I have not rooted or modded my Z3 (T-Mobile) in any way. Today I turn on the screen and get a bunch of android error pop-ups like "Google services not responding". I don't remember the exact message. So I try to reboot the phone. I see the initial Sony Xperia boot screen then the screen goes black. The phone will not boot. I can get into recovery but safe mode doesn't work. Factory reset didn't solve the issue either. I can not connect over USB (including in the Sony PC Companion).
I figure I have a busted device, but does anyone know of a solution?
Xperia phones do not come with am accesable recovery, so if you can enter recovery it must be modified in some way....
Also if you have a recovery, just restore a backup, it flash an update.zip
gregbradley said:
Xperia phones do not come with am accesable recovery, so if you can enter recovery it must be modified in some way....
Also if you have a recovery, just restore a backup, it flash an update.zip
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I bought it new and have not modified it. Holding Vol Down + Power goes to a very basic "System Recovery". The only options are Power Up, Safe Mode, Factory Reset and Power down. I took it to T-Mobile today and they were unable to get it to boot. Going to contact Sony now.
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My phone seems to be stuck in download mode. I'm trying to get it to recovery, all attempts result in it going back to download.
I just don't know how to get something else showing on here.
Background: Phone was rooted on Kitkat but I lost the root when I upgraded to Lollipop.
Was trying to root the phone with via the one click (http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g3/general/guide-root-lg-firmwares-kitkat-lollipop-t3056951) which seems simple enough. However, my phone would not enter into download mode so I couldn't continue the steps. I found someone with my exact problem right here on XDA (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=57125760&postcount=9) and in doing what he did, my phone DID enter into download mode, just got stuck in it.
Edit: In pressing Volume Down and Power off and on (press them, release them, press them, release them, etc) an unknown white screen that reads "Factory Data Reset" and a "yes" and "no" has came up. I don't know if I replaced my CWM recovery with this weird thing, in doing what the XDA poster said?? Even if I press "yes", the download mode screen comes back upon restart.
2nd edit: I did get it working. Left the phone connected to the LGMobile Support Tool while I tried the "Upgrade Recovery" again and after a few tries of that it turned on all by itself. Will try rooting again, hopefully succesfully this time
Greetings all, As the title suggest I have an HTC One A9 unlocked and I am trying to factory reset it after re-locking bootloader. However, Whenever I boot into boot mode and select to reboot into Recovery mode I am greeted with "Failed to boot to recovery mode" With suggestions to press volume up or down to go back into bootmode. Upon resetting my phone I am sent to a data encryption screen where it ask to enter a password to decrypt my data, Now I can enter any number I want and it goes through saying "The password you entered is correct but your data is corrupt." And gives me a button to factory reset my phone, So I press it and it resets my phone and enters bootmode where my only options are; Reboot, Reboot to bootloader, Boot to download mode, reboot to recovery (Which I just covered does not work for me), Power down. I've looked into this problem before coming here and other people with similar problems have no problems entering recovery mode and even have an option to factory reset the phone from the boot loader menu, However I do not have that 'Factory reset' option in my boot loader menu.
I've spent the last two hours looking at various websites and various topics in this forum but cannot find a solution to aid me. I was hoping to be able to just fix this and return to my phones current settings without wiping anything, But at this point I'll be happy to be able to just get past this and will be satisfied with factory wiping the phone and having it be useable, As I'd like to avoid having to buy a new phone it at all possible.
When I go to recovery mode, I get a phone icon with a red symbol in it. Then I'm able to hold power button and tap the vol up button to proceed. If you're fine wiping the phone, have you tried using the .exe rom file from the HTC site? You need HTC sync installed on the PC, and have phone in download mode use it (at least that's what I've had to do). It should, I believe, reflash recovery mode.
rouyal said:
When I go to recovery mode, I get a phone icon with a red symbol in it. Then I'm able to hold power button and tap the vol up button to proceed. If you're fine wiping the phone, have you tried using the .exe rom file from the HTC site? You need HTC sync installed on the PC, and have phone in download mode use it (at least that's what I've had to do). It should, I believe, reflash recovery mode.
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I have not tried that. But I would love to, Are you able to provide me with a link to the said rom exe file? As I cannot locate it on htc's site, Unless I am that blind..........
KingCarrot said:
I have not tried that. But I would love to, Are you able to provide me with a link to the said rom exe file? As I cannot locate it on htc's site, Unless I am that blind..........
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Google search 'HTC One A9 rom', and look for result that's HTC site.
www.htc.com/us/support/rom-downloads.html
The easyest way should: take your matching RUU and flash your device. This solves your problem
Hi,
I used the guide by G-FACE here and everything worked perfectly.
About a year later, and my phone randomly got stuck in a bootloop.
So using TWRP, I backed up everything on to an SD card. Then wiped everything on the phone.
Without thinking, I accidentally rebooted the phone instead of restoring.
Now the phone powers on and gets stuck on the Sony Xperia startup logo.
Pressing power + volume down does not boot into TWRP.
Pressing power + volume up works, and reboots the phone.
Connecting my phone to a PC makes the connection sound, but the phone isn't recognized on the PC.
Have I bricked my phone?
Regards
*Edit: I powered off phone using power + volume up. Then held volume up and connected phone to PC. The device manager now shows PC "Android ADB Interface", and the phone has a blue LED light
If your device is recognized, just reflash a firmware with Flashtool or EMMA and go on from there with rooting, recovery again to restore your data etc.
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If your device is recognized, just reflash a firmware with Flashtool or EMMA and go on from there with rooting, recovery again to restore your data etc.
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Thanks. Once the PC recognized the phone I was able to use flash firmware version 23.0.A.2.93 using flashtool. (I also tried to restore the data I had backed up - but this got me back into a bootloop. So I lost the data on the phone, but at least I have a working phone)
I did the factory reset normally on via the setting menus. Then the phone restarted normally and stuck at at the XPERIA screen with changing colors for hours.
Did a force restart and the same thing happens. If I boot holding volume up and power at the first vibration it says 'Your device is corrupt. It can’t be trusted and may not work properly.' and boot into a screen with three dots (apparently a corrupted software).
Xperia Companion wouldn't help as it says "locked screen" when both power off and on.
I tried to fastboot via adb to factory reset again hoping things will get better. But the device is not detected despite installing the driver a million time.
I can't think of any other options. PLEASE HELP
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I did the factory reset normally on via the setting menus. Then the phone restarted normally and stuck at at the XPERIA screen with changing colors for hours.
Did a force restart and the same thing happens. If I boot holding volume up and power at the first vibration it says 'Your device is corrupt. It can’t be trusted and may not work properly.' and boot into a screen with three dots (apparently a corrupted software).
Xperia Companion wouldn't help as it says "locked screen" when both power off and on.
I tried to fastboot via adb to factory reset again hoping things will get better. But the device is not detected despite installing the driver a million time.
I can't think of any other options. PLEASE HELP
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Clean flash ftf with Flashtool. See this If you don't know
Ok Guys So I Shouldn't Have Done This But I Used Fastboot To Flash Recovery And I think I Did It Wrong. It Said "ok" And Finished And I Rebooted Phone It Resetted And Then Stuck On The Orange State Bootloader Message. I Do The Recovery Mode And Goes Black And Nothing Is Responsive For a While, Sometimes Longer Than Others. This Happens If I Start Phone Normal Or Try Fastboot Or Download.
Because Of My Mistake I Cannot Connect To Pc Software And Im Not Sure Of What I Can Do. I Feel Like Im Not Going To Like The Answer For This But I Got To Take The Blame For This.
Btw i Have A Samsung galaxy Note 20 Ultra Sm-N986u
I think your phone is hard bricked
so you can't get fastboot using volume up+power or via adb?
rescue from manufacturer site pos or just device not being recognised?
It isn't hard bricked it's just way of Samsung trying to make life of simple people more difficult, people who paid for Samsung phones lots of money.
To sort that screen issues what you can surely do is,
Simply press volup + voldown buttons at the same time, no matter if you're on that orange screen or whatever just press those those two buttons at the same time and keep pressing them while you connect your phone to pc. you will boot into download mode. Then flash stock firmware for your phone. After stock of flashed Reboot and start your phone, go to developer options see if oem unlock option is there if it is then oem unlock it if it is not then go back to settings manually change date to year ago, then go to updates disable auto update, connect to WiFi, and press on update several times untill window shows up saying no updates, then go to developer options you should see oem unlock, unlock it.
Then boot into download mode and make sure you have working copy of recovery.
And make sure you follow instructions of whoever recovery you installed on how to boot into recovery. I have S20 plus and too had troubles with it, and the only working recovery for my phone is twrp customised. To boot into it after flashing recovery from odin auto reboot disabled I pressed voldown and power, USB cable connected, then after screen goes off I changed from voldown to volup while kept pressing power button and cable connected. Orange screen with warning showed up for 5 sec I kept pressing and it bottled to twrp and then I was able to install custom rom beyond rom and while installing in aroma I was able ti choose option to remove orange screen.
That's it.
I ran into the same error. I mistakenly loaded twrp's recovery into userdata instead of ap section. The phone was stuck at the orange screen and nothing was happening whatever i pressed. I waited till the battery to dry out and with 0% battery, i directly connected to pc and was able to get into download mode. Then i flashed stock and everything is now back to normal.
Carl Johnson (Cj) said:
I think your phone is hard bricked
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Absolutely not