Hi all,

Here is one for the mix and I am hoping that someone has some kind of answer to it.

Yesterday I received a call, took it and after I disconnected (with it set to vibrate only) out of the speaker came "I want the Booty".

I kid you not!

I was in a noisy area and did not really hear the "song" and forgot about it until later when I was at home and recevied another call and when I hung up sure enough it played again.

It did the same thing after I hit the voice commands button and then hit the quit/hangup button.

I don't have that song in my songs stored on the phone nor do I have it as a ring tone.

It only played after it was disconnected.

I took it to the local store and amused the tech guy very much with the song. he asked if that was my ring tone and i pointed out that he had hung up the phone and then it played.

We did a soft reset and it stopped but I have a concern as to why that happened.

Are there virus' out there that could do something like this?

Thanks,

It's not a virus...it just seems to be a bug. It comes from an sms/mms message that has been going around. Battery pull usually fixes it.

Thanks that makes me feel better.

That would be a virus. Harmless...maybe, but still a virus.
IF what John Clark says is true. Very unsettling.

It's not a virus. It's an OS bug. It's triggered by receiving an MMS with sound. Any MMS not one particular MMS.

It is simply a bug and it has happened before in leaked software.

It has occurred on mine and several employees since the upgrade. Battery pull fixes the problem.

it's not from "leaked software."

It's simply an MMS message and the BB doesn't handle it right. As far as I know it's only happened in the 5.0 OS. It has happened to people that haven't installed leaked software.

I'm wondering if this is happening because people don't close out the media player after playing the ringtone. I can sort of duplicate this by playing a ringtone in the media player and then just escape out of it while it's playing. When I do that the Media Player continues to run until the ringtone is done, seemingly finished. But if I hit the mute key it starts again. I can hit the menu key on the home screen and there is a menu item that says "Now Playing..." If I select the "Now Playing..." option I'm taken to the media player with the same ringtone still there and if I then escape back out while the ringtone is stopped the media player is closed. Kind of odd behavior but it might explain the ringtone issue. When you combine that with other bugs in the new sms/mms issue it very well could just be a bug.

If the next person that runs into this can hit the menu key and see if the "Now Playing..." option is in the menu that may be the ticket to making it stop.

Wirelessly posted (tour 9630)

I tried to look in the now playing and there was nothing playing.

I have a similar problem. I received a MMS with an apparent children's song, "I've got the clap." It's only about 20 seconds long but it plays at random times. However, it does not play when my BB is on vibrate only. I deleted the message and cannot find the song file anywhere but it keeps playing!!! Not only is it annoying, it's also embarassing

Any ideas for a fix? Battery pull was unsuccessful.

RIM has acknowledged this is an issue but they do not have a fix as of yet:

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