My Motorola V170 comes on says seraching then light goes out and the screen says emergency only but it is not lit up. What is going on?

then the phone must have service failure problem. the solution is for you to fix the service port. if the phone has an antenna, then you try to unscrew the antenna, then you insert a thin flexible wire inside it then screw it back. turn it on and see what happens. if it reads service it means the phone is having service problem then you have to connect an external antenna. then the phone must have service failure problem. the solution is for you to fix the service port. if the phone has an antenna, then you try to unscrew the antenna, then you insert a thin flexible wire inside it then screw it back. turn it on and see what happens. if it reads service it means the phone is having service problem then you have to connect an external antenna.