Hey,
I bought the Sony Xperia 1 II today, charged, set it up, moved all the stuff from my old phone to it, all went perfect.
Then I decided I'd move music onto it, this is where the issues began.. I plugged the cable into the back of my PC but neither the phone or the PC would recognize eachother.. After some fiddling, plugging and unplugging, I finally managed to put the phone into file transfer mode.
After I was done with the transfers, I unplugged the USB cable and the phone turned off.. Now I have to have it plugged to the charger or I have to hold the power button to use it.
Any ideas? My guess is that it's stuck in some USB limbo. I've been wanting to clear the cache partition but I have no idea how to get to it on this phone.. Also not really feeling like doing a factory reset since it'd mean sitting through all the app setups, logins and jazz.
Thanks.
tl;dr
Phone turns off when you unplug USB/charger, works perfectly fine when plugged in or when you hold down the power button (it boots and lets you use the screen like normal, just a bit awkward ofc).
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I was taking a video, and finished it, when suddenly the phone froze up and turned off. I've been using MIUI, and while it's mostly pretty stable, reboots and crashes happen, so I just rolled my eyes. But since then it's been completely dead. I couldn't turn it on, even after taking the battery out several times, can't put it into recovery or download modes, and it's been connected to the charger for about ten minutes now and still nothing.
I haven't flashed anything for ages, haven't done anything odd with the phone at all, I have no idea what could have provoked this. Please help, I can't imagine what I'd do if my phone was permanently dead.
Samsung Galaxy SII with MIUI weekly ROM (currently 2.4.27)
Things I have tried:
Long press power button to turn it on (obviously)
Same thing after taking the battery out for ages
Press Vol up + Home + Power to put it into recovery
Press Vol down + Home + Power to put it into download
Plug it into charge
Plug in data cable connected to computer
Take out battery for a while, then replace, plug data cable into computer (but not phone), hold volume buttons while plugging in phone (internet guy told me to)
Everything above shows absolutely nothing on screen. Charging heats it up a little.
So I left work today at 5, paired my phone with the bluetooth in my radio, after I installed Skyfall last night. Pandora was supposedly playing and connected to the radio, but nothing was playing. I toggled the radio a few times and noticed that now only media was playing but no phone. I turned off the bluetooth on the phone thinking that was the problem.
The phone immediately disconnected from my pebble, expected. The bluetooth quick toggle was spinning like it was busy, so I waited. When the light turned green I put the phone in the cupholder. By the time I got to the next light the phone was off, not connected to anything and a bit warm.
The entire 40 minute ride home the phone was hot, and would not turn on or connect to anything. I tried holding the power button down for 10-30 seconds at a time to reset it, but it would not reset. I have tried this multiple times.
I'm home now, connected to the charger but have no charging light, and it still won't turn on. It has cooled off a lot in the past 10-30 minutes
Past couple days I've tried flashing a few things. After the last reset I installed Skyfall, power saver mod, faux kernel, set cpu (and changed some settings) and restored my app backups. Everything was running fine until I tried to connect to the bluetooth on my raido.
I can connect the phone to my computer, and windows recognizes a device connected, but neither ADB or Fastboot see the phone
Am I missing something on the hard power off?
Insertnamehere12 said:
So I left work today at 5, paired my phone with the bluetooth in my radio, after I installed Skyfall last night. Pandora was supposedly playing and connected to the radio, but nothing was playing. I toggled the radio a few times and noticed that now only media was playing but no phone. I turned off the bluetooth on the phone thinking that was the problem.
The phone immediately disconnected from my pebble, expected. The bluetooth quick toggle was spinning like it was busy, so I waited. When the light turned green I put the phone in the cupholder. By the time I got to the next light the phone was off, not connected to anything and a bit warm.
The entire 40 minute ride home the phone was hot, and would not turn on or connect to anything. I tried holding the power button down for 10-30 seconds at a time to reset it, but it would not reset. I have tried this multiple times.
I'm home now, connected to the charger but have no charging light, and it still won't turn on. It has cooled off a lot in the past 10-30 minutes
Past couple days I've tried flashing a few things. After the last reset I installed Skyfall, power saver mod, faux kernel, set cpu (and changed some settings) and restored my app backups. Everything was running fine until I tried to connect to the bluetooth on my raido.
I can connect the phone to my computer, and windows recognizes a device connected, but neither ADB or Fastboot see the phone
Am I missing something on the hard power off?
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Have you tried holding down power and volume up? When I was using the stock rom rooted with the insecure kernel my phone was running hot and I turned it off and it wouldn't power back on. Nothing worked until I pressed power and volume up - give it a shot.
bloodiedwraith said:
Have you tried holding down power and volume up? When I was using the stock rom rooted with the insecure kernel my phone was running hot and I turned it off and it wouldn't power back on. Nothing worked until I pressed power and volume up - give it a shot.
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I swear I was trying this in the car... and several attempts after... But that worked! Maybe it was because I had it on the charger when I did it this time?
Why would they ever make you hold two buttons for a hard reset ><
Phone is on now, Thank you for your assistance!
They gave us back our SD Cards... Now give us back our removable batteries!
Insertnamehere12 said:
I swear I was trying this in the car... and several attempts after... But that worked! Maybe it was because I had it on the charger when I did it this time?
Why would they ever make you hold two buttons for a hard reset ><
Phone is on now, Thank you for your assistance!
They gave us back our SD Cards... Now give us back our removable batteries!
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Awesome, glad it's up and running.
So today I was using my phone and then i could turn the screen back on. So i pulled out the battery and tried to turn it back on, however it didnt work. I tried plugging in the charger, but there wasn't any orange charging light (it was on around 60-50% battery when it stopped working). I tried connecting it to a pc, but there was nothing, i couldnt access the sd card and there was nothing on the device manager. I tried doing the volume down and power button and other stuff, after a while i managed to get the phone to boot up but it died before it made it to the lock screen (not charging). Is there away to fix it?
paralyse said:
So today I was using my phone and then i could turn the screen back on. So i pulled out the battery and tried to turn it back on, however it didnt work. I tried plugging in the charger, but there wasn't any orange charging light (it was on around 60-50% battery when it stopped working). I tried connecting it to a pc, but there was nothing, i couldnt access the sd card and there was nothing on the device manager. I tried doing the volume down and power button and other stuff, after a while i managed to get the phone to boot up but it died before it made it to the lock screen (not charging). Is there away to fix it?
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Try removing your battery and then plug in the cable connected to PC USB. I would also try doing the same with a unix based system, just to be sure that there are no driver issues(though windows should at least show an unrecognised device in device manager).
Also, can you keep it on charge for some time and see if the phone feels a bit hot...? If not, it seems to be hardware fault.
paralyse said:
So today I was using my phone and then i could turn the screen back on. So i pulled out the battery and tried to turn it back on, however it didnt work. I tried plugging in the charger, but there wasn't any orange charging light (it was on around 60-50% battery when it stopped working). I tried connecting it to a pc, but there was nothing, i couldnt access the sd card and there was nothing on the device manager. I tried doing the volume down and power button and other stuff, after a while i managed to get the phone to boot up but it died before it made it to the lock screen (not charging). Is there away to fix it?
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Maybe your phone is bricked,but the way you explained it seems like a hardware problem !
Do you have warranty ?
I was restoring a TWRP restore, and it said completed and whatever, but now the phone won't boot or vibrate at all. I've tried plugging into computer, holding volume buttons, nothing works! The only thing that happens is the led turns red when is plugged into charger and power button is being held, otherwise it blinks red. How do I fix the bad restore?
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qais9 said:
I was restoring a TWRP restore, and it said completed and whatever, but now the phone won't boot or vibrate at all. I've tried plugging into computer, holding volume buttons, nothing works! The only thing that happens is the led turns red when is plugged into charger and power button is being held, otherwise it blinks red. How do I fix the bad restore?
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Try this...
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1.Run Companion on you PC
2.Push and hold volume down on phone
3.Connect cable to phone (you will here some kind of sound)
4.Forcing connect phone/tablet on companion
5.Click update or repair phone/tablet
One more thing,just in case install this USB flash drivers (for boot and fastboot) if you can connect to pc companion
gregysk said:
Try this...
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1.Run Companion on you PC
2.Push and hold volume down on phone
3.Connect cable to phone (you will here some kind of sound)
4.Forcing connect phone/tablet on companion
5.Click update or repair phone/tablet
One more thing,just in case install this USB flash drivers (for boot and fastboot) if you can connect to pc companion
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just tried that no sound is made when i plugged in
Anyone?
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Not currently rooted as I see no need (for my usage) on this phone.
Had a similar issue long back with an HTC One X, it first went in to a bootloop one day and then in CWM it showed internal storage as non mountable and finally ended up like yours where it would not turn on. Ended up being a bad NAND I am guessing as they had to replace the motherboard. I think you just had bad luck, just get it replaced.......
However in one last attempt try charging for like a day and try turning it on could even be a bad battery to be honest... though probably you still want to replace it
Option 1:
Plug your phone into your turned on computer with the USB cable and leave it there to charge until the red light comes on (leave for 1-2 hours, more if you feel it necessary), then quickly put it on charge using the wall charger.
Option 2 (not likely to work):
Plug your phone into your wall socket with the USB cable and wall charger and leave it there to charge until the red light comes on (leave for 1-2 hours, more if you feel it necessary), then quickly put it on charge through your turned on computer using the USB cable.
If neither of these work (as dumb as this may sound)turn off your phone and put your phone in the freezer for 15-30 minutes (This is done to discharge the battery, wont break your phone). When you've left it there for your chosen time, try option 1 again. If that doesn't work, turn the phone off again and put it back in the freezer for the same time and try option 2. If they don't work, i'm sorry I don't know how to help you.
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-Mantenner
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2405201
Try the procedure from post #8 from the HTC One X forum above:
Now I have exactly the same problem. Where you able to resolve it?
Edit: There is someone else with the same problem: http://forum.xda-developers.com/z3/help/xperia-z3-dead-wont-charge-blinking-red-t3156982?nocache=1
The title is pretty self explanatory. Noticed when i woke up that neither the power, volume or the camera buttons work. They still clicked when pushed but no function beyond that. The phone its self still worked before i pressed the yellow reset button next to the sim card slot. when i pressed the yellow reset button the phone vibrated and turned off, never to come back on. When i plug it into a charger it still has the LED light except its off so i cant just press the power button to turn it back on. When plugged into the computer, then computer recognises that a device has been plugged in (makes the dun-duh! sound) but the phone is not recognised by either the PC companion or Sony EMMA. Same deal with pulling it into a mac. The Sony mac companion program pops up automatically , it says it does not have any device connected, despite it popping up when i plug my phone in...Ive put adb on my computer and tried adb reboot but again it does not recognise the phone while its off. Is there anything i can do to fix this phone or at least turn it back on? I've spent enough on getting this phone prepared as it is so a DIY fix would be great.any help at all would be much appreciated, thanks
I too am having issues while restarting my z3 after switching power key does not works.
It boots only when I connect it too my pc (still dead) and then press the yellow button(try the yellow button before connecting the pc too),but all the hardware keys works perfectly except the power which is just functinal.
khanjunaid said:
I too am having issues while restarting my z3 after switching power key does not works.
It boots only when I connect it too my pc (still dead) and then press the yellow button(try the yellow button before connecting the pc too),but all the hardware keys works perfectly except the power which is just functinal.
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No luck unfortunately. When i plug it into the computer the Sony logo pops up and goes to the charging screen. When i press the yellow button just after plugging it in it just restarts and does the same thing. Thanks anyway
That's exactly what happened to my phone last time,managed to get it started after some random trials ( it started using the normal power key after removing it from pc & letting it rest for some time)
Keep me posted if u manage to solve it.
khanjunaid said:
That's exactly what happened to my phone last time,managed to get it started after some random trials ( it started using the normal power key after removing it from pc & letting it rest for some time)
Keep me posted if u manage to solve it.
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Will do, I've gotten in contact with the sellers and they are happy to inspect the phone for warranty claims to see if I've done anything to it to trigger the breakage, so ill be sending it off tomorrow . You may not be able to answer this but i might as well ask, I got a whole screen replacement for the phone a few months ago as i had dropped it and the screen had smashed etc. The screen replacement all went well. Do you think the re sellers will know/care that the screen has been replaced? Will it impact upon my warranty claim? I don't plan on telling them I've gotten the screen replaced but I'm just worried they'll find out and say my warranty has been voided.
I replaced my phone's speaker from 3rd party,right after that I am having problem to restart the device.
I think Your warranty is probably gone.
Try to flash Ftf file,i didn't cause I don't wanna loose my root.(changing between roms help a bit)
when you open the phone and remove the battery, you can see like some flat wires. those connect all your buttons, screen, loudspeaker and other things to the motherboard. I'd say that the problem is in this flat wires if the buttons do not work. It can be changed but don't try it if you do not have some practical skill since the z3 is not really an easy phone to repair, it's all glued >.<
ps.
this is what i'm talking about, to be clear: http://www.ebay.it/itm/FLAT-FLEX-TA...008493?hash=item2c9efe04ad:g:4QkAAOSwyQtVt5MY