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[Sony Cross-Device General] thinkingood:
Tried that too but the phone just wont give 3 vibrations. It flashes blue led once and shakes once(one small vibration) and then the SONY logo appears . A few seconds later a blank black screen is shown and stays indefinately.
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
try pressing the power + vol+ for an amazingly long time

btw when you connect it should give a green led, if you are pressing vol- in that moment..

[MENTION=4784767]borissd[/MENTION]

flashtool need vol- not +
[Sony Cross-Device General] surajdhanuki:
i have successfully flashed the mobile.... but when i try to switch it on.. the red led blinks but the mobile doesnt start up... when i put it in charge, green light is on.. i tried powering on while chargin still no luck...
[Sony Cross-Device General] Seiken23:
Just got bricked by wall charging

hello guys. just wanna share this. i have a few questions as well.

i have acro hd, (so-03d) rooted. i never have any problem when it comes to customizing things, like toggle bar, boot animation, etc. until that time it shows no sign of activity after i let it to charge completely(just by looking at led light, green). after i unplugged my device, no led light, no screen boot up, no vibrations, everything. it also didnt respond to reset tricks as well. and no response to pc when you tried to connect it.

i checked again if my phone will respond if i reconnect it to the wall charger. it responded but it only shows a faint rapid blinking light. too faint that you cannot see it if your surroundings are too bright. this time i seek help the internet, and i found this site.

while reading this thread, i checked some of the things that i can do to let my phone to revive. here are some of the things i did.

>dismantled the battery( well, that escalated quickly). - like as they said, i should have to remove the battery to let the bad memory clears up in my phone. watched a tutorial on how to dismantle, execute, done. battery unplugged to motherboard. almost leaving that for over 2 hours. replugged again the battery. but upon checking it again if it can respond to charger(the red light thing), no response, even the faint red rapidly blinking light was gone.:(

>letting my phone plugged to wall charger. - this is what i do at this moment hope to see a led light for as soon. it was been plugged for almost 24 hours, with no response. still, i don't lose hope coz somewhere i read here in this forum that some phones shows signs of red led after 110+ hours max. and right after my phone become a goner, my batt stats are almost 100% that means it takes days to let it discharge completely.

one more thing. my bootloader is locked. so i suspect it is a softbrick. never attempt to unlock it as they said if you f**kd up in this thing, oh well, you already know that.

now, my question. how soft brick even possible in just by charging? does it somehow related to my phone being unrooted? take note my phone is xperia acro hd so 03d. a phone variant from japan similar to arco s.

thanks.;)
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
have you tried flashtool?

flash stock rom (press vol- while connecting to computer) and enjoy

if phone doesn't connect try power + vol+ for 10-15 seconds
[Sony Cross-Device General] accts:
Have you try running flashtool when it ask for the phone then vol. down plugin the USB ? The worst it just charge your phone - otherwise it might run and reflash firmware. Work for me last time.
[Sony Cross-Device General] ganeshbiyer:
Yes, tried. But does not work.
[Sony Cross-Device General] soudara:
ok red light back , i can detect my phone with press down volume and plug usb during bootloop but it's hard , the led turn green, lcd turn on but blackscreen no boot logo ,

on my pc flashtool start flashing but aborted at 14% ,phone freezing on blackscreen with green led and not detected again on flashtool , if i unplug the phone he's auto shut off after 5mn , im replug on wall charger the red led come again

help ?

edit: my phone turn on on wall charger with sony logo but no detected
[Sony Cross-Device General] Dragoboss:
Lawl, I boot-looped/soft-bricked my phone by messing up a bit with NinjaMorph xD

Guys, NEVER change the xml files (in themes or apk's) if you don't know 100% what you're doing.

@TeledoJab, I was wondering, do you know if there's any way of sort of flashing system, without wiping user data etc.

Or maybe somehow telling the phone to load another theme xD I kinda was editing a xml file of a default theme apk, that messed up ^_^
[Sony Cross-Device General] soudara:
ok flashtool flash complete very hard to get greenled but its ok but no boot , i replug in wall charger for 10mn and auto boot and all is ok

my ion working perfect

thank you all

i use generic honkong tft firmware LT28i_6.1.E.1.19_Hong Kong.zip
[Sony Cross-Device General] accts:
:( I'm no help then - look like you really working it hard so rebell ... lolz ... anway hope you will get it running again.
[Sony Cross-Device General] :
Did you try this?

"Before you wait all that time, try this. Hold the volume up button and the power button at the same time. The phone will vibrate once, keep holding until it vibrates 3 more times. Now you should be able to try flashing again. Worked for me. "

After I did this I got the green LED with Vol down + USB.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
Any luck with resets when red led is on?

I hope you have good luck.

~Jaramie

sent by my ION
[Sony Cross-Device General] ganeshbiyer:
No Luck What so ever. Just dumped the phone at home with charger plugged in. Hope the green light comes on soon.

Usually, by this time the phone would be up and running. But this time, I have a real bad feeling.
[Sony Cross-Device General] soudara:
when you get the solid red led , launch flashtool load your tft file wait for popup , plug your phone with volume down if not reconize , power on your phone with your phone conected to pc , if you enter bootloop don't disconect your phone just press volume up and power , your phone reboot and enter in flashmode with green led flashtool begin flash

after flash complete disconnect your phone en put in wall charger , your phone reboot after sufficient batterie and work
[Sony Cross-Device General] ching11:
I think my ION is soft bricked now. I have read all the solution which provide here.

However, most of them are telling me let the battery dead and recharge...

i am sure that the let the battery dead, and I try to re-charge the phone on the wall. It will show me the solid red immediately, but after 4-5mins, the screen will on and off again and again...

What should I do? should be let it keep charging?

Thanks guy for reading this and sorry that my English is not good.
[Sony Cross-Device General] faiisfaizal:
before it turning on u can try go into the flashmode volume + and plug usb....sometimes it working or u can go hard reset to turn it off volume + and power button hold it together u will get 1 vibration dont release the button yet w8 for the triple vibration after 3 sec from the first 1
[Sony Cross-Device General] ching11:
So, after I hard reset the phone with triple, should i charge the phone at wall over 16 hours?
[Sony Cross-Device General] ganeshbiyer:
Finally got my phone up and running. Had to send it to service center.
[Sony Cross-Device General] soudara:
ching i'm sure your phone is not dead i have exactly same problem

step 1: launch flashtool and load your tft file

step2: wait popup plug usb cable

step3: plug your phone in pc with volume down if your phone not recognize , test power up manually with phone conected if boot in bootloop is good

during bootloop , phone not reconize it's normal

step4: dont disconect your phone during bootloop , just soft reset your phone with volume up + power , wait for 1 vibrate release the button and push imidiately volume up,

your phone enter in flashmode with green led (if the green led not solid probally your phone need more battery for flashtool finish the flash) flashtool begin flash

if flashtool abort flash your phone need more batterie , charge your phone and return to step 1

ps: very hard to enter in flashmode but possible i try 6 or 7 time

sorry for my english
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
HE MENT TO SAY VOLUME DOWN FOR FLASHMODE. Flash-mode (green led) is for ftf files in flashtool.

Volume up is fastboot-mode (blue led, if your phone has it) for flashing custom kernels. No good for recovering from soft-brick
[Sony Cross-Device General] ching11:
Thanks guys for provide solution for me.

I will try my best to solve it and report here.:victory:
[Sony Cross-Device General] aimakun:
Hello, I'm the new one in here. My Xperia ION is bricked and I thought it stills a soft-brick one.

I've found exist solutions and tried enough then my results aren't work. But at least it could wake up sometimes.

So, my situations split to two routes:

Route 1:

On charger, it shown solid red LED on my phone.

When connect to PC, solid red LED suddenly appeared, nothing I could do because no any response when the buttons pressed. (I've tried "power" / "power + vol up" / "power + vol down" and "vol down")

Sometimes it appeared the route 2:

On charger, it shown solid red LED for a while, then boot loop with turned on blank screen.

When boot loop appeared, I've connected phone to PC, no LED appeared, and now I could only press soft reset (power + vol up) with 1 vibration.

Sometimes after press the soft reset, PC found the phone as SEMC Flash Device. (USB debugging off, so I couldn't use flashboot though)

I don't sure that there are some ways to flash the stock firmware when it appeared as SEMC Flash Device, so please help if someone has ever tried it.

Thank you. :)
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
During boot loops, make sure its not plugged in, do a soft reset(1 vibration). With the phone off, get flashtool ready to flash (see the first post of this thread for getting flashtool ready for tricks). Then plug in while holding volume down. You should get green led and flashing should start

~Jaramie

Sent from my ION
[Sony Cross-Device General] HackitZ:
Hello all.

I came across this post while trying to fix my xperia T.

My xperia t will not power on.

It has no lights.

I plug it in no lights.

I plug it in to use flash tool and holding volume down does nothing.

I hold the power and volume up and nothing happens.

The phone is dead and does nothing.

I have left it in charging for 24 hours and still nothing.

I have left it for another 24 hours not connected to anything and still no lights, blinks or any sign of life.

My xperia t is branded and it's boot loader is locked.

Any ideas?

Thanks
[Sony Cross-Device General] surajdhanuki:
[MENTION=4900593]mirhl[/MENTION] please help me... i m stuck......
[Sony Cross-Device General] borissd:
[MENTION=4900593]mirhl[/MENTION] flash tool not recognize the device, no led no screen

"sorry for my english"
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
This is weird...

Hard reset the phone before connecting it to the computer

Then, make sure that while in flashtool, all the exclude boxes aren't ticked and all the wipe boxes are ticked
[Sony Cross-Device General] surajdhanuki:
hard reset not working.. wat ever i press it gives me red led blinking.... any other solution plsss...
[Sony Cross-Device General] Seiken23:
@ mirhl the hold (-) button while flashing? yes but no response at all. did all the press trick (soft and hard reset) but with no vibrations and led and screen.
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
[MENTION=4157768]surajdhanuki[/MENTION] [MENTION=5431872]Seiken23[/MENTION]

if you don't get any vibrations with power + vol+, then you have dead battery

put the phone on the wall charger. some user reported that in some situations you have to wait even 8 hours
[Sony Cross-Device General] Jswift23:
Xperia ion in a reboot loop

My at&t xperia ion lt28at is stuck in a reboot loop and there seems to be a lot of jargon in the tutorial above i don't understand can anyone help me? I messed it up by downloading and installing a beats audio app from aptoide ( Worst decision ever). It won't stop rebooting and i don't know where to start, if anyone could help without the technical jargon that would be great. I know nothing about rooting and flashing and etc in case you needed to know.
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
press vol+ + POWER to stop the bootlooping

then flash the stock FW via flashtool
[Sony Cross-Device General] Jswift23:
I held down the volume + and lock button until it vibrated three times. I have it on the charger and the led is flashing red for a good 5 seconds but then for ten seconds it goes away and flashes red again.
[Sony Cross-Device General] surajdhanuki:
yes i have charged for more than 8 hours.still its the same.its not getting switched on. before flashing the stock firmware i was able to hard reset... but after flashing i m facing these red led blinking watever i press
[Sony Cross-Device General] JackoBBB:
Hii There ;)

I've got a big problem with my XS. I tried all methods, but phone does't work. I have problem, when I pluggedin a charger red LED appear, It light about 20 minutes, then it.s off for another 20 minutes, and repeat..... No boot-lood, no SOFT/HARD RESET working, no FASTBOOT/FLASHMODE working, just this f....ing red light. Please help, I just read all 120 pages to find a solution :(
[Sony Cross-Device General] Seiken23:
hi ToledoJAB. if you happen to read this, can i ask you a question?

while charging your phone, did you feel a little warm then you touch the back of your phone? just asking.. coz i do hope my acro hd will come to rise anytime..
[Sony Cross-Device General] peter-k:
Could some please give me a working download link to flashtool?
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
Aren't this working?

http://flashtool.net/download.html
[Sony Cross-Device General] peter-k:
Uploaded.net worked today. Thanks. I will store it now on y PC for future use.

==================================================

PC Companion is your friend. I couldn't wait and just did a fresh installation over night. For a noob like me instructions are confusing and the needed download files are here and there, with some links not working. No offence intended, just a comment!
[Sony Cross-Device General] Mitsos_The_Great:
Hi! I need help.yesterday closed the mobile after charging and now will not open. The Seus and flash tool (flash mode & fastboot) does not recognize it. When I press the two volume buttons computer displays qualcomm hs-usb qdloader 9008. What to do? (bootloader unlocked) . No led, all deads...
[Sony Cross-Device General] sachathull:
s

With the assistance, I have a LT28H

after the installation of chainefire 3D, the telephone in loop on the logo “SONY”, then I turned have to let it empty itself all the night all alone, but when I suislever morning, I note that my xpéria ion does not react any more.

I am explained:

it does not start any more and does not even make a vibration at the time of the support on “POWER”, even by maintaining flight - or flight +

seeing it does not ignite any more when I connect it on my PC, catch, charger, etc…

Help me urgently, please!!!
[Sony Cross-Device General] kenaeny:
have the same problem here, the same phone!!

i posted my problem 40 pages back but no response
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
Did you tried the hard rubber trick?
[Sony Cross-Device General] Jswift23:
I finally fixed my phone. it took forever to finally charge and able me to put in flash mode, but i finally did it. Thanks for helping me!
[Sony Cross-Device General] JackoBBB:
I find the solution of this problem :) I Create a Tutorial How to charge battery outside :) It;'s working perfect, but my Xperia has Hardware problem, Mainboard was crashed :)

Link to my TUT :) http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=45637223#post45637223

Try this :)
[Sony Cross-Device General] tangosierra_:
PCC only works for locked bootloaders. Besides flashtool is super simple once you get the hang of it.
[Sony Cross-Device General] harsha_hs:
USB devices disconnected error

I have stock Xperia P with stock firmware, i am facing the problem described in this post

talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xperia-P/Charging-problem-USB-Disconnected-error/m-p/267996#U267996

Not able to connect to PC and not able to charge properly. Please help
[Sony Cross-Device General] amnher:
I messed up vold.fstab, and now phone is dead and I can't enter fastboot or flashmode. What do I do? I formatted the original Internal storage(Now external) and ended up this brick after powering off
[Sony Cross-Device General] samurai1004:
Xperia S soft brick, need to backup

Hi there I was updating my gf's Xperia S and suddenly PCC on my computer got lagged so I unplugged the phone, now I think it has been soft bricked. I have been trying to back things up before then but none of them works...until the soft brick..Now is there any way I can back up the phone..maybe just contacts and pictures? I can see its fairly easy to just wipe it up..but my gf's gonna kill me if she knows this..T.T. Please help.
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
Just use SEUS (sony update service) and you will be fine
[Sony Cross-Device General] kenaeny:
so big trick is to charge the battery?

if i dont have an old sony ericsson phone what else should i do?
[Sony Cross-Device General] zackspeed:
I managed to brick my Ion today and was getting zero response from it and when it happened I had 98% charge. If you are brave enough to take your device apart and undo the battery it will be up and running in no time. As soon as I plugged it back in it gave me the charge screen but was still looping. So just went in cwm and restored my back up and all is fine again. Thought I would share.
[Sony Cross-Device General] anonym6x6:
Hello,

my screen is on, but there is nothing on the display.

It stucks. Power + Vol+ is not helped. The phone don't go out and i'm not abled to Flashmode or anything else. The screen is further towards on! What can i do??? :confused: :confused:
[Sony Cross-Device General] liljamjam:
Bootloader unlock

How did you take it apart? And do you think this would work with the "pin" method like the 2011 models to unlock the bootlader? I have the lt28at and it seems everyone has given up on a bootloader unlock
[Sony Cross-Device General] aayush_neov:
~ Make flashtool ready to flash your stock.ftf file.

If you are experiencing errors while flashing the entire ROM try to flash just the kernel,

check off all in the exclude box except kernel. At this point your battery is very low and doing this will make the flash process much faster than trying to flash the entire ROM.

This step saved me :D :D
[Sony Cross-Device General] aayush_neov:
whenever i try to reinstall the software it hangs on this
[Sony Cross-Device General] MegaSharkXDA:
I'm stuck here:

~ Try to connect phone in flash-mode. If your phone has enough battery you will get green led. If the flash fails on the first try, just put it back on the charger and wait about 10-30 minutes and repeat. It may take a while to charge enough to flash.

~ If you see the red led go out, then try for flash-mode.

The phone doesn't enter flash mode, it just lights up the red led when I plug the USB cable, as if it were simply charging. I have repeated this procedure after the red led go out, with no success.

Flashtool keeps displaying the "Connect your phone with vol. down pressed" window.

What else can I try?​
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
[MENTION=3378704]MegaSharkXDA[/MENTION] let the phone charge for some hours

then, hard shutdown it (power+ vol+ for 15 seconds) and connect to the computer while pressing vol-
[Sony Cross-Device General] bienvanhoang:
that great, i recovered my phone after brick:)
[Sony Cross-Device General] MegaSharkXDA:
I have just tried that, but apparently my Xperia P interprets power + vol.up as a simple "Power" button pressing... resulting in the red led flashing fast for 10 times. The phone doesn't turn on.

Here's my Flashtool log (it doesn't even recognize the phone with vol. down pressed when connecting to USB):

23/050/2013 22:50:44 - INFO - <- This level is successfully initialized

23/050/2013 22:50:44 - INFO - Flashtool Version 0.9.10.1 built on 2013-01-09 19:49:47

23/050/2013 22:50:44 - INFO - You can drag and drop ftf files here to start flashing them

23/051/2013 22:51:02 - INFO - Device disconnected

23/051/2013 22:51:27 - INFO - Selected Xperia P (LT22i)_6.2.A.1.100_CE Stock Unbranded.ftf

23/051/2013 22:51:27 - INFO - Preparing files for flashing

23/051/2013 22:51:30 - INFO - Please connect your device into flashmode.
[Sony Cross-Device General] FAIZ KHAN:
HARD BRICK XPERIA ION NO LED NOT EVEN WITH CHARGER HARD RESET NO VIBRATION TOTALLY UNRESPONSIVE I M GOING MAD WHAT TO DO HARD SOFT ANY RESET NOT WORKING ,,,,I INSTALLED NEW KERNAL I SWITCHED OFF DINT ON SINCE THEN MAY B ISTALLEDWRONG KERNAL PLZ HELP I CANT LOOSE THIS PHONE AND DINT WANT IT TO B DEAD

:crying::crying:
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
CALM DOWN

It can't not vibrate.. Are you sure you are pressing power and vol+?

Do this for 20 seconds until the famous 3 vibration

Then you can download the stock FW for flashtool and flash it
[Sony Cross-Device General] MegaSharkXDA:
My Xperia P doesn't vibrate when I press power and vol.+ for 20 seconds.
[Sony Cross-Device General] cathy_nhi:
Red LED blinking light for almost 70 hours

Hello everyone,

I own a Sony Xperia Ion, and recently decided to flash the 4.1.2 Jellybean update to my phone, as there is no official Canadian update.

(I'm on Wind Mobile)

I used 6.2.B.0.211 with the flash tool program.

Things seemed to be okay as I turned it on, but then there was an update notification on my phone and it started to update 208 files.

After that, it went into a bootloop. So I did I hard reset, (3 vibrations - power and Volume up). I then assumed that I had bricked my phone because it would no respond to the power button and the red light did not appear when I plugged it into the wall charger.

From then to now I have been charging it on my wall waiting for something miraculous to happen.

It has been almost 70 hours and continue to see a blinking red led light (this appeared after 24 hours), I am still waiting for the constant red light, or even the green led :crying:

Please help!

Desperate uni student that needs her phone
[Sony Cross-Device General] adrian721:
thanks, very usefully, ;););););)
[Sony Cross-Device General] FAIZ KHAN:
i open the back cover and removed the battery plug for 2-3 min than i put on charging for long hours now i am getting constant red led but still cant get vibration and not even going on flash mode .

How do i flash EDITING MY COMMENT

I LOST THE CONSTANT LED BUT 20 SEC IDEA WORKED AFTER I LOST RED LED ITS NOW IN FLASH MODE FROM HERE I CAN HANDLE THAN ALOT VVV MUCH U BROUGHT MY PHONE OUT OF COMA ....
[Sony Cross-Device General] MegaSharkXDA:
So lucky... how did you "lost the constant led"?
[Sony Cross-Device General] FAIZ KHAN:
I WAS REMOVING AND PUTTING USB CABLE IN LAPTOP TO GAIN FLASH MODE SO IN THAT PROCESS I LOST IT I APPLIED WHAT U TOLD TO THEIR COULD B ONE MORE REASON FOR LED AFTER REMOVING BATTERY PLUG N PUTTING BACK LED STARTED COMING AS I SAID BUT ALSO I WAS GETTING CONNECTING TONE IN MY LAPTOP WHENEVER I CONNECTED IT DINT SHOWED UP ANYWHERE NO LED(SOMETIME THERE SOMETIME NOT) NO DISPLAY NO WHERE IN FLASH TOOL BUT JUST SOUND OF CONNECTING ...OR MAY B LUCKKK HAHA:fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::laugh:
[Sony Cross-Device General] funtaz:
I tried to find answer in the forum but i couldn't. I need to restore my contacts and sms from my soft-bricked Sony XPERIA Arc (boot loop) All topics and FAQs tell us how to restore a phone with wiping user data but i need to backup it someway. This is a life-or-death thing. I didn't install CWM and i don't know how to do it through flashtool or smth else. Could you help me please even for money? Is it possible?