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[Sony Cross-Device General] Eric Vaughn:
I'm able to flash full FTF and still can't get the phone on

So I had a long battle with flashtool and the phone, before I finally saw that Windows 8 has problems with drivers for flashtool. So after disabling driver verification, I was able to flash the full .211 FW to the phone, in flash mode, with the green light. Here's what happens after though:

1. Phone is finished flashing full .ftf , flashtool says to disconnect phone and start it, green light stays on and flashtool reads "Device connected in flashmode" all in about a half second.

- I tried holding the power button to see if the phone would vibrate to 'take the phone out of flashmode' as the guide says. The phone doesn't respond, the led stays green, then after a couple of minutes, turns red and the computer disconnects.

2. When I try unplugging the phone from the computer. LED turns off, when I hold power button, the phone is still unresponsive.

3. When I plug the phone into wall charger, LED stays red (I even left it plugged in for about 15 hours--still stayed red)

4. When I try pressing the power button, phone is unresponsive for a moment, then the backlight will light up, then go out, and then LED turns red, turns off, and the backlight flashes again. So it's in a backlight-red LED blinking bootloop.

I don't know what could be wrong after flashing the full .ftf multiple times. I even unplugged the battery multiple times.

I've tried a lot. So if anyone has any idea what I should do, this would be much appreciated :fingers-crossed:
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
make sure to wipe data and cache partitions

make sure you also have flashed all the parts of the FTF (system, kernel..)

least but not least check the FTF integrity (with tools such as 7-zip)
[Sony Cross-Device General] Eric Vaughn:
Everything is set to wipe. And all of the ftf is set to flash and goes 100% through the flashing process.

I've tried 3 different FWs for the LT28at, and all flash completely, however, the phone still won't start. It just runs into the same backlight-red led loop again. I even tried flashing just the kernel. It did the same thing.

Is it perhaps the battery cycle? That's something I didn't quite understand in the guide. Must I try to completely drain my battery? Or unplugging it and replugging it should suffice? I don't know what else could be wrong since I'm having no problem fully flashing the phone, and yet, to no avail. :crying:
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
Absolutely do not try to completely dry your battery

It's the worst thing you could do.

Would you mind posting the flashtool log?
[Sony Cross-Device General] JaneKimC:
Okay thanks! :D

just one thing, in the flash mode isn't hard reset 3 vibrations?

or was that supposed to be soft reset too?
[Sony Cross-Device General] markelON:
No Don't do hard reset it'll make the phone unresponsive for another battery cycle.

only do Soft reset

and wall charging thats all.

to get boot looping you know well.

put it in laptop/pc for 5-20 minutes you'll get bootloop.

then do these procedures
[Sony Cross-Device General] JaneKimC:
thanks!

will report back if there's anything new :D
[Sony Cross-Device General] viskenxp:
Hi, I have a couple of questions:

- How do I detect a boot loop? My screen never turns on anymore no matter what I do. At times when I plug it into the PC it is detected as DLOAD, then I have the change to soft-reset it seems. Because it disconnects and reconnects.

- When the disconnecting and reconnecting happens, I just can't seem to manage to get it into either flash or fastboot mode. Any more tips there?

- If I'm able to take out the battery, can I use this to my advantage?
[Sony Cross-Device General] m1trand1r:
- Bootloop is when your phone looks like it's restarting forever...thatcs how you'll know when it'll happen...

and if you don't get bootloop...just connect ur ion to a wall charger till you get a constant red light glowing...than connect to pc...give him a soft reset(1 vibration)...now wait fir bootloop.....but be sure you installed all drivers on pc before....

Sent fom my S-II with CM-10 by mcm811(12/06/2012] powered by [url="http://dorimanx.shine.sk/kernels-jb/Kernel_Dorimanx-V7.29-ICS-JB-22-51--06-12-12-SG2-PWR-CORE.zip]DorimanX kernel v 7.29[/url]
[Sony Cross-Device General] viskenxp:
Charging till red light is no problem. After which I connect it to the pc. Soft-reset however never vibrates anymore. I only see it disconnect and reconnect in the flashtool. So I'm guessing that is fine then? I just keep it in then till it start bootlooping? Either the screen will turn on and off (which it has never done anymore) or it'll reconnect automatically in the flashtool (I'm not sure about this one) right?
[Sony Cross-Device General] m1trand1r:
did you hold volume down key while you connected phone to pc?...that's a must DO!...and you've made proper setup in flash tool...like yoh did prepare an .ftf file you want to flash???...you need all this in order to flash....flash starts automagically...

Sent fom my S-II with CM-10 by mcm811(12/06/2012] powered by [url="http://dorimanx.shine.sk/kernels-jb/Kernel_Dorimanx-V7.29-ICS-JB-22-51--06-12-12-SG2-PWR-CORE.zip]DorimanX kernel v 7.29[/url]
[Sony Cross-Device General] warfist:
Hi guys.

My phone had a constant red light. So i tired some tricks which are explained here. The one that ALMOST worked was that one where u have to bring the xperia ion into boot loop then download mode. But hell, now the light turns purple and blue and my computer doesn't recognize it.

What should i do?

Im rly frustrated.

My second problem is: All tricks talk about "FTF" and "system.sin/kernel.sin" but where do i find those? Is there any link to such an file?

My phone is: LT28H running on ICS 4.0.4 stock.
[Sony Cross-Device General] viskenxp:
I prepared an ftf file to flash, do I plug in right after charging, with volume down pressed or do I plug in, wait for bootloop and replug (with volumn down key)? (even before bootloop?) Could you order these for me please because I get the impression the whole flow changes all the time and everybody is giving me a different one: (The current order is what I got it should be from all the previous posts.)

- Make sure it is completely off? (Hard to know considering it really does nothing most of the time.)

- Charge till red light.

- Prepare FTF to flash.

- Connect to PC.

- Wait for bootloop. (Can take up to 20 mins.)

- Disconnect from PC

- SOFT-RESET

- Connect to PC with VOLUME-UP.
[Sony Cross-Device General] warfist:
Ok, guess my biggest problem is now that i get a constant switch between PURPLE/BLUE light. It doesn't react to soft/hard reset. Googled and found out nothing. How can i force a boot loop now?
[Sony Cross-Device General] m1trand1r:
try this: be4 u connect it to pc...hold volume down..(that's how u enter flashmode)...now connect it...and green light should turn on and flashing starts instantly... the other variant is fastboot mode where when you enter it by holding volume up & connect to pc

blue light starts glowing....

Sent fom my S-II with CM-10 by mcm811(12/06/2012] powered by [url="http://dorimanx.shine.sk/kernels-jb/Kernel_Dorimanx-V7.29-ICS-JB-22-51--06-12-12-SG2-PWR-CORE.zip]DorimanX kernel v 7.29[/url]
[Sony Cross-Device General] warfist:
Do you know anything about the purple glowing when i plug in the cable? It doesn't react now. I connected to wall charger and red light is gone too.
[Sony Cross-Device General] m1trand1r:
hm....lemme think....which kernel are you running?...i saw that cm9 kernel has a purple light during boot and if you press volume up while purple light glows you can enter cwm/recovery mode....that's all i know:o

edit: when you're connected to wall charger...leave it!!!...don't press anything...nothing...just wait...wait & wait for a red light to start blinking or glowing constantly....than we will see:)

Sent fom my S-II with CM-10 by mcm811(12/06/2012] powered by [url="http://dorimanx.shine.sk/kernels-jb/Kernel_Dorimanx-V7.29-ICS-JB-22-51--06-12-12-SG2-PWR-CORE.zip]DorimanX kernel v 7.29[/url]
[Sony Cross-Device General] ganeshbiyer:
Don't try to rush things. You need to be patient. It may take many hours. So let it charge for a long time. Don't keep doing what each one says. The op has written a procedure so you might as well follow it.
[Sony Cross-Device General] warfist:
As i remember i've flashed CM9 rom then got this whole boot loop problem. I made big mistake 1 hour ago. It glowed constantly red and i got boot loop, so i even made it into Download mode. But i flashed wrong kernel...dumb me. Should i wait till it's dead? Or should i plug it in (while blue light on) until light becomes red?
[Sony Cross-Device General] ganeshbiyer:
Just charge it till it goes red and you start getting boot loop. Then you can go in to fast boot mode and flash kernel.

It is always better to flash cm9 kernel first and then flash the cm9 rom from recovery.
[Sony Cross-Device General] m1trand1r:
well...if this is the case....charge phone on a wall charger till you get red led glowing...than let it for an hour more...now connect to pc and give him soft reset....now unplug it....hold vol down and connect to pc.....flashmode...!!!...

NOTE:

Prepare your .ftf file for flashing in flashtool...before doing anything...and when you'll connect phone in flashmode...(green light)...FLASH WILL START ASAP!!!

Sent fom my S-II with CM-10 by mcm811(12/06/2012] powered by [url="http://dorimanx.shine.sk/kernels-jb/Kernel_Dorimanx-V7.29-ICS-JB-22-51--06-12-12-SG2-PWR-CORE.zip]DorimanX kernel v 7.29[/url]
[Sony Cross-Device General] warfist:
Ok guys, right now i've a boot loop (sony) and will try to install kernel. After kernel i will install system.sin too, ok? I will just install the files shown in Flashtool!
[Sony Cross-Device General] m1trand1r:
lol...install stock rom...now i was where u are now:p....i did this: disconnect phone from usb ........power off phone(hit power and vol. up and hold ).....prepare flashtools with stock .ftf file...loaded...:eek:...boot phone in flashmode...volume down and connect to pc....greenlight appears &flashing starts..,:D

Sent fom my S-II with CM-10 by mcm811(12/06/2012] powered by [url="http://dorimanx.shine.sk/kernels-jb/Kernel_Dorimanx-V7.29-ICS-JB-22-51--06-12-12-SG2-PWR-CORE.zip]DorimanX kernel v 7.29[/url]
[Sony Cross-Device General] JaneKimC:
dammit led

so, i uh, tried those. I couldn't get flashmode so I tried for fastboot mode

I did get blue led but upon preparation for clearing partitions, the led would die out

blue led would come out for like 10sec :(

it just couldn't stay like that

what should i dooo
[Sony Cross-Device General] surfsyco:
I'm trying to get similar info on Xperia battery charging cycles but nobody seems to know anything :/
[Sony Cross-Device General] Eric Vaughn:
I don't know if this makes a difference, but my phone actually goes into flashmode even when I'm not holding the down volume button. I just let it sit connected to the computer and all the sudden it'll go green and connect to the computer, then disconnect about 20 seconds later. Any idea why the phone would spaz out like this?
[Sony Cross-Device General] janualy:
my xperia ion won't turn on.

my phone was turning off it self. when i want to turn it on, it get 1 vibration and got once back-light and it turn off. but if i connect my xperia ion to wall charger, it keep flashing back-light. first i do the soft reset, trying to turn it on, press once it show green LED. then press and hold the power button, it get 1 vibration and got once back-light and it turn off again. then, i try to do hard reset, the same thing happen again.

i had done flashing the phone, repair via SUS, disconnect the battery cable, but still same problem come.
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
you flashed kernel and system in 6 (SIX) seconds?? that's impossible

no surprise your phone still has problems. check the FTF

[MENTION=5055757]surfsyco[/MENTION]

there's nothing difficult, as explained in the first post

1) Dead battery. No response from the power button, no screen and no led.

2) Connect to charger

3) Low battery level charging mode. This is when just the RED led is on and no screen. At this stage the battery's charge is to low to turn the phone on, but it is charging.

4) Kernel controlled off-line charging mode. This is when the battery has charged enough from step (3) and boots the kernel to charge the battery. The phone is off, but could be turned on using the power button. A quick press of the power button will show this battery icon. Icon will fill with charge.

5) fully charged. green led (which is NOT flashmode)

[MENTION=4810573]janualy[/MENTION]

try wiping your data too
[Sony Cross-Device General] Eric Vaughn:
Again, I have tried now 4 different FTFs on the phone (I threw in the latest LT28i FW) and that also did the same thing. I'm doubting all 4 FTFs were unpackaged incorrectly from WinRar. And I'm sorry but I don't know what you mean by 'checking' the kernel. How would I do this?

I'm curious if anything is being written to my phone. It's detected, the computer makes a noise. But obviously, it exhibits no change in behavior no matter what I flash to it.

Thanks for helping by the way.
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
unpackaged? why should you uncompress the FTF?

to check the FTF integrity, anyway, you'll have to compare the md5 checksum (if you are hesitant with winrar)
[Sony Cross-Device General] Eric Vaughn:
I'm not. I meant unpackaging by taking the FTF out of the .rar or .zip file I downloaded it from.
[Sony Cross-Device General] surfsyco:
Yeah I but it doesn't explain why Flashtool only recognises the device when the red LED is off?? and why, after charging with the LED on for hours, does it turn off (with no response whatsoever)?
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
The phone is still technically dead with the red led. There's nothing "electronic" in this status. The only thing working is the battery controller which is the only thing powered at the moment.

Only when you'll have about 5-10% it will turn on the cpu, kernel, time clock, etc..

And here USB connection is initialized (thus flashmode).

The reason for the 3 days long charging... I don't know it.. But it happens (afaik) only after you really dried your battery (e.g. phone freeze, and you are just too lazy to hard-reboot it)
[Sony Cross-Device General] surfsyco:
So are you saying that even when the LED goes off that it is still charging in some state?

When my LED goes off I unplug from the charger and immediately plug it back in to find that the LED goes back on again, this seems that it is charging to a certain point and then stops again.

If I thought that it was still charging (at some level) with the LED off, then I would know to leave it for a day or 2.

I really appreciate your advice btw :)
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
Well.. after the red led turn off, kernel is supposed to start.

That's the theory and it doesn't seem your case

You previously claimed flashtool had seen your phone.. my suggestion would be to use the rubber band trick and you have at least the charge to flash kernel
[Sony Cross-Device General] surfsyco:
Well when I say that flashtool recognised my device..it was recognised as being connected with USB debugging off, (no device specific info is displayed), it's also detected in device manager as a SEMC flash drive.

I have previously tried the rubber band trick with no luck, it gives the same result as with charging via wall charger, ie. continuous charging cycle.

I'm beginning to think it's maybe hard bricked.
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
SEMC flash drive usually comes out when you haven't the right drivers installed

And it's surely not hard bricked
[Sony Cross-Device General] surfsyco:
Ah ok well that gives me a little more hope, thanks.
[Sony Cross-Device General] janualy:
My phone can't boot or flash mode or fastboot mode. Now my phone still connect to charger for over 16 hours, and still got RED LED.

Should i wait until RED LED turn off and wait for battery icon to come out..?
[Sony Cross-Device General] nycdream:
I've been charging my phone for about a week already and I still don't get the battery charging animation. When I plug the wall charger on my phone, it shows red light for about 10 minutes then the red light turns off. Is it charging if the light is off?

EDIT:

Someone said that my phone's S1 Boot Partition is messed up so I can't get into flashmode or fastboot. Is there a workaround for this?
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
you should use the rubber band trick then. When red light turn off, it's the only moment flashmode could be started

[MENTION=4810573]janualy[/MENTION]

Until the phone has still red led, we can't do very much.. so I would wait, yes
[Sony Cross-Device General] janualy:
after connect to charger for over 35 hours. now the RED LED turn off. no LED, no battery icon. no respone when i try press power button once.
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
this is a step forward

now, if you connect the phone to the computer.. do you hear the "device connected" beep when the red led turns off?
[Sony Cross-Device General] janualy:
no respone.
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
could you look into windows's device manager?

are there any QHUSB LOAD, SEMC flash device, or other sony related stuff?
[Sony Cross-Device General] janualy:
sorry, what i mean is my phone got no response what ever i do. just RED LED keep coming up when ever connect to charger.
[Sony Cross-Device General] whyslucas:
Hi, first, i'm sorry for the bad english, 'cause i'm brazillian. Ok.

Then, i was trying to flash the android 4.4 for my xperia s, with the cyanogenmod, right. So, i unlocked the bootloader, made root, everything, but, when i tried to install the new android, it get an error, so i turned off my phone. BUT, i forget that i made the wipe's and etc. Now i'm without android OS, stopped on the sony logo, i can make the hard reset and access fastboot and flashmode, but i dont know what i have to do, 'cause, when i try in flashtools, it gets an error, sayin' that the debugging option is off, but i can turn this on! Help me!
[Sony Cross-Device General] :
Just reinstall ay working stock ROM for your Xperia via flashtool. It could be the cable is loose that's why you are getting errors
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
1) Install flashtool

2) Download rom and put it in C:\flashtool\firmwares folder

3) open flashtool and press the flash button (that with a lightning)

4) wait for the rom unpacking, then connect the phone in flashmode (vol- while connecting to computer) when it will ask you

5) enjoy

[MENTION=4810573]janualy[/MENTION]

keep charging the phone until red led turns off. When it will turn off you could proceed with the next step (flashtool)
[Sony Cross-Device General] surfsyco:
Well I'm out of ideas, 2 days of charging with the LED off and still nothing.

Red LED stayed on for 3 hours, went off and stayed off, no flashmode and no further forward.

It seems it will not charge past this certain level.

If my device isn't hard bricked then surely there is some other methods to try??? - I hate the thought of giving up on it but am slowly running out of patience and hope :/
[Sony Cross-Device General] rfadayi:
Hi

I have a C6603... rooted and running on Stock 4.2.2 rooted unlocked boot loader

i install a kernal with over clock and undervolt

i clock cpu to 1.8

and more volt 37.5 mv

when i apply it my phone rebooted and never boot again just show red led

help me

can i unbrick it?

when i using flash tools have error

23/034/2014 11:34:09 - INFO - Selected C6603 / 10.3.1.A.2.67 / Generic PH

23/034/2014 11:34:09 - INFO - Preparing files for flashing

23/034/2014 11:34:45 - INFO - Please connect your device into flashmode.

23/034/2014 11:34:47 - INFO - Opening device for R/W

23/034/2014 11:34:47 - INFO - Reading device information

23/034/2014 11:34:57 - INFO - Unable to read from phone after having opened it.

23/034/2014 11:34:57 - INFO - trying to continue anyway

23/034/2014 11:34:57 - INFO - Start Flashing

23/034/2014 11:34:57 - INFO - Processing loader.sin

23/034/2014 11:34:57 - INFO - Checking header

23/034/2014 11:34:57 - INFO - Ending flash session

23/034/2014 11:34:57 - ERROR - Error in processHeader : 2 : The system cannot find the file specified.

23/034/2014 11:34:57 - ERROR - Error flashing. Aborted

23/034/2014 11:34:57 - INFO - Device connected in flash mode

23/034/2014 11:34:58 - INFO - Device disconnected
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
when red led turned off, was the phone connected to the computer with the rubber band trick?

Because you have few second before kernel completely start and crash again (breaking flashmode/fastboot access)

[MENTION=4791134]rfadayi[/MENTION]

it seems a broken FTF issue
[Sony Cross-Device General] surfsyco:
Rubber band trick isn't helping.

I have tried it for hours and hours and when the LED goes off the PC recognises the device, and when it comes on again the PC doesn't recognize it anymore.

I understand there is a second or 2 before the kernel starts and crashes, but shouldn't flashmode start when the rubber band trick is fitted? is there anything else that would be preventing it to connect in flashmode?
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
nice so you have the same usual problem 90% of people come up against

you need the drivers (those included in flashtool\drivers folder should work too) to have flashmode sticking
[Sony Cross-Device General] surfsyco:
I have tried with the included drivers in flashtool and also the newest driver package.

Would it help to try on a different version of windows? I have tried on 3 different PCs all running Windows 7 64bit.
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
windows 7 is just fine

anyway, open the windows device manager

and when the red led turn off, you HAVE TO see something there. It would be fine if you post it here

btw flashtool is open on the connect your device dialog, right?
[Sony Cross-Device General] surfsyco:
Yeah Windows device manager shows the device connected as SEMC Flash Device when the LED is off and not recognised when the LED is on.

I only connect the device after I have selected the flashmode > firmware options.
[Sony Cross-Device General] surfsyco:
My device manager when the red LED is off.

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[Sony Cross-Device General] Aamirx27:
I am going to buy RIFF Box Tomorrow i and will try to repair my phone with it. If Success I will post the Result. Thanks to Riff Box team for helping me. I wish my Money dont go waste and my phone revives
[Sony Cross-Device General] surfsyco:
Nice one, I hope it works out and it will be interesting to hear/see the results.
[Sony Cross-Device General] wxl104:
back to stock

May I ask how to go back stock,My device is Xperia SL,Just download the stock,and run flash tool,and anything else?
[Sony Cross-Device General] :
Place the ROM in the firmware folder of flashtool.Be sure Android sdk, flashtool driver and PC companion are also installed and your good to go.

---------- Post added at 11:45 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:38 AM ----------

Is Android sdk, PCC and flashtool driver installed already? I had this before SEMC before but can't remember how I did it. If assume USB debugging is ON because device has been recognized. I am not sure if you need to set your device to MTP but give it a try.
[Sony Cross-Device General] surfsyco:
PC Companion, Flashtool and Android SDK are all installed and up to date. Device is only recognised as USB Debugging off and it's not possible to select MTP Mode, it's not possible to select anything.
[Sony Cross-Device General] wxl104:
thanks very much
[Sony Cross-Device General] tnt-4-:
can i make a question? may i have brick my phone when i put custom rom? have lockedbootloader. and what is the TA which we exclude with flash tool? i see many videos which restore the phone without tick in exclude TA
[Sony Cross-Device General] :
You might/will definetly brick with locked bootloader.what is TA?
[Sony Cross-Device General] tnt-4-:
i first post the guide ,when flash firmware we will exclude TA...