BlackBerry
A BlackBerry is a smartphone made by a Canadian company called RIM, an acronym for "Research In Motion." It is a handheld wireless device that can read email and calendars from enterprise-class email systems as well as operate as a cellular phone. BlackBerries come with complete alphanumeric keyboards, whereas many PDAs do not.
The first BlackBerry device was not a cellular phone. Early models were two-way pagers with full QWERTY keyboards. The first BlackBerry cellular phone was the model BlackBerry 5810 which was introduced in 2002. It required an extermal headset and microphone to make voice calls, as the speaker was not built in.
As of 2010 two of the most popular model classes are the BlackBerry Bold and the BlackBerry Curve 8900. The BlackBerry Bold 9650 is an example of a modern BlackBerry device. These Cellular Phone and PDA combination devices have been dubbed "Smart Phones."
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The Modern BlackBerry
As of 2011 the modern SmartPhone BlackBerry device comes with Apps (short for Applications). This refers to software written and designed to run on your blackberry device under the blackberry operating system. A BlackBerry comes with certain built in applications that can be found on every blackberry. Then the carrier (phone company) will include additional Apps that they put on all of their customer's BlackBerry phones. Finally, you have a massive selection of 3rd party Apps that you can choose from and install on your Blackberry phone.
Backup and Restore
When you use the BDM, BlackBerry Desktop Manager, to backup your blackberry phone, even when doing a full backup, you should keep in mind that no 3rd party Apps will be included in this type of backup.
Each BlackBerry phone has a unique PIN ID which is like a fingerprint, it makes your BlackBerry identifiable. When using BDM you can observe your PIN in the bottom left of the BDM home screen.
Using the Device Switch Wizard in BDM you will be able to preserve 3rd party Apps in a backup.
note: Tested this and apparently the newer BSM is not the same, making the following process deprecated. A new process is being investigated.
- Under "Switch BlackBerry devices," click Start.
- Under Options, CLEAR the check mark for "Device data and options," LEAVE the check mark for "Third-party applications," and CLEAR the check mark for "Update the software on my device."
- Click Next. The Device Switch Wizard will run, copying all your third party applications.
- When it reaches the point where it asks you to connect your new device, STOP.
- Click on the Start button and in the "Search programs and files" box, enter %temp% and press Enter. (This assumes you're running Windows. If you're running a Mac, that's great for you, but I don't know how to do this on Mac OS, sorry.)
- This should open a folder view of your temporary files folder, no matter where that sucker happens to be. Inside, you should see a folder that is named with your BlackBerry's PIN.
- COPY that folder (do NOT move it) to another place on your hard drive. I happen to put mine in my Downloads folder.
- This step is important. RENAME the folder that you copied. If you don't, you won't get a complete copy of all third party applications when you do this again in the future.
If your Blackberry device requires a restoration of data after a serious crash, in BDM click on the Application Loader at the main menu, then click Start under "Update Software."
- Click Start under "Add / Remove Applications."
- Wait for the applications list to load
- Click Browse
- Locate a file with name matching your BlackBerry's PIN and an extension of ALX - double click it
- Select the 3rd party Apps in the Applications List (now visible)
source for the above procedure: An article on The Gray Geek titled More BlackBerry Shenanigans, credit to author Mark Lautenschlager.
Apps
Control BlackBerry from PC
Text Editor / Memo
BBNotePad can be used as a replacement for the BlackBerry installed MemoPad. With BBNotepad you can open entries from the Memopad in the app as well as same them to your memory card, or back to Memopad. It is Free.
Troubleshooting and Support
Issues that impact several or all current BlackBerry device models. BlackBerry software issues included, and BlackBerry OS.
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