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Posessed E70

2 replies · 2,964 views · Started 28 May 2008

I have the E70 for almost one year and the bastard started playing tricks. Excepting the fact that the joystick has its own will, every time when the alarm starts to sound, the phone restarts and keeps trying to boot. If I take the battery out and then power on, the keyboard on the flip freezes. I formatted the phone (made my bain porridge thinking on how to do it), thinking that it might have been a 3rd party software bug, but it still behaves this way every time the alarm sounds, with nothing installed on the phone. I have no idea on what the hell is happening, did somebody experienced the same issue?

ratza wrote:I have the E70 for almost one year and the bastard started playing tricks. Excepting the fact that the joystick has its own will, every time when the alarm starts to sound, the phone restarts and keeps trying to boot. If I take the battery out and then power on, the keyboard on the flip freezes. I formatted the phone (made my bain porridge thinking on how to do it), thinking that it might have been a 3rd party software bug, but it still behaves this way every time the alarm sounds, with nothing installed on the phone. I have no idea on what the hell is happening, did somebody experienced the same issue?

I have the E70 since it came out. Apart from the occasional Joystick hit and miss I have never experienced issues. This is weird because I dropped on got acquainted several times with the staircase in my house. Regarding your problem, I find it very odd that a hard reset +new flash did not solve it. Could it be a hardware problem?

I haven't tried a reflash yet, but it seems that the alarm is not the thing that triggers this weird behaviour. Anyway, if I take the battery out for around one minute, it seems that the keypad works for some time, maybe one day or so and then it strikes back. Heading for the E61i or E51.