Hi, I'll try to keep this concise, but include all the info I can.....
Story:
Phone was fine up till this morning. Went to tap an app (any app), and the phone black (or white) screened. Froze. Over and over. Tap Power, and screen would go out as normal. Would not come back on. Remove/replace battery, powered up fine. I MIGHT get as far as INTO an app before same thing happened, but normally not. Same deal. This has happened like 20 times now.
* NOT rooted
* Didn't DO anything to or with the phone to make it veg out on me.
* No symptoms prior to it just crapping out on me this morning.
* No silly apps installed, just mainly stuff I need and handful of games for my daughter, which she barely uses.
* Tried uninstalling all apps, still happened.
* Hard reset!! That'll do it!! Nope. No dice, same thing.
* After hard reset, it froze on the first screen of entering my Goog acct.
* HBoot- tried that... and tried to install the PB31IMG.zip doojammy, and it says "SD Checking" >> "No image or wrong image" >> "Main version is older! Update Fail! Do you want to reboot device?" <--- all this happens over and over and over. Just keeps looping. If I go to 'normal' boot, it freezes still. Oh, and when I choose 'recovery' from the HBoot screen, I get a black screen with a small image of the phone and a red triangle with a "!" in the middle. Gotta love those. Re-HBooting can get me out of that though.
* Occasionally the phone will fully load up and I go into the 'phone' app, and I can't dial ANYTHING, not even *228. I type the #, and it just refreshes the dial screen like I never typed anything.
* Figured I'd root, maybe that might work, but I can't get the phone to recognize the 'usb driver'.
^^ That's about all the random facts I've gathered on this- if certain other info would help, let me know, and I'll try to get it. I'm not tech-dumb; I'm very experienced in the Blackberry world, but this is my first Android problem, and need a little guidance. Soooooooooo, I'm likely missing something simple here, but I think this can be fixed- I'm thinking just basically wiping and manually reinstalling the OS. Any constructive ideas and direction appreciated.
S/B: This is already the longest I've been without my cell phone since I first got one in 1993. Dying here.
Thanks
Story:
Phone was fine up till this morning. Went to tap an app (any app), and the phone black (or white) screened. Froze. Over and over. Tap Power, and screen would go out as normal. Would not come back on. Remove/replace battery, powered up fine. I MIGHT get as far as INTO an app before same thing happened, but normally not. Same deal. This has happened like 20 times now.
* NOT rooted
* Didn't DO anything to or with the phone to make it veg out on me.
* No symptoms prior to it just crapping out on me this morning.
* No silly apps installed, just mainly stuff I need and handful of games for my daughter, which she barely uses.
* Tried uninstalling all apps, still happened.
* Hard reset!! That'll do it!! Nope. No dice, same thing.
* After hard reset, it froze on the first screen of entering my Goog acct.
* HBoot- tried that... and tried to install the PB31IMG.zip doojammy, and it says "SD Checking" >> "No image or wrong image" >> "Main version is older! Update Fail! Do you want to reboot device?" <--- all this happens over and over and over. Just keeps looping. If I go to 'normal' boot, it freezes still. Oh, and when I choose 'recovery' from the HBoot screen, I get a black screen with a small image of the phone and a red triangle with a "!" in the middle. Gotta love those. Re-HBooting can get me out of that though.
* Occasionally the phone will fully load up and I go into the 'phone' app, and I can't dial ANYTHING, not even *228. I type the #, and it just refreshes the dial screen like I never typed anything.
* Figured I'd root, maybe that might work, but I can't get the phone to recognize the 'usb driver'.
^^ That's about all the random facts I've gathered on this- if certain other info would help, let me know, and I'll try to get it. I'm not tech-dumb; I'm very experienced in the Blackberry world, but this is my first Android problem, and need a little guidance. Soooooooooo, I'm likely missing something simple here, but I think this can be fixed- I'm thinking just basically wiping and manually reinstalling the OS. Any constructive ideas and direction appreciated.
S/B: This is already the longest I've been without my cell phone since I first got one in 1993. Dying here.
Thanks