Nearly a year ago now, my cousin gave me this great Blackberry 8830 to use here in Africa. Upon returning here to Burkina Faso, I was able to get most of the features up and running. Well, a month ago I finally got the unlimited data rate plan going here. Everything was working great until yesterday morning I woke up to -you guessed it - the red light of death! At first I was rather confused as I always turn my phone off at night and have the alarm turn on the phone and wake me up; but this time I woke up before the phone was scheduled to turn on only to see a steady red light. I observed it for a while and noticed that it was essentially cycling internally. It would attempt to boot up (like from a hard reset) then flash the white screen with the turning hour glass for about 3 seconds and then go black again - only to start the cycle all over. If I take the battery out and plug it directly into my laptop, it will do the same thing only windows is so kind to remind me with a constant "bing" that it is virtually being unplugged and plugged back in over and over again.
If you should encounter this same problem, I regret to inform you that your phone is officially "bricked." I am sure that some tech savvy hacker out there has found a way to fix this; and if by chance you are reading this, I would greatly appreciate any comments or helpful hints you might have. In the mean time though, I will be hunting down a new phone on ebay and doing my best to get a replacement in the next 30 days.
Oh - and I forgot to mention that all my contact information was stored on the phone and lost in to a digital 'stargate' at this point in time. Live and learn - should have backed it up!
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