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[Sony Cross-Device General] ramachandran163:
It Worked!!

First of all, thank you very very much.. I have an Xperia TL AT&T that I tried to update with the latest PACMAN ROM and ended up bricking it. It didn't even start up or anything at all.. I am just going to go ahead and say what worked for anyone who ends up here..

1. Had to let the battery drain completely (it took about a few days)

2. Install the Flashtool.. (truthfully, most of the links out there don't work any more..) and got the firmware specifically out there for the Xperia TL AT&T..

3. After charging a bit (which was indicated by the red led going on for a bit), connected through flash mode.. Struggled a few times with the charge not being enough.. But finally it worked and that's it.. (Oh!!.. I got all the AT&T bloatware now on my phone, but worth it and will keep it as such atleast for a bit longer :D)

Few important things.. the model from at&t is LT30at and LT30p.. The PC companion and the Update services don't work for some reason.. They end up saying that there is no updates for the phone. Sony's flashtool (codename EMMA) doesn't work either. That is coz that at&t model does not have an unlocked bootloader and as far as I know, it's not possible. So, you might have rooted, installed a custom rom like Xperiment but, you have not unlocked the bootloader.. As far as I know, that would always be the case.. So, don't assume that you have a unlocked bootloader and follow those instructions that are specifically out there for unlocked ones.

Just follow the instructions on this thread.. Works awesome.. :D :D :D

Cheers!!!

Ram.
[Sony Cross-Device General] hacker1911:
still cannot flash

PLEASE HELP

AND TELL HOW TO SOFT RESET OR HARD RESET
[Sony Cross-Device General] rErEaT:
Nothing has changed:(

I have same problem on windows 8.1
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
If you still can't install the right driver, my only other advice is to find a computer with windows 7 or backwards
[Sony Cross-Device General] CharlesDicken:
yep that would work :)
[Sony Cross-Device General] hacker1911:
you all say that problem is with windows

so there's no problem with my device

PLEASE REPLY FAST
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
Yessssssss

The problem as far as we know are the drivers

Install them or change computer
[Sony Cross-Device General] hacker1911:
will try

thanks
[Sony Cross-Device General] WarSupport:
Hi...I have a problem with my Rogers Xperia T, hoping someone might be able to help. My cell crashed while using my phone over a week ago. Went to turn it back on and nothing but a flashing Red light all the time when trying to turn the cell back on. I've spent countless hours reading all the suggestions on this forum,with no real luck yet.

After many attempts to fix my cell from all the great tips on this forum...like taking my phone apart to disconnect the battery,rubber band trick etc. Nothing has ever changed. It seems my cell is stuck in some type of Flash Mode Loop?

When plugged into the charger or PC, my light goes from solid Red for a few minutes then solid Green. But the Green light only stays for a few seconds then it goes out,but it still stays in Flash Mode for a few minutes than back to the Red again,and keeps repeating this cycle. Making it very hard to Flash or Repair my phone due to Flash Mode never staying long enough to complete. Only 1 time has it actually flashed the entire Rom with Flash Tool and every attempt before or after has failed. But this still didn't change the Flash Loop?

I just can't seem to get the phone out of this Loop to complete any type of battery recharge. If any one else has had this,any input would be greatly appreciated. Thank You
[Sony Cross-Device General] btafoya:
I too am experiencing the same issue with my AT&T model. My computer does not even see the phone when plugged in via USB. Any suggestions?
[Sony Cross-Device General] WarSupport:
I had this problem too,I was using my top and front USB spots to connect my cell. It wasn't until I realized I should be using the rear USB instead,that my cell got recognized. Also reinstalling flash tool also helps,do a restart after you uninstall and another after you reinstall the program.
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
So that was a windows drivers problem
[Sony Cross-Device General] btafoya:
I have also tried using my windows 7 laptop with no success but will try the rear port of my desktop.
[Sony Cross-Device General] udhistar:
my lava iris 356

my lava iris 356 stuck at boot logo after installing chanfire 3d drivers

i use recovery mode but nothing happens what to do

:(
[Sony Cross-Device General] WarSupport:
Another suggestion that might work is go into task manager and shut down any running processes that you don't need at the moment,before installing any drivers. Sometimes a program installation can get screwed up due to running processes in the background.
[Sony Cross-Device General] SaironJG:
HELP!

Hey Guys! I need help with my Xperia Acro S. Rooted and Bootloader Unlocked.

Last Monday, I tried to update my cwm recovery, download the zip file, reboot into recovery then flashed the zip file. But unfortunately I flashed a recovery that wasn't for my device. then after rebooting, my phone won't start :( No LED, Won't turn On

Then someone adviced me to charge it until GREEN LED appear so I let it on charge, after an hour the RED LED appeared. And now, after 4 days of charging it is still in RED LED. and sometimes RED LED disappears. I'm trying to connect it on my pc but pc doesn't recognize phone. I can't go into Flashmode nor Fastboot mode. What should I do guys? :( Really NEED HELP :(:(
[Sony Cross-Device General] veiron144lww:
to recover your device First your device must be completely OFF

to make sure the phone is shutten down you need to hard rest it (because some times the device might be actually ON but stuck at boot while leds and screen are completely off:cyclops: ) in this case the PC wont be able to recognize your device in fastboot nor flashmode BUT if it was shutten down it will be able to (as any normal device) and then you can flash it back to stock firmware and recover. this method saved me twice from this kind of soft brick. :victory:

BUT as already mentioned in this thread if the hard rest did't work for some reason, you will have to use the rubber band trick (see post #2). I hope your device is fixed :angel:

And please hit thanks if i helped.. sorry for my english and for making this so long :o
[Sony Cross-Device General] SaironJG:
Hard Reset didn't work for me. I guess I'll try the rubber band trick. I hope this will work.
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
[MENTION=5577707]IAmTechFreq[/MENTION]

Open the windows device manager

And give it the right drivers (uncompress flashtool drivers if you miss them)
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
[MENTION=5577707]IAmTechFreq[/MENTION]

Don't forget to re-boot the pc after it says drivers were installed.

Also make sure that no other phone software is running, PIC
[Sony Cross-Device General] Keksdroid:
So I didnt post here in 2 months, my Ion is still bricked.

Once again here is what i did so far: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=46322860&postcount=1297

And this

When I repair with PC Companion I get Error 100 at like 98% percent I thought i was finally able to recover it but looks like the battery only lasts till 98%...

The strange thing is i get into flashmode by just leaving my phone plugged in the PC without any button pressed...after like 10 min it gets into flashmode automatically.

I really tried every trick, different PCs...nothing works.

I was now thinking about buying a new battery (since its not charging completely obviously), there are some on ebay but i doubt that they are fully charged when i get them. Is there any possibility to charge it without the phone?

Or any other trick is greatly aprreciated...
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
try to flash stock kernel only

from there, you should be able to charge the phone

if not every external battery charger could be enough

i used a galaxy nexus one to charge my xperia s, batteries have usually the same voltage
[Sony Cross-Device General] Keksdroid:
Can I just extract the kernel.sin from the ftf and flash it with flashtool? Or whats the correct way to flash the stock kernel only?

Edit: No. I cant flash .sin with Flashtool....so just exclude everything but kernel when i flash the ftf?

Edit2: I did that, after some tries the flashing was succesfull. I've put it back on the wall charger, red led for a few seconds, then turned green for a few seconds, now its a blinking red led with screen turning on and off. So same symptomes as before, i doubt that it helped. Will leave it on the charger for a while..

Well i only have an externel charger for my Galaxy Nexus that looks like this: http://images.mobilefun.de/graphics/450pixelp/34044.jpg

But when i look at the picture of the Ion battery i doubt i can charge it with that (http://www.ms-electronics.net/pics/15033023.jpg)
[Sony Cross-Device General] montenell:
how long should i be waiting for green light? i have left the phone charging overnight and it goes from no led to red led and back to no led... when i put it on computer flashtool shows device connected with usb debugging off but never goes into flashmode. its been bricked almost a week and nothing seems to help..
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
crap.. nozomi battery isn't like that...

anyway, i read about a guy who flayed the end of an usb cable and was able to connect the copper wire to the battery, recharging it

i wasn't able to find his post though
[Sony Cross-Device General] bob1995:
thanks

:eek: is very helpful:D
[Sony Cross-Device General] Pronja:
My Xperia J just bricked. I hold the buttons vol + and vol - while pluging the USB, but nothing happens. He doesn't even charge. But when I plug in, the shows up on the device manager though.
[Sony Cross-Device General] montenell:
please help

i dont know what else to do. i've done rubber band trick and that didnt work, i've disconnected battery cable that didnt work. all my pc will say is that device is connected with usb debugging off, leaving it charged for days only gets my red led on and then back off, never does it go to green. my phone is out of warranty so sending it back is not an option..what else can i do?
[Sony Cross-Device General] Keksdroid:
So I finally managed to update my bricked xperia ion with PC companion yesterday. At the end it said update to 6.2...(dont remember the correct number) was successful. So I updated from ics to jb. After that I put it back on Wall charger and let it charge over night (at first I had the same symptoms as before.. Red led, then blinking and screen turning on and off, then red again). Now the led was off, so I tried to start it... No sign of life.

So I assume it's not a software issue anymore since I updated successful to latest firmware.

Any ideas?
[Sony Cross-Device General] Devtone:
Guys need some advise. Senior flasher with problems :p

My S bootloops, Sony logo fades and back to looping. Ive got flashmode and fastbootmode. Both flash succesfully, kernel and full tft rom. The bootlogo wont change, my old recovery is not removed. Looks like no change at all.

Tips?

C:\Flashtool\x10flasher_lib>fastboot flash boot Original_boot.img

sending 'boot' (6231 KB)...

(bootloader) USB download speed was 29002kB/s

OKAY [ 0.236s]

writing 'boot'...

(bootloader) Flash of partition 'boot' requested

(bootloader) S1 partID 0x00000003, block 0x00002000-0x0000bfff

(bootloader) Erase operation complete, 0 bad blocks encountered

(bootloader) Flashing...

(bootloader) Flash operation complete

OKAY [ 0.708s]

finished. total time: 0.946s
[Sony Cross-Device General] Devtone:
SEUS says "modified software" so no officieal restore. :(
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
you have unlocked your BL then..

try emma

or try to flash the entire rom via flashtool, not only the kernel

[MENTION=5207672]Keksdroid[/MENTION]

so.. your only problem is that you can't charge offline?
[Sony Cross-Device General] IAmTechFreq:
xperia ion soft brick thing

ok so right after i installed the flashtool drivers i immediately restarted my pc , it turns back on, balalhaha , i started up flashtool immediately and i was trying to flash the whole rom this time , seeing if its any different, but today i had some success, my phone had no led on it and it hasnt turned into a green led on the wall charger since today , so it took like 32 hours + i guess to charge it to get that response. so as soon as i saw flashtool ready to flash the whole rom i guess , i plugged my phone in and waited a bout 5 minutes , and then my phone went and turned into green led at the top i saw it , and it was bright lol , and my phone detected the computer (opposite lol ) and my computer installed the SEMC driver and my phone stayed on for a bit longer than just 2 seconds it was like at least 10-15 - 20 seconds before it shutoff and went away, so my flashtool couldnt flash it exactly, so i mean im goign to this time just flash the kernal itself i guess, just the kernal.sin,and loader.sin, and hopefully after i charge it i can just flash the whole rom but i forgot to save the log so i cant really say what happened, it just said aborted because the phone went off to fast i guess.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Keksdroid:
Mhh i would say so, ye. I somehow managed to flash latest firmware with PC Companion after a few tries (earlier the battery always died).But still cant turn it on even after a day of charging (Red LED turned off, no Green tho.)
[Sony Cross-Device General] AdolfHipster:
Xperia Tipo ST21i

Hey guys!

I bricked my Xperia Tipo ST21i. I rooted it and installed CWM successfully. Then I installed a custom rom and wiped everything. After I did a reboot - it didn't start. Basically I have it in a state where it doesn't start and there is no notification LED when trying to charge it from the wall or from the PC. It does, however, enter the Flashmode (green LED) and fastbood (blue LED). Tried flashing the .flf for this phone through Flashtool - doesn't work. Stuck on the screen where it asks me to plug in the device. When I plug it into the PC and go to flash mode, windows says that the USB device is not recognized. I tried installing multitudes of drivers and stuff - still nothing.

Hope someone can help me out! I would greatly appreciate it!
[Sony Cross-Device General] lecressini13:
acro s red led flashing?is this a deadboot?

Good day to all..

I just really need a way on how to restore my acro s...

situation

when charge directly to the socket or pc.......red led flashing...battery doesn't charge...no screen,,,no power...

i have try charging for 24 hrs but the red led flashing doesn't turn to orange or green
[Sony Cross-Device General] WarSupport:
Go here first http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1849170 alot of useful information here for you to try.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Haoh:
nice man
[Sony Cross-Device General] Devtone:
Emma detects a Lt28h, I have an Xperia S :cool: That might be the problem. Everything goes wel, flashes are ok. Both fast and flashmode are "working". 0 errors. CWM not changing, boottlogo not changing. Very very strange..
[Sony Cross-Device General] ashan2222:
thnx everybody.... i was so freaked out when my xperia sl got bricked when i flashed a wrong kernel... BOOtloader unlocked.... then i read this thread...

i pluged my phn about 23 hours and then flashing red appears... then constant read... then i open flash tool in pc and selected to flash the kernel.sin of stock firmarwe(only kernel)

then i followed the rubber band method ( rubber band around the volume down key)

then pluged in the phn when the flash tool asked to plug the phn...at 1st it was still read about after an hour the light turned green and entered flash mode... and flash the kernel....:o:o:angel::):victory::D

then i pluged in and the phn started i was so relieved.....:angel:

hope my comment help some one else.... be patient.... though i was not...:angel: eventually u can get ur phn fix... time to get the red may vary... so try for 1-2 day... keep ur hopes up

and again thanx for help:good::good:
[Sony Cross-Device General] bob1995:
as

good
[Sony Cross-Device General] drn57:
I have Sony Xperia V

my phone can't turn on after flashing [KERNEL][V] NK for Xperia™ V | 1.4.0 [20 NOV]

i have stock firmware ready in flashtool but when i open flashtool,choose stock kernel and klick ok it says :

18/002/2013 12:02:21 - INFO - Selected Xperia V / 9.1.A.1.140 / 1270-9887_R1I_CE

18/002/2013 12:02:21 - INFO - Preparing files for flashing

and when window with guide shows up i hold VOL- and plug it on computer i green light shows but nothing happens,after few seconds the green light dissappear . . . window which tells that i need to hold back button and plug it on still shows . . .

I tried it again and again and agaain but same problem . . . .

When i hold vol- and plug it i get green light,window with guide still showing,nothing happens for a few seconds and green light dissapear again . . .

I hope someone can help me
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
[MENTION=5593104]drn57[/MENTION]

Open windows device manager and check if there are some driver missing (yellow triangles)

If so, try those included in the flashtool installation folder
[Sony Cross-Device General] drn57:
There is yellow triangle on Sony Erricsson seehcri Control Device

What i need to do now.?
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
that's the problem then

try to install "Flashtool-drivers" (which are inside flashtool folder)
[Sony Cross-Device General] drn57:
wen i try to instal flashtool drivers from flashtool folder same problem appears again . . .

http://pokit.org/get/?687553f65dbbd0e356532f5ef7561408.jpg

and when window with guide comes up i hold vol- and in flashtol log i get this :

19/056/2013 00:56:07 - ERROR -

19/056/2013 00:56:07 - ERROR - Error flashing. Aborted

19/056/2013 00:56:07 - ERROR - Drivers need to be installed for connected device.

19/056/2013 00:56:07 - ERROR - You can find them in the drivers folder of Flashtool.

19/056/2013 00:56:16 - INFO - Device disconnected
[Sony Cross-Device General] hacker1911:
EXACTLY WINDOWS 8.1 PROBLEM

I TRIED IN WINDOWS 7 IT SHOWED MY DEVICE AS FLASHMODE AND ALSO FASTBOOT MODE

I GOT A PROBLEM (AFTER FLASHING IT STILL SAYS THERE'S AN UPDATE FOR ME {IF I DOWNLOAD IT WON'T INSTALL}):laugh:
[Sony Cross-Device General] WarSupport:
I seem to have made some small progress since my Xperia T has been stuck in this Flash Mode Loop. Not sure if this might help anyone else but I was able to successfully Flash my Stock Rom and update through PC Companion.

I disconnected my battery than I connected my phone to my computer and was able to get into Flash Mode long enough to Flash successfully and it also worked for PC Companion. I guess my battery is in some type of cycle and was always interfering with my Flashing process?

My cell has been on the charger for hours now and is still doing the same cycle from my previous post...from red to green etc.? Is it possible it's just my battery that needs replaced? It's strange how it cycles in and out of Flash Mode on it's own,no matter what?
[Sony Cross-Device General] gallardo5:
I tried to flash Android 4.3 kernel to my xperia z1, it flashed fine but my phone didn't turn on anymore. When I connect it to charger the red blinks, I charged it for 48 hours already, but when I try to connect it to the pc with flashmode Sony Update Service doesnt see my phone, Flashtool says that "device with usb debugging off connected" and windows sees it as USB Input device. I tried rubber band trick for 3 days but it didnt work. I'm really started to losing my hope, but as led blinks red when I connect it to charger I think there is still a small change to save my phone. I also tried to connect it to the pc, hold power abd vol up (it vibrated three times) and immediately hold vol down, but it still sees it as USB Input device

Edit: forgot to mention that my bootloader is locked if it matters, and I cant access fastboot to unlock it and flash another kernel
[Sony Cross-Device General] banciii:
Hello!

If I was so stupid and formatted /system, /data, /cache, /sdcard0 and /sdcard1 in CWM and power off the phone (to copy the install zips to the SD card), I can throw it out of the window, right? None of these methods could help me to wake up my totally dead, brand new Xperia V? :crying: (It does not react at all, no boot, no CWM, no charging, no PC connection in simple/fastboot/flash mode, no recgonition, nothing. The one and only sign is a blinking red LED if I connect to the charger/PC with removed battery.) :crying:
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
[MENTION=3924812]gallardo5[/MENTION]

You have the wrong drivers then

I have never heard of a bricked xperia, that is recognized as a usb drive

Don't panic

Thousands of phones have been completely formatted, and everyone is ok

Your phone SEEMS dead because in the same time you run out of battery too

Just keep recharging it, until red led disappears
[Sony Cross-Device General] banciii:
Before this CWM format (in the morning), I charged the battery totally full - it was plugged all night. Speaking of it... that reminds me the phone LED was off, before I pulld out from the charger. (But Maybe this is not relevant, because it happened earlier a few times before, so I guess it is a CM10.2 bug.)

So, now I am charging the phone until the battery dies and the red LED starts to light, if it will... :/ Btw. how much time does a Li-Ion 1750 mAh battery need to discharge fully? 1 week? More? :P I hate waiting and I have to say that I am quite pessimistic about this revival. :( I would get this phone from my parents and my aunt for christmas and I ruined it before christmas... I am broken. :S
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
[MENTION=4762739]banciii[/MENTION]

Have you ever tried hard rebooting?

Vol+ and power until you get 3 vibrations?
[Sony Cross-Device General] :
I assume you wer able to install the required drivers before this nightmare happened. Have you tried putting phone to fastboot/

Flashmode? Did PC recognize it?
[Sony Cross-Device General] banciii:
Yes ofc, but nothing. I pushed the buttons about 1 minute but no reboot. I guess it's a kernel-controlled thing and I guess I don't have kernel or I donno. :(

[MENTION=5473581]johnwilliam_a_k_a_trash[/MENTION]

Yes, before this, I used fastboot several times, so I guess my drivers are fine. But now, no recognition from my PC at all, no matter which connection I would try to make. :/
[Sony Cross-Device General] banciii:
Now, my LED started to light RED. Now what? I waited a little, and it turned off. Now it turned on again. I waited a little and changed the cable from the charger to the PC with vol+: red LED. With vol-: red LED. No blue, no green. Still wait or what should I try now. I saw that I should not try to power on the phone or I have t restart the whole process. But I have no idea now. :P

update: now the red LED turned off again, but I still can't connect in fastboot or flashmode. :(
[Sony Cross-Device General] dev neo:
Of course it's driver problem again.

Try this.

if u have 2012-2011 xperia devices.try to find flashtool version 0.9.10.1.now install ALL DRIVERS including FLASHMODE FASTBOOT mode drivers.if it asks, click on continue anyway.now put ur ftf in firmware folder,click on flash & NOW WHEN it popups for connect ur device while pressing volume down key.it will definitely strt flashing.if not it will install ur device driver this time.then try try secomd time with same procedure.hope it will help.:)

Sent from my LT22i
[Sony Cross-Device General] drn57:
I downloaded 0.9.10.1,installed all drivers

When i connect with vol- i get green light again but nothing happens,flashin doesn't start and popup window is telling me to connect in flashmode anyways

and i get this message

http://pokit.org/get/?1cee6dea7da0d6f9a3a398ae15ff4b93.jpg
[Sony Cross-Device General] banciii:
With the "Rubber Band Trick" I managed to get a recognition from my PC, but it doesn't find driver for my phone and after a few seconds, it stopped searching because "Device is not connected" :( So atm I am searching for a driver for an unrecognized device... :/ what could is this? A "flashmode driver for LT25" or what? :$ :(