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Questions about a semi bricked xperia play..

I bought an unlocked sim xperia play (This means I have to put in my own sim card right?)
1)unlocked the bootloader
2) Rooted with play_modded.img
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3)update with the SEUS == '.
4) becomes bricked
5) flashed with all kinds of ftf with the same result. -> Phone works fine but no radio and sim card couldn't be read. No fast boot ..
6) So went back to SEUS WITH the flashed ftf and updated it.
7) Now the radio works with everything else but cannot find my SIM card.
8) Oh and the fastboot won't work (where you hold down the search button when phone turned off and plugging into USB).
*update:
gave it into SE and they changed the motherboard..all free of charge. So it's more or less a completely new phone.
I've done some reading around the XDA forums and am happy with all the support the phone is getting. Thanks to all the developers who are trying to hard on fixing this brick XD. I understand how flashing the file will break the radio cause the code on it isn't fully fixed (or something along the lines), and so is the sim card reading isn't fixed? i think and also the fast boot?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1085184
Blagus and other developers have been trying to work on a "sim locked" phone? does that apply to my device where I have to put in a sim card of my choice? or is a totally different situation?
Correct anything above....definition wise..

Hey man, I've had the same problem, I had unlocked the bootloader and flashed with custom image, but then after doing software update it has bricked my phone!!!
You mention flashing with 'ftf stuff'...what exactly do you mean by that?? Could you give me any pointers on where to start?
Thanks

There has been a million and one threads warning people not to update with seus with an unlocked bootloader as it will brick your phone! As it stands you are stuck with a semi bricked phone untill the devs get xrecovery working....
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Damn, can't believe I didn't know!!! I've got phone insurance so I may just send it ot them and get them to sort it / replace it. They might kick off about it being rooted, but if they will swap a phone for someone who has dropped it in a toilet then surely they will for someone who has rooted it / then updated the software!
Is there any knew on how the devs are doing with xrecovery?

dormisher said:
Damn, can't believe I didn't know!!! I've got phone insurance so I may just send it ot them and get them to sort it / replace it. They might kick off about it being rooted, but if they will swap a phone for someone who has dropped it in a toilet then surely they will for someone who has rooted it / then updated the software!
Is there any knew on how the devs are doing with xrecovery?
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Check the arc development section they have a version of xrecovery booting and in another thread they have a booting version of cm7, just tell insurance somthing happend during an update and it wont switch on, just play dumb ...... bootloader ..... whats one of thoes lol
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dormisher said:
Damn, can't believe I didn't know!!! I've got phone insurance so I may just send it ot them and get them to sort it / replace it. They might kick off about it being rooted, but if they will swap a phone for someone who has dropped it in a toilet then surely they will for someone who has rooted it / then updated the software!
Is there any knew on how the devs are doing with xrecovery?
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Just drop it in the toilet then they will never know it was rooted LOL

Mine has gone in for repair now, same issues.
unlocked bootloader etc.
Although, i you can flash the xperia play with the generic uk .ftf file which is floating around but you will lose radio.
Just reflash the phone through the SEUS after and the phone should be back to normal.
The problem with losing the radio seems to be because flashtools doesn't flash the simlock.ta file...
I'll keep you posted with what they say about my Play.
Best of luck.

right guys,
mine came back exchanged. the phone got outsourced to higher engineers. they still couldn't find the problem. kind of annoying as i know exactley what the problem is, just can't tell them or they would probably void my warrenty!
anyway, happy days!
best of luck to anyone else with issues due to the xperia play!

HELP!!

hey all i got my samsung galaxy 3 one month back and around 2 days back i just switched on my cell and it just stopped at samsung screen and didnt load so i showed it to the samsung customer care ,they fixed it .now its happening again!!
i dont know what to do!!
i have no idea about flashing or rooting or bricking or whatever
plz help me out!
got this cell from my pocket money!!

Check your battery, but it shouldn't be issue if phone actually starts. I recommended you to read about flashing and install new soft. Maybe you just overused it.
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ujjwalgulecha said:
hey all i got my samsung galaxy 3 one month back and around 2 days back i just switched on my cell and it just stopped at samsung screen and didnt load so i showed it to the samsung customer care ,they fixed it .now its happening again!!
i dont know what to do!!
i have no idea about flashing or rooting or bricking or whatever
plz help me out!
got this cell from my pocket money!!
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Relax bro, its all right as of now. Try the following then we will see what to do
1. Try to do a factory reset.
2. Try to remove SD Card and then use phone for few hours without it.
3. If Any of the above solves your issue, then post here, else I would strongly suggest you to Flash a Stock ROM. You can contact me if you don,t know how.
Since you are from bangalore, so I am assuming you have a I5801 with Android 2.1 installed by default. Also post if you updated the firmware using KIES?
For the time being, cheer up as our Galaxy 3 is not frail

umangsagar said:
Relax bro, its all right as of now. Try the following then we will see what to do
1. Try to do a factory reset.
2. Try to remove SD Card and then use phone for few hours without it.
3. If Any of the above solves your issue, then post here, else I would strongly suggest you to Flash a Stock ROM. You can contact me if you don,t know how.
Since you are from bangalore, so I am assuming you have a I5801 with Android 2.1 installed by default. Also post if you updated the firmware using KIES?
For the time being, cheer up as our Galaxy 3 is not frail
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hi
dont do any flashing or rooting if u have warranty on the phone and u have not done any of the above just take it back to service and tell them the problem and they will fix it for ur thats all ur phone is just 3 months old they have do it

haree said:
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dont do any flashing or rooting if u have warranty on the phone and u have not done any of the above just take it back to service and tell them the problem and they will fix it for ur thats all ur phone is just 3 months old they have do it
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Yes i will second haree....in warranty period, if you havent made changes to your ROM, you should get it back to service centre and ask them do a proper repair, you can also tell them its a persistent problem. My apologies for not mentioning this as the 1st step above. Thank you haree

i have no idea what i am doing!

hi there.
first of all couple weeks ago my phone went into a boot loop. went to phone shop and the guy fobbed me off because i didnt have insurance. so i went online to look for some help. discovered odin and used bootloader to get it out of loop. which wiped my imei number! now phone is useless, i have stalked forums and net for a while trying to get over this flashing new firm ware on my phone and trying to root it etc, but to be honest i try to follow guides but never seems to happen with me as something in the process is missing or not happening for me even with flashing the counter so i could send it to samsung( discovered i voided warranty not long after trying to DIY fix) wish i never botherd and stood my ground in phones 4 u to get them to send it away in first place!
i have gave up on me trying to do this as i dont think i have the know how to do this properly and i was wondering if theres anyone with the right knowhow here that i could send my phone to for recover the imei number so i can use it or atleast get it back to warranty worthiness as i desperately just want it working now
more than happy to cover the beer token fee ofcourse!
forgot to add i am uk based (cumbria at the moment tho i am from glasgow)
phone is a samsung s3 gt i9300

This is better suited for the Q/A section.
Uh, if your IMEI's gone then I don't think there's anything you can do to fix it... IMEI's are personal, not universal and if it's gone and you have no backup, well..... then you're SOL I'm afraid..

ahhh ok if an admin could move it to the right thread then sorry?
what does SOL mean? am sure i seen a thread where someone could change it tho?
as i said i dont know and i wish i never attempted this now.

turbonuts said:
ahhh ok if an admin could move it to the right thread then sorry?
what does SOL mean? am sure i seen a thread where someone could change it tho?
as i said i dont know and i wish i never attempted this now.
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SOL = Sh*t Out of Luck
Yeah just report it and a mod will move it buddy :good:

turbonuts said:
hi there.
first of all couple weeks ago my phone went into a boot loop. went to phone shop and the guy fobbed me off because i didnt have insurance. so i went online to look for some help. discovered odin and used bootloader to get it out of loop. which wiped my imei number! now phone is useless, i have stalked forums and net for a while trying to get over this flashing new firm ware on my phone and trying to root it etc, but to be honest i try to follow guides but never seems to happen with me as something in the process is missing or not happening for me even with flashing the counter so i could send it to samsung( discovered i voided warranty not long after trying to DIY fix) wish i never botherd and stood my ground in phones 4 u to get them to send it away in first place!
i have gave up on me trying to do this as i dont think i have the know how to do this properly and i was wondering if theres anyone with the right knowhow here that i could send my phone to for recover the imei number so i can use it or atleast get it back to warranty worthiness as i desperately just want it working now
more than happy to cover the beer token fee ofcourse!
forgot to add i am uk based (cumbria at the moment tho i am from glasgow)
phone is a samsung s3 gt i9300
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Which version of Android were you on when bootloop occurred and which version did you flash which led to corrupted IMEI?
What IMEI do you see now?

i have no idea mate i got the phone on contract from phones 4 u (orange) 13 months ago and i am not sure what i bootloaded it with but then flashed it with the orange firm ware from sammoblie imei number was a generic iirc one cant remember what it was but i gave it to someone local to try sort the other day and now it is 355829058952634/01 when i type *#06# but on back it should be 355829/05/895263/4 as on the back. it still comes up with the screen on front with lots of yellow text(details)

Load the correct firmware with Kies. Sometimes when you load the incorrect firmware, the IMEI goes missing. It happened to me once too. Kies can revive the IMEI if it was an incorrect firmware flash.
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You want to find out the firmware version that was recently flashed and your phone model number which is indicated underneath the battery.

This is really ridiculous that counter boy refused to have the phone back. Though you may get solution to your phone. But you should have gone to the consumer forum for such kind of thing or share this thing on social media sites as well as the issue get highlighted and this won't happen to someone else as well.

You can update your Z3 even after you unlocked bootloader and rooted!

Hi guys
I don't know if this is common sense, but when I asked here, I was told my device would be bricked (can't update to newer software when they arrives like Android L). So this might not be helpful to a lot, but it is to me and might be to new people who seek info on their new device and still want to make sure they can update.
I just wrote to customer support and asked if their was any way to update my device with an unlocked bootloader. They told me that I can't update from phone, neither from PC companion. But was told I was still able to download Flashtool and update my device from there.
So hope I helped someone to make sure it works!

When ur phone is bricked u cant update, only thing u can do is to give it to your dog to play with.
But its right with unlocked bootloader u can update via flash, cwm ect which u should do anyway or what would be the reason to unlock it.
IThe only thing u loose is the sony stock stuff like camera app and some more havent had time to read about.
Google the word brick btw
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"Sony" and "open" a difficult relationship

casis86 said:
When ur phone is bricked u cant update, only thing u can do is to give it to your dog to play with.
But its right with unlocked bootloader u can update via flash, cwm ect which u should do anyway or what would be the reason to unlock it.
IThe only thing u loose is the sony stock stuff like camera app and some more havent had time to read about.
Google the word brick btw
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Why do you lose sony stock stuff when you unlock bootloader ?

georgebest said:
Why do you lose sony stock stuff when you unlock bootloader ?
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As I understand it you lose your DRM keys. Those keys are unrecoverable and reduces your camera in darkness and audio.

Galaxy S7 Flat -- no signals after flashing Rom? Plz help

Hello guys,
I've started to freak out a bit now as I can't get no signal on my S7 ( GM-930P) whatsoever.
I had my phone running ok ( living outside of USA ) everything seemed fine.
Flashed the GM-930V firmware to jump on the Nougat beta ( everything worked fine n sweet )
Wanted to try the Custom roms ( Eco signals worked fine ) experienced FC and insane batt drain
Tried the Stangfire customrom v2 ( signals worked fine ) experienced a weird UI glitch after rebooting
decided to go back to the Nougat beta as it felt a lot stable and the batt life was great
Now that's where things go south for me. I had no signals at all and my sim card doesnt seems to be recognized at all
i tried all sort of things after that. flashing back to sprint firmware / verizon / nougat beta / custom roms all works fine except i have no signals whatsoever trying diff roms on the signal bars it either shows a " X " or a " Circle with a line through it "
when i try to perform any dial codes in the dialer it doesn't seems to work either eg" *#06# " it doesn't brings up the imei window it just stays there and when i hit the call button it pops up " Mobile Network no Available "
it must have something to do with the baseband or the radio maybe? can someone pls help me with this ?

anyone

sprg930p said:
anyone
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Have you tried going back to a stock sprint firmware?
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Yes I have jumped back to every single firmware stock ( sprint, verizon, the G930U ) Nougat beta, Custom roms everything works except the call service i get a cross over the signal bars and the moment i insert a sim ( tried 2 diff carriers ) i get the " invalid sim " error msg pop up.
Am not living in USA and i have bought this phone locally it was working fine. I can't reactivate it with a Sprint sim for obvious reasons as am not in USA
lvpre said:
Have you tried going back to a stock sprint firmware?
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sprg930p said:
Yes I have jumped back to every single firmware stock ( sprint, verizon, the G930U ) Nougat beta, Custom roms everything works except the call service i get a cross over the signal bars and the moment i insert a sim ( tried 2 diff carriers ) i get the " invalid sim " error msg pop up.
Am not living in USA and i have bought this phone locally it was working fine. I can't reactivate it with a Sprint sim for obvious reasons as am not in USA
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Well seeing as how you bought a sprint version s7 there's a simple answer being you f***** up. It's a locked bootloader. Have you done no research before attempting to do any mods to this phone? I have nonsolution for you but I wanted to. Comment on how your stupidity ****ed your phone up. You're the problem with society. Oh cool new phone I'm gonna do a bunch of.stuff and make it awesome etc and then you **** it up and ***** and moan looking for someone to fix your mistake. If you had any common sense you would have done some research first. I hope your phone doesn't work ever again.

sprg930p said:
Yes I have jumped back to every single firmware stock ( sprint, verizon, the G930U ) Nougat beta, Custom roms everything works except the call service i get a cross over the signal bars and the moment i insert a sim ( tried 2 diff carriers ) i get the " invalid sim " error msg pop up.
Am not living in USA and i have bought this phone locally it was working fine. I can't reactivate it with a Sprint sim for obvious reasons as am not in USA
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Well seeing as how you bought a sprint version s7 there's a simple answer being you f***** up. It's a locked bootloader. Have you done no research before attempting to do any mods to this phone? I have nonsolution for you but I wanted to. Comment on how your stupidity ****ed your phone up. You're the problem with society. Oh cool new phone I'm gonna do a bunch of.stuff and make it awesome etc and then you **** it up and ***** and moan looking for someone to fix your mistake. If you had any common sense you would have done some research first. I hope your phone doesn't work ever again.

PoppNLPatrick said:
Well seeing as how you bought a sprint version s7 there's a simple answer being you f***** up. It's a locked bootloader. Have you done no research before attempting to do any mods to this phone? I have nonsolution for you but I wanted to. Comment on how your stupidity ****ed your phone up. You're the problem with society. Oh cool new phone I'm gonna do a bunch of.stuff and make it awesome etc and then you **** it up and ***** and moan looking for someone to fix your mistake. If you had any common sense you would have done some research first. I hope your phone doesn't work ever again.
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Dam no need for that. If u aint helping out, keep all ur negativity to ur self

PoppNLPatrick said:
Well seeing as how you bought a sprint version s7 there's a simple answer being you f***** up. It's a locked bootloader. Have you done no research before attempting to do any mods to this phone? I have nonsolution for you but I wanted to. Comment on how your stupidity ****ed your phone up. You're the problem with society. Oh cool new phone I'm gonna do a bunch of.stuff and make it awesome etc and then you **** it up and ***** and moan looking for someone to fix your mistake. If you had any common sense you would have done some research first. I hope your phone doesn't work ever again.
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well first of all thanks for taking time and reading through but dude am not the reason why he/she left u lolx chill. I actually did flash the phone on diff firmwares quite successfully from Sprint to verizon to the G930U even did the Verizon to Nougat beta update from there got back to sprint and then installed a Eco custom rom. So for u saying u can't flash ( don't know what u mean by mod ) this phoen i think u need to grow some balls and try. It actually works has nothing to do with a locked bootloader i wasn't trying to flash a custom recovery. I did somehow get it into a locked state somehow i agree but not cuz am so stupid not to read through ( if u use your common sense what u advised to me ) many of the posts and threads actually say this and this firmware for this and this variant of the phone.
Chill bro and am sorry if u got your phone f**** up the same way. It would have been an easy fix if i was living in the US just plug yr sprint sim in activate and u are back in business. In my case i can't do that but i can still get it back working if i pay a certain amount i just was just trying to see what chances i have got to get it back accept my sim without paying so am really sorry to let u know my phone would get back fixed

PoppNLPatrick said:
Well seeing as how you bought a sprint version s7 there's a simple answer being you f***** up. It's a locked bootloader. Have you done no research before attempting to do any mods to this phone? I have nonsolution for you but I wanted to. Comment on how your stupidity ****ed your phone up. You're the problem with society. Oh cool new phone I'm gonna do a bunch of.stuff and make it awesome etc and then you **** it up and ***** and moan looking for someone to fix your mistake. If you had any common sense you would have done some research first. I hope your phone doesn't work ever again.
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Show me this research he was suppose to find saying he'd lose call capabilities once he switched to different fw on his sprint s7 using an international service provider... Root research is limited on this device if no one tries anything new there will be no development on the device. You want to be scared and keep ur device not "awesome" fine but don't put down someone cause they asked for help.

lvpre said:
Have you tried going back to a stock sprint firmware?
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you lost the carrier unlock. happened to me 3 days ago, when i was flashing firmwares.
i had to pay $12 USD to get it back.
i used Gsmzambia . c om

vegoja said:
Show me this research he was suppose to find saying he'd lose call capabilities once he switched to different fw on his sprint s7 using an international service provider... Root research is limited on this device if no one tries anything new there will be no development on the device. You want to be scared and keep ur device not "awesome" fine but don't put down someone cause they asked for help.
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Exactly there is always going to be someone to test the waters so for others it's clear not to do the wrongs we did and that's how it works . I still am not sure what triggered it cuz i did try out every single firmware and the 2 custom roms " Eco and Stang5liter " as far as i can remember I flashed Stang5liter custom rom and i was on the G930U firmware ( i think that rom was meant for Verizon firmware )
Rom Version:
G935VVRU2APEI[/COLOR]
Model number
G930V
Android security patch level
August 1 2016
Baseband Version
G930UUEU4API3
i think this is what caused the phone to go back to it's locked status as the baseband didn't match/was more updated than the Rom build ( totally my mistake ) maybe something ppl should be paying attention when flashing to a custom rom

diego97yey said:
you lost the carrier unlock. happened to me 3 days ago, when i was flashing firmwares.
i had to pay $12 USD to get it back.
i used Gsmzambia . c om
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what do u think made yr phone get back in lost status? were u just flashing a diff stock firmware or a custom rom? Me too had to pay and get it unlocked. Lucky u i had to pay approx 22$ USD in my local currency to get it back unlocked and working