My dad just got this phone tonight... switched over from the pearl 8100
He's using the BES servers through Tmo, and also through his work (only way it syncs the way he wants it to)
Problem is... there's a bunch of emails sitting in his message box, and we can't delete them one by one, or by "delete prior".. it just waits for a second, then goes back to showing all of the emails...
Seeing as this is a company email, quick replies would be greatly appreciated ;)

*sorry if this question is already asked, I didn't see it in the search from the first 2 pages though*

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Luckily I realized how unclear I was. He has the Curve 8320 (4.2.2.180) through tmobile. BES activated (I stated that part though)

how about if you delete and do a battery pull after?

No luck.
Delete - battery pull - power on - still there. try to delete again - still there.
Resent service books (because he was having issues when he first got it anway)
Still no delete or wipe of them..

I told him to just wait till tomorrow and go talk to tmobile.
(I did the battery pull and this sim card almost smacked me in the face - seems the locking cover is broken on that = return right away for daughters safety)

It's somewhat frustrating that his 17 yr old daughter is his IT department, but what can ya do ;)
Any other suggestions? I have yet to see a total "mater reset/clear" like my trusty motorola phones, I know you can re-install the OS, but I'm looking for options other than 45min-1hr solutions first =D

even if you press T (while on Messages) and select "Delete Prior" right? i'm guessing it has something to do with the fact that he's on BES

Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry8800/4.2.1 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/100)

I think ripac is right sounds like it has something to do with BES

I think he needs to talk to the BES Admin and make sure everything is set up correctly.

yup, i got two votes

That's the conclusion I came to last night also. I'm thinking it has something to do with the fact that he's got the BES system running on both the phone, and his email. Somewhere along the line they got mad and stopped communicating. He's going to tmobile today after he tries to talk to his IT guys at work, ill let you know what happens!

(other than the phone getting replaced because the sim card doesn't lock down at all)

--update--
I guess he got the card to lock, it's just extremely hard to push that door all the way.
He also called T-Mobile, and they said something along the lines of... hmmm, I don't know what that would be. You can try doing a master reset on the phone and see if that works?
This problem seems to be on tmobiles side though, because he's recieving emails just fine, just once he does they get a little lost and can't be deleted.

So, does anyone know the "master reset" of the 8320?
I know you can re-install the os, but there has to be an easier & less time consuming way..

The phone is missing the serivce books for those messages. You either need to wipe the device or add the service books that correspond to those messages. You best route is to talk to the BES Admin.

Good Luck!

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Here's a third vote for talking to IT department. I wonder, though, if the trip to tmo is a waste of time. From what I've absorbed here on BBF, I would think BES admin at employer is the person that can (or at least should be the one to) fix this.

Other than the whole going to the tmobile website and clicking the send service books, how do I do this? I did that last night with no luck.. is there something I'm missing? Could those be all the emails that were I guess technically sent to his 8100, and now they're like.. 'this isn't the phone I'm supposed to be on!!' ?
It's getting frustrating haha but I'm tryin =)

--also, my update on my last post asks about a "master reset"/ where is it located? Thats what tmobiles advice was, to do a reset. I'm hoping theres a faster way than a whole OS overhaul

-I just remembered-
He couldn't get his phone to connect to the BES, so I had him send service books that way, seeing if it fixed at least part of the problem (his employer BES wasn't happy about the PIN change) Could this have done something wrong, because technically there wasn't a BES email account active at the time it got all those emails?
I know it sent the books for the email he set up through the BIS as well though, so it makes me think that at least there was an email somewhere in the mix?

I'm not sure that makes sense.. but basically, can sending the service books before he could log into the BES be the problem?

Which emails can't you delete? The ones from his BES account (my guess) or the ones from BIS? You can't send the BES service books his work has to do that. And know sending the BIS service books will not mess anything up for the BES service books. Unless you set up his work account via BIS then he will get duplicate messages.

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He was getting duplicate messages, and I told him delete the BIS email. Lol I knew that part!

For whatever reason he wouldn't talk to his work about it... which kinda made me mad..
But I guess 2 nights ago he went and re-installed the OS, which of course cleared the phone. I wish I had an actual answer to how to fix the problem, other than a 45min re-install.. but what can ya do?

I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have happened if he had just waited the less than 12 hours to go to work and have them help.. but no. He had to have it working, at midnight that night. *shrugs*

Thanks for your opinions!
I have yet to decide which side of the BES system this problem was on though, because he's got the tmo side, and a $25/yr work side..
Since he could receive the emails, but not delete them, I'm thinking it was tmobiles issue? But they, of course, are no help.

Either way, a fresh install of the OS can solve this problem we now know =D