Streak 7 powered off (for powersave) now it won't turn back on
I was using my Streak and put it down for a minute to do something else. I saw the screen black out, and thought nothing of it since I have it set to turn off for power saving after 2 minutes. I picked up the Streak and tried to turn it on and...Nothing!
I thought at first maybe the battery was fully discharged, so I plugged it in to charge up (wall charger). Nothing there either; all lights remained blacked out showing no indication the Streak is charging.
Tried to then press the reset button (the pinhole one) and tried to power it up again...still nothing.
Did my Streak just turn into a brick? Please help!
Mine did the same same thing, on the same day. I only have had it for a month so I was sending it back to where I purchased it. Just before I sealed the box I thought I would try it again. THe buttons came on but the battery was dead. I charged and it is working fine now. I read that the Streak doesn't do well when the battery totally runs out. Who knows? its the strangest thing.
I just faced the same thing. I bought my Dell Streak 7' just 3 days back and was using well. All of a sudden, it went dark and now tablet is dead. I am sure it is not a battery discharge issue as I had charged it this morning was showing ~50% sometime back. I am amazed to see this. Any help? Or, I would consider returning this product ASAP.
I have the streak for 3days and it happend to me today. it turn off by itself and won't turn back on. I call the support line the rep told me to open the sd card slot and use a pin to press on the little hole to reset. then press the power bottom. its back on. However, my email will not syn. I will have to call them again.
I saw several folks reporting the same issue. Then there is a youtube video with someone complaining about this hardware failure and many people discussing below that. People were expecting a recall from Dell but instead company decided to discontinue this product.
I did a mistake of buying this product as it was available very cheap. Finally I returned it yesterday to Best Buy. Sorry for other people who are facing this issue and wish them luck with the product.
I've had the same problem about 3 times about every 3-4 weeks. Eventually it comes back... usually within a few hours but last time was a couple days. Putting it on a charger does nothing (no charging indicator or anything) -- then all of a sudden it just comes back...
I never downloaded a specific app called 'battery saver app' -- unless it's just the OS power maintenance feature (e.g., setting screen timeouts, etc.) which I am using.
Sorry I meant A battery saving app (there are many), I too am having this problem so I decided to delete the batt saving app I had and it reduced the shutdowns quite a bit, now I get it only like once a week, I'm thinking that the OS power is lowering the power by too much and cause the device to turn off instead of stand by, Just a theory though.
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Mine did the same same thing, on the same day. I only have had it for a month so I was sending it back to where I purchased it. Just before I sealed the box I thought I would try it again. THe buttons came on but the battery was dead. I charged and it is working fine now. I read that the Streak doesn't do well when the battery totally runs out. Who knows? its the strangest thing.