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[Sony Cross-Device General] cneeraj76:
I was trying to flash my ion (LT28h), its now in bootloop with sony logo and excalamation mark.

Its bootloops also while wall charging, after 10 mins its charged enough and again start bootloop after 4-5 mins.

First of all how can I stop bootloops so that I can charge is fully to proceed with flashboot.

Please someone help here
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
You will need a copy of YOUR TA file. Hopefully you backed it up. I think there for each phone specificly. Have it ready to flash when trying tricks. Try plugging into pc after red led, you want to get bootloops. Then try bootloop trick

From Jaramie's LT28at

2012Xperia SOFT-BRICK Recovery Thread
[Sony Cross-Device General] xsony.plus:
Hi, Many thanks for your attention

Yes I have clean backup , but there is no any reaction except orange flash (one flash each connect) ,in case of hard brick what i should do?
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
Well hopefully with a led still reacting there is hope. You should watch it like a sick baby. Meaning check it often as you can. It may go thru cycles of trying to boot then it can lock up and the battery will die and charge then repeat. If no response with a pc, just charge with wall charger and monitor for ANY change. Good luck.

As for hard brick maybe the ION's friend and dev Ganeshbiyer could give a quick summary of his last epic battle with SOFT-BRICK ;)

From Jaramie's LT28at

2012Xperia SOFT-BRICK Recovery Thread
[Sony Cross-Device General] samalmaskey:
My friend have just bought xperia p....and now i think it is softbricked ... phone do not turn on but only bootloops....

Actually problem came after phone was locked by pattern lock and he tried to restart...

Phone is 100% stock

i read all about unbricking....but its so confusing and i am totally messed up now..

I already did hard reset ..but still bootloops...:(

Please anyone help me to unbrick xperia p

Actually i am samsung user and its easy to unbrick samsung phones...

But so confusing in xperia p
[Sony Cross-Device General] valoran:
Here's what happened on my device:

I was using hei1125's UNOFFICIAL CM10 BUILD (acro S) and I decided to return back to stock (6.1.A.2.55) using flashtool..did the full wipe as what I saw on a tutorial..It went through then as I was turning on my phone, it got into boot loop

I can still charge my phone using the dock and when it is plug on my pc (phone turned off). when it goes into boot loop, I have to hard reset the phone just to turn it off. I haven't tried using fastboot mode for flashing the stock rom yet

could someone tell me where did I went wrong, from returning back to stock rom from a custom rom

thanks!

Edit: I guess I'm still on CM10 rom as the charging icon is still from what I have in the custom rom, even after I flashed to stock rom..

fastboot does not work because I cant find a system.sin file..I'll let the battery die then charge it and see what happens next..earlier, I let it go on bootloop to drain the battery (it was on full charge when I was trying to flash to stock), then I noticed that it got sooo hot (its been on bootloop for about 3 hrs), I had to turn it off and let it cool
[Sony Cross-Device General] dansdepeter:
Is there any one help me... My phone is bricked I flash the wrong ftf, when I hold power and volume up strong blue led comes up.. I don't know what is happening..pls help :(

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Is there any one help me... My phone is bricked I flash the wrong ftf, when I hold power and volume up strong blue led comes up.. I don't know what is happening I cannot used also the flashtool via fastboot mode because my phone cant be detected..pls help :crying:
[Sony Cross-Device General] dansdepeter:
After all, I read about unbricking phone I am now in the situation of blinking red light and the phone turn on with a black screen.. then after 20min the phone fully turn-off and i charge the phone and i get solid red light.. hoping that it will be fix. Thanks to all:)

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My Xperia ion now back to normal.. I get red light but cannot detect on laptop and all the button of xperia not working. I first run the flashtool ready to install firmware and then together with pc companion and finally the xperia green led comes up........ w/out pc companion my xperia still on red light and all button of xperia not working.. The Flashtool detect the phone and install the firmware...

Thanks to this blog..
[Sony Cross-Device General] RpRAUC:
My phone is still broken

Then charge - red lights are on, light off after 16 hours.

Flashtool not see him, setool can not connect to it. It trim area broken - how to fix it?
[Sony Cross-Device General] dansdepeter:
Try this: Charge your phone, If you get strong red light.. connect your phone to laptop via usb " red light still strong" Then

Open Flashtool, go to flashmode, select firmware " Check wipe data,wipe cached and wipe app. log" then click ok.

Together with Flashtool... Open the PC COMPANION.. green light will come-up.. since the flashtool is ready the flashtool will automatically install the firmware...
[Sony Cross-Device General] ARNOB:
Well, its been 5 hours my phone got soft bricked my me... i did a hard reset on a bootloop i got because of changing system fonts and since then the phone would not respond. NO SCREEN, NO LED - NOTHING.

My battery was about 70-75%. Any ideas how long would it take do drain? I would keep the phone connected to the wall charger for drainig battery even if no red led shows up? Will it get fine within the next 10 hrs :/

I'M WORRIED. ANY HELP IS GREATLY APPRECIATED
[Sony Cross-Device General] tomnickell:
Bricked?

About 12 hours ago I took my phone off the charger. It was at or near 100%. I decided to hold down the power and volume up buttons. As it was restarting I held them down again. It never buzzed 3 times. It just went black. Left it on the chargers for about 10 hours. nothing - not even a red led. It is not recognized by flashtool or Sony PC Companion. If I hold down power and volume up now the red led will flash quickly a number of times. and then nothing. I have it off the charger now in an attempt to drain the battery. Any ideas?
[Sony Cross-Device General] Sardac:
thanks alot

Thanks alot this saved me big time. Because i was clumpsy and flashed outdated xperia p kernel. Miss read one line of information and took 3 hours to rectify. This resolution worked for me.

:o:o:o:o:o:o:o

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In combination of this thread and many others I was able to un softbrick my phone
[Sony Cross-Device General] rajonrondo:
Xperia ion freeze on a black screen with blue LED ON

Please help guys:(

I brick my ION when I use the flashtool to deal with the bootloop issue as stated in the first page.

When I go into fastboot mode, I fash the kernel.sin and the system.sin. However, when I disconnect my phone from the PC,

my phone just keep black screened with the blue LED on for over 10 hours now:(

I have tried both the soft and hard reset but still no change.

What can I do guys :( Please help! Many thanks:(
[Sony Cross-Device General] flip305:
Sony ion bricked can anybody please help me??

i bought a brand new ion from ebay, it was working fine i tried to update it to ics with pc companion, when i tried the phone stated bootlooping, with the Sony logo fading o yellow, i tried hard and soft resets, it took me 10 hours to get a red light from the hard reset, but it didnt fix anything, the led gives a constant led and after 15min or so it starts bootlooping again i loaded flashtool with the right firmware, but i can get it to recognize the phone when looping. i also tried loading pc companion when doing flashtool. ive read all the tutorials. once i got the phone to turn to a blank white screen and then it loaded semc flash drivers, flashtool recognized the phone, but i cant get the files to flash after i hold volume down.....i just need help, this phone is to nice to use as a paperweight!
[Sony Cross-Device General] passlogin:
Dead St21i after got stuck restartting.

FXP202 CM10.

Flashtool don't recognize my phone.

battery level IDK though.

any key combination wont vibrate/lights the led

Should i leave it to wall charger or leave it uncharged? (but sticking to charger didn't generate heat)

BTW while connecting to PC, it detects my phone as (vid_05c6&pid_9008).

Any thoughts?
[Sony Cross-Device General] dansdepeter:
Try this: Charge your phone, If you get strong red light.. connect your phone to laptop via usb " red light still strong" Then (before you connect the phone to computer,PC COMPANION NOT OPEN)

Open Flashtool, go to flashmode, select firmware " Check wipe data,wipe cached and wipe app. log" then click ok.

Together with Flashtool... Open the PC COMPANION.. green light will come-up.. since the flashtool is ready the flashtool will automatically install the firmware...
[Sony Cross-Device General] crevatsch:
Hey guys! It's about time i told you about my brick since it happened 5 days ago.

I have a Xperia Sola with unlocked bootloader, and i wanted to flash it to the unofficial FreeXperia CM9. I accedently downloaded CM10, and for the wrong phone too. I flashed the CM10 kernel and after that my phone wouldn't boot, but i could get fastboot. I thought that if i would flash the right kernel my phone would be working again. But because the filehost had a waiting line for downloading the right CM i just let my phone sit for a while in fastboot, thinking it would charge.

When i was ready to flash the right kernel i noticed my phone was off. obviously the battery was dead, so i couldn't flash anything. I read through the start post and after charging my phone for a while i got it into fastboot again, but then i was on the wall charger, and when i unplugged to charger to plug the phone into my computer the phone went out of fastboot and the battery was too empty to go into fastboot again. Now i'm charging it on a USB hub, so it's always connected to my PC, but it can draw more current.

Here are my symptoms

- When i plug the charger into the phone, the red light comes on for a couple of minutes, and then i turns off during the rest of the charge.

- The longest time i let it charge is about 24 hours, but i messed up the fastboot chance

- When i press the power button only the red light comes on for a couple of minutes, similar to when i plug in a charger.(i read since i did that that i shouldn't press the power button only since it only delays the charging process)

- The screen is always off and i haven't seen it turned on even once

After reading though this topic i still have one question: Will it likely be enough if i only flash the right kernel, or should i try to flash the whole rom?

I'm sure i can get my sola to work again, since i had it in fastboot once now, i just have to wait.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
Re: {RECOVER SOFT-brick}[2012 XPERIA's]Recover ALL 2012 XPERIAs from SOFT-brick

Nice call using the high current hub w/pc.

If you can get flash mode access then I suggest flash your stock ftf(it has both Rom&kernel). Even with fastboot always flash entire Rom+kernel when recovering That gets you back stock. Then make cwm backups and mod all you want

From Jaramie's LT28at

2012Xperia SOFT-BRICK Recovery Thread
[Sony Cross-Device General] crevatsch:
Thanks for the answer and the miracle has happened, my phone is back from the dead. This is how i did it:

I got frustrated with the phone after it wouldn't respond to the soft reset it was trying (power + volume up). Then i pressed the volume up button while playing a game with the other while in the corner of my eye i see the light changing color and yes, it had gone into fastboot. After that i flashed the kernel only, but the phone wouldn't boot. I was angry that i let this good chance slip, but i managed to do the trick again: just keep pressing volume up, until it went into fastboot. I flashed the stock rom and my phone worked again.

Moral of the story (and something to put in the startpost): Even if the screen doesn't show anything and even if the phone doesn't vibrate or give a signal to indicate the battery is full it can still go into fastboot if you press the button repeatedly and keep trying.

Thanks for the help!
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
Re: {RECOVER SOFT-brick}[2012 XPERIA's]Recover ALL 2012 XPERIAs from SOFT-brick

Thank you both for the methods used posts. When I next update the OP these will be added.

Glad you both won. :D

From Jaramie's LT28at

2012Xperia SOFT-BRICK Recovery Thread
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
Re: {RECOVER SOFT-brick}[2012 XPERIA's]Recover ALL 2012 XPERIAs from SOFT-brick

What's your progress?? Any luck using pc to get bootloops?

From Jaramie's LT28at

2012Xperia SOFT-BRICK Recovery Thread
[Sony Cross-Device General] aligh9:
sorry for noob question

what do you mean by FLASH 111 in step 4. is it a stock rom version or sth else?
[Sony Cross-Device General] ARNOB:
.111 is a stock rom.... you can use any ftf prior to that
[Sony Cross-Device General] serqeftin:
Thanks.

Thanks for information..
[Sony Cross-Device General] CoB_Mike:
Worked like a charm for me brother. Installed something to my L28at and it was showing incorrect battery and couldnt re install original OS. Now I am good!
[Sony Cross-Device General] flip305:
what a headache, i never had a phone kick my ass like this one, but i finally got it up and running again.....it took me a whole week of playing with this phone, i had to watch and time its movements till i figured it out. and i finally brought it back it back to life. i just loaded up flashtool when to the bathroom and when i came back flastool, was installing, i had my fingers cross the whole time till it got to 99%.

its truth u just have to be patient u will get your phone to work!
[Sony Cross-Device General] alex_0992:
This sure will be helfull to alot of people! :)
[Sony Cross-Device General] snaky47:
Hello,

I Bricke my xperion ion with a bad kernel and now I have no LED.

But I left in charge for 10 hours now and still nothing appears.

I can't entering fastboot or flash mod.

can you help me please? I'm afraid my Xperia died :crying:

Sorry for my bad english, I'm french

Edit: I finally red LED lit, I will try the procedure described above

Thanks for your reply.
[Sony Cross-Device General] snaky47:
Anyone can help me please, i have strong red light and i can't flash again.:(

EDIT: Now, after unplugged and waiting 5 mn, i plugged again I see the logo of the battery:laugh: and it appears that it is empty after 20 hours of charging lol. I wait a bit and I'll let you know if I can flash:fingers-crossed:

EDIT2: I installed cm9 and restored my backup. everything is ok now.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
Re: {RECOVER SOFT-brick}[2012 XPERIA's]Recover ALL 2012 XPERIAs from SOFT-brick

I have added a section to my OP about charging cycles. It is a work in progress but it may help you understand what happened in the 20 hours.

From Jaramie's LT28at

2012Xperia SOFT-BRICK Recovery Thread
[Sony Cross-Device General] snaky47:
I just edited my previous post. everything works now.

Thank you for everything. This thread is really helpful
[Sony Cross-Device General] w3nZ:
Hey,

2 months ago my ion crashed while using google navigation. reset didnt work, so i let it ran out of battery, recharged it and it started again, everything was ok. Today it crashed again, reset didnt work again, i let it ran out of battery, recharged it and it started. it was a bit laggy, so i restarted my phone - now i´m stuck at the "xperia" logo -.- what to do now?
[Sony Cross-Device General] snaky47:
Let it charge for a few hours and you should see the battery icon normally. If you have not charge level display, remove, wait 5/10 minutes and restart the load.
[Sony Cross-Device General] acatoan:
Thanks. Keep it for future :D
[Sony Cross-Device General] SnowOokami:
If you got a kernel

without

offline charging capabilities and your battery goes flat till the point the OS won't boot anymore you will feel screwed, but the fix is rather simple though takes a while and some patients.

what I did:

1: Download Advanced Stock Kernel 17 (fastboot version)

2: charge Phone till it boots again (even if the kernel doesn't support charging it will charge REAL slow, you got enough juice for a few minutes in fastboot OR recovery)

3: hold power + vol up till it vibrates 3 times

4: get the Phone in fastboot mode

5: fastboot the kernel

6: reboot and hook-up the charger and it should charge again (without booting)

ps: try using a normal charger and not the sony wall charger... it seems to be working better when the OS is not booted.

ps2: if you got the Advanced Stock Kernel as zip on your Phone you can also use the recovery to flash the kernel.

ps3: step 2 might take 10 to 20 minutes, it depends on the Phone.
[Sony Cross-Device General] gnahanut:
Mine is the same problem, the kernel does not support offline charging, and the issue is that: the phone runs out of battery - It gets booted up after 5 minutes charging and then turn off. The cycle continues.

I solve the problem by:

- Let it charge till the screen boots up.

- Power + volume up for 1 vibration, and then hold volume up for fastboot mode.

- Flash adv kernel 17 and then connect to charger. Let it charge for 30 mins.

- Reflash the Rom kernel.

Everything works perfectly after that.
[Sony Cross-Device General] ikhyacuiro:
if you can provide a link to download flashtool?:crying:
[Sony Cross-Device General] link_one:
thank you.this very complete and useful :good::good::good:
[Sony Cross-Device General] anzsensei:
bricked after install custom font

hello. last night i was trying to install custom font using Root Font Installer.

I changed the preferences, and ticked all system fonts that I want to change.

and then reboot. got bootloops. hard reset for two times. and bricked.

after reading this thread, now I succeed in getting the red LED on (UN-consistently - lit for several seconds, off, and repeat).

so what's next, guys?

-----

Related Info on my device:

- bootloader LOCKED

- ROOTED

- Stock ROM

I just messed up with system fonts, I guess.

*Hope For The Best* :p
[Sony Cross-Device General] ganeshbiyer:
Patience.
[Sony Cross-Device General] anzsensei:
sure, but i need to know what is the next step ... i don't really understand because some guys says wait until green, some says wait until red led turns off, and the other 1 plug in together with pc companion on (OMG, i think it will interfere with flashtool, is it?)

I'm a newbie in flashing sony device.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Flowa:
Thanks it worked!

But is there a way that you can use the phone with pc companion after flashing it?

Because pc companion told me i have a wrong firmware...:confused:
[Sony Cross-Device General] anzsensei:
can u share ur process..? :o

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bro .. "if u gt strong red.. CONNECT PHONE TO LAPTOP .." just connect without pressing any button..? :confused:
[Sony Cross-Device General] anzsensei:
Alhamdulillah ~ SUCCESS :good:

SUPER Thanks To Everyone Here~!!

:victory:
[Sony Cross-Device General] ardalaan:
phone is stuck in blue led and doesnt respond not to buttons nether USB cable

what should i do ?

i had 90% battery !! i dont think it will drain soon

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i have exactly your problem

how did u fix your phone ?
[Sony Cross-Device General] ardalaan:
i opened my phone and disconnected battery cable then plug it back

its a risky operation but that was the only way that i had
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
EDIT:

I am going to try something new. I am going to place a rubber band around the phone to hold the volume down button in. Then I will leave flashtool asking for phone in flashmode.

Like in this picture..

I will leave it like this till morning. I am hoping once the battery dies I will catch a loop and already have the button and flashtool ready. I might just get lucky and wake up with a restored phone :)

Well I am no longer a soft-brick VIRGIN.

Never do a hard-reset when booting up and on the Sony screen, for stock kernel.

I was having some issues receiving both texts & calls. I was in the process of flashing just the baseband from .68i firmware when I thought I was holding the volume down button and plugged in USB. Well I must not have had the button pressed and it started to boot. Being the impatient person I am I attempted a hard-reset while it was starting to boot. Well the hard reset worked but now I have NO response from my phone at all.

The phone had over half the battery left. I am currently plugged in and waiting for something to happen. About every hour or so I switch from PC to wall charger.

The soft-brick demon attacked about 6:00 EST FEB-3. After 5 hours the soft-brick monster still has a choke hold on my ION. I am currently doing weapons upgrade for the next round of battle. I will slay this soft-brick beast. :D

I will update as I progress.

p.s. Luckily I got the micro-sim card to sit properly in my X10 without an adapter, as I don't have one and need the phone tomorrow for work ;)
[Sony Cross-Device General] ganeshbiyer:
You know, the last time, I bricked my phone. I Kept it for charging for 10 days continuously without any result.

Tried all the methods of recovery. None worked. The phone was not getting charged, I suppose.

Since there is no Sony service center here in Dhaka, I took it to a mobile repair shop.

He removed the back cover and charged the battery directly. He had some sort of device with him.

And within 20 Mins, he was able to flash firmware.:D
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
Re: {RECOVER SOFT-brick}[2012 XPERIA's]Recover ALL 2012 XPERIAs from SOFT-brick

Well it's morning and still no joy :(

@Ganesh I guess since I cannot unlock bootloader and I am still less then a year, I should be able to go through Sony. But I will best the beast. :D

From my Xperia X10. Because my Ion is a soft brick :(

EDIT: 24 hours and still nothing has happened at all since fatal event.

EDIT: 47 hours and still nothing. have been trying both PC & wall. battery still not dead. researching into ardalaan's method of battery unplug. I think this correlates with what Ganesh posted about his service visit.

I would also like to report that my Xperia X10, running CMX10's CM10 Jelly Bean ROM, is filling in nicely for my ION. However it is making me long for a bootloader unlocked ION

Its OK I still got faith, that my Ion will come back

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[Sony Cross-Device General] ardalaan:
please keep us posted

i broke my ion today and did hard reset

now i get no response from the phone

nothing !! i put my phone to wall charger for now its been a 4 hours and still no response from phone !
[Sony Cross-Device General] ardalaan:
ok i after about 9 hours of charging i didn't get any response from my Phone (ion)

so i decided to open my phone and disconnect the battery cable !

after i disconnect my battery cable and plug it again i connect my phone to wall charger and get a red light LED.. after about 20 minutes red led become orange then i connect my phone to pc and start flashtool and flashed new TFT file

all i am saying is that if u don't get red light after couple of hour you have 2 options !

let the battery drain then start charging or unplug battery cable then plug it back

here is the picture of my ion's battery flat
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
RED led

After 51 hours finally have red led while on wall charger :)

attempting to flash now...

EDIT: plugged into PC, with flashtool ready, holding volume down still just solid red led, no charging icon yet. put rubber band on volume down and left plugged into PC with Flashtool waiting.

back to the MICHIGAN vs ohio basketball game. GO BLUE :D

EDIT: no joy with the first flash attempt. I think barttery was to low. Back on the wall charger with red led still on.