I’ve got an old FP2 which doesn’t boot. I’ve never seen it working, but according to my friend who donated it to me it used to.
I’ve managed to get it to charge and I keep finding it in a state where it won’t turn on but has an intriguing pulsing lilac notification light. It also shows a red and green light when charging and will vibrate briefly if you hold down the power button.
Has anyone experienced this with their phone? I’m about ready to give up on this phone, but I thought I’d post here in case anyone had any useful info. Thanks!
When you say you eventually got it to charge battery, did you get a green LED? Trying to boot takes a lot of power, so I would have tried a different fully charged battery. If you press power and volume down simultaneously, does anything happen? Presumably never got this screen to appear at any time? Don’t know where you are posting from but am in contact with one member of the forum in UK whom still scavenges parts for FP2 and could at least exclude motherboard failure.
I did get a green LED yes (and a red/orange one whipe charging). When I plug in I don’t get an immediate green LED but if I leave it for a while when I come back it has a constant (non pulsing) green LED showing.
I’ve never seen anything displayed on the screen.
The battery appears to be holding charge and shows ~4.3V with a multimeter. Yesterday it was showing ~3.7V before an overnight charge.
Sounds like the screen has had it, or maybe just contacts, but the rest likely OK.
It might be worth disassembling and cleaning all contacts with surgical alcohol or equivalent. See the iFixit teardown here.
The phone is in fastboot mode (blinking blue light) but the screen is not working.
Clean the internal contacts as already suggested. If that doesn’t help, you can advertise for a screen in the Market category of the forum.
Cheers! I’ve taken it to bits and some of the contacts on the back of the screen do look corroded. So I’ll clean them up and see if it helps. I wonder if some moisture has got in atsome point…
Overall it looks pretty clean inside though.
Yes, I did advertise the phone to gauge interest. I assumed it was dead dead, but now there’s a chance of life the urge to repair is kicking in!
Use high-grade surgical alcohol 90° available from chemists, or isopropanol and cotton buds to clean the contacts. Leave to dry for an hour before reassembling.
Hi, I’m a longtime FP2 user (following on from PF1) and still holding out with mine - both of which in the early days of older Android operating systems, sometimes needed a 40-60secs power-button hold to get them to boot properly. This was usually, but not always, after issues with repeated charging!
This from a tips&tricks web posting at a time when folk were having booting problems, but it worked!
I haven’t needed to do this in a long time, but thought it worth mentioning in case yours isn’t a screen problem.
I’ve just slotted it together and tried holding down the power button for a very long time. When I started it vibrated quite soon after holding down and then vibrates once every ~15 seconds after that (or at least did it about 4 times until I got bored of holding the button down).
Alas, I’ve tried cleaning the contacts and the situation hasn’t changed. It probably needs a new screen, but as I’m not sure that’s all that’s wrong I think it’s time to bow out.
