have available for your model. https://www.blackberry.com/Downloads/entry.do?code=C8ED21DB4F678F3B13B9D5EE16489 088 . Once you have downloaded the device software for your particular device run the file you have downloaded in order to update the blackberry desktop manager.<br><br> Step 4 Log into your Boost Mobile Account online by going to www.BoostMobile.com . Proceed to log into your account with the telephone number and the PIN # selected at activation. Once you have logged in you will need to update the handset to the new Blackberry IMEI #.<br><br> Please note you will not be able to initially activate a brand new starter kit SIM Card with this IMEI #. If you do not update the IMEI # you will be able to send but not receive MMS messages. Step 5 In order to be able to place phone calls from the phone book, press a few numbers like you were about to dial a number.<br><br> If you have a Blackberry 8350i press the Blackberry key next to the track ball and scroll down and select Options. Once in options select Smart Dialing, once there click and change International Code to unknown or 0. This will allow you to make phones calls from the blackberry address book.<br><br> For Blackberry 7100i or 7520 same instructions except instead of clicking the blackberry key you need to click the scroll wheel in on the side of the blackberry to bring up the option. Instructions for Blackberry 7520 and 7100i Step 1 On your Blackberry 7100i or 7520 select options/settings > advance options > applications. In this menu scroll down until you see the word cBrowser d.<br><br> Select it, and then select DELETE. You will be asked if you wish to delete browser. Select DELETE and wait.<br><br> Once that is done your phone will say you will need to restart your phone and ask if you want to restart it now. Select YES. It may take your phone a couple minutes to completely restart.<br><br> Step 2 Once the phone has completely turned back on connect the Mini USB Data cable to your PC and then plug the other end into the phone. Now launch the Blackberry Desktop Manager Software. Once it connects to your phone and reads the data the screen should look like the following.<br><br> On this screen select cBackup and Restore d that will take you to the following screen. From this screen select the Advanced button. Once it syncs with your Blackberry again, it will give you a screen that looks like this.<br><br> On this page, in the column labeled cDevice Databases d scroll down until you see the section for service books. There should not be any number at all on this line. If there are it means there are service books already installed.<br><br> Simply click the word cService Books d and then click the clear button to delete them. DO NOT CLOSE THE DESKTOP MANAGER. Minimize the Desktop Manager and continue to the next step.<br><br> Step 3 Go to where you saved the service books you downloaded earlier and unzip the file. You will need WinZip or Winrar to accomplish this. If you are using Windows XP or Higher you should have WinZip built in.<br><br> If not you may download WinZip at http://www.winzip.com . Step 4 Go back to the Blackberry Desktop Manager software and you should be on the same screen as above. Just above the column on the left should be a button that says cFile d Click on it and select OPEN.<br><br> Now navigate to where you saved the service books and select the file. Your screen should now display the following. Next, click on the words Service Book.<br><br> This should cause the button with the double arrows that point to the right to become clickable. Click the button with the double arrows that point to the right. This should cause your software to once again sync with your phone and then display another screen in which should click cYES d.<br><br> This will then load your new service books onto the phone. Once that process completes, scroll down in the column on the right to verify that you now have service books listed. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE NUMBER IN THE RIGHT COLUM WILL NOT MATCH THE NUMBER OF RECORDS THAT THE FILE INDICATED IT CONTAINED.<br><br> THIS IS NORMAL. Step 7 On the Desktop Manager software, in the lower right corner click the cBack d button, then click the cMain Menu d button in the same location. This should bring you to the initial screen you saw when you first loaded your Desktop Manager Software suite.<br><br> From here select Application Loader and then select the cStart d button in the Add/Removed Application section on the left side of the window. This will bring you to the following screen. Once you see this screen, scroll down until you see the word cBrowser d.<br><br> The section you are looking for should look like this: Click the boxes next to the words cBrowser d, cJavaScript Pack age d, and cHelp d and then click Next. Now you should see a screen with a big box labeled Summary. In that box it should list Browser, Javascript Package, and Help.<br><br> If those 3 items are there, click Finish. Once the phone restarts (again this can take a few minutes so please be patient), you should have fully text and data. You should notice 3 new icons on your Blackberry.<br><br> These should be the Blackberry Browser, the NOL Browser and the Hotspot Browser. If you see these 3 icons on your Blackberry you have successfully installed the proper service books on your phone and you should have text and data capabilities. If you don 9t have these 3 icons you have made a mistake somewhere or missed a step.<br><br> You should start over from the beginning. Now, simply use Google for the applications you want to install on your Blackberry and install them. Here are some Suggested Applications 1.<br><br> Gmail 2. Google Sync 3. Google Maps 4.<br><br> LogicMail 5. Nav4All 6. Opera Mini 7.<br><br> Yweather! 8. IMHere Lite With these applications you can now send and receive emails, sync your Blackberry with your Google Calendar, get directions, use GPS navigation, browse the web, check the weather, and send instant messages to your friends on Yahoo!<br><br> And MSN Messenger. If you have any questions, problems, or concerns feel free to email BoostBerry@provenblue.com . Instructions of BlackBerry 8350i Step 1 Go to Options/Settings > Advanced Options > Service Books.<br><br> Once on this screen Hold Alt and Hit {S}{B}{E}{B} let go of the alt and it should show a message about legacy service books are enabled. Step 2 Using the USB Mini data cable, connect the Blackberry to the laptop or PC. Open Blackberry Desktop Manager and Click Backup/Restore.<br><br> Once on the next screen select Advanced. Once on advanced there should be two columns. On right column scroll down till you reach service books.<br><br> Highlight service books then press Clear. Check the device by going to options/settings > Advanced Options > Service Books, if you have anything besides something that mentions TCP/IP or Browser, delete those also. Once you have clear all the service books go back to the desktop manager above the left hand column there should be a button that says cFile d Cl ick this button and more options should appear.<br><br> Click open and find the Blackberry 8350i service books that were downloaded previously. (Note you will need to unzip the original file before you will be able to open it with the desktop manager) Open file and the column should say service book 27. Click and select this and now the arrow button pointing to the right should be clickable now.<br><br> Go ahead and click this to load the service books to the blackberry. Another screen should pop up asking to over-write. Click YES.<br><br> Step 3 Disconnect phone from computer, and go to Options/Settings > Advance Options > Host Routing Table > BlackBerry Menu and click Register. Step 4 Go to Advanced Settings > Browser and change the hot spot to browser. (If it is already set to Browser you can skip this step).<br><br> If you do not get the Browser option then you will need to restart the blackberry and start the steps over again as you have made a mistake somewhere. Now that you 9ve done that, you should also be able to use the BB inbox for email via Shangmail. This is an application that runs in the background and pushes your email to your BB.<br><br> 1.) Go to Shangmail 9s website: Shangmail-Cell phone mailbox, mobile phone e-mail, take with you freely I used the English version but it does go down from time to time. I have heard the Chinese version is more reliable but I do not know this from experience. 2.) From there, you should be able to register, add up to 5 pop3 email accounts, and download the app and install via Desktop Manager.<br><br> 3.) Once installed, you have to open the application and log in. After that, it should start up instantly and push your email to you instantly. Now you should have full use of your BoostBerry!<br><br> Here are a few additional applications I recommend: 1.) Opera Mini ( Opera Mini - Download ) a. You do not have to use this for web browsing since you have the native browser working, but there are some sites that load better with Opera and it 9s faster. 2.) Google Maps (You will have to download this via the BB Browser OTA.<br><br> You have the option to do this when you go to google.com with your BB Browser). a. You now have the Blackberry Maps application installed but certain functions are blocked out because you do not have BIS/BES so this program will help.<br><br> (EDIT: go into options; service books and delete 5 click ipppp) There are also other GPS programs out there. I have heard good things about AmazeGPS but I haven 9t personally tried it. 3.) VyMail ( http://www.joekrill.com/vymail/0.8.3...il-0.8.3.5.zip ) a.<br><br> This is a third-party App for using YouMail. As of right now, you can only download YouMail via the Blackberry Store Application but you won 9t be able to use that since you don 9t have BIS/BES. I 9ve used both and this works just as well.<br><br> 4.) cVisible Menus Theme d ( Default theme with black menus ) a. A lot of third party pieces of software such as Opera Mini do not support the transparent menus that are utilized in the default them for the 8350. This theme is simply the default theme but with the fix so you don 9t have to worry about that anymore.<br><br> Now, if you still have the urge to forward your text messages to your email, here is the how-to on that. This is a little more updated than the other one. 1) Go t o Sprint.com and where you can sign in, click on cSign Up. d 2) The rest should be pretty straight forward, just fill out the form.<br><br> Once you get logged it, it might say cCannot access your account at this time. d Don 9t worry about that, just move on. 3) Go to http://mms.nextel.com/mms and log in with the same information. 4) You will see a red bar that says cYour messages cannot be read.<br><br> Please try again later. d Do not worry about that, this is made for Sprint customers so you will never be able to read your messages on this page. 5) Click on Preferences, then Forward Messages. 6) At this point, you can choose a place to forward your messages too.<br><br> This can be any email address, but the most popular is a Gmail or msn account b/c you can download the app for the respective email accounts and they poll often enough. Since I downloaded shangmail, I have push email so I just used my favorite email account. I also tested sending it to yournumber@page.nextel.com .<br><br> This comes in as an SMS message which is instant (sometimes shangmail can take up to 15 minutes). However, it does not show who the message is from. If you get it as an email, it will tell you it 9s from cyo ur friends number/TYPE=PLMN@myboostmobile.com d If you want to reply, you will have to send a message to cyour friends number@their service provider.com. d It 9s a pain, but it 9s better than nothing.<br><br> Anyway, type in your email address and click cadd. d If you want to test different ones to see which comes in faster or how they come in, you can add more than one address. 7) Be sure to check the boxes that say cEnable Forwarding Address d and cKeep a Copy in my Inbox until it expires d and then click cOkay d to sav e everything. <br><br>

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