How to clean a BlackBerry TrackBall
DaleThe biggest hardware problem I see with (older) BlackBerries is the TrackBall fails to scroll. It fails to scroll, because over time, it fills up with oil and grime from…
Company BlackBerry says: “JVM Error 517”.
On a Friday night, on my way home from work. I say, “You little bastard”. Now, sometimes you can fix this by reloading the software on the device. But to…
How to “CTRL-ALT-DEL” a BlackBerry
To reset your BlackBerry, three simple keys are all you need to know. Left alt, Right shift and Right del. Pressing those three keys, at the same time, will cause…
It’s a new BlackBerry Bold (the 9700).
So Telstra Australia have finally released the BlackBerry Bold 9700. And if you loved the BlackBerry Curve 8300 series, you’ll love the new Bold. If you have a BlackBerry Bold…
One way to wipe a BlackBerry
I needed to wipe the firmware off a BlackBerry. Looking around, I found a useful little utility, JL_Cmder. Now JL_Cmder is a frontend to the JavaLoader.exe, so you could use…
BlackBerry Email Reconciliation timers
We had a user asking about read/unread marks not updating on their BlackBerry device. The advice from Research In Motion: There are two separate timers in play which determine when…
When it becomes an addiction
“It’s dangerous for me not to have a BlackBerry”, started the fault report. Followed by, “I’ve got a broken BlackBerry” So I called the user, ‘Dangerous as in life threatening?’…
3M Post-It Note fixes BlackBerry Bold
… or BlackBerry Bold + Post-It note = secure BlackBerry battery. The BlackBerry Bold can randomly reset when it is knocked. The reset is caused by the battery being slightly…