General BlackBerry® Functions and Features

[ricjacques]

A question please,

In help sheet KB20055 there exists the following sentence " If the BlackBerry smartphone does not have data coverage before authenticating to the BlackBerry Infrastructure over Wi-Fi, the permissions needed in the host routing table will not exist and the BlackBerry smartphone will be unable to send and receive email messages through the BlackBerry Enterprise Server"

If the device was ROAMING prior to authenticating to the infrastructure over wifi, would the permissions possibly still not exist?

I'm trying to get to the bottom of the reason why mine won't authenticate.  I have a global data plan (apparently) but simply cannot connect to BIS over wifi.  It's a new phone which was delivered prior to the data plan being activated, I am now in UAE working and so that is where the phone first connected.  Using roaming GPRS all works good.  I'm just wondering if the service book to access BIS over wifi maybe needs a 3g connection in my home country before it can be sent??

Any thoughts?

Ric

[sdgardne]

Hello,

Your suspicion is correct. ALL BBs must be activated for BIS while the BB is actually running on the home network...BIS activation typically cannot occur while the BB is roaming on a non-home network. The home network is responsible for authenticating the device and delivering all HRT/SB entries...but to do so, the BB must be running on that home network. To my understanding, there is no way to activate a BB on BIS while it is roaming.

As for BES, that depends on BIS also already being properly activated...so BIS activation would be a prerequisite for BES activation.

Good luck!

[ricjacques]

Thanks for that - my BIS did activate OK, it all works when I use the 3G network to connect but then I'm charged 11 euro per megabyte for roaming data. 

I'll wait til I get back home and see what happens then.

Ric