Hi,
I have a Lumia 800 that's basically dead. It doesn't startup. Initially it just froze with the Nokia logo on the screen and when I would put it onto charge then the battery indicator would come up with a red bar at the bottom.
I took it in to a Nokia repair centre where the guys worked on it (I hope) for two weeks but they couldn't repair it. They did say it had India firmware on it tho. (I bought the phone 2nd hand about 10 months ago - been working fine until now)
Now when I put it onto charge, the phone vibrates in the following cycle - long vibrate, 5 second delay, short vibrate, 32 second delay, long vibrate, and so on (I used a stopwatch to time it). Nothing comes up on the screen.
I've googled till I'm dizzy and tried several "press this key until vibrate then release this key" methods but no success. The main key combo I've tried is hold down the volume down, power and camera buttons until the phone vibrates. Then release the power button only until the phone restarts. The prerequisite for this combo to work is that the phone must be switched off. However, with nothing come up on the screen I have no idea if the phone is switched off Needless to say, the combo has not worked.
There are ways, apparently, to change the firmware on a dead phone but not having done this before, I'm wary and would only like to try this as a last resort.
Luckily I have my N8 as backup so I'm not without a phone - just all the better features on the Lumia.
If anyone can help (preferably in the Durban area) please drop me a PM. And ofcourse, ask me anything further on this thread.
Thanks!
Gendibal.
I have a Lumia 800 that's basically dead. It doesn't startup. Initially it just froze with the Nokia logo on the screen and when I would put it onto charge then the battery indicator would come up with a red bar at the bottom.
I took it in to a Nokia repair centre where the guys worked on it (I hope) for two weeks but they couldn't repair it. They did say it had India firmware on it tho. (I bought the phone 2nd hand about 10 months ago - been working fine until now)
Now when I put it onto charge, the phone vibrates in the following cycle - long vibrate, 5 second delay, short vibrate, 32 second delay, long vibrate, and so on (I used a stopwatch to time it). Nothing comes up on the screen.
I've googled till I'm dizzy and tried several "press this key until vibrate then release this key" methods but no success. The main key combo I've tried is hold down the volume down, power and camera buttons until the phone vibrates. Then release the power button only until the phone restarts. The prerequisite for this combo to work is that the phone must be switched off. However, with nothing come up on the screen I have no idea if the phone is switched off Needless to say, the combo has not worked.
There are ways, apparently, to change the firmware on a dead phone but not having done this before, I'm wary and would only like to try this as a last resort.
Luckily I have my N8 as backup so I'm not without a phone - just all the better features on the Lumia.
If anyone can help (preferably in the Durban area) please drop me a PM. And ofcourse, ask me anything further on this thread.
Thanks!
Gendibal.
