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[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] vishals16:
You are not able to force shutdown the device (by holding the volume up button and power button and waiting for 3 vibrations)?

Only then can you connect the phone in flash mode.

BTW if you still can reboot into recovery, do it.

In the process, in step 3 when you unmount the sdcard do it through twrp (goto mount and uncheck everything). Then if you don't see partitions 14 and 15 just start with steps when you create the partitions and continue with the process. It should work. You will be able to save the partition table.

Good Luck :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Sumit_S:
Thank you for your response Vishal.

Now coming to the problem, nothing is happening when I kept both the power button and volume_up button pressed for however time period.

Since I am not even getting the Sony logo, in fact nothing is happening after pressing power button, I don't think I'll be able to get into recovery.

Only thing I am getting right now is constantly on red light when I connect my phone to charging or when I connect it to computer holding voulme_down button.

If you have any idea, what does this red light indicate? I have kept my phone on charging for over 5 hours.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] vishals16:
Okay. You have bricked your device. You can head to the following thread. It should help you to revive your device.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1849170
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Sumit_S:
Yeah, I was trying to understand the guide in that thread. Anyways, I think will shoot my questions there now.

Thank You!!!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] farek:
Hello, after applying this method on my xperia S , I would apply this tutorial on my new phone ( kingzone z1) with mt6752 processor.

Do you think that I can do it the same way ? or there are steps that change?

Thanks

sorry for my bad english but i am french
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] luigi0824:
Of course not!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Black.raven:
thank you! worked like a charm on windows 8.1
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Captainlag:
I'm facing problems with adb drivers in Win XP. I'm trying to install the sa0103adb.inf file (driver) from the beginning but it is impossible. The installation wizzard returns that it cannot be installed.

Please help ....

My Xperia S is running on AOSP lollipop and it's critical to increase the data partition !
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mirhl:
You need the .inf file provided in sony developer website
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Captainlag:
My .inf file is downloaded exactly from Sony developer website.:o

---------- Post added at 09:58 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:15 AM ----------

I suppose that something is going wrong with the TWRP. If i connect the phone to PC on system mode then the windows can detect the adb device and i can see in device manager my sony a0103 adb device.

I have installed the twrp-2.8.5.0-LT26i.img recovery....

I have already tried to switch on recovery while the phone is connected to PC, to install several drivers, i have change to older version of TWRP files but nothing happened.

Should i have to flash older ROM ? I don't know, i just wonder ...

Please help ...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Captainlag:
Finally i had a bricked Xperia S ..... :mad:

The problem with the adb device driver seems to be a win XP problem. I tried again with other pc on win7 and everything worked out fine. I followed the increase data partition guide and i think that everything has gone right up to flashing my rom !

After pushing my rom and gapps to my sd card i flashed all of them and during the first boot my device seems to have a fault partition. The device starts up and shows this:

Encryption unsuccessful

Encryption was interrupted and can't

complete.As a result, the data on your

phone is no longer accessible.

To resume using your phone, you need

to perform a factory reset.When you set

up your phone after the reset, you'll have

an opportunity to restore any data that

was backed up to your Google Account.

RESET PHONE

Keep in mind that i'm using Pure _AOSP_Lollipop_test13 and gapps_20150213.

How i can restore my device?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ghiltanas:
Recover lost data partition

Because i'm an idiot, i don't umount partitions before execute the procedure, so now i dont have sd card and data partition. I obtain to reinstall twrp, is there a way to restore sd card partition from twrp's terminal?

ps adb don't see anymore my device, i think i can only use twrp
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Mirhawk:
Nah, You need to flash the stock ROM using fastboot mode in flashtool, then only can You recover Your partition. Then flash a ROM with TWRP and then try this method again.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] MarioPhantom:
install nAOSP ROM 5.1

can install nAOSP ROM 5.1 after this tutorial ?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Mirhawk:
Yup. You can install any ROM after it, only not the stock firmware via ftf file since it will revert Your partitions back to original size.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ecko00920:
Please help!!!

i followed all steps and i'm stucked at number 5.. i always get error when trying to delete the partitions (following step 6)

please see attached picture for the error i get.. please help, i don't know what i'm doing wrong! thank you~ ><

also i don't quite get step number 5 :o:o
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] vescasi:
why does it say that device will read the old partition table?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] vishals16:
Start the process again. Unmount all partitions through twrp in step 3. You will then be able save the new partitions.

---------- Post added at 09:09 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:05 PM ----------

You deleted all the partitions. You just need to delete partitions 15 and 14. Flash the stock rom and then flash twrp and start the process again.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ecko00920:
hi! i did what you said and i still get the same error. i'm doing this in my xperia l anyway, please help me, i'm not knowledgable with adb ><

what i do is after entering "P" i enter "D" then i enter "15" then i get the error ><
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] vishals16:
Why are you doing this on xperia l. I am not aware of the partitions in that device.

Delete the last and second last partition. When you enter p it will list all the partitions. delete the last and second last. And in twrp when you are on step 3. Unmount all partitions through twrp and not by command.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ecko00920:
i really want a bigger space for apps, when i enter p there's no partitions listed.. hmm.. i'll just try once more and if still didn't work i won't push it lol >< thank you for help
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] vishals16:
Flash the stock rom first. You might have messed up the partitions so it will reset them.

This tutorial is meant for xperia s. In that when you enter p there are 15 partitions listed. That is why the tutorial says to delete 15 and 14.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] vescasi:
the data partition works very well, but i can't mount sd card partition
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] vescasi:
I'm not able to mount sdcard whyyyyyy?????!!!????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] crzbt:
I can't unmount sdcard. That's what i'm having:

C:\adb>adb shell
shell@nozomi:/ $ umount /sdcard
umount /sdcard
failed: Operation not permitted
shell@nozomi:/ $ su
root@nozomi:/ # umount /sdcard
umount /sdcard
failed: Invalid argument

How can i resolve this problem?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] vishals16:
Do it through twrp. Goto mount and untick every partition. Then proceed further.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] crzbt:
Seems like something gone wrong. After reboot android asks for factory reset, TWRP trying to reset but can't mount sdcard - No such file or directory.

When i'm trying fdisk /dev/block/mmcblk0 i get: The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 973824...

Now i have to rollback to stock ROM?

And what will happen with my FOTA kernel?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] vishals16:
Once you flash the stock rom, you will lose the fota kernel. Install it again and restart the process.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] crzbt:
I've installed stock rom and now i can't find tutorial, how to install fota kernel. I know it's somewhere in Q&A, but even search didn't help me.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] vishals16:
Okay. Do one thing. Flash the twrp as a kernel using fastboot or flashtool.

Then increase the data partition. When you have done that, transfer the rom and gapps to sdcard and flash them.

Flashing a lollipop after that will give the binary error. So you can flash doomkernel after that and flash the rom and gapps using cwm of doomkernel.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] crzbt:
I've installed TWRP but while in recovery adb can't see my device (Flashtool works good). And fdisk doesn't work proper in twrp terminal (or i don't know how to use it properly, it throws me back to terminal after 'fdisk /dev/block/mmcblk0' command, so i can't enter other commands)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] vishals16:
Install adb drivers properly.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mirhl:
Check device manager and make sure drivers are properly installed or look at this
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] crzbt:
Already tried this guide, but after that i can't flash rom, because my sdcard wiped and adb can't see device.

Also i've tried about 5 different drivers, none of them found my device. While flashtool works good and finds it without any problems.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mirhl:
Ok, but unless you wiped system you can still boot in the rom and manage whatever you want. But this time with partition already perfect.

Or you can copy rom zip (and gapps, if they fit) in /tmp folder in recovery
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] crzbt:
the only thing i can do is flash ftf stock image with flashboot (6.2.B.1.96 World). If i install recovery after that - i can't load into the system. If i'm trying to install any other rom from recovery - it throws me error that can't mount "/system". This error happens even if i just trying to wipe anything. So the only thing i can install now is stock rom v96.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mirhl:
What crazy kind of recovery are you using? I hope not locked bl ones.

I hope you are using doomkernel with TWRP 2.8.4.1 on fota partition. That's how to do it.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] crzbt:
I've tried about of dozen of different recoveries including CWM. All of them says it can't mount system. The most interesting thing is that it can mount/umount drives when i'm doint it manually, but throws error when i'm trying to wipe or install rom.

I'm starting to believe that my phone is special. It attracts all problems that can happen.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mirhl:
... There's no special phones.. It's just you using the dumber tricks to get a recovery...

Now, download whatever rom newer than.. Let's say this summer

root your phone (with towelroot for example)

Install TWRP manager

Grant root permissions

Flash twrp 2.8.4.1 (if it doesn't work proceed with manual method with dd and terminal)

Extract boot.img from zip

Install flashify or rashr

Grant root permissions

Flash the kernel

Power off and boot into recovery

Wipe/factory reset

Flash frigging rom

Boot, just to make sure it's fine

Then do whatever else.

All of this w/o computer
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ananth_rydr:
External storage unavailable

I have successfully followed the tutorial and increased the data partition to 8gb , installed nAOSp b22 and gapps without any problems but can't access my sd card and getting an error message External Storage not available whenever i open apps like gallery or camera. In settings the internal storage is being detected and shown and i even tried formating it from there. Yet there is no change in situation. The Rom and gapps are working except that i can't access the internal storage.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mirhl:
Are you using F2FS? Try to run again the permissions command
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ananth_rydr:
Permission command??. I'm sorry but i didn't understand.

Yeah i'm using F2FS but after increasing the sdcard became ext4. I tried converting sdcard to f2fs and keeping it ext4 , but both times the problem persisted.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ananth_rydr:
Oh that, i'd tried that multiple times but still avail. i just reverted back to rooted stock ,in that the internal storage has been formatted and is accessible. Now the problem is that i can't flash recovery. I tried all the methods i could find, by adb. terminal emulator, flashtool , TWRP manager, yet i can't seem to enter recovery. Also when i tried to flash the kernel from Carbon Rom the process got stuck at writing the boot image.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eruben:
Hey, can u please 4.4.4 roms based on OmniRom? So far I found Dirty Unicorn and Omega Omni.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrissykess:
Reported wrong section.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EmperorX:
I've had a strange bug since I got the phone that I'm wondering if anyone else has seen (don't think it is hardware).

I can reproduce it every morning after I wake up. Conditions are as follows:

Phone is on the clock daydream while charging. I use Sleep As Android as my alarm. Every morning when my alarm is going off and I reach for my phone half of the screen is not working and or black.

I just had a recurrence of this in the xda app after I lost wifi connection and was exciting a thread (pressing the back button) during the handoff to LTE. Easy fix is to just hit the power button to turn the screen off then turn it back on. Works right away.

Anyone seen or read about anything similar?

Thanks!
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryancotton84:
I made a post earlier about screen touch issues and this is one of mine as well. I can't reproduce it like you can but the right half of the screen just drops off to touch.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EmperorX:
Have you seen the half (or third) of the screen go completely black? Seriously Wtf. I've only had it happen probably 4 times.... Comes back on immediately and worms as expected if I press the power button twice.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hsj1906:
Sounds like you have the ATT model which was recalled for that very reason.

http://www.droid-life.com/2014/11/2...p-nexus-6-inventory-back-due-to-software-bug/
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EmperorX:
Picked it up from tmobile on Wed morning.

Also, those issues seem different from what I read.. Screen is *completely* black and they get stuck. Mine works fine 100% except when I wake up with the prior conditions (over night, phone is on clock daydream, dimmed and I am woke up with Sleep As Android alarm). It has only happened once in any other circumstance. Also, my phone updated to LRX21O upon first boot.

At this point I can't tell if it is software or hardware... Not sure how tmobile handles this as I bought directly from them (no insurance as of yet) or if I go straight to Motorola?

I just wish I could conclusively rule out a hardware issue.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trustinhate:
I'm having a similar issue. It seems to definitely be intermittent though. Also, I've only experienced it when my phone is in landscape mode. It goes back to normal when I flip it to portrait mode.

Did you ever find anything else out about the issue OP?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EmperorX:
Nothing other than what is in here. Still happens to me, though much less frequently. Hoping the 5.1 update rumored for Feb solves some of the quirks.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] godsafk:
I honestly think this is a hardware issue of some sort. I had my original Nexus 6 for weeks and throughout heavy usage, I never had any issues. The first day I received a replacement device from Google, half of my screen would freeze/go black when in landscape watching videos, playing games, and sometimes even browsing the web. This was with 100% stock ROM and kernel without root (which rules out that being an issue). I tried reflashing the stock image and the issue still persists.

I contacted the GPS customer service last night and ordered another replacement device. This is issue is certainly specific to this phone, my first device was used heavily and this never happened even once.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lianw:
I am convinced it is hardware as well.

I am experiencing the same issue with my phone and opened a ticket with Google yesterday and I want mine replaced. It's not just the Nexus 6 that's suffering from this as some Droid Turbo users are experiencing it as well.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NastyNeil:
Same thing here. Tmobile 64 GB nexus 6. Bought mine from T Mobile, but they don't have a replacement to send me, so I contacted Motorola, and they sent me a new one that arrives tomorrow. I hope the same thing doesn't happen with this one.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mclisme:
Look on the positive side of things, 50% less battery drain due to screen usage... :p
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EmperorX:
I still think this is, in my case, specifically software. Other people have reported different issues that are most likely hardware, don't think mine is. Also it has only happened two or three times in the past month, seems to with screen on and rotation occurring at the same time, though I can't confirm or repro reliably.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sleeepy2:
Well, just had my replacement processed over the phone. Only potential issue is that they said it may be a refurbished device. Anyone know how/if there is a way to tell??
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pecata:
I am not sure if this is somehow related-but my first Nexus 6 I got from t-mobile was working fine and on the second day of owning it the touch screen stopped working! I mean it won't register any touch whatsoever! The phone was just charging and I just used it like 30min ago....tried rebooting, resetting-nothing helped-went to a t-mobile store and replaced with a new one. The second one works...for now. The strange part is that they were no issues-it worked flawlessly and all of a sudden just stopped responding to touch.

I have never experienced issues like this with any smartphone in my life-I have owned android smartphones ever since the G1 was released...
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NastyNeil:
T mobile didn't have any available devices to send me, so I contacted Moto. Moto sent me a brand new phone.Build date is December 16th. So far no problems, but I just got it today. I'll report back if anything goes wrong.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sleeepy2:
Where do you see the Build date?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NastyNeil:
On the box. Under the barcodes.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sleeepy2:
Thanx :good:
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pilz:
Can you post a picture of where? I don't see any dates listed on the box.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sleeepy2:
On the bottom right just before SeQ#

But a better way to check is to boot into the bootloader/fastboot hit valume down until you see barcode then push power.

For me the date it shows is 1 day before the date on the box. The box says 2014-11-16 bootloader says 2014-11-15.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pilz:
I don't see that on my box but I'm probably blind. Here is my RMA'd nexus's box. Its the same as the one I have now still it date. My bootloader has this: but its not under the barcode. I'll check there in a minute and see what it says.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sleeepy2:
Mine looks different, see attached.

FYI you might want to remove your IMEI thats on the box ;)
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pilz:
Its my RMA'D phone so I don't care but yeah I should remove it give me a minute :) I checked my build date via the BL barcode thanks for the help!
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SpL3rG3:
So has anyone confirmed if this is actually a hardware issue or not? I've tried disabling H/W relay under developer options and I'm waiting to see if the issue returns.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NastyNeil:
I truly think it's hardware. I received a brand new device from Motorola and it has no problems. I guess unless Moto releases some kind of statement we won't know for sure.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NastyNeil:
Happy to say I've had zero problems since getting my new phone. If anyone is still having issues I strongly suggest contacting Motorola and having it taken care of.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SpL3rG3:
I wish I could send mine back to Motorolla. I purchased mine through TELUS so I have to send it back and it will take about 3 months. My concern is that they won't find the issue. On custom ROM's this issue plagues me quite frequently. On stock I'm yet to see the issue so sending it back would be a waste of time if they can't recreate it. TELUS has nothing on file for this being a known issue so I may be stuck with a dud. :'(
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pilz:
For a RMA they send you a replacement (at least in the US they do) then you send the old one back and call it a day. They don't actually evaluate your old phone. I flashed both my RMA phones back to stock and they didn't care (I also relocked the BL)
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SpL3rG3:
They only do that up here if its DOA, or if its a obvious hardware issue. Like I said I can't reproduce this issue on stock so sending it back wouldn't do much.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pilz:
That's unfortunate, hopefully you can get it taken care of some way.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sleeepy2:
I am on Rogers (in Canada) my option was for them to provide me a loaner while it was sent in for service. Then they would send me back a refurbished one or a new one if no refurbished existed. I complained on the phone that it was a hardware issue (indicating I could find many posts online with the issue) and told them that I wanted an advanced replacement. They send me a refurbished (new as they don't actually have any refurbished) and once I get it I send my old one if for them to refurbished refurbished and give to someone else :)

It took a few hangups to get the right person to agree to this but in the end I am now waiting for my replacement.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EmperorX:
The only reason I think this may be software for me is how infrequently it happens. But! When it does happen the half of the screen that works is INCREDIBLY laggy. Like, maybe a few fps and things take forever and a day to load. As soon as I turn off the screen and turn it back on, everything runs perfect again.... No idea
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NastyNeil:
That's exactly what happened to me. But maybe a little more frequently. Wonder if it's a glue issue? Who knows.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EmperorX:
Here is a post I made back in November in the issues thread that has pictures of what I'm seeing:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=56990091&postcount=80
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EmperorX:
What would you guys say is the best route to take for me to get a replacement phone? I got it on T-Mobile on Nov 19th (release day) and never pursued this because I assumed it was software the entire time. Do I have any recourse through them? Or do I need to make a warranty claim at this point? I purchased a 2 year Squaretrade plan a week after I bought the phone.

Thanks!
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NastyNeil:
I'm not sure. I got mine from T Mobile as well, but they didn't have any 64 GB to replace mine with. So I contacted Moto instead. They sent me a brand new phone because they don't even have any 64GB refurbished devices yet. I'd do whatever you can to get a new phone.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EmperorX:
What was your time frame on this? From when you first purchased the phone to when you got a replacement? Thanks dude