It seems that the Blackberry is built on the same idea of troubleshooting that Windows and many other mobile devices. That being, if something goes wrong, restart to reset. That should get everything going again the way that it should be. This is what I found to be the case with my previous Nokia, that if it crashed – it only did once or twice, that I had to turn it off an then back on again. But the Pearl is a bit different, it requires taking the battery out and then waiting the magic ten seconds and then putting everything back together and seeing how things work.
The problem I was having was that my mailboxes were not working properly – I had to reset one and that one was having it’s messages go directly to the “main” mailbox of the device and not providing an alert as to which mailbox it was from. Not a big deal, but it was doing that, then it stopped and now after the restart, it’s back.
Generally it seems that the power off/ battery out thing is a good way to maintain wireless devices and their connections to the network.
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