Urgent Pleeeeaaaaase help.

[Guest jonjay]

Last night I sent a text message and then put my Omnia on charge. About an hour later went to get it off charge as I needed to do something and it was completely dead. I have taken the battery out and checked the connection points, tried a different charger and tried the reset button, but nothing. Even when it's plugged in the phone wont turn on. The phone is only about 7 months old and doesn't get heavy use so I can't see that the battery would have just died.

I am resigned to having to go into Vodafone and sending it away for them to look at, but this has 2 problems. First, obviously I have no phone. Second, and more drastic, is I am worried that even if they fix it they will end up hard resetting it or something and losing everything thats on there.

Most of my photos etc are backed up to PC, however I have recently composed my speach for my wedding, in word on the phone, and this hasn't been saved to the pc, as I forgot to manually do it last time I synced and am pretty sure documents don't automatically back up. I haven't memorised the speach and am now very very worried that it is lost forever, and I get married next month ;)

So the questions are: Has anyone had a similar experience and any idea what may be wrong with the phone..

and - Am I correct that I am likely to loose my speach?

[Guest Rooster Misfit]

well you could try taking it to a computer tech store and see if they can recover your document before you send it off

[Guest meabigbaldguy]

Did you save your documents to the Storage Card - if you indeed have one? If so, then a microsd - USB reader should solve your problem.

If the document is saved to My Storage, then it too can probably still be salvaged. I would follow RoosterMisfit's advice and take it to a hardware tech. It sounds to me like something has obviously blown on the device whilst it was charging.

[Guest jonjay]

Did you save your documents to the Storage Card - if you indeed have one? If so, then a microsd - USB reader should solve your problem.

If the document is saved to My Storage, then it too can probably still be salvaged. I would follow RoosterMisfit's advice and take it to a hardware tech. It sounds to me like something has obviously blown on the device whilst it was charging.

Unfortunately I don't have a storage card ;) lesson learned. From now on will buy one and save to that. I'm a bit worried about letting a PC repair place fiddle in case third party interference voids the warranty. A bit like flashing non Vodafone firmwear does.

[Guest Tim-H]

I'm sure you tried, but when you plug it in do you get the battery in the middle of the screen? If you do, let it charge up that way for a while. I woke up to a dead phone like that once and I just plugged it back in and let it do a full charge before trying to turn it back on. Might be a long shot but worth trying out.

edit: The battery died while on the charger for me too. It only happened the one time and never again though.

Edited July 14, 2009 by Tim-H

[Guest necosino]

Could just try a different battery? These batteries have a little chip in them to control the voltage while charging. If that fried, it won't work anymore and you'll need a new battery.