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Is that a brick in your pocket?

4th December 2008, 09:55 am

I love my Blackberry Curve. Had it about 3 months now and really pleased with it.

Yesterday I read on the web about an upgrade to the OS (to version 4.5) that improved a few things, including html e-mail – which it didn’t handle very well.

So I decided to upgrade. Now, whenever you upgrade the firmware on a ‘device’ there’s a chance that things could go horribly wrong, but if you take care, make sure the device has enough power and give things time to work everything’s normally ok.

But, after getting half way through the update process last night it bombed out, leaving me with a dead Curve. The only sign of life was a flashing red light (2 intermittent flashes).

Thankfully the Blackberry designers have designed the Curve so that not everything is wiped when you update the firmware and a quick search of the web turned up these instructions which brought my Blackberry back to life.

So thanks ‘Reed McLay‘ – I wasn’t looking forward to ‘life without Blackberry’!!



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2 Comments

  1. Leonardo Cohen:

    Did tou ever, by any chance, fould a SIP client for Blackberry ? :-)

    cheers

    Leonardo

    5 February 2010, 12:06 pm

  2. matt:

    I never did, no. I guess it will never happen either :-(

    I’ve since moved on to using an iPhone. There are some SIP clients for this which I’ve used for making outgoing calls over WiFi. It’s not good as a full time SIP phone though as you can’t have apps running in the background.

    5 February 2010, 6:33 pm

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