Comments on: Dreamberry: better profile management

By: Xandrex

Xandrex — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:13:00 +0000

Luciano ES :

yes, my answer was from my own usage, where I use a single profile and select the behavior with the holster in/out.
(I have never used Normal and Silent for example).

Profile configuration is very rich on BlackBerry devices, but profile management is very arid. The message in your article is very true.

I think RIM has understood that, so they changed a lot of things on the Storm (and it gets quite complicated to understand, there are many articles in the public KB about that and I still have not understand everything). But there are still things missing like profile copy or automatic profile switcher (there are 3rd party apps that can do that).

By: Luciano ES

Luciano ES — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:23:31 +0000

3 problems, Xandrex:
1) What’s the point of having so many and so customizable profiles if we’re prone to sticking to only two? And all that because of the profile manager’s clumsy design.
2) Normal and Vibrate are the main ones. For example, those are the ones you get when you press/hold # on the Bold and on the Pearl. So using “Phone only” as you suggest would not be convenient.
3) No matter how much any one given profile “matches more my needs” as you put it, it is riddled with default options that I dislike. So I have to change each one of those manually. I mention that in the article.

Thank you for your input.

By: Xandrex

Xandrex — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:08:27 +0000

David B:

I was saying : instead or taking the “Normal” profile and modify it, just take the “Phone only” profile and modify it.

I am not saying you have a way of taking a profile and copy it.

By: DavidB

DavidB — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 13:59:18 +0000

How does one choose what template to use when creating a new profile Xandrex? Running 4.5 here and find no such option. And I don’t find such a thing in 4.7 on my Storm either.

By: Xandrex

Xandrex — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:53:13 +0000

when you configure your profiles, instead of using the “Normal” Profile as a template, use another one that matches more your needs, like the “Phone Only” profile. Then you have less modifications to do.

By: Jon E.

Jon E. — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:37:10 +0000

Definitely a good idea!
The current profile management on the bb devices is the worst part of all bb’s!

By: DavidB

DavidB — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:51:16 +0000

True that, but on my gov’t issued work laptop I have no choice but WindowsXP. At least they allow me add something like DM.

By: Luciano ES

Luciano ES — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:29:55 +0000

Far easier… if you use Windows. :-\

By: DavidB

DavidB — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:26:26 +0000

I wish Desktop Manager had a Profile Editor. FAR easier (IMHO) to create/edit a profile on the PC and thus only need the on device profile editor to tweak them on occasion.

By: disciples0

disciples0 — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:05:15 +0000

A very well articulated and appropo disertation