SYSADMINMAN

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’!!

I love my new Blackberry Curve! I had a small problem setting up the Google Calendar Sync and thought this might help someone else.

I had no problem installing the software from http://m.google.com/sync – just point your Blackberry web browser at that URL.

However, when I logged in and tried to sync my calendars (I have 5 different calendars setup) I only saw “Default Calendar” listed under “My Calendars”.

It turns out this was because I was logging in to Google Sync using a secondary e-mail address I have assigned to my Gmail account (ie I was logging into Google Sync using user@mydomain.com rather than user@gmail.com)

When I logged in to Google Sync using my Gmail username (user@gmail.com) all of my calendars were listed under options after the initial sync.