E70-2 won't power on

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rathi

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I've had the E70 for four days now. It will no longer power on. I've tried everything mentioned on the nokiausa faq. Has anyone had this problem?

The only odd aspect is that the phone went from a full charge to completely discharged in the space of a few hours, immediately previous to the poweron failure.

FWIW, it worked great for the first four days!
 
One of the guidelines in the nokiausa faq is to make sure that it charges enough. As the E70 uses that larger battery, I figured that advice might apply. At any rate, its most recent failure to turn on came after an overnight charge.

The phone isn't absolutely dead. At poweron, the screen lights up and the 'NOKIA' text screen saver comes on (and stays on).
 
It sounds like your firmware went bad. Was your phone doing anything like being updated by NSU when it stopped responding?

If you purchased the phone from an online retailer, the only option you have is to have it revived with a new firmware. iunlock.com will do it and I've put together the page for you. It's $40+shipping, but that's still a lot cheaper than buying a brand new phone. http://iunlock.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=760

If you purchased it from a Nokia store or somewhere like Letstalk.com, then it should still be covered under a warranty and eligible for replacement.
 
Thanks a lot for that page. I'm hoping for now that it is something minor. Ironically, the unit was 'made in Finland'--the first Nokia I've had made there. So much for preferring Finland over SE Asia as a mfg. location. I've sent it back for Nokia factory service. A similar thing happened to me when I first got the T39 many years ago. I think I sent it to Ericsson three times. I finally got one back that was bulletproof, and has been a reliable backup for years.

One strange behavior that happened just prior to the problem was that the phone fully discharged in about two hours. I was in a location where the phone was seeing about two dozen wireless APs. I wonder if it went crazy trying to monitor the availability of all of them? I'll have to study the manual to learn how to shut off wifi when I'm not actually using it. I had been using fring and truphone (wireless voip) with pretty good results.

Interestingly, the phone was shipped to me with the latest firmware installed.
 
The WLAN search application will murder your battery life exactly as you described. There's settings to turn it off, which I highly recommend when you get it back.

To keep WLAN as an available access point, change all your access point-using applications to "Always ask" and an option comes up for "Search for WLAN". You'll not only keep your battery alive for more than 2 hours, but you'll probably get a whole new experience with the phone's battery life.
 
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