Other BlackBerry® Smartphones

[Tastefullyjul]

I've had my curve for about 2 years.  Battery drained last night while out, on way home in car plugged it in got a bit of power, powered up enough to check mail, etc. Got in the house plugged it in on electric cord...red light  (flashes sometime) but will NOT power up at all. It's been 12 hours... No signs of any other problems other than really dead battery.  Any suggestions?

[JSanders Resident Expert]

Welcome to the Forums.

There is no such thing as a 8336 device. 8330?

Anway, try this:  Leave the device to charge 2-3 hours, and then, still connected to the charging cable, remove the the battery from the device a few seconds and reinsert it. If it boots--leave it to charge to 100% (check Options > Status for the percentage). If it doesn't reboot on the first attempt, leave it several more hours. I've had one charge for two days before it came back to life after an extreme battery depletion. Every 3-4 hours, with the device still connected to the charger, you can remove and replace the battery to see if it reboots.

[Tastefullyjul]

I've been doing that, but I will do more methocically now. 

Sorry it's a BlackBerry® Curve™ 8530 smartphone in Smoky Violet . Don't know how I got that number, I haven't been on the site for a very long time!

[Tastefullyjul]

Still nothing any other options are welcomed.

[JSanders Resident Expert]

What do you see... any red blinking LED light?

Any "no battery" symbol on the screen?

Nothing at all... but a black screen?

[Tastefullyjul]

Red full light or sometime blinking when just plugged back In to power. No screen at all. No other color on light either. Thanks.

[JSanders Resident Expert]

1) Make sure you have Blackberry Desktop Manager installed.
http://na.blackberry.com/eng/services/desktop/
2) On your PC, go to Start > Run and copy and paste the following line exactly (meaning with the quotation marks):

"c:\program files\common files\research in motion\apploader\loader.exe" /nojvm

3) The Application Loader Wizard will appear -- click "Next."
4) In the "Connection:" drop-down menu, you should see "USB-PIN: UNKNOWN". Click the "Next" button.
5) You should then see a list of applications ready to be installed for your Blackberry. Hit Next and Finish and you are well on your way to getting your Blackberry back to life. Congrats! Just don't disconnect anything and let the lengthy process finish completely.

NOTE: If you do not see a list of applications mentioned in step 5 and instead see the message "The Blackberry Desktop Software does not have Blackberry Device Software for the device that you have connected to the computer. Contact your wireless service provider or system administrator," then you must download Blackberry's Operating System for your carrier and device.
http://www.blackberryfaq.com/index.php/BlackBerry_Operating_System_Downloads
Just select the appropriate carrier and network type, select your Blackberry model from the list and download the latest version. Install this download and follow the above steps again and you should be on the right path.

[Tastefullyjul]

Thank you. I will try this and do have the desk top loaded, my only corncern is that in the last months or so I have had a problem getting my computer to acknowledge my bb when connected to either of my computers for back. Which I did do often before this issue. I backed up regularly until it wouldnt read it!
Ugh!

[grim305]

you should just get a new battery probably the one you have nowis in bad condition