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Need a quick answer if possible. I've read on many forums that an unlocked BELL 9700 WILL get 3G with a fido sim card....

but im having a friend that is telling me only EDGE

can someone confirm? im planning to pick up one in an hour

I'm currently using a bell 9700 and it's a fully functional phone with fido, so I have 3g connection.
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I think phones made from Canada have the same frequencies allowing 3g connection from bell phones to fido, rogers or telus.

I think T-Mobile was the one that doesn't work on 3G here. (9700)

T-mobile and Wind are the ones that don't work

I have used a Telus and Bell 9700 on Fido and can confirm it works and u can get a 3g signal

Just download the official east asian language OS .680 and override Java files on it with the hybrid and load it on your phone.

hmmm my answer key is not working, but all other keys work fine, if i take apart the phone and press the circuit board, the answer key works... fuck anyone have any ideas?

^ mine does that too at times so I have to press the blackberry and press "answer". An OS reboot solves my issue.

Sorry to Jump out of no where with questions but I'm thinking of picking up a bb instead if getting the new iPhone and I wanted to confirm that you can have multi e-mails run through the bb meaning like I can check all of mine 1 at a time or how does that work.

Also for the guys that have jumped from the iPhone to this was it a pain to use for a while or did u get the hang of it pretty quick? And i know it's a dumb question but would u say bbm is just insane or what?
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ya, you can have multiple email addresses. I'm running 3 right now. You can check all of them at the same time or one at a time.

it wasn't hard, but then i went from BB to iphone to BB.

BBM is the greatest thing to happen to BB.

so ur saying i'll have to do a system restore?

thanks for the response one mire thing though is there big issues with the battery I've been reading through here and keep seeing ppl say they've done multiple battery pulls and all that I'm goin to have to get a new battery like all the time or something?
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not at all
my battery can last 2 full days on a charge easily, there's still about 30% left over by the end of the 2nd day
i use it quite a lot, push 3 emails, sms, a few phone calls and browsing

After reloading my os I can't fine the option to password lock my keypad anymore. I do have a password set and it asks me for it when I turn on my phone, but it doesn't ask me for a password anymore when I unlock the keypad.

Anyone have any ideas??
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New OS .743

Downloading and testing will reply within next couple of days unless there are early changes.

What's your firmware? Is it the newest one?
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As promised, here are the pictures of my white housing I bought from sw-box:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4055/...dbbbed630d.jpg


http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4012/...bf0cfb3233.jpg


http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1275/...bd655d0e84.jpg


http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4045/...df6e83c67c.jpg

Install wasn't too hard.

its the one linked from here


it seems like if i lock my keypad and press unlock again quickly, password is not required to unlock the keypad, BUT if i lock the keypad, and wait a while and then unlock the keypad, a password is required.

I have a different blackberry, but it sounds like the same issue from a new style of locking on the updated OS.

If you have dial from homescreen you can password lock using the "k" key. If you use the standard lock button "a", its now putting it into standby. After your set amount of time (not sure what you have on your settings), it goes into password lock.

The other alternative is to click on the password lock icon.

Why do you guys even bother updating your OS (unless it's the really old original one from Rogers/Fido etc) since OS 6.0 is coming out in Q3 ( supposedly july/august ). So much hassle to re-install applications etc

um NO, if u do a backup before u install a new OS (which u should do anyways to save ur contacts bbm and settings), restoring the backup will put EVERYTHING back in, including apps and settings.

my * key is lock keypad, my k key is assign to speed dial.
if only theres a way to remap the * key to perform the "password lock" function then everything will be perfect.

@joquio SICK! I'm thinking about doing that for my berry, too bad my housing wasn't too good...bottom piece broke, had to order a new one.....

btw, did you superglue / solder the top piece to the bezel?

Thx.
Nope, the top piece came soldered already.

any of u planning to switch to iphone 4?

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