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National Battery Pull Day!

by Click on 5 Aug 2008 07:31 AM
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So today is August 5th 2008 and you know what that means right?! NO?! It's National Pull Your Battery Day!! What does that mean to you?? Well, it's a perfect time to show your BlackBerry how much you love it by doing a quick battery pull. This simple project will help with clearing out some gunk and speed up your berry!! So if you uninstalled something and forgot to reboot, no worries as this will clean it all up!! And remember, if you're not a fan of the yanking the battery, you can always do the RIM-preferred Alt + Right Caps + Delete soft reboot.

After you pull your battery on your BlackBerry and while you wait for it to finish turning back on head over to the August 5th, National Battery Pull Day thread and leave a comment to show your dedication to helping your berry stay clean and healthy! You know what they say... "A Battery Pull A Day, Will Keep The Doctor Away!"

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Posted by bmcclure937 Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

I would rather do a soft reset (or a double soft) and be done with it :)

 
 
Posted by mjohn77 Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

I already pulled my battery today, and yesterday, and two days before that. 8830 lockups make battery pull day an every day occurrence!

 
 
Posted by hockey Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

glad to help out.

 
 
Posted by Lance G. Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

Instead of a battery pull on the curve, you can hold (alt+the right caps key+del) and there's your battery pull! This feature is a must use. It works from any screen even when your bb freezes up or anything.

 
 
Posted by Anonymous Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

good call on the alt+right shift+del reset for the curve. just reset mine and its running like new. i wish BB could address how long these resets take though. i have never timed mine officially but it definitely takes more than 60-90 seconds...
given i have some additional applications (pac man, viigo, nytimes, espn, etc.) but still. it's a pain.

 
 
Posted by socal5vee Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

Yank your battery has a better ring to it!

 
 
Posted by lamonicaj Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

I pulled my battery around 12:30 this morning....of course not knowing it was "national battery pull day". LOL, leave it to crackberry....

 
 
Posted by cblocker Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

Thanks for the advice!

 
 
Posted by rbwaters Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

Howdy,
Two quick notes.
Make sure you're not connected to the wall-charger/travel charger or computer with the Blackberry.
It will render your battery pull ineffective.
Also, on almost all Blackberries, if you go to the screen where all the icons are (the Applications screen) and hold down the ALT button while pressing L, G, L, G, it will bring up an Event Log.
Then you can either hit the menu button (the one to the left of the trackball)or, on devices with the track-wheel, just click the track-wheel and choose "Clear Log" and then confirm the deletion.
Doing this before the battery pull will make it more effective and also reduce your time of waiting for the Blackberry to boot itself back up.
Yours,
Rusty

 
 
Posted by john piercy Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

pulled my battery ,, didnt know about this

I feel better now , hopefully my Curve will appreciate it.

 
 
Posted by mykalgrant Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

Thanks for the tip and Happy Battery Pull Day CB!

 
 
Posted by Anonymous Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

National? battery pull day? I have a daily battery pull....how many times does the damn pearl lock up that you have to pull the battery to get it back?

Also, when my emails start disappearing, BB messages don't open, and the browser freezes, i've got no choice but to pull the battery.

 
 
Posted by rbwaters Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

Be sure to enable "memory cleaning", this will help you not lose your emails, etc.
Go to Options (the adjustable wrench icon), Security Options, Memory Cleaning.
In Memory Cleaning it'll probably say "disabled" click there and change it to "enabled" and then when you back out choose "save" if it prompts you to save your changes.
Also it may help to change call logging settings for it to just log in call log and not in messages.
To do that go into call log (just hit the Green phone button and it should take you there), hit the menu button (the button to the left of the trackball) and choose "Options", then choose "call logging" and change it to "None".
Back out, save.
Then do your hard reset (might do the clear event log, see above, first).
Should help you out a lot.
Yours,
Rusty

 
 
Posted by Rose6446 Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

Think I'll pass on doing this "for fun" but when needed.....i'll stick with the soft. No need to abuse the berry, now....

 
 
Posted by netposer Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

You guys can't be serious about this--unless you get iPhone users to do the same today!

 
 
Posted by Kevin Michaluk Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

When Yester18 made the post in the forums I think it was for good fun...no predjudice here....

So it could be CrackBerry Nation, Smartphone Nation, or Worldwide anything with a battery nation....

spread the word and I guess we'll see who pulls batteries out of what. :)

oohh...iPhone users can't take part though - no way to easily pull the battery. so I guess they are excluded.

 
 
Posted by Drago Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

My 8800 rarely requires this but hey why not, I'm not getting left out.

 
 
Posted by Kbeazzy Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

lol I kept the doc away yeah

 
 
Posted by jerhunter Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

I joined the bandwagon...

 
 
Posted by llasso Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

Done with soft reset. I´ll use this option instead of actually yanking the battery.

BTW, i didn´t know the soft reset shortcut, thanks for the tip because i used to yank the battery.

 
 
Posted by mckaymike Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

Thanks for reminding me I really need it!

 
 
Posted by ivy_punx99 Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

Anything to help out the BB!

 
 
Posted by m1k3k Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

yeah!

 
 
Posted by constant10 Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

Hi guys,

I've been using my curve for 4 months and yesterday the trackball started to malfunction. I can still roll it and select items, but when I press it nothing happens anymore.

I did the recommended battery pull to speed up my curve, but that didn't help.

Do you think that this is the end of my phone's healthy life? Should I contact Tmobile saying that I have a hardware issue?

I appreciate any feedback.

THANKS!

 
 
Posted by Anonymous Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

Hi! I did the battery pull today!! Was perfect timing for me, as I was having a problem since last night opening emilas...they showed up, and I hit the trackball the envelope would open to appear as if it was read, but the actual message did not open. The battery pull fixed it!!!:o) Yeah.

Anyway Happy Battery Pull Day to all!

 
 
Posted by bboydakab Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

I DID THAT TO MY 8800 HAPPY BATTERY PULL OUT DAY LOL

 
 
Posted by cbs2669 Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

Don't get me wrong, I love my BB, and am forced to pull my battery often if I want it to function correctly.

However, wouldn't it be nice if BB could make a device where this wasn't necessary? What if you had to continually pull the battery on your tv remote control, your kids toys, the wii remote, hearing aids (not that i wear them) but you get the idea....such a pain in the a$$

 
 
Posted by tnewton3 Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

I don't pull my battery every day but I will today in honor of the holiday. I try to pull my battery once a week just to give it a reboot. I think of the beast like a computer if you don't occasionally restart your computer you will run into problems.

 
 
Posted by idreamoutloud Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

I have a pearl and rather than rip the battery out I installed Soft reset... its alot more convenient then trying to get the back off the pearl
http://www.geekandproud.net/blackberry-software/

 
 
Posted by danielleinez Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

I pulled my battery! I'm cool!

 
 
Posted by Crackafied Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

I do Alt + Right Caps + Delete and nothing happnes on my 8130.

 
 
Posted by LGL Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

awesome, it's my birthday today and I get to participate in NBP day... cheers!

 
 
Posted by darthxmark Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

yankED!

 
 
Posted by ittykitty Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

I pulled the battery just for CB!! I am such a follower!! LOL!! ;)

 
 
Posted by 1TRUTH Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

TO SHOW MY SUPPORT I PULLED MY BATTERY, NEW BLACKBERRY OWNER I LOVE MY 8800!!

 
 
Posted by juliasmut Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

I opted for the soft reboot, only because I've never done that, didn't even know about it. Had my BB Curve about 2 months and I love it! Total addict.

 
 
Posted by rpalumbo Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

Done

 
 
Posted by rpalumbo Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

Done

 
 
Posted by baykine Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

happy national battery pull day to all blackberry users and especially crackberry.com. its like battery pull day every other day for me. i pulled my battery out yesterday but since its a special day for battery pulling....i guess i will do it right now.

cheers!

 
 
Posted by Cubano Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

Mission Accomplished...........

 
 
Posted by rick.ash@us.didata.com Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

Can I just do it till I need glasses?

 
 
Posted by BlackM3n Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

It has been DONE!! Besides, I do it daily, anyway... Happy 5th!!!

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Posted by jforce Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

As I have a version of OS 4.5 installed, my berry is frequently on the fritz and I am very accustomed to pulling the battery.

That's hilarious that there's a "Day" devoted to this although I don't see it written in officially in my calendar. What's next, "Take the day off and try to update your OS without bricking your BlackBerry Day"?

Happy resetting!

 
 
Posted by Anonymous Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

Done. didnt even know it was national battery pull day!!

 
 
Posted by kshrader Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

Funny, on nation battery pull day I actually "had" to pull the battery for the first time ever. I wake up this morning and I thought it was strange that I hadn't had any emails,calls or texts. As the day progressed I thought wow what a quiet day, this is great. Well by 2pm I decided to check my email via my computer and I was shocked, I had over 15 emails and none of them had showed up on my BB, then I checked my voicemail and I had quite a few of them as well. So I started troubleshooting
and noticed that I was stuck in roam for some reason. So before I freaked out I did a batt pull, and like magic the flood gates opened. Everything worked, but man I was busy after that. Thanks Crackberry.

Keith

 
 
Posted by angiebutterfly Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

I always try to pull the battery or do a soft reset every so often. It really does help.

 
 
Posted by TinasDay Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

OK I dont quite understand it but I did it!

 
 
Posted by Thequiet1 Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

I didnt want to miss out on the action so I cleared the log and yanked the battery. Ballin for the next 5 days.
Yes Sir!

 
 
Posted by jlands Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008 1388 days ago

hi from Australia.
There's nothing like a good... battery pull

 
 
Posted by t_lashia Wednesday, Aug 06, 2008 1388 days ago

Pulled my battery and my baby is running fine...

 
 
Posted by danawbenson Wednesday, Aug 06, 2008 1387 days ago

didn't know I should do this occasionally but I joined in....

 
 
Posted by BB nubee Wednesday, Aug 06, 2008 1387 days ago

Well pop my cherry!!! 4 years with a BB and this was my first battery pull. But why is the screen upside down?!? Oh wait! I had the keyboard on the top. Never mind. That was great! thanks