Originally Posted by zackspeed

Ok so I got the red light. Have tried to get into flash mode but no luck yet and I now have a red light that will come on and then go off then back to on. Guess I need to wait a bit longer.

Edit: Just to clarify I got here by flashing LT28I with wipe from ICS. Not sure what went wrong and really wish I had saved the log from it.

Ok I have a solid red led now with it plugged in but still cant get it to do a darn thing. This sucks and makes me quite worried. I'm still holding on to hope but man this sucks.


Screen came on was in boot loop on Sony flash. Got it to reset 1 buzz and shut off 3 buzz and now back to zero response and no led.

Originally Posted by zackspeed

Ok I have a solid red led now with it plugged in but still cant get it to do a darn thing. This sucks and makes me quite worried. I'm still holding on to hope but man this sucks.

Just let it sit till the light turns green. I believe the recommendation is not to flash with less than 80% battery anyway.

Sent from Rooted LT28at with ICS.

Will it give me a green light while boot looping?? It came on with out me touching it and kept looping the Sony splash and was not sure it would continue to charge like that.

Originally Posted by zackspeed

Ok I have a solid red led now with it plugged in but still cant get it to do a darn thing. This sucks and makes me quite worried. I'm still holding on to hope but man this sucks.

JUST let it charge - flashing sucks up alot of battery, also bootloop kills your battery too. After it full (greenled), you can put the phone in flashmode - read the 'solved' thread in Q&A section. I would suggest you start with. 111 firmware (all wipes), then .233 (no wipes - exclude baseband).

Sent from my Sony Xperia™ Ion - ICS & Rooted

I have read that thread and its what I have been going off of. I had the device come on to the loop of the Sony splash screen but was not sure it would keep charging while doing that. Did a force shutdown only to start all over again. I now have a solid red led again and I am just letting it charge to see if I get green again. One thing that did occur to me was I also had a system R/W error when I went to do this at first. I should have never went forward from there.

Edit: Still looking at a red led. Really hope it turns green at some point tonight. Kinda hard to just sit here and wait lol. Over four years of doing this kind of stuff and this is the first time anything like this has happened to me.

What you can do is. get the Flashtool setup to flash, and while your phone is in mid loop, (when the screen is blank) plug in your phone in flash mode. I got stuck in a boot loop on my first flash attempt too, and thats how I got out.
If you don't want to root your phone, flashing is a lot simpler than it reads out to be.
the main thing is to make sure your PC has all the drivers installed.
What I did was
Flashed the.111 firmware wipe everything, nothing excluded. restarted the phone, I didn't bother setting anything up. shut the phone down, flashed ICS, with exclude baseband checked, then I was good to go. I did have to manually set up my APN, and some others had their phone automaticly do it. not sure why that is.... Hope it works out for ya!

So the light went out. Still no response so unplug and plug back in and red light comes on. Has been on the charger for about ten hours now.

Edit: Ok so screen came on again on its own and was looping. I tried to get it to connect in flash mode but no luck. I now have a different situation where the screen is dimly lit and nothing showing but black. It will not do anything again and I am starting to lose my marbles over this. About to just take it back and get a new one.

I had the correct drivers or I would not had been able to get ICS with root in the first place. Is it possible I had not loaded the flash driver for the ics firmware?? I am just thinking out loud at this point. I have a blinking red led again but not sure I will get much farther. With it coming on in a loop on its own I dont think it will keep charging like that and at this point think I may just be caught in a constant loop.

I have the same problem when i downgrade firmware from Ics to GB. Now I turn off Ion already. But I can't turn on, I try to charge but it doesn't have the red light or green light I still charge the phone..................

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Originally Posted by [ct]_nick00

I have the same problem when i downgrade firmware from Ics to GB. Now I turn off Ion already. But I can't turn on, I try to charge but it doesn't have the red light or green light I still charge the phone..................

I unplug and plug in the cable again, but I don't see the light. Can anyone help me please

Look like a dead battery - some said charged for 10hrs you will get it going again.

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