Perhaps rather than posting your vitriol you would care to post step by step instructions right here, or provide a link to a site that has such already posted?

(Posted from my Tour 9630 with completely unencumbered internal GPS)

Perhaps rather than posting your vitriol you would care to post step by step instructions right here, or provide a link to a site that has such already posted?

(Posted from my Tour 9630 with completely unencumbered internal GPS)

The BB GPS was “locked” from the Blackberry OS Engineering Menus and this special menu could be accessed with a mild amount of Google effort to learn the 3 key combination and a growing number of websites willing to freely and anonymously provide the short code into the “lock”.

Whether it was Verizon’s 8830, or any Blackberry made for the last umpteenth years, the “Engineering Screens” have always been able to perform EXTREME CONFIGURATIONS the BB OS ver X.YOUNAMEIT.D.U.NCE.

Most cellular store employees have never heard of them since they aren’t expected for for their pittance of salaries and if you ever take a loot at the ES’s…you’d be afraid to let anyone else bang inside this privileged menu.

Those people with MMS know what I’m referring to and the ES’s are the 2nd deepest level of config and reports you can glean from a BB w/o using HEX registers and a JTAG.

Some examples of the info you can config and dump from the Engineering Screens is the unique identifiers assigned to radio towers and even the sub ID’s to the actual platters on the towers, AND IF YOU’RE adventurous or bored enough, you can even set your phones affinity to define priority for those towers and in what order.
….OH, and you could’ve just flipped a single toggle to enable the agnostic GPS antenna inside your Canadian designed phone and ignored the Verizon official screw disguised as a value added surcharge.

Posters like DavidB on 9/2 are another tragic example of middle class consumers accepting the first response as the only response and worse, ..venturing into forums spreading specious explanations as authoritative truth.

Misery loves company but the advice of the ignorant can be ignored since just deleting the hidden vendor.xml file out your BB OS desktop program directories is all that is necessary to load any carriers OS into your phone and even the CDMA GSM versions are irrelevant. If that bit of advice fascinates you then begin researching and validating it across the web instead of listening to unsubstantiated advice from those like DavidB posting b.s onto anonymous forums !!!!

JEEESH PEOPLE, NO WONDER RALPH NADER WANTS TO PRESIDENT SO BADLY !

The BB GPS was “locked” from the Blackberry OS Engineering Menus and this special menu could be accessed with a mild amount of Google effort to learn the 3 key combination and a growing number of websites willing to freely and anonymously provide the short code into the “lock”.

Whether it was Verizon’s 8830, or any Blackberry made for the last umpteenth years, the “Engineering Screens” have always been able to perform EXTREME CONFIGURATIONS the BB OS ver X.YOUNAMEIT.D.U.NCE.

Most cellular store employees have never heard of them since they aren’t expected for for their pittance of salaries and if you ever take a loot at the ES’s…you’d be afraid to let anyone else bang inside this privileged menu.

Those people with MMS know what I’m referring to and the ES’s are the 2nd deepest level of config and reports you can glean from a BB w/o using HEX registers and a JTAG.

Some examples of the info you can config and dump from the Engineering Screens is the unique identifiers assigned to radio towers and even the sub ID’s to the actual platters on the towers, AND IF YOU’RE adventurous or bored enough, you can even set your phones affinity to define priority for those towers and in what order.
….OH, and you could’ve just flipped a single toggle to enable the agnostic GPS antenna inside your Canadian designed phone and ignored the Verizon official screw disguised as a value added surcharge.

Posters like DavidB on 9/2 are another tragic example of middle class consumers accepting the first response as the only response and worse, ..venturing into forums spreading specious explanations as authoritative truth.

Misery loves company but the advice of the ignorant can be ignored since just deleting the hidden vendor.xml file out your BB OS desktop program directories is all that is necessary to load any carriers OS into your phone and even the CDMA GSM versions are irrelevant. If that bit of advice fascinates you then begin researching and validating it across the web instead of listening to unsubstantiated advice from those like DavidB posting b.s onto anonymous forums !!!!

JEEESH PEOPLE, NO WONDER RALPH NADER WANTS TO PRESIDENT SO BADLY !

You can read the 8830 GPS thread at Crackberry.com (92 pages worth) to see two+ years of everything that has been tried and didn’t work.

You can read the 8830 GPS thread at Crackberry.com (92 pages worth) to see two+ years of everything that has been tried and didn’t work.

Try to load….. say Bell mobility(Canada)’s O.S. into your Verizon phone? Most of the other carries are GSM so it would not work.

http://na.blackberry.com/eng/support/downloads/download_sites.jsp

The hardcore users do this to get the latest O.S. on their phone regardless of carrier.

Others has used this method to gain foreign language support.

Try to load….. say Bell mobility(Canada)’s O.S. into your Verizon phone? Most of the other carries are GSM so it would not work.

http://na.blackberry.com/eng/support/downloads/download_sites.jsp

The hardcore users do this to get the latest O.S. on their phone regardless of carrier.

Others has used this method to gain foreign language support.

Face it guys, NOTHING is ever going to work with the internal GPS on 8130/8330/8830 without Verizon having a complete change of heart. Yeah, THAT will happen…not! I’ve tracked the how’s and why’s and what’s of this for over two years now and it just aint gonna change. You can read old stories of people claiming they have successful hacks to make it work but NONE have ever panned out to be usable by the masses.

If you want fully working GPS on a Verizon BlackBerry, get a Storm or Tour now (sorry, don’t know about Pearl Flip), or hold out for Storm 2 or maybe Aries (8530). Storm 2 will be as unencumbered as current Storm plus have wifi, but 8530 is intended as a “low end” model so who knows how free its GPS might end up?

Face it guys, NOTHING is ever going to work with the internal GPS on 8130/8330/8830 without Verizon having a complete change of heart. Yeah, THAT will happen…not! I’ve tracked the how’s and why’s and what’s of this for over two years now and it just aint gonna change. You can read old stories of people claiming they have successful hacks to make it work but NONE have ever panned out to be usable by the masses.

If you want fully working GPS on a Verizon BlackBerry, get a Storm or Tour now (sorry, don’t know about Pearl Flip), or hold out for Storm 2 or maybe Aries (8530). Storm 2 will be as unencumbered as current Storm plus have wifi, but 8530 is intended as a “low end” model so who knows how free its GPS might end up?