I Did download 5.0 and its been nothing but a problem. Had to remove and redo my phone and I am still having a problem with the original version!!!

I just had the same problem. Had to re-install everything and my original bb messenger is still not working properly. grrr

There is an Outage going on right now.

http://www.blackberryforums.com/netw...ml#post1435897

Has anyone tried typing myver in their BBM? I did and it showed 5.0.0.8. I never tried that in previous versions. I just thought it was interesting.

Mine says 4.7.1.40

Try a smaller file size as an avatar. Sometime (Mostly) bigger file sizes won't show up (size limit maybe?).

...and mines said,

9000/4.6.0.282

once the new bbm stabilizes that's when i shall install it, i refuse to lose any more contacts and have that screen saying it's swapping accounts etc..

what outage..what does that mean and how does affect the bbm

Have u replaced your blackberry to a new one?

Why don't you wanna say yes to the account change?

Correct me if i am wrong guys.

Our Blackberrys run on BIS (Blackberry Internet Service), this is what makes our internet/data work and also BBMessenger.

Sometimes/Most times, this service is down in many areas causing delays on bbmessages, email and applications?. Only leaving you with the choice for calls only.

This is the outage people are referring to.

I have 2 email accounts on my BIS. One is my personal gmail and one is my work email. the bbm was associating itself to my work account, which i definitely don't want! and if i hit cancel, it comes that it will wipe my contacts.

i haven't swapped my bb for a new one.

I'm not sure if it is related or not, but after performing the procedure outlined on Pinstack to restore the Internet Browser (I did this so I could install BBM 5 OTA), I noticed three changes in the phone.

1. Internet Browser did indeed come back and works great!
2. I had two icons now under SETUP for EMAIL SETTINGS. One icons brings up the screen as it usually does. The other is really ugly and the text is somewhat garbled with Ascii-like text
3. My SMS text feature no longer works.

This was done while running OS 5.0.0.100 on my Bold with BBM 5. I'm wondering if the part of this procedure where the service books are manually installed from the zip file is what messed me up? I'd bet those service books are older than the ones my OS uses. Manually sending a request for service books from the phone doesn't cure it either.

I have downgraded to the .282 OS after doing a clean wipe, but the problem still remains. Once .282 was installed, I installed BBM 5 again but this time via the device manager instead of OTA.

The SMS still doesn't work though.

Any ideas to help me anyone? I really would hate to get rid of the BBM5, but SMS it pretty important to me.

Thanks in advance for any help you may have to offer!!

Correct me if i'm wrong, but bbm is part of your data plan and SMS is part of phone plan right? it doesn't need data.. so i'm confused how it stopped working? try downgrading back to bbm 4.6 and see if it works?

Mine was a complete failure. When I reverted back to the old edition, I had to reregister and do a battery pull because my BBM and PIN messages were not working. I'm okay now =)

You're right. Data runs BBM/PIN. MMS is part of your text package. 4.6 will work but you may need a couple of battery pulls and a few minutes to spare. I reloaded my .282 to get my old version back. It wasn't working at all. I reregistered, pulled the batter and gave her a soft reset. It is all up now.

Do a battery pull and reregister the phone.

SETTINGS - OPTIONS - ADVANCED OPTIONS - HOST ROUTING TABLE - REGISTER.

You may also want to resend the service books.

I'm having a problem...I just downloaded BBM 5.0 to my Tour, and now I can't find the icon on my phone. I checked the home screen (where it should be), the IM folder and still nothing. When I go to the application list in options, it lists BBM 5.0, but I can't find it!

Any help?

try re-registring it.. the post how to do it is right above yours..
after re-register do a batterypull..
if that doesn't work
backup your phone. delete BBM5.0
and try installing it via desktop.

and if that doesn't work revert back to 4.6

As a follow-up, here's the status of my BBM 5 adventure:

I tried all of the service book, re-registration, and battery pull tricks. Nothing would restore my SMS. So, I wiped the phone, reinstalled OS 5.100 and verified that SMS worked once again, which it did.

Then, installed BBM 5 via OTA and SMS immediately was DOA (haha - just wanted to use another acronym!). Damn.... Once again tried all the "tricks" and nothing would help, so......re-wipe and re-install OS 5. SMS worked....this time installed BBM 5 via DM. Sure enough SMS was broken. Once again, tried all the tricks and SMS would not return.

Next step was to repeat the above steps, but now with the .282 OS installed. Got the same results. No matter what I did on each OS I tried, SMS would stop functioning as soon as BBM 5 was installed on the device.

So, to make a long story short (too late, I know), I did a last wipe of the device and installed .282 and am using the version of BBM that comes with it. Everything works great, including SMS.

I really liked BBM 5 and I look forward to the next leak or official release. Until then though, I'm done with it.

Anyway....that's just my experience. It seems everyone is having very varied results. Good luck everyone.

I downloaded bbm 5 on my curve 8310. Everything seems to be working except that I cannot receive all my bbm. The one's I send are fine, but I don't get all the ones that have been sent to me. Any suggestions?

can someone PM me a working OTA link for the 83xx ? I'm trying to help out 2 friends that want the upgrade, and I cant find a valid link anywhere anymore.

Good OTA DL HERE

Go back to the one that was originally on your BB, this is a beta version of BBM.

For this here, you can change the associated email in the 'Edit My Info' at the bottom under 'Recovery Emails'. I did this the first time I installed it. Last night when I updated to OS 5.0.0.130, I had to reinstall BBM5 and it automatically restored all my contacts wirelessly because of that email. I checked in my outlook and it had sent an email to my address (the one I wanted and changed it to originally) that BBM reads to know what that's it's yours. So changing it did work.

someone sent me their barcode via email and also posted it on a forum and my BB could not scan it :(

So far I like it. I see where its heading to be (Like BB facebook).
The only thing i noticed so far that i cant change my email address for back up. Does anyone have feedback on this?

err.. was there an outtage again today.. cause it was slow with the D and R letters again..

Go to your info in BBM and all the way down the bottom.

Im pretty much having all the same issues that you guys are having and considering moving back to the original...Only issue is that i dont know how to get the old bbm back. any words of adviceÉ

does anyone have a quick solve for the issue.. where sometimes you can't see what you're typing and later on you get a java.IO.exception error. then the text bar might or might not appear after that.. but sooner or later it will? cuz it gets annoying.. i mean 5.0 is great.. i just wish there's a way to get my textbox sooner >_<

and if anyone knows if location sharing works.. cuz everytime i try to send to my friend my location it says sent.. but they never receive it :/

The problems I was having is that some msg's was not going through or it was taking a while for them to go through. Would this fix that? I already reverted back last night but I can reinstall it if I had the OTA link again.

I had the same problem when i first installed it.. I noticed in the application list it wasn't listed so I was guessing that was partially the problem. I also think I got the 4.6.1 version instead of the regular 4.6 version the first time around.

Try reinstalling it. It worked for me :o

I also have the problem of lag in sending the messages. Will try the 'register' solution. Hope this will work.

Still have the lag. I am getting a bit annoyed from it.


(.266 and BBM 5.0)

Will try some upgrading....., maybe that will work..

BUMP.. Anyone else having this issue I now have three email invites with barcode and can't use them.

i download the BBM5 on my tour 9630 4.7.1.40 and when i get a pic sometimes its a small pic not on full screen other times i need to save it before i can fiew it..when i try to send a pic it will try to crop and save the pic....any idea ???

does anyone here know if you do indeed follow these steps, on downgrading from the downloaded 5.0 bbm version back to a 4.6 version (thats what the regular bold one is) and do the downgrade from the 5.0 back to the 4.6 on a bold, you will still have all your bbm contacts in the program, once the 4.6 is loaded.

hello yes, you will have all your contacts back.
i explain.
you make a backup before you downgrade, so that when you restore your phone you get back all your contacts.

On another note:
anyone have this issue:
i have bbm5.0. i did quickpull, and reset the phone, and noticed my contact list went all cuckoo. and i lost about 6 contacts.
anyone have the same problem? is this going to be an issue all the time?

I have used the barcode to add probably 12 contacts...all work well, must have camera at just the right angle...it's a little tricky at first but it does work...at least for me...

-emb