blackberry

how to unblock blackberry wi-fi

My users's blackberries wi-fi is blocked by mobile operator. anybody knows how to unblock it. ...

Can all Blackberry devices upgrade to the latest firmware?

I've been reading about the OS on BlackBerry and one of its latest updates, SQLite, introduced with the v5.0 OS. Can all BlackBerry phones upgrade to this OS? I have a BlackBerry Storm 9500 from Orange (France) and I can download a simulator for this phone with 5.0 OS on, but the device itself wont update past v4.7 OS. Does anyone know ...

DatabasePathException with sqlite

I created a sqlite database, but after creating the schema I am getting an exception in the following code: try { URI myURI = URI.create("file:///SDCard/Databases/dbstill.db"); distillDB = DatabaseFactory.open(myURI); Statement st = distillDB.createStatement( "CREATE TABLE 'People' ( " + "'Nam...

Check if BlackBerry application is already scheduled

I have configured my application to run using what is described on this thread Is there any way to check if my application (a given ApplicationDescriptor) is currently scheduled? Also what happens if the device is rebooted? Does the application remain scheduled or does it need to be scheduled again? ...

Blackberry IllegalStateException error using TimerTask

I have a splash screen that implements MainScreen, and I am trying to use Timer to wait 3 seconds to push a new screen. TimerTask splashTask = new TimerTask() { public void run() { UiApplication.getUiApplication().pushScreen(new HomeNavigationScreen()); } }; timer.schedule(splashTask, 3000); However, it throws Illegal...

Blackberry: Speeding up Simulator start

Running any Blackberry Simulator for the JDE takes forever to launch. Any ideas on speeding it up? I see that it looks through a bunch of generic files while booting up, can I strip it down? All I want to do is test my app, which only relies on e-mail, maps and the contact book. ...

Bluetooth Power Signal - Blackberry development

Is there way to know the Bluetooth power signal between devices using a blackberry device as reference? I'm looking in the blackberry API but it doesn't say much about this matter. I would like to know which devices are "more reachable" than others based on this. ...

Persistent objects in Java BlackBerry

I want to create huge persistent objects and then draw random images as well on BB. Can you help me on this, how do I create huge objects. ...

Differences between Blackberry Webworks and Phonegap

I am building an enterprise application using HTML5 for Blackberry OS 6.0. I am planning on using PhoneGap for developing the application. I found out that Blackberry also has something similar called WebWorks. What are the differences between WebWorks and PhoneGap? ...

object choice field in blackberry

I want to make an ObjectChoice field have fixed length. But by default ObjectChoice length is based on the content length. For example if the content is "Choice 1", "Choice Choice Choice 1", the ObjectChoice field takes a different length depending on the selected choice. ...

Blackberry Build Tool

Could anyone suggest the best Build Tools for use in the build process when building a blackberry application. Is it just the creation of an ANT project, does that cope with signing etc? Is there a better tool out there? I'd prefer a lightweight Windows solution. I normally use Automated Build Studio -- it can build ANT and it can al...

What kind of code could make a Blackberry consume a lot of battery power?

I'm not a Blackberry programmer at all, but I've been asked to investigate what might possibly be making one of our Blackberry applications cause the device to overheat and completely drain the battery in less than one hour. As far as we can determine, this only happens to the program on one kind of device (the Bold 9700), so we're not ...

Error running BlackBerry app from Eclipse

I am developing an app with 65 class files. I recently re-installed Eclipse and now I can't run the app: I/O Error: Cannot run program "jar": CreateProcess error=2 The system cannot find the file specified I checked my Java_Path and I don't see any problems. ...

BlackBerry Widget application - GPS location is always 0,0

I am trying to get the GPS location in a widget application on a blackberry, but the API always returns a latitude and longitude of 0,0. Simulator: storm 2 (9550)/ bold(9700) and OS: 5.0/5.0 IDE:Eclipse the html page code as below: var modeCellsite = 0; var modeAssisted = 1; var modeAutonomous = 2; function locationChanged() { ...

Blackberry installation problem: users miss OK dialogs and the app ends up not being installed

We have a Blackberry app that is installed by users OTA. The install works fine as long as the user clicks OK on all of the dialog boxes that come up during the process. However, if something else happens during installation (like a phone call or whatever), the user ends up never clicking the dialogs, so the app is never completely ins...

blackberry widgets and jquery mobile alpha

I've been trying to get jquery mobile alpha to work on my blackberry widgets. http://jquerymobile.com/ Some of the styling works, but none of the functionality does. Has anyone successfully implemented this? ...

Integrate Facebook with Blackberry application

I am implementing a web application that requires Facebook integration. How do I get my application to open the Facebook login screen when the user clicks a button? ...

Parsing a text file on BlackBerry takes forever

I was originally using RIM's native xml parser methods to parse a 150k text file, approximately 5000 lines of xml, however it was taking about 2 minutes to complete, so I tried a line based format: Title: Book Title Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 I should be able to read the file in less time than it takes to blink, but it is still slow. ...

Access email client from a web app for iPhone/Blackberry

Can we access the native email client from an iPhone web app, or a BlackBerry web app? ...

Get the default language of a BlackBerry device

I want to get the language set by the user in the settings screen. I have checked the DeviceInfo class, but don't see anything. ...