Thanks for the crappy software that nuked my Curve. My decision to get an iPhone just got easier.

Question

After the initial sync, my Curve now looks like I just bought it. No more emails on my device, calendar failed to sync, mysterious error messages with no corresponding KB article here, it even forgot my timezone. Thanks for the lip service, but I'm taking my business back to Apple where they have engineers who give a **bleep**.

Answer 1

I'm having the same issues as the first user and this is now the third time that it appears I am going to have to rebuild/restore my entire berry.  I'm sorry guys, but I don't want to have to do this once a month - if I was a fan of restores and repairs, I'd get a PC.
When I first restore, syncing works fine.  Then, within a week or so, my syncing only works properly if I do it one way.  (By clicking "Replace all contacts on this Blackberry device" - if I don't select that option, one of two things will happen.  The Blackberry will miraculously have duplicates of every entry in the address book OR the syncs will fail right at the outset.  So for a few weeks, I have to remember to click that little option to replace the contacts.  Inevitably, later that month (3 times now), no syncs will work.  I'll just get repeated 'sync' failed efforts.  No amount of restarts or power cycles will fix anything and essentially, the BB is screwed.  The second time it happened, the BB actually replaced every one of my contacts with a random contact in the list.  I had the same Richard repeated 300+ times.
It's a good thing I do regular back-ups, except that the back-ups don't remember any of my preferences and I have to redo all my settings and accounts.  Essentially, this is a load of BS.  The berry itself works fine as long as I power cycle it once a day - but the syncing application is a disaster.
Furthermore, the calendar sync has NEVER worked.  All I ever get is a blank calendar, which is silly since my iCal is packed with events.  Also, the Clear Device Data never works, which is also a bit crap - because that seems to me to be the easiest way to fix this.
Starting tomorrow, I'm going to be harassing my provider to get me a new handheld because the Desktop Manager Software ruined mine.
The next time this happens, I imagine I'll be switching to an iPhone.  (Which I absolutely DO NOT want to do because I detest the touch screen keyboard an would much rather prefer to use my Curve's tactile QWERTY.)