yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Cross-Device General] nageswarswain:
The battery may be empty.if you can remove then remove the battery. Charge it with a battery charger.battery chargers are very cheap in market.then power on by inserting the battery in phone.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Thanos_D:
HELPPPPP

Hello guys,

I must bricked my Xperia P about 9 months ago. Today I decided to get down to work and make it work. I plugged it in the socket, the red led turn on, but after about 10' it went off. The PC doesn't recognise it. In addition, I cannot get in flashmode or fastboot mode!!! The green led doesn't turn on!!! I was very close to throw it to the wall:mad: So, what can I do? The phone doesn't turn on, the led remains red, it doesn't vibrate and the screen doesn't show anything! What can I do? Please HELP

Thanks
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
Rubberband trick + flashtool.
[Sony Cross-Device General] jingaro:
Xperia c4 E5303 brick or hard brick?

Greetings.. First of all i apologies about my bad english.I had xperia C4 e5303 which i bought it online stated that the phone cant on at all.No respond when the power button is pressed not even led light or vibrate.Tried hard reset,soft reset & pin a reset hole.still no respond. ONly red light few minutes blink then the red light stays on when the phone is plugged to the wall socket.Tried flashing using the latest flashtool & only had boot bundle issue.stated that boot bundle missing error.After flashing tried to boot the phone no respond from phone.Cant boot at all. i didnt know whats the problem with the phone.Right now the phone is in my drawer nearly 3 months.My intention is when the phone is back alive i wanna give it to my daughter.Right now the phone has been charging for 2 days & the led red light still stays.Can anyone guide me with this issue.Thks a millions in advance & have a nice day.
[Sony Cross-Device General] _sadpanda:
Cross post... ADB stopped working after flash

I was told I might have better luck posting here.

original post here for full details

short version: Tablet Z with stock rom and rood. ADB was working fine. Flashed dual recovery, then went to flash a new rom, hit reboot instead of shutting down device. Got stuck in boot loop. Flashed an original rom from flash tool and tablet works but ADB is not working any more. Cant get root cant flash recovery.

THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!!
[Sony Cross-Device General] |>/\nte:
Xperia t stuck in "repairing sign" screen

So.....after flashing a kernel so I can flash the brand new c.m.13 alpha build that has come out for the xperia t, I couldn't get into a recovery (the guy that works on the rom told me it's a bug though, so it's not the phone - I didn't know that yesterday though, when the incident with my phone happened). What I was running on was a.i.c.p. 10 before flashing that kernel. I tried flashing the stock i.c.s. (specifically the 7.0.a.3.195 build), and it did boot up normally. I couldn't have access to my photos though. The app kept saying something along the lines of "internal memory was disconnected, please connect it before proceeding". I flashed the .ftf another 2 times trying to fix that problem but I failed. Today, before I read the answer from the buy that built the c.m. 13 build (check at the start of this post please) I made an .ftf from stock 4.1.2 (9.1.a.1.145 build) and flashed that. Right now the phone does boot up but it always gets stuck in that screen with the "service sign" (here's an image of another xperia t with the same problem: http://sonymobile.lithium.com/legacyfs/online/43753_20130404_160458.jpg). Note that the phone goes into that screen even when it's plugged into a pc or in the wall. I'm unsure of if I have to relock the bootloader and use the update service to try and repair it or do the rubber band trick, or even something else. Any suggestions?
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
I have never heard of "breaking" ADB. But strange things happen all the time.

I really think it is a driver issue.

Sometimes different android versions (like Kit Kat and lollipop) use different drivers.

If you flashed a different version than you had before when ADB worked, try flashing the same version.

Otherwise,

I would start at the beginning.

Install all the flashtool drivers. I know there are a lot but I just install all anyway. You may need to run the driver program "as administrator" and depending on your Windows settings, I may take a lot of mouse clicking. :p

Driver program is in the flashtool install folder.

Turn off MTP in /settings/Xperia connectivity/USB connectivity

First connect the phone without flashtool running so windows can "see" the phone and install drivers.

You should get a pop about new device.

If all goes well you can check flashtool for connection.

There is a work around to get root, but I really think this will work.

Keep us updated and good luck.

~JAB
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
We need more information about what connections you have.

Does flashmode, green led, work?

Does fastboot mode, blue led, work?

I would get a good working custom kernel boot.img and fastboot install it.

You can even "erase" the current boot.img from terminal before installing the new one.A thread about using ADB.

As for your pictures.

Was it the internal SD card or a removable card?

I do know that flashing some ROMs can reformat the internal card and wipe contents.

~JAB
[Sony Cross-Device General] |>/\nte:
Both fastboot and flashmode work (I reflashed the stock 4.1.2 using a slightly older version of the flashtool - 0.9.18 around an hour and a half ago). And yes, I'm talking about the internal sdcard. Also, when I power up the phone (when it's completely shut down [power + volume up way - can't be shut down in a different way except from hard reset]) it seems to go out of flashmode for some reason (a green led turns on and then disappears as the phone was freshly flashed), then it boots up with the normal sony logo. After that, it shows up the "repair screen" and it gets stuck in there. Right now it's plugged into a wall so the battery won't die (so I can flash it), and it's basically stuck in the same screen for over 30 minutes (must be around an hour at this point)

.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
Flashing just the stock ftf may not fix the issue.

You need to flash a good custom kernel boot.img with a recovery using fastboot.

Custom kernels can access areas stock kernel flash won't fix.
[Sony Cross-Device General] |>/\nte:
Just flashed doomkernel v. 8. Booted into twrp, formatted both sdcard (internal) and made a factory reset. It booted straight into the system. The internal storage works as well. Took a test photo. I'm using the phone right now.
[Sony Cross-Device General] alz_uk:
Hi all, if anyone is having trouble flashing with flash tool because usb debugging isn't enabled error then do this procedure.......

1. Dowload latest flash tool 0.9.18.8 and also version 0.6.6

2. Try use the latest version first to Flash the tft rom. NOTE: remember the file it has error flashing e.g on my experia sp file system.sin was not able to Flash bcoz usb debugging error (enable usb debugging and unknown sources) ALL THE REST of the files flashed ok!

3.try flash again the rom but this time tick system.sin (or error file) in flashtool to exclude it from flashing. Make sure all other files are included. Also tick all wipe caches options and flash rom without system.sin (or error file).

4. Flash procedure will work. Now disconnect phone and leave it off without restarting it.

5. Uninstall flashtool latest version 0.9.18.8 and install flashtool 0.6.6 old version and open it to Flash the same rom BUT THIS TIME only select the system.sin file (or error file) to be flashed and rest excluded. Make sure all wipe options in flashtool are enabled and Flash! THE FLASH WILL WORK WITHOUT USB DEBUGGING ERROR and your phone will be fixed!

Press thanks if it helped!
[Sony Cross-Device General] _sadpanda:
I'm a jacka$$... I totally forgot about that menu/setting. fixed instantly.

Thanks!
[Sony Cross-Device General] gundam_warlock:
need help please

yesterday i was trying to update my xs from lp rom to mm. but because for months i keep myself out from android modding, especially with UBL stuff, i made mistake and now my xs stuck in sony logo

case:

the first step to update to mm was flash recovery.img. i used flashtool, enter to fastboot mode,than flash it. but when reboot, it stuck in sony logo.

i tried almost everything i know to bring my xs back, flash fw via flashtool, pcc, and emma.

- flash fw via flashtool failed, error

- pcc had error "sony update engine failure (error 2003)"

- emma, doesn't even recognize my xs, so can't continue to next step

now:

looks like my battrey died, because right now it can't enter flashmode or fastboot mode (but before it can). tried to connect into charger, only red led on.

connect to pc, has the ssame result however after a minute or so, it shown sony logo again, even i didnt turn it on.

that's my xs condition right now, hope there's a way to fix it :angel:
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
Hard shutdown it (power + vol+ until it vibrates 3 times)

And next time remember you only flash recovery online from terminal or adb.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
Did you try to enter the recovery?

Where did you get the recovery you flashed? Link the thread please.

You should try to flash a good working kernel, boot.img, using flashtool with fastboot. You can try to use the rubber band trick from my OP.

A new kernel should get you charging, but will not boot when you turn it on.

To get it to charge with new kernel, do a hard-reset (hold for 3 vibrations). This will turn the phone completely off.

Then plug in a charger only. A pc may trigger the phone to boot, but a charger should give you offline charging with just the battery icon.

I would let it fully charge before you attempt to recover the system.

Flashtool and a good ftf file will get you back to stock.
[Sony Cross-Device General] gundam_warlock:
i tried to flash this rom

http://xdaforums.com/xperia-s/s-development/rom-oneofakind-m-18-01-2016-odexed-t3295969

anyway, the last step i tried is with emma, after all failed process with flashtool and pcc. and maybe because of that, battery is dead. even when i connect it into charger, it shown nothing on phone and red led on. i cant do hard reset with this condition, the phone wont do it.

but if i connect it to pc, led still red, but after a minute, it shown sony logo for a while with led blink, then go blank again with red led on.

dont know what to do next, i left my phone in that condition.

and this morning, i tried connect it again to charger, then miracle happen. if yesterday nothing happen when i connect it, today it shown sony logo, and keep shown it, and i can do hard reset.

then when i tried to connect it to pc, hold vol down to enter flashmode, it suddenly enter recovery!!!

so i just restore my last rom and everything normal again :victory:
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
That is why I asked if you tried the recovery.

Different recoveries can use different buttons to enter recovery. You may have been able to access it the whole time ;)

Normally a solid red led when plugged in means low-level charging. Not enough charge to boot or even go into offline charge. When charged enough it will boot the kernel (sony logo) but if system is bad it will start to loop until dead. Then red led again until boot and loop.

Glad you fixed it!

~JAB
[Sony Cross-Device General] abdulamd:
My m2 dual hard brick when i unlock bootloader.

No led comes and no bootup just only black screen.

And i cant connect in flashtool to flash tft.plz.help me guys
[Sony Cross-Device General] spitfire887:
Abdulamb i recently escape from a softbrick, my advice is be patient !!! You must be sure that your device is off, if u cant remove thr battery then let it unplugged for a long time in order to drain out the charge...once device is off, read de original post 3 or 4 times and begin with troubleshooting... I say it again... Be patient i spent 2 weeks solved my problem

Enviado desde mi Xperia ZL mediante Tapatalk
[Sony Cross-Device General] Zarreck:
Hey guys, I've been trying to restore my Z3(D6616) and I've had some luck but not entirely sure where to go from here.

I tried flashing ZyxxOS, it succeeded, and then asked me if I wanted to flash SuperSU as the rom didn't appear rooted, I agreed and the phone immediately went black and nonresponsive. Flashmode and fastboot weren't working(I am bootloader unlocked). I left the phone on a charger for 24 hours with power and vol up held down by elastics and the device started rapidly connecting and disconnecting after ~10 hours from my PC. Within an hour of that, I had a solid red LED. I changed the elastics to vol down, and left it for an hour and got it connecting and disconnecting from flashtool with USB debugging off, under drivers it lists HID\VID_0FCE&PID_D1AC\Some numbers Driver installed and USB\VID_0FCE&PID_D1AC\More numbers. I don't have them handy right now, but I also checked and ran the driver install for Z3 off flashtool.

Flashmode and fastboot still didn't work, nor did soft reset. I tried a hard reset(yellow button by sim tray)and got nothing. Left it on the charger overnight and the LED started flashing and soft reset worked. An hour after soft reset, LED vanished and the device was still disconnecting and reconnecting constantly. I moved it to a wall charger for a couple hours, and it's back to non responsive.

When I try to flash a firmware through flashmode, it doesn't recognize it as an ADB device and just says connect in flashmode forever(left overnight with rubber bands), PC companion doesn't recognize it either, but it seems to be cycling through power stages and gives me different responses at different times.

I've been leaving it on the wall charger and it doesn't seem to ever get past flashing red LED, though the frequency changes slightly. I'm leaving it now, but it's still flashing after two days, any info on what the different light flash frequencies mean or any info on getting it past the USB/VID recognization would be great!
[Sony Cross-Device General] abdulamd:
Ohh thank god.my problem solved.

I perform volume up and power button press for 15-20 sec.phone get 3time vibrate and yupee my phone is.start.

Srry guys my fone is not bricked
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
The lack of fastboot and flashmode sounds like a driver issue.

Install drivers in flashtool driver pack.

Reboot pc.

Or try a different pc.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Zarreck:
I've actually been flashing this phone for the last several days using this machine, had attempted reinstalling the drivers again just a couple days ago. It's not that the machine doesn't recognize flash mode, the phone won't enter it and never goes past blinking red LED even when charged for 2+ days. I do not get a blue or green LED when plugging it and holding either volume button since flashing ZyxxOS. I've tested the device out on both my work and home machines but I'll give it another shot later today on my laptop.

I think I just need to be patient and maybe let it charge for a week on the wall, it seems to be accepting tiny amounts of charge as volume up + power gets me a vibration after it's charged for a day, but it dies again if I do that roughly twice and stops working for the next 8 hours.

Edit: Just tested it on my tablet, freshly installed flashtool, fastboot and adb, all drivers. I ran the all in one ADB+Fastboot+Device drivers install from xda, then rebooted, installed the device drivers from flashtool and rebooted again. Same results, but the device was dead and back to solid red LED within a minute or so of plugging into the PC as I think the constant disconnections from PC is the kernel attempting to boot and crashing. It's been on a wall charger for over a day. Going to leave it for like a week "until the flashing LED goes away".
[Sony Cross-Device General] v1c70r:
Hi folks!!

I have a Xperia Z with unlocked bootloader. I can flash via FlashTool but I can't charge it. When I plug in into the wall charger it shows a red led, appears SONY logo and restart. I can't charge it via offline and I can't flash any kernel ("Command not allowed") via fastboot. I would apreciate it any help. And sorry for my english ;)
[Sony Cross-Device General] hv6478:
I was working on 2 Xperia Z3 Compacts (D5803), mine and a friend's. I restored a TWRP backup from his onto mine, and mine onto his. Perhaps I should not have chosen to recover all parts, just kernel and system? I'm not sure, but now both phones turned off after trying to reboot system and now I only get a red blinking LED on both while plugged into the wall. I'm hoping it actually gets to the point of a solid red light and then no red light because right now flash tool does not recognize the phone, it continues to blink red when plugged into the PC.

One phone was at about 35% the other at 25%. Will it always get to a point where you have to leave it plugged in, even if there was some charge before? Am I better off leaving the phones unplugged to let them drain?

Is this the point at which I should be trying the rubber band trick??

Your help is greatly appreciated!!

Thank you all,

hv

UPDATE:

Overnight for about 5 hours both phones were still blinking. I left one of the phones at home with Flashtool and the rubber band trick set up. The other one I brought with me to work and will leave it plugged in to a Qualcomm QuickCharge 2.0 charger all day (8+ hours). Here's hoping the phone at home is flashed when I walk in!

Note: plugged into the wall, the rwd LED blinks at a quicker rate, every 2 seconds. When plugged into the PC, it is at a slower rate, 4-5 seconds or so. Hopefully I'm making some progress here lol.

Update 2:

The one phone that was charging all day - light turned off! Sadly, I couldn't do anything:(

The PC recognizes the phone and keeps connecting/reconnecting (can hear the little sounds in Windows). I can get 3 vibrations if I hold PWR + vol up ONLY WHEN PLUGGED INTO THE PC! But sadly, nothing happens at all. I am at a loss. Both phones behave exactly the same.

Going to keep them both plugged into the wall overnight.
[Sony Cross-Device General] kapibada:
OK, so I decided to get around to resurrecting my soft bricked LBL Xperia SP (C5303). I got loader.sin error in flashtool... Is it because I haven't charged enough? I have a bootloop and can get into flash mode, but not fastboot.

EDIT: Now I got around it by flashing a different ftf from XperiFirm, but this time I can't flash system. Mgrgrgr...
[Sony Cross-Device General] hv6478:
Try using an old version like 4.4.4 and make sure it's a clean FTF and fresh download.
[Sony Cross-Device General] kapibada:
Saw people recommend this, but (Mgrgr) I cannot find any download links!
[Sony Cross-Device General] hv6478:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2311964
[Sony Cross-Device General] kapibada:
Um... I meant the flashtool, not FTFs.

EDIT: OK, I got it..

EDIT 2: Now I can't leave flash mode! I plug my XSP into the wall, it shows green light for a few seconds and starts booting with sony logo, but battery dies before it can hand over control to the kernel. And all over. I tried all methods of resetting, even the hidden "OFF" button under rear cover and can't get it to boot normally. What can I do?!
[Sony Cross-Device General] hv6478:
If you're getting that far, I'd be trying the rubber band trick.

---------- Post added at 02:26 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:25 AM ----------

So the one phone (same one as before) has STOPPED displaying any LEDs when plugged into the wall. I've left it plugged in since I noticed that for about 24 hours now. Any suggestions??

I caved and bought a Z5C. Trying to fix these though for my friend and my old one for my sis or for resale. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you!
[Sony Cross-Device General] xxkoncyxx:
Hey there guys.

I have an Xperia S what i bricked with repartition. I dont even know how, i followed the tutorial, but after reboot it didnt start anymore.

I can charge it, red led ok, but after red led it goes away, and only SEMC Flash Device appears.

Anyone knows a solution or maybe anything about it?

Repair guy said it doesnt communicate with box (he didnt even charge it, so... -.-"
[Sony Cross-Device General] nageswarswain:
Sorry to say..but if you formatted all partitions during repartitioning then its not possible to repair anymore.the only way is to replace the motherboard.
[Sony Cross-Device General] kapibada:
What good would it do? I already flashed stuff, just my phone can't charge up enough to get to offline charging... Besides, I don't think I have any good enough rubber bands.
[Sony Cross-Device General] |>/\nte:
I tried flashing a stock 12.0.A.2.254 .ftf to my xperia sp (c5303) (wanted to revert back to stock 4.1.2 - the rom I was running is in my signature), but flashtool kept saying an error message about the system.sin flashing, that lead to aborting the proccess. I tried flashing the system.sin only via flashtool and via fastboot, tried sideloading a zip of the stock rom (same build) from c.w.m. (and that stuck in 92%), tried flashing doomkernel v4 and doing a full wipe, then flashing the file via flashtool (excluding the kernel), flashing the kernel I previously had (refer to my signature for that too) and doing a full wipe there, I also tried a factory reset, nothing works. My phone now won't go past the boot logo. It shows up the boot logo and then it shows a black screen, then shuts down. If I turn it on, it'll do the same thing. Not even after a backup restore boots up past that point. Any solutions to this?

EDIT: I got the phone unbricked. I'll post the solution in case anyone gets the same problem: for some reason, flashtool 0.9..19.0 doesn't like some .ftf files very much. I installed the previous version (0.19.8.6) and the .ftf file was successfully flashed, unbricking the phone.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
Try to flash a good working kernel boot.img using fastboot.

You may need to erase the existing boot.img from the device using fastboot.

Also reinstall all the drivers from the flashtool driver program.

Sometimes the phone needs a different driver.

Partitions are tricky stuff and Google is your friend.

Thanks for the info about flashtool versions.

And please post anything you think will help others.

Recovery is a lot of trial & error, with a lot of patience. :)
[Sony Cross-Device General] |>/\nte:
Well the only advice I can think of is don't use the version 0.9.19, since it's very weird with flashing (specific?) .ftf files. I remember having trouble flashing my xperia t with this version of the program too. Also, I found something posted by androxyde in the forums here that made me consider even more getting rid of that version of flashtool. (here's the link to that: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=920746). I uninstalled and cleared everything from 0.9.19 version I was using, installed 0.9.18.6 and it worked like a charm. Thank god for me I guess since my xperia sp is my daily driver.