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I'm getting this almost everytime I take a pic and the flash goes off. The screen will go black right after the flash goes off and I have to pull the battery to get the phone to do anything. Thoughts?
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That is not normal. I will PM you to get your info to see what options we have.
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Yeah that happened to me today too.
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After a day of this happening none stop that night I put my Charge on the charger and the next morning it magically stopped doing this.
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I just found this thread. Picked up a Droid Charge yesterday and had this exact same thing happen last night. Took a flash picture and the phone went dark and would not turn back on with start button. I gave up messing around with it and plugged it in planning to drive back to store this morning (2hr RT). This morning it seems to work fine, but I am concerned. Battery was at 3/4 full when this happened...does the phone only have capacity to take flash pictures with an absolutely full battery? Is there a short or defect in the camera? Please post more information on this problem.
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HawaiiMike wrote:I just found this thread. Picked up a Droid Charge yesterday and had this exact same thing happen last night. Took a flash picture and the phone went dark and would not turn back on with start button. I gave up messing around with it and plugged it in planning to drive back to store this morning (2hr RT). This morning it seems to work fine, but I am concerned. Battery was at 3/4 full when this happened...does the phone only have capacity to take flash pictures with an absolutely full battery? Is there a short or defect in the camera? Please post more information on this problem.
I only had this happen for one day since I got my Charge. I found that doing a battery pull will let you restart your phone. Also after I let the Phone charge over night I haven't had the issue again since. I dont think that battery charge level has anything to do with it but when it was happening I had over 70% battery life and I have the big fat extended battery on mine. The VZW employee that emailed me on the issue ( see above ) said I would need a new phone but obviously even a new phone will do it also. I told him no thanks on the replacement.
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Thanks for the quick followup. I'll take lots of flash photos over the next week and see if I can replicate the issue.
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I just got the Charge and the first night, I also encountered the issue with the flash locking up/shutting down the phone. I removed the battery and restarted, etc. Tried it again, same thing. I found this thread, so I left it along for the rest of the night (while it was recharging) and tried it again in the morning and it worked! I thought the problem was solved. However a couple days later, I was trying to take another flash picture (most of the pics I'd taken thus far did not require the flash) and it did the same thing--shut down the phone, etc. I removed the battery, started the phone up again, then restarted it again. I was then able to take a flash picture. A couple hours later, I took another flash picture and it worked fine, then I tried to take a second flash picture right after that, and my phone shut down again!!! Is there some secret to this? I mean, I have seen this flash problem mentioned a few different places (with no real solutions), so I don't know that just getting a replacement phone would even solve the problem?