BlackBerry® Storm™

[kjs0306]

When I try to turn it on a red light comes on for about 10 seconds then shuts off.  A little square with a line goes around for about 5 seconds and disappears.  Then this cycle starts again.  Can anyone help?

[sdgardne]

Hi and Welcome to the Community!

Please try this sequence...note that, throughout the entire 4h15m process, your BB must remain connected to a known-good wall charger (not PC USB):

1. With the battery inside, connect your BB to the wall charger
2. Leave it alone for 2 hours, no matter what the LED or the display does
3. Remove the battery
4. Wait 15 minutes
5. Insert the battery
6. Wait another 2 hours, no matter what the LED or the display does

This has been known to "kick start" some BBs.

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It is also possible that your battery or BB has experienced a problem...to test, this sequence is needed:

1. Obtain a known good and already fully charged additional battery...use it in your BB and see what happens
2. Obtain access to a known good and identical BB...use your battery in it and see what happens

The results of this will indicate if it's your BB or your battery that has the problem.

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You also might benefit from Safe Mode:

• KB17877 How to start a BlackBerry smartphone in Safe Mode

It may take you multiple attempts to get the ESC key sequence (press/release/hold) correct, so be patient. When successfully into Safe Mode, think carefully...what happened just before this behavior started? A new app? An update? A Theme? Something else? Think carefully as the smallest change could be causal...and attempt to undo whatever that was.

Good luck and let us know!

[kjs0306]

Thanks for the advice but nothing seems to work.  It doesn't get far enough in the start-up to do safe mode.  Red light comes on goes off, a box with a line goes in circles then shuts off and starts the cycle again.  I have a recent backup but can't get it to connect long enough to do a restore even.  So frustrating.

[sdgardne]

Well, a "restore" would not likely be of any help, since that only acts on data...your symptoms sound like OS corruption, which would require an OS reload. Perhaps this article will be of use to your situation:

• KB10144 How to force the detection of the BlackBerry smartphone using Application Loader

Good luck!

[kjs0306]

I followed directions listed.  During the "reconnecting to JVM" the phone wouldn't connect and an error message would come up.

[sdgardne]

And the error message is????????

Remember, only you can see what you see...I can only know what you tell me.

[kjs0306]

Here is what I see.  Was gonna put on screen shots but I'm not that savy.

1.

Please wait while your Blackberry Device software is updated.

            Install   -> -  Reconnecting to JVM

           Reboot

2.

Connection Prompt

            Applicaton Loader was unable to connect with your device.  Please re-connect your device, enter the password, if required, and click retry.  (I clicked retry about 10 times and same message comes up).

After hitting reply to no avail, I clicked "cancel" and the following message comes up.

3.

There was an error updating your software.

             Unable to reconnect to the device during a multi-stage load operation.            

[sdgardne]

So, I'm still a little lost...you must be somewhere in KB10144 linked above? If so, I still can't tell which of the two sections you are in...each for different versions of the Desktop Software. And I really can't quite find what specific step you are on there, nor if the preceding steps were correctly completed...so I'm still a little lost...

[kjs0306]

OK.  So I went through all the steps for Blackberry Desktop Software 6.0 to 7.0.  After I click Install Update (final step of instructions) and it goes through the different steps (below) for updating procedures.

                                       Downloaded modules

                                       Load JVM and systm

                                       Connect to Reboot

                                       Upload RAM

                                       Erasing Apps

                                       Loading System software

                                       Waiting for device initialization

                                       Reconnect to JVM

The problem is during the reconnect to JVM step in this process I get a pop up window that says "Application was unable to connect with your device.  Please re-connect your device, enter password, if required, and click retry.".  In this pop up window my options of clicking are retry or cancel.  I cick retry several times but the same pop up window appears. 

It seams as though no matter what I try the phone has a mind of its own.  Red light, box with line going in a circle, shut off, red light, box with line going in a circle, shut off.

[sdgardne]

Ahhh...OK...that helps greatly...so you are on Step 7...I've seen this before...

Actually, what I usually do at that point is to disconnect and reconnect (physically, the USB cable) the BB from/to the PC...and, for me, doing so normally lets it continue on. Of course, that depends on where the BB is at...sometimes, the BB takes longer to get to a particular stage than the Desktop Software is willing to wait...so, seeing what is on the BB screen is critical to knowing a) if to actually do anything yet on the Desktop Software and/or b) if/when to remove/reattach the BB via USB. Sometimes, you just have to wait for the BB to complete the loading screen, and then do whatever is needed (e.g., answer the question on the PC, disconnect/reconnect the BB, both, etc.).

So it might just be a matter of waiting longer for the BB to catch up to what the Desktop Software is expecting.