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sharatf

Unstable BlackBerry 8830

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Hi,

:sos: I've been facing an irritating problem with my recently acquired BB 8830 (Verizon)

The phone belonged to a friend who'd just came down from USA, and was in a very good condition, physically.

Unfortunately, for my friend, while upgrading his BB OS thru the Desktop Manager, it got stuck and had been showing him 507 Error.

He wasn't keen on fixing the problem (didn't know how to go about it) so I offered to buy it at a good price (for me :GirandoOjos: )

So let me breakdown the whole issue from here on:

  • As most of you know, 507 error means there's no OS in the phone.
  • So I went ahead and downloaded the latest DM and 4.5 OS (4.5.0.138) from the Blackberry & Verizon sites, respectively.
  • Using only the AppLoader (not thru DM) I managed to access the BB and loaded the OS successfully, although I must mention that when it tried to reboot itself it went into a loop.
  • I just pulled the battery & rebooted the system and it showed me the "Verizon Wireless" welcome screen and went to the home page without any issues.
  • I setup the phone (without email) and was very happy about it all, until it suddenly rebooted itself 10 minutes later & went it a reboot loop without ever booting up :Equivocado:
  • Once again I pulled-battery-restarted the phone for it to get back to the home screen, but 10 minutes later it went into a loop again.
  • Thinking that the OS maybe the issue, I upgraded the OS to 4.5.0.175 thru the DM. Same success story as the previous attempt and I was at the Home screen soon. BUT the reboot loop came back :angry:
  • So this time I downgraded the OS to 4.2.2.196 from Tata Indicom thru the App Loader. Again it was a successful load and everything seemed stable for nearly 20 mins when it went to the reboot loop again :Ohhhh:

The different BB OS I've installed in order are:

  • Verizon 4.5.0.138 thru App Loader
  • Verizon 4.5.0.175 thru Desktop Manager upgrade
  • Tata Indicom 4.2.2.196 thru App Loader

Over this entire course, I've also encountered the following errors:

  • JVM Error 535
  • JVM Error 547
  • App Error 523
  • App Error 524
  • App Error 200

Each time I just pulled-battery-restarted the phone to correct the errors.

The biggest problem is the phone can't seem get out of it's own reboot loop unless I pull the battery. I'm worried there may be a hardware problem, but not sure what to do.

As it stands, I'm stuck BIG TIME! :'(

Could someone please help me out on how to rectify this instability of my BB 8830?

Thanks in advance.

Edited by sharatf

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Ok.

So I've done some research on this and thought I'd put it on the forum here in case anyone else faces a similar problem.

If you get error codes 535/547 then in all likeliness you're looking at a hardware failure :Equivocado:

The flash memory module is been almost permanently corrupted.

Your only option is to get the handset replaced.

Regards,

Sharat

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