Red light in corner blinks and then phone restarts???
Hello -
Hopefully I am posting in the right section.
So I just bought a used Blackberry Pearl 8120. So far I really like the phone, but a few little odd things have been happening and I don't know if it is normal with a solution, or if it is because I bought a crappy used phone........
The first thing that has happened a few times in the 2 days i've had the phone is the red light in the top right corner of the phone will blink, and then the phone will restart itself as if I had taken the battery out or fully shut down the phone. I'm not sure what the red light is about or why the phone would restart itself?? Which is a pain since it takes a few minutes to fully restart...... I read something about the red light being a message indicator but as far as I know I didn't receive any messages when the light was blinking....................
The other thing just happened this morning. Last night was the first time I needed to charge my phone. I put it on the charger and went to bed. When I got up this morning and grabbed it it was frozen and the time was 11:17PM. So assuming it had stopped at that time last night and I had to again restart the phone, another pain. I don't know whats up with that, if the phone is crappy or if it is something that has happened to others then I wont worry about it too much.......just kind of weird.
Anyway hopefully i'm not asking a question i could have found on this website but there is so much to go through! Thanks for any help.
mine just did that 30 min ago. wtf?
it is a red or amber led color and amber is a dead battery.
it starts up for a short time than the cell goes blank the red light goes on and
it restarts.
i ordered a new battery that should be here soon and i am hopeing the battery just went bad.
any takers on what is going on with my 8220?
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