# Blackberry 8900 Sudden Death -- Resurrection Ideas?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackberry-8900-sudden-death-resurrection-ideas/550287
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [August 14, 2010, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackberry-8900-sudden-death-resurrection-ideas/550287 "2010-08-14T23:27:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Huerta88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huerta88)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2010, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackberry-8900-sudden-death-resurrection-ideas/550287/1 "2010-08-14T23:27:00Z")
This had to happen on a Friday night.
It’s a new device (week or so). Has been working well. Only unusual circumstance is I forgot to charge it Thursday night and it was down to one red battery bar yesterday. But I popped it on the USB charger at work and it was up to all bars on the battery when I got ready to leave. But I noticed it had SOS for signal strength, which usually means (a) needs a reboot or (b) loose SIM card. Well, I tried (a) by taking the battery out and putting back in. And it was and has been dead ever since.
I mean dead – when I Google some form of “dead Blackberry” I see stories of “oh the red light’s glowing but nothing else” or “I have a white screen.” Here, there is zero sign of life. No red light, no failed attempt to boot. I have removed and reinserted the battery a dozen times and the SIM card half that many. Nothing. I tried charging overnight – no light to evidence that anything was going on.
Once before I had a totally dead BB and the IT guy gave me the highly technical advice that amounted to “take the battery out and let the device rest for awhile.” I did, waited thirty minutes, and lo and behold, it booted when I reinserted it. But even this black magic is not working here.
Any suggestions or am I stuck waiting till Monday?
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### Author:  [@nuggz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nuggz)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2010, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackberry-8900-sudden-death-resurrection-ideas/550287/2 "2010-08-15T00:02:44Z")
Have you tried plugging it into the charger again? When people bring dead phones into work, the problem, 98% of the time, is that it isn’t charged.
There may be a problem with your charger.
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### Author:  [@Huerta88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huerta88)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2010, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackberry-8900-sudden-death-resurrection-ideas/550287/3 "2010-08-15T00:10:42Z")
> [@nuggz](#):
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> Have you tried plugging it into the charger again? When people bring dead phones into work, the problem, 98% of the time, is that it isn’t charged.
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> There may be a problem with your charger.
Two different chargers, and before it conked out, I noted the battery was up to all bars.
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### Author:  [@nuggz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nuggz)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2010, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackberry-8900-sudden-death-resurrection-ideas/550287/4 "2010-08-15T13:43:14Z")
Sometimes battery indicators are not really helpfull. If something is wrong with the battery, it could read full charge, and then lose its charge very quickly.
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2010, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackberry-8900-sudden-death-resurrection-ideas/550287/5 "2010-08-15T19:25:48Z")
If complex electronics fail due to hardware defects they often fail very early, however, the majority of the time a scenario like yours is battery/charger related. Batteries can fail catastrophically just like more complex hardware. See if you can beg or borrow a working battery to test the unit with.
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### Author:  [@Cell\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cell_Guy)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2010, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackberry-8900-sudden-death-resurrection-ideas/550287/6 "2010-08-16T04:29:08Z")
> [@astro](#):
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> If complex electronics fail due to hardware defects they often fail very early, however, the majority of the time a scenario like yours is battery/charger related. Batteries can fail catastrophically just like more complex hardware. See if you can beg or borrow a working battery to test the unit with.
This. I’ve seen phones that just won’t power on from a fully charged battery and yet when you throw a different battery in they fire right up. Take the phone and the battery back to where you bought it and ask them to do a warranty swap on the battery–it’s covered under the manufacturer’s warranty.