Hey I have four service books Hey I have four service books that I downloaded that were supposed to fix this issue. Im in the same situation you are thats why Ive been looking to see how to make it all work on boost mobile. I can let you play with them and if get them to work let me in on it, so I can fixed mine too.
Welcome to EB, amerimex2k2. What do you mean you downloaded 4 service books? Did you see this post by Steve?
Yeah I got them off a site that calls all this a boostberry and I truly believe all this works I just need to see if maybe Im doing some of the steps wrong
Check this out http://www.boosthacks.com/wiki/index.php?title=Boostberry_workarounds. Let me know something
Are you positive you're following those directions 100% to the t? They seem "good" in my opinion, and they seem similar to something I've done to get my Storm to work on AT&T which worked.
Ive tried it once but since this is my first blackberry (8350i) Im not quite familiar with email/text on the blackberry network it says something about blackberry server enterprise and that being my only option. I was looking for the other that says my own email account or somewhat around those lines. Do I have to sign up online thru my blackberry phone in order for all this to work
Are you on a BlackBerry plan? To even get email or internet working, you need to be on a BlackBerry plan. BlackBerry Enterprise Service (BES) is usually only an option when you're on a BES plan or have no data plan at all. If you had a BlackBerry Internet Service plan (BIS), which is for personal usage, you'd need to be on that plan which is usually around $15 cheaper than the BES plan depending on the carrier.
My phone is design for nextel but I have boost mobile on it. Thats why I showed you those service books which means I have no BB plan on it and trying to get around it with those service books on that link I showed you
If I could only get my text to work it will be great but is this somehow attached to the email or internet on all blackberry phones
The service books are only good for getting the device's email/internet features to work (read: even be available) on, in this case, Boost. There's no way to get around the fee for the BIS or BES plan. You absolutely NEED the plan to get those features working (as in receive email/use internet).
I did a little browsing around and it seems for an 8350i on Boost, the only way to be able to text is to use the workarounds such as IM clients. I couldn't find anything showing any possible way to get texting working via the native SMS app. P.S. check the previous page for my reply to your other question...
Texting is one of the few things that will work without a BB Data plane, BUT....You have to have a phone plan that includes texting and you have to use a texting client that does not use data. The built-in BB texting client I believe is designed for data...
hey umm i have a bb 8350i with a boost sim so i cant text is there any way that i can unlock the phone so that i can text??
service books I know this is an old post but i have nextel with a 8350i and no bb plan...I found a post on line that a guy had 21 service books in a zip file and you use desktop manager to remove all the books off your phone and load the new ones, that allows mms and everything else to work on your phone w/boost..I did this with my nextel and it worked as well..I saved this file just message me if you need it.:dft012:wink
