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bremere · 08-21-2009, 11:04 PM

Has anyone else experienced the follwoing:

Some of the avitar's are "greyed out" due to not talking to those contacts in several days, and when they are "greyed out" you can not move the contact into a custom group...this is the first I am noticing it....

CoDudette · **OS:** 4.6.0.282

it's FRUSTRATING when you lose some contacts for no apparent reason!

culture · **OS:** 4.6.0.301

My BBM5 has been working great for about a month or so now. I do have one thing thats sort of annoying: the message histories will only stay on the phone for a couple weeks then they will slowly delete. Is this supposed to be happening?

bimmerd00d · 08-25-2009, 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by culture

My BBM5 has been working great for about a month or so now. I do have one thing thats sort of annoying: the message histories will only stay on the phone for a couple weeks then they will slowly delete. Is this supposed to be happening?

Set the archive time higher. After 25 days mine delete.

rick chi-town · 08-26-2009, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by darkamikaze

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 :/

I'll jump in here, I posted this over on a different forum... ummm... the location feature is definitely a bug in this version... note to anyone else trying this version, if you try it, DO NOT use the location feature!~ It took me 1/2 a day to get my phone back up and running. I basically had to wipe it back to new, re-install the OS, everything. An absolute royal PITA, that much I do know. Otherwise, for the 10hrs it was on my phone it was very cool! I'll wait for the official release at this point... Does anyone know when it'll be officially released?

ricpac · 07:18 PM

Hey guys. Sorry for asking this... So I updated to .190(8900) earlier today and for some reason (or maybe I just was in a hurry to click next) it uninstalled BBM. Now I lost all my contacts! But before I went through the whole upgrade process, I'm sure I made 2 full BUs just to be sure... is there any way I could extract the BBM contacts list there? Or there's no way I could ever take 'em back?

EDIT: I was running BBM 5.0.8 on .250 before .190...

darkamikaze · **OS:** 4.6.0.266

i believe you can get go to restore/backup and advanced through BBDM. open your backup file.. and get contacts from there?

f1mike · **Bad COD files with OTA Install -** 09-03-2009, 09:53 PM

I have tried to install BBM 5 on my 8900 (4.6.1.250) using OTA and i get an error message saying corrupt COD file.

I tried downloading the BBM 5 files for desktop install and it say the application is not compatible with my device.

I made sure to download the 8900 version for 4.6.1

The OS software on my BB is not Beta software.

Any suggestions??

Mike
PIN: 24A5AF44

DyMndSkiR · **OS:** 4.6.1.231

Quote:

Originally Posted by f1mike

I have tried to install BBM 5 on my 8900 (4.6.1.250) using OTA and i get an error message saying corrupt COD file.

I tried downloading the BBM 5 files for desktop install and it say the application is not compatible with my device.

I made sure to download the 8900 version for 4.6.1

The OS software on my BB is not Beta software.

Any suggestions??

Mike
PIN: 24A5AF44

I had the same issues, and have found many threads with the same problems.

Some people have had luck using javaloader to install the cod files, but this method did not work for me either. Maybe you'll have better luck with it.

mobileexpress · **OS:** 5.0.0.348

I installed the 8900 beta 5.0 software but it does not show up under adding new applications as a higher upgrade than the 4.6 i currently have...any ideas as to why it doesnt show? im running desktop 5.0

Carlosrey23 · **OS:** 4.6.1.231

I installed BBM 5.0.0.8, but I cannot see it on my BB????

Did I missi something???

chelseah · **version 5 -** 10-02-2009, 02:01 PM

i did update nothing but humbug removed it reinstalled version 4.7 lot more stable

jason1114 · 10-08-2009, 06:24 AM

BBM 5.0.0.33 is officially released in the App store........ Happy Dowloading

CoDudette · **OS:** 4.6.0.282

hallelujah! official version just installed on one phone! :D

yislam · **file free after install BBM5 -** 10-08-2009, 06:54 AM

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Originally Posted by jason1114

BBM 5.0.0.33 is officially released in the App store........ Happy Dowloading

After installing the new BBM 5 I noticed my File Free has gone down from about 32Meg to 29Meg after a reboot. Any idead why?

DyMndSkiR · **OS:** 4.6.1.231

Well the download listed for me from AppWorld at 2.8MB, so that would be why.

yislam · 10-08-2009, 03:20 PM

Yes true, but we are replacing the old version which I presume would have been of similar size???

Quote:

Originally Posted by DyMndSkiR

Well the download listed for me from AppWorld at 2.8MB, so that would be why.

nick.dollimount · **OS:** 5.0.0.348

Quote:

Originally Posted by yislam

Yes true, but we are replacing the old version which I presume would have been of similar size???

If I remember correctly, I could be wrong, I think 4.6/4.7 was only around 400-500kb. I'll double-check.

nick.dollimount · **OS:** 5.0.0.348

Okay so I was wrong. 4.6 is 327.3Kb. So there is a big difference. A lot more features in 5.0, that's for sure.

Quincar · **OS:** 5.0.0.238

does the new BBM work on 5.0.0.238

yislam · 10-09-2009, 07:48 AM

Thanks for that.

Quote:

Originally Posted by nick.dollimount

Okay so I was wrong. 4.6 is 327.3Kb. So there is a big difference. A lot more features in 5.0, that's for sure.

CoDudette · **OS:** 4.6.0.282

yay! working brilliantly. just a couple of things that bug me..
if the message isn't read, the person doesn't show 'away' :(
secondly if you're unavailable, you STILL get the alert. which again is a hassle! :(

Mandizzle · **OS:** 5.0.0.314

Quote:

Originally Posted by Quincar

does the new BBM work on 5.0.0.238

Yes, it does. Running .238 w/ BBM5 on my Bold.

fish1856 · **OS:** 4.6.1.250

Has anyone noticed that the file sending on here requires you to save everything now? I know this probably has to do with the larger file sizes that are coming with the 5.0 os, but is there anyway to turn this off so when my friends send me stupid pictures (which they do, a lot) I don't have to save every single one of them to my memory card. I know that the larger files will require download, just the pictures are really annoying.

qaziandehlu · **OS:** 4.6.0.303

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Originally Posted by RobVegas

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.

RobVegas,

I did have similar problem, but My SMS is working, it is just that it was moved to the messages folder.

The solution is quite simple, go to Messages => Options => General Options
and then look under "SMS and Email Inboxes", and make sure the value are changed to "Separate", because mine was "Theme Controlled" so the SMS and the Inboxes were combine.

Hope this helps

qaziandehlu · **OS:** 4.6.0.303

When I open up my Blackberry Groups, and under the members there are some icons on the right hand side.
Can anyone tell me what those icons means?

SiddharthaNeogi · **Blackberry Messenger 5.0 -** 11-07-2009, 02:32 AM

I downloaded the blackberry messenger 5.0 yesterday. I use 8700g. the funny thing is that I am unable to view the menu, whatever I do.

Can somebody please help.