AW: neo won't turn on anymore

[mind.online at bluewin.ch]

hi Helen,

check the battery witj avoltmeter. less than 3.6 volt (with a lamp) 
-> just recharge!

cy

>----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----
>Von: helen.cook at gmail.com
>Datum: 13.08.2007 04:14
>An: <device-owners at lists.openmoko.org>
>Betreff: neo won&#39;t turn on anymore
>
>I got my phone (GTA01Bv4) working last night (yay!), but after 
leaving
>it overnight, now it won't turn back on.
>
>I flashed it with the image:
>
>openmoko-devel-image-fic-gta01-20070803091138.rootfs.jffs2
>
>and it was working fine.  Then I left it alone, came back about 
20
>hours later.  The screen was dark, and touching it wouldn't turn 
off
>the screensaver.  So I fiddled with the power button for a while
>(press for 9+ seconds, release, press again, etc), and nothing
>happened.  I thought the battery might have been drained, so I 
plugged
>in the usb cable.  I couldn't ssh to the phone (no surprise).  
After
>more fiddling, the screen started rapidly flashing between white 
and
>black.  Then I pressed the power button again (or a few more 
times),
>and it booted normally.  The battery was at about 40% full.  At 
this
>point I forget whether or not I unplugged the usb cable, but the 
phone
>was working ok.  As soon as the screensaver switched on, the 
phone
>returned to it's previous unresponsive state and subsequent 
random
>button pressing won't rouse it.
>
>I'm now leaving the battery out for a few hours.. from the 
archives,
>it sounds like that worked for someone previously.  Failing that, 
has
>anyone else experienced this, and what can I do to fix it?  I 
don't
>have a debug board.
>
>--h
>
>