Welcome to Android Central! When you pull the battery and the put it back, then power back on, does anything happen? Do you feel the phone vibrate, or hear any tones? If so, and if the screen remains black, then the screen probably failed. I doubt the message had anything to do with it.
If absolutely nothing happens when you try to power back on, then it might be an even worse hardware failure (like the motherboard). You could try a new battery to see if that might be the cause as well.
04-03-2015 11:35 AM