Blackberry Browser Unable To Click On Any Link
Written by admin on March 24, 2010 – 3:31 pm -Blackberry Bold 9700 Experience:
For a while it became quite annoying… Every time I opened up my blackberry web browser, if i wanted to click on anything i’d have to click the blackberry button, open link, and then I’d be able to open things… And I couldn’t click on search buttons, I couldn’t click on “go” buttons or any form buttons on web pages.
Then, I did some quick googling around and someone mentioned that they’d had theirs go away by simply pulling the battery out, waiting a few mins and then trying again and it cleared up. Well, I didn’t wanna try that at frist because these things take like 5 minutes to boot sometimes…
One day while I was at work I tried it, and boom, everything works fine again.
This really is the only serious glitch I’ve noticed in the Bold 9700 since buying it, although i’m sure there’s lots of quirks others have seen that I haven’t.
It does get slow every once in a while and need a restart, but that’s not common. Overall it’s one of the better phones i’ve ever owned. I have to say though that every once in an while when I see my old blackberry 9000 sitting in my night stand I think about going back. Only for that keyboard!
Daniel J Deyette
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Don’t Tazzle Me, Bro! – New Way To Connect Your Bold 9700 or 9000
Written by admin on January 27, 2010 – 5:37 pm -
Nah, seriously that headline was just a joke spun from that famous college kid video getting pulled away as the cops “Taze” him. I’m not knocking this product, not for 20 seconds. It’s probably one of the most best kept secrets (and it shouldn’t be!) of the online community. If they sent me one of these tomorrow, I would document the whole process of use and how powerful this thing is and probably write a post titled 47 ways to get the most out of your Tazzle.
This brilliant device is truly remarkable. Just as it says on there, view, print and send. I’m pretty sure this works via Bluetooth, but regardless… How many times have you fumbled to find your uplink cable? I know I have…
How many times have you been out and about and don’t feel like carrying that big bulky USB cable around? This thing would easily hide in your wallet or somewhere and any time any place you can pop it out and send pictures, documents or emails or anything to a PC. You really gotta check this out for yourself to see all the benefits of the Tazzle product.
Tazzling Saves Time!
Get the Tazzle IT USB-Key!
Tags: bluetooth sync, bold 9000, bold 9700, pc bluetooth, pc connect, pc connector, pc usb wireless, pc wireless, send to pc bluetooth, send to pc wireless, sync wireless, tazle, tazlee, tazzle
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Broken, cracked or water damaged Bold 9700?
Written by sonic on January 27, 2010 – 3:17 pm -
I had no idea that services like this existed, but it sure is comforting to know that they do…
Check out their home page by clicking on the banner on the right there…They have a picture of a Bold 9000 on a stretcher that looks like it was made in the 1960s haha.
Whether you dropped your Blackberry into a toilet, a water fountain or some dish water – Or you drove over it with your car, stepped on it or some other tragedy – these guys can get your data back…
Why is that so critically important? In today’s day and age, It’s too easy to break a smartphone and loose everything. Paid for applications, precious pictures of your little ones, or videos of your friend doing something worthy of future blackmail that you just can’t afford to loose! (Grin).
Regardless, what’s most impressive about this Californian company is their “can’t recover it, money back guarantee”. These guys got started in the business reverse-engineering other pda and cell phone type devices so there’s little doubt they can’t recover yours should you require it.
They currently don’t’ have a Bold 9700 Option, but I’d recommend using the Bold 9000 option as it has the same internals, processor and memory and would really be a similar process to recover in a smaller case.
If you do end up requiring their service, email me and let me know how it goes and how smooth the process is, I’d love to update this post with more information.
UPDATE: Just spoke with Tim Goggin @ Recoverymysmartphone.com and they DO service the Bold 9700 and even the Tour2 Essex 9650 (same technology essentially as the original tour but with better camera & trackpad instead of trackball).
Don’t hesitate to work with these guys… My first hand experience with data recovery outfits always winds up with a costly bill. These folks are simply not the case… You can expect to pay up to $1000 for detailed and engineer level data recovery, so being under $200 is impressive.
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Rogers Wireless Planned Outage – January 17th 2009
Written by admin on January 13, 2010 – 5:31 pm -
Apparently all the major blogs are pointing out a planned outage for Rogers and RIM themselves. This will affect internet service and enterprise email (BES and BIS). The window of down time should be Start Time: 02:00 AM (EDT) End Time: 06:00 AM (EDT).
Can’t really complain as I’ll be asleep for part of it… But it only makes sense to pass the message on to as many as possible so no one feels out of the loop.
This is all part of routine maintenance and fixes being performed on the infrastructure. Basically, whether your registering a new device, roaming, sending or receiving emails or trying to browse the web, you wont be able to. At least you know about it though.
Tags: bes, BIS, maintenance, outage, planned, RIM, rogers, wireless
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What’s Inside A Bold 9700? Technical Specs
Written by SyncMaster on January 7, 2010 – 11:32 am -
A few weeks ago, I was looking for games to review and was kind of sad to see any descent graphics on the games for the Bold 9700. With a higher resolution screen like this one, games would look brilliant. Video does, after all. That led me to do a series of searches on Google for “Bold 9700 graphics chip..” etc. I of course did read about the whole curve got OpenGL and Bold’s didn’t.. yadda yadda. But that got me thinking… What capabilities DO these things have?
First off, the Bold 9000 and Bold 9700 contain the exact same processor. Let me give you a bit of background on the XScale microprocessor. Marvell currently own’s the design although Intel sold it to them in June of 2006 so it’s still safe to call it an Intel PXA930 as that’s what it really is. It’s the 5th generation of the ARM processor that is so famous in so many windows mobile devices running at 624Mhz – it’s a pretty snappy cpu.
PXA930 was code named Bulverde, and has several interesting features available such as Wireless Speedstep (system can downclock the cpu to save power), Wireless MMX - allowing multimedia, Also has SSE and can act as 16 extra 65bit registers that can be treated as an array of 32-bit words, or four 16-bit halfwords. Additional peripherals are also available such as USB host interface, and camera interface.
Intel announced a successor to the PXA930 in 2005 called the Monahan but it died quickly. At 1.25ghz there was only a 25% increase in horsepower overall. The blackberry bold 9000 and 9700 processor itself is actually based off a processor from 2004. Now nearing 5 years old it’s still surprising what a processor like this can do.
This is the test board for the PXA930. Just from looking at it, you can see the processor’s actually capable of handling a 640×480 LCD, compact flash port, PCMCIA (which you see on older laptops), serial port, audio in and out, usb host port, usb client, sim card, ps2, ethernet port (that’d be nice!), IDE interface, SD port, GPS, touch panel etc…. This is no weak unit.
When the Bold 9700 “Aka Onyx” was announced, it was supposed to be a completely different phone – but I think with the re-use of the PXA930 and some obvious other internals, including the battery, it just made more sense to call it the Bold 2. Yes, sure smaller, faster (OS improvements not hardware improvements), more ram (256MB vs 128MB) and higher resolution screen and camera. But the core structure of the phone itself hasn’t changed. Phonewreck has a complete diagram showing the complete block diagram of how this chip is used and what services are attached to it.
Tags: bold 9000, bold 9700, details, diagram, graphics, internal, memory, motherboard, parts, processor, schematic, specs, tear apart, tear down
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OS 5.0 For Blackberry 9000 Official
Written by admin on January 5, 2010 – 11:12 am -… At least from Bell Mobility! Great job, Bell! At least this is a clear sign that it will be released for other carriers.
As reported from BerryReview, CrackBerry, Phone’s Review and other sites out there. I mentioned before that I was hoping for Os 5.0 to bring battery improvements to the Bold 9000. There’s no guarantee though so we’ll just have to see how it goes.
This was also one of the reasons I stated that it made sense to buy a Bold 9700 over a Bold 9000 for “futureproof” reasons. However, i’m not sure that’s a big deal now that they’re both officially going to support the latest OS, it’s going to be more of a question of what you like better and if you’re ok with a shortened battery life and lower quality camera.
P.S. – For newbies, yes you can still do the upgrade if you’re not a Bell Mobility customer. Yes, it’s the exact same hardware.
Tags: bell, bold 9000, fix, install, newer, official, os 5.0, update, upgrade
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Blackberry Developers discuss progress of 2009
Written by admin on December 30, 2009 – 10:30 pm -
Blackberry development blog tells us all the details surrounding how many big improvements were made to the development environment for Blackberry software. Why should we, the average user care? It’s interesting and it shows us where the platform we’re married to is going…
It also gives us power users who are constantly thursting for the next BIG THING to see how that’s coming along etc.. anyway.. Check it out…
Tags: bugs, code, code for bold 9700, code for rim, design, develop, developer, development, fixes, improvements, repairs, RIM, Software, write for blackberry
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How does the bold 9700 trackpad work?
Written by SyncMaster on December 18, 2009 – 3:13 pm -Like many users, i’ve found the blackberry bold 9700’s new trackpad to be a blessing and a curse.
Out of the box it seems hyper sensitive, fast and oddly accurate, and yet if you’ve been a baller or a jogger (track wheel or track ball) fan over the years, the quick witted accuracy of the new trackpad is still something to get used to…
Regardless… RIM has gone out of their way to showcase exactly what it is and how it works, and it’s quite interesting and allows for a deeper appreciation of the new navigation tool and how it works.
Much like any improvement to an existing design, many early adopters will find it strange, but the accuracy and design is something to truly brag about when it comes to being a blackberry owner.
Apparently, this is actually an optical camera taking black and white photos of your finger every few seconds. The advantages over a laptop’s touchpad is that it nolonger requires the heat or actual finger, but could even work in a pinch with a ball point pen, which I imagine opens up all kinds of good things for the handicapped and other folks who cannot use their thumb for whatever reason.
The Official Blackberry blog can tell you more and is quite a good read…
Tags: bold 9700, camera, design, eye, feature, navigation, optical, red, touchpad, tracking, trackpad, working, works
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Question: my Bold 9700 won’t play an animated theme
Written by admin on December 16, 2009 – 4:06 pm -Answer…
A. Most likely because it wasn’t designed for OS 5.0.
B. Because it was designed for a different device…
C. Because it didn’t install correctly.
D. Because you haven’t rebooted yet…
Try those and if your still having trouble respond on this post using the comment system and we’ll help you out.
Dan
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Blackberry Cool Tests Bold 9700 and Bold 9000 OS 5.0 Boot Test
Written by SyncMaster on December 16, 2009 – 12:12 pm -It’s a RACE!
The Bold 9000 Versus it’s younger brother Bold 9700 versus the Storm and Storm 2!!! Which will boot the fastest?
The answer is! Our dear, sweet old friend, the Bold 9000 on OS 5.0!!!!!
It’s kind of sad that it took the Bold 9700 over 5 minutes to BOOT it’s operating system! Unbelievable!
Tags: benchmark, bold 9000, bold 9700, bold 9700 vs bold 9000, boot, operating, os 5.0, os5, speed, system
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