BlackBerry® PlayBook™

[JSanders Resident Expert]

It's honestly, likely, related to something else... another background operating of some application.

It's really next to impossible to tie down one app consuming the battery, unless you're also observing the battery and CPU usage from the Application Resource Monitor on the handheld device and/or the CPU usage chart in OS 6 and 7 device.

[awinfo]

I recently updated to BBBridge 2.1.0.24 after being notified for the upgrade on BB AppWorld.

Since that time, the bridge connects to my playbook, but as soon as for instance the screen showed up on the PB for MemoPad, immediately the lock sign showed up and BB Bridge on the smartphone showed a disconnected status.

disabling the remote screen control on the smartphone to handle your PB screen didnot make the bridge to work again.

Yesterday, I opened AppWorld on my smartphone (BB 9800) and immediately a notification came up in a pop-up box that I had to upgrade my BB ID (app).

After having done that, BB Bridge suddenly worked again, perfect, fast and without hampering.

I did leave the remote screen control switch off though, still is.

[mclovin22]

Thanks, lots of usefull info here

[JSanders Resident Expert]

BlackBerry Bridge has been updated to v2.1.0.34, I'll get the correct links in the initial post updated very soon.

[parbrook]

I use my phone (9780) to provide internet tethering when connected to my PC via USB when WiFI is not available. This works fine.

Separately, I bridge my phone and Playbook. This works fine, except that the PB is also accessing the internet via the phone.
This results in a silly situation whereby my e-mails show-up in both the Bridge messages app (very quickly) and also the native messages app (more slowly), with two sets of new message alerts.
It also unnecessarily uses more of my data allowance than is needed.

This seems pointless and I cannot find any setting on the PB or phone to stop this.

I can understand the requirement to browse via Bridge, but I would like to control this when I just want to work on e-mails, calendar, tasks or contacts from the phone.

I would really like to have the option to disable tethering/internet access when bridged.

[JSanders Resident Expert]

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parbrook wrote:

This results in a silly situation whereby my e-mails show-up in both the Bridge messages app (very quickly) and also the native messages app (more slowly), with two sets of new message alerts.
It also unnecessarily uses more of my data allowance than is needed.

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Disable or remove the email accounts from your native messages app. Get the email only once on your Playbook.

[rxbracho]

I agree.  I deleted my mail accounts from my PlayBook and I just get mail in my BB Bold.  The main reason was that if I deleted a message using the PlayBook mail application, it would delete it in the server.  The phone offers me an option to delete it from the device or the device & server.  I lost mail because I read it in the PlayBook and then deleted it, thinking I was only cleaning up my PlayBook; alas my computer never got the message later.  Just a thought.

[parbrook]

Thanks, but this does not achieve the result that I want.

Why should I have to use my data allowance via the phone (and have a much slower connection), when I can get much faster access, free, via WiFi?

i want to fully use the capabilities of my PB and have the choice of connection method.

An option to disable internet tethering in Bridge is not too much to ask for, I think.

[rxbracho]

What would happen if, while being on WiFi, you simply enable it on your phone?  You should not be incurring data charges with your cellular provider.

[parbrook]

I don't have a problem when connected using WiFi.

I simply want an option that enables me to choose whether the PB has internet access or not via Bridge, so that i have the option to only receive e-mails on the phone.

I understand that this option is not available, so this is a request for it to be considered for a future release of Bridge.

I guess that those of you with fast 3G connections don't understand why I am asking for this, but I can assure you that receiving e-mails on the native messages app via bridge is significantly slower then receiving on on the Bridge messages app when I am travelling in areas with varying levels of mobile network coverage.

I have a feeling it is because I use IMAP on the native messages app, so it is trying to synchronise.

And before anyone suggests it, no I do not want to go back to using POP on the native messages app. Having IMAP working in OS 2.1 on the PB is superb.