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.
Omario-242 said:
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)
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Thank you for reading in advance! Any ideas here would be appreciated!! I will try and describe what happened in as much detail as possible...
1. Flashed MIUI on my Xperia miro, was working fine
2. Restored apps and system data from Titanium
3. Tried opening my contacts but got an error message, some android process not responding and then the contacts app would crash too (this happened multiple times)
4. Decided to do factory reset so I backed up everything again onto Titanium (I'm not too worried about the back up as all apps can be downloaded again/contacts collected again)
5. On MIUI went to Settings/Backup and reset/Factory reset and reset the whole thing including unmounting SD card
6. I left the phone to do this and when I came back it was completely unresponsive
I now can't do any kind of boot (just power button, volume up + power, volume down + power, both volume + power) and I can't boot into fastboot or flash (volume up + USB, volume down + USB), it doesn't vibrate when powering on or show any LEDs, the only response I can get from my phone is that the computer recognises it when I plug it in, but it can't find or install any drivers for whatever mode my phone is now in...
I've tried everything I can think of (e.g. trying to boot into recovery etc) so now I'm stuck :crying: I can access an external SD card and put files onto that then put it back in the phone if that helps at all.... Thanks in advance!!
Maybe your battery is dead? Charge it via external charger , and then try connecting in fastboot.
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I've broken my phone! I was rooted, and was installing a custom rom. It worked fine for a few hours, and now the phone won't boot up in normal, recovery or fastboot modes. All I get is the android logo and then a white screen for a few seconds, and this repeats until i get fed up and turn it off again.
My device is a Vodafone 785 and my pc is running Windows 7 with the latest drivers installed and updated.
When I plug the phone into the computer, it tries to register but the flashtool says the device is not recognized, so I can't re-install my recovery image.
I've been at this for about three weeks now, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get this working again. Can someone please help?
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I've broken my phone! I was rooted, and was installing a custom rom. It worked fine for a few hours, and now the phone won't boot up in normal, recovery or fastboot modes. All I get is the android logo and then a white screen for a few seconds, and this repeats until i get fed up and turn it off again.
My device is a Vodafone 785 and my pc is running Windows 7 with the latest drivers installed and updated.
When I plug the phone into the computer, it tries to register but the flashtool says the device is not recognized, so I can't re-install my recovery image.
I've been at this for about three weeks now, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get this working again. Can someone please help?
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Hi, try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/help/vodafone-smart-4-mini-killed-vodafone-t2869185
Yes I tried that one and most of the other threads about this damn phone. It won't boot in recovery. I've tried Power button and volume up AND Power button and volume down. All I get is android logo for a few seconds and white screen for another few seconds and this will loop until the end of time. Using SP Flashtool, the computer won't recognize the device when I plug in the USB with either the battery removed or inserted into the phone.
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Yes I tried that one and most of the other threads about this damn phone. It won't boot in recovery. I've tried Power button and volume up AND Power button and volume down. All I get is android logo for a few seconds and white screen for another few seconds and this will loop until the end of time. Using SP Flashtool, the computer won't recognize the device when I plug in the USB with either the battery removed or inserted into the phone.
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Unfortunately, it sounds like the device may be unrecoverable.
I'm not for giving up. Somehow I'll find a way to fix this thing. :fingers-crossed:
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I'm not for giving up. Somehow I'll find a way to fix this thing. :fingers-crossed:
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Good luck!
Good day everyone,
I have been facing a huge problem in the past weeks after I have done one mistake.
I was installing a newer version of TWRP recovery and instead of installing the image I installed it as zip.
My OS was gone, I couldn't get it to "recover" my OS in any way. The kernel seems fine.
I have tried to use a micro SD and USB cable to install a new ROM but TWRP couldn't detect my SD card and my PC couldn't connect to my phone.
I also wiped my whole data.
My phone doesn't boot in the recovery unless it's not charging and start with ONLY pushing the power button.
Holding power and volume up will make it vibrate 3 times and restart.
Charging the phone makes it stuck on the android logo after the battery status.
The phone overheats and the battery drains extremely .
The only message I got from TWRP is, "No OS installed".
Other logs are inaccessible or wiped.
I would appreciate any advice
Thanks in advance!
1. Turn off your phone
2. Enter the phone Flashmode by holding the volume down button, then connect to a PC (the led should be green and your PC should recognize your Z5).
3. Flash the FTFs in Flashtool.
Information about how to that can be found on this forum.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-z5/help/flashmode-t3237141
This might help.
Hi,
I wanted to change my rom to newest version of CarbonROM (7.x.x). I downloaded new rom, copied this onto my sd card, then I rebooted my phone to recovery where I wiped system, data, cache and dalvik. Later I flashed new rom from .zip file, everything went fine, so I rebooted my device and then I realized that it's not starting anymore. I was holding power button but there was only short vibration signal and anything more, when I connect my xperia z3 (d6603) to charger, only red light is blinking, when I'm trying to start device while it's connected to charger, red light is not blinking but it shines continously till I release power button. When I'm holding power and volume up there are only three short vibrations and that's all, they are repeating till I release buttons (this only happens when xperia is connected to charger or computer in other situation there is no response for power and volume up). Flashtool says that I have to install drivers, but they're already installed, device manager shows my phone as uknown device. But when I'm connecting my phone to computer, there is this specific sound from windows and flashtool shows that 'Device disconnected', when I'm disconnecting it. Is there any hope for my phone? Can I try anything more?
well try to enter fastbootmode and flash a recovery.
Similar issue here, I have a d6603 and after using GiefRoot & NUT's DualRecovery I succesfully entered TWRP and attempted to install CarbonROM (latest: device-z3 on the official website)
Now my phone won't boot until I re-flash an older version of stock... any help would be greatly appreciated!
1. Followed this guide: xda's Z3 forum: guide-rootrecovery-how-to-root-install-t3017056
2. boot into recovery, turn off zip verification
3. install CarbonMOD's zipfile
What'd I miss? :S
So I have Galaxy S7 (Flat). It had installed TWRP with Magisk on stock Android. I decided to install LineageOS (https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/rom-q-s-lineageos-with-microg-for-samsung-s7-flat-edge.3921094/) (clean install using TWRP) and it installed successfully, everything was fine, I've turned my phone off and on few times and system was booting without any problems.
But then I decided to boot into TWRP (using key combination) to install magisk and... it's stuck on loading screen forever.
I can't even turn it off ! And my phone is getting hotter and hotter. Please help !
I can't turn it off, because simply holding power button doesn't do anything.
I can restart it by holding power + volume down ,but it just opens TWRP again.
I've read I could boot into Maintenance Boot Mode ,but it requires to turn off a phone, which I'm unable to do.
Only thing I am able to do is to boot into Download Mode, but it doesn't change anything (still cant turn off phone in this mode)
Should I try to disassembly the phone and take out the battery manually? I don't really see any other option.
Did I bricked my phone ?
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I have backup of stock system made by TWRP, but it doesn't change anything as I cant use TWRP.
I didn't install LineageOS custom recovery.
Ok, so I left phone overnight to deplete the battery. And it didn't work ! I thought that battery is dead and phone is off, but the moment I've plugged the power cord it automatically turned on into TWRP screen, like a zombie !
However I've solved the problem. As I was able to get phone into Download Mode (by holding power+volume down+home) I used Odin. I've installed newest Odin on PC, Samsung USB drivers and flashed the newest TWRP tar. Although it was scary, I was almost sure I've bricked my phone. Adb/fastboot were not detecting the phone.
And after re-flashing TWRP everything works fine. Also LineageOS booted like a charm, it stay intact.
So, it seems that installing LineageOS somehow corrupted my TWRP, despite that I un-ticked the option to install LineageRecovery ,so technically it shouldn't mess with it at all.
Anyway, problem solved.