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xperia ion red light hard bricked plz help

odaylahwany — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 11:39:34 GMT

my xperia ion is not recognized by my laptob and when i charge it only red light appear when i connect it to laptop with usb also red light appear sus and pcc dont recognize it what should i do?? plz help!!

Re: xperia ion red light hard bricked plz help

oyhens — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 15:55:02 GMT

So now your device shows Red LED?

Start on step 2 onwards of the Full Guide

Here's the Full Guide:

1. Let the phone charge for 4+ hrs on wall charger (No LED).

2. After 4-6 hours, Red LED should appear flashing. After a few hours, Red LED should be constant.

3. Continue charging for 25+ hours on wall charger until Red LED disappears or turns Green.

4. Unplug from wall charger

5. Run flashtool from PC, flash a stable firmware. Do not plug in phone to PC until it asks to.

6. While holding volume down, plug in USB - May take up to 10 minutes for the phone to be connected and flashing to begin.

( I suggest putting a tight rubber band around the phone as such that it is pressing down on the volume down button )

7. Green LED will appear and after a few seconds - flash will run.

8. Unplug USB and Charge with wall charger.

9. Phone should be back up and running.

Re: xperia ion red light hard bricked plz help

odaylahwany — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 16:17:39 GMT

tried that but it stay in red light zone !! dont know what to do its been in the charger for 2 days and nothing only red light i only can connect it with the computer in MTP mode cant flash in MTP mode tried everything plz help anything in my country there is no sony support center plz help !!!

Re: xperia ion red light hard bricked plz help

oyhens — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 06:45:29 GMT

Did you mean at step 6 when you connect your phone to the computer it gives a Red LED but no flashing is done? (The phone should be completely off-ed in this step)
I suggest you let the flashing dialogue continue and put the Rubber Band around your phone so that the volume down button is pressed down and leave it to do its job, it can take up to 5 hours or more for it to flash. (Mine took 4-5hrs)
Also i suggest putting the screen timeout of your computer to NEVER so that the process can run.
So just calm down and be patient

Re: xperia ion red light hard bricked plz help

chammacki — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 17:31:58 GMT

i have the same problem i trie this tutoriel but noyhing happend help please