Many videos that play great in palm centro do not play in new blackberry curve 8330
- People would likely not feel inclined to consider lawsuits and get frustrated if their issues were not attempted to be trivialized, marginalized or simply told things work fine playing and easily converting video files to play on blackberry phones, when there are obviously many peoples blackberry phones having issues with all these things.
While spending too much time the past week researching through many bb related forums on this and related bugs and poor design ( this is not an inappropriate criticism, it is a fact many, many currrent and former bb users have been forced to deal with when buying blackberrys ) to try to solve issues that should not be such a hassle in a brand new phone to begin with, it is apparent there are very many people having similar issues with BlackBerry phones, their video capabilities being buggy at best, os not working well, etc..
Saying "it's simple to convert them to many formats, and most of them will work just fine." is flatly not the case as shown by my and so many other people posting about such consistant issues and complications of BlackBerry phones that are not nearly as complicated or buggy on many other companies phones.
I find it hard to believe someone can find CrackBerry using Google,
yet couldn't find their "heat seeking moisture missile" in a speedo once they get here.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com10-10-09 06:20 PMLike 0 - Are you kidding again? Spent more time complaining ( being frustrated at the buggy bb and that attitude from bb representatives ) than solving various bugs and unclear design of bb?! Silly!
- have spent close to 50 times more time reading bb near useless, automated help site, bb forums and searches and occasionally asking for specific help than I've been writing here. And this "complaining" is being humanly frustrated with the casual, if you don't like being ripped off with our buggy merchandise and "its easy" line from bb employees attitudes.
Though you seem to ignore this reality for some reason.
One could hardly call the 8330 a "new" device. May be sold as new, and new to you, but let's be realistic if we're going to complain about a product. I've had my 8100 for almost 2 years now, and I have never had any difficulty converting a file to work on it. If you find the devices so tedious, please get an iphone and move on, but the rest of us can drag, drop and convert just fine. You have spent far more time complaining about your problem, than it would have taken to solve your problem. Have you even tried either program you've been given a link to?
I find it hard to believe someone can find CrackBerry using Google,
yet couldn't find their "heat seeking moisture missile" in a speedo once they get here.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com10-10-09 06:41 PMLike 0 - Are you kidding again? Spent more time complaining ( being frustrated at the buggy bb and that attitude from bb representatives ) than solving various bugs and unclear design of bb?! Silly!
- have spent close to 50 times more time reading bb near useless, automated help site, bb forums and searches and occasionally asking for specific help than I've been writing here. And this "complaining" is being humanly frustrated with the casual, if you don't like being ripped off with our buggy merchandise and "its easy" line from bb employees attitudes.
Though you seem to ignore this reality for some reason.
I find it hard to believe someone can find CrackBerry using Google,
yet couldn't find their "heat seeking moisture missile" in a speedo once they get here.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com10-10-09 06:51 PMLike 0 - BTW, BlackBerry doesn't make devices, nor does it have employees.
Sorry just had to add that! Can't stand the negativity! Hi everyone!10-10-09 07:32 PMLike 0 -
I find it hard to believe someone can find CrackBerry using Google,
yet couldn't find their "heat seeking moisture missile" in a speedo once they get here.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com10-10-09 09:18 PMLike 0 - Well your issue the thread was started for was resolved many posts ago. What other buggy things have you experienced with your inferior device? Let's get them all resolved, so you're a happy camper.
I find it hard to believe someone can find CrackBerry using Google,
yet couldn't find their "heat seeking moisture missile" in a speedo once they get here.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com
Actually no, the issue I started this thread about is still unresolved.
The new blackberry 8330 I bought still does not play most of the mp4 files that I have which work great on both my pc and palm centro. They were also created using same software and with same settings as the few that are actually recognized and played by the blackberry 8330 I have.
Which is why it seems like the blackberry is the issue in this instance, as it is for many other consumers I have read about with similar yet unresolved issues with bb phones.
Thanks for offering constructive, empathetic help when so, that is greatly appreciated.10-11-09 02:53 AMLike 0 - Actually no, the issue I started this thread about is still unresolved.
The new blackberry 8330 I bought still does not play most of the mp4 files that I have which work great on both my pc and palm centro. They were also created using same software and with same settings as the few that are actually recognized and played by the blackberry 8330 I have.
Which is why it seems like the blackberry is the issue in this instance, as it is for many other consumers I have read about with similar yet unresolved issues with bb phones.
Thanks for offering constructive, empathetic help when so, that is greatly appreciated.
http://forums.crackberry.com/f52/man...9/#post3784819
but I'll try once again anyway.
The Palm Centro plays all 3 formats of 3GP, where the 8330 plays 3GP2, since the 8330 is a CDMA. You can read all about the format here:
3GP - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
and here:
MPEG-4 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
So if you take all those videos you have, and convert them to 3GP2, or any number of other formats that the 8330 will play, it will work. I they were all set to the exact same format, I don't understand why they would not play. Could you point me to some other threads of people with similar problems.Last edited by BigBadWulf; 10-11-09 at 06:18 AM.
10-11-09 06:14 AMLike 0 - Nope. Reformatting card did not help at all.
Still getting "error playing" and "error has occured attempting to play media", messages., along with no message but video does not play but video player screen just makes blips.
This is a problem with BlackBerry merchandise, apparently.10-11-09 11:59 AMLike 0 - Well the empathy kinda went out the window around here:
http://forums.crackberry.com/f52/man...9/#post3784819
but I'll try once again anyway.
The Palm Centro plays all 3 formats of 3GP, where the 8330 plays 3GP2, since the 8330 is a CDMA. You can read all about the format here:
3GP - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
and here:
MPEG-4 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
So if you take all those videos you have, and convert them to 3GP2, or any number of other formats that the 8330 will play, it will work. I they were all set to the exact same format, I don't understand why they would not play. Could you point me to some other threads of people with similar problems.
Thread of others with similar problems are easy to find if you just type in a search for blackberry 8330 not playing videos or similar terms.
I dont have time to go search for them and copy & paste their links here now. As too much time has been spent already doing this out of my life.
But thank you sincerely for offering the new thought about the 3gp format, and providing links to that. That may help, as it seems there has been more success using a 3gp conveter last night to get them to play on my bb 8330. Though some of those 3GP files did not play either, so still something a bit unknown buggy with it.
I will read through and explore the advice in the links you provided. Thank you.
Thank you billbobaggins for sharing your similar experiences. Glad to know you got a phone that does work as advertised.10-11-09 05:35 PMLike 0 - No, still they do not play as much or more than they do play in this new blackberry 8330 curve.
I give up on it. Time to take it back to store for a refund and get a different phone, probably from a different company.
Thanks to those who understand and respect consumers appropriate frustration in such instances, and offered real, constructive help and advice rather than just saying they work.10-11-09 08:09 PMLike 0 - No, still they do not play as much or more than they do play in this new blackberry 8330 curve.
I give up on it. Time to take it back to store for a refund and get a different phone, probably from a different company.
Thanks to those who understand and respect consumers appropriate frustration in such instances, and offered real, constructive help and advice rather than just saying they work.10-11-09 08:51 PMLike 0 - They really are not playing. And these are the same mp4 videos that I had on same microsd card in my palm centro where they played great and reliably.
But when I put this same card with same videos into my new blackberry curve 8330, it only plays occasional such videos.
Many, many of these same mp4 videos though, do not play in my bb 8330, and it says "An error has occurred attempting to play media".
FYI, cards may have to be reformatted before working in different of devices...just because it is microsd does not mean that it is formatted correctly for your bb after setup for another device.10-12-09 09:32 PMLike 0
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