[Q] Dell Venue Pro Stuck at Dell Logo

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Well the worst has happened...

I have been running a DVP since March w/o any major hassles. Updated to NoDo fine, updated to Mango Beta (legit) fine, updated to Mango fine...

Then last night I wanted to setup my old phone to tether so I took my SIM out and when I put it back in the DVP it wouldn't boot - it was stuck at the logo screen.

I took the battery out and tried a couple of times but it never got past the Dell logo screen.

So having my restore points backed up from previous upgrades I decided to revert back to my previous restore point. I turned it on holding down the volume/camera button and Zune saw it no problem. I began the restore and it got to 49% then gave me an error saying it could no longer communicate with my device! So I started the process all over again and then it gave me a error stating that there is no restore point available!

Luckily I had a backup of my restore point, so I tried again but now Zune is stuck at 0% trying to restore!

Anyway I contacted Dell last night via their website but haven't heard back yet. The problem is that I purchased the device in the USA but I live in Australia so no local customer support! If I don't hear back from Dell soon does anyone have any direct Dell customer service email addresses I could try?

Thanks!

I have same issue! And I can't solve it anymore...

Have you tried to restore your phone with an oldest version of Zune before the mango update for exemple?

No I haven't... I no longer have the phone in my possession.

I contacted Dell and managed to get them to take a look at it (I'm in Australia so not officially supported under warranty). They think that it may be hardware fault with communication port. Anyway it is going to take a few months before I get a replacement model...

OK!
Can you tell me how you contacted them?
I tried many times but I have some trouble, DVP is not supported in France and the US support told me to call Germany support....

Any updates?

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I know this is a really late reply, but I have the same problem with my DVP and even used this thread to "unbrick" it for no fault of mine. Had the problem reoccur 2 days later. Same old, same old, for no reason, out of the blue. Did the same things again to restore and took a backup of the entire phone this time using the "WP7 Easy Backup Tool" after installing all the apps. And last night my DVP died again (again 2 days after the last restore). So I'm doing the restore for the third time now and have no idea what the local (India) Dell Service guys will say about it, coz the phone was bought in the US (but it's been less than 5 months, still under warranty there for such things I guess.

Can you please tell me what happened with your respective countries and if you managed to get your phone replaced at all?

Thanks a million!

Originally Posted by alienne

I know this is a really late reply, but I have the same problem with my DVP and even used this thread to "unbrick" it for no fault of mine. Had the problem reoccur 2 days later. Same old, same old, for no reason, out of the blue. Did the same things again to restore and took a backup of the entire phone this time using the "WP7 Easy Backup Tool" after installing all the apps. And last night my DVP died again (again 2 days after the last restore). So I'm doing the restore for the third time now and have no idea what the local (India) Dell Service guys will say about it, coz the phone was bought in the US (but it's been less than 5 months, still under warranty there for such things I guess.

Can you please tell me what happened with your respective countries and if you managed to get your phone replaced at all?

Thanks a million!

You know that probably could be the SD card being bad. I have a HTC HD7 that is doing that when it boots up and through some testing on the HD 7 I found out the sd card is bad. Try putting a new sd card and then reflash the unit. Good luck.

It's funny that all other WP7 handsets that I know of have a key combo for hard reset. With the DVP you actually have to replace the card and reflash it. Thank god someone took the time to post the DVP unbricking thread, because otherwise anyone with a dead SD card would be outta luck.

I'm not entirely sure what this guy is experiencing is a dead SD card, though. Every time I've booted a Windows Phone with a SD card not installed or not seeded correctly, it always booted to a "cannot read storage card" screen.

I just experienced that with a hd7. As any storage device ex hard drives, sd cards, ssd ... they all have potential to go bad in many ways. Bad sectors is one or just doesn't physically turn on anymore , which is what you were describing. Hey technosquid thanks again for the dvp rom you helped me in the other thread.

Originally Posted by Technosquid

It's funny that all other WP7 handsets that I know of have a key combo for hard reset. With the DVP you actually have to replace the card and reflash it. Thank god someone took the time to post the DVP unbricking thread, because otherwise anyone with a dead SD card would be outta luck.

I'm not entirely sure what this guy is experiencing is a dead SD card, though. Every time I've booted a Windows Phone with a SD card not installed or not seeded correctly, it always booted to a "cannot read storage card" screen.

I just don't get how dell could miss that. It's a vital way to "rescue" your phone if you somehow mess it up. Dell should just stick to computer hardware.