I don’t know if it was the fact that I had many cards open, my repeated opening and closing of the keyboard as I was fidgeting, or something else, but something made my Palm Pre crash for the first time today. It wasn’t pretty… all I saw was a backlit black screen.
I turned off the device using the power button and turned it back on, and was relieved to see the familiar Palm logo. Not so fast… the dreaded backlit black screen again. I repeated the process of turning the Pre off again, and once more saw the black screen. I did this a few more times, each time more frantically. I finally took a deep breath, almost resigned to the dubious honor of being one of the first owners of a Pre brick, when I recalled that the Pre, unlike the iPhone, has a removable battery.
I popped off the back, removed the battery, and put it back in. After snapping the back back on, I once again tried turning on the device. After waiting for what seemed like an excruciatingly long time, I was greeted once again with the warm webOS home screen. Whew, crisis averted.
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You should try to “brick” it again to see what caused it.
I bought my pre 2 days ago, as soon as it was available in Canada. The salesman who sold it to me mentioned that if you pull the battery you will most likely fry your pre. The first day and a half the phone worked great. Unfortunalely I put my pre to bed last night but it wouldn’t wake up this morning. No backlit black screen, no nothin, just simply would not turn on. After about 2 hours on hold with Bell customer service I finally reached a tech support guru who had the brilliant idea to pull the battery out. Pulled the battery out, waited 30 seconds battery back in and voila!! Pre repaired. Guess the salesman didn’t know what he was talking about!
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