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Hi guys,,, just bought myself a X10i to play with,,, figured I,ve flash the thing with a rom from the developers forum,
This is where I came unstuck,,,, cant for the life of me get it into flash mode.
Instructions were as follows
1 With fone OFF. Hold down back button and insert usb cable, green light comes on and hit enter. What bloody enter, on the fone or on your keyboard. I,ve tried both, fone just keeps on booting into the main screen, nothing even resembles a flash mode screen. Tried this untill my thumb nearly bled.
Someone help please.
Read the tuts in the dev forum. P.S. no custom roms yet but there is root.
TrevvyD said:
Hi guys,,, just bought myself a X10i to play with,,, figured I,ve flash the thing with a rom from the developers forum,
This is where I came unstuck,,,, cant for the life of me get it into flash mode.
Instructions were as follows
1 With fone OFF. Hold down back button and insert usb cable, green light comes on and hit enter. What bloody enter, on the fone or on your keyboard. I,ve tried both, fone just keeps on booting into the main screen, nothing even resembles a flash mode screen. Tried this untill my thumb nearly bled.
Someone help please.
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Try hold down "back button" without battery then insert USB cable and then insert battery.
When it says to hit enter, that is to continue from the screen (on the PC) that says "press any key to continue" when you are doing the steps for rooting. If you don't have that window ready the phone will only stay in flash mode for about 5 seconds and then it will continue to boot. So, just make sure you are ready with the PC before entering flash mode.
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Try hold down "back button" without battery then insert USB cable and then insert battery.
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thanks!!
this really helps!
My phone is also x10i.I have trouble to enter in flash mode.It shows up the green LED but flash tool says it occurs error and plug your phone in flash mode.
What should I do?Help me , plz.
johnmin said:
My phone is also x10i.I have trouble to enter in flash mode.It shows up the green LED but flash tool says it occurs error and plug your phone in flash mode.
What should I do?Help me , plz.
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check drivers (install SE PC suite and let it atleast detect the phone once in FLASH mode)...
also it might help to disable any antivirus (worked for me)
cannot enter the flash mode
Hi,
I know this post is pretty old, but still I'm struglig the second day now to get into flash mode and still no luck despite trying every method there is on the web.
I've got Xperia X10i mini pro, reinstalled standard ROM with PC companion just to make sure it's nothing with the software or any modifications I made to it.
I'm guiding myself with instruction given here:
wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Sony_Ericsson_Xperia_Mini_Pro:_Full_Update_Guide
in order to get my bootloader unlocked
what I've done so far:
-installed Android SDK incl. SDK Tools, SDK Platform-tools, Google USB driver package. Not installed any API from SDK.
-put android_winusb.inf (18 KB size) in C:\android-sdk-windows\extras\google\usb_driver
-in general- everyting given here: wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Howto:_Install_the_Android_SDK#Windows
command
Code:
adb devices
rerurns
Code:
List of devices attached
43423531315537465737 device
in my opinion meaning it works as it should.
So I turn the phone off, unplug the cable both from computer and the phone, take the abttery out, plug both end of USB cable where these should be, hold the Back button (tried with Volume up too) and put the battery in.
The result is it only goes into flash mode for several seconds (confirmed by SuperOneClisk log) and then goes into charging mode. nothing gets displayed on the screen. Only when PC Companion is on it detects it, than looses it and pops up with a window on how to properly connect the device... :/
So can someone please tell me what I do wrong?
Why it doesn't stay in flash mode?
PS. when I enter *#*#7378423#*#* to access the service menu, after pressing the last * the numbers just disappear and nothing happens...
Pls help
Edit:
I somehow got around that with s1tool and Flashtool. But eventually I could not go along the way given at cyanogenmod.com and unlocked with the help of this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1254225
hey fellas...
....as the title says, i'm afraid i might have bricked my device!
what happened: assumingly, the battery was too low to perform a firmware flash via flashtool 0.2.9.1 - despite that, i tried it. the result was an abort of the process (error flashing, process aborted)....
....the situation now is that the device won't even boot anymore, it just shortly vibrates, that's it! (i've tried to reflash the uk 184 firmare several times, all resulting in process aborted....windows vista, 64 bit)...it does not matter if i use flashtool 0.2.9.1 or 0.2.9....
what was done to the device before: a successful flash of the uk 184 firmware, a successful unlock of the bootloader (done on a computer running winxp, 32bit)....
...it'd be great if anyone of you guys had some advice, any help is greatly appreciated!
regards,
paddy
EDIT: reflashed generic uk 184 on a windows xp (32bit) computer, everything went smoothly and the deivce is running again! thank you everybody that tried to help!!!!
So you battery is charged? What happens when you plug it in? Does the battery charging icon shows up?
no, nothing shows up....only the battery led keeps blinking, which is kind of strange
Leave it for a few hours and see if it charges. Its possible your battery wont charge, this was a problem with motorola defys and there is a mcgyver workaround but I would say only attempt it if your sure it will fix it and done mind blowing up your phone if it goes wrong. So basically only as a very last resort
have you tries SEUS?
thanks for replies so far....nope, i haven't tried seus yet, i'll do that right now.....despite that, i did try pc companion to "repair" the phone, which actually resulted in pcc telling me it is not able to do anything since the phone is running a modified firmware
edit: seus won't workt either, "firmware is not supported"
Try turning off holding the menu and back button starting up seus with the usb already plugged in. When detects phone let go of menu button but keep the back button held until it says let go is the boot loader unlocked. I believe its impossible to brick if its not
Sent from my LT15i using XDA App
if possible get the battery charged from some other device or external charger...
and then try flashing via flashtool again..
this is weird....just tried it on a win7 computer, doesn't work either, flashing gets aborted immediately...even stranger is the fact that i've just let the device chrage for 45 minutes, still, the led just blinks in flashmode color, won't turn on at all and just shortly vibrates....fastboot recognizes the device though
279Paddy said:
this is weird....just tried it on a win7 computer, doesn't work either, flashing gets aborted immediately...even stranger is the fact that i've just let the device chrage for 45 minutes, still, the led just blinks in flashmode color, won't turn on at all and just shortly vibrates....fastboot recognizes the device though
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have u been using the testing recovery files that were posted?
no, i haven't used them
when i connect it via usb, it seems to get stuck in flashmode
279Paddy said:
no, i haven't used them
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hm... ok so the chargemon is not changed....
i dont know if fastboot can flash system.img / boot.img even at low battery...
still i would recommend u try to get the battery charged externally then try normal flashing via flashtool...
so you'd say it's probably the battery causing the problems? mh, okay, i'll see if i can find a way to charge it externally....hopefully the brick is reversible
Hi Guys,
I got into a problem here, and I need help! I have a milestone 2 with the latest Endlees CyanogemMod, Android 2.3.7.
I was trying to follow the steps into using the internal memory as a SD card (link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=948887), but I wasn't successful.
Here cames what I did:
First I tried to follow the steps:
1- create a file image in /data and a folder in /sdcard
mkdir /sdcard/storage
su
dd if=/dev/zero of=/data/storage.img bs=1024 count=5242880 (1024x1024x5 --> 5Gb)
busybox mkfs.vfat /data.storage.img
But that didn't work, the terminal emulator just said that the directory couldn't be found.
Then I downloaded Busybox from Android Market, and installed it. But when I executed the program, the installation wasn't done because it was insisting that Busybox wasn't able to access the folder, and didn't have superuser access to root. Even with the permission on Superuser OK!
So after that, I tried to reboot my milestone 2, and now it won't even get to the boot screen of android (screen with the rotating square)
I tried to use the boot recovery tool, and wipe all system data, and reboot, mas it isn't working. Something I noticed on Recovery Tool is that apear a messagem saying "E: Can't Open /cache/recovery/command" and "E: Can't Open /cache/recovery/caller.
Even the battery light won't turn on. If turn off the cell and try to recharge it, appears a image of the battery with a "?" on it... I tried to connect the cellphone to the PC with the usb cable, but it isn't recognized...
I hope someone can help me, I just can't afford to lose this phone.... Thanks
Look in this topic http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1344740 it should help you solve this problem
in general: firstly you need to charge your battery in another working Milestone 2 or in some universal battery charger (because bricked Milestone 2 is not able to charge battery) and then you need to flash SBF and it should be ok
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Look in this topic http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1344740
in general: firstly you need to charge your battery in another working Milestone 2 or in some universal battery charger (because bricked Milestone 2 is not able to charge battery) and then you need to flash SBF and it should be ok
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I read somewhere else that even if the MS 2 is bricked the battery charges. Very very slowly, but it charges.
thanks for your tip... I read the entire topic, but there is a problem. My battery must be around 30% or something, but when a connect the milestone 2 with the pc via usb cable, the lateral light won't even lit... And the pc won't even recognize it...
edit: when I connect the cellphone to the pc, the light lit for 30s more or less, the appear the Motorola logo with the rabbit on the side, but then the light turn off and I get stuck in the same situation...
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I read somewhere else that even if the MS 2 is bricked the battery charges. Very very slowly, but it charges.
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I don't know, maybe it is possible, but I as far as I know, everyone, who had bricked M2, charged the battery outside his phone...
So he can try it in the bricked phone, but he can't be 100% sure it will charge, right?
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thanks for your tip... I read the entire topic, but there is a problem. My battery must be around 30% or something, but when a connect the milestone 2 with the pc via usb cable, the lateral light won't even lit... And the pc won't even recognize it...
edit: when I connect the cellphone to the pc, the light lit for 30s more or less, the appear the Motorola logo with the rabbit on the side, but then the light turn off and I get stuck in the same situation...
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Yes, thats why I said here and even in the topic I referred to, you have to charge battery in another non-bricked Milestone 2 or in universal battery charger. When your M2 is bricked, it wont charge any battery (or maybe it will, but very very slow according to carpet55's post ).
So now you have to get some universal charger or working M2 (or another battery).. This is your step no. 1. Then you can flash it via RSDLite by SBF file.
ok Anonymous_!
I'm going to find a way to charge the battery and do what are you saying.
But RDS Lite can flash the android even if windows it isn't recognizing the cell phone on the usb?
thanks again! I'll return with more info when I get my battery fully charged..
After you will have charged battery, you will have to boot into bootloader by holding Power+Volume Down+Camera button, then windows should recognise it (maybe you will have to install drivers too) and then you can use RSDLite (don't forget to run it with administrator rights).
Anonymous_,
final question of the day... Where do I get the SBF file?
I'm from Brazil, so should be the brazillian version of this link?
and-developers.com/sbf:milestone2
You are on the right path
Grab Brazil 2.2 version from http://and-developers.com/sbf:milestone2 and it should be ok.
I can confirm that no, the battery does not charge when bricked. I left mine going for over 24 hours and nothing -_-. So ended up using a universal ac adapter set to 5 volts and some wires directly to the + and -. This didn't work after half an hour so I upped it to 7v and about ten minutes later, all good.
During my research to find how to fix it, someone was saying the charge sequence software in in the system or boot data, and since it was all corrupt - no charge.
But you perhaps allready have enough juice in there to load up bootloader successfully, so try what anon said and hold d-pad up and power on until the screen flashes blackish grey and let go. Then it'll tell you if the battery has enough charge to flash a sbf
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Guys,
I'm thankful to everyone who tried to help me, especially Anonymous_!
Yesterday, in the same day I bricked my phone, I flashed it even without charging to 100%... and everything has gone well, but it was a close call, because my battery had only 5% left when the milestone returned to live!
Good to hear!
Sent from my A953 using xda premium
Hi all,
Today I will explain you how to unbrick your dead phone, now that I have a XA Ultra for dev and test I tried to kill it (yes I'm crazy).
until now I didn't searched all ways because my XA was my daily phone and when I asked the community to send or sell me a dead phone, no answers
I tried many ways to brick and unbrick the phone, tried to brick it by not using FSC file, using an old Falshtool, flashing boot.img from an other device (Xperia X and Z5 ) and I always recovered it. In my last try the phone was totally dead, no red light and not detected by my computer but all ended fine :good: I will upload a video soon.
On Mediatek devices, if the preloader is not corrupted you can always recover it. If it doesn't work for you maybe you can use some "special" boxes to connect on the UART serial port and flash the preloader but I didn't find the correct pinout on it and no proofs what will work on XA and Ultra.
Other thing, if someone claim that he found an other way and need your phone (and money), don't trust it until you have some real proofs (some users know what I mean), it's probably a scam to steal your phone.
By following this guide you will void the warranty so do it only if you can't send it to Sony!!
## What we need ?
- Some tools to open the device (a plastic card can be enough)
- The last version of Flashtool
- Flashmode drivers installed (you can install them from Flashtool)
- A firmware downloaded from Xperifirm (inclued in Flashtool)
- One set of sticker glue tape for the backplate like this one:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.co...4ff8978f9e--waterproof-stickers-glue-tape.jpg
## Step by step guide
1. Follow this video to remove the backplate (thanks to the author): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O5dAljOpR4
2. Unplug the battery connector, pull it from the upper side very slowly or you can damage it.
3. Open Flashtool and load the firmware (remove all TA related partitions), click "flash" and wait until you see the popup to plug the phone.
4. Hold "vol-" and plug the phone, you will see the red light 1 seconde and the green light just after.
5. Release "vol-" button and wait until the end of the flash process.
6. Unplug the phone, plug the battery connector and power on the phone.
7. If it's ok the phone will start and you can put the backplate again (clean the old glue and put the new sticker)
## How to avoid brick
First of all you must understand that flashing something on our devices is always dangerous, official or unofficial things.
Generally our devices goes wrong after updating the firmware, to reduce the risk you have to follow some simple things:
- Don't unlock the bootloader and use OEM tools.
- Always download files from trusted sources.
- When you use Flashtool, always use the last version, download the firmware from the inclued Xperifirm and always use FSC file when asked.
If it worked for you, don't forget to feedback, hit the thank button and why not offer me a coffee
Have a nice day
after flash dead..flashed this F3212_36.0.B.1.111_1302-9719_R4A
pc detect devices management "unknown device
please help me
rubymunna said:
after flash dead..flashed this F3212_36.0.B.1.111_1302-9719_R4A
pc detect devices management "unknown device
please help me
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You followed my guide? Have you the green led?
what should i do if i don't get the green led and can't enter flash mode
It stays at the red light..
what else can i do?
If it doesn't work for you I don't know what you can do. Maybe if one day it doesn't work for me too I will try some more experimental things or if I can have a device with the same problem in my hands.
Welcome my dear friend! My phone is also lit red led. How to reflash?
Unfortunately at this time their no way to reflash your phone if you have that red light flash only
If don't have flash mode or fastboot use able their is not a way to recover.
Sent from my F3213 using xda premium
my xa ultra dual wont response the touchscreen
hi all I desperately need advice for my unresponse or maybe likely death xperia xa ultradual.
I have some lagging issues at first then I reset to factory, then comes normal then a week later become lagging again,and finally stuck in the welcome screen after xperia logo and I the touchscreen becomes totally unresponsive ,the detailed are in this link youtu.be/_ELKIpn7QG8
I wonder should I change the LCD TOUCHSCREEN or is it just some corrupt files that caused this problem, because I experience someflickering isssues in the screen. FYI I still learning howto use a flashtool cause I am afraid that it can brick myphone.
very much appreciated,warms regards from Indonesia
my BL still locked but I dunno, somehow i feel safe & happy to found this thread
keep the good job mate!
sony- android- xperia- off
good day! i hope im on the correct thread. i am having this issue on my xperia xa ultra dual.
everytime i turn the device on, it displays the sony logo, then the android logo, the xperia logo, then it turns off. i cant seem to get past through this regardless if i'll press the volume- and power or the volume+ and power. im almost certain that this can be fixed by doing something on the flashtool. i guess i just dont know how to do it. a step-by-step tutorial is greatly appreciated.
If you have why not share it in xda? Probably you are a scammer and request money in order to unbrick phone... Seen so many like you
gsser said:
If you have why not share it in xda? Probably you are a scammer and request money in order to unbrick phone... Seen so many like you
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I totally agree with you, and now you can see fake users who post fake feedbacks but until now we have absolutely no proof about this miracle
Its like videos on youtube with title saying 2017 paypal free money hack, which directs you to a survey site and wants you to pay money in order to download a 'paid virus' even though it says free you still pay for a virus. They are too funny man
My phone is G3412 after flash rod 8 my phone is dead not power button execute just connect usb cable red led turn on and screen black please help me for turn on phone thanks?????
hi, my phone is g3221 and its dead boot, I already flash in on box but its said trim area is damaged, do you know how to fix it?
F3213 DEAD
SOMC MTK6755 Virtual Serial PORT Driver shown in device manager .
hey there my xa ultra phone is not even starting like its fully dead what is the solution
I know I'm late but, Those who are having problems with green light not showing up:
1. Hold the Volume Down button
2. Connect USB
3. Keep holding the button for 30 seconds atleast.
When bricked, device doesn't show green light readily. It takes atleast 30 seconds.
Thank you
You're the BOSS! You've saved my Mini ST15i. Thank you! :highfive:
Hey there,
after flashing a created boot.img I think my phone is bricked
Cannot start it anymore / no bootloader / no hardreset.
Evertime I connect it to my PC first the red LED flashes and get stuck at a green LED.
Flashtool shows "no Device" and no adb connection is working.
What did I wrong?
Is my phone bricked?
Kind regards,
Chris
dhchris said:
Hey there,
after flashing a created boot.img I think my phone is bricked
Cannot start it anymore / no bootloader / no hardreset.
Evertime I connect it to my PC first the red LED flashes and get stuck at a green LED.
Flashtool shows "no Device" and no adb connection is working.
What did I wrong?
Is my phone bricked?
Kind regards,
Chris
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I don't think flashing boot img would hard brick. Have you tried connecting while pressing volume up and volume down? I have had situations with my old Xa where a bad flash zapped the battery to zero, and I wouldn't get any response plugging in the charger, etc, but I would try it with different cables and try holdings buttons while plugging, and it suddenly resurrected and started charging, (happened twice when Xposed N unofficial was first released)...
levone1 said:
I don't think flashing boot img would hard brick. Have you tried connecting while pressing volume up and volume down? I have had situations with my old Xa where a bad flash zapped the battery to zero, and I wouldn't get any response plugging in the charger, etc, but I would try it with different cables and try holdings buttons while plugging, and it suddenly resurrected and started charging, (happened twice when Xposed N unofficial was first released)...
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hmm, I tried to connect in many ways, but nothing happens.
If I connect it to my charger, the red light flickers (red light to red dark to red light...)
or
it flickers from off to red to off to red...
Charging in this state over night takes no effect.
Under Flashtool the green light is on (device connected in falsh mode) and trying to flash a xperifirm-ftf:
28/041/2018 07:41:54 - INFO - Device connected in flash mode
28/042/2018 07:42:15 - INFO - Selected Bundle for Sony Xperia X Compact(F5321). FW release : 34.4.A.2.19. Customization : Customized DE
28/042/2018 07:42:15 - INFO - Preparing files for flashing
28/042/2018 07:42:48 - INFO - Please connect your device into flashmode.
28/042/2018 07:42:49 - INFO - Using Gordon gate drivers version 3.2.0.0
28/042/2018 07:42:49 - INFO - Opening device for R/W
28/042/2018 07:42:49 - INFO - Device ready for R/W.
28/042/2018 07:42:49 - INFO - Reading device information
28/042/2018 07:42:51 - INFO - Phone ready for flashmode operations.
28/042/2018 07:42:51 - INFO - Opening TA partition 2
28/043/2018 07:43:09 - INFO - Current device : D5803 - YT910ZASZ3 - 1289-4696_R5D - 1285-6521_23.5.A.1.291 - GLOBAL-LTE_23.5.A.1.291
28/043/2018 07:43:09 - INFO - Closing TA partition
28/043/2018 07:43:11 - ERROR - The bundle does not match the connected device
28/043/2018 07:43:11 - INFO - Ending flash session
28/043/2018 07:43:16 - INFO - Device connected in flash mode
28/043/2018 07:43:16 - INFO - Device disconnected
28/043/2018 07:43:21 - INFO - Device connected in flash mode
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Sounds not so good :crying:
dhchris said:
hmm, I tried to connect in many ways, but nothing happens.
If I connect it to my charger, the red light flickers (red light to red dark to red light...)
or
it flickers from off to red to off to red...
Charging in this state over night takes no effect.
Under Flashtool the green light is on (device connected in falsh mode) and trying to flash a xperifirm-ftf:
Sounds not so good :crying:
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Hey Guys,
now I found the mistake i´ve done.
I swapped the file.
Taken the wrong TA.img from my other phone.
Is there a way to get the phone back to life?
dhchris said:
Hey Guys,
now I found the mistake i´ve done.
I swapped the file.
Taken the wrong TA.img from my other phone.
Is there a way to get the phone back to life?
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Did you try checking 'wipe' boxes in Flashtool? How did you flash the ta?
levone1 said:
Did you try checking 'wipe' boxes in Flashtool? How did you flash the ta?
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Yes, tried this.
Flashed the TA manually by adb
dhchris said:
Yes, tried this.
Flashed the TA manually by adb
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What, with dd command? Did you try to do it again with correct ta, or use adb to wipe?
Flashier wrong ta could be a big deal... I know with Z phones it was for sure a hard brick, but maybe there's hope.
Do you get the same error with Emma / Sony Companion?
Yes, dd-command.
I´m searching for my right Xc - TA.img file, but I cannot find it anymore.
adb-wipe didnt tried.
In worst case, I overwritten it by the old Z3 phones TA.
EMMA told me that the device could not be identified.
I think, that there´s no other way to get a new phone ;-(