Hi,
I dont have data plan, just use GPRS with Opera Mini. Can someone post the jad or jar file for the Gmail 1.5 for BB so i can turn it into alx and cod and upload it via upload manager?
Thanks and I greatly appreciate it

Looks like the just released 1.5.1. Hopefully they have fixed the problems many of us are having. Downloading now...

The .jad file is here:
http://www.gmail.com/app/v1.5.1/L1/gm-BlackBerry-42.jad

Hint for non-BIS users:
You can use the User Agent Switcher plugin (http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/59) for the Firefox browser and set up a new User Agent "BlackBerry8700/4.2.1" (replace 8700 with your BB model and 4.2.1 with your OS version if needed) to download practically ANY OTA installer in order to make your own ALX installer. Just switch to this fake BB user agent and open the OTA link, e.g. Gmail, so the web page will believe that your computer is a BlackBerry and happily deliver the .jad file.

Thanks for the Jad file, but in order to make alx and cod i also need the jar file? do u have any suggestions how to create jar from jad?
Thanks

The jar file is linked to in the jad, but you do NOT need it. Simply grab the cod files listed in the jad and create the alx, that's everything you need.

Now you confused me. Which app do i use to open the open the jad and get the cod? I know how to write the alx.. but how do i get the cod?

Thanks a bunch

You can open the .jad file (OTA installer) you have downloaded with any text editor. In there, you will find the names of the .cod files as follows (Gmail app; in this case there are 3 files):

RIM-COD-URL-0: gm_42_L1.cod
RIM-COD-Size-0: 95264
RIM-COD-URL-1: gm_42_L1-1.cod
RIM-COD-Size-1: 91736
RIM-COD-URL-2: gm_42_L1-2.cod
RIM-COD-Size-2: 63556

To find out the actual URLs of those files you can use the URL of the .jad file which is:
http://www.gmail.com/app/v1.5.1/L1/gm-BlackBerry-42.jad

The .cod files are in the same path, so the URLs are:

http://www.gmail.com/app/v1.5.1/L1/gm_42_L1.cod
http://www.gmail.com/app/v1.5.1/L1/gm_42_L1-1.cod
http://www.gmail.com/app/v1.5.1/L1/gm_42_L1-2.cod

Download these files to a folder and you are ready to go. The ALX I created looks like this (to be saved in the same folder as the .cod files):

I hope this helps .


P.S.: Having no BIS / BES myself, I installed Gmail (among a whole bunch of other OTA-only applications) in the way described here, so I can tell for sure this will work if done correctly. I don't post the actual installer package here because I feel Google would not be happy about it.

I will try to install it as you suggested and let you know if it worked.
I'll also try the same with other apps.
Thanks

It works. Thanks for the 411...

Has anyone come up with a solution to the LED blinking problem? Mine works except for that.

I read on another board, that you have to disable the LED indicator for the GMail application. It has it's own profile, so it won't disrupt any of the other indicators.

(for the masses)

I wrote a nice (well, nice in my opinion ) blog post on how to put this all together for folks, it's exactly what I used to get all those URLs I posted previously.

nokia symbian user agents & phone masquerading « rivviepop phantom

Ignore the whole Nokia aspect of it, I was using a S60 device when it was written - it works the same for anything you're doing, not just Nokia.

BTW one feature that's so small but makes a huge difference in 1.5.1 -- they added spacebar scrolling down in an email! That was the most frustrating thing about 1.1.0, it made scrolling through large stuff a real pain.

The Del key still doesn't delete an email yet and there's no way to label an email/conversation before Archiving it, though. *sigh* The new Contacts feature is pretty neat but lags a bit, kinda unusable.

this happened to me when I installed the new google talk. re-register.

Go to:
Options
Advanced
Host Routing Table
Click the scroll wheel and choose "Register Now"

Google talk worked after that.

Give it a try.

I have the new GMail app and it's working. My only (and big) complain is that it does NOT show/highlight hyperlinks. why not? That really sucks! Is there a way to fix this? It clearly highlights the obvious web addresses within an email (www.______.com) but how do I get it to highlight links such as "for more info click here" that have the web address embedded into the "click here". I get a lot of emails that have this. If it can't be done, that's a deal-breaker for me!

Thanks for any help you can offer.

I don't think there's anything we can do, I face the same problem - when I get spam-like newsletters and want to use the Unsubscribe link that's inevitably at the end it's not hyperlinked. I go back to the usual Messages applet where I can click the link to get the job done then... *shrug* (hey it works )

does anyone know how much data this uses to send and receive messages?

I had been using the Gmail applet for a while and then I realized that accessing Gmail with the BB Browser is actually a pretty pleasant experience.

It's a bit annoying to enter user and password everytime I reset the bb with v1.5.1

Best,
Jaime

This application is also useful for people who don't want to subscribe to a BlackBerry plan, or who use a carrier that does not support BlackBerry (another country, for example).

BlackBerry can work without a BlackBerry plan -- and use generic Internet data instead (like Nokia, etc). GMAIL Mobile works great on this. See the Networking forum for the FAQ on using a BlackBerry on a non-BlackBerry plan.