[Sony Cross-Device General] SErooted:
Hello all,

well, i have to say that i have read the first page over and over and over again. not new to the device or the workings of it and none of what i read and have tried has worked so maybe one or a few of you out there might have more insight into the issue i am experiencing.

I have two ion's myself and have never run into this issue, however, my brother in law was just given one by me....

he tried to install an apk from .... that said it would install beats audio.... after his phone went into a boot loop. it was still able to boot recovery. and he tried wiping cache,dalvik,battery, and a factory reset. phone still boot looped.

he was suppose to make sure that it was charged when giving to me so that i could just flash new ftf to it. well, what i did was go into recovery and wipe everything again hoping that i could install a rom and move forward and keep root and recovery without having to do it all again. wiping went fast as usual and then i decided that maybe he might have an issue with emmc and system. so i formatted those. afterwards the phone went into boot loop and now all i get is a red led when plugged in and a cycle of the sony logo then a repeat... power key - volume returns no result.

power volume+ returned 3 vibrations once.... backlit screen for about a half hour then a repeat of red led and sony logo. i have left it over night... last night... and same thing.... i have pulled the housing off and disconnected battery from mother board for about ten minutes maybe fifteen. and once i had put it back together and plugged in. it does the same thing. should i be concerned and tell him his phone is shot... or is it possible that once i charge one of my ions, that i could take the housing off it, connect his mother board to a battery that i know is charged and flash it.... and also take my mother board which has a running system on it... and plug it into his battery and see if i can get it charged that way?

any tips other than what is already mentioned would be great... i cant figure out what happened to this phone as i have turned my own into paper weights for a short time but always recovered within 20 minutes to 2 days...

thanks for the thoughts and help.

EDIT: ok so i have something to share here.... what i did was plug the usb port into the comp and into the phone with the battery disconnected... started flashtool.... selected my firmware file.... when ready to flash and prompted to plug the device in... i connected the battery.. this showed as in flash mode...( which it would not show at all before )... i held volume down and waited for the phone to see if it looped again or had red led... red led came on and im going to let it charge for a little while... it attempted to boot and went to att splash screen. and then shut down.. so i will report back on this in a few hours as i soon have to be getting to bed.

EDIT: so the phone is booting and running through the wait while android updates screen and continues to reboot and attempt to start.. better than what it was before. i have it plugged in to the wall charger for the time being. i will report back in the late a.m. early pm. and hopefully have news that it finally was able to boot and stay booted...:) the joys of playing with our phones... and the patience we have to have to do it ourselves to get it back up and running... i knew there was a reason i do these things.

Update: so what i did was take both mother boards out of the non working and working phones. i was able to flash a working rom on the bad one. both are now charging. the one of mine that i used to get the other going is in a boot loop but at least is charging. once i reach 100% than i will flash back to stock...

Note: i know that the forums and members here on xda are great. tutorials are always a plus. Patients is first however... Unfortunately, though the tutorial on page 1 is great for most of us... i had to take another route. if i wouldn't have had another ion to work with and pull parts from.... i may not have been able to get the one that was having issues repaired.. so if anyone runs into a situation like i did... it might help to have two Ions.