Orange SF doesn't turn on this morning

[Guest richt2000]

My wife's Orange SF has been working fine for 6 months / 9 months now. She flashed it with Japanese Jellyfish I think and everything works ok.

She left it plugged in charging over night and came ot it this morning and it doesn't turn on. You get a red light on the back button and the back light starts but nothing appears on the screen.

I've looked at the debricking thread and have begun to try the fastboot option. I can get it to be recognised by the Win 7 x64 PC using the USB drivers mentioned in that thread but it appears as a ZTE HSUSB Device. I've run the fastboot batch file but it sits at the waiting for device section.

My hunch is the phone is bust and there is a hardware fault but she wants her contacts off the phone.

Cheers

Richard

[Guest k0zmic]

My wife's Orange SF has been working fine for 6 months / 9 months now. She flashed it with Japanese Jellyfish I think and everything works ok.

She left it plugged in charging over night and came ot it this morning and it doesn't turn on. You get a red light on the back button and the back light starts but nothing appears on the screen.

I've looked at the debricking thread and have begun to try the fastboot option. I can get it to be recognised by the Win 7 x64 PC using the USB drivers mentioned in that thread but it appears as a ZTE HSUSB Device. I've run the fastboot batch file but it sits at the waiting for device section.

My hunch is the phone is bust and there is a hardware fault but she wants her contacts off the phone.

Cheers

Richard

Unplug the device and then try right click on the ZTE HSUSB device and press uninstall. Reboot and then re-plug the phone in at the fastboot screen. Hopefully, it might download the correct drivers itself from Windows Update now.

[Guest richt2000]

Unplug the device and then try right click on the ZTE HSUSB device and press uninstall. Reboot and then re-plug the phone in at the fastboot screen. Hopefully, it might download the correct drivers itself from Windows Update now.

I've tried uninstalling the device, re-installing the device with the drivers specified in the de bricking page but still no luck. I still have a HSUSB device that doesn't respond to fastboot.

Any ideas?

I'm using W7 x64.

[Guest Phoenix Silver]

Download Ubuntu live cd

Boot with it

Fastboot with Ubuntu

[Guest hedgepigdaniel]

I hate to be the voice of doom but I have never heard one a Blade dying overnight without provocation and being revived.

[Guest Maringer]

Not wishing to state the obvious, but have you tried removing the battery? Take it out for several seconds, replace and then see if it will boot up.

Apologies if you've already tried this obvious step but there was no mention of it in your post!

[Guest richt2000]

Sadly I've tried this and it hasn't worked. My hunch is that the phone is dead because of a hardware fault. It ran perfectly for a number of months before.

Not wishing to state the obvious, but have you tried removing the battery? Take it out for several seconds, replace and then see if it will boot up.

Apologies if you've already tried this obvious step but there was no mention of it in your post!