Motorola MPX200 constantly vibrating

Today at the St. Louis Region autocross my MPx200 was sitting out, underneith a cold cup of ice. I've had problems at the past few events where the phone gets hot in the sun and the front panel goes dark. Today that started to occur, so I sat the phone under the cup for a while.

When I picked the phone up I noticed it was vibrating off and on, so I thought I had a call, nope, no call, and no SMS message. Weird, so I sat the phone in the seat of my car. I picked it up a few minutes later and it was vibrating again, but this time it won't stop. Both displays are now off, I didn't turn off the phone. I try turning the phone on/off and nothing, it just keeps vibrating. I tried removing the battery, it stops vibrating, of course :) I put the battery back in, starts vibrating again!

I tried multiple things, holding down the power key, holding down the blue button when inserting the battery, holding down both. I couldn't get it to quit vibrating or power up.

I ended up leaving the battery out of the phone for about 10 minutes, and then when I installed it again the vibrating stopped, but the phone wouldn't start up.

After letting the phone sit again for a while it finally started up. I was beginning to get afraid I was going to have to do a hard reset again. Luckily it all appears to be back to normal now!

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Hi there Cris,....

Ha ha sooooo funny I had EXACT the same problem with my mpx200 today.
I thought I was going mental.....realy strange sight to see your phone vibrate when it is SWITCHED OFF!.

I am glad I found your website and see there are fellow-sufferers in this world..lol
Ok she is drying now (I dropped some water on her) and than I will go for the hard reset..:-(

Cheers!

regards,

Nadia,

Amsterdam the Netherlands
Posted By: Anonymous Poster on Mar 2005
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That's funny CJ -- my MPX200 stopped vibrating completely just last week. I was doing Google searches to find people with similar problems and your site came up. Small Internet, eh??

Give me a shout sometime -- [email protected]

Birky
Posted By: Anonymous Poster on May 2005
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I fell into a lake with my Mpx200 in my pocket. As soon as I got out of the water i remvoed the battery. I have taken the phone completely appart and its been drying for a day. When I put it all back together I get nothing and I tried doing a hard reset but still nothing. Any suggestions??
Posted By: Anonymous Poster on May 2005

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