[Kentar]

Hey all!

Got my Sony 505 a few days ago, and since then I thought I had already bricked it two times. I recovered my device, but the research i did wasn't what helped.

I recharged my device overnight using an USB charger. The next morning it wouldn't react to nothing anymore. I thought I bricked it the first time. Then I tried to charge it connecting it to a PC. After a couple of minutes, it would come on, but hang on the 'starting up' screen. And then it wouldn't react to anything, even not to a reset. That was when I began searching the internet, and everywhere it said to reacharge for a couple of hours, and try different things. Nothing helped.

What would never occur to me was, that in fact, the battery was completely drained. Because I had charged it all night, and the yellow light besides the power switch would still blink, why would I think it was empty?

The thing is, if you charge you device using the USB connector (i havent got the real mains charger, psp style, so couldn't try), it will sit there and charge. For about an hour. Then it will switch on (from standby mode, and even when completely shut down from the menu), and stop charging. Instead, it will drain the battery, while showing the USB connected screen, and going into some reboot cycle. And since the battery will then be drained, you'll think the device is faulty or whatever.

So in short: when you think you bricked it, try charging for a short amount of time (20-30 mins maybe). Make sure the red charging light is on. If not, disconnect, wait a coulpe of seconds, then reconnect. Then try switching it on. Dont charge for too short though, since if the battery was to low, it might fail while starting up, and all begings again.

Hope this will save a couple of ebooks.
Cheers to all!

ps: this maybe full of typo's and even unintelligeable... sorry for the typo's, and I'll check back if questions should arise ...