seemingly dead Hermes.. help :(

[aaron11193]

Hey all, I've searched the forum and not found much at all..

I have no idea why this happened but my Hermes won't turn on at all, power button has no effect whatsoever and when I try to charge it I get the red light of death..

I put it down on my desk with ~80% battery last night and when I went to check for messages (by watching the service LED for a few seconds) in the morning the LED wasn't flashing so I tried waking it up and it was dead.

Plugged it into the charger, RLoD.. what the fuck?

Anyone have any idea what could have gone wrong?

[MikeChannon]

Usually caused by something that causes the battery to drain below 10%. Then you can get the RLOD. The charging circuit gets locked up and won't allow the device to charge. A pesky problem, but at least you have the RLOD, if you didn't then it could be the motherboard fuse.

So some things to try, non of them guaranteed and sometimes it works after trying these things several times over:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1077622&postcount=6

Mike

[aaron11193]

I have put my battery in my friend's Hermes and it says its 100% charged, I have put his battery in my Hermes and it still won't boot..

It's really weird.. BTW already tried your RLoD fixes, none worked.

I really hope I can fix it, I keep trying to slide open the non-existent qwerty keyboard on my Magician and it's frustrating using an OSK :S

[MikeChannon]

I have put my battery in my friend's Hermes and it says its 100% charged, I have put his battery in my Hermes and it still won't boot..

It's really weird.. BTW already tried your RLoD fixes, none worked.

I really hope I can fix it, I keep trying to slide open the non-existent qwerty keyboard on my Magician and it's frustrating using an OSK :S

Other than hard reset (don't think you mentioned doing that) I have only one other suggestion and that is the battery contacts. Hopefully not fractured between the pins and motherboard, but worth a try at cleaning the contacts and pushing the battery against the contacts.

If that doesn't work then I fear a motherboard fault.

Mike

[aaron11193]

Ok well for some reason my Hermes decided to boot up this morning after sitting on my desk for a night..

Weird stuff..

[MikeChannon]

Ok well for some reason my Hermes decided to boot up this morning after sitting on my desk for a night..

Weird stuff..

It is strange. Sometimes charges can build up within capacitors in a circuit and the "logic" can be disrupted. This is why sometimes it's a good idea with some faults to leave the battery out for a while to clear any such charges. However in your case with all the battery swapping and so on, I am a little sceptical that this was the cause.

If it happens again, I'd certainly be looking for a fault between battery connectors and the battery or between the connectors and the motherboard.

Let's hope that's it cured however:)

Mike