topic Re: Xperia M C1904 Lockdown (Android 4.3) in XPERIA archive

Xperia M C1904 Lockdown (Android 4.3)

Shaggy9 — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 02:34:05 GMT

Ok, straight to the point (Again).

I bought a Sony Xperia M C1904 a year ago around February... It was working just well, I mean, I loved my phone, a week ago I was using it normally and every single process in my phone popped out the "X thing has stopped working", my phone rebooted and poof, encripted phone, I dont know what kind of joke is that but it aint funny at all. I tried using Sony Flashtool "Emma", useless it only detected my phone to tell me it was locked, then I go to Sony Bootloader Unlock Method, useless, I went to the company I bought the phone from (Movistar) they told me "This is not our problem", so Im guessing taking my phone to a Sony Support Center would be useless as well. Now everytime I turn on my phone I have to face that thing "Introduzca la contraseña para descifrar el almacenamiento", its on spanish, translate it, I NEVER used any password or PIN to lock my phone, I have no password, nor a PIN, never configured that, they told me my phone was reported as stolen, I have the ticket and the box.

Simple, just tell me how to escape from that Lockdown and make my phone usable again so I can at least sell it.

Flashing, no way, wont work.

SDK, useless.

Guarantee, expired.

My Xperia (TM dont get mad), never configured it.

Recovery mode, I updated my phone to Android 4.3 using PC Companion, had I know it will mess up the recovery mode, well, Im trying not to get mad here, but having an useless brick for which I paid a lot of money, is annoying and Im sure Im not the only one with this problem, I´ve been using Sony phones for a long time, all of them had their own unexplainable problems, but at least the other ones I could repair myself... Just tell me what do I need to do to make my phone usable again, if that phone has no repair, cause I dont remember setting up any password or PIN, just tell my straight forward "Mate, your phone is doomed", so I can toss it away and buy a new phone, a Sony one, cause I love your freaking phones, no sarcasm, just tell me so I start saving money again.

Peace out.

Yeah, its on Spanish, yeah Im a latin guy, yeah Im in the wrong section, but your paged sent me here.

Re: Xperia M C1904 Lockdown (Android 4.3)

Uliwooly — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 02:42:00 GMT

@Shaggy9

I understand your frustration, if your phone is locked to a carrier/network branded, you won't be able to unlock the bootloader, networks request this and there's nothing that can be done, the only alternative is to replace the motherboard. The Xperias don't have a recovery mode, you could boot on safe mode, what happened after you repaired the phone with PCC?

Re: Xperia M C1904 Lockdown (Android 4.3)

Shaggy9 — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 02:49:12 GMT

I found out that if you typed a weird number a menu popped out in which you could hard reset the phone... I never repaired it with the PCC, it always showed a message "Unable to downoad your device software... Please check your connection and try again", and I click retry and retry and retry, it doesnt move forward, so all options are useless, and at last Safe Mode, even if I reboot it on Safe Mode, it shows me the same.

"Nothing can be done", "Replace the motherboard"... "Your phone is doomed" Then I´ll toss it away tomorrow, I cant even sell it, well, thanks mate, I´ll start saving for a new one.

Re: Xperia M C1904 Lockdown (Android 4.3)

Uliwooly — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 02:54:53 GMT

@Shaggy9

What if you use flashtool?

/t5/Xperia-Z2/How-to-manually-update-downgrade-root-2014-Xperias/td-p/593459

Re: Xperia M C1904 Lockdown (Android 4.3)

Shaggy9 — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 02:59:36 GMT

Already tried that, even if it says it all went ok that thing remains there, all the flashing stuff only worked for Xperia M with Android 4.1 anyway, thanks mate, at least you help me to cut out the struggle

Re: Xperia M C1904 Lockdown (Android 4.3)

Uliwooly — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 03:01:29 GMT

@Shaggy9

Anytime

Re: Xperia M C1904 Lockdown (Android 4.3)

bubimir13 — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 07:36:15 GMT

Strange, even if your phone is half-dead Flashtool is still able to detect it so i can conclude based on my expiriance with the same phone (still working on 4.3) that your motherboard decided to say goodbye for whichever reason. As @uliwooly said, only option would be to replace either motherboard or buy a new phone.

Re: Xperia M C1904 Lockdown (Android 4.3)

lavero — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 22:26:52 GMT

I got exactly the same problem with my phone since yesterday afternoon, I received a call and after the phone didn't want to know anymore... I don't know what's gonna happen for all my pics on phone, I loose all my contacts and I can't be join by mobile....

I must return phone to Sony but I can't have my IMEI also I don't know when and how much it's gonna cost to me now... and I do the same way of you with all my phones but there I don't know what to do... It seems so complicate for me to have the good solution, and if you find it told it to me please...

Re: Xperia M C1904 Lockdown (Android 4.3)

y00132 — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 16:46:03 GMT

same happen with me just some hours back .. i send email to sony support but i dont believe they are going to help in any way .. but ask some questions.. and have to buy a new cell fone..