Help My Motorola Droid won't start up right

[makeamove1999]

This morning I attempted to call my voicemail. It dialed but I could not hear anything. I took the battery out, figuring that it just needed a reset. When I turned the phone back on now all it will do is give me the white droid word and the red eye logo. It just keeps cycling this over and over; it will not start up. I have tried to take the battery out many times and that doesn't help. I have tried to plug it in to a wall charger which didn't work, either. Any help would be appreciated. I need my phone to work!

 

[johnlgalt]

Try removing the battery, then plugging the charger up (with the battery still out), and then finally inserting the battery and see if that helps....

 

[Artu]

Mine has done this at least 3 times, but not because of the battery; it just started it on its own.

I had to force the bare-metal restore with the power on holding the X button trick.

Otherwise it cycled on this for over an hour till I got tired of waiting to see what would happen.

Once I could not get it to work from a bare-metal restore until I took the sd-ram card out, backed it all up, and then deleted everything on it so it was fresh and clean.

I later then restored my pictures and videos from the backup.

Now before folks talk about downloading apps causing the problem, I am very very conservative about not downloading any apps I don't need.

So far the only apps I use are Weather Channel, Astro, Tricorder, and WiFi analyzer.