After six month of hard wear, my BlackBerry Storm developed bubbles on the screen.\u00a0 Before heading to the friendly Verizon store, I synchronized it and did a complete backup with the BlackBerry Desktop Manager.\u00a0 Within thirty minutes of my arrival at the Verizon store, I was on my way out the door with a newly-activated Storm, which was replaced under the warranty.\u00a0 It took about a minute to reestablish a bluetooth connection with my GPS.\u00a0 So far, so good.\u00a0 Next, using the BlackBerry Desktop Manager, it took several minutes to restore everything from my old BlackBerry to the new one.\u00a0 Everything appeared to be the same as my old BlackBerry, except the web browser was missing.\u00a0 That’s easy enough to fix.\u00a0 Just go into Advanced Options, and register the Host Routing Table.\u00a0 After several minutes passed without receiving a registration notice from BlackBerry (FYI, I am using BIS — BlackBerry Internet Service, not the enterprise service), I did the Windows equivalent of a reboot — pulled the battery.\u00a0 A minute later, I replaced the battery, and when the device restarted, registered the host routing table.\u00a0 Just like magic, the web browser and activation notice appeared!<\/p>\n
A few minutes later, I noticed that no new email had come in on the BlackBerry, even though a lot had come into my desktop computer.\u00a0 Next I went into setup, and selected email settings.\u00a0 My email accounts were\u00a0 both there, and I selected each to check the settings.\u00a0 Each complained the the device PIN (unique identifier for a specific phone) had changed.\u00a0 So, I accepted the new PIN, typed my email password,\u00a0 and my new email started arriving again.\u00a0 All’s well that ends well!<\/p>\n
Craig Herberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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