Sell your Xperia Pro-I for cash

Condition is the only variable, since every one of these is 512GB and unlocked. Light wear you cannot feel with a fingernail is Average at $191. Nothing visible at arm's length is Good at $210. Heavy wear with no cracks is Fair at $126. Cracked, or with something not working, is $42.

Open Photo Pro and put it into a mode where you set the aperture rather than Basic. The F control offers exactly two values, F2.0 and F4.0, because the iris has two positions and nothing in between.

Do the exposure check first. Lock ISO and shutter speed, shoot the same static scene at F2.0 and then at F4.0, and compare the two files. F4.0 should come out exactly two stops darker. If both frames are the same brightness, no blades moved. In a quiet room you can usually hear them move as you switch.

Then check the look. Frame something close against a background several meters back and shoot it at both settings. F2.0 should give you a visibly softer background than F4.0. Two identical looking frames is the same verdict as two identical exposures.

Faulty, at $42. Our rule across Android devices is that anything not working makes it Faulty, and a seized iris is a mechanical failure in the one component this device was bought for. We are not going to pretend a stuck aperture is a minor point on an Xperia PRO-I. Quote it as Faulty and the figure you see is the figure you are paid, with no correction email afterward.

Not the full area, and Sony never claimed it was. The part is a 1.0-type Exmor RS, the same imager as the RX100 VII, but the PRO-I reads a crop from it rather than the whole surface. What you get out is 12MP at 2.4 micron pixels, which is still a long way ahead of anything in a normal phone and is the reason this device sits at the top of our Sony pricing. It makes no difference to your grade. We mention it because you probably already knew, and a page that fudged it would not be worth reading.

No. That was the Xperia PRO, which has a micro HDMI input port on its bottom edge. Sony did not carry the socket over. On the PRO-I, the External monitor app takes a feed over USB Type-C from a device that outputs USB Video Class, and an HDMI camera has to go through an HDMI to UVC adapter first. Practically, that means the USB-C port is doing monitoring as well as charging and data. If yours has gone intermittent, or only holds a connection at one angle, that is a functionality fault and it grades Faulty.

Two seconds on the bottom edge settles it. One port, USB-C only, is the PRO-I. Two ports, USB-C plus a small HDMI socket, is the PRO. The cameras confirm it: the PRO-I has one obviously large main lens with a Zeiss badge and an F2.0 to F4.0 aperture, while the PRO has three ordinary 12MP cameras and no aperture control. If yours is the other one, prices are on the sell your Xperia PRO page.

Yes, and without repairing it. Any crack or chip, front, back or a lens cover, grades it Faulty at $42. Send it as it is. A Gorilla Glass Victus 4K panel is not cheap to replace and a replaced display grades Faulty anyway, so the repair only moves money out of your pocket. Choose Faulty when you quote and the price stands.

Yes, it is OLED. On this device the risk comes from the camera apps rather than from watching things: Photo Pro and Videography Pro put a dense fixed interface on the screen, the same histogram, level and control column in the same pixels, for as long as you are shooting. Look for it at high brightness on a plain mid gray image. Any lasting shadow of that layout is burn-in, and burn-in grades the device Faulty.

Average is wear you can see but not feel. Take the case off, run a fingernail across the screen, the back and all four frame rails, slowly. Nothing catching, but fine marks visible when you tilt it into the light, is Average. Anything the nail stops on is Fair. Nothing at all at any angle is Flawless. If it has spent time in a cage, check the rails first, because that is where the marks are.

No. There is no battery percentage rule on any Android device we buy, no health screen to check, and no figure that reaches the quote. It only counts when the device stops working, which for these usually means shutting down mid shoot with charge still showing, or refusing to run off the battery at all. That is a functionality failure, so it grades Faulty. Otherwise a tired battery costs you nothing.

Not for money. We do not price a device we cannot switch on and test, and we cannot clear your data off a dead one, which on a camera device usually means somebody else's footage as well as yours. The offer instead is free recycling: our label, a Department of Defense wipe on anything reachable, proper disposal. A free return is equally available if you would rather keep it.

Keep all of it. Nothing is required in the box, and accessories are not priced into the quote, so the Vlog Monitor, the Bluetooth shooting grip, Sony's case, cages, cold shoe adapters and cables add nothing here and are worth real money to you or to the next person you sell them to separately. The memory card is not about value: our wipe reaches the internal 512GB, not a microSD, so pull the tray and keep the card and whatever is on it.

No carrier in the US sold it, so no carrier prices it. Where a general buyback site does quote one, it is usually being read as a 6.5 inch Android from 2021 and paid as if the camera were ordinary. That is the whole reason this page exists as its own listing rather than lumping the PRO-I in with the Xperia 1 III. We pay cash, we hold the number for 14 days, and there is no plan to sign.

No to each, for three different reasons. A Google account lock makes the device unusable to anyone after a reset, so it cannot be bought at any grade. Remove the account in Settings, Passwords and accounts before you erase it and the problem never appears.

Blacklisted, reported lost or stolen, or blocked by a network cannot be cleared from our side and we have to turn it down. Anything still on a lease or an installment plan is under a financial obligation, and we do not purchase devices under financial obligations. Settle the balance first.

Remove your Google account in Settings, Passwords and accounts, then run Settings, System, Reset options, Erase all data. Account first, always, because a device that lands here still locked has to go straight back to you unpaid. Our erase your device page has the full sequence. We wipe it again to Department of Defense standards when it arrives, so your files, messages and saved passwords are erased and cannot be recovered.

For payment you choose one of four. Gift card, emailed, and about 3 percent higher than the cash figure because the brands add a bonus. PayPal, instant, less PayPal's 2.99 percent fee. Bank transfer in 2 to 4 days. Check in 3 to 5. At this price the gift card bonus is worth a few dollars and the PayPal fee costs a few, so it is worth thirty seconds of thought. Payment goes out the same day the device clears inspection, and a sealed unit is paid through PayPal only.