Planned BlackBerry Outage Tonight!

by Robb Dunewood | May 2, 2008 | BlackBerry | 5 comments

For those of you who haven’t already heard, Research in Motion is having a planned BlackBerry outage starting tonight, or tomorrow morning depending on how you look at it, for database upgrades which will affect both BIS and BES Users. The planned BlackBerry outage will start a 2:00 a.m. EST May 3rd and last until 6:00 a.m. EST.

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Eddie on May 2, 2008 at 12:31 pm

Do you have a link to the official announcement?
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robert on May 3, 2008 at 5:18 am

well thank god i found this blog. i was pulling my hair out over lack of BB email and browser.
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Bob on May 3, 2008 at 8:15 am

I’ve got 8:17am and the BIS service still appears to be down. Anyone else up and running?
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bluehorseshoe on May 3, 2008 at 10:29 am

Down and out. At least this time it’s over the weekend.
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Bob on May 3, 2008 at 10:51 am

Install the Gmail app for BB at http://www.google.com/mobile/mail/index.html

Most of the time this still works when RIM has an outage and you can set Gmail up to “fetch” mail from other accounts. Mine’s been working throughout this outage.
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