Useful Thoughts and Actions Taken

Life Expectancy Table – The older your are the longer you will have lived

Life expectancy table

You can figure out the mean number of years you have left using this table.  It is interesting to note that if you are 50 you have a mean of 28.99 more years to live.  Whereas if you are 60 years old you have 20.92 years left.   So if you are 50 you will live to be 78.99 years old but if you are 60 you will live to be 80.92 years old. 

Thus the older you are the longer you will have lived.  So the secret of old age is to live a long time.

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Blackberry 7290 how to bring up help page showing Vender ID etc

similtaneously press:  ALT , CAP,  H  keys

ALT looks like a crescent moon on the left

CAP has CAP with up arrow head on the right side of the space key

H is simply the h letter key

Vender ID's

ID    Vendor Name
0    RIM WebSL Zero
100    T-Mobile US
101    Cingular Wireless
102    AT&T
103    Nextel/Nextel International – Brazil/Nextel International – Mexico/Nextel International – Peru
104    Sprint

….. more 

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Blackberry 7290 – Change language setting to portuguese

Steps taken by Luizom

Installed the following package.  Originally installed with Brazilian Portuguese interface.  Later installed with English interface and still worked to load / change language interface.

Download Blackberry Desktop Version 
Software Name: Desktop Software v6.1.0 B34
File Name: 610_b034_multilanguage.exe
Download Size: 114.873 MB
Published Date:

Then later installed the HandHeld software. 

Detalles de descarga
Nombre de software: BlackBerry Handheld Software v4.1.0.556 (Multilanguage) 
Nombre de archivo: 7290M_PBrER4.1.0_rel556_PL1.8.0.154_A4.1.0.377_Telcel.exe
Idioma: Spanish
Fecha de publicación: 07/04/2007

Notes

  • It is a bit odd how the HandHeld software has to be "installed" rather than just having a file available for the DeskTop software to upload to the phone.
  • When I tried to install the HandHeld software then run it the execution stalled and the software could not see the phone when it was attached to USB port.  Subsequent restart fixed this issue
  • HandHeld package has various languages available for upload to the phone. Not only portuguese.
  • Stored on Green pen drive under blackberry.  Need to up the upload size limit and modify security policies for types allowed
  • Appears the second software ( TelCel ) is a device loader and it has the languages all by itself. Thus it may only be necessary to use it to load languages onto the phone

Research Links

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago