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[Sony Cross-Device General] Amr Nasser:
Important

I Think My Battery Is Totally Dead

I Put It On Phone & Connect It With It's Wall Charger >> After 10 Hours >> Battery Have No Indications Of Life At All >> Put My Tongue On It's + & - Metal Part >> No Sting >> Put It On External Charger >> No Led

So Do U Suppose That The Battery Is The Problem Preventing Me From Flashing Or Turn Phone On ??

I Was Using CM 10.2 , Xperia V >> When Battery Got To 1 % & Then Gone Dead

If So >> Why Phone Doesn't Start Or Enter Fastboot Mode When Battery Is Removed & Phone Connected With The Charger Like Stock Rom ??

Hope Someone Help Me >> I'm Really Scared :(

P.S. >> Before This Happened & Battery Went Dead >> There Was No Any Errors >> Phone Was Running Great >> It's Just Battery Empty & Got Hot >> Then All Of This Happened :(
[Sony Cross-Device General] Netero Pito:
The model of the phone is not recognized by the official flashtool sony, however the device is detected by an another flashtool (made by Androxyde). What i have to do ? Flashing with this, using officiel .ftf file for Xperia Z ? I need a solution and more instructions please.
[Sony Cross-Device General] blackdale:
Do u have universal charger? Only 12 hours using that kind of charger my friend's V battery come back alive again

And will it really work if you remove battery and connect it to charger? First time hearing that
[Sony Cross-Device General] Amr Nasser:
Important

Yes I Put The Battery On Universal Charger For Whole ONE DAY >> No Indications That It's Still Working AT All As I Mentioned Above

What About My Other Questions ???
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
Does the E1 have a removable battery?

That is the reason for the 3 vibration button press in my ION.

It acts like a battery removal.

My ION has an internal battery that is not easily removed. It takes many screws just to get to the battery connection cable.

So it may be your phone has a removable battery (meaning your phone doesn't need a way to disconnect battery) or you are not holding the two buttons long enough.

from my Xperia ION
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
If the issue is not caused by you doing something, then I would try to get it fixed by Sony.

You could have killed the battery or it may have had a bad battery from Sony.

Normally we get stories about how flashing went wrong.

Yours just stoped working for no reason.

So it may not be a softbrick issue at all.

If you have the ability to use a different battery, try it. Even if you go to a store and just swap battery to see if phone will boot.

Just curious if you have tried to flash your stock kernel using FlashTool?

Your phone should not do anything without a battery that is installed and charged.

The phone should not work on just USB.

No flash will work without a working battery.

from my Xperia ION
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
You need to do a forced shut down using the power & volume up buttons. On some devices it will vibrate and some will use the led and blink.

Hold both buttons until 3 vibrations (or 3 led blinks)

Then the device should turn off.

Now start the process of flashing using flashmode in FlashTool.

When FlashTool tells you to connect a phone in flashmode, hold the volume down button and plug in to PC.

DO NOT PLUG PHONE INTO PC BEFORE FLASHTOOL ASKS FOR IT.

Google is your friend. I don't understand how you got your bootloader unlocked but have no idea about how to restore/flash using FlashTool.

I do not recommend using EMMA software to fix a phone until FlashTool had been tried and failed.

from my Xperia ION
[Sony Cross-Device General] mai77:
OIC

the E1 has a removable batt.

does anyone know the test points for S1tool ?
[Sony Cross-Device General] Netero Pito:
Ohh my phone is alive thanks to you :good:, yeah thank you ve...ery much!!! i'm very happy :laugh: and reassured.

A small question, the last time I tried to flash the "boot.img" file of the Mokee ROM by adb the phone was bricked.

What tool do you suggest me to use for flashing, after this terrible accident ? :confused:
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
I have never had a phone that could use Fastboot. My first android phone was the Xperia X10 and then the Xperia ION locked by AT&T :(

I do know that FlashTool has an option for flashing with Fastboot.

Again I have never used it so I would say that Google is your friend.
[Sony Cross-Device General] D.Sirakov:
Sony Xperia E

I've decided to unlock the bootloader and if possible become BUG how can I fix it. What bugs can happen how they can be repaired. Talk about Sony Xperia E
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
This thread is really not for bugs but for fixing softbrick.

May I suggest you go to the device forum and look through the Q&A and general sections for current issues

from my Xperia ION
[Sony Cross-Device General] 00DSoul00:
I have a Xperia Tipo Dual (st21a2) two months ago unlock bootlader, you change kernel and everything worked well, last night was on and playing music is downloaded completely and this morning when connected to the charger would not light the led, not vibrates and does nothing . when connected to the pc is recognized as device (Zeus flash device) but the LED does not light, not vibrate.

Can someone help me how to fix or what happened to my phone? thank you!
[Sony Cross-Device General] Chromium:
I just did this by accident, and now the phone seems completely dead (even though it had about 80% battery left). So now do i just wait until it dies? After that what should I do?

Edit: So after some further reading it appears that this is what I need to do:

- Put the unresponsive phone on a wall charger until the LED shows up (this will take a long time)

- Once the LED appears, let it charge a bit more

- Boot into flash mode, connect to PC, and flash stock firmware using Flashtool

Correct? Thanks.

Also when I get the flashtool screen asking to unplug, hold the back button, and plug back in, is it the same for the xperia ion? The phone doesnt have a physical back button, but a capacitive one instead so Im confused how that would work. It seems to me like it really means to hold volume down to enter flash mode. Am I right?
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
Flashmode for the ION is volume down.

If you don't want to wait then you can disconnect the battery cable.

I have personally pulled the ribbon cable on my ION and it is not very difficult.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Chromium:
Thanks for the reply. I'll probably just wait till its charged up again, as Im trying to play it as safe as possible now.

Im still wondering whats going on while its on the charger. Is it initially depleting even though its being charged?
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
I have also gone this route in the past.

From what I can figure out, when you leave the phone on the PC and the phone is not responding, then the phone is frozen and not able to run the charging circuit.

So as soon as the phone is dead it will reset and try to boot the kernel for charging mode.

At that point the battery can be very low. This is why I suggest to flash the kernel with the rubber band trick.

With a good kernel you should get to charging mode after rebooting from flashmode.

Just let it charge until the icon shows almost half charge.

Then unplug and start a flash for the full ftf file. When it asks for it, connect phone in flashmode.

Some have success flashing the full ftf first but if FlashTool gives errors then you need to try just the kernel (for speed of flash)

I was very hesitant at taking the phone apart at first.

But I got the correct screwdrivers and it was a lot faster :)
[Sony Cross-Device General] Chromium:
Ok thanks again. So what I should be doing now is simply leaving it on the wall charger until the LED lights up? At that point, Ill let it charge a bit more, and then finally try the flashtool?
[Sony Cross-Device General] Chromium:
Just an update on with the bricked ION: After letting it deplete and recharge (took about 2 days), I finally took it off the charger, put it into flashmode (successful with green led) and attempted to flash the stock ftf using flashtool...well it was my first time using flashtool, and I seemed to have made a little mistake. I plugged the phone in first, and then loaded up the firmware file and tried to flash. Once the screen popped up saying to unplug the phone and then plug it back into the PC in flashmode, I did so, but after that it would no longer go back into flashmode (no green led, and flashtool wouldnt recognize it anymore).

So now the phone seems completely unresponsive once again, but this time the screens backlight is on (but very dim). Its been like this for about 9 hours now, and about an hour ago I plugged it back into a wall charger. Hoping to get the red charging led soon, and then Ill try flashtool again (but this time Ill prepare the firmware first, and then only when the prompt screen pops up will I plug the flashmode phone in). Only thing that seems strange to me so far is the backlight being on for this long.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
You would not believe how many users do not understand that one little fact.

We get so many posts saying FlashTool won't recognize my phone.

Good luck my friend.

Patients is a virtue ;)
[Sony Cross-Device General] Chromium:
Thanks. Ive got one question before I attempt the flashing again. Do I need to press and hold volume down throughout the whole FlashTool firmware flashing process? Or is that just necessary at the beginning to get the phone into flashmode, and once the flashing has started I can let go?
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
You should see a green led light up and then flashing will start.

You can let go when green led shows.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Chromium:
Ok so after leaving the phone charging with a solid red light (for around 15 hours), I decided to take it off the charge and prepare flashtool. My problem now is that when I try to enter flashmode by holding volume down while plugging in the usb, the LED doesnt turn green and flashtool isnt recognizing the device. Instead the normal red LED appears. Any ideas on what my next move should be? Maybe I should just put it back on the wall charger and leave it for a bit longer?
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
EDIT: when did the Red led come on?

If your sure the battery went dead and THEN the red led showed up, you may be able to try the rubber band trick.

If the red led came after it died, it should mean low level charging and will boot when charged enough.

Otherwise, I think your going to have to let it die again.

But before you do you could try a reset with power & volume up

Just 1 vibration though first.

It may reboot so have it connected to PC with flashtool waiting for device.

If you get a vibration, immediately press and hold volume down.

You may get lucky but if nothing happens then you will need to start over, letting the battery die :(

from my Xperia ION
[Sony Cross-Device General] Chromium:
After it failed to go into flashmode, I decided to put it back on the wall charger. It still has the red LED show up immediately when I do so, so I think the battery may just need some more juice?
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
Read my edit above

from my Xperia ION
[Sony Cross-Device General] Chromium:
Yes, the red led came on after the phone had depleted and then recharged.

So this is what happened:

- Phone was in a bricked/unresponsive state, so I put it on the charger yesterday (after about four hours on the charger with nothing happening, the red led finally appeared, so I just left the phone there over night)

- Today red led was still on and after waiting a few more hours I took it off the charge and attempted to use flashtool on it (at this point the phone had been charging with red led for around 15 hours)

- When I tried to put it into flashmode, instead of a green led I got the same red led I had when charging

I think the reason this happened is because its not charged enough yet. Ill give it a few more hours of charge and try the rubber band trick.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
Ok so I just reviewed you posts.

Are you sure the light was on the entire time?

I am thinking that in that time the led would go out and the phone tries to boot but only lights the backlight again until it the battery dies and Red light comes back.

This cycle may take any length of time, from 20 minutes to a few hours.

The rubber band trick will catch when the red light goes out, before it tries to boot and locks up again.

The rubber band, holding the volume down button, will put the phone into flashmode without you being there.

Just leave the phone connected and FlashTool waiting.

I have found a recovered phone before after I awoke the next morning.

from my Xperia ION
[Sony Cross-Device General] Chromium:
:D YOU ARE A GENIUS!

Did the rubber band trick, and after five minutes the green LED came on and flashtool started the process and succeeded!

Unplugged the phone, exited flashmode, and the phone rebooted perfectly into android :)

Thanks again for all your help. This thread is very useful.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
YEA!!!!!

Glad it worked :D

Don't forget to tell your friends, lol

from my Xperia ION
[Sony Cross-Device General] 3andala:
i got my Xperia ION bricked from long time tried every method no luck

but now just got in Device manger "SEMC Flash Device" NO LED (but was red from few min.) .. never get Green LED

using Flashtool and rubber trick no luck

EDIT : BTW here is Flashtool log

27/040/2014 12:40:45 - INFO - Please check the log before rebooting into system

27/040/2014 12:40:48 - INFO - Device disconnected

27/041/2014 12:41:42 - INFO - Selected LT28h / 6.2.B.0.211 / Generic

27/041/2014 12:41:42 - INFO - Preparing files for flashing

27/042/2014 12:42:21 - INFO - Please connect your device into flashmode.

27/042/2014 12:42:48 - INFO - Device connected with USB debugging off

27/042/2014 12:42:48 - INFO - For 2011 devices line, be sure you are not in MTP mode

Please any help

Thanks in advance

Cheers
[Sony Cross-Device General] :
Be sure install flashtool driver as well
[Sony Cross-Device General] 3andala:
drivers installed as i used Flashtool several times before the phone bricked

EDIT: btw qhsusb dload become SEMC flash divice

[MENTION=3506348]Toledo_JAB[/MENTION] any help please

Cheers
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
Can you verify that the battery went dead after the phone quit working?

If the battery was not dead you won't be able to fix the phone.

If you get the red led immediately when plugged into charger/PC then the rubber band trick should work.

Are you sure the light was on the entire time?

I am thinking that in that time the led would go out and the phone tries to boot but only lights the backlight again until it the battery dies and Red light comes back.

This cycle may take any length of time, from 20 minutes to a few hours.

The rubber band trick will catch when the red light goes out, before it tries to boot and locks up again.

The rubber band, holding the volume down button, will put the phone into flashmode without you being there.

Just leave the phone connected and FlashTool waiting.

I have found a recovered phone before after I awoke the next morning.

from my Xperia ION
[Sony Cross-Device General] 3andala:
bro i removed battery socket no any difference

but the same yeah its red led then no led after just 2 min or less tried rubber trick lot of time fail just no led the phone completely dead

no offline charge or anything

btw when charge using wall charger red led then no led too never seen green led

any idea ?
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
If you can remove the battery cable then you should be able to flash it.

Just unplug battery, now prepare FlashTool so it is asking for a device in flashmode, now plug in the battery (needs to be unplugged for about a minute, to soon and it won't work), immediately after plugging battery then hold volume down and connect to PC.

Do not charge it.

If you get FlashTool errors try to flash just the kernel

from my Xperia ION
[Sony Cross-Device General] 3andala:
i did what u said but no luck the same :( just red led come for second then no led flashtool waiting

if vol- + vol+ Device connected with usb debug off in flashtool

in device manger SEMC flash device

any another idea

many thanks for helping
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
I do not understand this part of your post.

from my Xperia ION
[Sony Cross-Device General] 3andala:
i mean when i use vol button up & volume button down at the same time "vol+ & vol-" flashtool says Device connected usb debug off

and device manger shows SEMC Flash Device

Cheers
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
[MENTION=3849183]3andala[/MENTION]

You had better to externally charge the battery (every phones battery should have barely the same voltages so you can use a generic charger)

Then prepare flashtool, connect the phone and press vol- while reinserting the battery

Btw [MENTION=3506348]Toledo_JAB[/MENTION]

Sometimes flashing kernel only to let the phone charge is not enough

If system partition is troubled (e.g. in my case I had messed up build.prop) then you ll have to flash that too
[Sony Cross-Device General] 3andala:
bro i think its fully charged

i have Xperia ION

is that possible to remove battery

i think only socket but no way to remove battery
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
Well, afaik red led means fully discharged battery

And battery is removable, if you have the right screwdrivers and the required patience
[Sony Cross-Device General] 3andala:
bro i opened the phone and removed the battery socket u need me to remove the battery true ?!
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
Yeah

And put it into a generic battery charger

At least this is how I did with my XS
[Sony Cross-Device General] 3andala:
ok i will give that try

thanks a ton bro :)

Cheers
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
I have found that if you flash just the kernel and after exiting flashmode (turning the phone on) that you will get boot loops or it will lock up.

However a hard reset will shut the phone off and allow off line charging

The phone should charge without any system files. Just don't try to turn it on ;)

from my Xperia ION
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
Well, I had vol+ broken so I couldn't try to hard reset :)
[Sony Cross-Device General] kenaeny:
im still stuck with an hardbricked Xperia S...

-I am able to get into flashmode/fastboot

-I am able to flash the entire rom

but thereafter happens nothing, what exactly should i do after i flashed the rom?

So i flash the stock rom and the green led is still on, i unplug the phone from pc/laptop and if i press the power button the green led flashes one time that should mean that i finish the flashmode. But when i connect it back to pc/laptop the green LED comes again up... So i disconnect again the phone press once again to the power button to end the flashmode, the green LED flashes again. After these steps i put it on charge the RED led comes on.

Should i put it on charger after this till it bootloops or reboots itself?

Or after i flash the rom should i unplug the phone and connect it thereafter directly to an wallcharger and let it charge so it can bootloop or reboot itself to the system?

PLEASE HELP, my phone is death for about a year!!!
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
[MENTION=4909268]kenaeny[/MENTION]

How much time did the flashing take?

Did you tried official sony flashtool? emma
[Sony Cross-Device General] kenaeny:
flashing toke less then a minute without errors

im using flashtool, did use all of these but no help

it doesnt vibrate, or bootloop or doesnt connect to pc when i plug it in....

what i now tried is after flashing is done ive kept it connected to my laptop while the green led was on, after while the battery died and red LED came on. It is so for about an hour, this time i will let it charge for a day or two...
[Sony Cross-Device General] Toledo_JAB:
Is your bootloader unlocked?

If yes then you may need to use fastboot to flash the kernel.

What caused the phone to stop working?

If FlashTool is flashing fast then what file are you flashing? Just the kernel or the entire ftf file?

Have you tried a different ftf file?

Flashing the entire ftf file should be about 5 minutes.

We could use some more info :)

from my Xperia ION
[Sony Cross-Device General] kenaeny:
i have unlocked bootloader and yes flashing entire rom does take about 5 minutes, what ive tryed so far without luck

-flashed kernel trough fastboot

-flashed system image trough fastboot

-flashed 2 different stock ftf's one GB other JB roms

-flashed 3 different kernel trough flashmode

-charged for about a week

-charged battery with an external battery charger

i have no vibration or any sign of life so far... and my first post about this problem is on page 82 :crying:
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
What the??

You just don't brick your phone by simply connecting it at the wrong time

And are you claiming you don't even get some led turning on?
[Sony Cross-Device General] kenaeny:
i have bricked my phone by connecting it on wrong time yes but i get leds turning on but the phone wont turn on after all these steps i did so far
[Sony Cross-Device General] mirhl:
what colors are these leds?
[Sony Cross-Device General] kenaeny:
if connect to a charger/pc RED led comes on, after a while it goes off then on and so on

if i press volume up and power button after it go's off for about 10 secs then release and press volume down the GREEN led comes on and i can flash my stock rom, after release power and volume up and press volume up i get BLUE led --> fastboot mode

on these i have no problems but the problem is thereafter
[Sony Cross-Device General] niclas_l2:
Fix for Sola

Hello!

I haven't read all post so maybe this fix are already known.

I have a Sola which stopped working with red light wasn't able to get it going with the guides and my patience ran out pretty quickly :)

On Sola there is a little plastic lid over the battetry connector, I used a small screwdriver to remove it. The battery connector has three "poles" but use only left and right leaving the one in the middle alone!

They are marked with + and -

I took an old usb cable, cut and stripped it, measure whitch is positive (+) and negative (-)

Put positive on + and negative on - on the battery for about a minute or so then put the connector back on the motherboard.

For me this worked the first time after about 30 sec hardcore charging :)

Please be carefull as lithium batteries are quite dangerous to play with.

Sorry in advance for my english spelling and grammar

//Niclas
[Sony Cross-Device General] Gladiomortis:
Hey guys,

My brother brought home his Xperia U and it was experiencing boot loops, the backlight would come on, then come off , it would never reach the boot screen or any animation showed for that matter.

The phone is Stock ROM and bootload is locked.

I tried repairing the phone using PCC but it didn't work.

I then used flashtool to flash an older version of the stock rom but now when i switch the device on, only the backlight comes on and it stays like that.

I'm also have a problem trying to enter fastboot, i've installed all the drivers provided by the flashtool installer but it still won't enter flashboot which is also a problem because i can't use the cmd console to unlock the bootloader by official means...

Can anybody help?
[Sony Cross-Device General] amir_n71:
1- i have a xperia SP and i connect to charger!

2- after 1 minutes phone power off automatic & showing a picture like this :

i want to flash a stock rom with flashtools, but flash tools cant flash it!

flashtools only know phone in fastboot mode correctly!

but in flashmode there is a unknow problem!

i can't boot device & can't flash it! flashtools & other ways can't flash it! i don't know for what!

but flashtools can't connect correctly to device!

i test it in other PC but no any change happend!

i know there is a problem with flashmode, but i don't know what is it!

driver install correctly & i know what i doing

so please don't say basic work

thanks for any help