Hello,
While trying to unlock and root, I bricked the phone - as in its just staying at the Sony Xperia boot screen. Its still responding to Vol up+Power button to restart. The notification light turns red then green when using Vol down + attach USB.
This is what happened
1) Unlocked and Rooted the device, installed TWRP
2) Took back-up with TWRP
3) While wiping cache, system, etc. to prepare for installing custom ROM, also selected Internal Storage: and chose wipe and restart
Now phone is stuck at the Boot screen, tried the following
- Flashtool: Can install new kernel, but giving error when trying to install stock firmware
- ADB: Doesnt show up in the list with "adb Devices" command
- Sony Companion: Get stuck during software repair on the boot screen. On pressing Vol up+Power, the notification light turns on and stays blue.
- Sony EMMA: Recognises IMEI but says the phone is locked
Is there anyway to sideload TWRP or any other options of flashing stock firmware?
Many thanks in advance.
With Flashtool, Are you try to flash 4.4.4 stock firmware?
Thanks. It worked. Also realized that had to unlock again using flashtool
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Hi All,
Some one gave me below steps to get a custom ROM and i did all.
After flashing the advanced .266 kernel,Phone keeps on rebooting after sony logo and doesnt allow me to enter flashmode or fastboot mode.
Please help.urgent.
1.Download the .254 ftf
2.power off your phone
3.open flashtool
4.select the lightening icon then select flash mode
Connect your phone to usb while pressing the vol down button.(red led)
(make sure you have drivers installed)
Let the installation complete
5.then follow this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2440375
6.you are rooted now
7.unlock bl
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2354721
8.power off
9.fastboot this kernel
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2646193
Have you tried to force shutdown by pushing the red/orange button at the back of your phone?
It is done by pushing the button for 5 seconds, after vibrating 3 times, your phone will completely shutdown as if you have removed your battery.
After that, you may proceed to enter fast boot mode and reflash your desired .ftf
Help me please,
I was installing cm12 bootloader unlocked and all and device rebooted all of a sudden (i did all wipes)
And now it just shows the "Sony Xperia" screen
And i presume there is now no OS installed,
i can't get into recovery or anything!!
SOLUTION
held down power and volume buttons then entered flash mode, flash tool seems to be flashing the data now
Hi there.
- My phone was with rooted .207 with dual philz and twrp installed, booloader unlocked, everything is working fine.
- Yesterday, after backing up the system with philz recovery, I flashed my phone .266 using flash tool. and it works fine. Recovery & root was gone.
- Today I installed dual philz & twrp recovery using the file found in this link http://techglen.com/2014/07/07/install-dual-cwm-twrp-recovery-on-xperia-sp-205-firmware/. After that I can boot to recovery.
- I mounted /storage/sdcard1 (where I stored my backup). I tried the backup I made earlier (the one with .207 number) but it didn't work, saying there's some checksum mismatch. I tried 2 other backups found in the same folder, 1 also said mismatch, 1 doesn't complain about checksum but failed after trying to restore /system
- Because of that error, I go into mount options, unmount /system, but the backup still failed
- At this point I didn't know what to do, so I thought I would try to boot into twrp and give it a shot. At the reboot menu, there's only option I can choose with it to reboot with "su" at some path, I pressed okay.
- Now the phone won't boot up <--- problem here
About the state of the phone now & things I tried:
- Phone won't boot up with power button
- Phone won't charge when plugging into power source - LED won't light up
- Tried pressing & holding Power + Volume down for a few times and then press the power button, doesn't change anything
- Tried connecting to my computer using usb, but it won't get recognized by the computer/software
- Tried pressing & holding OFF button on the back of the phone for some times, doesn't seem to have any effect.
Now I'm just plugging my phone in, hoping it would get charged some how.
Can somebody help me with troubleshooting my phone? Thanks so much.
wakandan said:
Hi there.
- My phone was with rooted .207 with dual philz and twrp installed, booloader unlocked, everything is working fine.
- Yesterday, after backing up the system with philz recovery, I flashed my phone .266 using flash tool. and it works fine. Recovery & root was gone.
- Today I installed dual philz & twrp recovery using the file found in this link http://techglen.com/2014/07/07/install-dual-cwm-twrp-recovery-on-xperia-sp-205-firmware/. After that I can boot to recovery.
- I mounted /storage/sdcard1 (where I stored my backup). I tried the backup I made earlier (the one with .207 number) but it didn't work, saying there's some checksum mismatch. I tried 2 other backups found in the same folder, 1 also said mismatch, 1 doesn't complain about checksum but failed after trying to restore /system
- Because of that error, I go into mount options, unmount /system, but the backup still failed
- At this point I didn't know what to do, so I thought I would try to boot into twrp and give it a shot. At the reboot menu, there's only option I can choose with it to reboot with "su" at some path, I pressed okay.
- Now the phone won't boot up <--- problem here
About the state of the phone now & things I tried:
- Phone won't boot up with power button
- Phone won't charge when plugging into power source - LED won't light up
- Tried pressing & holding Power + Volume down for a few times and then press the power button, doesn't change anything
- Tried connecting to my computer using usb, but it won't get recognized by the computer/software
- Tried pressing & holding OFF button on the back of the phone for some times, doesn't seem to have any effect.
Now I'm just plugging my phone in, hoping it would get charged some how.
Can somebody help me with troubleshooting my phone? Thanks so much.
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try this if other things didnt help
guide : http://sony.yt/topic/7322-english-tutorial-how-to-unbrick-and-update-boot-in-sony-xperia-sp-c5303/
download : https://mega.co.nz/#!9sNlXAYC!hFBxF9ge4ZO4t0DmY7s0vfymRDCOIjbWu6CTKJFs7AQ
Hi, thanks for your reply. Last thing I tried was to go into flashmode and fortunately it still works. I flashed a new ftf file using flashtool and everything works again.
wakandan said:
Hi, thanks for your reply. Last thing I tried was to go into flashmode and fortunately it still works. I flashed a new ftf file using flashtool and everything works again.
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Hellow everybody,
Last days I updated my phone to 5.1.1 official, to check nnew state. This update erase my root status, and I had to begin all the root process, and I did:
1) kingroot
2) SuperSU
3) Install dualrecovery (PhilZ touch)
4) Wipe davil, memory, erase internal memory and sdcard
5) Store Download: cm-12.1-20151223-NIGHTLY-honami.zip (292.74 MB) in sdcard
6) Install zip (rom)
7) Reboot phone
And here it's the problem, my phone doesn't reboot.
Without USB connected:
Normal starte: red led blink
If I press power button, power button + volume up, power button + volume down; nothing happen
USB pulgged:
Normal state: nothing happen
Power button pressed: nothing happen
Power + volume up: red led, blue led, any led, and the cycle is repeated
Power + volume down: red led, green led, any led, and the cycle is repeated
Any idea? How can I do?
It seems too bad.... I think a new movil is coming...
Thank you and regards...
Is the boot-loader unlocked? if not then you have to unlock it to install source based ROM like CM .
To restore your phone and unlock the boot-loader :
1. Flash the phone with a stock ROM using flash-tool to restore it.
2. Backup your TA partition in case you want to re-lock it again ( and to restore DRM keys ).
3. Unlock the boot-loader using Sony method (this will wipe all your phone so make sure to backup what you want).
now you have to repeat the steps you did before or flash a kernel that have a recovery builtin and jump to step 5.
I guess bootloader is still alive then.
Power off by keep pressing pw button by few seconds.
(* If it doesn't work, open the usim tray slot and press reset pin for few sec)
And.. enter the flashmode and just flash a stock firmware using flashtool.
I made a foolish mistake before- wiped system partition and reboot without flashing any firmware. However even there's no OS installed, flashmode was worked.
Thank you so much!!!!! I will try today, your news sound great! Anyway, I will post my progress (or not).
Thanks again and regards!
Edit: As Abdu99andy and PielunA says, it was solved using flashtool.
Just add a thing, it was not neccesary to flash a new rom. My device works with the previous rom flashed (CM 12.1).
Thanks!
Abdu99andy said:
Is the boot-loader unlocked? if not then you have to unlock it to install source based ROM like CM .
To restore your phone and unlock the boot-loader :
1. Flash the phone with a stock ROM using flash-tool to restore it.
2. Backup your TA partition in case you want to re-lock it again ( and to restore DRM keys ).
3. Unlock the boot-loader using Sony method (this will wipe all your phone so make sure to backup what you want).
now you have to repeat the steps you did before or flash a kernel that have a recovery builtin and jump to step 5.
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PielunA said:
I guess bootloader is still alive then.
Power off by keep pressing pw button by few seconds.
(* If it doesn't work, open the usim tray slot and press reset pin for few sec)
And.. enter the flashmode and just flash a stock firmware using flashtool.
I made a foolish mistake before- wiped system partition and reboot without flashing any firmware. However even there's no OS installed, flashmode was worked.
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You must unlock bootloader before installing CM.
Also, Philztouch sometimes cracks the rom. Use TWRP.
Hi guys,
I was wondering what if anything I can do to unbrick the phone. Currently when turning the phone on, the notification led flashes green once, the zuk logo flashes briefly on the screen and then it powers off.
Connecting to pc with volume buttons down in any combination does the same thing. The phone screen stays black and a solid blue notification led comes up with no change.
QFIL cannot detect the phone, neither can adb or fastboot.
The bricking happened while attempting to install a custom rom. I had unlocked bootloader and accessed root on the stock system, and wanted to try out a different rom.
Thanks in advance, I just got the phone yesterday and I'm really hoping it's not permanently bricked.
Hi bobtheball,
You should be able to select recovery mode at he beginning of the boot (push volume down when you have the very first menu, and then select recovery).
I assume you've installed TWRP to flash the rom, so once you're on TWRP, you can push a new rom and try to flash again.
What ROM did you try to install?
kagazushi said:
Hi bobtheball,
You should be able to select recovery mode at he beginning of the boot (push volume down when you have the very first menu, and then select recovery).
I assume you've installed TWRP to flash the rom, so once you're on TWRP, you can push a new rom and try to flash again.
What ROM did you try to install?
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Hi, what my original message meant to say is that I've tried every recommended procedure that I've seen. Pushing volume down while booting does nothing. The screen does not turn on and all I get is a blue notification led. Because of this I can't access the bootloader menu to boot into recovery.
bobtheball said:
Hi, what my original message meant to say is that I've tried every recommended procedure that I've seen. Pushing volume down while booting does nothing. The screen does not turn on and all I get is a blue notification led. Because of this I can't access the bootloader menu to boot into recovery.
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Hi, your phone act as if it had not enough battery to even present the menu. Try charging the phone for half hour before trying vol-down+power button combination.