[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] APEXnow:
Good day all,

I've recently done something rather stupid, and any assistance in reviving my r800i (bootloader locked, but network unlocked, was locked to Network Three UK before I unlocked it using Omnius Suite) What has happened is this, I had bought credits for Omnius to debrand my phone from Three UK so that I could use the phone with T-Mobile or Vodafone. This worked great, but I also wanted to unlock the bootloader so that I could use Flashtool for replacing Gingerbread 2.3.4 (Sony Stock version) with something like ICS or even CyanogenMod. Why I pressed the button in Omnius to repair s1 boot is beyond me, but it happened and now I have a completely bricked Xperia Play.

The phone will not enter recovery mode via the Back button + USB cable, and I cannot power up the phone at all. No initial vibrate or any LED / Display activity at all. It is essentially a plastic brick. The good news is, that I can still place the phone into Testpoint mode using the standard method for XPeria Play models. Doing this allows Omnius to identify my model log which is listed below:

Action journal
14:26:56 Identify
14:26:56 Shows detailed information about the connected phone.
14:26:56 Operating system: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition Service Pack 1 (build 7601), 64-bit
14:26:56 Application version: 1.38.4753
14:26:56 . The action name is 'Identification'
14:26:56 Selected phone type: R800
14:26:56 Selected connection method: USB ROM
14:26:56 i Instructions
14:26:56 i 1. Make sure the phone battery is charged to at least 50%.
14:26:56 i 2. Switch off the phone!
14:26:56 i 3. Remove the phone battery and wait at least 5 seconds, then insert the battery back to the phone!
14:26:56 i 4. Connect the testpoint to phone's ground (battery negative pole, metallic circuit shielding, GND) and leave it connected!
14:26:56 i 5. Shortly press the power button!
14:26:56 i 6. Disconnect the testpoint!
14:26:56 i 7. Connect the cable to the phone!
14:26:56 [picture]
14:26:56 . The action started waiting for the user
14:27:22 . The action finished waiting for the user
14:27:22 Connecting via Zeus USB Flash Device (USB1)...
14:27:22 Device driver version: 2.2.0.5
14:27:22 Qualcomm ROM ID: 06010100900000
14:27:22 Sending loader...
14:27:23 Waiting for loader response...
14:27:23 . The action started waiting for the user
14:27:24 . The action finished waiting for the user
14:27:24 Connecting via SEMC USB Flash Device (USB1)...
14:27:24 Device driver version: 3.0.0.0
14:27:24 Detected chipset: MSM7X30
14:27:24 Boot mode: ROM
14:27:24 Device ID: F9C9A248EBDBBE1B509F0D36326DE55E352776BF
14:27:24 Minimum loader AID: 0001
14:27:24 Phone rooting status is unknown.
14:27:24 Sending loader...
14:27:24 Waiting for loader response...
14:27:25 Phone model (from TA): R800i
14:27:25 Current CXC (from TA): 1245-8821_4.0.2.A.0.42
14:27:25 Current CDA (from TA): 1247-6199_R7D
14:27:25 Current FS (from TA): WORLD-1-8_4.0.2.A.0.42
14:27:25 i The phone is not locked to a network.
14:27:25 i Simlock origin: Unknown simlock origin, EC4B6B4A38BDDC0476229B3FB58222216CB21193
14:27:25 s Successfully done.
14:27:25 . The action entered shutdown phase
14:27:25 . The action reported success

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Obviously I think that my stupid action of hitting the 'Repair S1 Boot' action has overwritten the boot partition of my phone, but with it being Simlocked with origin unknown, prevents the phone from firing up. As mentioned earlier, I can't even enter recovery mode to reflash the stock software from Sony using PC Companion or SUS (downloaded also). The phone is recognized as ZEUS USB Flash device when I enter TP, but using any other method of powering up the phone via recovery buttons etc. do nothing.

So I would really appreciate any kind of assistance that I can have in getting my phone back up again. I've installed all of the following tools onto my PC. I'm running Windows 7 64bit incase there's issues with driver compatability.

a) SETool2 (no Smartcard or box though)

b) Remote USB Client.

c) Teamviewer 7

d) Omnius Suite

e) S1Tool

f) Octopus (without box)

Many thanks people, your help is greatly appreciated.

Paul.