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Well I locked myself out of the options area on my phone, pulled a wild card and decided to reinstall the entire operating system of my phone and see what that does.
Well it turns out that the new themes that are free on the net, work now.
The firware on Tmobile’s website is ancient compared to what’s on blackberry’s website.
This Forum Post was my lifesaver.
Blackberry Forums . Com

In summary you download the new firmware and get the new desktop manager, run the install for the firmware and install the desktop manager, do not run the dtm till you get to the folder where you delete “vendor.xml”
in that same folder you will see “Loader.exe” once you delete the vendor file, run the loader.
It will tell you that you have a more current version on your pc than on your phone. Go through the full install.
After the 40 minutes or so of loading and installing close loader when it says it’s done. Now run the DTM do the install/update in that list you will see a whole lot of stuff, if it’s really techy and you don’t know what it is, install it, you need it, or your phone will be stuck in a boot and crash loop. Actually that’s what i did. I installed everything except for languages I can’t speak.

I actually went a whole day of the phone crashing and rebooting while at work before I tried that final step. So at least test out your phone first before that final step.
now my phone shuts down and reboots faster than it ever had. Programs load faster than ever.
One strange thing happened, was there was an image in my memory card that was corrupt, so every time I tried to change my desktop background, the phone would crash again.
Plugged in my cable deleted teh file and all is good again.

I ordered a cell phone from Wal-Mart because the advertisement showed that if I signed a contract i would get the phone plus $100. That is what it would take to get me to drop my current carrier, because of the fees they jam you with when you close an account, and all that.

Okay, great deal, right? I mean it isn’t the best phone on the market and the color is a little jacked but hell, I get 100 back. Fine. and they have it in stock. I can get it in a couple days.

Okay, I see they added the tax to the end like they said they would. but now the thing is out of stock.

After all was said and done, I got charged $100 from my checking account and after I got charged from my bank account on something that was supposed to be free + 100 more back. The damn thing is out of stock. Okay, If I am paying $100 up front then since I am supposed to “make $100″ then I should get $200 cash back because $100 is outta my pocket for picking basic stuff.

Now the funny part is, you have to print out a pdf for your mail in rebate. I mean come on guys . You mean to tell me they can’t spit out the cash it takes to ship the rebates with the dang phone? wtf!

when I went back to the site after the guy from the complaint line told me to look,it had changed to say something along the lines of how it ends today and had a link that said “only with family share plans” what kinda shit is that?

December25

december 26th

Just a heads up you guys.