Blackberry Coordinates From Cell Tower

I’m beginning to like coding in Blackberry since now an official JDE for Mac is available. Then I decided to have a look and prepare myself for some rather annoying but pleasant surprise from Blackberry’s JDE. To be honest, I don’t like Blackberry’s behavior of complicating simple things. But then I learned a lot from the codes. Urbanesia is a location based service and therefore location is very important. I’ve been trying out a few ways to get the device’s location and after all the things I’ve tried, I resorted into plain GMM solution. Blackberry’s location API was too slow to get a fix on the device’s location. Nevertheless, the codes are included as well. ...

August 4, 2011 · Batista Harahap

XL Network Time Slightly Disrupted

Today around 6 PM in the evening, my Blackberry’s time was messed up. The time for no reason was changed to 00:00. I checked my Date/Time settings and found something not right. My operator is XL and what I like from XL is that it supports Network Time sync with my Blackberry. I choose to sync the time and what I found was the Network Time was set at the same 00:00 the next day as my Blackberry. Well it was actually 00:07. ...

April 26, 2010 · Batista Harahap

Blackberry Gemini Curve 8520 - OS 5.0.0.610

OK I’ve been using the new OS for 2 days and everything seem quite unexpected. There are improvements and unfortunately, there are setbacks. I’m gonna talk about setbacks. The most notable difference is when you realize that in your Home screen, you won’t find the Lock icon. This is annoying. I’m used to setting the Lock icon as one of the first 6 icons and most notably, locking the Blackberry with it before putting it in my pocket. So far the easiest solution is to press and hold the A/* on the keypad. To unlock it, press the Mute button on the top. I can’t fathom why RIM is doing this, it doesn’t make sense. ...

April 25, 2010 · Batista Harahap

RIM Inactive Use or User Hoax

Okay, I’m telling you guys why the RIM Inactive Use or User message is a hoax. I hate broadcast messages because it is like a robotic message being ping-ponged around without any soul in it. Well here’s why it’s a hoax: This is the most important reason: YOU PAID FOR YOUR BLACKBERRY SERVICE! Indonesians are lucky our BB Service plan is unlimited data plan for a fixed rate. Elsewhere in the world, people are capped by the Megabytes of data they send and receive. Imagine pissed customers being tagged inactive and robbed off of their PAID services including with their BBM contacts, lawsuits will follow at least to your respective Operators if not directly to RIM. I'm an IT guy and I do work for the masses of people that will benefit my services. So it is with great ease I tell you that if you're inactive with your BBM activity, this will benefit RIM! I bet you're asking why in your head. Less activities mean less load on the servers and this is cost saving. Did you know Facebook pays US$ 1 Million every month for their electric bill? So you can imagine the electric bill savings if you're not active with your already PAID BBM service. This might be RIM's own doings! You never know right? This kind of thing builds hype and awareness and as you all know, there's no such thing as bad publicity. It's just plain old publicity. So please refrain yourselves from broadcasting another message. You already PAID for your Blackberry handset and its services, isn't that enough tangible profit for RIM? You're just giving them more profit intangibly. Some say it's competitor jealousy. I can vouch for this. The amount of people clicking on the link to Blackberry.com/inactiveusers can make RIM's web server crippled. It's far fetched but if the traffic is plenty enough to cause a Distributed Denial of Service then competitors reached their goal. Although still it's RIM's gain because one more time I'm saying this, no such thing as bad publicity! It give great opportunities for people like me who is aware that situations like this is profitable. Why so? Well you're on my blog reading this article. I think that is clear enough why. If I'm a malicious person, I can trick you and prepare a phishing page to get all your Blackberry Email Settings login details. So be careful next time clicking on links from your BBM or any other untrusted source. So please be considerate and think before you act when sending and receiving broadcast messages. As I said before, broadcast messages doesn't have any soul in them and should only be used to deliver reliable and trustworthy messages. Other than that, you're just being played. Retweet this post and let others be aware! ...

April 8, 2010 · Batista Harahap

Mobile Blogging

This is my premier mobile blogging post. I must say I didn’t expect Wordpress to create its own Blackberry application. I was quite disgusted with Wordpress’ email-to-post feature. Just didn’t seem mobile enough lol. With the enormous growth of Blackberry users in the world (particularly in Indonesia), I guess Wordpress doesn’t mind a bit of Java coding to grab a piece of the pie. Anyways, I haven’t dissect the application thoroughly. My first glimpse while I was composing this post was its lack of a rich text editor. To be honest, since Blackberries use scrolls as it interface, a rich text editor might be a little bit annoying. Keyboard shortcuts will be great though :) ...

December 28, 2009 · Batista Harahap