Blackberry Users

[Abailey4]

^ The Storm's battery life is up and down. Sometimes it will last all day sometimes it'll be dead by the time I get home.  I guess it all depends on what apps you run durin the day or how much emailing/texting you do.

[Blackhawk]

My curve is amazing. I haven't charged it for 2 days and battery still has about 1/4 left. I have chargers at home and work so I am not worried about it though.

[b_beau_09]

can you use a link a gmail acount to the blackberry?

[timot_one]

Yes.  I have my gmail account on my BB.  The battery life on my Storm usually depends on how much I use it.  Usually I can go 2 days without charging it.  When I use it a lot during the day texting, e-mailing, and on IM, I usually rip through the battery in one work day.

[jobata23]

What are your opinions in regards to the battery life of your BB? I can say that mine sucks.

mine gotten better when i update my os and now i dont need to charge my phone for 2 1/2 days sometimes 3

[toinkee69]

PM me your email adds guys, i'll add you to my BB IM.

[ashley]

My battery usually sucks but its because I listen to Slacker Radio while I'm at work so it eats the battery in a few hours, so usually on the way home from work my battery is in the red and my status light is flashing red/green. I gotta remember to take a extra charger to work since my pos computer usb ports arent working so I can't charge my phone that way.

[toinkee69]

i hate the storms batt!

[Abailey4]

^ I also hate the fact that when the battery gets really low it turns off your radio with no notification.  I will just all of a sudden realize it but I wont know how long it's off til I get enough juice in it and then I get bombarded with emails and texts that I missed while the radio was off.

[toinkee69]

^^ your right on that. i think when the red light goes on the radio goes off.

[timot_one]

My Storm is fucking up hardcore.  It's constantly freezing and rebooting.  It's shut off and rebooted on me like 5 times this week.  Kinda sad that I keep having the same issues with all my phones.  Fucking Verizon has shitty phones.  I wish they weren't the biggest douchebags ever and had half a fucking brain to not have turned down Apple's offer to have the iPhone.  What idiots.

[Sworkhard]

I'm a bb pearl 8130 user - on telus

Tim,  the storm has a lot of issues with earlier versions of the firmware.  If yours is crashing go to crackberry.com, visit the forums, and upgrade to one of the latest versions.   This one is really good

http://forums.crackberry.com/f132/bbcra ... v2-188089/

you can also watch this thread.  as soon as the official .122 is out for bell, you can install it on your verison phone with no problems by following the instructions in the thread

http://forums.crackberry.com/f132/updat ... ed-123176/

In addition to this, if your not running the stock theme, try going back to it as they can cause some pretty insane memory leaks.  Also, try finding out if it's some software you installed.  most likely though, a firmware upgrade is in order

The iphone isn't all that either.  It still has issues making phone calls and having phone calls randomly disconnect although it's pretty good for the rest.

Ashley,
If your adventurous you can also try upgrading your firmware to one of the two listed above.  Depending on your particular phone, it could improve your batter life significantly

edit:
Whatever you do, don't upgrade your firmware if your running windows7 as you'll brick your phone (thankfully, it's quite easy to unbrick blackberries).  Windows Vista, xp, 2000, etc are all fine though

[timot_one]

Too bad I only have Macs.  I guess I'll have to just go to Verizon and make them do it.  If I accessed it correctly, I believe I have v4.7.0.75.

[toinkee69]

i'm new to this, so does it mean my BB has v1? when i do this i'm upgrading and would make my BB work better? what will actually change?

[timot_one]

Thought I would bump this thread even though it's been forever.  I just replaced my BB Storm because it's a pile of shit.  Anyone that had me on their BB Messenger should PM me for my new PIN.  I texted the people that were in my contacts, but there are other people that weren't in there.