I also find that text boxes (like this one I am typing in) perform differently from site to site. Some wrap nicely while typing. On some the text stays in one line (not wrapping within the box) until I hit “enter” key. On others (and most frustrating) the text is entering on one line but becomes invisible beyond the character limit of on screen scaling of the box (o you are typing blind, almost like typing off screen). Aargh. Such inconsistency will keep RIM getting blasted for their browser.

I don’t want to suggest something you’re totally aware of, but just in case you weren’t aware:
To revise spelling mistakes or to go back in your message rather than clearing the field entirely you can just gently rest your finger over a word until the ‘cursor’ turns white and then you can drag your finger to get to a specific spot in your text – personally a much faster solution than completely rewriting your message.

@sgt:
What would you think about the existing keyboards being translucent? Doesn’t fix cursor movement in a field, but at least you could see more than 1 or 2 lines when the keyboard is up.

9530 is a toy for me. 8830 is my “get it done” Blackberry. I lucked into the 9530 and glad I get to try daily at no cost to me and really decide if its for me before my “new every two” comes up in a couple months. If I had to choose today, I wouldn’t pay MY money for a Storm. Its cool and definately the hardware is high quality, but 4.7 OS needs a LOT of work and IMHO some chabges in paradigm to be taken serious by diehard Blackberry users.

i think this is a very decent “first offering” though for a touch screen berry. i wish i had one to play with consistently.

If RIM wants this thing to be a useful web device, they need to really quick come up with a better method of “editing cursor” control. It is far too difficult to “revise”, as you point out. Even trying to revise an email before sending is painfully hard. I get really really frustrated. 6750, 7250, 7100i, 7130e, 8830, to now 9530, and I’m just not enjoying the experience. Maybe as I use it I will get better at it.

yeah, i have only had a storm in hand for 2 hours. 1 hour on thursday, i hated it. another hour on friday (not including installing the new os) and kinda liked it.

typing, or at least “revisionary typing” like i do, is the achille’s heel of this device. otherwise i really like it.

The more I play with this phone, the less I like it. It is great for reading news a web sites, but anything requiring typing text into a web form (like this for example) is painful. Especially to go back and edit a typo, forget trying to do that, better off doing a “clear field” and start over. Ugh. I want to like the 9530 but after a week with it I’m really looking forward to Niagra or Jupiter. I love Blackberry, but 9530 is so far a fail in my book.

Hey Ronen…could you put the anti-spam ABOVE the submit button? I’ve missed it several times now because you have to scroll past submit, enter the anti-spam answer, then go back up to the submit button.

with stock verizon wallpaper i was able to power down and then pull the battery without issues.

with a non stock wallpaper i was able to do a battery pull at any time without issues.

and every time i forgot what i was doing i would have to pull everything, power up once with only the battery, then pull it again, replace everything and then boot it up a second time. i did this about 5-10 times and it seemed consistent too.

if already have the error, you have to pull all cards and the battery.

then boot once with just the battery.

when it comes up, you will see yet another error.

pull the battery and replace all cards, replace the battery. on this boot you will not see an error.

from this point you either need to change the wallpaper immediately or if you want to keep the verizon wallpaper you have to make a conscious effort to remember to power down each time prior to a battery pull.

changing the wallpaper will avoid having to remember this step.

power off before a battery pull.

if you forget and get stuck at the error, pull all cards, pull the battery, boot once without the cards (sim and media). when it comes up, you will get an error again. pull battery, reinsert cards, replace battery. this time you won’t see any errors.

first thing when you get in, change the wallpaper. mine was on the verizon. i switched it to a few different ones to test.

after that you don’t have to worry about powering it down prior to a battery pull. it reboots every time without errors.

Can’t have anything to do with wallpaper, I had never touched mine.

Just prior to this my Storm was memory leaked down to ZERO bytes free (with all closable apps closed). And even Quickpull wouldn’t reboot the phone! It asked me yes/no/schedule, but after selecting Yes just dropped me back to Home screen and never displayed the “device needs to reboot” now/later screen.

several posts on this issue. verizon wireless black screen of death lol.

so what i found that seems to work every time… turn the power off with the off button, then pull the battery. every time you do a battery pull, do it this way.

if you forget and get stuck on the “media card inserted” or “media card removed” error, pull the batter and all cards, boot once with no cards, then pull the batter for a minute. replace the cards, replace the battery.

some people say selecting a wallpaper that is on the device instead of the memory card remedies this problem completely. i haven’t tested this yet.

this time it booted up and asked me if i wanted to auto-detect cdma/gsm based on coverage. after that prompt i made it to the home screen and the phone worked fine.

i am rebooting it yet again, this time with the media card installed. let’s see what happens…

wow. same damn thing. “media card is inserted.” with no way to get around it. is there a workaround for this problem?

it installed fine, but when the phone boots up it has a message: “media card insterted.”. no matter what button i press, it immediately goes to a solid black screen with the verizon logo. the phone is 100% inoperable at this point.

i’m going to try rebooting it without the media card.

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