I have owned my Pearl for about 4 years I stopped using it around 2 years ago due to the trackerball not working correctly. i have spradicly pluged it in to retrieve old numbers, pictures, see if there was info on it and it used to be fine even if a good 6 mths had passed it would still charge turn on and function just with the same trackerball issue. I recently got it back out and tried to charge it. 4 different chargers later i still can not even get it to aknowledge the charger by way of the red led. Any ideas? i thought battery straight away but that does not explaine when its plugged in to the mains via charger still no red ledd or any sighns of life?!?!? Anybody care to have a guess as to the fault?
Computers & Internet - RIM - BlackBerry - BlackBerry Pearl 8100
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Your initial thought is probably the answer, the battery has internally short circuited due to age. In this case, the charger cannot produce enough energy to overpower the battery's consumption. While I do not recommend trying this, a tech center I worked at would "shock" a battery back to life by connecting it to a car charger for a few seconds to eek a few more weeks or months of use out of one. Again, I don't recommend this as a battery can explode and cause harm when treated this way.