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Daughter's VX6100 might be fried...help!
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Posted by: hisblessng

Hi,

I own 6 LG phones, VX6100's, VX8100's and a VX9800.

We just switched them all around at Christmas. My daughter got one of my sons' VX6100's. Everything was OK for the past month. There were already some games and ringtones on it from him. She added pics and another game or two.

Yesterday she started the game "Gauntlet" (one that was already on there from him). The phone froze. I took the battery out, put it back, tried again, and then only the keypad lit up, the Verizon screen came on for about 2 seconds, then went black, but the keypad stayed lit. I repeated this about 50 times, still the same.

I thought maybe between his games, hers, pics, etc., the phone might be out of memory. I figured I'd back it up and then delete some stuff w/BitPim.

This is what I get from BitPim (it does see the phone) when trying to get any phone data:

"7:35:03.887 COM4: Opening port COM4, 115200 baud, timeout 3.000000, hardwareflow 0, softwareflow 0
7:35:03.967 COM4: Open of comm port suceeded
7:35:03.967 LG-VX6100: Attempting to contact phone
7:35:03.976 LG-VX6100: Retrieving fundamental phone information
7:35:03.986 LG-VX6100: Phone serial number
7:35:03.986 LG-VX6100: Getting file contents 'nvm/$SYS.ESN'
7:35:07.000 COM4: Timed out waiting for 7e, requested bytes 1 - 0 bytes read
7:35:07.010 COM4: Changed port speed to 38400
7:35:10.526 COM4: Timed out waiting for 7e, requested bytes 1 - 0 bytes read
7:35:10.536 COM4: Changed port speed to 115200
7:35:14.052 COM4: Timed out waiting for 7e, requested bytes 1 - 0 bytes read
7:35:17.055 LG-VX6100: No response to AT+GMM
7:35:20.059 LG-VX6100: No response to setting QCDMG mode
7:35:20.079 COM4: Changed port speed to 115200
7:35:23.585 LG-VX6100: No response to AT+GMM
7:35:26.589 LG-VX6100: No response to setting QCDMG mode
7:35:26.609 COM4: Changed port speed to 19200
7:35:30.115 LG-VX6100: No response to AT+GMM
7:35:33.118 LG-VX6100: No response to setting QCDMG mode
7:35:33.128 COM4: Changed port speed to 230400
7:35:36.644 LG-VX6100: No response to AT+GMM
7:35:39.648 LG-VX6100: No response to setting QCDMG mode
7:35:42.663 COM4: Timed out waiting for 7e, requested bytes 1 - 0 bytes read
7:35:42.673 COM4: Changed port speed to 38400
7:35:46.187 COM4: Timed out waiting for 7e, requested bytes 1 - 0 bytes read
7:35:46.197 COM4: Changed port speed to 115200
7:35:49.713 COM4: Timed out waiting for 7e, requested bytes 1 - 0 bytes read
7:35:49.723 Error: Device needs attention - LG-VX6100 on COM4
LG-VX6100 on COM4: The phone is not responding while transitioning mode from none to brew.

See the help for troubleshooting tips"

Oh yeah...the warranty expired on January 12!

Help!

Sandy

Posted by: hisblessng

Little update...

I took the battery out for the umpteenth time, and now I have a flashing changing error message. Below is a pic of it, plus a link to a movie clip so anyone who is interested (anyone...please!!!) can see the message changing.

Click here for movie clip.

Image here:

Hopefully it keeps on displaying the error from now until I can get to a Verizon store (about 2 more hours!!!).

I still can't believe I'm TWO WEEKS outside of the stinking warranty

Sandy

Posted by: hisblessng

Well, got it taken care of.

The tech at the store looked up my account and for some reason he saw January 28, 2005. He asked his supervisor, who allowed him to offer me two "options". One was to pay $1.99/month to extend the warranty for a few more months, which would allow me to receive a refurb within the next two days. Second option was to pay $5.99/month for insurance which would allow me to pay a $50.00 deductible to also receive a refub. Ummmm, choice number one...?

Well, I thought that was kind of nice. Unexpected too.

He said that he has seen that kind of error when downloaded games have viruses. I don't know tho. I mentioned it to my son (whose phone it was first). He reminded me that I backed up his the entire filesystem w/his info before giving the phone to my daughter. That wouldn't my anti-virus software have found it on my laptop? I don't know, I kind of think it might have been out of memory. Too many games, too many ringtones, pics, etc.

Whatever!

Sandy

Posted by: Steve.G

Downloaded through GIN with a virus? That doesn't sound very likely. BTW, your PC's antivirus software probably wouldn't pick up a cell phone virus being that it isn't set up to scan the same types of software as your phone.