BB Pearl Flip 8230 occasional red light. Phone will not turn on.

Question

I am at a total loss as to what to do. As the title says, I get that red light coming on at the top of the phone like it is trying to come on, but never does. My phone has given me all kinds of trouble, with freezing, restarting on its own, wrong time and date, even the display on the front being upside down when i close my phone. I have put it on charge, tried taking the battery out and putting it back in and even tried another battery from another bb pearl flip 8230. Is there any hope of should I just take it to my provider?
Oh other things.... i get occasional messages that say app error in really tiny letters and ok below it. I can click it and it will restart. It has just been such a hassle for me..

Answer 1

More on this.  I had Alltel for a service provider.  AT&T took over Alltel in this area.  Alltel then would not even look at it because of this.  I still had a Motorola Razor and put that back into service in the interim (Alltel to AT&T takeover).  When I started using the Razor again I had it shut off and after about an hour it powered itself up.  Didn't think I had done this so I shut it off again.  About an hour went by again at which point the Razor powered itself up again.
I am certain at this point the BB Pearl Flip 8230 has been attacked and infected as I had my email going to it.  I willing to make a good size wager that there is an infection on the phone because as I said the Razor would power up and not shut off.
The phone I have been told can be flashed (reprogrammed) at the expense of losing all the information contained on it.  I see this as the only solution to this point.
Now that AT&T has taken over I am using an HTC Aria.  Not sending any emails from the email account to it either.  Be prepared for whatever smart phone is being used is at risk of being attacked.