How to determine what kind of problem my BlackBerry phone has?

blackberry redblink error

  • Error Code (in binary) Error Description Diagnosis on continuously Not a bootrom error! 
  • Either the device is in the middle of a security wipe, or the hardware is broken.

The "1" is the blinking, the "0" is the pause:

  • Blinking code    Description
  • 1    Not a bootrom error! The OS is resetting during init! (see here for help)
  • 11    No OS Loaded Interrupted during a device load?
  • 101    Bad OS CRC Bad device memory hardware.
  • 111    Missing OS CRC Corrupt OS file loaded.
  • 1011    Missing OS Trailer Corrupt OS file loaded.
  • 1101    OS Not Signed Incorrect OS file loaded.
  • 1111    OS Signature Invalid Bad device memory hardware.
  • 10101    Unknown Flash Manufacturer Bad device memory hardware.
  • 10111    Flash Initialization Problem Bad device memory hardware or unrecoverably corrupted flash memory.
  • 11011    Flash Erase Failure Bad device memory hardware.
  • 11101    Flash Operation Out Of Range Unused error code (CFP only).
  • 11111    Bad Bootrom CRC Unused error code.
  • 101011    USB Driver Error Software or hardware failure in the USB driver.
  • 101101    No Bootrom CRC Unused error code.
  • 101111    Flash Write Failure Bad device memory hardware.
  • 110101    Invalid Memory Configuration Table Bad software load at SMT.
  • 110111    Password Not Initiated Bad device memory hardware.
  • 111011    RAM Initialization Problem Bad processor hardware.
  • 111101    Cache No Pages Free Bad software configuration.
  • 111111    Cache Invalid Page Type Bad software configuration.
  • 1010101    Random Number Failure Unused error code (CFP only).
  • 1010111    OSStore Failure Unused error code (CFP only).
  • 1011011    Security Init Failure Unused error code (CFP only).
  • 1011101    NAND failure Bad device memory hardware or unrecoverably corrupted flash memory.
  • 1011111    General Assert Failure Unknown error.
  • 1101011    GPIO failure Bad software configuration.
  • 1101101    Runtime library failure Bad software configuration.
  • 1101111    Exception: undefined isntruction Bad memory hardware.
  • 1110101    Exception: SWI Bad memory hardware.
  • 1110111    Exception: Prefetch Abort Bad memory hardware.
  • 1111011    Exception: Data Abort Bad memory hardware.
  • 1111101    Exception: Reserved Bad memory hardware.
  • 1111111    Exception: IRQ Bad memory hardware.
  • 10101011    Exception: FIQ Bad memory hardware.