BlackBerry Messenger 5.0 Stress Test - Add Me as a Contact!

look for snakedoctor!!

This is too cool!

thats just an app utilizing the internet to search for the product. Im sure they are out there for blackberry you just have to search.

lol that was easy! i was trying to figure out how to take a picture but then it just beeped and it now says i am awaiting confirmation.

not sure y but when i go to invite contact theres no sms option for me as the 3rd option, any one else have this problem

Still waiting, already 2 hours or something bout it.

I cannot see my buddy's profile pic but he can see mine! (He's the only person I know with a BB). He is running a leaked version of BBM 5.0 - I wonder if that has anything to do with it?

Man if I tried that on my Storm I think it would crash!!

Dear Kevin,
Your crazy. Enjoy the 10k beeps.
From,
DaBear5

beeped but no awaiting confirmation. did we max it out?

So, i think the real test won't be just how many can be added, but how many can you broadcast to?

Kevin will now have a way to send a mesage to everyone on the list with just one message that everyone can get rather instantaneously!

It's like when we tested how many people we can get in a group chat about 1-1/2 years ago. :)

http://qrcode.kaywa.com/

Can't belive it. this Rocks!!

wow that is just crazy how many of us have added/are still waiting to add u, hopefully there is no limit or maybe 5k is the limit and we all get on the list, but damn that is alot of ppl

your bb is going to POP!

I CERTAINLY hope you did a backup first, just in case. Sent you an add. :)

The final tally will be interesting.

BBSeattle

You can scan your own barcode and add yourself to your contact list. LOL

I'm late to this experiment.. but it was cool scanning the bar code!

A bar code is just way to cool.

I'm having trouble sending photo files to BBM contacts...is anyone else experiencing this?...Tour user

Kevin man that is INSANE man. I would have never thought that it would have even really allowed a 1000. But when you posted you had over 2000 in only an hour or so. That is a far throw so whill see.

added...:)

You've been added and your nuts...lol... :)

Has adding a contact to the Home Screen always been an option? Just saw that today.

Kevin will have to do that for the people he really wants to chat with now because his Contacts list will be **crushed**.

Cool experiment, Kevin. Thanks for letting us play along. The barcode capture is great... hope that catches on much more broadly.

That is sweet as soon as I went to add contact via the barcode via computer screen, added!

This is great!

Cheers,
Charlie

Just added.

I think it's funny that when you scan someone's tag it makes the noise of scanning some groceries at the grocery store lol.

Added!!

What an awesome idea Kevin!

...now add me dammit! :D

I can issue a press release in the am about what you are doing.

I'll be adding people I really have no interest in ever talking to, just so i can scan their barcode!

this is gonna be interesting

ill say maybe 3000 lol going out on a limb here! haha nice stress test tho...added!

added and waiting.

I'm now among the pending. With my luck if the cutoff is 10,000 then I'll be 10,001

Any bets on how many days it will take Kevin to approve everyone?
I'm also in line.
Good Luck!!!

doesn't this drain the battery a lot quicker?

1st ever contact :) Just got my BBM (Bold) today

is my avatar... add me :) (not that i'm stealing Kevin's thunder)

How do you add him? I cant get the barcode to work for me?

I'm wondering how the group thing works.

Kevin, you create a group with all (or just some) of us in it, does everyone see everyone or only the people that they have on their contact list? Do you have to add everyone from the group to your contact list?

Stick a fork in me, I'm done. Now waiting your approval which will probably be done by Monday ;-)

Just a heads-up, confirming a previous poster's observation that scanning from farther away is better. If you have it zoomed so the barcode fills up the bberry screen the scan lines from the monitor refresh will keep it from capturing the barcode. The berry beeps, but nothing appears in the pending list. Pull back and scan from farther away, as it doesn't seem to matter what else the camera is catching in the frame. It will pick up the barcode and the contact will appear as a pending contact. I'd imagine other advice about printing the barcode and scanning the paper is also good.

Just installed the upgrade and received:
Reload Software 552.

Way cool! That was my first barcode scan. Waiting to see how high this goes!

You gotta try the "Broadcast Message" feature when this is all over. Just hold it away from your face in case your Berry explodes!

Kevin you cant start something like this then expect to take a break from adding people! ;)

I cant' believe I just scanned your bar code from my computer screen and it added you as a pending user to my phone!!!!!!! This is almost scary!!! ALSO, when I tried it again and aimed the phone at the screen, it came up saying CONTACT ALREADY EXISTS!!! This is unbelievable!!!!!

Kevin, you're crazy! lol. Over 5,000 different people is insane!

Just added. :D

Very interested to see how this turns out. Scanning the barcode was slick. I wager it'll crack the 2000 barrier. I'm going to say 5K.

What'll happen if you scan one of them barcodes on the end of a cereal box? (no not the standard type)

You'll add a cereal box to your bb messenger lol. I don't think that'll work. There's a barcode app from edocrab that's for standard barcodes. It'll give you prices, name etc...

Just insane! You will have all Crackberry members on your list! hahaha.

After you've added everyone as a friend can we time a message to you? say everyone sends you a message at the same time, I would be curious to see what would happen...
Pending (Waiting for Autorization) =)

I'm sure that with the number of BlackBerrys Kevin has, this list is probably not going on his daily driver. Better to use a spare BB for the test. His private BBM list probably wont' grow much, but this is a damn good test!

Wow. I never thought I would be friends with Kevin. Nice.

Added.
I think your bold may crash before reaching a limit of contacts. Bbm 5.0 rocks!

Hi all,

I have just generated a barcode with the new BBM and the generated PNG-File has a bad CRC and is not displayed. Any idea?

Link here: http://rafaelwv.posterous.com/blackberry-messenger-meine-pin-0

Kind regards,

Rafaelwv@gmail.com
PIN: 20D39226

error

Just Added>>>Waaiting For Approvemnt...Go Kevin....Get Insane... LOL :)

i'm trying to scan the barcode with my Storm but all it's doing is focusing unfocusing and refocusing the image of the barcode. is that what is supposed to happen? i'm a bit perplexed. i'm running on the 5.0.0.230 OS

McLovin bbm 5.0!!

Gee Kevin, why is it taking you so long to acept me? It's like you have thousands of other people to acept first or something....

Barcode Scanning/Pin Exchange capability = SUPER COOL

Added you Kevin, to test this out.

Will all devices eventually have this function?

It sucks cause not everyone's gonna get on the band wagon right away for easy barcode scan!

Well lol its gunno take a while to add everyone or whatever the new BBM will let him add

All these requests!! You're gonna crash the BBM servers and everyone will be complaining about how its broken already.

*Once you get a ton of people on your list, try to backup to the media card. (Make sure you have a 32gb card!!!)

Did you just suddenly lose your mind or was this some kind
of latent issue we all missed :)

sent you mine bro. sorry im late to the party!

I remember when many years ago I first heard of this new thing someone was working on, the 2D bar code. And now I see it at work. Wow. BTW, I don't know how others did it, but I did scan from the web page via my BB. Wow. Amazing.

Ok done, we'll see what happens..

im having trouble addin people on my BBM me and my friend try adding each other and it wont work when he sends me a requet and i accept him it still says pending on my phone
and when i send him one it wont let him add me
am i doin something wrong that its not letting me add him or that its not showing up on my contacts once i do add him can someone please help me with this. thank you.

Kevin,
One of the best testes or posts I have ever had orseen anyone come up with. i ma with you 2-2500 I would top.

I am not going to bust your bubble because i have a personal friend on the BBM test team and Beta as well as helping to place this app together... I spoke to him and relunctanyly he tome me with about 10 s0 i will let you know how close you came when you say what you topped at.

My best

Jan
Jaguarr40

added

You are a brave, brave man Kevin for even thinking of a test like this. Hats off to the Master CrackBerry!

Once I finally figured out to just hold my phone there and it would do the rest. I was trying to to take a picture of the bar code. Very cool

have fun with all those im pretty late but i'll join the party

I went here qrcode.kaywa.com/

It makes the 2D bar codes. I generated one then scanned it!

Here is what happened it beeped then prompted me if i wanted to open the link or not! So if you have one of these (essentially)you can scan it to open the link!

Now here is where im thinking this code lead ( I know vast amount of possibility's) it could be a way of communicating info privately to one another. or along the lines of geo catching posters and fliers with these leading to sites for trailers and party's ECT.

OH the possibility's are endless to this wonderful technology!!!

they need to make it an app so you can launch it from anywhere

Added Kevin around 12:30 this afternoon. Still waiting for an approval!!! This man is going to be busy tonight!

My message reads "pending (waiting for authorization)."

I have the Bold 9000. The scan of the barcode was very easy, almost like framing a photograph.

I'm eagerly anticipating the results of this CrackBerry experiment.

Kevin, I hope you keep us ALL as friends on your BlackBerry!!!

Thanks again.

I have the leaked 5.0 version of the O.S. on my storm, and I am unable to upgrade my messenger, could someone help me out?

One Hundred percent easier. Was wondering if I had to push the screen to take the scan. Nope. Full AUTO! Awesome! It up RIM!

Running 5.0.0.230 here. No problems. Yet! Knock wood. Wish VZW would officiate this or some 5.0 release. Not gonna wait or hold my breath.

Seeing a lot of barcodes showing up on Facebook Blackberry Forums, Tried out adding a few - most are working. Adding new friends. Also using it on Facebook, Messenger and Twitter to see how many folks out there are actually using them. So far intersting but slow! So if you want - add me. Blackberry Bold running OS 5.0.0.238 with BBM 5.0.0.33 - Living in Lima, Peru. Looking for international friends. Scottish - International School Director. Gets to Europe and Ethiopia twice a year. Want to utilize my BBM - ADD ME PLEASE lets make friends. PIN 256CC957

Can you pick me up that white ceramic Chanel watch... pretty please? With the diamond bezel. Thanks!

thats awesome, the barcode scanner is definitely a great update. Oh added you btw, cool little project you got going on here.

Wow, first time I used it. I was moving the phone all over the place trying to get the code perfectly in the screen and it scanned it. I thought I was supposed to actually take a picture...lol! Pretty slick!

Amazing don't think this has ever been done before Kevin you should call guinness book of word records. I also added you and like many others waiting for approval.

Love your enthusiasm Kevin. You remind me of someone. Oh, wait! It's me. lol

Hope you have a crew to help you. This is gonna be a blast.

Here is my barcode everyone. Send the requests.

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j179/idle0095/bbm_barcode.jpg

Next time you do a contest, you can select the winner randomly by PINing someone on your contact list.

Late but here we go ...........send.

MAKE SURE YOU DON'T CRASH THE RIM SERVER, OR WERE COMING FOR YOU, LOL

worked like a charm, haha

The rest of us with blackberry 8830's sans camera how can we utilize the barcode scanning

You can't. That's why there's he listed his PIN...

You guys make this thing sound like your favorite actress just PIN'd you and she wants to come over...lol...

Im guessing that the only limit is the size of ur memory.. or whats left of it....

I LOVE it. Awesome!

I'm in awe at how easy that was!!! Wow!

I've be added.5.o looked great.

Now that's a very slick feature! (yeah I just updated) No more: "ok, now that's a N110G...?" I do love my crackberry more and more each day :)

Its working great!! Want to get some adds also please! Feel free to add me!! I am 24 and very laid back! Like the ladies and dudes so anyone is welcome to add me and test this out!! THANkZ

ha ha forgot the pin!! Here it is thanks Guys! 306E1E16

Hah! Added. Wow, you're brave. lol

Added you Kevin just waiting for your approval. Here is my pin if anyone wants to add me....31A091FD

Im in on this too!

Added not long after this was posted. Barcode scanned without a problem. Fastest contact I've ever added.

Just sent the request. cnt wait to see wat happens, wondering wat # kev's up to.
Pin # 3064099b

Useless, waiting for kevin to add u pretty funnie too just hoping he'll add you psh.. come on guys pretty pathetic oh by the way the code is nice.

I can't see if someone is currently typing back like on the old one where there was an "a" by their name. Also, I can't see their status without clicking on their name and viewing contact info. The old version would tell you if they were unreachable, busy, etc. right on the contact list. Am I just not seeing it?

All the way from Singapore... so look out for me!

Here is the link to my barcode if anyone would like to add me as a contact.

http://s891.photobucket.com/albums/ac119/barkyxi/
?action=view&current=BBM_Barcode.jpg

Barky

Just an FYI: I am using a Tour from VZW. After the install and the reboot. I now have the Error(Reload Software 552) on my screen. My BB is completely non-operational. The software reload has a constant backfire. I will replace it tomorrow, but good thing that we are going to see a new BB on 09/xx!!

Hey Kevin,
Why am I still awaiting authorization? LOL Pin #249fa3d7

Cheers,
Charlie

I have a Tmob 8900 and after the install which went well, it rebooted and there was no icon. I looked at the posts and someone said to do a battery pull which I did and now the screen is white with a ghost buster icon that says Reload Software 552. I brought the berry to Tmob and they said they couldn't help and that I should hook it up to my computer and reload the software. I had already upgraded it to 4.6.1.231 so the uploader won't do anything since it says I already have that version on it. I did a downgrade to the one that was on my berry when I bought it, 4.6.1.113. After waiting 3 hours, same icon. I think this is the last day I will own a BB. I think I'm going to ATT for a nice iphone in the morning. If anybody has any advice I'd be happy to try it.

Thanks, Frank

they need to add end all conversations on bbm so i can stop ending them one at a time

i cant believe how easy that was. i tried adding a friend that didnt have 5.0 today and i cudn't even find his pin in bbm so i gave up and went to my profile and added myself on his bb. i jus added you kevin but i think your gonna hit the cap before you get to accept me. we'll see what happens.

That was awesome. So simple. Scan and its done. I love it!

Can anyone help me how to figure out a way to install it on a bold and a 8900 with the .238 OS thanks in advance

added ya. getting new to the 4.5 8330m update. Cool that you can make barcodes.

lol interesting experiment!

Using my Storm (Verizon) I had no issues - took 1 or 2 seconds to read the qr image

I started laughing when I saw this and figured...Why not?! I guess I too am one of the 10K requests and counting.

Good luck!

I'm so 5.0
You so 4.0 and late
I got that bbm, boom, boom
That future bbm, boom, boom
Better get it now

Reading Update 6 made my day! I actually feel kinda sorry for you because I know that would drive me insane if my phone was going as crazy as your is. Good luck with the stress test and don't break our BBM 5.0!

btw i noticed while testing bbm beta release that it works without blackberry services and over wifi so maybe you can try that it wll be a lot faster

These unique bar codes reminds me of Kryptonians unique family symbols. How much would one have to pay RIM to get the Superman logo as their barcode. :p

Best Idea ever! Does it just add you to BB Messenger or gives you full contact details?

So awesome to know that a BB can handle this much stress.

Can't wait to see the video of all those requests coming in like that.

Great idea to do a stress test!

i send my request look for MR.J, and dude you are crazy if this work hands down im going to be totally amazed...good luck

over 10000 requests. He's going to HAVE to delete some to make his berry work halfway right again. Now he knows what cellunlock.net went through with their giveaway! I really hope this is some unimportant berry he doesnt use much, because what we've essentially done is kind of a DOS attack where it's so busy its unuseable.

His phone is probably too hot to pick up!

What did you do this week?
I did my TPS reports.....
And then on Thursday and Friday just kept hitting the same button on my blackberry......

Can Guinness be called to say that he is setting a record?

I need help !!!!

I installed the 5.0 and now its not working ... i cant start a covo with anyone... what did i do wrong ?? please help

oh man this is going to be an interesting experiment to see how the blackberry really holds up. i don't think there is a limit to how many you can add but we're going to find out. authorization still pending... lol

im still pending, and i think i was within the first 50 that sent a request.. so, i think im going to delete the add. there might be more people like me who you think you have confirmed, but on their end, they are still pending. that could be the sign of too many contacts.. people just dont get added correctly.

IS kevin still trying to approve everybody?

if not mistaken it seems the older requests are put lower on the awaiting approval than the newer request. when his original post came out i waited about three to four hours until shortly after his "goin shoppin" post.

didnt have much else to do while at work on a slow night. i sent mine and was aprroved within a few minutes.

so i would venture to say those that jumped in early to help will be at bottom or the list awaiting approval.

be patient im sure he will get to ya eventually, if he can handle doing nothing else but approving requests all weekend..

hahaah!!! this is great.. just sent the request.. name is eddie, just with all funky letters.. i can't wait to see the follow up thread to this!

hahaah!!! this is great.. just sent the request.. name is eddie, just with all funky letters.. i can't wait to see the follow up thread to this!

hahaah!!! this is great.. just sent the request.. name is eddie, just with all funky letters.. i can't wait to see the follow up thread to this!

I just added you i'm maryellen38

20f48f20 my pin, lets get it started

How do I show and create my own bar code. Does it happen when I create my own group? email at budlightsunrise_81@vzw.blackberry.net.

It has been quite some time since the last update...

Here we go lets make this big!!! pin # 30C6A80B

305D669F

Wonder if we have literally blown up his BB yet.

how can i get my barcode on my computer??? that is soooo cool!

There should be more of these =)

I wanna met new friend. I have 26 Male I live ny my pin is 20FD258C

i added ya but how do i post a pic of myself on here ? lol

We recently just launched the beta version of our BlackerBerry PIN QR Code Generator. Please feel free to try it out and give feedback: http://www.mskynet.com/static/maestro (MeCard).

- Scopes

249E2338 I'm in cali I like to chat on my bbm hit me up!

what number are we up to?

Does he still use this phone? lol.

That's what I have been trying to figure out... I'd love to be on his bbm contact list

My request is one of them but I want more contacts too so my pin is 281C2B55 please people add me