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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Vamps on 23 September 2012, 20:44:17
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We are half way through a Tesco pay monthly contract on a Blackberry for Miss V, she has been a bit rough with it so the only real option was to buy a new one, cheaper than buying out of the contract, the deal with which I am happy anyway. Obviously using her original sim card, now my question is that apparently the BBM's are not working (Sending) are these on the sim or phone? does this mean I need to register the new phone with Tesco?
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Blackberry isn't my strong point, but as just about anything you want to do with the phone in terms of data exchange has to go through Blackberry themselves then I'll stab a guess that the handset needs to be registered against the SIM on their system somewhere in order for BBM to function.
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Aren't Gooseberry services up the Gary Glitter again - or have they been fixed again? That may impact things :-\
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Aren't Gooseberry services up the Gary Glitter again - or have they been fixed again? That may impact things :-\
Hadn't even thought of that, good point :y
@ Vamps,
You should convince your offspring that Android is the way forward.
I'm sure you'll have no problem in finding a pristine Samsung Galaxy S2 with 12 months manufacturer warranty for £200 from someone who has upraded to an S3 ;)
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I'm sure you'll have no problem in finding a pristine Samsung Galaxy S2 with 12 months manufacturer warranty for £200 from someone who has upraded to an S3 ;)
Sure I saw a new SIM free one for about £250 last week (one of the guys at work is upgrading his Nokia 6310i, and can't make up his mind - S2 (cheap), S3, iPhone 4 (cheap) or iPhone 5)
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S2 is cheap for a reason, I also don't like the forced integration through Samsung for O/S updates. Got an old S2 here, which proved a pig to upgrade to stock ICS.
Answer is to root I know, but that's unsuitable for work reasons.
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S2 is cheap for a reason, I also don't like the forced integration through Samsung for O/S updates. Got an old S2 here, which proved a pig to upgrade to stock ICS.
Answer is to root I know, but that's unsuitable for work reasons.
You mean like Apple, HTC, Huawei, etc and all the others do?
OS updates are pushed to the phone when the provider (eg, O2, Voda, CPW, etc) is ready.
For example, O2 had ICS on the S2 before any other provider and Voda were the last to have it ready.
If you can't wait for the service provider to have their version ready, you can download official Sammy ROM's from http://www.sammobile.com/ and use Odin to flash it over (root is NOT required for this).
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S2 is cheap for a reason, I also don't like the forced integration through Samsung for O/S updates. Got an old S2 here, which proved a pig to upgrade to stock ICS.
Answer is to root I know, but that's unsuitable for work reasons.
You mean like Apple, HTC, Huawei, etc and all the others do?
OS updates are pushed to the phone when the provider (eg, O2, Voda, CPW, etc) is ready.
For example, O2 had ICS on the S2 before any other provider and Voda were the last to have it ready.
If you can't wait for the service provider to have their version ready, you can download official Sammy ROM's from http://www.sammobile.com/ and use Odin to flash it over (root is NOT required for this).
With HTC device I've been messing with, that updated fine. Been in box since new, was running 2.3.x - Decided to update, just pressed update & worked.
With Samsung Device, it would not allow an update until you registered with Samsung, still didn't then work!
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With HTC device I've been messing with, that updated fine. Been in box since new, was running 2.3.x - Decided to update, just pressed update & worked.
With Samsung Device, it would not allow an update until you registered with Samsung, still didn't then work!
Were you trying to do this OTA?
Kies doesn't require you to create a Sammy account in order to receive OS updates, but that is just as big a POS as iTunes IMHO.
You can also use CheckFUS to get official Sammy firmware downloads, available for both the PC and the handset itself.