Just updated, now my blackberry has slowed to a crawl

Everything was working fine. I hooked it to my PC and started the software to upload some pics to the phone from my PC, and it told me there were updates available. I downloaded and installed the updates as instructed. now it takes forever to send texts. Is this common?

try to remove the battery when device is on, wait a minute and turn the battery back to the device.
if your issue solved set "Solution" mark at the relevant post

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Very disappointing behaviour on your part, Apple!

RogerOut -- Every comment you've made on this issue has been of little use, and only serves to be argumentitive. How are any of your comments working to resolve the issue?
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My MacBook Pro has slowed to a crawl. It started when I was printing off the Internet. Now I get the spinning circle in just about every move. Any help?

My MacBook Pro has slowed to a crawl. It started when I was printing off the internet. Now I get a "spinning ball" with many actions. Any help?

Try your fellow MacBook Pro owners forum -
MacBook Pro
Support:
http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro
Latest (manual) downloads from Apple (but check vendor sites also for scanners, printers etc) and rule out a bad cable as well.
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I've just updated itunes and it has disappeared from my PC- the previous shortcut won't work and it can't locate on my file search- this is the second time this has happened when updating itunes- APPLE you're going donw the tubes slowly but surely..

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its not apple going "down the tubes" its that you have windows junk. These opinion best left at apple.com/feedback
you need to completely uninstall itunes and all components
see these for help
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1925
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1923
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Please check the speed of your connection on this site.
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Hello,
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You might want to look at LittleSnitch or NetBarrier and do some logging.
I've seen/heard where older routers and modems were fine, but not with Mac Pro or with Intel Macs in general and needed to be replaced or firmware updated. Problems with the latest updates for Airport have been seen by some, and worth checking into - on forums, news sites or hit google.
And of course check what processes are getting loaded and run; manually delete caches, history, metadata, even the bookmarks cache.
~/Library/Caches/Metadata
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Premiere has slowed to a crawl. Please Help

Hi, I am a photographer and video editor. I built my computer about 15 months ago to work with CS5 and the Mecury Playback Engine. In the past few months it has been slowing down at an alarming rate. Over the holidays I created a video montage of pictures from my brother's wedding and Premiere kept stopping with an error that read something like 'Open GL driver failed' adding something about 'lack of memory'. I had to switch to software mode and avoid playing the timeline (to avoid rendering each photo, there were well over 100) so I could finish it in time. And now a project I am getting paid for will no longer play back smoothly. I get about 1 second of smooth video before it starts jumping and freezing all together. The audio continues but the picture does not. Here's what I have.
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I am editing in Premiere Pro CS5.5.2 (003 (MC: 258762))
The programs I have running in the background are: Realtek HD Audio Manager, NVIDIA Settings, Zone Alarm (security), Dropbox 1.1.45, Spyder3Utility, and as of today Spybot.
The Project is a short 10-12 min Documentary type video. It's mostly interview footage with various B-roll interspersed. The main timeline I use is 4 video and 4 audio layers. The fourth layer in both is turned off to holding stuff. There is not much in them. Layer 1 is pieces of another timeline. That timeline consists of 2 layers of interview footage from 2 angles with a third audio track from the zoom recorder all synced and color corrected. I adjust opacity here to pick which camera angle to use, but cut this timeline together in my main timeline to minimize sync problems and added color correction steps. In the main timeline, video layers 2 and 3 are B-roll. audio layers 2 and 3 include one short sound effect and a few pieces of music. Some of the music has been slowed or sped up to fit the timing needed. Premiere quickly renders that sound when I start up the project or make changes to those files in the timeline.
All audio is either MP3 or WAV files.
Most of the video is Canon DSLR footage (5D mkII, 7D, and 60D I believe). All 1920x1080 30p (a couple 24p by accident) there are some Jpegs, TIFFs, and one PNG file. Many of the pictures are housed in sub timelines with 2 layers. one with a moving picture and the other with a Gaussian blurred version in the background to fill the frame. There are some timelapeses that are of various sizes but nothing smaller than full HD. 2 are MP4 videos and the rest are quicktime.
All my timelines are preset for DSLR footage at 1920x1080 30fps.
Almost the entirety of my timeline has the little yellow line over it indicating that we should be hardware rendering this footage.
A few things about how I have worked with this computer. I built it for CS5. When I first started using it, it was brilliant. Lately The whole computer has slowed, a lot. last week I uninstalled some extraneous programs and tweaked somethings. Most everything on the computer is now running back up to snuff. Premiere is not. It is too the point that I cannot edit and a new edit of the project is due this Friday. When I first started using this computer I got some noise from the GPU and CPU fans when I would load up a heavy duty project. That made sense it was making the computer work. Now I get almost no noise from either fan and the thing runs like crap when I am editing. This doesn't make sense to me. Has something changed with an update of Premiere that changes the way it leverages the hardware, cause I doesn't seem to be doing that at all. Or might I have unknowingly flipped a switch somewhere that changed that leverage. In the Project Settings the Video Rendering and Playback is still set to Mercury Playback Engine GPU Accelerated. On the same line I have noticed much less fan noise when rendering with Media Encoder. I can't say I've seen a huge hit in performance there, but it doesn't seem to be taxing the GPU like it used to.
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I see nobody has suggested you delete your preferences. I do that whenever any app, not just Pr, starts acting strangely. I think with Pr on Windows you launch with the shift key held down. If that's wrong, somebody please correct me. I use a program on Mac called Preference Manager to keep good copies of preferences, because they get corrupted so easily on FCP especially, and also Ae.
Here's another general rule I employ, when Pr (or any NLE) starts behaving badly. It could be you have some corrupt media, which will cause your app to hang or quit, which you haven't described, but I suppose it could just bog things down.
Load a totally different project with totally different media. Does Pr work fine now? If so, your problem project may be corrupted, or it may contain corrupt media.
Make four copies of your sequence. Delete all but the first 1/4 of your sequence in the first copy. Now, does Pr work better? If so, great! You've just determined the issue is in the last 3/4 of your sequence.
Now, delete the first quarter, and last half from the second copy. And so on. Repeat this until you've found the section that causes your problem. Then subdivide that section until you've isolated the problem footage. Remove or replace that footage item with a non-corrupt version. Or, learn to live without it, or try transcoding it to another format, etc.
You also mentioned that you're using Nested Sequences, right? These have been a problem for me in a few projects, mostly with exporting, but worth a shot maybe: Render out the nested sequences to a lightly or uncompressed codec, and replace the nested sequences with the rendered file.
This is a long shot, but hey, you've got to start using the process of elimination to get to the root of your problem.
If Pr works lousy no matter what project or footage you load, that suggests there's something wrong with the install of Pr, or some other OS, virus, hardware or driver related issue.
I'm throwing a lot of ideas out there, and here are some more:
Open your Task Manager, and rig it so you can see the CPU performance. Are your meters clipping, or running at full bore? If so, your CPU may be having trouble keeping up with all the Long-GOP decoding you have going on.
Transcode your MP3 to WAV, and replace in the Timeline.
Transcode your Long-GOP material to an intraframe codec, and replace. A lot of Windows users use Cineform.
I'm fixating on your remark that when you started, things were "brilliant," but have since bogged down. That's why I was thinking VM, and also I can see how your continuously adding elements to the Sequence are slowly causing more challenges for the CPU and GPU.
I'm looking forward to your fixing this, and letting us know how you did it.

Why has my native windows 7 Pro-64 network to a windows 7 Pro-64 VM has slowed to a crawl and freezes, after the new Arris cable modem was installed?

Please appreciate the details, so the complete situation can be visualized:
The office network:
New Mac Mini PC running Win 7Pro 64, (in boot camp), networked to an iMac running the same Win 7 Pro 64, VM, UNDER Fusion 7Pro.
To review: My treatment rooms former dell PC/running vista business/ running the server and network versions of my Dental practice mgmt & X-ray capture apps, had no probs WLAN to the front desk iMac running the same PC client dental network apps under the same vista business, & Fusion 4. The dell slowly fried its power supply .
I could not wait to replace it with a Mac mini/ boot camp/ win7 pro 64 bit, as it has to run natively to capture X-rays. The front desk iMac was also upgraded to os10.10.3/ Fusion 7pro/ and its own matching Win7 pro 64bit. The iMac is wired and WLAN connected to a netgear d600 router and a Time Warner Cable modem. The modem then failed and was replaced by an arris modem. As the Arris was configured out of the box, the network ran much slower slowed, as compared to the original modem. BUT- The Vonage 2 line phone system stopped working- no incoming or outgoing voices could be heard after it rang. Then twc remote configured it and the phone now works, but the network iMac slowed to a crawl, and now freezes when accessing the Mac Mini PC dental server to edit or enter data. The Mini perfectly accesses the internet via wifi. It accesses the front desk canon printer by wifi, and can print share they the iMac that is wired to the printer, as well, BUT, the network connection is a spinning pinwheel. The front desk imac easily finds the Mac Mini PC server on the network. It connects easily by entering the servers IPv4 address SHOULD THAT last value change. But if data isn't entered in slow motion, the window and app freezes, and has to be force quit by Task Manager!
Cause:
1. I think TWC switched the cable modem from the default- Non Bridged, to Bridged mode. Could this be the cause?
2. The network setting in fusion, on the iMac is auto detect, a setting that always worked with vista and with the new Win7 system, before TWC installed the new arris modem. 3. Switching to NAT does not work at all is there a different setting to use?
3. Does the Netgear Router have to have a port or pref configured so as not to block the Server.
4. might in need an Access Point (I have an extra netgear wdr3400) ).
5. Do I need an Extender that plugs into the AC LINE?
I hope this info helps.
PS:(some addtl info:
1. File sharing works fine between the minis -Mac and boot camp sides and between the iMacs- Mac and VM sides and between eother side to or from either of the 2 computers! 2. Also either office computer and all of my my home macs , (& my iPad, & iPhone), can access each other instantly and flawlessly, with splash top streamer and jump desktop remote apps, as controller or as client! In fact, the front desk iMac can remote control the mini PC AS IF YOU WERE DIRECTLY ENTERING INFO I TO IT!
SO I think it's either a misconfiguration in the TWC cable modem &/or some additional pref to config in the router? Thanks so much for your help, (been using VM's since VPC1. & Win95 in a iMac, 1999, DV MODEL! (TWC BLAMES VONAGE FOR NOT OPENING SOME PORTS IN THE TELE MODEM. Vonage blames TWC FOR NOTopeningj ITS PORTS IN THE CABLE MODEM, when they meant the ports on the Netgear. They have passed the buck for 6 weeks with not even a guess at what to do. VERY FRUSTRATING! Again, thanks to all!

Okay Saint Steven, I'll bite:
I read your description multiple times, very carefully, and I am still confused. May I suggest the following:
* Follow basic troubleshooting procedures. Isolate each individual problem. Don't try to get everything working at once. Make one change at a time.
* If I read your description correctly, the Netgear D600 (??) Router is the office LAN (not WLAN). Connect each piece on the LAN separately one-by-one, and test each piece individually. Get your LAN and its devices working first. Forget about the Vonage and the Arris Cable modem.
* Next, look at your Internet connection. Again, try each piece separately. Depending on how the original cable modem and the new Arris cable modem are configured, you may also have to adjust the configuration of the Netgear D600 Router.
* Finally, if you are still having problems, try to organize your thoughts and presentation before you post again. List each element in your network. List how each element is configured. Be systematic.
"Arris cable modem" does not help much - some are simple bridges, others are routers, etc.
To answer your questions:
1. I can't tell from your confusing description, but I don't think so. It seems like the problems are associated with the system changes you made (replacing Dell, etc.) and the problems seem to be isolated to the local LAN.
2. Auto detect should work, but it is easy to change and test, as long as you change one thing at a time.
3. No. The Netgear router should allow all communications on the local LAN. Could you have put the "server" in the DMZ?
Note: I could not find a Netgear "D600" model in a web search. Do you mean N600?
4. No. I doubt that you need an additional access point. Based on your description, everything appears to connect to the LAN.
5. No. See 4.
To repeat myself:
* Do careful, systematic troubleshooting.
* Provide carefully written, detailed description of your network and system configurations when you ask for help.
Good luck!

10.4.6 has slowed to a crawl - any suggestions

My dual 2ghz G5 has been working perfectly happily with 10.4.6. I have 2.5 gig of Ram installed and have had no real problems. However today it has slowed down to a crawl. It takes at least 15 to 30 seconds to switch from one application to another and the same time for the Finder to display the contents of a folder in list view. Actual apps also are very very slow - except sometimes Safari appears to work ok. My instinct is that the problem seems most acute with the Finder.
I have disconected all external devices. I have rebuilt the directory with DiskWarrior. I have run Power PC Hardware test 2.2.5 (no problems reported in the extended test). I have also run memtest (but it doesn't appear to recognise all the RAM installed). Still crawling along.
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Absolutely. AHT isn't a perfect test -- Apple authorized dealers and Apple Stores have a more powerful utility available -- but a "positive" from AHT is a strong sign that all is not well with the drive.
What makes it sloooow is probably the drive trying over and over to complete an operation. Disk Utility and DiskWarrior are telling you that the structure of your disk and catalog is OK, but neither are really reading and writing all over the disk.
Let's check the S.M.A.R.T. disk status. Open Disk Utility, and select the drive - not the volume. What message is displayed next to S.M.A.R.T?
This could be the drive, the cable, or the serial ATA bus connector. I suppose it could be power. By all means wiggle cables and see that everything is soundly connected, but you need to make or update a full backup and take it for service.
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Folks - help!
Have the E4200v2 router. Suddenly my wireless devices have slowed to a crawl. I mean slow. My Cisco Connect confirms that my wired download speed is 30-32 GB, but my two Android devices have slowed to ~500k. I might have changed something - just don't know. I know I'm desperate though.
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Thanks so much in advance!

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I believe that I can make it

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have installed 10.10 on my iMac (mid 2007) 2.4 GHz me 2 GB which has slowed to a crawl

Try these in order testing your system after each to see if it's back to normal:
1. a. Resetting your Mac's PRAM and NVRAM
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2. Restart the computer in Safe Mode, then restart again, normally. If this doesn't help, then:
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3. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
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4. Reinstall Yosemite: Reboot from the Recovery HD. Select Reinstall OS X from the Utilities menu, and click on the Continue button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible
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5. Reinstall Yosemite from Scratch:
Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.
How to Clean Install OS X Yosemite
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible
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When I try to copy from my home directory to an external hard drive, (about 600mb of data in this instance), it starts to copy in the normal way, saying about a minute remaining, then suddenly stops...
... and waits, while "time remaining" increases.
A short while ago it got as far as saying 40 minutes!! For 600mb!!
I tried to launch my browser while this was happening & it was having none of it.
I tried to launch the "force quit applications" window. Again nothing.
Then I stopped it copying & the other things opened.
It's as if "copying" suddenly asks for more power than the computer can supply & everything else takes a back seat. The copying begins, but at an absolute snail's pace.
If I left if for 40 minutes it would probably copy successfully, but why so slow?
I have about 30GB of data I need to remove from my hard drive before I can do a clean install, but at this speed I don't think I'm going to live long enough!
I've run permissions checks & repairs on all drives concerned. I've run TechTools Pro diagnostics on everything & it's checking out fine.
So what could be the problem?

My problem turned out to be much more extensive than I'd originally realised.
My laptop had a faulty hard drive that needed replacing & the external hard drive seems to have developed a fault whereby it works fine for a while & then slows to a crawl, taking the machine with it. (ie Everything "finder" related seems to slow to a crawl.)
The external hard drive seems to behave itself if it's the only thing on the firewire chain.
Alternatively, if I have the dodgy drive on its own on the Firewire 400 socket & my other external hard drives chained off the Firewire 800 socket the dodgy drive behaves itself.
As soon as I try to copy from one external to the dodgy one it starts to play up, but as long as I just read data from it it's fine.
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