My blackberry pearl has a battery symbol with a red line accross it on a white background and won't turn on. Any suggestions?

let it charge for a while its completely drain blackberry's barley ever completely die so when the do they can't even turn on for a while after 20 minutes at most you should see it booting up(white screen with hour glass)

You can re-charge your battery fully by the provide electrical charger for 6 hr , then you can try and send me status.

Sounds like you have a broken LCD screen. Somebody needs to open your blackberry to replace it. Go to your provider, they might replace the phone for you. If they refuse and If you want somebody else to do it for you go to Blackberry Repair. If you want to do it yourself, here is a Blackberry pearl Repair Guide that shows how.

Generally rectangular box appears when you are in Roaming. After doing the Hardreset still if you are getting rectangular box in your handheld kindly walk into the nearest service center.
A hard reset involves physically removing the battery from the smartphone and then reinserting it. To perform a hard reset, complete the following steps:
1) Remove the battery cover from the back of the BlackBerry smartphone.
2) Remove the battery, and then reinsert it after a few seconds.
3) Replace the battery cover.
I hope I was able to help you.
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that means the battery is dead.

you will need to get a replacement battery.

On my blackberry (Curve, aka 8830) that means the battery is almost dead. Have you tried charging it?

replaced the battery with a new one...if that does not work although it should try the below method

This is what you need to do to correct this issue


You need to reflash the OS on the phone you should take the battery out first then connect it via the usb cable to the laptop/pc you are using then open the blackberry desktop manager,click on the apploader, then install the OS.

pls not that when u click on the apploader the pin should be PIN:UNKNOWN you make need to do this like 4x before the pc sees the pin:unknown but it will work once it see the pin:unknown you can re-insert the battery and continue with reflashing the phone

i want to change the network code of blackberry peral 8100
how i can unloack the phone
IMEI = 355767018968151

Check this procedure if your BB is Nuked.and if removing battery doesn't fix it

just put a piece of paper on the top of the battery (the part where u push it down) it shows the battery with a red line slashed across because its too loose...

it worked for me!