Comments on: RANT! Why The Long Boot Times? http://www.berryreview.com/2008/04/07/rant-why-the-long-boot-times/ BlackBerry News and Reviews Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:20:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Luciano ES http://www.berryreview.com/2008/04/07/rant-why-the-long-boot-times/#comment-2758 Luciano ES Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:01:54 +0000 http://www.berryreview.com/2008/04/07/rant-why-the-long-boot-times/#comment-2758 Really? Wow. The Moto Q is worse than I thought! :-) Really? Wow. The Moto Q is worse than I thought! :-)

]]> By: Bull http://www.berryreview.com/2008/04/07/rant-why-the-long-boot-times/#comment-2754 Bull Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:02:15 +0000 http://www.berryreview.com/2008/04/07/rant-why-the-long-boot-times/#comment-2754 Note: I had to wait much longer when restarting my old Moto Q. I'm much happier with the BlackBerry. Note: I had to wait much longer when restarting my old Moto Q. I’m much happier with the BlackBerry.

]]> By: Bull http://www.berryreview.com/2008/04/07/rant-why-the-long-boot-times/#comment-2753 Bull Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:01:36 +0000 http://www.berryreview.com/2008/04/07/rant-why-the-long-boot-times/#comment-2753 Yeah I don't really look at it either... then again I don't have to do this as much. I don't mind a long boot time, knowing that my BlackBerry will run for at least a week or more before I just might have to pull the battery. But as Luciano said, I just put it in my pocket and do something else. Has never really bothered me before. Yeah I don’t really look at it either… then again I don’t have to do this as much. I don’t mind a long boot time, knowing that my BlackBerry will run for at least a week or more before I just might have to pull the battery. But as Luciano said, I just put it in my pocket and do something else. Has never really bothered me before.

]]> By: Luciano ES http://www.berryreview.com/2008/04/07/rant-why-the-long-boot-times/#comment-2672 Luciano ES Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:44:40 +0000 http://www.berryreview.com/2008/04/07/rant-why-the-long-boot-times/#comment-2672 Mine always takes from 2:50 to 3:15. Never less than that. . But you guys actually stare at the hourglass? I always put the phone in the case/holster and go take care of something else. Then I get back to the phone after some 5 or 10 minutes. I don't really care about the loading screen, but would like to have the phone play some sound at boot up to let me know it's ready. Sometimes I send myself an e-mail before hitting Shift+Alt+Del, so the mail will beep as soon as the bootup sequence is over. But a startup sound would be better. Mine always takes from 2:50 to 3:15. Never less than that.
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But you guys actually stare at the hourglass? I always put the phone in the case/holster and go take care of something else. Then I get back to the phone after some 5 or 10 minutes. I don’t really care about the loading screen, but would like to have the phone play some sound at boot up to let me know it’s ready. Sometimes I send myself an e-mail before hitting Shift+Alt+Del, so the mail will beep as soon as the bootup sequence is over. But a startup sound would be better.

]]> By: Ronen Halevy http://www.berryreview.com/2008/04/07/rant-why-the-long-boot-times/#comment-2653 Ronen Halevy Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:20:51 +0000 http://www.berryreview.com/2008/04/07/rant-why-the-long-boot-times/#comment-2653 You read my mind about the Linux like boot screen. It would save me some headache of staring at the stupid hourglass. You read my mind about the Linux like boot screen. It would save me some headache of staring at the stupid hourglass.

]]> By: David B http://www.berryreview.com/2008/04/07/rant-why-the-long-boot-times/#comment-2652 David B Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:10:09 +0000 http://www.berryreview.com/2008/04/07/rant-why-the-long-boot-times/#comment-2652 Ja, fix the memory leak is at the top of my list too. In fact, I'd put aside ALL OTHER COMPLAINTS (for a while at least) about my BB if that single one was fixed. On my old 7100i running OS 4.1.x I don't recall ever ONCE in a year and a half having to pull the battery because available RAM was ZERO BYTES! I've been doing battery pulls on average every 3-4 days since getting this VZW 8830 last summer. Others reading this please don't point me to all the sites with proposed solutions, I've followed them all short of installing another carrier's OS, to no avail. Just did a pull on my 8830 to time it for you Ronen. At 30 seconds a full white screen with spinning hourglass appeared. The VZW logo screen appeared at 1:53, and my screen appeared at 1:59. After entering my device password it took another ~10 seconds to "organizing call logs". HTH. IMHO, as you suggested, a scrolling "module loading display (ala a linux PC booting up) might help pass the time and frustration of repeated reboots. Ja, fix the memory leak is at the top of my list too. In fact, I’d put aside ALL OTHER COMPLAINTS (for a while at least) about my BB if that single one was fixed. On my old 7100i running OS 4.1.x I don’t recall ever ONCE in a year and a half having to pull the battery because available RAM was ZERO BYTES! I’ve been doing battery pulls on average every 3-4 days since getting this VZW 8830 last summer. Others reading this please don’t point me to all the sites with proposed solutions, I’ve followed them all short of installing another carrier’s OS, to no avail.

Just did a pull on my 8830 to time it for you Ronen. At 30 seconds a full white screen with spinning hourglass appeared. The VZW logo screen appeared at 1:53, and my screen appeared at 1:59. After entering my device password it took another ~10 seconds to “organizing call logs”. HTH.

IMHO, as you suggested, a scrolling “module loading display (ala a linux PC booting up) might help pass the time and frustration of repeated reboots.

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