One thing you should never do with the Blackberry Bold (9000) is to wait till the last moment before you charge the battery. I did that a couple of times and it caused me enormous pain. I got this white screen of death (WSOD) which is not easy to get rid of. The problem is that even though you may try to recharge the battery, the blackberry may think it is charging the battery by showing a white screen with a battery and a lightening bolt on it, but in fact, is not. If you take the battery out, the system does recognize that the battery is gone, and shows a white screen with a battery and a red line across it. So you may think the hardware is detecting the battery and thus charging it correctly. But there have been cases when I had the WSOD with the battery and lightening bolt on it and I "charged" the battery overnight and nothing happened!
So here is one solution that worked for me: take out the sim card, plug the blackberry without the battery into the wall unit, wait till the red led light comes on, then before the white screen comes on, put the battery into the blackberry. Hopefully, you will get a clock icon and this will start the system. The whole idea is to keep the blackberry from using any battery power to connect to the cell network, and try to get to a stage to start charging the battery. Now this procedure may still fail because the battery is so drained that it does not have enough power to restart the system, and the blackberry operating system is so stupid not having realized this and recharge the battery before trying to get onto the network! In that case, repeat this procedure a couple of times and hopefully the system restarts. Sometimes it helps to leave the battery alone for a few hours before trying this again!
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