[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] suspect0:
Hello you there. I have a problem with my beloved xperia play and i think this will be one of the best places where i may get any advice with my problem. It all started when my Play fell of my hand and the digitizer glass has broken. Although it the glass was broken the digitizer was working just fine. It is obvious that broken glass is nothing esthetically nice so i decided to buy new digi. and replace it. And so i did it. Unfortunatelly something went wrong. Play was booting, vibrating, and recieving the calls BUT there was no visual. The lcd was not working. I was 'playing' with the phone for two days trying to guess what the heck is wrong. I even managed to update the software (baseband etc) with pc companion thinking the problem lied in software. Nothing more false. The software was ok. I decided to go with my phone to the nearest phone service so they can check what has gone wrong. They told me that there was a tiny (possible to see only though microscope) scratch on the flex cable from the lcd and that it has to be replaced (whole lcd). I was really despareted because i needed the phone a lot. It serves me more like a tiny pc rather than ordinary phone. I found a small shop/phone repair center where they had this lcd. Without any hasitation i've bought and replaced it. But my xperia didnt turn on! Moreover it didnt even turn on when i pluged it to the charger. Neither of my three computers found it properly after connecting via usb cable. It just prompting the message 'unknown device'. Instead the red light was constantly flashing (not 3 times in a row, but all the time). As i browse the internet i found that it may be battery issue. And so i wend to buy third part - a new battery. After insterting the phone has booted and it was working. I thought that it is all ok but no. The battery was draining realy fast. I mean realy by from 100 to almost 0 in about 6/8 hrs - of cource with wifi turned off, as well as gps, 3g etc. Well the other option was that the battery has to be calibrated properly. Unfortunately one night i fell asleep and didnt plug in the phone to the charger. When i woke up it was turned off. I couldnt turn it on again. The battery was drained 'below' zero so even with pluged it into charger it didnt boot. The red light was blinking the same as with previous battery. Neither taking the battery off or charging it for 5 hrs and more helped. yesterday i took it again to the phone service center. Today thay said that it is a problem with motherboard and it has to be replaced eventhough the phone boots up when the battery is charged with external charger. It still drains the battery a lot and didnt stop draining till battery level reach zero, the phone turn off and it could not be awaken without external interfere. I thought that it could be because of the update. I've found many posts on the internet about some faulty working sony devices after updating. But the guys from the phone repair told me that this is not a problem and the only problem is the motherboard. I mean - c'mon -replacing lcd, replacing digitizer, replacing battery and now i have to replace my r800i motherboard. I hardly believe that i am such a bad luck. Maybe you can give me some hints what to do with it. I really dont see me going to the other phone repair center and paying for another part. It is to much for me. Is it possible that it is only the usb /entrance/ fault, or is it the software problem. Please help me!!!!