I myself do not have the funds to be an early adapter. I find this convenient because by the time I purchase the cool stuff, it is already on the second edition, all of the bugs are worked out, and tons of people have tweaked and modded it to make so much more use of said products.
So here we are on my fifth month using a Blackberry 8100.
Moving up from my Motorolla Rizr to the bb was a huge step up. I didn’t actually need to install opera mini on it but i did it anyway. Everyone had millions of applications to use on the device. Applications that where out from “mod my moto” that actually worked 100 times better on the blackberry version. Opera mini actually worked better on the blackberry, but I got a better advantage from the moto though.. moto browser just sucked bad.
I had issues with the firmware though. As I tried to install themes, my Blackberry started crashing a whole lot. I mean I was getting lock ups all the time already, but it got really bad when I downloaded themes and activated them. so I hobbled over to the Forums at blackberryforums.com and found a thread about upgrading blackberry firmware . Great thread . Leads you to the actual firmware . See it seems the firmware we have in the united states that is on the blackberry website, or in the u.s. is like version 1.? (that is one point something or other). The version on the Asian server is like version 4.0 something or other. It’s crazy how it works. It actually took me off what the heck ever network I was on and put me on the edge network. oh just for a heads up. the people at Tmobile informed me that if you see a lowercase “edge” in the signal area, you have a crappier signal than if you see it all caps.
I got locked out of my blackberry after a theme install
Techy Tools use that to sync up with your Blackberry.
Ok while I am writing this. I kind of had to throw out some links I thought you may want while I goof around and try the newest version of the firmware. So.. there’s the links. Right now while I am typing this, I am 5 minutes into the upgrade
screenshot of the actual install
and crossing my toes and keeping the page on “previous versions” hot in my clipboard and the page open. in case it all goes wacky on me. Also I might look around and see if people have a specific choice of versions. maybe I will see why and try them all. I have just hours before my g1 shows up in the mail, I will use that one for a week or so and then sell it on ebay or what ever at barely used price. I will check it out just to review, but I really love my blackberry and all of the tweaks out there for it. from browser to notepad.
Er crap.
Just got a bad error saying that some junk had to be saved as a back up and I should reload and restore. i think my cat jumped on it and wiggled it loose before the install was complete. Ok freak out time. 1 am and I have to work tomorrow. So now I am doing it all again, but not selecting the “back up” feature. I already have a back up of everything still in good. I don’t want it to back up the crap version, over the full version.
Ok crap just got the notice again.. This time I copied so i could paste it here for everyone to see.
A fatal error has occurred while updating your device’s software. Please try again.
Device communications error encountered. [A:0x00000025]
Yeah this isn’t good. so.. I go off and try and fix this.. meanwhile I se a black screen and blinking LED.
Erm.. Uh oh.. Now the program does not detect anything on the end of the usb cable.. did I mention the “uh oh” part?
Battery pull time… lol the action of a desperate man.
Dang… Blinking light… now I run back to the forums!!!!!
Ok that was scary. computer wouldn’t identify the usb device (my fricken phone) so none of the software would work.. I left the update program open at first page disconnected the phone, yanked out the battery and waited a second or so, plugged back in and bam… windows identified it. I am updating now :-)
Erm
Error 507 a circle a square a triangle with a circle around them all and line through the circle.. so I disconnect reconnect and rerun program
Newp No good.
Life saving post here wipe it and reinstall cross fingers and hope for the best