It sounds like this is a hardware problem. It will need to be repaired – either by yourself or by a phone repair shop. No software will fix this problem.

Dex: It sounds to me like your front panel + Dpad issues are the same type of problem.

Thanks for all you hard work, i regularly check this site for updates. Love the work. Keep it coming. I get strange problems occasionally where if I accidentally drop the phone things start going crazy (for example the ‘green and red phone’ plus the ‘d-pad’ on the front stop responding, the green and red phone lights wont turn off etc… Any theories?

Also, my wifi doesn’t seem to work. It will pick up accesspoints but thats as far as it goes. I’ve tried with a few but to no avail. Everyone says that upgrading radio rom’s wont change that so im at a loss in the what to do category.

Finally, do you know of any places/people who physically hack up the hardware for the Dopod 838 Pro? Stuff like clear case mods/lighting/replacing LEDs etc?

Thanks alot for everything mate.

Cheers!

It depends on the charger. A standard USB charger can only supply 500mA of charge, whereas a proper car charger can supply 1000mA. It is quite possible that the phone would use ~400mA while being used as a navigation device – meaning very little to no charge going to the battery.

Get yourself a 1000mA charger (which actually has an extra pin in there!) and you should see some charge go into the phone – however it will be at a reduced rate.