Comments on: Always getting the hourglass icon on your Curve?

By: Cooper

Cooper — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:43:21 +0000

You may have low system memory of some kind – check this out for ideas on how to combat that:

http://www.bbgeeks.com/blackberry-guides/8-ways-to-trim-the-fat-from-your-blackberry-88493/

By: S

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:38:36 +0000

I keep having this problem and I don’t use facebook on my phone. I don’t have data and therefore, barely use the internet on my phone.. can anyone help?

By: Cooper

Cooper — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:24:26 +0000

@Jo Ok the first thing I am going to suggest is that you read and complete some of the steps in this post:
http://www.bbgeeks.com/blackberry-guides/8-ways-to-trim-the-fat-from-your-blackberry-88493/

That will free up some memory on your device and hopefully stop the hourglass from coming up so often.

The next step is to check that any applications you are running are closed completely when exiting them. You can verify that they are not running by hitting menu> switch application and looking at the icons. (phone browser home messages and messenger are the only ones that will always run in the background)

As for mail I assume that you are using the @gmail address to get email on your phone. If this is the case then you should not have to worry much as messages deleted from yoru BlackBerry will still be in your inbox when checked online.

If you are using a second email address then I suggest setting up a forward so that all mail sent to your BlackBerry is also sent to your gmail account. This way you can delete all you messages off the Blackberry and still have them backed up with the gmail account for future access. The gmail account can hold many many messages where as the same number of messages on your BlackBerry will cause problems.

By: Jo

Jo — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:09:55 +0000

Could use some advise.

By: Jo

Jo — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:05:09 +0000

The hourglass icon is constant shuts my computer off sometimes. don,t know what to do. I am 60 yrs. of age and never typed before nor used a computer am teaching myself but don,t know how to delete old mail without loosing what i want to keep.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:23:17 +0000

Well, I took facebook off (per Abdiel’s directions) and that did NOT solve the problem. The Hourglass is back…

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:49:31 +0000

I’ve got an 8320 that just started doing the eternal hourglass thing a couple of months ago. I can’t tell what sets it off. It’s kind of random, but when the hourglass is spinning (which could take ANY amount of time to finish), the phone is totally non-responsive. I’ll try deleting the Facebook app and see what happens.

By: Cooper

Cooper — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:45:18 +0000

@kim
Looks like you will have to reload your operating system. Here is a post that will help:
http://www.bbgeeks.com/blackberry-guides/step-by-step-guide-to-upgrading-your-blackberry-os-88196/

By: kim

kim — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:10:18 +0000

my bb 8900 has been freezing since i got it, so i’ve been taking out the battery every time taht happens. however, the worst thing just occurred – it doesn’t want to turn on!! what should i do?

By: Lisa D

Lisa D — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:39:31 +0000

I ran into issues with the 8310 and FB as well. I’d had both before, but had to get a new 8310 due to a bad thing that I’d done to the old one. So I downloaded the FB App to the new 8310 and everything worked just fine….for about 36 hours. Then the poor thing went into a JUM Error 102. I tried to reload os and apps and sent the poor thing into the eternal initializing hour glass. So I turned to my friends at Crackberry and found an awesome ‘how to’ that saw me through it. If you are in a situation were the hour glass is constant please go to this url and follow the steps.

http://crackberry.com/blackberry-101-lecture-12-how-reload-operating-system-nuked-blackberry