A sidekick3 that dont turn on

should find out why the original charger stopped working in the first place... was it a faulty mother board really. anyway if the ratings on the charger you bought are for that laptop indeed, then it should power up the laptop minus the battery. ofcourse if you put in charger minus battery, dont expect it to show the charging led..just try to power it on
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Tries buy a new litium battery yet?Get a new adaptor charger?Tries it own website for adaptor charger or Amazon.com,Ebay.com many eclectronics parts excessorries.Tries ur local Radio Shack ask the clerk for help to buy litium battery or charger adaptors.

the phone appears to switch off when I plug it into my charger and restart again show only charging message havent a clue why,plz help me on this matter. thanks

had the same problem before...when i had firsst got the phone.
i just looked around the house for and cables that could plug in the outlets and that fit the sidekick 3 ...charger hole.
i know that a nokia charger that fits the sidekick charges it.
good luckk!! =)

The sidekick 3 has an issue with thte charging port. If you have a friend with a sidekick 3 or sidekick ID, try one of their batteries. If your unit powers on, the charging port has gone bad.

the repair for a charginf port runs about 80-100 dollars. A cheaper work around is to get a charging cradle that has a spare battery charger slot. They run about 30 dollars on ebay and it will allow you to charge the bettery seperate from the phone.

Check out the following link for cradles.

http://repairmysidekick.org/SideKick-Repair-Parts/Sidekick-3-Spare-Battery-Charger

It seems your charger port is broken, it hapfens often on cellphones, wear and tear. Check to see if its under warranty, and it can be replaced. Check my profile if you need more help.

Hi,
It looks like it's a battery related problem . You should get a new battery. Good luck!

those kind of problems are fixed by totally changing the parts... because nano technology is very hard to fix..
you could also try opening it and clean a bit the outside of the lens and see if that helps.. but i doubt it because it could be or will be a sulfated contact

dnt drain the batteries of your phones...if that happens pls buy multicharger or battery shock,remove the battery..... charge it for about 5min or shock the battery if ur using battery shock...be sure u positioned it ryt....den put it back on ur phone then charge it or continue the charging on the multicharger until its full !!!!im pretty sure of it....im encountering the same prob as urs before and thats what i did and it work!!!!

well the same thing happen to me but i call t-mobile and they tell me to press @ 1 and 0 at the same time and it should reset it self it doesn't work for me but you can try it