Comments on: FAQ: How To Install A .COD File OTA (Over The Air)

By: How can I convert a file to OTA? - BlackBerry Forums at CrackBerry.com

How can I convert a file to OTA? - BlackBerry Forums at CrackBerry.com — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:38:55 +0000

[...] in Vietnamese but u just search for he cod file and it does the jad or u can just make it ya self FAQ: How To Install A .COD File OTA (Over The Air) | BerryReview.com � or just use this stuff below, open notepad and copy this in but only change where i have the [...]

By: oyeleye emm

oyeleye emm — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:43:19 +0000

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By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:28:43 +0000

For me it wasn’t a MIME problem. The 907 error was caused by JDE compiler incompatibilities. JDE 4.3 compiled working code for the 8830 only, and gave me a 907 on the 8700. JDE 4.1 compiled working code for both models.

By: Sreddle

Sreddle — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:06:34 +0000

I got it. It was indeed the mode causing the .jad file not being recognized. I’ve put a working .jad and .cod on my own Xitami webserver and these worked fine! Thanks for your help!

By: Sreddle

Sreddle — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:50:26 +0000

I set the MIME types in the xitami.cfg file. In the webserver logs it doesn’t report any errors. However when I click the .jad file my BB browser replies ‘Unsupported media type */*’. It actually gives the same message when I try to download a .xls on my blackberry.

Could this because of wrong file associations in my BB device? It doesn’t make sense as I can succesfully download and install this .jad file on a other server:
http://www.marketfilters.com/widgets/v2/MarketFilters.jad

Any suggestions? Maybe a dummy .jad and .cod would help for testing purposes (the DOS or Unix mode when saving the edited .jad might be corrupting the .jad file?)

By: Ronen Halevy

Ronen Halevy — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:30:47 +0000

You just need to set the correct Mime types. Just search on how to set mime types in Xitami

By: Sreddle

Sreddle — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:47:31 +0000

Any idea if this also works with a webserver running on Win XP and Xitami? The .htaccess part is not applicable then, so how to configure my wintel webserver for OTA installation?

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boxafella.com/blog » Blog Archive » Superman Theme for 8130 — Fri, 30 May 2008 02:38:13 +0000

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By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:54:39 +0000

I’ve been scouring the net for a solution to this 907 error.

I have 2 BB’s but the OTA install from the same website only works on one of them.

8700 – I get the 907 error
8830 – It works

I was able to install Google Mobile Map on both of them without problems.

Any ideas?

Thanks
-Steve

By: piero

piero — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:07:47 +0000

hi,
create a jad file, then

4. Isolate JAD / COD file. Rename COD to *.ZIP
5. Open and extract COD files from *.zip. DO NOT RENAME ANY FILES. Repeat for each original cod file.
6. Copy JAD [untouched] and ZIP files to server in same folder
7. Send URL link for JAD file to BB via email
8. download and enjoy.

By: Venkatesh Madduri

Venkatesh Madduri — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:23:46 +0000

Here is my jad file:

Manifest-Version: 1.0
MIDlet-Version: 0.0
MIDlet-Jar-Size: 27515
MicroEdition-Configuration: CLDC-1.1
MIDlet-Jar-URL: MortCalc.jar
RIM-MIDlet-Icon-1-1: images.png
RIM-COD-Module-Dependencies: net_rim_cldc
RIM-MIDlet-Flags-1: 0
RIM-COD-Module-Name: MortCalc
MIDlet-Name: MortCalc
RIM-COD-Size: 15336
RIM-COD-Creation-Time: 1202939277
MIDlet-1: ,ChaseLogo1.png,
RIM-COD-URL: MortCalc.cod
MicroEdition-Profile: MIDP-2.0
MIDlet-Vendor: XXXX
RIM-MIDlet-Icon-Count-1: 1

I am using ASP.NET and IIS and I added all the MIME types that are suggested here in IIS. Still I am getting the error “907 Invalid Cod”.

Please suggest rectification.

Thanks

Venkatesh

By: Ronen Halevy

Ronen Halevy — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:05:29 +0000

Glad to hear things are working out Mark. Let me know when the app is ready for release

By: Brett Mark

Brett Mark — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:54:35 +0000

We have developed a mobile conferencing application that runs on all platforms natively. The sad thing is.. BB caused us the most trouble but looks great.

Anyway – after spending so much time searching for this without success, I wanted to ease the passage of others.

Enjoy!

By: KioskGuy

KioskGuy — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:12:42 +0000

Thanks Brett Mark!
We’re wrapping up development and will be deploying OTA soon, this should help my team. We’re developing a lead generation tool for mobile marketing teams, that sends leads to a web service we built.

By: Ronen Halevy

Ronen Halevy — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:01:12 +0000

Glad to hear things worked out for your Mark. Can I ask what you are developing?

By: Brett Mark

Brett Mark — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:17:29 +0000

Hi all,

Resolved this early AM this morning.

1. ensure MIME types are installed and correct
2. compile application with BB JDE [make sure version matches BB OS...]
3. Certify using keys from BB [i use protected API]
4. Isolate JAD / COD file. Rename COD to *.ZIP
5. Open and extract COD files from *.zip. DO NOT RENAME ANY FILES
6. Copy JAD [untouched] and ZIP to server in same folder
7. Send URL link for JAD file to BB via SMS or email
8. download and enjoy.

I was using bog standard Linux server running Apache.

This worked for me. Hope it helps.
BM

By: Ronen

Ronen — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:34:48 +0000

Did you setup the .JAD file correctly? It needs to point to the correct .cod file. I ran into that a couple of times. Especially when editing the .jad file with Word which adds a bunch of characters to the file that will make it not work. Use textpad

By: Brett Mark

Brett Mark — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:37:47 +0000

Guys… trying a few things – but still no go.

On linux server – BB gets jad ok – then errors with COD not found or 907 invalid COD [500 internal server error]

Any other good guide that might help.. it REALLY should not be this difficult to deliver a OTA solution for BB

Help.
BM

By: Ronen Halevy

Ronen Halevy — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:23:04 +0000

OOOOOH. Honestly I have never used IIS professionally. I do not think these instructions work with IIS because you have to set you MIME types differently.
You may want to borrow a bit from the instructions
http://blog.crowe.co.nz/archive/2007/07/08/Blackberry-MIME-Types.aspx

By: KioskGuy

KioskGuy — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:55:06 +0000

Yes, I renamed it properly. IIS 5 web server.

By: Ronen Halevy

Ronen Halevy — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:23:56 +0000

There are only those 4 entries I put in the .txt file above. Did you make sure to rename the “htaccess.txt” file to just plain “.htaccess” once you uploaded it?

By: KioskGuy

KioskGuy — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:59:28 +0000

My app asks for mime types such as image/cis-cod if I try to download the COD from a web server with the htaccess file. If I download the JAD i get “Unsupported media type: application/octet-stream”

Any thoughts? Looks like it needs a couple more entries into the htaccess file for mime types. But I’m not sure.

By: Ronen Halevy

Ronen Halevy — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:17:34 +0000

I am not sure what you are referring to Clonecase. Mind including a link? It works just fine on both my BES and BIS BB’s

By: BlackBerry Pearl 8130 Vodafone Today Theme OTA at electric relaxation

BlackBerry Pearl 8130 Vodafone Today Theme OTA at electric relaxation — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 04:43:06 +0000

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By: clonecase

clonecase — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 06:54:34 +0000

the following is from RIM Documents:

Users can only download .jar files if they access the network using the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (not a
WAP gateway) and if Mobile Data Service is enabled. If using a WAP gateway, users must download a .cod file,
unless a similar transcoder is implemented.

so if using BES+MDS, we have to download .jar files?