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No, seriously. I can’t tell you how many people have come to me with BlackBerry problems, and how many of them have been solved simply by pulling the battery. Freeing up temporary memory and giving the ol’ ‘Berry a fresh start works wonders. You should probably be pulling your battery once a week, if you’re not already doing so more because of issues (I am).
Cooper reminds me that freeing up flash memory can do the trick, too. You can check out how to trim the fat from your BlackBerry, or you can start by deleting sample media files and your Internet cache.
Next time you’ve got an issue, do these before you call anyone. Not that we mind helping out. It’s just that many problems are this easy to fix.
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Just out of interest, how frequently do people pull their battery due to berry hanging or other issues? I probably end up doing it once every couple of days.
In another great example of how these things are NOT designed for women with manicures, how would you remove the battery without using a fingernail?
@Ste9000:
Running 4.2.2.196 on VZW 8830, I do a battery pull approximately twice a week. I’m usually close to or at the “0 bytes free” by then due to the 4.2.x memory leak.
hello i have the new bb bold and when a put a pin authorization request the other person acepts me but his name still in my list like pending can you help me please?
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Why pull the battery out? Why not just reset it using a similar Ctl+alt+del command ;)
checkout the site below.
http://www.geekberry.net/archives/blackberry-tips-and-tricks/2008/04/16/blackberry-howto-reset-your-blackberry-without-removing-the-battery/
hi, my blackberry has always been working and i just took out the batter to put my sim card in and when i put back in the battery a battery came up on the screen with a red line through it and nothing happens, i have taken out the battery and put it back in and plugged it into the charger and its still on the screen.
I have had my black berry for 5 months with nothing but problems…What a piece of junk. I do not use the internet at all on my phone or download music and it freezes all the time, just gives people a busy signal when they call in, and sometimes when I take out the battery to fix this it won’t even turn on. It just blinks red! What a piece of crap! An expensive phone like this shouldn’t need reseting all the time.
[...] In which case I look at my bars and determine if I’m out of range or I’m in need of a battery pull. You can turn this off by going to Options, Screen/Keyboard, and setting the LED Coverage Indicator [...]
I have a Blackberry Bold Smartphone.
When I was in a No Service area and requested a webpage in the browser. When it couldn’t connect, it prompted me to save the request until it could re-connect later. I accepted the offer and it placed a globe icon in the header. When I reached a service zone I connected again but the globe icon will not go away. How do I remove it?
Can you help?
Thank you
Nick, I’m going to write this up for tomorrow morning. Stay tuned!
[...] to my feed or subscribe to us on Twitter!Running through the comments of the past few days I found this one by Nick R.. He has an obnoxious globe logo next to his message icon, and wonders how to get rid of it. [...]
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