Location: Heredia Costa rica (native of) Michigan USA
Model: 9550
PIN: N/A
Carrier: Racsa
Posts: 3
Help! My young son reset the handheld password
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Hi, I have a 8830, my son put in a new password in the phone. Now it reads hand held is locked. I'm at the last try9/10. I'm getting desperate, If I go to 10/10 the phone will be useless right? HELP
Hi, I have a 8830, my son put in a new password in the phone. Now it reads hand held is locked. I'm at the last try9/10. I'm getting desperate, If I go to 10/10 the phone will be useless right? HELP
did u have a backup on ur pc? if so go ahead and try for the 10/10 if u get it wrong it wil ask u to type blackberry and it will erase all the data from the device and ask u to put a new password. then just restore from your backup with desktop manager
Ditto to the above. The blackberry will not be useless, you may just be starting over from scratch, depending on whether you have a backup or the PIM data is sync'd somewhere.
When you do get up and running, put your own password on it, with a suitable timeout. And lock it when you leave it lying about.
Hi, I have a 8830, my son put in a new password in the phone. Now it reads hand held is locked. I'm at the last try9/10. I'm getting desperate, If I go to 10/10 the phone will be useless right? HELP
im always suspicious of the "young son/brother/magically happened" theories. its pretty deep in specific menus to create a password
So someone could find a bb try it 10 times reset the phone and make their own password? Posted via BlackBerryForums.com Mobile
*Edit* I thought when you did this the password stayed the same but just reset everything...
Last edited by yahjoogooleh; 08-21-2010 at 11:00 AM..
So someone could find a bb try it 10 times reset the phone and make their own password? Posted via BlackBerryForums.com Mobile
*Edit* I thought when you did this the password stayed the same but just reset everything...
ya but u can always report the blackberry pin to ur provider and they will inform RIM and they'll suspend the pin so the bb wud be useless
I don't know. Because there is little that the OP is stating, and he did say "Help" right off the top, my guess is that he is in a desperate situation. I'm not saying he is not being deceitful, but my guess would be he is not.
I've been wrong before though, according my my mother-in-law (time and time again).
Location: Heredia Costa rica (native of) Michigan USA
Model: 9550
PIN: N/A
Carrier: Racsa
Posts: 3
Thanks to all, I'm new with BB and YES my son Andrew (11) reset the handhelp password, I'm thinking that He did not use the Alt key and we lost the password. I bought the phone in an Ebay auction. My son and I tinker with fixin' BB's and other phones like Sony Ericsson, now BB's
We took apart 2- 9550's and made a good one. They're childs play to take apart and switch lcd's for instance. My fear with the 8830 was that it would become bricked or useless after the 10/10.