I’ve read so much about its new features. I know what to look into for only couple hours review time.

Speed. Yes, it’s lighteng fast. It’s fast everywhere. Open a browser, web page viewing, go back to the home screen, go back to playlist while playing a video in media player and etc.

Screen. Most impressive hand held device LCD. It’s smaller compare to iphone, PSP but with resolution of 480×320, super bright LCD, I don’t mind switching movie watching from PSP/iphone to Blackberry Bold!
Compare to my Blackberry Curve, Bold supports H264 at resolution 480×272 (only one I tested so far)! My Curve only supports H264@ 160 sth from the official spec. I did try H264 320×240 on Curve, only sound no image.
Some WinMenc settings:
mencoder.exe “D:\Download\Video\169_diablo3_di_062908_hr.mp4″ -af volnorm -srate 48000 -vf-add scale=480:272,harddup -ofps 30000/1001 -oac faac -faacopts br=128:mpeg=4:object=2 -ovc x264 -ffourcc H264 -x264encopts bitrate=500:level_idc=13:nocabac -o “D:\Download\169_diablo3_di_062908_hr.x264.avi” 2> 2.txt
call “batch\mp4-avc.bat” “D:\Download\169_diablo3_di_062908_hr.x264.avi”

3G. Fast again! It takes seconds to download google map. I don’t see the progress bar stops at all.

It’s an unlocked t-mobile Blackberry 8320 Curve on Rogers network. And it is my second personal Blackberry (owned 8100 before).

Windows live messenger was pre-loaded on this t-mobile’s curve. But it never worked. It failed to connect to the server. The guess was Rogers didn’t have the service books for it yet.

Here’s what I did this time:

Connect your BB with your computer.
Use Internet Explorer, goto wlm.
Follow the steps to load Windows Live Messenger 2.0 onto your blackberry. (You may be prompted to install some activeX control for the loading)

And that’s it!

If it is still not working for you after the above steps, I suggest you take a look at your service book options. It should have something like WLM 2.1 [BBIM], Windows Live [BBIMConfig]. You can try to re-send service books from Rogers BIS.

My Curve is running OS 4.5.0.52.

The first place I would check is free memory or File Free size of your Blackberry. It happened to me after I updated OS my 8320. It showed less than 3MB after a battery pull.

After some google searches, here is an article of how to maximize free memory on your Blackberry. I removed unwanted .cod, extra theme, voice activated dialing, 83xx media and etc.

To show Blackberry Help Me screen, go to advanced options, then applictions, and press Alt, Cap and H key all together. This is the Help Me screen after wipe and flash the OS:

After enterprise activation, and load the applications I use daily: Google Gmail, Goolge GTalk, Viigo, Mobipocket Reader. And load 2 company testing product. The File Free shows:

I fee much better seeing it’s over 20MB now This amount of free memory will make 8320 work better with the upcoming highly expected 4.5 OS.

1. using top command

After executing top command, press “Shift” + “>” and look at “RES” column. The RES column is the most reliable indicator of the real memory usage of that process.

top result

2. ps axu –sort:rss

show memory usage sorted by lowest memory usages first.

A general Apache which serves static html page should consume less than 10MB per process.
For heavily serving PHP pages, in my case it uses 18MB-39MB each httpd process.

mysqld has a memory usage of 120MB in my case. I can tell that the query cache settings worked as planned.

uname -a

• Check Linux version

cat /proc/version

• Check Redhat based Linux version

cat /etc/redhat-release

• Check PHP version on Linux server

php -v

• Check mysql version on linux server

mysql -V

• Check apache version on linux server

httpd -v

I’ve got BL updates on all my websites as well as PR. Traffic of some websites shows a jump today. It’s still too early to see how much the traffic has improved. Let’s wait and see.

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