Time for a random post. I’m hoping this will prove useful to some people as I couldn’t find anything on Google for the life of me when I tried to figure out the answer to the problem.
I purchased a Blackberry Bold a few months back and have been experiencing a problem with the screen going blank at random. From time to time, it just seems to go into standby randomly and the only way I could get the screen to come back on was to shake it. I searched the web like crazy and found nothing - and pretty much everyone I know who has a Blackberry (either Blackberry Bold or Blackberry Storm) has been experiencing the same problem. However, I have finally figured it out.
When you put your Blackberry into its case, there is a magnet inside the case that the Blackberry detects. It then automatically goes into standby in order to prevent any buttons being inadvertently pressed if you lean on it while it’s in your pocket.
What I found was that the screen was going blank when I was holding the Blackberry against the case - so it was obviously detecting the magnet and thinking that it was inside the case, hence going into standby. It wasn’t the shaking that got the screen to come back on - it was simply pulling the Blackberry away from the case!
So that’s it. I hope there’s some people out there who read this post and find that it solves the problem for them - I know how infuriating it is! Thankfully I never got round to sending my Blackberry back to Vodafone to get it repaired - I may have looked a bit silly…
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thx you very much
Thanks for the info. as this resolved the problem.