Blackberry devices?

[STUBBS]

work has just upgraded my phone to a nokia e71 great phone

 

[BeemerBaz]

I have the Blackberry Storm and have one question fir those that have one...........

How do you increase the amount of rings before it switches to voice mail ?
The most it seems to do by default is 6, but by the time you get the phone from your pocket and look whose calling its too late !!

 

[judge]

I have the Blackberry Storm and have one question fir those that have one...........

How do you increase the amount of rings before it switches to voice mail ?
The most it seems to do by default is 6, but by the time you get the phone from your pocket and look whose calling its too late !!

Generally this is a Network provider issue, though I find that if I use escalate or vibration then a vibe 'ring' tends to remove a ring 'ring' if you see what I mean, i.e. no vibration 6 rings, with vibration in escalate mode vibrate then 4 rings.

Normally extending the amount of rings before voicemail cuts in is something a your network provider can sort for you. I know of someone here who wanted his National Anthem in full verse then chorus mode before the voicemail cut in, a call to his provider sorted this and Bakerman can now sing along to God Save The Queen in its entirety

 

[Wapping]

Generally this is a Network provider issue, though I

Thanks for that.

I am on the case myself to Vodafone, who time it so that I can't quite just make it from one floor to another in Wapping Towers.

I guess they cut the ring time before divert down so that you are forced to call voicemail?

 

[judge]

I guess they cut the ring time before divert down so that you are forced to call voicemail?

Are you suggesting there is a business interest behind this

 

[Wapping]

Are you suggesting there is a business interest behind this

If there isn't there bloody well should be.

It is timed exactly so I hear the phone, trot up or down stairs, to arrive just in time to hear it switch.

Vodafone voicemail will then call me 10 times to tell me I have a message.

One less stair riser in any direction, happiness.

 

[BeemerBaz]

I have been doing some searching on the Vodafone Blackberry forums and found the following.........

type this into your handset:

**61*+447836121121*10*(5 - 30 seconds)# Send

brackets bit is either 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, or 30 and the Send bit is like tou are making a call

Now to give it a try

 

[BeemerBaz]

..or I will when I get a signal !

 

[BeemerBaz]

Yep it works, thank heavens for that.

 

[harry the cat]

Crackberry

I'm with Ianf on this, I think they're an invention of the devil My firm gave me one when they first came out to replace the mobile I had for 'on call' purposes.

Suddenly the world was full of grovelling fools replying to e mails in the early hours to impress bosses, or ostentatiously using them in meetings, and bosses using it as a tool to chase people about generally unimportant things to look important.

A contact in O2 christened them as 'crackberries' due to their effect on the unwary.

I found letting the battery run down and swopping it for another mobile worked.

 

[Oberon]

Blackberry Bold

Got a Bold the other week. Good bit of kit IMHO, got the BB map files but no icon to open maps with.
Does anyone have any idea what ive done wrong with the setup????

Been searching but no answers so far.

Oberon

 

[santrix]

Slightly related but not quite. SAMSUNG OMNIA, good battery life, i have one of these and i run google maps with gps, Garmin Mobile XT with the whole of the 2009 maps on it and also Memory Map with all of the Uk on it for those trail riding moments. The GPS works faultlessly with all of these applications, bloody fantastic.
Good camera too....

Panoramic mode

 

[the_laughing_mole]

Nokia E90 - worth a look - see here: http://www.nokia.co.uk/A4353371

Phone, 3Mb camera & video, email, web browser, GPS + Maps, mp3 player, word, spreadsheet.... clamshell phone. Great piece of kit and solidly made in aluminium. And it's a Nokia so you don't need to read the manual to work it (mostly). OK so it's a bit chunky but it does it all and keyboard enables it almost to be a laptop replacement with an 8GB mini-SD card fitted. Worth a look.

 

[NeilF]

I have a BB Curve 8900 - agree with all the posts about it/them BBs.

But to answer your question I'd suggest your SWMBO gets an iPhone. My SWMBO has one for "social and domestic purposes", and it suits her a treat. She loves it!


Cheers,

Neil.

 

[NeilF]

I have been doing some searching on the Vodafone Blackberry forums and found the following.........

type this into your handset:

**61*+447836121121*10*(5 - 30 seconds)# Send

brackets bit is either 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, or 30 and the Send bit is like tou are making a call

Now to give it a try

I got "Supplementary service error: unexpected data value" when I used my own number in place of the +447836121121. Using the +447836121121 all my calls are now being forwarded to 07836121121!

#21# resets it.

I don't think this code sequence is for the Bold 8900?

Bollox!

 

[Mav]

Slightly related but not quite. SAMSUNG OMNIA, good battery life, i have one of these and i run google maps with gps, Garmin Mobile XT with the whole of the 2009 maps on it and also Memory Map with all of the Uk on it for those trail riding moments. The GPS works faultlessly with all of these applications, bloody fantastic.
Good camera too....

Panoramic mode

That looks awesome Adie - and the fact that you can memory maps on it sounds great! How do you find typing on the touch screen?

 

[santrix]

You can select one of four diferent touch keypads depending on if you have fat fingers or a stylus...

 

[Grandad]

I have a Blackberry Pearl which works well for me, however it has frozen on a few occasions.

Easy to use once you get used to it..!!