Can SFOS physically damage XA2? [answered]

asked 2018-12-29 19:20:38 +0300

Daniel.T gravatar image

updated 2018-12-29 21:20:56 +0300

My second XA2 just broke down in the same way my first one did. The screen wouldn't turn on, then a long press on the power button triggered the red light. It stayed on until I pressed power+volume down. Now the device seems to be dead and doesn't react to any keypress nor is it recognized by a computer with fastboot. Also tried Sony's two minutes method (power+volume up for two minutes). Could this be due to SFOS? There is at least one more person with the same issue, so all in all 3 XA2s failed the same way.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that at least at the stage when the screen wouldn't tturn on in the first place, the device was somehow still working. The yellow light indicating new emails was blinking.

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No, I really don't see how that could happen unless you are setting up some special tweaks (which you could as well do in android...) The defaults of SFOS are quite safe.

I'd say it is just coincidence, who knows how many vanilla XA2's are trashed every day?

juiceme ( 2018-12-29 20:14:34 +0300 )edit

Are you sure the battery isn't drained too much? there has been cases where the battery is so empty that the device appears to be dead but does recover after keeping on wall charger for extended time. I have also heard that some device did need that two minutes method and it was quite sensitive to pressing the buttons long enough and not accidentally releasing one during that.

mal ( 2018-12-29 20:22:29 +0300 )edit

The device stopped working when it was plugged in and charging, at about 60%. I also added an edit to my original post, as at the stage when the screen wouldn't turn on, the device seemed to be somehow alive.

Daniel.T ( 2018-12-29 21:12:30 +0300 )edit

Can you share the device model of the XA2 ? Was it an operator-locked device?

tortoisedoc ( 2018-12-29 21:52:42 +0300 )edit

It is a Single SIM model (don't know which one exactly) and it was branded (not locked) by congstar (German "cheap" brand of T-Mobile)

Daniel.T ( 2018-12-29 23:27:42 +0300 )edit

Could a dodgy power supply cause this?

cpb ( 2018-12-30 00:15:36 +0300 )edit

After the second failure I also thought about this, but I don't have a phone left to try... ;) But as far as I can remember, the first one didn't die during charging.

Daniel.T ( 2018-12-30 07:58:32 +0300 )edit