[pvdiamon]

I use it with my Pearl....I love the program although it is buggy. I have it blinking red for missed call, orange custom color for email, blue for text and voice mail. It doesn't do well for other events, and sometimes, it keeps blinking blue even though I have checked all messages. But it's workable and a definite plus to no lights.

John

[Tritan]

Originally Posted by pvdiamon

I use it with my Pearl....I love the program although it is buggy. I have it blinking red for missed call, orange custom color for email, blue for text and voice mail. It doesn't do well for other events, and sometimes, it keeps blinking blue even though I have checked all messages. But it's workable and a definite plus to no lights.

John

I think I will hold off for now. thanks for the review is there anything out there that is better supported?

[Klotar]

These were previously mentioned, but a couple tips:

1) Remember to set permissions to Allow. After first battery pull or reboot, check permissions again to see that they "took".

2) CHECK YOUR PROFILES. Check your profiles not only to ensure that the Blackberry Alerts line entry is there, but also every line entry for which you have set an LED notification for in BB Alerts.

For example, let's say you want your LED to blink yellow when you get an email. I won't go into how to set that up in BB Alerts, since that's a no-brainer. But also go into EACH of your Profiles for EACH email account and set REPEAT NOTIFICATION to NONE. So if you have 5 Profiles and 5 email accounts, that's 25 lines that you have to edit, x 2 (in holster and out of holster) = 50. And that's just email. The same applies to Calendar, Phone, SMS, etc. Otherwise, the BB's built-in repeat notification and BB Alerts may conflict and give unpredictable results. This does not apply in all cases but may solve some of your problems.

3) Use the latest version, at time of writing, it's v1.65. Anything older isn't worth troubleshooting.

4) for SMS and/or CDMA issues, visit the author's site for tips: BByMel Software

[karaz]

Originally Posted by Chichum

Anyone know if this works for the storm from Verizon?

Just downloaded it and the LED alerts are working perfectly on my Storm...custom colors and everything! Storm users make sure to set permissions to allow and disable compatibility mode as mentioned earlier in the thread. I wasn't able to get rid of my keyboard or click on anything before that.

Ok first post so please be easy on me. I've used the search function here, on other forums and all over Google and just can't get answers to this question...perhaps it because I'm on the Storm and the filters aren't enabled?

How do you set up the filters? When I click "Set Up Filters" I get a message that says...Select Add Filter from menu or edit existing filter. Obviously there is no option in the menu to Add Filter or I wouldn't be asking this lol. Am I supposed to be adding the filters from some other menu? I've searched everywhere on the Storm. Am I missing something really obvious?


Really love this app and hope I can get this feature working but will probably still buy it just so I can have my LED light up in pink

Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions!

[tinmannick]

Because Handago does not list the 8350i as a supported platform, I downloaded a trial version of BBalerts and selected the Blackberry 8330 download. Installed it on my phone and so far so good. I have one week to see if any bugs pop up, but so far it works.

[karaz]

Update on the Filters for anyone using the Storm (who happens to be as stupid as I am lol)...I emailed Mel and he told all you have to do is click the menu button to set up the filters...the click it again to add the filters < n00b here didn't think to click the menu button again! Thanks so much Mel.

For any Storm users interested in getting BB Alerts...I've been using it about 5 days now and all features are running flawlessly!!! Handango lists the product as not being compatible with the Storm, but it's been 100% smooth for me...def at least download the trial on your Storm and try it out!

[Rooster99]

Thanks for this thread - the Handango "not compatible" message put me off for a while.

But now I've installed it on my 9530 with Telus running .75 and the colour LED alerts seem to work great. However, the sound alerts aren't repeating. If I set Vibrate on Alert on, I get vibrate alerts at the frequency I set. But I don't get the sound. And if I turn Vibrate on Alert off, I get no repeats at all.

Is anyone else experiencing this? Any ideas?

TIA - R.

[karaz]

Hi Rooster!!

Yea I keep saying (on here and over on CrackBerry) how perfectly BB Alerts works on the Storm, but I realized that I should be saying the LED's work perfectly because I haven't really tried the sound alerts! I've seen a few posts mentioning problems with the sounds like you're having.

Mel was really nice and helpful when I emailed him about the filters, maybe he could offer some input on this too?

[monkeyfez]

anyone using this on the storm able to set the schedule? I can't get it to allow me to select OK when setting the interval times.....very frustrating.

[Rooster99]

I also discovered at 1:30 this morning that even if you have selected the Phone Only sound profile, if in BB Alerts you have the Vibrate on Alert turned on, if you get an email that sucker will vibrate.

And if it's on a hard surfaced night table by your head and you're a light sleeper, it WILL wake you up!

I can live with the vibrate being the only repeated sound alert - at least that would tell me I had to look at the BB to see what I'd missed. But there's no way I can use it if I have to remember to change an option every night before I go to bed.

- R.

[eccles]

what are PIN messages?

[Shaun]

Originally Posted by eccles

what are PIN messages?

Very similar to SMS, except they are sent using the recipient's PIN.

You can send them by launching the menu from an inbox, and selecting "Compose PIN Message".

[PDM]

Originally Posted by Rooster99

[...]
But there's no way I can use it if I have to remember to change an option every night before I go to bed.

Why not let the profiles "vibrate" for alerts and disable vibrate within BBAlerts?

Wouldn't that give you what you are looking for?

[Rooster99]

Sorry, PDM, I don't follow.

"Why not let the profiles "vibrate" for alerts and disable vibrate within BBAlerts? Wouldn't that give you what you are looking for?"

All this does is give me a single vibrate when the alert initially goes off and silence following that. I still get woken up at night (yes, one will do it), and miss out on the benefit of any repeated audible reminder.

Am I missing something???

- R

[Klotar]

So Rooster99, what exactly is it that you are looking for? I think I follow, but can you clarify?

At night, you want the initial notification, via LED only and repeat notification via LED only? But during the day, you like both LED and vibrate, both for the initial and repeat notifications?

[Velcrohead]

I had this app before 4.5 OS, and when I upgraded to 4.5 it wouldn't work properly.

However I decided to see if any updated versions support 4.5 os and apparently they do, as its working great just as it did in my old OS.

I couldn't recall what version of blackberry alerts I had pre 4.5os though.

Great app!

[Rooster99]

Hi Klotar :

At night I would like to have initial and repeat notification via LED only, except for phone. For phone I would like initial notification (ring) to be audible and LED, and repeat notification to be LED only. "Night" mode would be triggered manually by selecting "Phone only" or other sound profile.

During the day I would like initial and repeat notification on all events to be profile tone plus LED. A reasonable substitute would be initial notification on all events to be profile tone plus LED, with repeat notification to be via LED and vibrate only.

These are ideals. if a vibrate needs to be added during the day somewhere that's ok - but not at night.

As an FYI, now that I've used it this way for a couple of days, having all repeat notifications via LED only seems to be ok. Haven't carried my phone by hand into a theater after curtain call or pulled it out at night yet, though.

TIA - R.

[greggov]

Originally Posted by Rooster99

Hi Klotar :

At night I would like to have initial and repeat notification via LED only, except for phone. For phone I would like initial notification (ring) to be audible and LED, and repeat notification to be LED only. "Night" mode would be triggered manually by selecting "Phone only" or other sound profile.

During the day I would like initial and repeat notification on all events to be profile tone plus LED. A reasonable substitute would be initial notification on all events to be profile tone plus LED, with repeat notification to be via LED and vibrate only.

These are ideals. if a vibrate needs to be added during the day somewhere that's ok - but not at night.

As an FYI, now that I've used it this way for a couple of days, having all repeat notifications via LED only seems to be ok. Haven't carried my phone by hand into a theater after curtain call or pulled it out at night yet, though.

TIA - R.

sorry to interject here, but I think this may be what you're looking for. In BB Alerts, go to options -> audio type. From what I gather it seems you have it set on "Profiles"? If you change it to "separate profiles" it creates entries for Calls, Email, SMS and Voicemail within each profile (Vibrate, Normal, Phone Only, etc)

From here you can create separate sounds for each. So for example, in your Normal profile you can set it up so sounds Beep1, Beep2, Beep3, and Beep4 play for Calls, Email, SMS and Voicemail, respectively, along with the LED Notification.

In Phone Only profile, you can only set Beep1 to keep reminding you of missed calls audibly, and set the rest to tone:none/mute. The LED will still blink.

Before bed, put it in Phone Only (or whatever profile you have created for this) and that will stop the rest of the alerts from sounding.

Is that what you're looking for?

[Rooster99]

Hi greggov - thanks for the tips.

I changed my Audio Type from Profiles to "Separate Profiles" flag. I'd already had the separate entries for Phone, EMail, SMS etc. you described, but I'm thinking this will now give have the audio repeat notification come through as set in each sound profile. We'll see.

However, you suggest I edit the Phone Only sound profile and I can't figure out how to do that. When I click on that profile it simply becomes active. When I just select it without clicking, there are no options available. I tried selecting it, then using Set Ring Tones/Alerts but that only seems to change the Normal profile.

I'm using a Storm - maybe that makes it weird? There's nothing in the Storm manual on how to do this - in fact it seems to indicate you can't edit the preloaded profiles. Any tips on what I'm doing wrong?

Update :

1) Changing audio type to Separate Profiles had no effect. Still no audio repeat notification. I think this just doesn't work on the Storm and have given up on it. Have had a couple of email exchanges with the developer and no real response on this.

2) Have seen documentation from Verizon stating that preloaded sound profiles can't be edited - RIM says this is working as designed and Verizon is escalating as they want that capability. Given this, my guess is that the vibrate repeat notification still occurring with the Phone Only profile is a bug in Blackberry Alerts.

3) Combining #1 and #2, I've just turned Vibrate on Alert off and am using the LED repeat notification only. Not 100% of what I hoped for, but it does the job.

I must admit that while I really like this app and will pay for it, I'm disappointed at the lack of upgrade to true Storm compatibility. My guess is this is a dead app and there will be a point somewhere not too long in the future where I will have to find another product to provide repeat notifications.

- R.

[Rooster99]

I just bought it last night off Handango

- R.