After switching on my PRS-500 from standby the other day, it said that the battery was empty when the previous day was at 2 lines out of 4. Anyway, after a few hours of recharging by plugging it to the mains, I switched it on again. It froze at "Starting Up..." screen.
I restarted it by simple pinhole resetting. Still frozen.
Then followed the instructions for "
How to revert to factory settings" from the Wiki. No luck, there was no "Page" button lightning blue for me.
Next, I tried resetting ten times by simple pinhole resetting (not in the Wiki, but found it searching the forum). No luck either.
Then, I tried "
Recovering From Catastrophic Failure (Unbricking)" from the Wiki. It would stay at "Updating Firmware" for a good fifteen minutes.
Then decided to let the battery drain slowly so it would shut down completely. After two days, I got fed up of waiting and gave it a good recharge through the night. The message changed to something like "Bad firmware upgrade, try again".
Just in case, I also tried the
Universal Flasher 2.1 from igorsk. It would not even load, as it does not have anything to load from.
I have had my PRS-500 for three years (thanks to geekraver!), and I am still perfectly happy with its functionality. Does anyone have any ideas to recover it from the dead?
