hi totally new to the pda phones so i dont know if my xda ii is damaged, i was given this phone free as a favour returned but was told it has a major problem. Right let me explain.

The phone only comes on when i put the charger into the phone by the way please note i am using my friends charger to do this and it is a SPV E200 PHONE CHARGER.

When i place the charger into the phone it comes on by its self hard booting (read up about hard boot).

I have even bought a new battery for the phone still the same thing happens. It boots by its self and starts installing applications, i try to switch the phone off with the power button and all i get is the phone going to stand by mode i think, the light goes off but the phone is still on. i looked at the power options and i think the main battery being the first bar on the screen is 0% and the bottom one is at 100%.

I have even left it on for 2 hours and then removed the charger, doing that just leads to the phone going off completly, tried powering on and no luck. please any clues or ideas what is causing this problem?

any info would be very helpfull, i have a feeling its the internal main battery if its not charged does that mean the phone will shut off even tho i got a fully charged external battery ?? thank you