Blackberry PDA Tech!

So after spending 2hrs upgrading the new OS and spending an hour customizing profiles and apps. I just notice that i cant put my phone on standby using the the mute button no more (which sucks).

So not wanting to go through the the long process of down grading and re customizing everything, is there an easy/simple way of putting the phone on standby with the new OS.

thanks in advance.

i have a basic data plan connection on ATT so i am not connected to the BIS. i am unable to get bush email and unable to use some apps that use the BIS but all other things including internet browsing works. i was wondering if anyone has figured out a way to activate BIS without going though your carriers blackberry internet service activation site. solutions such as service books that gets around this problem that i could manually put on my phone.

thanks.

P.S. i cant afford to pay freaking 25$ for a 2 gig data plan.

Hi everyone!

I have a problem sending emails through my Curve 8900 with Shangmail. Shangmail is successfully fowarding my gmail account to my phone, still I am unable to send emails through the BB. I have installed the wifi service book from anworm, but when I send an email it stays with a red X infront and doesn’t really send anything. I have no data plan and intend to use Shangmail only through wifi. What am I doing wrong or not doing at all? Do I need a new specific service book? I love the BB, but this is the only thing I can’t get working…

Thanks big time!!

Best,
Viktor

I just updated to the new OS system with the new Tmobile update that just came out. But now my phone is not making any of its regular sounds! I go to the sound profiles, and try to check the ringtones, but they wont even play while browsing through my selection list. Anyone else been having this issue?? Im worried because I use my phone as my alarm as well. :( Thanks for any help!!

Recently downloaded the ebay app. Got a notification icon and alert from the app which I viewed and dealt with. The icon is still sitting quite happily at the top of my home screen and I cant get rid of it!!

Any suggestions welcomed.

I am pretty happy with the upgrade, but I ran into a problem with the calendar. I view my calendar by the week. Depending on which day of the week is highlighted, half of the calendar doesn’t show up, until you scroll over one of the days, and some of the appointments magically appear, then if you switch days, they disappear again. Also, in the week view, you cannot jump ahead or behind, by pressing "n" or "p" for next or previous week; and when you hit "t" for today, it doesn’t take you there. It looks like the quick keys have been disabled for the week view.

I know, it’s tedious, but when you use it every day, and it’s a HUGE part of your profession, it is a deal-breaker to not have full use of a calendar. Anybody else have this problem, or know how to fix that?

~David

T-Mobile finally decided to upgrade their client 8900’s to BBOS v5.somethingorother, and while I have a separate icon for SMS/MMS, somehow the icon for my email account got hidden away. I can, however, untick the "SMS/MMS" option for the universal "Messages" app, but the "Separate SMS and Email" drop-down option is gone.

after reading everything I could find on installing media cards on blackberry 8900 I am still stuck.

Is there an untimate solution that works??? I have tried the battery pull, removing and reinstalling memory card, turning mass storage on and off etc etc and a few different memory cards!! Still getting format failed message! Blackberry is new and fully updated.

any help?? PLEAAASSEE!!!

Thanks in advance.

So I’ve been struggling for months with only being able to get reception on my BB8900 while dangling out of a window whilst at home!

A guy from Orange said why on earth are you doing that, use the UMA through your Wi-Fi network at home and you will get a signal. Feeling slightly bemused at myself I set about doing such, only to find that once the wi-fi is set up, it should do it automatically, mine does not!!

So please help!

So some info,
v4.6.1.310 (Platform 4.2.0.127)
BT Homehub
Orange

Hello!

I want to update the software on my 8900 on the hope it fixes my UMA problems.

My current software shows as 4.6.1.199, i take it this isnt the latest one.

How do i update the software? Can I do it straight through my Blackberry? I have no BB software installed on my PC and I dont think I have any cables to connect my BB to my PC, does this matter?

Please help!

Hey guys so I checked no new message, no new friend requests, no new nothing,

I got the icon as if two things on bbm are unchecked, it is very annoying

I went to advanced options and delete BBm but that didn’t work.

Can someone give me a set of instructions on how to fix this issue, as there are many experts here!

I just got a blackberry curve 8900 i took my sim card from my old blackberry curve 8310. my blackberry curve 8310 was at&t but i got it cracked to work with my t-moble sim card. So i put my sim in the 8900 and the sim says its At&t not tmobile. Is there a way i can change the sim back to t-mobile

New to the Forum, just got a used 8900 for free(my boss bought an iPhone 4, I am sick of hearing, "Oh look, I can "swipe" and "pinch") and am activating it with ATT. It’s not in bad shape, except for the ball…

I took the BB apart and get the track ball assembly out, now can I just "dip" the track ball assembly into something to clean it? I really don’t think it’s a good idea to take it apart to clean it….Can I just spray the ball (without taking the phone apart with Electronic spray cleaner? Or should I take the phone apart and spray the ball assembly with the electronic spray cleaner?

Thanks for the help,

Jim

Hi, I just got my 8900 this week and I absolutely adore it! Still, I would like to use the GPS as well, so can you tell me some free navigation software that I can use offline (without wi-fi, just through gps and downloaded maps)?
Thanks!