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thefury
06-12-2006, 02:57 AM
Have any of you guys heard of using your phone like normal then pushing the standby or power on button but after a while it never wakes up ...it wont do anything...it wont light up or anything. Checked memory,battery,etc. But if you soft reset it comes back and works fine for a while.


Malatesta
06-12-2006, 03:20 AM
Have any of you guys heard of using your phone like normal then pushing the standby or power on button but after a while it never wakes up ...it wont do anything...it wont light up or anything. Checked memory,battery,etc. But if you soft reset it comes back and works fine for a while.
the dreaded DSOD (dark screen of death). A terrible bug.

Luckily, there are things you can do that should drastically eliminate or reduce this irritating nusance:

Things to help get rid of the DSOD (http://www.pdaphonehome.com/forums/showthread.php?t=71595&highlight=dsod)

an extremely long thread on the topic (http://www.pdaphonehome.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57073&highlight=dsod)

good luck.

Tonydiv
06-12-2006, 07:39 AM
You may want to change the title of your thread, this is anything but new :)

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