Thank you, thedead1440! You guessed correct. It is behaving normally now. I appreciate the help.

It was a long time ago that I tried to repair this device and I probably did something to put it into rd mode, because in addition to the dead battery problem, the device had MALF state and I faintly recall that I fixed that, so that's probably when I put it into rd mode.

I want to transition to N9 as my primary device (from N8) so I'm happy that it did not have something seriously wrong with it.

Thanks!!