A customer came into my store today and she posed an interesting question to me - How do you operate a Blackberry without a battery?
I took her battery-less Blackberry Pearl 8100 and connected it to the charger however I was not able to get past the screen that shows the empty battery and line across it.
Please help me answer this question. Thanks so much.
You can't operate a BlackBerry without a battery. I tried, hoping to be able to swap batteries while on the wall charger to avoid the long reboot time. It won't work. The phone reboots anyway. Apparently the BlackBerry draws too much current in normal operation for the wall charger to power it without the battery.
Please tell me that the OP is joking. He has to be pulling our leg because if he was a halfway sentient crackberry addict, he would be able to answer this without posting the question.
Of course, I suppose in his defense, I didn't know the answer.. But I never even thought about using a phone without a battery.. *slaps forehead
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I agree the question as posed by the OP sounds silly, but it would be really useful to be able to swap batteries on wall-power and not have to endure the reboot time.
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Up until two years ago most phones were operable without the battery (just using the charger), the next gen of smart phones are not as energy efficient.
I guess it never occurred to you that one might find oneself with a blackberry that might or might not work and one doesn't want to add to one's collection of useless objects by getting a new battery only to find out that the blackberry's problem was not the problem but rather it was the blackberry itself. Given that you didn't think of this, perhaps you should rethink your qualification to make off-hand comments.
