My Xperia S has a booting problem

[blacksb5]

Hello,

I've recently updated my Xperia S to ICS and it worked fine for sometime; and now i've faced a terrible problem.

once, it crashed and i tried restarting it, after restart, Sony logo appeares and phone restarts again and again, till it's out of charge.

any Ideas or clues?
thanks.

[fauag]

You should had listened to your friends... Sony phones used to be good, now they are really bad.

[omirus]

Already did the steps you mentioned but it did not work.  That was why I thought it was a SIM card problem.  But having a new SIM card did not address the issue too.

[Uliwooly]

you haven't stated if its a new MICRO sim card or new REGULAR SIM that was trimmed to fit btw do you have

the Xperia S? Neo V? Xperia Arc? which Xperia is rebooting?

since you have being posting all over the forum, you need to be more specific

[Uliwooly]

you haven't stated if its a new MICRO sim card or new REGULAR SIM that was trimmed to fit btw do you have

the Xperia S? Neo V? Xperia Arc? which Xperia is rebooting?

since you have being posting all over the forum, you need to be more specific

[blacksb5]

does it make a lot of difference, a micro Cim with a cut one? besides, we don't have Micro-Cims here in Afghanistan, we should cut them manualy.

so....?

[blacksb5]

as far as i can see, not only Xperia S, but also Neo, Arc and so forth are also experiencing  this problem.

i wonder how many people here think this problem is because of the ICS? the previous version worked fine, thogh.

[Thommo]

If you think it's ICS then officially Sony will not downgrade you despite what Sony support here might say - The only option you have to downgrade back to GB is to do it manually,

If you would like to consider this then which GB firmware would you need and if I have it or can get it I will post a download link for you along with details on how to downgrade - It's an easy process but if you don't feel upto it then I can remote network and do this for you

[blacksb5]

Accept my thanks for that.

but, don't you think it's a shame when there is a newer version of your phone's OS is availble and you can't use it, due to some uknown issues?

[omirus]

Does it matter having a CUT sim or a MICRO sim in the first place? mine was CUT.  Both old and new SIM from carrier.  The old sim was working fine until I encountered the problem.  I have an Xperia S.  I am not going to accept that its a carrier problem since it was working fine.  Maybe an ICS issue after the updates of some of the apps related to ICS by SONY.

I got the phone with the new board in from the service center.  What is weird is that its only happening in a particular area near my home.  So now its back with the service center.  I'd try to upload the videos I got today.  It is restarting even when I rebooted the phone to SAFE mode!

[omirus]

Just an update to my post here => http://talk.sonymobile.com/message/271216#271216

so I got my unit this morning.  with new board in place. first thing I did was test the unit before completely signing the release form.  It was working fine.  So while I was there, I tried to browsed some apps, played with its functionality and so on.  PLAY Store indicated 10 updates found for all the default apps (I should have made a screen shot but forgot to do it).  So I updated them all while I was still there at the service center.   It was working fine so I signed up the release papers.

I then reinstalled Reboot Logger from PLAY Store (just so I will have a log in case it would reboot without me having observed it while I was in their area).  I stayed around for 2 hours and nothing was wrong so I decided to go home.

Before I got home, it started to reboot again. Like you could not imagine right? So the first thing I did was to video it all using my other unit.

As stated in my previous post, having my Network option to GSM this time did not solve the reboot issue.  So I restarted the phone on SAFE mode. But still the reboot occured

I will upload my videos in youtube later.