Phone overheated on holiday while videoing, warning message then shut down, couldn't restart phone pressing on/off button. Let battery die, re-charged, had to use volume up button with on button to re-book. Goes through Android start up and default start-up graphics, as soon as it gets to login screen it shuts down straight away. I need to get photos etc off internal storage - thought they were stored to external memory card, but must have forgot to set when switched to this phone in January from my old Z1 compact. Downloaded Sony PC companion software but won't recognise phone when connected via USB presumably as phone locked. Any ideas how to get stuff off internal memory card - short of de-soldering it and putting in another device! Help, Andy
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I smashed the screen on my Nexus by throwing it. Its a long story
Now when I take out the battery, turn it on, it seems to boot. it vibrates when the power button is pressed, and i hear the boot sound once its finished booting. i need to recover many important files. screen shows nothing and is not touch responsive. volume keys work, and the screen on and off sound also works which is leading me to believe that the internals are ok.
when i connected it via USB, i cant seem to access the SD card. under device manager it shows it connected drive H:/, but nothing comes up in My Computer. USB debugging mode was not enabled.
what can i do to recover this data?
Is it rooted? clockworkmod installed?
pics or it didn't happen.
Hello everyone,
My little sister’s phone (Samsung Nexus S GT-i9023, not rooted) won’t boot.
She tells me that the phone’s power button wasn’t working anymore, so the battery was running out quickly because the screen was always on. So she started pulling the battery everytime she wanted to turn it off (yes…).
But after a few days doing that, the phone now refuses to boot.
- Pressing the power button doesn’t do anything.
- When the phone is plugged in (whether to a wall socket or to a computer), it won’t boot past a dimly lit screen. The screen goes from very dark grey (but slightly lit, as if it was starting to boot) to completely dark every 10 seconds. It also gets very hot in a few minutes.
I am thus unable to boot the phone, or access recovery mode (power + volume up) or any other menu to do a factory reset.
My 2 questions:
1/ Does anyone have any idea on what the problem could be? I’m thinking it might be the battery, but it seems like the only replacement batteries you can find are unofficial ones with very poor ratings…
2/ If the phone is dead, is there any way to recover the files on it? (local storage) It’s mostly pictures, movies and music that she had uploaded on it. Since the phone won’t boot, my Mac isn’t able to recognize it, and it doesn’t appear anywhere in Disk Utility (nor in diskutil list).
Thank you for your help,
edomt
Suspected problem: Bootloop
It all started when I connect my phone (Garmin-Asus A10 (v5.0.82 (updated with GarminAsusPhoneUpdater_Telenor_v2.0.3.exe of denmark))) on laptop through USB cable, the USB slot looks slightly damaged already upon looking at it, after connecting the expected to be happen is that the back-light will turn on, but what happen is that the phone has no response from it, I try to press the power button still no response, I removed the battery and bring it back and try to turn on again the logo appears (without vibrate which is supposed to be present in turning on my phone) then disappear after 7-10 secs.
It's already stock on the logo as I turn it on, the moment I pressed the power button the logo appears for about 7-10 secs then it disappear, also when I removed the battery and put it back the logo appears without pressing anything and disappear again after 7-10 secs.
I try to wipe the data through Volume Up + Volume Down + Power Button the ** WIPE USERDATA ** appears but then after a few secs it disappear again which is supposed to last for about a minutes.
And also I still can go to the **USB POLLING MODE ** through Volume Up + Power Button but seems like there is nothing to do with that thing.
I know it will be easy to fix this with the use of Garmin-Asus phone updater but it requires the phone storage which is so impossible to access at this point.
Hope you guys can help me with this, I badly need that phone.
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Updates:
I can already open the phone and go to the home screen and menus... etc., but only when I close/cover the 1st metal/copper of the battery (back view (- to +))., but then I get an error saying that "The installed battery is not compatible with this device"
Upon doing this the phone is keep on rebooting, even if I already turn it off it keeps on turning on by itself, also I can't use any network at this point.
I already formatted the phone using master clear & **WIPE USERDATE** (Volume up + power button) still got the same problem.
And also updated with 006-B1243-00.update (The last .update file I used to update my phone (V5.0.82 DN)), upon rebooting after verifying the .update file it just blink twice then the update stops already at that point.
Updates 2:
Physically there is nothing wrong with the phone, I can still use the phone but as I mention already "only when I close/cover the 1st metal/copper of the battery (back view (- to +))." everything works fine except for the error "The installed battery is not compatible with this device" the red with "X" battery (Screenshot-1434948958913)
Also I notice something from my storage the "System Volume Information" (Screenshot-1434949331146, Screenshot-1434949336619, & Screenshot-1434949345666), I'm pretty sure that I haven't seen yet that before, I deleted the folder still it comes back.
Also once I connected my garmin phone to my computer the USB connected thing (Screenshot-1434949876071) don't disappear just until I restarted the phone.
Thanks in Advance.
I'd accidentally deleted many of my screenshots from my phone, a Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime (16GB). But then, I wanted to recover my photos, so I used Dr. fone by Wondershare to recover my photos. I was told to turn on Developer Options and then turn on USB debugging. I did that and plugged my phone to my PC. The Dr. fone said that it would root my phone temporarily to access the deleted photos and then unroot the phone once completed, but I accidentally disconnected the connection between the phone and PC because the cable's connector pin was loose.
Since then, my phone wouldn't react at all when I press or hold any button, I tried holding the power button for more than 10 seconds, then 30 seconds, then the home button, then the power+volume down, and every possible button combination for over 30 seconds. But nothing happens. But the entire time since I disconnected the cable, my phone's LED indicator was a solid red color. What does that mean? Now, I didn't charge the phone later, and the red LED disappeared. So, what do I do now? I got this for my birthday present and it's gone in two months. (and I'm only 15, I can't go and buy another phone).
I still have 10 months of warranty remaining. Will Samsung give me a replacement or something? And my PC doesn't show the phone when connected to my PC too.
Please help! :crying:
Try to connect in the download mode, and install the Stock ROM, if you need help, send a private message to me
Hi,
I hope this is the right place for my help request.
I don't have any experience with rooting, unlocking or any of that stuff, but I have a bit of background in Android app development.
So I have been using this Sony Xperia X10 Mini Pro (SK17i) for years, because it is small and has a hardware keyboard.
It has Android 4 installed with no modifications whatsoever.
A few days ago the battery went completly dry (0%) and the phone turned itself off. If I remember correctly I was using it to play music via bluetooth when it turned off.
After that (and a bit of charging plugged into the wall) I tried to turn it on again, but ever since it is stuck in this boot loop where it turns on, shows the basic white on black Sony logo for a few seconds, shows the animated Xperia logo for maybe a minute or so and then reboots!
I have no idea what actually caused this or how to fix it. I didn't use the phone for any modding/flashing/unlocking or stuff like that ever.
I can't even properly connect it to my PC (Windows 7 64-bit) anymore. The timeframe where it is turned on (during the Xperia logo) doesn't seem to be long enough for the drivers or PC Companion software to detect it.
Taking out the battery or SD card didn't change anything about the rebooting behavior.
The only thing I could do (after some research, I really have no idea about this stuff) was put it into this "fastboot" mode by holding volume+ down while plugging into the PC. Then front LED went blue and I could see the device listed after executing "fastboot devices".
But I don't seem to be able to do anything else with fastboot (like flashing a CWM recovery image, which I have no knowledge of either...) because the device is not rooted.
I have the Android SDK / Android Studio installed if that helps.
So any ideas about this situation?
I really want to keep using this phone, and I also have some important personal data on it that I don't want to lose.
Any help would be greatly apreciated!
Thank you.
Sorry for the double post!
Ok, so I have just read about this "recovery mode" thing, but I am unable to enter it!
According to most guides (like this: http://www.hardreset.info/devices/sony-ericsson/sony-ericsson-xperia-mini-pro-sk17i/recovery-mode/ ) I should turn the phone completly off, then hold volume down (-) and power on simultaneously until the device enters recovery mode. But it doesn't! It just keeps booting normally!
What should I do?
Thanks.
Pauli_87 said:
Sorry for the double post!
Ok, so I have just read about this "recovery mode" thing, but I am unable to enter it!
According to most guides (like this: http://www.hardreset.info/devices/sony-ericsson/sony-ericsson-xperia-mini-pro-sk17i/recovery-mode/ ) I should turn the phone completly off, then hold volume down (-) and power on simultaneously until the device enters recovery mode. But it doesn't! It just keeps booting normally!
What should I do?
Thanks.
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a few years later but I had to bring back to life my old Mini Pro.
To boot in Recovery Mode I've had to remove the SD card and it worked with Volume Down+Power key. With the card inserted it didn't work.
I LOVE this little keyboard!
Regards.