloody useless for navigation, though.

For comparison: A Galaxy S (i9000 on stock 2.2.1) locks within 3-10 seconds, gets about a third more satellites and gives me 10-5 m accuracy. Almost no fluctuation in either accuracy or number of sats. A Desire S locks as fast if not faster and shows 8-3 m accuracy even, even though it generally shows the fewest sats.

Wifi- and/or cell-based location (indoors)

Even my trusty old i5700 (Galaxy Spica) puts me within 100-20 m of my true location even when GPS is disabled, using just cell towers, or that and wifi. Even more importantly, it gauges the accuracy correctly, that is, I'm always within the blue circle.

The Nexus S (and, to be fair, the Desire S) on the other hand puts me in a 1000-400 m circle - and I'm not even near that, it's a couple of kilometers off. What's with that?

Compass

Well, it's not strictly about location and the horse has been beaten to death but it still needs to be said: It doesn't work. At all. Instead it spins wildly, even when the phone's perfectly stationary.

On to the questions:

Is this a sw bug, a hw bug or just a defective unit?

If it is a sw bug, is there anything known about the eta of an incoming hot fix?

Are there any known workarounds?

I really hope there's a solution to this because I really like the thing generally. :(
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cgi:
+1

roughly the same here.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alceal:
Same problem. We need help.

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