[sdj02]

Well I don't know what I screwed up this time but I now have a deadberry. The only thing it will do is flash the red led. flash.......flash.flash.flash. What have I done!? Is there any hope for my Curve? Any suggestions would be appreciated. I have searched, and found hope for the reboot cycle, but I did not see anything for only flashing red led.

[amazinglygraceless]

BlackBerry 101: How to Reload the Operating System on a Nuked BlackBerry | CrackBerry.com

[sdj02]

This says it is for a berry in a continuous reboot cycle. Mine will not even get that far. All I have is the 4 blinking red leds. Will this still work?

[CrackBlack]

It will bring back your Berry from the Dead.

[Reed McLay]

It will work most of the time, but there is one final solution.

Old school.... Command line.

http://forums.crackberry.com/f2/how-...-device-32322/

[sdj02]

Well, none of the above worked on my Berry. My new one will be here tomorrow. Thank goodness for warranty. I don't know if I was doing something wrong, or if mine was just dead dead. Thanks to everyone for the help.

[amazinglygraceless]

Sorry for not being able to get you back up and running, but happy to see your are getting it replaced. And don't forget to backup your phone once in a while. It'll save you tons of grief down the road. Good luck.

[Reed McLay]

Well, none of the above worked on my Berry. ...

Were you not able to run AppLoader with the /NOJVM switch?

It saved my **** when I accidentally nuked the Curve.

[sdj02]

I was unable to find the "apploader" program on my machine. I found the "loader" program in the same folder, are they the same file? No matter what I would do the software would not detect my berry. I even tried jl cmndr and it would not find it either. I just hope it doesn't do this one day when I am out of warranty. Thanks everyone for the help. This is a great site for dumbberrys like me. And I backup on a weekly basis. I learned my lesson years ago on the good ole Palm.

[Reed McLay]

I was unable to find the "apploader" program on my machine. I found the "loader" program in the same folder, are they the same file? ...

I appreciate the feed back, I will look into it and fine tune the instructions.

Opps... that is proof it was my own work, complete with v1.0 errors.

Loader.EXE is the actual file name.

[audioeng]

I also have had the same problem on a number of blackberrys (I am in IT support). I have not been able to recover any from the 4 blinks of doom. It simply never gives any option other than com ports in the AppLoader, even when using LOADER.EXE /NOJVM

It seems to never get to the point at which USB works.

Anyone know of deeper methods of resets? Test points?

[Pete6]

If the hardware is faulty then no amount of software tricks will resurect the phone.