My Titan Died!! :(

[buzzin]

Ok, so first off, I upgraded to 6.1 from 6.0 a year ago. I am using SPL 2.40 and radio 3.27

I was looking at the 6.5 roms and thought maybe it was time to upgrade again. I tried the last 2 6.5 roms and found that after flashing my camera and speaker stopped working. So then thought I may as well down grade back to 6.1

I was using dcd 1.3.0 (I think) originally but then saw that the next stable version was 2.3.2 so decided to use that.

After flash all was good with the world. Camera ok, speaker ok, all good. about 24hrs later my phone shut down (with a fully charged battery). I tried to turn it on and nothing happened. Plugged in the wall and then the PC still nothing. I also tried to boot into the boot loader (power+Camera+reset) still nothing.

Am I out of luck? Can I get a service doc to trouble shoot myself? or do I now own a PPC paperweight?

Thanks for any help (I did try searching the forums but found nothing like this for the 6800)

[drewcam888]

Big mistake. That old of a dcd rom is probably 6.0. You might have messed your phone up good. Does it light up if you plug it in? If so what color? You need something like DCD 3.3.4.

[Bunsen Honeydew]

Can you put your phone into bootloader?

[buzzin]

No it literally will not power on at all. Boot loader or otherwise. Also no led when plugged in the wall or in the PC. I think it fried a chip or something. But it did work fine for about a day or a day and a half. As well when it shut down I wasn't even using it. It was in stand-by mode. If I could track down a service manual I may be able to trouble shoot the chip, but have already paid for one site with no luck and don't want to repeat that (could add up :))

[BillThyCat]

Pull the battery, make sure it's unplugged. Put the battery in. (You need to press power button for 1 second to turn it back on) See if any lights come on, if so press power + camera and hit reset, if it gets you to the Bootloader screen, you can just flash up to a newer rom.

If you had 6.1, you probably had a GPS enabled radio, and therefore can install any V3.x rom from DCD and be back up and running.

When you first power it on, it has some numbers in the bottom right corner, if they will show up, write them down and post them back here, from that we can determine which rom you need to install.

BTC

[kflipproductions]

if you can get it into bootloader, i would flash a newer radio before anything else. youre doing some serious version jumping, but generally any custom rom you flash should be using radio 3.42.50. also, 3.2.5 or 3.2.6 are completely stable.

[buzzin]

Nope, still not powering on... tried everything I could think of and some stuff I didn't. As far as firmware goes I was using 3.27.00 with SPL 2.40 Bootloader.

If I can't figure it out, I need to decide if I am going to buy out the last year of my contract, get it repaired (if possible), or buy a new one at full price (ouch).

After this phone nothing else will do for me LOL... I love my WMPPC!

[Daved+]

I'd try charging the battery with another Titan or with a battery charger.

[btonetbone]

Another thing to check is whether you get a red LED light when you have the charger plugged in to the phone, but no battery installed.

[buzzin]

Ok, so it seems that it is totally unrelated to the flashing process. I opened the phone today to see what I could see. A few weeks ago the vibrate stopped working and I figured that the motor burned out and didn't worry about it. Well it turns out that the little bit of glue that holds the motor in place gave out and it was moving around in the phone. It finally crossed a couple of terminals and shorted out the board. Thanks for the input guys. Got another Titan on the way to play with now :)