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Dead XPERIA X2

Hi, I bought a Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 and decided to update the firmware through SE Update Suite. In the middle of firmware update, the computer BSoDed on me. The phone went dead and the PC did not detect it any more (Unknown USB device in device manager).
Eventually I managed to detect the phone by SEUS (on another machine); now I have a "COMXX SSE X2 Software DOWNLOAD" in device manager. I follow the instructions in SEUS to update the firmware, press and hold Vol Down + Power buttons. The phone vibrates and device manager shows "COMXX SE X2 Software DOWNLOAD", but SEUS does not update the phone.
What can I do to recover the phone?

update firmware
How can I update firmware from card?

bdadabayev said:
How can I update firmware from card?
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???
You have to do it through SEUS.

don't worry
this happened to me too. heres what you do read all the steps before you do it
first go ahead and charge you phone just plug it into the wall then follow these directions
1.) start suess and continue like you normally would
2.) remove your battery cover and leave it off
2.) when you get to the step that asks you to plug in your phone, connect your phone via usb to you computer, then hold the down volume button + the power button + while you are holding these buttons push the soft restart button* do this all at once and do not let go of any of the buttons until you see the white screen with the sony ericson logo and it should update like normal.
*to get to the soft restart look at the back of the phone with the battery cover off, now pull out the stylus right there next to you camera where you stylus came out is a little button push it with your stylus.
this worked for me when i thought i bricked my phone and it worked, so good luck and tell me how it works out

doministry said:
???
You have to do it through SEUS.
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Can I flash without SEUS, other methods?

yummy-fun said:
this happened to me too. heres what you do read all the steps before you do it
first go ahead and charge you phone just plug it into the wall then follow these directions
1.) start suess and continue like you normally would
2.) remove your battery cover and leave it off
2.) when you get to the step that asks you to plug in your phone, connect your phone via usb to you computer, then hold the down volume button + the power button + while you are holding these buttons push the soft restart button* do this all at once and do not let go of any of the buttons until you see the white screen with the sony ericson logo and it should update like normal.
*to get to the soft restart look at the back of the phone with the battery cover off, now pull out the stylus right there next to you camera where you stylus came out is a little button push it with your stylus.
this worked for me when i thought i bricked my phone and it worked, so good luck and tell me how it works out
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doesn't wurk, device unknown maybe you didn't brick your phone, that's why it was still booting to logo screen...
I noticed that "COMXX SSE X2 Software DOWNLOAD" device appears in Device manager when the Volume UP is pressed on boot instead of Volume DOWN.
One more thing... There is a useful piece of software out there called QPST (Qualcomm Phone Service Tool). When I have the phone in download mode it detects the device (since it's Qualcomm platform, pretty much like ZTE 3G modems). But I don't have loaders or software to flash the phone baseband from QPST. Maybe if someone can parse the firmware available on the Net and extract the said loaders and software, then I could flash the Baseband and get the phone detected by SEUS to continue flashing Windows part. Unfortunately, decrypting the firmware is way beyond my knowledge. Anyone more knowledgeable on this subject?

First of all: Charge your phone for at least 2 hours from wall charger. I have experienced that it does not charge from USB always, especially when in update mode.
Please try this if you have only charged from USB previously.

Prydplante said:
First of all: Charge your phone for at least 2 hours from wall charger. I have experienced that it does not charge from USB always, especially when in update mode.
Please try this if you have only charged from USB previously.
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Thanks for your advice, but I am aware that phones don't always get full charge with damaged firmware. That is why I took the battery out and charged it fully with a special charger for batteries.

Need help
Can anybody help? - Problem is that i cant "push" my phone to go to bootloader (tried soft-reset, vol down+shut down..nothing helps), so it i cant update via SEUS. And after trying to instal manualy R3 cab's, "Clear phone memory" is gone - now i even can't reset my phone.
Anybody, please help.

what i think you trying to do is boot the rom from the sd card is that right? if you are, it won't work because you need a alternative bootloader or a hard-spl which the x2 doesn't have... yet. thats why we HAVE to use SUES. if you can't get your computer to recognize your phone even after charging it in you special charger and forcing it into bootloader via SUESS (the option i pitched earlier) your best bet is to contact Sony Ericsson or who ever you bought it from and tell them they sold you a faulty device and they HAVE to replace it. if you get the opportunity to talk to them on the phone be firm and don't ever place fault on yourself and push that they sold you a broken device, hopefully they will send you a new one. i'm sorry i couldn't help. At this time my knowledge in Winmo is ignorant at best. good luck

anyone know how to help?? i also have this problem.... ><
Down volume button + the power button doesn't have the logo of SE..
and the SEUS can't detect my x2... wanna cry//

Hi!
Do exactly like this:
1 Charge the battery with the wall charger to at least 50.
2 Remove all cables connected to X2. This is important!
3 Remove and re-insert battery.
4 Push and hold volume down.
5 While still holding volume down, push and hold Power at the same time.
6 Hold until SE logo on white background appears, then release both buttons.
7 Now connect USB cable.
Be careful to follow this exactly or it will not work!

x2 prob
I have same problem in my phone , during update with SEUS computer hang and now
my phone shows only vibrate.
i have tried volume down+power+reset
but it can't go to white screen or sonyericsson logo.
any other solution

bdadabayev said:
Thanks for your advice, but I am aware that phones don't always get full charge with damaged firmware. That is why I took the battery out and charged it fully with a special charger for batteries.
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Or You might need go to " C " drive - Progam files _ sony Ericson than remove any SEUS in that folder befor you go to inStall new F/Ware up date , everytime you want to reflash new SEUS you have to remove the last time F/Ware evenly that is the same one SEUS .than you go on for update new F/Ware SEUS to your phone .

Here is the support site for US. SE has a dedicated Nr and mail for x2.

what about new's for xperia x2 flashing
i have one stuck on logo after installing cab
and seus say's that no new update

Rise said:
I have same problem in my phone , during update with SEUS computer hang and now
my phone shows only vibrate.
i have tried volume down+power+reset
but it can't go to white screen or sonyericsson logo.
any other solution
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same problem i have
is there anythng new?
what to do is any way to fix it?

X2 morto !!!
I have the same problem, now I try to modify the language of my phone, just missing to finish the installation program displayed an error message and now I can not in flash mode puts you ... what friends do?

[Q] [REQ] Think i've bricked my X8, Can anyone help?

My X8, when booted, freezes during the sony ericsson logo
it was working fine earlier using CM7.0.2 (2.3.4) v.65 but i rebooted it and now it freezes
it wont let me boot into xrecovery to restore any previous backups and i read something about connecting to sony ericsson PC companion and using that to restore it to its default settings but apparently, it needs to be turned on to connect to that so i cant do that
I've flashed a few roms in the past but i wouldn't say im a seasoned veteran or anything like that
Is there any way to restore my phone? or do i have a new paperweight?

Download SEUS from Sony Ericsson site. Then select the phone (X8). When you are asked to switch off the phone and press back button to repair/ to search for an update for your phone, connect the USB, then press and hold power button + Menu button + back button simoultaneously. You should see the green LED light now and the phone will be connected. Hope it helps.
Many people have had this problem. Use the search button please. DO NOT spam the development area.
Thanks
Regards,
death214
Sent from my X10 Mini using XDA Premium App

Repair using SEUS (SE update service), not PC companion. you don't have to turn on your phone to do that.
Just follow the instructions, and connect your phone in flashmode (turn off, then hold back button and connect it to pc).

Sorry death214, i searched and didn't find anything
thanks to you both, ill give it a go now

It worked
Thanks a lot

Btw, you can use flashtoot too but now... Whatever.
Wysłano z X8 z użyciem Tapatalk

[Q] Problem with install ROM

Hi,
Dears, I've try to install another ROM on my Xperia X8, and I've copy all required
files to "system\bin" and every things is coming well.
When try to enter to recovery mode by pressing "Back button" after SonyEricsson
logo is appeared the recovery window isn't come !
So can anybody help me in this issue ?
I know it's not clear to understand this but I'm not able to explain :S
Regards,

if you really copied them, and it didn´t say "cannot paste here because file system is read-only" there are two possibilities:
1. You pressed the button when the white "Sony Ericsson" appeared, but you long-pressed it.
Press it as often as you can (don´t worry,it´s not really difficult)
2. You pressed it when you saw the bootanimation, which is also SE logo, but it´s animated.
You have to press it when you see the white SE.
Hope I could help.

Have you installed Busybox?

if you really copied them, and it didn´t say "cannot paste here because file system is read-only" there are two possibilities:
1. You pressed the button when the white "Sony Ericsson" appeared, but you long-pressed it.
Press it as often as you can (don´t worry,it´s not really difficult)
2. You pressed it when you saw the bootanimation, which is also SE logo, but it´s animated.
You have to press it when you see the white SE.
Hope I could help.
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Hmm, I' ve press it when the SE logo has appeared
I'll try again and update you
Thanks,
Sent from my LT15i using Tapatalk

When i done with instaling ROM (Froyo or GXgin 5.4) i restart phone in xRecover and when Sony Ericsson logo disapears second logo apears and never disapears. Phone never turn on in operating system. But when i restore to default ROM it turn on. Where is the problem? Help me i'm noobeee

andriss4461 said:
When i done with instaling ROM (Froyo or GXgin 5.4) i restart phone in xRecover and when Sony Ericsson logo disapears second logo apears and never disapears. Phone never turn on in operating system. But when i restore to default ROM it turn on. Where is the problem? Help me i'm noobeee
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You are facing a bootloop. If you can enter xRecovery, try making a full wipe.

Suhaib Haidar said:
Hi,
Dears, I've try to install another ROM on my Xperia X8, and I've copy all required
files to "system\bin" and every things is coming well.
When try to enter to recovery mode by pressing "Back button" after SonyEricsson
logo is appeared the recovery window isn't come !
So can anybody help me in this issue ?
I know it's not clear to understand this but I'm not able to explain :S
Regards,
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After you copy the 3 xRec files in system/bin, long press on each xRec file, tap permissions and tick all boxes. Reboot phone and when the white Sony Ericsson TEXT appears (not the logo with the round thingy), start tapping the back button, don't long press it, just keep tapping it fast till the xRecovery menu shows up.
And yes, make sure you have installed busybox from the market.

thanks, it helped

now using minicm 1.0.2. but... when i'm trying to install other rom like froyobread v016 the installation aborted cause by edify....
anybody have problem like me... plz help

The problem is still exist,
I've press the Back button a lot of time when SonyEricsson is appeared
and I've give the three files " Full Access Permission ", but nothing new.
Thanks for all, and I'll try to do it again, so any body have any advise ?
Regards,

After I rooted, I accidently updated from OTA, and now it couldn't install any app

Hi all,
this is my first post on XDA forum, my name is rainnoct
If you have used Little Photo on android, you may already know me
Recently, I am so stupid that I accepted the OTA update from Sony, my rooted phone is "bricked". After that, I followed the method on XDA forum and I used the fastboot tool to recover it.
It worked and I can boot my phone. However, I cannot install any app from Android market. Whenever I click on the install, it start downloading, and then it is stopped.
No error message, no warning, no force close. The download is just disappeared and nothing installed.
I tried the following :
1. Unlock the bootloader again, however, the fastboot tool prompt me that the phone is already unlocked.
2. Flash the LT15i (rooted version) again
3. Erased the cache + user data using fastboot -w
4. Reset the phone from setting menu (press the button to reset to factory setting, however, it does not work. The reset button does no response at all.)
I tried all the thing I can do now. I can only use my phone to call / receive phone call. It could not install any app.
What can I do ?
(Sorry, I just found that there is a Q&A sub forum , please remove this post if it should not belong to here)

Try some of THESE suggestions. It's not an uncommon issue so there are plenty of suggestions you could try.

I tried to follow the suggested method on the web,
they said that "hard reset" does solve it.
However, I can't hard reset my Arc.
The following keys does not work :
1. Volume down key + power key
2. Menu key + power key
3. Back + menu key + power key
4. Take the battery out, and put it back then volume down + power key
I cannot enter the so-called "fastboot menu" of the phone. There should be a menu for me to hard-reset or recover the phone. However, I can't enter this mode.

Finally, I found out the solution myself
Let me summarize,
The Problem Situation :
You have rooted your Arc. You also accepted the OTA update from sony.
The phone is bricked, and you un-bricked it by this method ,
Unluckily, after un-brick, your phone is not working normally (eg: cannot install app from market).
Recover the phone to original, at least, normal state
here is the step :
1. Do not just flash the LT15i rooted img, it don't recover the whole phone to total original state (since it is just flash the /system partition). Instead of doing this, download the latest firmware from Sony, I used 4.0.A.2.368
XDA post for download
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1199597
2. Download X10FlashTool.exe , put the extracted ".ftf" file and put into firmware folder. (it is not .img, it is .ftf, it contain the whole system firmware)
3. Open FlashTool , press flash and follow the instruction. Note, it ask you to press power button with the lower-right key (it is the menu key on your Arc). It is not correct for Arc. You should press the Back key of your Arc instead.
4. Power button + back key, just wait the FlashTool to flash your phone.
After flashing the 4.0.A.2.368 , the phone is now working. It is totally recovered.
This method un-root the phone. Therefore, I followed this thread to root again.
Now it is rooted and all things work.
Hope this help anyone having the same problem like me.

Reflashing usually sorts most issues.
Sent from my LT15i using XDA App

[Q] Stuck on System recovery (which doesn't work))

Hello to all of you!
My Tattoo has gone crazy lately...he deleted all my contacts, pictures and reset the settings...all when I switched it off and then turned it on. Ok I survived...
But yesterday when I turned my Tattoo on...he was stuck on the Tattoo screen and it was restarting itself on and on again...with no luck...then I pressed the buttons for hard reset, then the picture of the yellow exclamation mark appeared, and now I'm stuck with this Android System Recovery-which it's not working, I can't select anything, none of the buttons works...What Can I DO???? I have never made no changes to my tattoo, so it's not rooted or anything.
the system recovery says:
Android System Recovery
Use trackball to highlight;
click to select.
reboot system now [Home+back]
apply sdcard:update.zip
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
___________________
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command
Could someone tell me what to do now...please

Please someone?? I really don't know what to do!! I need my phone! PLEASE

Try downloading stock ROM from here http://htcpedia.com/official_rom_htc_wwe_for_htc_click_tatoo/soft/htc-tattoo-rom/download.html
Then try installing this ROM from Windows...I thing that you need to have htc sync also...

Thank you for helping me, I really appreciate it.
But that's the problem, my pc won't recognize the phone, I have installed the htc sync but when I insert the phone from usb nothing happens. and i can't go into the phone to check if usb debug is on or off. I also tried with adb but it says device not found....so I think there's nothing I can do...

Leegirl said:
reboot system now [Home+back]
apply sdcard:update.zip
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
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Can you see some of these options? Did you try to download some of custom ROM and rename it to update.zip and then put it in root of sdcard and apply it? Im little confused with this....

Yes I see all of these options, but the problem is I can't select them or anything because none of te buttons work! I tried to put the ROM on the root of the sd card, but it make no sense because I cant select the option apply update.

Try Power+Home button (that is for recovery menu, but if your tattoo isnt rooted you should see only triangle with exclamation sign inside), then plug usb cable and then try installing stock ROM from post above...

With power+home button I see the recovery menu...it's just that nothing work in the recovery menu. I tried plugging the usb...the PC won't recognize it.
I told you I tried everything... I guess it's a hopless case

What about this?
To reset the phone using phone buttons
1. With the phone turned off, press and hold the HOME and BACK buttons, and then briefly press the END CALL/POWER button.
2. Press the ENTER button to begin the reset process.
Tip If your phone hangs or freezes, remove the battery then wait for a few seconds, and then re-install it. After re-installing the battery, turn on the phone.
This one is the same but has a pic of tattoo...
http://www.howtoreset.com/HTC_Units/HTC_Tattoo_Hard_Reset_Soft_Reset.html

ha...this was my first try...unsuccsessful...it's like he can't do nothing else-just showing the triangle with exclamation mark and if I press home and power goes into recovery which doesn't work....that's all he can do..

F*uck i'm all out of ideas...

Yeah...don't tell me...

Leegirl said:
Thank you for helping me, I really appreciate it.
But that's the problem, my pc won't recognize the phone, I have installed the htc sync but when I insert the phone from usb nothing happens. and i can't go into the phone to check if usb debug is on or off. I also tried with adb but it says device not found....so I think there's nothing I can do...
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Here is what you can do:
After you started RUU wait until you get the prompt to proceed or until you get the usb error and don't close the application
Go to temp folder to get the rom.zip file
to go to temp folder type %TEMP% in the run command bar
copy the rom.zip to your favourite place and rename it to CLICIMG.zip
Now you can close the RUU install
place CLICIMG.zip in root of memory CARD and turnoff your phone
Boot in to HBOOT mode (power button + volume down keys)
wait for few seconds and install would start
I hope you have a memory card reader to place the file in to it
key for this to work is, you need to have right Tattoo RUU to get ROM.zip or have a goldcard to work any Tattoo RUU derived ROM.zip

True, i forgot about that

Thank you fo helping me. I tried but it doesn't work. The volume keys won't work...

can you check if you could boot to fastboot mode (hold both power button and back button)
From there you can
either reset your phone (menu button)
reboot to HBOOT (action button - centre button)
change to HBOOT (volume down button) - l know it doesn't work for you
or turn off the phone (left button)
If none of the buttons work, then you might need to send your phone to the doctor

Nope...it doesn't work....not to the doctor i will send the phone to the trash...