SMT 5600 Dead, or sleeping?

[Guest dhess]

Last night was the first night after my wife and I brought our baby son back from the hospital. He's our first kid, and I went to bed exhausted-- I forgot to plug my phone into the computer to charge.

This morning, the battery is completely dead. I tried to turn it on, the splash screen appeared, then disappeared. The phone is now so dead that it won't even show a spalsh screen.

The question: I've plugged the phone into the USB to charge. I am seeing no lights blinking- the phone does not appear to be charging. It still won't turn on, even for a second.

Is my battery dead? Can you literally drain your battery so much that it will refuse to charge?

Also, shouldn't my phone work if I plug it in and take the battery out? It won't even turn on.

[Guest dhess]

Nevermind, tried the wallcharger instead, and it works.

I don't know why they charge differently, but this took care of the problem.

[Guest Pondrew]

Yes, if a battery is totally discharged the lower voltage the USB sync cable delivers isn't enough to begin charging again. I had the same thing with my E200 and thought it was dead until I plugged it into a wallcharger. Then it charged again no problem.

[Guest mupwangle]

It is possible that to use USB (since it uses a driver) that if there isn't enough power to communicate with the PC then it won't work. I couldn't get it to charge when activesync wasn't installed on my works computer so that may well be plausible.

I may, however, be talking mince. ;-)

[Guest Pondrew]

It is possible that to use USB (since it uses a driver) that if there isn't enough power to communicate with the PC then it won't work.  I couldn't get it to charge when activesync wasn't installed on my works computer so that may well be plausible.

I may, however, be talking mince. ;-)

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No, you're probably onto something. After all, wasn't it suggested the reason many carkits didn't work with the C500 was because they didn't transmit the right signal to start the device charging?