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Opera Mini 5 Took Over as Default Browser

s4berry — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:20:25 GMT

When I click on a link in an email, I want the BB browser to open. But Opera Mini took over as the "default" browser and opens instead. Is there a way to make the BB browser the default again?

Multiple bluetooth connections at the same time on 8900

pearly8100 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:11:31 GMT

I think bluetooth specifications allow for one device to connect up to other 8 devices, does this apply to our 8900?

Bluetooth Headset Cutting out

markmjh — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:27:38 GMT

Hi Guys,
i use my berry for music while i cycle to work every day and want to use my Motorola S9 bluetooth headset.
This headset works fine on both my Sone Erriccson and my girlfriends Nokia, but for some reason it cuts out all the time when using on my berry.
I have recently updated firmware to OS 4.6.1.310 and it is still the same on this. It is really frustrating and wired headsets work fine, but i would prefer to use wireless.
Has anyone else found this problem, does anyone know of a solution.

Any help would be great.

Cheers,
Mark

Strange Icon

joeship34a — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:55:32 GMT

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Starting yesterday i get this icon on my home screen whenever i turn Wi-Fi on. i have had the phone for a few months now and have been using the same Wi-Fi network and have never seen this before now everything i turn the Wi-Fi it appears and i have no idea what it is any suggestions?

5.0 os

cbeslash — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:54:41 GMT

Can some one tell me how stable and are there any problems with os 5.0.0.314. I really dont want to read through the forty some posts in the sticky.

Thanks in advance.

8900 contact picture size in pixels

pearly8100 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:54:29 GMT

Does anyone know what size is it? maybe something like 70x100? just guessing, since the screen is 480 x 360.
I know I can crop and zoom and what not, but it is 100 times faster on the PC, so then I could just download them into the memory card and set the up a lot faster into my contacts....
thanks

Control the BB thru your computer..?

pearly8100 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:48:31 GMT

Okay, is there an app out there that will lets us do the following?

Upon plugging in the 8900 to the computer via micro USB, or alternatively via bluetooth, see some sort of PC GUI interface to the 8900 where:

1: I can type/edit strait into my memos
2: check phone logs
3: add contacts
4: etc, etc, etc, etc ;)

Many times I find a phone number, address or something I found out googling and need to go out, and take that info with me,and for now I have no hope but to just have to type all this info into the phone before I go. Not so good for the 21 century!

I just feel that by now, upon plugging the 8900 to the computer I should have the capability to access the phone completely thru the keyboard and screen of my computer where it is plugged into.

If this does not exist and you program it, give me some of the royalties! LOL. :D

how to Stop Previous owner messages

pearly8100 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:31:03 GMT

So I bought a previously owned 8900. Pretty nice shape. It was just fine and quiet as it charged up. I put in my sim card and soon enough messages start to come in.

To be sure, they were messages intended to the previous owner.

By logic, I can only assume they are being sent to the PIN of my phone since the phone number, and the sim card are my own.

What do I need to do to get these to stop? I am very pessimistic about finding the previous owner for help. So, that could be left out as a solution.

As an added bonus question, I know someone with the some problem with one more level of difficulty. His phone was bought here in the US but now he is in another country and algo has this problem! If the PIN is the culprit, it works worldwide, I assume.

Any thoughts will be greatly appreciated thanks!

8900 E-mail Ring Tone Issue

pipewerkz — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:21:18 GMT

Just got an 8900 a few days ago.

Here is the problem I am having...

I have my BES account, and two other personal e-mail accounts pushing to my BB. With my old Curve 8310 I had no problem having a different sound for each email account.

With this phone, under the Normal profile when I change the Ring Tone for "Desktop" it also changes the ring tone for my other e-mail account (not both, just one of them). This makes it so my BES e-mail alert is the same as one of my personal account, PITA.

I attempted to delete the e-mail account in question and re-add it. Same issue. Any ideas?

My first issue ( the horror)

raton — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:08:47 GMT

Hi everyone, I never had an issue with my 8900 until now. This started about a couple of days ago. Everytime I reboot my bb I get this error "Uncaught exception: java.lang.NullPointerException" <----what the heck is that? Can anyone help me out please. Thank you so much.

Synchable agenda program??

thasweetone27 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:47:42 GMT

I need an agenda program to install on my Vista to be able to synch all of my school assignments. Does anyone have any suggestions at to which program is better? I, price wise, need it to be either close to or free. Thanks a billion.

streaming video

captcandyman — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:06:40 GMT

I was wondering if there is a way to stream movie/videos from my home pc to my blackberry, either over wifi or net.
I was also wondering if there was a way that i could expore the files on my home pc, when my berry is connected to my home network by wifi?

I did a quick search and didnt see these anywhere

phone does not recognize Wi-fi expander

th577 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:04:56 GMT

I have been told that BB's do not work with these and that is true with my home network. Has there been any progress on getting the phone to recognize the expanders? With all the home networks out there you would think RIM would get this fixed.

Serious Fault with Browser since Update - Please Help !

Osprey — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:39:58 GMT

I want to flag up an issue since the recent update of my BB 8900 software. I am on the O2 network in the UK. I currently have Desktop Manager 5.0.1.18 and the BB 8900 is on version 4.6.1.310.

Over the last 2 weeks since updating, I have found that the web browser grinds to a halt when downloading content from normal websites like BBC.CO.UK and FT.COM. There is no problem in connecting to these sites, it is simply whilst Loading Images from the front pages that the BB seems to get �stuck�. The only way out is for me to hold down the Escape (curved arrow) key and close the browser. It is then impossible to move the cursor via the trackball away from the Web icon unless I briefly press the phone On/Off button. Once I have done this, I can move the trackball so as to go to another function (Contacts, Calendar etc.), but if I go back to the Web browser icon and try to connect again, nothing happens. In effect, I now can't really use the internet from my BB anymore. This problem never occurred until the recent software upgrades, my browser was working fine.

From very, very bitter experience, taking this into an O2 or Carphone Warehouse store for a fix is an utter waste of time and sending it off to RIM (= 4 weeks' loss of the BB) is too painful to go through.

Has anyone else experienced this problem and if so, does someone know of a fix ? Grateful as always for any help.

adding contacts to sim card?

piccopower — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:02:49 GMT

Can I add my contacts to my sim card so if I change phones it will have my contacts already?