I have never got around to doing this, mostly because I’ve got rid of my Blackberry Curve 8900 a while ago. However some people have contacted me asking how to do it. Coincidentally a contact that had been using my tutorial decided to help me out by sharing the love. All this information is courtesy of Mike Harrington. Please show him some love by visiting his blog.
The first thing you are going to do is run MFI Multiloader. You want the phone to have a 1 on the screen. Disconnect it from the computer and type S T A R T as usual. Now close and reopen MFI Multiloader. Make sure none of the boxes are ticked. Press CTRL + ALT + SHIFT + F12 at the same time to bring up the hidden menu. Click on Load VSM; the file you are looking for is called “VSM-11697-001” It is located in the MEP folder in your MML directory. C:\MML\MEP\VSM-11697-001. When you select the file it will say “VSM successfully loaded!” Now all you have to do is reload the OS as usual with BB desktop manager. Very simple process and only an extra step when unlocking your phone. This works for every blackberry that is compatible with MFI Multiloader! Your screen will look like this now on boot up instead of the normal AT&T/T-Mobile/Rogers/Telus/Etc.
Mike Harrington
Greenpowereconomics.blogspot.com
Published on
May 9, 2009 at
4:51 pm in
Blackberry and Reviews.
Tags: 2600mAh, 8900, Battery, Blackberry, Crackberry, Curve, Extended, Innocell, Life, Review, Seidio.
The normal battery of the Curve 8900 is very acceptable. However when I saw the Seidio Innocell 2600mAh External Battery on the Crackberry.com store and decided I had to buy it. I wanted it for the obvious reasons. Extended battery life.
So today My site was suspended by bluehost for linking to the blackberry mml unlock files. So I removed them to comply with the TOS. So I found out it was because RIM decided they don’t like the files linked to. Anyways that is their right, however it is MY right to be contacted and told that the links be removed, however they just had my host take my site down. If that’s how they treat their customers, then I don’t want to be one. I can go back to an iPhone once the new one comes out. I will contact rim about this and see what they have to say. When I hade a Upek file ACTUALLY hosted on my site, upek took the extra courtesy to contact me. I removed the file and was even offered the priviledge of trying software they didn’t even release to the public.
Published on
April 19, 2009 at
8:18 pm in
Blackberry, Cool, Security, Software and iPhone.
Tags: Account, Assistant, Bills, Blackberry, Canada, Credit Card, Email, Finance, Gmail, Information, iPhone, Loyalty Program, Online Banking, Pageonce, Productivity, Shopping, Social Networking, Travel.
I was watching my friend recently on the computer and he showed me Pageonce. It is a service that aggregates all your online accounts into once place for easy viewing, managing, and productivity enhancement. You can place all different times of online accouts in page once, Finance, Email, Utilities, Credit Cards, Social Networking, Travel, Shopping. You can even input your skype account. If you can’t find your account provider you can even add it (haven’t tried this yet). It works with most banks in Canada as well. For people that are scared about security issues, Pageonce is encrypted and secured(you can read more about that here). The cool thing is that they even have applications for the iPhone and blackberry to be able to look at everything on the go. I found it really great to see the balances of my account in a clear and cocise manner. So check them out its a cool site that is free to use!
Published on
April 9, 2009 at
2:04 pm in
Blackberry and Downloads.
Tags: Blackberry, Blackberry Curve 8900, Blackberry OS, Crackberry, Direct Download, download, official, Orange, Orange UK, UK.
Well Heres another update from Orange UK. This is the final version for 4.6.1.206. Thanks Crackberry for the heads up! Enjoy the Direct Download
Blackberry Curve 8900 OS 4.6.1.206 Official Version (1845)
Published on
April 5, 2009 at
8:10 pm in
Tips.
Tags: Blackberry, Calendar, Curve 8900, Google Calendar, Google Sync, iCal, Organization, reminder, sms, Spanning Sync.
In the last couple of days I’ve been trying to improve my productivity. I’m productive, but there’s always room for improvement right? Well here’s a nifty thing I started doing. I use google calendar to input all my important dates for school and my personal life. On my blackberry I installed the google sync Application so whenever I make a change on google calendar, or on my phone it’s updated everywhere. This has actually helped me become more efficient. I also entered my cell number into google calendar and it sends me an sms reminder at a predetermined time before my appointment. All that is missing now is to sync it with my macbook pro once I get it. To do that I will use Spanning Sync which is known to be great when syncing google calendar and iCal.
Published on
March 29, 2009 at
6:03 pm in
Tips and Tutorials.
Tags: AT&T, Bell, Blackberry, Charges, Distance, Fees, Fido, iPhone, Koodo, Long, money, Rogers, save, Skype, Sprint, T-Mobile, Telus, Verizon.
For a while now I have been avoiding long distance charges from Rogers, Fido by using skype. In the states I think there are no long distance for calling another number in the states. However there are for calling Canada and other countries. This tutorial will teach you how to escape these fees by using skype to call numbers in the US, Canada and other countries. Firstly you have to be located in the US or Canada (Trace IP).
1. Go to Skype Subscriptions and buy whichever subscription is appropriate for you.
2.If you want the caller id to display your cellphone number Set it up in Skype Settings
3.To use this on your cellphone you will need a data plan or wifi(does not use much data though). Download iSkoot(Blackberry,Nokia, Windows Mobile) or Fring for iPhone
4. Setup your phone with your skype account, and your number.
5.Whenever you want to make a long distance call, just open the skype application you chose on your phone and dial it from there and save money!
Published on
March 16, 2009 at
4:37 am in
Downloads.
Tags: Blackberry, Blackberry Bold 9000, Blackberry Curve 8900, Blackberry OS, Blackberry Storm 9500, Blackberry Storm 9530, Crackberry, download, Facebook, Leaked.
Thanks to DetectiveBerry from the Crackberry.com forums the facebook for blackberry 1.5 application has been leaked onto the web. Your phone must be running OS 4.6.X for this to work.
You can download it here: Continue reading ‘Facebook 1.5 for Blackberry Leaked’
Published on
March 11, 2009 at
11:57 am in
Blackberry, Reviews and iPhone.
Tags: 3.2mp, Blackberry, Blackberry Bold 9000, Blackberry Curve 8900, Blackberry OS, Blackberry Storm 9500, Blackberry Storm 9530, Camera, Fido, Gemini 9300, iPhone, megapixel, nokia, Review, Rogers, size, Sony Ericsson.
In December I wanted to ditch my iPhone for a couple of reasons. So I got a Blackberry Curve 8900 and switched to rogers from fido. Continue reading ‘Blackberry Curve 8900 Review’
