New beta os for 8900 on Crackberry.

 

Noooooooooooooooo newbies dont do the beta thing lol

Have you loaded it ? Any good ?

 

Great! Done it, brillaint instructions.

Now I have another problem, sorry!

I only get two rings before it goes to voicemail, which often won't be long enough for me to answer. My tone is classic ringer, and the phone goes:

vibrate once...ring once...vibrate once...ring once...voice mail.

Can I get it to keep ringing/vibrating for longer before it goes to voice mail?

ps must say I'm liking this phone. I've noticed something strange, I switched off 3g to see how long the battery lasts and the internet browsing seems as fast as it was with 3g on. Whats the point of 3g then?

 

No worries mate, it was there all along you just needed to look harder,
I shall (or someone else will beat me to it) look for an answer to the other question for you now


Jesus and the penny drops lol.
Serious though mate thats what I was saying all along. Putting a 3G and a 2.75G device together and the internet speeds are so similar most of the time its not worth getting all excited about 3G

Oh and glad your liking it. If you like it early on, in general things can only get better the more comfortable you get.
PS, sort out that BB Messenger then you can ask questions without waiting so long for answers lol.

 

To extend the ringing time before your phone automatically goes to answerphone, do as follows

**61*901*11*[sec required]#send

increments of 5 sec - max 30secs = approx 6 rings.

 

Oh and as recommended get buzzme on there too, which will make the whole thing a lot more noticable too

 

Top man

Chop

 

Snazy........ for all your Blackberry needs lol

Those that I know or can find on the net anyway.

 

G00ner, chop, DS.....

Join the little group we have

https://www.scoobynet.com/groups/bla...ners-club.html

 

Done.

I've joined the social group aswell

 

My BB has gone back today. Hopefully my new bold battery will last longer than 6 hours and i will get 3G (not that it will make much difference in speed)

 

Excellent, glad thats sorted out mate.
Anything else you need ? Will keep me busy at work lol


When do you get the new one mate. Thats really not a great start to it all is it
Fingers crossed the new one wont have issues, let me know if you want help with anything that I might be able to help on.

 

going to delay the os upgrade to .247 for a day or two to see if that makes a difference. don't think it should but hey that's what experimenting is all about.

@DS and Chop have you upgraded your OS to .247? I would be interested in hearing how your batteries fare.

 

New one should be a straight swap at my front door when the courier arrives today. (fingers, toes and other appendages crossed). i am going to full charge the battery before i do anything so i might be offline for a bit. snazy you might get an IM at 4am this morning, just to check everything is working

 

just checked and my new phone has arrived

 

15.30 finish today then..................

 

Woohoo, nice one mate, get it on charging now, or send instruction home to lol.
I was gonna suggest the delay on the upgrade myself actually, just for a day or so. Like you, I cant see it being that either, but worth seeing for yourself.

lol IM me any time, if I am awake I will reply, if it wakes me I will reply at an equally unreasonable time days later lol.

I have not read anything negative about battery life on .247 anywhere on CB yet, but am still looking. I can only suggest it was stuck constantly sending and receiving data. Like I said, mine did that the once, and my battery went the exact same way.

 

[quote=Snazy;8597598]Excellent, glad thats sorted out mate.
Anything else you need ? Will keep me busy at work lol




Your worse than me, any excuse to waste time

Can you give me the website addy again that you mentioned somewhere at the beginning of this thread about all things blackberry?

The stocks icon is not great, defo not as good as the iphone one. Any idea where I can download a better app? Don't worry though, I'll look it up on that website anyway

 

CrackBerry.com ? The #1 Site for BlackBerry Users & Abusers
Should find everything you want there.

What sort of stocks program you looking for mate ? RSS feed or something, graphics or numbers etc?


lol I dont need an excuse to waste time, trust me Just like being helpful.

 

DS had a look about you might like a look at a couple of these threads..

What's a good Stock/Portfolio App? - BlackBerry Forums at CrackBerry.com

Mobile ETrade Pro working on OS 4.6?? - BlackBerry Forums at CrackBerry.com

3rd Party Apps - Stock Portfolio and Money Management - BlackBerry Forums at CrackBerry.com

Not sure if there is any content in there to help, but early days lol

 

Cheers, I'll have a good look at those later. Thats another beer I owe you

 

Dont mark a beer up on it til you know the goods are there.
If so, then in saving for a keg please

I might have to give some of them a try just for the hell of it, see how they work etc

 

well phone has arrived.put it on charge but it has picked up the 3G network no probs. just need to see if i get more 7 - 8 hours out a battery now

 

Splendid, thats a good start mate, glad its off on the right foot this time.
Like I say watch out for leaving wifi and bluetooth on if not in use.

Just thinking about it, when you uploaded the OS last time, did you remember to take out the network file that the instructions tell you to ?

Im sure you will get more than 7-8 hours. If your only a medium user, I would reckon you should easily get a day or 2 out of it.
With the amount of chatting I do, I still manage a couple of days no problem, browsing, uploading photos etc.

 

Hurrah, I have finally solved what was just about the only remaining issue I wanted to on the BB, WiFi all enabled now, frick me its fast!

Neil, any news yet mate ? Is your baby back in your arms yet lol

 

Hi,

I upgraded to .247 as soon as my replacement BB arrived. I was instucted by t-mobile to keep my old battery, however they delivered a whole new package. I kept the new battery for a rainy day and used the old one. I'm shocked at how the battery life has improved. I was getting no more than 24 hours now i'm upto 48. I'm a fairly heavy user so well impressed at the improvement.

It also seems a little swifter using the browser.

Chop

EDITED TO ADD - Make sure you delete the file it instructs you to when installing.

 

My browser was completely replaced on my OS upgrade and improved no end.

Fingers crossed this is the solution you were after.
I have just had my WiFi on (now I have sussed it lol) and been using it for over an hour and a half now, and used between 5-10%

 

yep chaps up and running again. good battery so far. will upgrade the os in another few days

 

yep took the vendor.xml file out of the directory as instructed

 

Aaaah good good, was never gonna call ya stupid, but hey lol

Fingers crossed for you still, I hope to hear good things on BBM tomorrow at some point

Has anyone noticed a BB is like a Scooby... no matter what you do to it, there is always more to do to it, and you're never happy with what you have