Blackberry

Mobility done right.

• 7230 Review
• 7750 Launch

Charging under Ubuntu:

The following incantations will tweak the USB port power to allow a Blackberry to charge:

# cat charge.sh
BLACKBERRY=`hal-find-by-property --key usb_device.product --string "Blackberry Handheld"`
BLACKBERRY_USB=`hal-find-by-property --key usb.product --string "USB Vendor Specific Interface" --key usb.vendor --string "Research In Motion, Ltd."`
hal-set-property --udi $BLACKBERRY --key usb_device.max_power --int 500
hal-set-property --udi $BLACKBERRY_USB --key usb.max_power --int 500

...or you can just use Barry, a Linux app that will sync your device and enable charging.

Generic:

• Blackberry Connect for Nokia devices.
• Making the Blackberry work with your IMAP mailbox. Pretty neat, actually.

Forums:

• Blackberry Forums
• International Blackberry User Group

RIM:

• Browser Demo
• RIM Road (add-on software)

Software:

• BrowserBoss (alternative browser)
• Magmic games (free trials)
• Ringtones
• Webmessenger (commercial service)
• eFile
• Java/MIDP/MidpSSH (there's also Mobile SSH)

Development:

• BlackBerry Development, Part 1, Part 2
• PocketMac Blackberry Edition - trial version doesn't support accented characters.
• SyncAgain - Mac OS X sync software

• Using the BB as a GPRS Modem (untested on VF-PT devices, may not work at all).

Key Combos:

• Task Switch: Alt+Esc
• Reset: Alt+Cap+Del
• Reorder Icons: Alt+Click (on unbranded devices only)
• Engineering Screen: Alt+Cap+h (unbranded devices only, provides access to GPRS data)
• Event Log: Alt+"LGLG" on home screen
• Alt+"NMLL" toggles network signal level display between graphical and numeric (unbranded devices only)

Hacks for pre-3.8 devices

Browser hack:

• Open the browser, then choose options.
• when you see Browser Config. and General Properties type the following.."RBRO" and four more options should popup.
• Click on Browser Config, scroll down to constrained content mode: Click on WML Only and change to Unconstrained.
• Back out one level, Saving the changes.
• Click on Browser Config. one more time, and scroll down to Content Mode: and Click on WML Only and change to WML and HTML.
• Back out and save changes again.