I completely agree!

i know on every os re-install, quicklaunch is an app that auto inputs my activation code for me

+1 man, well said.

Same here I'm completely with you on that one Bla1ze. Everytime I see a new leaked OS for the 9700 it is bitter sweet. I eager to discover new features but reluctant because of all the hassle of registering all my apps again.

This is such a good idea!

Also agree , well said, and completely agree.

This post is gonna get a LOT of interest!! I certainly hope this is addressed soon, as I feel your pain with re-activating all my apps!!

Great post ;)

AMEN!! I love how you highlighted Berryweather; the code for that one is like 15 characters long!

This is a no-brainer. RIM really has continued to drop the ball on this issue. A few developers have pioneered some work arounds, but they shouldn't even have to!

In any case, whether official through RIM or just as a developer collective, I hope that backing up settings to the SD card becomes a standardized practice.

The upside is that I have re-registered and set up all of my apps so many times that it is impressive to watch me set up my phone after an OS install. I'm like a machine. A really dorky, pathetic machine who prides himself on how fast he can install/register/setup apps.

Take that, dad.

i think this should be something simple that RIM could fix pretty easily.

I feel the same, I have not even installed the latest 9700 update because I am tired of going through and registering my apps that I purchased.

I'm running OS .607 on my 9550 don't really like it, I would like to go back to .517 but don't want to re-register all my apps again. What a pain!!

I don't really use paid applications, so I wouldn't know how it feels :P

There is another way developers can keep an app registered without an entire webservice if you use the Desktop Manager to upgrade your device. In our apps, such as QuickPull, we save the registration code during the Desktop Manager's automatic backup process. Then, once the OS is loaded, the backup is automatically restored, and the app just needs to check it and re-register the app.

The reason reg codes are lost usually is because apps use the PersistentStore feature of BlackBerry devices. This data survives battery pulls, but not OS upgrades. I doubt RIM would ever changes this because they themselves use the PersistentStore, and the Calendar app on build 607 stores some data there, and then you upgrade to build 710, that old data may not be in a valid construct anymore. It's much easier to just clear it all out on an upgrade than try to worry about it. The same goes with third party apps for that matter.

I agree 100%!!! with me constantly upgrading and trying different hybrids im always having to put the codes back in and I have so many paid apps.

The support is already there. Any app can do a look up of the license key as RIM stores it with the app someplace. I don't recall where, perhaps the jad. Anyway, my games all have support to look up the license key as I am sure many others do.

So what is the problem?

1)There is no documentation on this. You have to search the dev forums to even know it exists and then find some piece of code that RIM more or less gave out.
2)There is no way to test whether it works.

Does anyone know if mine works?

I've been saying this same thing for a long time, too. Great post! Hopefully this gets a lot of app dev attention and action!

+1

Completely agree. Even if you had to use desktop manager like the one post above, something that was documented and all apps that worked with it is fine. Anything is better than what is out there now.... keeps us from buying more apps as well, so the dev community should jump on this to fix it if RIM won't.

why do you have the quick pull app. You can do a reboot by simply pressing Alt, Shift, Delete.

???

Tether is a perfect example of an application that just works right. When I upgrade/ downgrade my OS it goes online and checks my PIN. Change device just go on-line and change PIN on-line. Simple, easy no BS. Berry Weather, Docs to Go, Garmin Mobile etc... WTF!! My take is that these developers either 1. don't give a rat's arse about the end user, or 2. are dishonest business people who are looking to score a few extra bucks from users that lose their registration info. Either way, it doesn't reflect well on them.

Many of our applications support auto-registration to save the hassle here. To be honest, I am not sure this is a problem RIM needs to solve.

I couldn't agree more!!!! Anyone listening??

Please fix this RIM and/or developers. This is yet one more negative being a Blackberry user that the competition doesn't have to deal with. The awesome physical keyboard only gets you so far.

This is partially a developer problem and partially a RIM problem. Just connecting to the internet is a headache within the code unless you have a library.

This is part of the reason I have left registration out in the beginning but I'm starting to implement it in the most convenient way possible.

I believe we developers just want to get the app out ASAP and somehow protect our apps from piracy (guys check around your apps are being stolen btw).

So this is something RIM can definitely help developers on but it's up to the developer to implement it.

I've been considering the switch to Android and this is one of the factors. After my 5th install of an OS on my TOUR, I get tire of searching through my saved messages for the activation codes for berrybuzz and meterberry. Real annoying. I also hate having to reread and accept the license agreement for every app like its the first time ever using it. Another behind the 8 ball for RIM in my honest opinion. The only thing holding me back from the HTC incredible is lack of physical keyboard and the lack of desire to learn a whole new phone OS. It took me 6 months just to learn everything I know about the BB.

This is great and all, but this has been discussed and beaten do death in nearly every device's Forums for the past several months now. And it's only getting main-page attention now, and not even acknowledging the forum posters?! I'm not screaming plagiarism, but it does seem like the Crackberry Brass is trying to claim some of its members' ideas as their own without giving them credit. And I don't like it.

This is great and all, but this has been discussed and beaten do death in nearly every device's Forums for the past several months now. And it's only getting main-page attention now, and not even acknowledging the forum posters?! I'm not screaming plagiarism, but it does seem like the Crackberry Brass is trying to claim some of its members' ideas as their own without giving them credit. And I don't like it.

I dealt with this for the first time the other day. i had no idea i had to hang on to my registration code for berrybuzz. I had to sort through a million emails to find the code. also with berry buzz all my application preferences all reset which was also a giant pain in the ass to re do them all

Completely sick of this behavior!!! Would it really be that hard to change this behavior?

i vote for.... AGREE!!!

I totally agree. I am constantly getting refurbished phones and every time I have to change my pin. With a few in particular it takes them days at a time to respond to an email to change it in their system and it is a biggggggg hassle its the most annoying thing! Please listen to this. Please hear our cries.

Finally someone speaks my mind! I totally agree with you. As someone who frequently upgrades his BlackBerry everytime there's new OS both leaked and official, going through so many re-registering apps can be so much pain in the butt.

Damn straight! Do I really have to pay for an app to manage and reregister something as basic as this???!!! It's bad enough i can't two-way directly to gmail, but this is really stooopid. Not stupid, but stooopid.