BlackBerry® Pearl™

[xdrumline1]

Well, after a rain storm Sunday evening, my BBP 8100 feel face down in a small puddle.  Enough to get inbetween the keys & all, but did NOT submerge it.  I tried using it right away (missed a call & text).  I shook it to get the water out & place it under a hand dryer for 4 cycles. 

Since then, the trackball responds & does what it wants. 

I will click on an icon & its a gamble if it will open the icon or not.  In text messaging, I will click once, & it opens the text, chooses reply, & chooses send all on its own.  It has sent numerous blank texts already. 

I took the trackball out, scraped off some lint, put it back, but yet it is still completely unreliable & acting up. 

Note:  I had been having the typical problems for weeks that many others are having - screen goes white, & after a few seconds, it completely reboots itself.  I dunno if that has any bearing on the trackball acting up.

So, is the track ball messed up?  Is it the board?  Will a simple wipe & reload of the OS take care of the trackball function & make it work properly?

Thanks. 

[tbilisoft]

Try this: when device is ON remove the battery, wait a minute and turn the battery back to the device.

[JSanders Resident Expert]

It's wet, quite simply.

Take the battery out now, let it dry for 3-5 days minimum in a bad of dry rice. Do NOT put the battery back in each to test it.

Read this:

http://www.blackberryfaq.com/index.php/Got_Your_BlackBerry_Wet%3F

For your rebooting issue, you either have too low memory and/or a rogue third party app conflicting

[GemariahPryce]

If you have a Pearl 8100 (the orginal GSM one) you can change the color with a simple application called Color Pearl. It can be downloaded here:
http://store.bbgeeks.com/product.asp?id=…
save the files to your desktop and use the BlackBerry Desktop Manager to load the application onto your device.  If you have a newer Pearl (8110, 8120, 8130) you will have to get fancy and take the trackball out of your device, get a piece of tape and color it with a marker. Stick the tape over top of the LED that sits behind the trackball and once the trackball is back in place.

 
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Message Edited by GemariahPryce on 07-29-2009 01:44 AM

[xdrumline1]

huh?  I didn't say anything about the color of the track ball or LED lighting up. 

[JSanders Resident Expert]

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xdrumline1 wrote:
huh?  I didn't say anything about the color of the track ball or LED lighting up. 

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That was sort of right out of left field. 

[xdrumline1]

well, i did the battery thing, but really can't do without a phone for 3-5 days, lol  (& to think, 10 years ago, half of us didn't have a phone...what in the world did we do then? lol)......

as for the rebooting, i have ample flash memory left & NO third party applications running on it

[JSanders Resident Expert]

3-5 days vs. a new device or costly repairs in the least.

Well, at this point it probably is too lately anyway.