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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Blackberry Bold 9700 Battery Life

Written by SyncMaster on December 15, 2009 – 2:15 pm -

When I first got this thing, it came pre-charged with what appeared to be a full battery. Quickly on the first day, it had me worried when I recieved it at 5pm and it was near dead by 10PM. That night, I gave it a charge for 7 hours (about as much sleep as I ever get!!).

The next day, same thing, lucky to get a full 8 hour day out of it and I wasn’t talking on the phone very much.

On day three, I started hunting the web… Looking for “battery conditioning” and Bold 9700 battery tips and all kinds of junk, thinking I must have got a lemon or maybe didn’t charge it for long enough? I mean how long are you supposed to charge a new blackberry bold 9700 for??

Answer.. From all my research – and I think you’ll be surprised!

The Bold 9700 charges up in around 45 minutes and should last up to 16+ hours after that. So it wasn’t that I hadn’t properly conditioned the battery or anything like that…

* I wasn’t running an animated theme at the time…
* I had Viigo and email and Gmail but not much else auto-updating.
* I didn’t chat long on the phone
* I Didn’t use the camera much – maybe 2 pictures.

But for some strange reason on day 3-5 it started lasting longer and LONGER… Now, I’ve had days where I’ve done multiple conference calls from my car lasting an hour a piece on speakerphone no less and still had 3 out of 5 bars left at 10pm that night… OH and I took videos and texted, and emailed and browsed and and and…

So relax, before you return it, give it 3-5 days.. It may clear up after all.

All the best, Richard

Tags: batteries, battery, blackberry, bold 9700, charge, charging, conditioning, drain, drainage, draining, dying, low, phone
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Bold 9700 – IS your trackpad low?

Written by admin on December 4, 2009 – 10:46 am -

“Is… your… trackpad low does it wobble to and fro? Can you tie it in a knot? Can you tie it in a bow…”

Sorry, that was pretty funny… But in all serious news, the Bold 9700’s trackpad has been a strange new twist in the Blackberry Bold’s design. Anyone who’s used a Bold 9700 for greater than a week as their full time device has probably found it to be strange and yet comfortable.

I’ve had mine probably a bit more than 2 weeks now and It’s growing on me, but there’s times when it’s really annoying — But oddly enough I can’t go back to the trackball either.

A number of people have complained the trackpad leans, or wobbles and I think someone who goes by the name BaRTiMuS on Crackberry Blogs has commented with graphics about the situation. He actually took his unit apart and got pictures.

In his post, he showed the community that the trackpad itself is resting on a pedestal or a post of some kind and basically attached only by a ribbon cable to the device’s main-board. This entirely clears up the myth that this is a design issue or something that may need repair.

In this picture to the right, you can see the trackpad sitting on it’s pedistal where it’s free to roam, slip and slide only held back by it’s ribbon cable.

I waited a bit to post these pictures because I wanted to make sure I had permission from the author, Bart (thanks bud!) who did get back to me when I asked if I could use these pictures in a post to describe the situation.

Mine doesn’t lean like some people’s does, and mine doesn’t wobble too bad, but it does feel cheap and like it shouldn’t have so much give and wiggle as it does which forced me to study this so hard and dig thru the forums until I stumbled upon BaRTiMuS’s smashing conclusion. His post stopped a 9 page thread of people trying to figure this one out.

Sitting on a Pedestal…

Daniel J Deyette

P.S. COMMENT!!! That’s what it’s for, let us know what you think!
I personally hope RIM recalls and offers to repair free. It’s not that it’s broken, I get that! But it’s because it’s a flawed design… You can look at the early releases, this thing came out of the design shop with a ball and last minute switched to a trackpad. Other trackpad devices have this thing nestled in it’s own box and not up on a plastic post.

Tags: broken, design, fix, lean, leans, repair, slant, slanted, slide, trackpad, vibration, wiggle, wobble, wonky
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Bold 9700 – Warning before .351 Upgrade

Written by admin on December 3, 2009 – 1:42 pm -

I’m on rogers wireless and just this morning, while syncing up with my blackberry via the Desktop Manager to upload those christmas wallpapers I shared here, I got prompted for an upgrade…

Since doing that upgrade, Gmail needed it’s user/pass re-entered… Ah so what.

But.. I went to check all my news sources via Viigo My most favorite blackberry program, and boom! It shut off radio (Wifi/Edge/3G) and froze! I gave it a few minutes but no dice…

Then I rebooted and was surfing around and thought, ah I still wanna check the news, so I hit up Viigo again! Froze… this time just plain froze up… Gave it about 10 minutes and again no dice!

I’ll try re-installing Viigo now but if that doesn’t work I’m going to be trying to find some way to go back to the old OS 5.0 it shipped with because I need my news!

Dan

Tags: 9700, blackberry, bold, OS 351, os 5.0
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Blackberry Bold 9700 Accessories Now Available At Amazon

Written by admin on November 28, 2009 – 3:09 pm -

Blackberry Bold 9700 Accessories are popping up absolutely everywhere! I’m seeing them all over the place!

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Bplay Lets You Upgrade Your Themes

Written by admin on November 26, 2009 – 12:28 pm -

For those of us who spent tons of money (like me) on themes for the Blackberry Bold 9000 last year, there’s hope in bringing those warm, fuzzy memories back to the Bold 9700!!!

After some frustrating emails back and fourth with Bplay, I realized my themes were on an old email address, so I logged in using that one (thank goodness I still remembered the password) and then.. Damn there it said 9000 next to each theme… So I emailed back and fourth some more with Bplay asking if they could give me upgraded versions for the 9700 as they are now selling those in their store…

Then… I just thought aw, what the heck, I’ll try downloading them from my past purchase area on Bplay… boom! there was the option to download the 9700 version with no extra cost! Hope this helps someone else too!

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