I hate this phone.

[canuck_67]

I had a huge problem of lag and long long reboots.

I backed up.

Factory reset.

I found I had 180 apps loaded.

I started loading what I really needed. Total - 18 apps

I have since loaded 2 more.

My battery life only really sucks hard when I tether to PB.

Other than that - keeping things cleaned up makes my 9800 just like new.

Also my carrier has alot to do with speeds ect.

[laollis]

I'm going Android!

[MP81440]

So, when I got about a factory reset, will it reload all of my apps, or do I have to do that manually?

[laollis]

factory reset is just that, so yes, you will have to load the apps you want....all over again.

[MP81440]

All right, so that would be the optimal time to load the newest OS as well.

Just stumbled onto a thread about all the lagging issues and turned off the file compression. Lets see if that does anything...

[MP81440]

Turning off file compression seems to have gotten rid of a lot of the lagging and battery problems.

Still couldn't send pictures, so I backed up, wiped all the data from the phone and restored it. Bam, now I can send pictures again. I also updated to 6.0.0.706, which seems to have sped things up rather well so far (I hear it had a big browser update...what did it change?).

So far so good. Thanks for all the help everyone!

[whitbags]

Bookmark..

[snowindec9]

i had a short play with torch 1 back in 2010 for a few days.it was the first time i used a touchscreen/keyboard combo device.it was good feel but it was lagging a lot and slow so i returned it.but if you hate this phone so much,get the torch 2 9810.you won't regret it one bit at all.this torch has it all.rim keeps improving the torch series.got to love it.

[MP81440]

I'm sure the 9810 is better than this, but the manager at my AT&T store actually had the 9810 pulled from his shelves and told AT&T not to send him anymore due to all of its problems. The issue is with Blackberry and the fact that they don't update like Android and iOS does. Not to mention, the hardware is still out of date.

My phone was doing good, and still is a lot better than before, I can send pictures again, and the phone is livable. But it still exhibits frustrating issues like the occasional hourglass freeze/lag, the phone forgetting what battery is has and going from 50% to showing 5% or so (a battery pull resets this). To me, it has two strikes again. Not to mention, I can still probably get $100 for the phone on eBay, so if I buy an Atrix 2, I'm out virtually nothing.

[TorchMach1]

Originally Posted by MP81440

The issue is with Blackberry and the fact that they don't update like Android and iOS does. Not to mention, the hardware is still out of date.

This is just ignorant. Don't you see all the OS "leaks" here on Crackberry? Android and iOS are definitely not updating with as much frequency as RIM. In fact, with many Android devices, you have to be rooted in order to even update the OS. Apple certainly doesn't update iOS with nearly the frequency either.

[MP81440]

Perhaps I phrased my post wrong. It just seems that every time I update, it doesn't fix any of the issues, and sometimes creates new ones or makes existing issues worse.

[sgpika]

my blackberry's always low. and freezes.
since i installed this app:

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and stopped using the app battery plus,

the blackberry doesnt freeze anymore.

blackberry 9800.

[MP81440]

I bought BeJoose and it didn't do anything.

After a week or two after the format, it went back to its old ways. Forgetting it has battery life, not being able to send pictures, freezing a lot, etc. Gave it three strikes, it racked those up in two days.

Ended up saying screw it, I'm done. Bought myself a Motorola Atrix 2 and it's wonderful.

Thanks for all the help, though, definitely appreciate it!