For whatever reason, last night, my phone started acting as if the battery was low but even at 100%. My screen is dimmed, the red LED is always on, and restarting doesn't seem to help. Anyone seen this, know what the heck I can do to fix it?
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The red LED is only on when the screen is on. If the screen is shut down or another LED notification is shown, the red LED turns off for that brief time
Activating Stamina mode *further* decreases the brightness.
The unit is dim when first being powered on, through the boot screen, etc
It happened last night while charging my phone. It was quite hot for a little bit and then dimness
maybe trying a factory reset
do you install any app that dim the screen?
I did try to factory reset, but to no avail. As I mentioned, it's dim when it's first booting, so I don't think it's software.
rainbowtuba said:
I did try to factory reset, but to no avail. As I mentioned, it's dim when it's first booting, so I don't think it's software.
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Next step is to do a software repair via Xperia companion if it's still the same after that it'll probably need to go to a Sony service center..
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Hey everyone. This is a quote from androidforums.com it is not my own writing, but this is my exact problem.
"Hey everybody, i recently bought a Sony Ericsson Xperia x10i and thought i should root my phone, using the following tutorial:
Newbies Guide to Rooting X10 and giving you the newest firmware! - xda-developers
So, i was following the steps and after i completed step 5, my phone refused to turn on. At first, the phone would initially vibrate like normal and the LED light would turn green, but then immediately turn off. 5 seconds later, the phone would start constantly vibrating with a black screen and the phone would become unresponsive. To turn it off i had to remove the battery.
I then downloaded the Sony Ericsson PC companion and tried to repair my phone. However, it did no good. Now my phone does the initial vibration, except this time the black screen would lighten up slightly and just stay like that.
I then attempted to charge my phone overnight and when i woke up it just flashes 3 red lights where the LED light is.
could somebody please help me? i only bought my phone 3 days ago and would be a COMPLETE waste of $600 if i was unable to get a replacement phone due to the void of warranty due to rooting.
Is there any way of fixing the phone? If not, is there any way of removing any trace of me rooting or attempting to root the phone (without turning the phone on since i can't) in order to use my warranty?"
My phone has now gone so flat (and doesn't seem to charge) that i can't enter flash mode.. although it was working last night before i went to bed and i did manage to update it using SEUS. But it wont boot up properly. Any ideas? I have noticed that there are a few other people that are having the same problem.. but no one seems to have a solution.
I have also noticed that it runs in a loop. When i plug it in the red light flashes for a while, then attempts to turn on.. and does the black screen for a while. Then it runs out of battery and goes back to the red flashing light. then it repeats.
Hope you can help. Thanks.
Have you tried flashing new firmware with flashtool?
As i tried to explain above.. my phone wont enter flash mode as it is too flat. And it wont charge. when i take it off the charger and try and turn it on. it flashes red three times then a break then three times again and so on.
Any ideas on whats going on?
would it be possible to still claim in on warranty as it wont start properly and wont connect to the computer.
When I hold the power button to turn the phone on, the screen remains blank. No HTC logo, not even on-but-only-showing-black. I mean blank as in the screen does not even turn on. The phone itself does seem to be on, because after a while of it being "on", when I touch the screen anywhere the phone gives off a slight vibration, however the screen still is blank.
My phone was working just fine yesterday, I have no clue what could have caused this. My phone is (or was) running Android 4.4.2 COMMOTIO, with CWM touch recovery by PhilZ if I remember correctly.
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When I hold the power button to turn the phone on, the screen remains blank. No HTC logo, not even on-but-only-showing-black. I mean blank as in the screen does not even turn on. The phone itself does seem to be on, because after a while of it being "on", when I touch the screen anywhere the phone gives off a slight vibration, however the screen still is blank.
My phone was working just fine yesterday, I have no clue what could have caused this. My phone is (or was) running Android 4.4.2 COMMOTIO, with CWM touch recovery by PhilZ if I remember correctly.
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Was the phone dead? Have you tried booting into Hboot/fastboot? When you plug it in do you get a orange light saying charging?
When I plug it into the outlet to charge, the orange light blinks on and off about 20 times then it just stops altogether. I tried hbooting it as well with the volume key + power but no luck.
EDIT: I just read that one should leave the phone plugged in for about 20 minutes before expecting it to take a charge. I will wait 20 minutes or so and report back what happens if anything.
EDIT: IT'S ALIIIIIVVVEEEEE!
Now I will tell how it happened, formatted as green text story
>be me
>be at night
>rezound plugged into wall for like 20 minutes
>no more orange light blinking
>notthiscrapagain.jpg
>unplug phone
>vibrating when I touch the screen
>but screen still off
>decide not to pull battery this time
>set it down for a minute
>screen isn't vibrating to touches anymore
>be like "battery must have ded"
>about to take off back shell
>vibration is felt
>turn phone around so I see screen
>mfw green htc boot logo shows
>mfw kitkat boots up
>thatwasclose.gif
(For those who don't know, mfw="my face when...")
So my guess is that the battery simply must have died while the phone was off. I am not sure about all of your rezounds, but yes, mine does discharge when turned off. Yes, even when it is on airplane mode.
Thanks to pball for attempting to diagnose the issue, by the way .
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Hi there
I have used this tablet without bigger problems for months. a few days ago I've turned it on and after a few minutes using it the device froze completely. then the screen turned black after a few seconds, power led off. I've tried to reset it by pressing power button long and nothing happens, display black, led off.
Everytime I plug it in, the power led turns on, but nothing else happens.
Today I've opened the device and found out the batteries are at 2.8V. I've then charged them with my Lipo charger (had to desolder it, charge and then resolder). Still nothing works. And if there's no battery connected the exact same happens like with the batteries in place: nothing exept green led turns on.
So, why did this happen and how can it be fixed?
Thanks
same thing happened
hi,
exactly the same thing happened to me. Did you manage to solve the problem?
I also tried to empty the batteries and then to re-start, no success. The LED will light for a couple of minutes then turns off, but nothing else happens afterwards, the screen remains black all the time.
Resetting the device also doesn't work, the screen won't turn on, not even in the recovery mode.
I would appreciate any help on this issue.
ori
still dead
Nope, unfortunately I could never fix it so it's just laying around collecting dust as a expensive paperweight...
Hi guys, I got a problem with my Xperia Ray phone.
I left the phone to recharge for couple of hours, when I disconnected the cable, the phone was shut down, OR with so low brightness that I thought it was turned off. At that time I hadn't noticed screen showing anything.
I thought there was some problem with the battery so I tried to recharge it with universal battery charger [I just call it a frog]. After that when I tried to turn on the phone, I noticed very very dim "SONY" and after exclamation mark in red triangle. I decided that there was software problem, so I did phone repair procedure with Sony's PC Companion.
After that the phone works perfectly, the sound, touchscreen, everything, except the screen is so dim that It's only possible to see the text on extremely bright room, I know it's weird, it should be in reverse, but I can only see the display in well lit room. I have a theory that what I'm seeing is that anti sun-flare thing [obviously incorrect definition] which makes it possible to see clearly under the sun.
Oh and it says Safe Mode on the left bottom side, I think it's because the phone is without the SIM, maybe. I'm not sure.
Thank you guys in advance.
P.S. Here are some photos I managed to take:
Good day, I hope you can help me for this kind of issue of Z2, i only just change the sim then it turn off, now my z2 wont turn on just vibrate but noting shows even the sony logo, and when I charge it, red light blinking and vibrating over and over again, i try to overnight charge still wont turn on and it keeps red light blinking and vibrating , i hope someone can help me to fix this kind of problem, thank !
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Good day, I hope you can help me for this kind of issue of Z2, i only just change the sim then it turn off, now my z2 wont turn on just vibrate but noting shows even the sony logo, and when I charge it, red light blinking and vibrating over and over again, i try to overnight charge still wont turn on and it keeps red light blinking and vibrating , i hope someone can help me to fix this kind of problem, thank !
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Well, the only thing which comes to my mind is try to flash the Rom via Flashtool. I had my z2 in this stagw after installing twrp.
Flashmode and fastboot should work so look for tutorials how to flash rom
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