So, you've found a copy of OS 4.5 either on the black market or via some of the few carriers that have released it. You have everything working fine but BlackBerry Messenger keeps throwing strange errors at you.
This is caused by your contacts having smileys in their contact name.
If you have someone in your BBM list and their name looks like
John Clark or
Stinsonddog then you need to ask your buddies to please remove smileys from their names.
It seems that smileys in the contact names will throw strange exception and layout errors in BBMessenger. This has been the case since the first of the 4.3.1 betas from last fall. I don't have any devices with OS 4.3.0.x but I think the problem exists there too. The problem didn't exist on 4.2.2 and lower, at least not for me.
Even you change a contacts name on your end, it will still throw the errors. Your buddy/contact MUST change it on their end to remove any smileys or special characters.
So, when setting up YOUR
please be kind to your buddies on BBMessenger and DON'T add smileys to your name.
Enjoy 4.5! It seems as though it's finally just about here.