Hey there =)
Yesterday I tried to update my X10 with SEUS. I followed the instructions carefully but at the end of the update (90 % ) the processing bar of the programm get stuck and the "Update Failed" window appeared
I turned on the phone but after the "Sony Ericsson" Logo the yellow exclamation mark appeared, and it didn't start the OS.
So i tried about 20 times to update it with SEUS again and after that i tried the restore function of PC Companion but it also diddnt work....the processing bar gets stuck at about 90 % or 95 percent and the the update failed again....
I tried the rooting thread for newbies to get the firware back on the phone but it didn't work because the phone doesn't start, so i couldn't activate USB Debugging....
WHAT CAN I DO??
please help me!
Unfortunately there is nothig you can do besides sending the Phone to SE for replacement.
The problem that you have encountered is a hardware fault.
It happened to me once while I tried to root my phone. At some point the flashtool returned with an error and the last lines said something about a write error and a major error servity.
What's the problem exactly?
Some parts of the memory are faulty and can't be written to. Therefore the flash tool or SEUS can't complete their task and return with an error.
How to solve?
The only ay to resolve this problem is to get a replacement.
If you have tried to flash it with some older firmware flash it again with SEUS (just for warranty reasons) and it to SE or visit a shop of your carrier and have them return it to SE. Just tell them you tried to update with SEUS and it broke your handset.
I had a short chat with SE support and told them my problem, only advice was: return the phone to SE, nothing else can be done.
To me it seems like they had that problem a few times already.
StopControl said:
I tried the rooting thread for newbies to get the firware back on the phone but it didn't work because the phone doesn't start
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So did you actually try it, because you don't need the phone in debugging mode to get into flash mode. Run Step 1, and if it completes your phone should be ok, then try seus again.
What if the memory fault hypothesis is true? Then running Step 1 will probably also stall as it does with SEUS, because of write-to-memory problems?
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What if the memory fault hypothesis is true? Then running Step 1 will probably also stall as it does with SEUS, because of write-to-memory problems?
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Possibly, but won't know unless you actually try.
Worry not, you're not the only one with the issue. A couple of people on the SE forums as well as myself have experienced this phenomenon.
(See here: talk.sonyericsson.com/message/27709#27709 ) - add the HTTP yourself, because I have less than 10 posts.
Only yesterday, I handed my X10 into the T-Mobile store for a free "repair". No telling whether they'll attempt to "repair" the phone, or if they'll swap the phone entirely, though; only two weeks of waiting will tell.
I've had software-related problems before with Sony Ericsson phones - namely the K850i and the C902. I've had to send those models off for repair several times, to eventually agree to have the K850i replaced for free after the third repair. The only thing the T-Mobile repair guys can do is attempt to reinstall the software and perform some test phone calls to ensure the device works - if I can't flash the X10 to repair it, then I have serious doubts that the phone techs can flash it.
While brining this up, the T-Mobile representative also said that the C905 "was even worse than the C902." The X10 is just another addition to the history of Sony software failures. In this case, it's probably a hardware flaw with the X10 that causes the problem, but the problem experienced is still software-related. What happened to their long line of stable phones, like the W810i? That phone really was a jewel for its time.
I recently received an X10 mini, but it can't seem to boot - it'll usually just remain with the SE boot logo. It was working fine before, but was kept in a drawer for a period of time till the battery was totally flat.
Sometimes it'll boot up, and display the date/time as 11:00 1 May 2011; the clock doesn't move, and the buttons are unresponsive, before it reboots and doesn't do much else again.
I've tried swapping various SIM cards, but it doesn't change anything.
I've tried installing PC Companion, and used the 'repair' feature, as well as the 'update service' software. Both of them report "No software available".
Can anyone advise if there is anything else I can do to get this phone working again?
Edited to add: I couldn't get it into 'flash' mode (green light) until I allowed the battery become totally drained first.
Use SEUS, it'll give a prompt ''you're phone seems to be up-to-date, update anyway?''
click on update anyway and then choose wipe all personal data update or something like that!
well as long as I think its a hardware issue that every electronic device suffers from when used after a long period abandonment! Best for u is to give it to customer care!
galvic said:
Use SEUS, it'll give a prompt ''you're phone seems to be up-to-date, update anyway?''
click on update anyway and then choose wipe all personal data update or something like that!
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Unfortunately SEUS doesn't give me such a prompt.
SEUS: No new software is available for your phone. Your phone already has the latest available software installed. [Exit]
PC Companion: No software available. There is no software available for your phone yet. Please try again later. [OK]
Thats kinda odd?
There should be an option "update anyway" in SEUS?
Otherwise use bin4ry's flashtool! Google it!
I got this phone from ebay, and it worked a few days before I flashed it so I know it's not hardware or a bad flash on their part because it was stock when I got it. Anyway, I flashed the generic fw through flashtool and it was working fine for awhile until one day it froze and nothing was responsive. The battery died, and I recharged it and threw it into flash mode to repair the firmware through SEUS, and it got it working for awhile until it happened again. So instead I went ahead and used flashtool to put AT&T's fw back on the phone. After I did that, the phone now only vibrates when I turn it on and then does nothing. If it does do something, it just continuously vibrates until I pull the battery. I tried using SEUS and Flashtool to flash another fw because I can get it to flash mode, but it says failed everytime no matter what firmware I use. And SEUS fails right up front when trying to repair. Any ideas?
Pull out the battery....plug the usb cable...run latest flash tool...click on flash button..when it is searching for the fone then put back the battery with pressing the return key.
Recheck the latest driver for 2.3.3
Did it work?
Dude are you aware of rooting procedures?
First you should flash the stock rom back in, then you flash some pre-rooted GB rom. Threads on X10 Android Development are full of options.
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Dude are you aware of rooting procedures?
First you should flash the stock rom back in, then you flash some pre-rooted GB rom. Threads on X10 Android Development are full of options.
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Dude did you even read my post?
I've been a member here for 3 years and have been flashing Android to phones ever since then. I have looked at the troubleshoots but they were all giving a failed flash. Not to mention this has nothing to do with root or GB, I was talking stock firmware, this brick happened before SE pushed out the GB update.
To subhanker.ds, thank you for the input, I'll give it a shot.
EDIT: Just got the same error
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As per your screen shot, debugging mode is of....but it is not possible to on now as ur phone is dead.
I think somehow jeancca is correct...use rooting process..(no need to flash any rom)..it will automatically turn on debugging mod & then you flash ur rom...
Hope ur prob will be solved dear...
I've tried several rooting methods that and they all state I should turn on Unknown Sources and Debugging. But I cannot do this, is there a way that will force it into usb debugging as you said?
Actually at the time of flashing debugging mode automatically turn on...
Anyway i'm not getting any clue...although you can try to flash only system.sin file.then see what will happen....best of luck...
I've tried everything I can think of and I still can't get it to work. A new symptom has came up though, when I try and connect it to my PC, it will go into flash mode but after awile the LED goes off but is still recognized by the PC as being in flash mode. Same goes for when I plug it into the charging cable.
Bump.
Sorry for doing it, but is there anyone out there that can help me?! I had to think I have a $200 paperweight.
Hi..... I mentioned this on another post but thought I might see if this might help you. Although I didn't mention the use of other Flashtools in the other thread, I did end up trying Flashtool 2.8.0 and 2.9.1 and the latest edition. In the end I ended up going with the 2.8.0 to start fresh and since that was the one that was used for An Android 2.1, I flashed back to 2.1. With a few instances like those you mention I tried this and worked out.
What I did was open my devices and printers (control panel) and noticed the SEMC USB or IDE blah blah......The device pops up when connecting my phone. I would flash my phone and the go to the "Turn on phone and check debug" and ..... Same as you green light (Flash) would go on and then nothing.
What I did was unplug my phone and Uninstall the device used (SEMC USB or IDE, it named itself differently on an occasion or two) and then started my Flashtool then tried again. Goto Flashtool and prepare your Flash and wait for it to load up (took some time once or twice but....) connect your phone and try again.
I have been messing around with a bunch of apps and FW's and ROMS and lately Unlocking the BootLoader.
Some you can just goto Task Manager and Stop the ADB.exe processes but this uninstall worked excellent for me when needed.
Hope this solves your issue. Good Luck. Oh you may not need the other Flashtools but I have them on file just in case because 2.9.1 gave me a problem before when doing something. You might be able to do with whatever Flashtool you are using but just thought I would share my experience.
I have the same problem . i I flashed it with X10i rom but work for while and after 1 or 2 hours hanged and when i remove the battery it's hang in sony ericsson .
After that I flashed it with SEUS and upgrade to official rom 2.3.3
and has the same problem .DO THINK IT IS A HARDWARE PROBLEM
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Hi..... I mentioned this on another post but thought I might see if this might help you. Although I didn't mention the use of other Flashtools in the other thread, I did end up trying Flashtool 2.8.0 and 2.9.1 and the latest edition. In the end I ended up going with the 2.8.0 to start fresh and since that was the one that was used for An Android 2.1, I flashed back to 2.1. With a few instances like those you mention I tried this and worked out.
What I did was open my devices and printers (control panel) and noticed the SEMC USB or IDE blah blah......The device pops up when connecting my phone. I would flash my phone and the go to the "Turn on phone and check debug" and ..... Same as you green light (Flash) would go on and then nothing.
What I did was unplug my phone and Uninstall the device used (SEMC USB or IDE, it named itself differently on an occasion or two) and then started my Flashtool then tried again. Goto Flashtool and prepare your Flash and wait for it to load up (took some time once or twice but....) connect your phone and try again.
I have been messing around with a bunch of apps and FW's and ROMS and lately Unlocking the BootLoader.
Some you can just goto Task Manager and Stop the ADB.exe processes but this uninstall worked excellent for me when needed.
Hope this solves your issue. Good Luck. Oh you may not need the other Flashtools but I have them on file just in case because 2.9.1 gave me a problem before when doing something. You might be able to do with whatever Flashtool you are using but just thought I would share my experience.
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Thanks a lot, I will give this a shot as soon as I get home. I'll keep my fingers crossed that this may help me and the others having this sort of issue.
Mobark, I don't think it's a hardware issue. For awhile I was thinking it was a dead screen, but from the people I have heard that did indeed have dead screens, they have lines in the center of the screen while my screen just doesn't turn on.
Hi everyone i am having the same problem my phone only vibrates for sec and the green led just flash for sec than nothing but my phone goes into flash mode but the flash aborts i have also made a thread in which i fully listed my progess and software i used http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1257581
Nope, didn't seem to work. I think my problem is the phone doesn't want to stay in Flash mode for some reason.
I fix this error, i download and flash this, next i updated in SEUS, my phone is Xperia Play
Sorry for my bad english.
Ok, so I upgraded to 3.0.0 and tried flashing the generic fw again to no avail. And as far as above, the firmware isn't for the x10, it's for the Play, Arc, and Neo.
This is what i did
Not sure if this will work for you but this is how I fixed my phone.
When I first changed the rom on my phone i was on baseband 435. I never changed the baseband with the custom rom install.
My friend factory erased the phone and then it would take 45 - 50 mins to finish booting (would turn on i would see se logo and 50 mins later I'd get to a stock "slide to unlock screen" upon doing so i would get a black bg with the custom batt meter and clock at the top. it also dected the sd wasnt plugged in.
While the phone was on, Sony Ericsson pc Companion would say please mount sd card, and that i couldnt do.
While trying to use flashtool 2.9.1 it would say please put the phone in debuggign mode.
At this point, your ss shows you making it further than i did. because mine wouldnt make it past the date/time (yours starts flashing an fails some way through).
I tried 4 roms and none of them worked.
Then i found http://www.multiupload.com/9H20YEXEHR and After updating to flash tool 3.0.0, and using the stock rom that i posted the link to, It worked. but i had to try a few times. At http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=920746 There are 3 different stock roms for x10a (I used the first one in the x10a list)
I used the one that matched my baseband. Try an match yours if you know it.
When i connected usb, the phone would not turn on. The phone would only turn on with batt in. So i connected usb, held back and put batt in.
Doing this worked, I held the back button until the flash completed.
Also as a note, I did not change the bootloader, that could be why it would boot after 50 mins or so.
I hope this helps.
-Mike
Hello there,
I'll tell you what I did..
My phone is new & I wanted to root it
So I Opened the Bootloader & when I finished I couldn't find a root for my firmware which was I guess 75
So I didn't root!
When i found out that ICS was about to released I decided to close the boot loader so I can update my phone from PCC
So I followed the steps here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1527159
Only I downloaded the re-locker from another link (in Arabic forum)
I used Flashtool 0.8.0.0
Any ways I faced some errors relocking the bootloader
So I redownload the re-locker from the previous (xda-developers) link
& I chose loader.sin when I flashed it
& it worked fine!
But it said that my phone will reboot & it hasn't I reboot it my self & everything was OK..!
When I tried to update it to ICS via PCC & Update Service
I faced errors like everybody else
But when it finally was able to update my phone via Update Service
It downloaded the system & it started to install & from all of the sudden it failed
After that my phone is died for about 21 hours now
No matter how I charge it, How I try to turn it off, turn it on
It's either hang on Sony logo on the screen or turned off
either no light even when I charge it or red & sometimes green
I left it charging during my sleep for 8 hours & nothing has changed same issues
I just wanna see a life on my phone
It's totally new
Anyone can help?
I think this issue is kinda similar to mine
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1724591
cause I have tried the 3 times vibrate thing & only it helped to turn off my phone from the Sony logo & it turns it self again
& now it's not even working
Here's how it started:
I was happily using the tablet (pollux_windy), when something prompted me to upgrade to 7.11 Lineage OS images. One of the things noteworthy here is that I was never able to go to recovery by pressing VOLUME_UP. I was always using adb to reboot to recovery
I installed it and used OpenGapps aroma installer to install what I wanted. I removed a few CM account related stuff
The tablet booted but was being stuck on the first screen on initial setup that displays a big LineageOS logo in green and there was no other option on it. I thought maybe the tablet is being slow and left it overnight to see if anything appears. Nope.. nothing did.
I tried a lot to go to recovery to reflash or flash something good. But as I mentioned before, I wasn't able to get into recovery by key combinations.
I tried to use Sony Companion to do a Software Repair. It kept complaining that bootloader was unlocked
I tried to use flashtool on mac to flash a stock FTF. It kept giving error (ERROR - null, ERROR - Error flashing. Aborted)
Since it looked like the only problem with using Sony Companion was that bootloader was unlocked. So I proceeded to lock the bootloader from flashtool. I believe this was where I messed up. I locked it successfully
I then proceeded to use software companion but it keeps giving me error with a small message about UEGetPhoneInfoFailure. I searched a few forum and posts but it seems that there's no solution for this (?)
I tried to unlock my bootloader again. I did it through the official method the first time and repeated it but fastboot write failed and it wasn't unlocked. Flashtool is not able to unlock it as well. Flashtool error is (Your phone bootloader cannot be officially unlocked)
I tried various versions of flashtool in MacOS and in Windows, trying to flash any FTF. I get a new error along with the one I mentioned above (-: Processing of loader.sin finished with errors)
I'm now typing this post
I'll appreciate if someone can help here.
I got this device when it first came out. I've loved it since now. It was an ace. It's not waterproof anymore because I did a few repairs on my own. But it worked flawlessly and battery life was great. I wouldn't mind saying goodbye to it as it's pretty old, but trying to revive it and have it living as it's cooler than a dead tablet
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I'll appreciate if someone can help here.
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Don't panic!
7.1.1 ROMs have some issues when reverting back to stock ROM.
Switch off device by holding VOL+Power for 5-7 sec, then read -> https://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-tablet-z/help/flash-stock-rom-t3564623.
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Don't panic!
7.1.1 ROMs have some issues when reverting back to stock ROM.
Switch off device by holding VOL+Power for 5-7 sec, then read -> https://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-tablet-z/help/flash-stock-rom-t3564623.
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One thing I always practice and preach about Sony devices is not to panic .. Flash mode and Flashtool has saved my a** so many times.
So, thanks to you, I resolved the issue. I was doing the same thing but had a couple of pieces in the process that needed correction.
I let go of my Windows VM on Mac and prepped my old laptop fresh on Windows 10. Driver installation kept failing because of unsigned driver issue and bcdedit didn't do anything despite returning a success. Advanced startup worked. The second thing that might be wrong with my original attempt was the stock FTF version. 5.1.1 didn't work. I got hold of a german unbranded version on 4.1.2 and used it instead. Then reflashed to 5.1.1 and everything is golden.
Thanks again :good: