20 Most Recent RIM BlackBerry 8800 - Page 7 Questions & Answers

Have you tried plugging the SIM card into another phone? And try to retrieve the messages from there? That is if the problem is with the phone lock and not the SIM lock.

Let me know. I would like to help you resolve this issue and retrieve your saved messages back.

i think ur mic is not working properly

Hello, you can get an unlock code from internet for your blackberry.
Once unlocked you will be able to use your BB with any carrier (GSM) of your choice worldwide.
You can get your unlock code from here.
Code comes via email and with step by step instructions. Total process is hardly 30 seconds long once you have the unlock code.
Hope this is helpful.

"...loose" ???

do you mean the plug doesn't fit snugly and has to be jiggled to charge ?

If so, this is a simple repair you can perform yourself if you're skilled with a soldering iron.

What has happened is the USB connector and the guide post (black plastic thing in the center with the contacts) has loosened. This is becoming a commonly published issue with newer BB's and RIM refuses to call it a defect and recall the millions of afflicted phones.

The connector is standard and can be replaced with a MiniUSB plug from almost any device including a digital camera. If you have experiences with a local electronics repair shop then have them replace the USB connector.

There are numerous services on the web who can perform this repair and often for less than $50 USD.

If this occurs when you use the AC wall charger the phone could be ruined.

Verify by connecting the phone WITHOUT the battery and look for a brief hourglass / busy indidcator then a "No Battery" or "Insert Battery" message likely in stark font on a bare background.
IF your phone spits that message w/o the battery then the issue could be as simple as a malfunctioning battery and consider trying a working battery to determine if your original problem recurs.

You can also dissamble the phone and examine the solder connectors from the power / data input to look for any weakness or breaks, if so then a simple solder repair will save your expensive berry.

Try to reset it powering down, removing the battery waiting 30 seconds or so and powering back on.

Your phone has gone into emergency mode. You need to look through the menu for antenna settings, or network settings, and when you see "Emergency Mode" or something alot like it highlighted, switch it to normal.

If you are not comfortable with this process, take in to your cell service provider's store, and they will set you right up free of charge.

Hope this helps!!

Jim

are you trying to charge the phone with the wall charger or the USB cable. if it is the USB cable then chk if the USB port both on the laptop and the hand held is faulty or not, then chk if the USB cable is faulty or not. if you are to charge through the wall charger then check if the charge is faulty if every thing this is fine then get chk the battery.

I ran into the same problem. Even though all the numbers were entered on my BB for "John Doe", I'd get "no entry stored". I then went back to Outlook Express and manually entered the numbers there in my Address Book. I synced my BBTour and tadaa, it worked. I now can voicedial John Doe.

I hope this helps. If so, please come back and rate the answer.

there are a lot of little things that drain the battery. i have made adjustments to my phone and the battery lasts me 3-5 days depending on its usage.

1. turn off the LED coverage indicator(usually blinks green when u have signal, red when u dont)
2. change your back light timer to 10, 20, or 30 seconds.
3. do not overcharge the phone, it will lower the capacity level of the battery. only charge it when its low and take it off when its full.
4. check the reminder notifications from messages/voicemail/txt,etc. set it to one or two.
5. check to see if you are roaming or searching for service. the constant searching drains the battery.
6. check to see that u have exited the programs u were using. if u have installed maps,navigation, etc and just back out of the program without exiting the GPS is constantly updating your position.
Hope this helps.

Have you removed the ball at any time? If it is put back in wrong, it could cause this. If not, the ball assembly itself might be bad. You can find them fairly cheap on eBay.

This is usally caused by the trackball getting dirty.

Use a q-tip dipped in IPA and clean it. Roll the trackball around and swab the q-tip around to clean.

If cleaning fails then you will need to replace the Blackberry trackball.

Check the following link on instructions on how to do that.

Blackberry 8800 Trackball Replacement Guide

Unfortunately, you can't use the current Storm model on Rogers. The Telus network is CDMA (Rogers is GSM), which means Telus' wireless products do not use SIM cards :-(
If it's any consolation, there is supposed to be a Blackberry Storm released soon that will use SIM cards and could be used on Rogers.

Go to your cell phone store and have them try another charger.
If that doesn't work your phone is damaged and needs to be repaired.
I hope this helps.

Hi there,
I can do this for you. you will have only voice & sms (no blackberry service) on cdma which will work on reliance as well as tata. for gsm, u can use all services.
if interested pleasse mail me on resume04 at rediffmail dot com
thanks

Hi,

For the first issue visit the link below to check the required steps:

http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB10431&sliceId=SAL_Public&dialogID=86704706&stateId=0%200%2086706573

I hope this information allows you to resolve this issue.

If I have helped you, please help me, and rate this suggestion the highest FixYa rating. If you cannot rate this post with the highest rating, then please comment to this post and I will try to help you further.

Regards
Anand

you need to buy a new battery coz blackberry battery are not working longtime

I have my Blackberry 100 and I have JVM Error 513 reset.
I have the desktop manager and when I plug in my phone to the pc and try to instal the softwere my pc can't find USB.
Does anybody know what to do in this situation??

You’re running out of Device Memory, therefore your blackberry Dumps what it doesn’t reed. Your messages

Try these steps. Not in any certain order.

Closing Open Applications
ALT+Escape/Back Key
Make sure you haven't left applications open.
There should be 5 applications that are always open.
Default 5: Phone, BBmessanger, Browers, Homescreen, and Call Log
You may have other 3rd party applications that may have to run in the background, but most can be closed.

Auto Delete ON/OFF
Under Messages:
Select Menu/Blackberry Button
Select Options
Select General Options
Keep Messages: (Shortest is 15 Days, Longest is Forever)

Battery Pull[/b
Pull out battery and leave out for 30 Seconds.
(I do this at least once a week) Just for safety and memory leaks.

Check How much free memory you have
Options -> Status -> File Free: XXXXXXXX Bytes
Make sure it's not low.

Clear Event Log
Press ALT + LGLG
Menu/Blackberry Button
Select Clear Log

Clear Browser Content Cache
Open up your Browser
Menu
Options
Cache Operations
Clear Content Cache

Delete unwanted Applications to free up Device Memory
By using your Desktop Manager, and Application Loader
uncheck unwanted Applications also unused Language Packs
also GO to Messages > Options > General Options > SMS & Email = Separate?

also check out the below links...... for reference on other methods to free ur memory
http://developer.t-mobile.com/loadKbaseEntry.do?solutionId=1143
http://forums.crackberry.com/f3/how-increase-blackberry-s-file-free-memory-34633/
with regard to to ur java.lang issue.....
Turns out to be some wrong settings in the BES policies.
It is the BES security policy "Allow Third Party Apps to use Persistent Store"
Set this to true and bingo. java.lang.error will be gone gone.



good luck
have a nice day

Hello Java is a language that works with navigators most of the time. Often when this software is not up to date, you have error messages.
A fix for you would then be to download and install all the updates available for your BlackBerry, from here:
http://na.blackberry.com/eng/update/

Hope this helps