My dellvice crashed
Just a few days after upgrading to Froyo 2.2.2, I did a little stupid mistake and causing my dellvice rendered unusable. It crashed. It started when I was thinking about changing the system font, searching the market, and found an apps I thought suitable for this job, Font Changer. So I launched the apps, picked a font, tapped OK. The dellvice went blank, then rebooted, showed the usual Dell logo, and stuck there. Well, I understood the risk. I knew the apps required rooted device to work as it need to changed at the system level. So I took this situation without blaming the apps and its author.
After waiting longer than the time it usually takes to finish rebooting, I took off the battery and replaced it again, and turned it on. The same thing happened. I took off the battery and replaced it again, performed factory reset by holding Volume Up and Volume Down buttons while turning on the dellvice. When the menu showed up, I chose 1. Factory reset and hit the camera button. It said it was doing factory reset, gone rebooting, and again, stuck at the Dell logo.
I tried above operations few times to no avail. A friend suggested that it could be the problem with SD card, better to test it. Following his guidance, I turned off the dellvice, took off the battery and replaced it again. I turned on the dellvice while holding the camera button until white screen showed up saying “Waiting for SD detect….” The next screen showed “Touch calibration” on the upper left, “FastBoot” on the upper right, and beneath it was a keypad. I entered *#301# and it presented a series of menu. I chose 10 SD & SIM Test and the result was PASS. So I tought as I’m here why don’t just try all test menu.
Everything was OK except the test 03 LCD Color. There was a white screen showed in a fraction of second I could never catch well (I probably need to record it with video camera in order to catch it). It displayed 3-4 lines and if I’m correct I saw the word “Failed” among the lines. I continued the test and filled up the screen with RGB colors in equal space that looked like a flag of some nation. And it stuck there. So this is the end.
What I mean is nothing I could to revive the dellvice without playing with flashing some ROM, something I’ve avoided since the first time. It sounds funny, even for me, actually. Why buying Android device if you don’t want to play with it, experiencing some level of tweaking? Yes, I do intend to do that, but I’m waiting for the second Android device. Now, giving the situation, I guess I can say, “it’s time!”.
Stay tuned for update :)
