Blackberry PDA Tech!

I orginally posted this in the BBM section and got no hits.. So I am reposting it here

When I go to send a voice note using the new BBM (5.0.1.38) all i get is the hour glass spinning and spinning…. the old version I never had a problem. Anyone else experiencing these problems?

Hi everyone,

I tried a search but couldn’t find anything, so I hope this being a new post is okay.

My BB has wanted to update, and in so doing failed – leaving some of the apps – ubertwitter and twitter for blackberry unusable.

I’ve tried to update both, and from the PC device manager as well. When I get to unzipping and transfering the version of ubertwitter (4.5) it gets to the end where I get a Fatal Error in the download.

I had to downgrade my package a few months back, but since I had Twitter for BB working until a couple days ago I didn’t think anything of it.

Is there anything I can do? I appreciate the help in advance, thank you!

The silver button that holds the battery cover on my 8330 broke. It snapped a tiny tab and the button and spring fell off.

Anyone know where I can purchase a replacement?

Hi – My wife bought a new factory-sealed curve (on ebay) because her old one broke. works perfectly in all regards. except – when connected to PC, won’t prompt to go into Mass Storage Mode. All the options settings are correct. Desktop Manager works, and the device shows up in Device manager.

We called VZW blackberry support – they were stumped. we tried this

KB19717-The BlackBerry smartphone is not detected as a USB Mass Storage Device when connected to a computer

and the Microsoft hotfix it references – no luck.

the VZW support guy had her "hard reset" her unit (whatever that means).

any other ideas out there?

Because of what does work, it doesn’t feel like a HW issue – maybe a driver issue?

THANKS!
/j

Right, so I got my bb not long ago and I am on Orange payg. When I first got it, just over a month ago, I spoke to someone from blackberry customer service and they took £5 from my account to put on my bb account, so that I recieve emails to my phone, can download apps etc etc. Now that’s expired because it’s only lasted a month, and I don’t know how to top up £5 directly to my bb account and not to Orange.. so confused! :S I’ve got free internet on orange but all that is is the orange browser, and I don’t have wireless coverage to do anything else on my blackberry..
Does anyone know how to do this? :confused:

I left my BB unused for a few days because I was in an area without service. I let it sit in the holster with the battery fully charged. (Everything was working normally before this)

A few days later (~5 days), when I come back to find that the device won’t turn on. If I plug it into my PC, all I get is a steady red light, it doesn’t even recognize the device when plugged in (Windows 7).

I tried to battery pull trick first, didn’t work. Read a few FAQs about reinstalling the OS (I had 4.5 or w/e the default was), but I can’t even get the software to recognize the device…

I know the BB curves battery life was pathetic, but I’m surprise to see that a fully charged battery would completely drain out by just idling in its holster for 5 days??? :confused:

All my apps are gone. I dont know what i did. Even my text message app on the home screen is gone. Hellp!

Hello Crackberry family,
I presently have a 1GB (SD-Mini Card) in my BB 8330 Curve. I now need more storage room. Can you tell me what is the maximum Giga Bite Mini Card that will function properly in my 8330 Curve? I think I can use up to a 4GB card, but I’m not sure.
Thanks in advance,
Virgmb

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I’m not sure if anyone else has posted a similar thread or not but I wanted to see if any of you had any answers..

I have the 8330 Curve, running on OS 4.5.0.138 on VZW

I have noticed that ever since the newest Facebook upgrade was installed I tend to get the hourglass of death (even when I’m not in the program, but have it running in the background to get my messages) and then a memory error. I have had to do battery pulls numerous times (roughly once or twice a day) because I get impatient with how its acting. I deleted pretty much any app I could to make sure it wasnt a memory issue yet it still is acting up. Any suggestions on what may be wrong? I’m thinking of calling VZW and seeing what they have to say but I have a feeling they will just tell me to upgrade to their new Bold or something with more internal memory and see if that works.

I love my Curve and dont wanna part with her yet cuz I have heard talk of a new Blackberry coming out this Holiday season thats supposed to be similar to the Torch.

I sent some emails from my Mac this morning and on my BB they are showing up 5-6 times as a sent message. I don’t remember having this problem when I was using Entourage. So I don’t know who is responsible. Anyone else having this issue with Gmail?

John

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my bold 9000 got wrecked and i had to downgrade to a curve 8300…i cant figure out how to load my backed up files from my computer to the curve..please help!! i have no numbers or anything!

Hello there!

I don’t have a lap top, though I do plan on getting one soon, so I rely on my black berry for on the go internet. I play the guitar so I often want to check tabs and make sure I’m playing a song right/learn a new song. My poor 8330 can’t handle website like UltimateGuitar.com, so I had the idea of creating a website with plain text webpages so I could easily view my guitar tabs. (Of course I have to add them myself so thats not a problem) I already have a free website set up for this purpose but I’m having one issue; the tabs get word-wrapped and make them unreadable. Is there a way to set up the webpage correctly (html and what not) or a setting on my blackberry to prevent this?

All of a sudden I can’t send or receive texts … wth!!! I called customer service for Sprint adn he tried to troubleshoot but nada and he said there was a big server outage. Don;t know if that’s the truth cuz my bro said his sprint blackberry works just fine.

what cud be the prob and how can i fix it … i’m going crazy!!!

I bought an unlocked Curve online and it said "no service" even after I put both of my cards in it. I then restored it to factory settings as suggested by an AT&T worker, because that’s what the phone’s service originally was and that’s my provider too. I thought that would solve my "no service" problem but it didn’t. Any help?

I often listen to long mp3 files (20+ mins isn’t out of the ordinary).

My device will enter locked state after 10 mins of inactivity (I also sometimes just lock it right away myself so that I don’t interrupt the audio by accidentally pressing buttons when my BB is in my pocket).

The problem is that when I enter my code to unlock the device, the mp3 audio file stops playing immediately. This wouldn’t be THAT big a problem if it just PAUSED the audio, and I could just unpause it to pick up where it paused. The problem is that it STOPS the audio track completely and if I try to re-start it, it starts playing from the beginning (and I have no idea about just what time in the track it stopped at, and it takes several mins to scan the track to find out.)

I found a post dated TWO YEARS ago describing exactly the same thing…but no solution was found at that time. I’m hoping that someone has solved this issue since then.