BBM v6.1 (Beta) is here: Personalized, Customized, and Animated Avatars

Hey everyone! Sonia’s back with a great new beta app update to a particular #TeamBlackBerry favorite…read on for all the details! – Ed.

Great news #TeamBlackBerry! The beta version of BlackBerry® Messenger (BBM™) v6.1 is available for download from BlackBerry® Beta Zone — now you’ll have even more ways to personalize your messages – and add a little fun – including animated avatars, fun new emoticons, customized colored chat bubbles, increased character count for personal messages and display picture integration.

We’re glad to share that many of these new personalization features were added due to popular request from our BBM community and beta testers.

Let’s take a look at these new BBM features in more detail.

  

Animated avatars – We’ve added a new dimension to the options on your BBM display picture – animated avatars! These avatars use controlled animation, which means that motion is activated when you scroll over the avatar. Three animated avatars are available as part of this beta as a sneak peek (including a “smile,” “laughter” and “in love”). We’re planning to add a larger selection of animated avatars after the beta trial is completed. You can access these avatars when changing your display picture within the Avatars folder. (Note: Animated avatars are only supported on BlackBerry® smartphone OS 5.0 and higher.)

12 new emoticons – A picture is worth a thousand words, or so the saying goes. With the addition of 12 fun emoticons in your BBM catalog, there are now more ways for you to express yourself and personalize messages to your friends. These new emoticons were created based on suggestions from customers participating in beta trials – look for more to come in future releases. And please make sure to leave us a comment and let us know what other emoticons you’d like to see. We’re listening!

Increased character count for personal messages – Whether it’s keeping your contacts posted on your whereabouts or sharing your mood for the day, you can now say more in your regular updates to your BBM friends. We’ve more than doubled the size of your personal message space to 160 characters, so that you can now share your trials and tribulations in much greater detail.

Colored chat bubbles – BBM users can now customize the color of chat bubbles for contacts. With 10 colors to choose from, you can pre-assign colors to your contacts by simply going into your BBM contacts’ profile and selecting a desired contact chat color. This feature is great for organizing the many BBM contacts you have and makes it easier to recognize types of conversations (I’m assigning colors to work, friends, and family. My boss is blue, my family is yellow, and colleagues and friends will get their own color-coding, too.)

Camera/Display Picture Integration – Now you’ll be able to snap a picture and display it right away! There are now fewer steps between taking that great picture with your BlackBerry smartphone and making it your BBM Display Picture. Now you can update your BBM avatar right from the BlackBerry smartphone camera app by selecting “Set as BBM Display Picture” from the menu options.

Check out all of these fun new features for the beta version of BBM v6.1 by downloading it from BlackBerry Beta Zone today. Don’t forget to leave us a comment and let us know what you think!

Source from http://blogs.blackberry.com

BlackBerry PlayBook OS Update: Adobe Flash Player, Adobe AIR and DST

A new version of the BlackBerry® PlayBook OS is now available to all BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet users – BlackBerry PlayBook OS v1.0.8.4985. This free update can be downloaded over-the-air from yourBlackBerry PlayBook tablet.

The BlackBerry PlayBook OS v1.0.8.4985 contains the following fixes and updates:

• Updated version of Adobe® Flash® Player version 11.1 and Adobe AIR® 3.1
• Daylight savings time updates for time zones in the regions of Latin America, Australia and Central America
• Updated Bluetooth® and Wi-Fi® software to help to improve connectivity
• Fixed issues some users were experiencing with account payments in the BlackBerry App World™ storefront
• Improved synching when restoring applications with BlackBerry Desktop Software

This update also includes a security update for Adobe Flash Player, as noted in Adobe Security BulletinAPSB-11-28, which addresses issues that can potentially affect any PC, tablet, or other device with an operating system that supports Adobe Flash. While there are no known reports of any BlackBerry PlayBook tablet users being affected by these Adobe Flash Player issues, we (as always) encourage all BlackBerry PlayBook tablet users to update to the newest version of the BlackBerry PlayBook OS.

How to update your BlackBerry PlayBook tablet

Existing BlackBerry PlayBook tablet users will automatically receive a software update notification on the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet status ribbon, or they can check for the software update at any time in the settings menu under “Software Updates”. Users who purchase and activate a BlackBerry PlayBook tablet on or after Thursday November 24th, 2011 will automatically be updated to v1.0.8.4985 or later as part of the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet setup process.

For users who are already running BlackBerry PlayBook v1.0.7.2942 or higher, the update to this new version (v1.0.8.4985) will include only the Adobe Flash Player update and is expected to take only a few minutes to install.

Source from http://blogs.blackberry.com

How to solve Blackberry 9900 battery drain issue.

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share a tutorial about how to upgrade & shrink blackberry 9900 os, as we know Dakota (bb9900) on their default setting has very high battery drain, but with a little tuning & correct setting all the problem above can be avoided and you don’t event have to buy a spare battery.

DISCLAIMER

Do it with your own risk, by upgrading the os you will have possibility to brick your blackberry and if you bought the blackberry from the local operator with official 1 year warranty, upgrading os to different carrier may void the warranty

I had done little research in many dakota operating system versions & found that os version 7.0.0.440 has the best battery life & memory management so far, until now i’ve applied the method above to all of my customers who bought blackberry 9900 from my shop, and they seemed very happy with the result, the combination is Blackberry Dakota + OS 7.0.0.440 + shrink os BB Boss v2.2 + set 2G network

and if you want to try up my method, below i’ve described the step by step tutorial

Preparation :

before we continue please prepare & download all the files & applications below

1. BBSAK
2. BB Boss v 2.2 & download attachment file settting shrink bb bos pd email ini
3. Blackberry 9900 os 7.0.0.440
4. Newest Desktop Manager for Windows
5. Screen Shot of my settings on bb9900
6. BB Boss v 2.2 Shrink Setting bb9900

Step by step instructions :

1. Install Blackberry Desktop Manager for Windows, and if don’t have the latest version please upgrade your desktop manager before we continue to the next steps
2. Install Blackberry OS 7.0.0.440 & delete vendor xml (should be on directory c:/program files/common files/research in motion/loader)
3. Install BBSAK & BB Boss v 2.2
4. Click BB Boss icon on your desktop pc and on the middle top, theres drop down box, click there & choose OS 7.0.0.440 for 9900 after that Click File on the top left corner – Import – locate the shrink setting template that i’ve previously given before (point no 6 on Preparation Steps) or you can open my screen shot for instant (point no 5 on Preparation Steps), and please do remember to ALWAYS delete Social Feeds because that application is consumes high battery that can have effect on serious battery drain
5. On the lower right corner click “modify os on disk”
6. Backup all your data using usb cable & using blackberry desktop manager, make sure choose “backup all data or full backup”
7. if your blackberry has password, please deactivate it before we continue to the next steps, open BBSAK & after your device connected click wipe
8. after blackberry has been wipe completely (you’ll see white background with “error jvm” on the blackberry screen) open AppLoader (c:/program files/common files/research in motion/loader (search for cellphone icon described as “loader”)
9. click app loader and follow the on screen command, basically you just need to hit “next” few times until you see application selection (please install only standard application, do not install language or any other unimportant apps and click next
10. if you do all the steps correctly, you’ll notice the blackberry will be reboot, after booting completely, please repeat the booting step 2 – 3x times by pulling the battery out, until the booting process faster than before
11. final process is restoring your data using desktop manager, make sure you have 3G with more than 50% signal and if you have high speed wifi internet connection i suggest you to turn on wifi & connect Blackberry to your hotspot, this to ensure the restoration data for your BBM contacts, groups etc will be perfectly restored & speed up the restoration process, during the process DO NOT use your blackberry for about 2 hours (or you will get errors & your data wouldn’t completely restored)
12. final touch set your network setting to 2G only, set brighnest to 10 & turn gps off
13. good luck and have a great day with your new blackberry =)

RIM Launches Blackberry Bold 9790 and Blackberry Curve 9380

Canadian smartphone manufacturerResearch In Motion has announced today in Jakarta two new models from the series running the new operating system Blackberry 7. Thenew smartphones, BlackBerry Bold 9790 andBlackBerry Curve 9380, will be offering a unique design and an impressive suite of features.

BlackBerry Bold 9790
The new model from Bold family does not differ very much from the previous 9900. The only difference worth mentioning is its design. BlackBerry Bold 9790 has embossed buttons over the QWERTY keyboard, while the device’s back looks very much like BlackBerry Torch 9850. The new Bold presents – like the BlackBerry 9900 – a touchscreen in addition to the physical QWERTY keyboard.

BlackBerry Bold 9790 has a 1GHz processor, NFC support and an internal memory of 8GB, which can be easily expanded with a microSD card.

BlackBerry Curve 9380
Curve series has always been designed for customers who want an affordable and powerfulBlackBerry device and the new model does not disappoint. BlackBerry Curve 9380 is very similar toBlackBerry Storm, being the first device in Curve series with a 3.2-inch touchscreen. The new Curvepresents a lot of social media applications preinstalled, such as Twitter, Facebook, BlackBerryMessenger or Social Feeds.

BlackBerry Curve 9380 is expected to have a 5-megapixel camera and a 800GHz processor with 1GB of storing memory.

Rumors inside RIM say that their brand new BlackBerry Bold 9790 and BlackBerry Curve 9380 will be available globally in the next few weeks, but they didn’t disclose any pricing details.

Free Apps From Blackberry Apps World

RIM is making a selection of premium apps worth more than US$100 free to subscribers. The apps will available over the coming weeks on BlackBerry App World and until December 31, 2011.

The complete selection of premium apps can be downloaded at BlackBerry App World over four weeks beginning Wednesday, October 19th.  The selections over this period include:

· SIMS 3 - Electronic ArtsBejeweled - Electronic Arts (Available now)

· N.O.V.A. - Gameloft

· Texas Hold’em Poker 2 - Gameloft

· Bubble Bash 2 - Gameloft (Available now)

· Photo Editor Ultimate - Ice Cold Apps (Available now)

· DriveSafe.ly Pro - iSpeech.org (Available now)

· iSpeech Translator Pro - iSpeech.org

· Drive Safe.ly Enterprise - iSpeech.org

· Nobex Radio Premium - Nobex (Available now)

· Shazam Encore - Shazam (Available now)

· Vlingo Plus: Virtual Assistant - Vlingo (Available now)

RIM’s enterprise customers will get one month free Technical Support.  Current customers will get a complimentary one month extension of existing Technical Support contract, and customers without a Technical Support contract will get a one month trial of RIM’s BlackBerry Technical Support Services - Enhanced Support, free.

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Check your Blackberry origin.

First of all Dial *#06# to get a display of 15 digits IMEI number of your BlackBerry. 

Example: 316725.10.4690216.
The 7th and 8th numbers in between the dots are important numbers here. If the7th and 8th digits of the IMEI number is 10 That means your Blackberry is manufactured in *FI* Finland with very good quality. 

If the seventh and eighth digit is 02 or 20, then your Blackberry is made in Asia with a bad quality. 

If the seventh and eighth digit is 08 or 80, then your Blackberry was made in *DE* Germany with good quality. 

If the seventh and eighth digit is 03, then your Blackberry was made in *FR* *CA* France or Canada with the best quality. 

If the seventh and eighth digit is 04, then your Blackberry is the limited edition made especially in *CA* Canada with the best quality in the world