Step-By-Step Guide For Upgrading Your BlackBerry Smartphone OS

First off the line, let me say that what I’m about to impart is not the only way to upgrade your BlackBerry OS, nor do I consider it the best way of doing it. All I’m doing is providing you with the steps and tools that I have used to perform over 30 different OS upgrades on at least 6 different BlackBerry models.

My Report On The BlackBerry Bold OS 5.0.0.348

Last Updated: 18 November 2009 at 12:57

WARNING: 08:30 – Getting reboots from the 5.0.0.348 upgrade! Phone reboots after 3 minutes. I am still watching the events and checking to see if I can some how pinpoint the reason why its happening. It is intermittent, so at the time of writing it has been up and stable for about 10 minutes. Will update later. Just a warning note.

Update: 12:55 – I’ve had the phone working now for over 4 hours and it has not rebooted again. All I did was pull the battery.

Hello once again. Well I have done yet another 5.0 beta OS upgrade on my BlackBerry Bold 9000 smartphone. I had initially done the 5.0.0.238 OS upgrade and wrote about it in my article My Report On The BlackBerry Bold OS 5.0, which has been a huge success with the readers. Some using it as the  reason to make the plunge into the 5.0 OS. Well since that time, there has been two other OS beta release, version 5.0.0.314 and 5.0.0.348. I decided to skip .314 as I didn’t think there would have been much changes.

Exposed! BlackBerry 8700g

Its clear to me that this seems to be a feature that will garner a huge following as I’ve been getting more and more requests to open more and more models of BlackBerry smartphones. Now as stated before, I can only open the devices that I have access to and those are a very few. So for this feature to continue, you my faithful few readers would either have to provide the pictures of provide the devices (I like the second option).

Readers Corner : Radio Core Catfailed Error

I’m thinking of starting a new feature where I would publish little articles that are generated by you my faithful few readers. I will call this feature Readers Corner. So if you have something you would like to write about, the please do and send it in and I’ll put it up. Of course it would have to be in keeping with my website theme, and I have the right to edit it in whatever way I deem relevant. Every contributor will be credited, either by full name or pseudo name.

What Google Knows About You – Google Dashboard

It is alleged that Google is the next “evil empire” and that they are gathering possibly exabytes of data on all who use their services. However, Google knows that to maintain the publics’ acceptance of its products and services it has to increase the trust level.

My BlackBerry Talk Group

Hello all, now I’m not sure how many persons read my blog on a regular basis, but I would like you all to know that I have started a BlackBerry Talk Group using the very awesome BlackBerry Messenger 5.0. I will be publishing an article eventually on the the BlackBerry Messenger 5.0.

File Encryption Trojan In The Wild

My most trusted security firm, Symantec, has informed that there is a new trojan that encrypts files on infected computers, preventing access to these files and offering no way of getting in touch with the “owner” of the virus in an attempt to restore your files.

My Curve 8320 Exposed!

You all enjoyed my article titled My Bold 9000 Exposed! that I thought I would do another “Exposed!” article on yet another popular device here in Jamaica, the Curve 8320. There’s nothing wrong with this device, I just thought I would give you an insight into the device that you love so much. So without further delay, here we go.

Planning Storage Capacity for Your Exchange Server

As a Systems/Network Administrator the hardware that you configure for your Exchange server is one that you’re hoping to get at least 3 good years out of it. Its very dishearten, and in some cases annoying to have to go back to your boss within a year to say that you need to upgrade your storage capacity. This can affect your credibility with your boss (especially if you’re new to the organization or your boss). I will try to give you a bit of advice based on my experience and how I went about calculating storage capacity and some measures that I put in place to maintain the ability to have my users get their e-mails, while staying within the physical storage limits.

Deciphering Non-Delivery Reports (NDRs)

In our work and personal lives, we send or receive at least 10 e-mails per day, some people send at least 5 times that amount and receive just as much. With all those e-mails zipping around in cyberspace and hopping from e-mail server to e-mail server, there will surely be a time when someone will make a mistake or a server will be offline and the result is what is known as a non-delivery report (NDR). I will try to help you to decipher what a NDR is and what should be done.