Xperia Mini Pro - won't boot up

[#1]

Hi all,

Have my Xperia X10 mini pro just over two weeks now and I've noticed some problems with rebooting the phone. It's never just come back on when I press the power button. It takes 5 or 6 attempts at it. I'll get the vibration and then nothing; screen just stays blank. Usually, however, I can get it to work with some persistence. Problem is, this morning it has refused to boot up at all! I just get the vibrate (sometimes) and nothing else. It's plain refusing to work!

Anyone got any ideas?

Regards,

Tony

[#2]

Do you have a Virgin Mobile SIM card ? I believe there is a problem with them.

[#3]

Hi,

I don't have Virgin, no. I'm in Ireland and it's on the Meteor network but, interestingly enough, I removed the Sim and started it up and it worked fine! Thing is the battery is nearly empty now even though I charged it up fully last night. Strange!

[#4]

Could be an inappropriate type of SIM card.

My mini pro wouldn't boot up at all and virgin customer services told me that they were exchanging phones because their SIM cards had turned out not to work in the mini pro. I've had to use a T-Mobile card to get my phone to work.

[#5]

Oooohhh...that doesn't sound good. It's only just released here so I'm sure I'll have to wait a bit to find out if other people on Meteor are having the same problem.

Thanks for the advice anyway. At least it let me boot up again!

[KrazyD]

Try Update using Sony Ericsson Update Service or try using the repair option on SE PC Companion.

[#7]

Might have found out the cause of this problem!

I was using the advanced task killer program on the phone a lot to try and save the battery. I was closing down everything as I went along. Some times it would cause the pin screen to come back up, kind of like the system was rebooted but without the full shut down. I stopped using this as a test and I've not had the problem since.

My thinking is that, as with computers, the task killer is killing something that causes the phone to shut down incorrectly.

I'll do some further testing on it the weekend to see if I can pinpoint what exactly is causing it.

[KrazyD]

Ok glad you found the problem.

[#9]

That didn't solve the problem. If you restore the OS and do a factory rset. I can make my phone to bootup with the sim card. but if its turned off or runs out of battery, you have to do everything again. its clear this is a generalized problem and i dont see anyone from SE contributing to find a solution at all.

[#10]

best get your phone checked out. The battery could be faulty. try charging it with another charger, if it does not work, you may really have an issue with your battery.