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[mhier]

I recently installed cyanogenmod 6 on my G1, and it worked quite well for some days (apart from one "lockout" which I could fix by a factory reset). Yesterday it apparently crashed: the display did not turn on when pressing any keys after a longer sleep period, but the key lights went on. I pulled the battery and was able to reboot the phone. In the evening I had the same problem again, but now pulling the battery does no longer help. I tried everything I could think of: removing the sim card, SD card and battery for ~1 hour, trying to boot without sim card and sd card, plugging in the power supply, pressing home or the camera button while turning the phone on... Even the LED does not turn on when I try to charge it.

To be more specific regarding the symptoms: If I press the end button for a couple of seconds and release it the button lights turn on. If I press the end button again, the lights turn off as long as I have the button pressed. When releasing the button they turn on again. IIRC the lights turn off by themselves after a couple of seconds. Also spinning the track ball turns the lights off, but not pressing the other keys.

Is this problem known? What could I try to revive the phone again? I don't actually think this is related to installing cyanogen, as the phone worked well and I did not change anything right before the problem started. The last setting I changed was enabling the JIT compiler two days ago, I would have turned this off again if it had booted after the second crash, as I first suspected this to cause crashes. But this now looks more like a hardware problem...

Thank you in advance for any advice!

Edited by mhier, 10 September 2010 - 08:40 AM.

[3mp0w3r]

this sounds like the battery, or hardware has died. try another battery?

pulling the battery at critical moments can wreck your system, always try 3-finger reboot 1st.

[mhier]

thanks for your reply.
yes, I tried a second battery, same symptoms. I don't think that a sleeping phone can get into any critical moment where one shouldn't remove the battery...