RIM has just released a new Knowledge Base article detailing how to use an on-device self-diagnostic tool to test hardware issues on your BlackBerry. The video above is from our friends at BlackBerryNews using the self-diagnostic tool (on a simulator, but still) to test vibration functionality. Pretty cool, huh?
It appears as though this BlackBerry self-diagnostic works on all OS 4.2 devices and higher, including 4.3, 4.5 and 4.6. Besides the vibration function, bluetooth, audio, GPS, keyboard, trackball, LED and screen colour can all be tested.
View BlackBerry Knowledge Base Article
(via BlackBerryNews)
Hello,
Help!
For some odd reason this is not working my BB 8800.
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Knowledgebase link doesn’t work. They must have taken it down.
Go to the status screen on your blackberry. Type “test” and then the diagnostic program runs. You need to press the trackball in to get the menu to work.
nope – “test” is not present in the options / status menu of 8130. Provider is Verizon – maybe they stole it? VZW only offers RIM 4.3, but according to your article the test option should be there. ???
>>> Go to the status screen on your blackberry. Type “test” and then the diagnostic program runs. You need to press the trackball in to get the menu to work.
<<< ta-da!
thx
RH
No luck?
Bb 8830 on vzw tried gps it said permission denied hahaha dam
Doesn’t work on my 8800 either…
I found the diagnostic tool on my 8100 (4.5) under Options>Mobile Network>menu key>diagnostics test
unfortunately it disn’t help with the issue I’m having with the camera.
using the 81xx you have to press the ‘a/s’ key twice to get the ’s’ in teSt