re-activation frustration...please help!!!

[Mudlizard]

I have a Bold that has been running smoothly with BES. Syncing perfectly with Outlook (email, contacts, calendar). This past weekend I noticed the contacts weren't syncing anymore. I couldn't figure out why, so I decided to do a wipe/re-actvation.

10 hours later and many attempts later...here I am.

I run through the activation process.
Configure BB with email address and activation password.
It starts to run through the activation
Acquiring service connection
Service connection acquiredactivating 'email address'
verifying encryption
encryption verified
waiting for services
services received
you emails address is now enabled

It sits there for a while.

Then the blackberry goes to the next screen
Synchronizing service desktop..
Calendar Complete

And from here it just hangs and goes no further.

At this point I can send and receive emails and the calendar is synced. But no contacts.

I have left the blackberry sitting like this for hours.
I have tried activation many many times. Taken battery out. Wiped handheld. Talked with the phone company to make sure BB is provisioned correctly for BES.

Please someone come up with something!!!

[ice44]

Have you rebooted the BES or made sure all the BES services are running ?

Did you delete the user from BES or just reactivate ?

Try deleting the user from BES....readd them and reactivate

[KalebsDad78]

Also, rather than trying to activate wirelessly, can you connect the device via USB to the server/desktop hosting the Blackberry Manager? I started doing this for all EA's and the amount of time it takes to activate a device is cut in half and I have very few problems of erroring out and starting over or wiping the device and then trying the EA again.

[Mudlizard]

is outsourced...so the USB connection isn't possible....thanks.

[prothos]

we are having the same issue activating bb's. This issue just started about 02\05\09. The issue is random as some user will activate and some will not. It does not matter if they are a new bes user or a old bes user. We are having the issue with Att & Verizon bb's. tried removing and readding user to bes, moving them from one bes server to another, moved from one mail server to another, reloaded os on bb. I have notice one thing. All the bb's that won't activate are running bb os 4.5.077 for verizon or 4.5.0110 for ATT. I have yet to have this issue on a bb running a older os.

I'm at the end of my rope trying to get 6 new users activated on our bes. I have already activated 6 new users todat with no issue so i do not belive its server related.

[white2003]

I had a problem on my phone where I couldn't activate the blackberry. On the server I had to right click on my name, go to properties, and under PIM Sync I turned off all syncs except the main one. Then once the phone totally activated I turned them back on and it was fine.

Also make sure you don't have any contacts without a name. That has messed up some people at my work before.

[prothos]

we re-booted the server and soleved the issue we had