[flem54]

I choose the 7130e because I want a phone and a PDA. I have no need for data service. On my personnal account with Bell, when I change to the 7130e, I had no problem, I tried the Data service for a month, I don't need it. So I cancel this service. From then, I got problem, I don't receive call or message! If I made a call, I got my indicator of message ???

I call Bell mobility, they told me it's normal, the BB need to find a data server, if there's not, It stop receiving. If I made a call, it's start back. But before I got the data service, it was working just fine. Bell put back a free service I got before the data, Internet access (fees by MB). The BB work fine again.

I love this machine, so at my job, they give me a cell phone. I buy a used BB 7130e, I chage the phone (I paid for), and I got the same problem. But I can't add the Internet service, I have no control on the account.

Is there a thing I can do on the BB to stop this?

[morskayaswinya]

I seem to have the same issue. I signed up for the BB internet service and decided to cancel it after several months. I was getting charged for "casual data usage" which made my bill equal to what is was with the BIS. I called and had all data service shut off to my phone. Since that time I have two problems, one is a very bad signal/call quality. The second is the battery life has gone down the tubes. A full battery charge does not last an entire day. I want to have the digital signal re-enabled for my phone but don't want to risk any bogus charges for the "casual data usage". Has anyone else had this problem and what was the result?

[Dawg]

BBs are designed to have a data package especially the older ones. As long as they are trying to send data the battery life will suck.

I had a 7130e for 8 months and the battery life wasnt great anyway maybe 9 hours. But if it was looking for signal I got maybe 6 hours.

[EclipseGSohsix]

hey at least you can have the option of disabling your BIS... i activated mine this summer through USCC when i could afford it with plans to cancel at the end of summer (since they said i could do so at any time). when i went back at the end of summer to disable it, they said it was a policy that they could no longer do that, and that i was stuck paying $100 a month... or i could buy a piece of shit phone for what, $300 for the normally free phone? i think it's BS that they did this, because they said during the summer that i could disable it, and sent me no notification about making it a permanent deal, and i know for a fact that someone on the US Cellular food chain has the authority to do it. i sent emails about it and they fed me some bullshit response, and then never responded back to my other ones.