yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
Re: {RECOVER SOFT-brick}[2012 XPERIA's]Recover ALL 2012 XPERIAs from SOFT-brick

I had just edited my last post to add this...

After it heating up and not turning back on I would check about warranty.

The heat thing would bother me enough to call Sony. Should be covered by 1 year warranty by Sony.

From Jaramie's X10a
[Sony Cross-Device General] DeathEvil:
it does bother me, but as long as it dont happen again, I can live with that. must have been some serious glitch to brick the phone on a unrooted device with stock att firmware... hopefully it will be fixed in the upcoming jelly bean update
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
Re: {RECOVER SOFT-brick}[2012 XPERIA's]Recover ALL 2012 XPERIAs from SOFT-brick

Yes, but what if it happens after Sony warranty is over?

At&t insurance deductible is $150 and you could get a refurbished phone.

This is a LINK to a summary of what happened to me.

From Jaramie's X10a
[Sony Cross-Device General] DeathEvil:
I can so relate to what you gone through with your ion:) hopefully mine will be back from the dead as well. Phone has been performing no problem for a few months now, until now. I will root and flash international debloated jelly bean for ion once it's available, and see how it performs. If I get one more heating up experience, I relock the bootloader, flash att ICS and send for warranty.
[Sony Cross-Device General] DeathEvil:
I'm about to give up, phone was charging for 24hours (with the red led on). tried flashtool today and still nothing, just stuck at the "plug usb" screen with no response from the phone. any last ditch efforts before I send it for warranty service?

another hard reset, put a hairtie on the volume down button, and phone is connected to pc with flashtool prompt to plug usb. red led no lit for now, but frmo experience it should lit up in a few minutes

contacted att and they will replace my phone. Only fee is $15 for priority shipping, but I guess it beats the extra wait time if I would contact sony directly
[Sony Cross-Device General] chitose_ndy:
AW: {RECOVER SOFT-brick}[2012 XPERIA's]Recover ALL 2012 XPERIAs from SOFT-brick

I think my brother's acro s had the same problem like yours.

Red led and nothing happens.

I tried to flash it via flashtool, but stuck also at plug-usb screen.

The last thing my brother do is to charge it with the red led on for almost 24 hours.

And the acro s is completely burned.

And he replaced it with the new one.

I think its hardware problem.

Gesendet von meinem LT26i mit Tapatalk 2
[Sony Cross-Device General] astral_cyborg:
Useful tips. Thank you!

I would like to add the option that Fastboot or Flash mode can be enabled with the USB cable, when the phone is off, without using the power button.

After messing up with wrong kernel flashes, the phone vibrated once after pressing the power button and then it remained off, even by pressing again the power. By removing the battery and placing it back again, it made the same thing. Fastboot or Flash mode also worked the same way. Lighting up the corresponding led colors and then off permanently.

Luckily, if I connected the USB cable and by already pressing Vol+ or Vol-, the phone turned on with the corresponding functions working without pressing the power button, so the firmware could finally be restored.
[Sony Cross-Device General] all_helmy:
sd card problem

hai..Im new here.I just wanna ask for my sdcard..always got mssg unexpectly unmount sdcard then all my data loss at sd card but my phone still can read sd card just all of data inside sdcard just loss
[Sony Cross-Device General] thatwasweird:
thank you!

thank you very much for this much needed tut. Noobs have a life now. XD
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
Re: {RECOVER SOFT-brick}[2012 XPERIA's]Recover ALL 2012 XPERIAs from SOFT-brick

Another member said something about pressing both power and volume to enter flash modes.

I have no idea where the power button information came from. For the 2012 Xperias it has always been just the volume button. Even for my X10 it was just the back button and no power.

With the phone off, holding volume up gives fastboot & volume down gives flash-mode when plugging in USB.

I know for my wife's Samsung you need to hold power and other buttons to get stock recovery.

Sounds like a Rom issue.

Is your bootloader unlocked?

Are you using a non-stock Rom?

Have you tried a different sd-card? Possibly have a bad card.

If your using a custom Rom or kernel, you should ask the question in those threads.

From Jaramie's LT28at
[Sony Cross-Device General] omaretman:
thanxx it's really helpfull :fingers-crossed:
[Sony Cross-Device General] c09:
Help!!

I've posted this on the Xperia S forum already, reposting as this thread is more relevant.

Hey guys, first up a submission, I have not gone through all the rules but I have searched extensively through the forums for a solution to find a way out of the soup I'm in right now. Please excuse me if I've done something really silly but any help would be highly appreciated!

Yesterday, I unlocked my phone and installed the Cynagenmod (stable version) for the Xperia S, following instructions posted on their home page for Xperia S.

Since I was not very comfortable with the interface (and realized in hindsight as my contacts and data was not getting transferred and that I may not have the time to read through a ton of stuff to get Google Apps and other basic stuff).

In short I wanted to uninstall and go back to stock, and in the process of doing that I ended up wiping out my SD card and Nandroid backup I had created (yeah, I'll running for "fools of the year" for this).

Right now, I am being able to load the boot loader and flashbut I'm not being able to push the ROM onto my SD card, I get an error saying "device not found". I've tried using TWRP but USB storage won't mount, sideload doesn't work either.

I'm in a real fix here, have been breaking my head over this for over 15 hours now, i'm desperate, please help me out!
[Sony Cross-Device General] tangosierra_:
Re: {RECOVER SOFT-brick}[2012 XPERIA's]Recover ALL 2012 XPERIAs from SOFT-brick

Download stock ftf file.

Flash file using flashtool. No need for cwm and stuff, though you'll have to re root if you want it. Your boot loader status will still be unlocked
[Sony Cross-Device General] ccxex29:
How about the 'Fully Brick' ??
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
Re: {RECOVER SOFT-brick}[2012 XPERIA's]Recover ALL 2012 XPERIAs from SOFT-brick

???????

More information please

From Jaramie's LT28at
[Sony Cross-Device General] Tiiliskivi:
Hi There!

I bought LT28H two days ago. Today I was toying with power and volume buttons. Somehow I managed to press power and vol up and down at The same time. Phone shut off after three vibrations. Now neither screen or buttons won't work. When plugging phone to charger charging LED won't light up.

If I understood correctly, I have to wait until battery has run dry and recharge, right? I just want to be sure because I'm feeling bit paranoid...
[Sony Cross-Device General] Georges2251:
Erm, in the flashing process, at 31%, it says

Here is the full log
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
Re: {RECOVER SOFT-brick}[2012 XPERIA's]Recover ALL 2012 XPERIAs from SOFT-brick

If you get....

~no led when plugged into a charger

~no response to power button

~no led with volume down button pressed while plugging in USB

then I suggest you leave on charger and watch for red led.

When you get red led go to the second post and follow guide.

Looks like maybe the battery died.

Try flashing just the kernel.

If you have an unlocked bootloader then try using fastboot to flash a different kernel.

Next time you need to post a log please just copy it then paste it in your post. You can use the BB code for hide to keep the post smaller.

The link you gave opened up ads containing inappropriate material on my computer and I was not very happy since my little girls were home. I did not read the log so if you would like to post it again after trying the suggestions please use my suggestion on posting logs from above.

Thanks

From Jaramie's LT28at
[Sony Cross-Device General] Georges2251:
If the battery died, can I charge it?

I will charge it for the night, go to sleep and try again.

And I'm extremely sorry, I forgot that bayfiles is, after all a Pirate Bay branch, never thought of that considering I have adblock.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
Re: {RECOVER SOFT-brick}[2012 XPERIA's]Recover ALL 2012 XPERIAs from SOFT-brick

Did you try to enter flash-mode again after it stopped?

Try using a rubber band to hold the volume button in with the phone connected to a PC with flashtool waiting to flash, see the flashtool section in the OP.

The PC will charge the phone while connected. And if you leave flashtool waiting for a device to flash with the phone connected, when the battery has charged enough it should flash. This could even happen when your sleeping :)

this is an example of rubber band trick

Thanks for understanding about the download site.

From Jaramie's LT28at
[Sony Cross-Device General] Tiiliskivi:
I let my phone to charge overnight and now I have red charging led. :) However, buttons still won't work and computer won't recognize it...

Edit: I downloaded Flashtool and it seems it brought my device back to life. :D
[Sony Cross-Device General] ganeshbiyer:
THE RUBBER BAND TRICK IS THE BEST :good::good::good:

Already used it 3 times with great result. The moment the phone goes into soft brick, apply the rubber band trick. If you are lucky, your phone will be up within few hours. The max it took was little over a day for me.
[Sony Cross-Device General] jommyjom:
Please tell me my phone is not bricked!

I have no idea what just happened. I have an Xperia Ion that I rooted and so the next step was to install CWM through the CWM Recovery software posted in the CWM installation for Ion thread.

I ran the install.bat file and a command window popped up and seemingly installed everything fine. It told that it was finished and according to the guide in that thread, I was supposed to restart the phone and tap the Sony logo over and over until it entered CWM. However, instead of simply restarting the phone, I held the volume down + power button to turn the phone back on to restart, thinking that I needed to do the same thing as when I flashed my firmware.

Now the phone doesn't turn on and I have the following symptoms

- No LED when plugged in

- No response from any buttons

- Screen is all black

- When plugging into my laptop, Windows makes the "Ding!" sound to signify it detected something, but nothing shows up in Explorer

- Just plugged into my laptop's powered USB port and it detected as SEMC device

Please help! What should I do? Thank you!
[Sony Cross-Device General] madismet:
Bricked Xperia Go

Hello!

I accidentally flashed a boot.img for another model (anzu) on my Go (lotus) via fastboot. At that point, the phone had 60% charge. Now the phone:

- will not turn on (not even backlight, nothing)

- will not go into flash mode

- lights up the red LED when i connect it to a charger / the computer.

I did a hard reset before reading this thread. After that, i was able to do a few soft resets and managed to get the blue LED to turn on for a few seconds by plugging in exactly at the soft reset point (one buzz). So i downloaded the correct boot.img, hoping to flash it, and left the phone on the charger overnight. However, now the phone will not even do a soft reset. It does light up the red led when i connect it.

Is there any way to enter fastboot mode so i can flash the correct boot.img? Or is this a hard brick?

I would really appreciate any tips:)
[Sony Cross-Device General] tangosierra_:
Re: {RECOVER SOFT-brick}[2012 XPERIA's]Recover ALL 2012 XPERIAs from SOFT-brick

Be patient it'll take a while. Try the rubber band trick described a few pages back
[Sony Cross-Device General] jommyjom:
I just tried the rubber band trick overnight, but no luck at all.
[Sony Cross-Device General] sl0e:
Got a brick. Again.

I've been charging the phone for almost 24h now, during the time the red LED was on and off, never going green. I tried to test flash-mode with a charger (plug the phone with vol down button to a charger), but failed. I am now waiting for the LED to go red again, so that I can apply the rubber band trick with the flashtool. I tried with no red LED on, but the phone just got recognized as SEMC flash device.

Will report back with the progress. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to this awesome thread :highfive:

edit // lol, forgot to mention. The phone is Xperia SL.

edit#2 // Just to sum up, I have a "functioning" red LED, no green led, can't power on the device (obviously), no vibration or response during soft reset, SEMC flash device on my pc.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
Re: {RECOVER SOFT-brick}[2012 XPERIA's]Recover ALL 2012 XPERIAs from SOFT-brick

Please note when using the rubber band trick the phone is charging also. When the phone is charged enough it will try to boot into offline charging. With the rubber band on and it tries to boot it will go directly into flash mode.

Dont charge and then try rubber band, use rubber band while charging from PC.

Dont forget to setup flashtool waiting for device.

From Jaramie's LT28at
[Sony Cross-Device General] sl0e:
Thank you for that post, I wasn't really clear on that.

I connected my phone with the rubber band trick, I've set up the flashtools, got this line of code:

02/001/2013 18:01:14 - INFO - Device connected with USB debugging off

02/001/2013 18:01:15 - INFO - For 2011 devices line, be sure you are not in MTP mode

but I guess I'll just wait for the phone to try & boot to flash mode.

Let's hope it works :fingers-crossed:
[Sony Cross-Device General] jommyjom:
After unplugging my phone, I somehow got it into flash mode, so of course I immediately tried to flashtool and flash the stock ftf to it. However, flashtool is now stuck on "Reading Device Info" and the progress bar is staying at 0%. What should I do? Please help!
[Sony Cross-Device General] sudd1976:
Bricked?

Dude,

Sorry to hear about your device but do not panic.

I have managed to unbrick a few xperia's phones, S and Z so far.

Download Sony Update Service, when installed choose your device and hit go.

It will wipe all the data on your phone but it should boot up and be unbricked.

Worked for me
[Sony Cross-Device General] jommyjom:
WOOHOO!! Since it was stuck, I decided to just close Flashtool and unplug the phone. After that the phone for some reason rebooted itself and it turned back on! No more brick!
[Sony Cross-Device General] -VoL-:
nice tips:x. I unbrick my XSL success with it. Thanks
[Sony Cross-Device General] sl0e:
I left the phone overnight with the rubber band pressing vol down. When I woke up, I found the phone doing the cycle - when the red LED is off, I get the mentioned:

02/001/2013 18:01:14 - INFO - Device connected with USB debugging off

02/001/2013 18:01:15 - INFO - For 2011 devices line, be sure you are not in MTP mode

When the red LED turned on, then the log just said "device disconnected".

The only thing I'm able to do with my phone is get to this red LED cycle of battery charging, no other tricks have worked for me.

To sum up again:

- low power charging mode works, in cycles as I've noticed, with the red LED coming on and off, up to a point where the phone doesn't respond to a charger or usb cable for 6+ hours, during that time I suspect battery dies, and then starts the low power charging mode again

- I tried to test the flash-mode by holding the vol down while plugging the phone to a charger, but I never got a green LED, just the usual red

- My pc sees the device as SEMC flash device, working on a QHSUSB_DLOAD Qualcomm chip

- I can't soft reset the device with the power + vol up combo

- No official Sony software can detect my phone

Thank you for your input!
[Sony Cross-Device General] madismet:
My progress

I think the rubber band trick worked, finally. I accessed fastboot and flashed another kernel. It wont start for now, but maybe the battery needs to be charged for a while (red led).

In case you dont know (if you still have this problem), i will explain what i did (the computer just detected the device, so i think im in the clear):

My problem started when i flashed a boot.img belonging to Xperia arc on my Xperia go. The phone would not respond at all (except initial soft and hard resets, later i got nothing), just red led when plugged in. The red led turned off and on while plugged in. So i did the rubber band trick, given originally about 20 pages ago, only for fastboot. This is how it worked:

1) get a rubber band and put it around vol up button (this is for fastboot; for flash it would be vol down)

2) plug the phone to your computer

3) get the fastboot.exe file (google)

4) put the correct boot.img file (or kernel, i flashed the wron boot.img, so i did it this way. I dont know what the difference is) in the same folder as fastboot.exe

4) open command prompt, go to the fastboot folder (look up commands, generally the cmd starts in Documents, so it would be "cd desktop cd fastboot_folder)

5) type in "fastboot flash boot boot.img"

6) the cmd will say "waiting for device..."

leave it like that; i got purple (i guess blue plus red) led after awhile and fastboot flashed the kernel quickly and successfully.

I will keep you informed on success or failure. It is still charging with a red led.

EDIT

It did work. I now have CM9 running on my Go. The SIM card is not found but that may be just a bug. Anyway, i can always restore with PC Companion.

Once again, the instructions above are for my case (flashed wrong img via fastboot). For some, the flashtool method may be the way to go.

Thanks for sharing the good tips, especcially the OP and the rubber band trick. I hope everyone else gets their phone going as well. I was pretty desperate so dont give up and keep that band on:).

EDIT

After reset, SIM was found. All clear.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Pinti2:
Forgot user phone code

Hello, I have a sony xperia model j, and I forgot security code of the phone and I can't enter the menu. How can I pass this codethis code or reinstall software? Thanks.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Pandemic:
why we get directly pointed to this forum of Xperia S??

very strange and its just a question ;)
[Sony Cross-Device General] sl0e:
I am unable to enter flash-mode.

I've been trying to do so for the past 12 hours, but my results are the same - red LED, my computer doesn't even detect the device, no LED, my device is connected with USB debugging off.

Any suggestions?

Can you tell me how your computer saw your device during the process? Did it detect the phone normally, or like SEMC Flash device/QHSUSB_DLOAD? I'm asking because I'm somewhat unsure about the drivers that I've installed. Thank you for the info you shared.
[Sony Cross-Device General] madismet:
sl0e,

My computer did not detect anything (Not even an unknown device. Actually, i did not check it in Device Manager, but flashtool and pc companion showed nothing and there was no popup when i connected it. It might have been what you said). It was only after i flashed the correct kernel that there was a popup about drivers not being installed.

I am not sure whether you would need drivers for using fastboot. Flashtool needs drivers and these are included with it (just go to flashtool folder - drivers - exe file and install your device drivers).

If you have drivers and flashtool still wont work, i would suggest this:

1) get fastboot and try this command: fastboot devices

It will say "waiting for device". Now do the rubber band on vol up thing and wait. If at any time you get fastboot, it should show your device in cmd window.

2) if this worked, get a recovery image for your device (not sure if just the kernel / boot image would do, maybe someone else can elaborate?) and flash it with fastboot. I dont think you could make your situation any worse by trying this:)

Let us know how it goes.

EDIT

Left mine to charge for a few hours and now it is dead again:), just the red light for a while. Something must be wrong with the CM kernel or my hardware. I did notice it would not charge while CM was running; the charge was constantly 6%.
[Sony Cross-Device General] sl0e:
Thank you again for the useful post.

I will try the fastboot mode, although I'm not sure it will work since my device is stock. Will report back with the results.
[Sony Cross-Device General] madismet:
Ok, the problem was with my wall charger, i think. It charges when connected to computer.

I tried the command "fastboot devices" myself (for the first time) and it actually did not wait for the device, although it says so in the wiki i read. When i tried the "fastboot flash ..." command it started to wait. So maybe just try to flash right away, even if "devices" does not work.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
Re: {RECOVER SOFT-brick}[2012 XPERIA's]Recover ALL 2012 XPERIAs from SOFT-brick

Because all 2012 and newer Xperias can be recovered using these tricks.

It is better to keep all the information in one thread, so the moderator added links in other models forums.

This thread was actually just for the Ion when it was started. Also I personally have an Ion.

If you read through the thread you will find that most models have recovered using this thread, even the new Sony only models.

From Jaramie's LT28at
[Sony Cross-Device General] CollectoR13:
Hello guys!

I did softbrick my Xperia S, because I was restoring a backup (including a kernel not supporting offline charging:() while having low battery.

I forgot to wipe data, so I got a bootloop, but all was flashing well.

After some time, my phone went off, because of low battery.

Then I plugged it into the wallcharger and after some time, a red led came up, which went off after some more time and then on and off and on and off.....

I left it like that for a day, but yesterday I tried the rubberband trick with fastboot waiting for device and the volume button held up.

The phone got a constant red led after some time and now this morning, it was still red and fastboot still waiting for device.:(

I unplugged it for 5 min now and plugged it back in, it shows no red led.:rolleyes:

Any Ideas what I should try next?

Help Appreciated!;):good:
[Sony Cross-Device General] sl0e:
I have not been able to get the phone to work in fastboot or in flashboot mode. I have done pretty much everything, I tried different wall chargers, car chargers, usb cables, computer drivers & methods, rubber band tricks, nothing's working.

I will charge the phone for a couple of hours more and then try on my friend's fresh win7 installation, if that doesn't work, I'm afraid there's no other options for me but the service/repair center.

EDIT // I tried the procedure again on a clean win7, but I've had no luck. There seems to be no way for my device to get the green/blue LED,

When the red LED is on, my computer doesn't register the device. When it's off, I can connect it to my pc, so that it can see it as SEMC flash device, but I get this log from flashtools:

For fastboot mode, it's the same thing:

I also tried to fastboot using cmd.exe, again, got the prompt to wait for device, but nothing happened.

So far, this brick gave me nothing to work with, I've been reading the forums for the past four days, and I've not seen anyone work around the problem like this. I'm open to any suggestions regarding the matter.
[Sony Cross-Device General] madismet:
I checked and found that fastboot actually needs drivers. Links and guide here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=878786.

I have messed around with this phone before so i have a bunch of different stuff installed. Cant remember everything:). I actually have the Android SDK which lists the different drivers installed and includes the fastboot file.

One more page with instructions on how to get fastboot to work:

http://www.xperiagamer.com/Beginners-Guides/unlock-the-bootloader-ramge.html

I hope this helps.