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Have you nuked (or bricked) your BlackBerry 7 Smartphone yet? I have, twice.
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Have you nuked (or bricked) your BlackBerry 7 Smartphone yet? I have, twice.

Posted by Kevin Michaluk on 31 Oct 2011 12:43 pm
To be dead honest, I'm kind of pi$$ed off at my BlackBerry right now. Yesterday, for the second time in two weeks, my BlackBerry Bold 9900 nuked itself on me.  If you're not familiar with "nuking" (my term) or "bricking" (the more popular/standard term), it refers to the BlackBerry white screen of death. Instead of your BlackBerry booting up properly, something goes wrong. You might get a JVM...
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How to Reload the Operating System on a Nuked or Bricked BlackBerry

Posted by Kevin Michaluk on 18 Dec 2007 1:02 pm
  Good Afternoon Class! I’ve been a bit slack in my BlackBerry 101 lectures as of late – I blame the Smartphone Round Robin, all the Contests we’ve been running on the site and the busy Holiday Season. My apologies! This will be the last 101 lecture of the year… but we’ll be back in 2008 bigger and better than ever. Today’s lecture isn’t really a “newbie” topic, but it’s one that I wanted to...