Friday, 13 July 2012

Blackberry - Knowledge Base Article Links



Some Knowledge Base Article Links.

1. Application Deployment
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Genaral Topics
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How To - Define the position of an application icon on the BlackBerry
        smartphone Home screen How To - Handle stored data when removing an 
        application
How To - Load applications onto a BlackBerry smartphone
Support - A module with that name already exists in the application
Support - Application installation errors
Support - BlackBerry MDS Runtime 1.1.2 with BlackBerry Device Software 4.3.0
         stops responding when an application calls from the on_init script
Support - MIDlet has verification error at offset
Support - Module net_rim_bbapi_mail not found
Support - Protocol not found- null error
Support - Unable to activate custom theme or theme not listed
Support - Version 4.0 applications do not run on the device
What Is - Indications of insufficient space to install an application on 
         the BlackBerry device
What Is - JVM error codes
What Is - JVM error codes for BlackBerry Device Software 4.2 and later


OTA Download
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How To - Programmatically read the attributes of a JAD file
Support - 907 Invalid Jar Error when installing an application wirelessly  
Support - Warning - This application does not contain a signature. 
         It might not be from a trusted source.
What Is - The file size limit for wireless downloads
What Is - The required MIME types for a web server to serve
          BlackBerry applications


Desktop Loading
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How To - Configure ALX files to make an application 'required'
How To - Create a single ALX file to install multiple versions of an application  
How To - Install the BlackBerry API update via Desktop Manager or wirelessly 
How To - Remove wirelessly downloaded applications
How To - Update the registry to deploy Java applications using Desktop Manager
Support - Handheld displays net_rim_xml not found error  
Support - Invalid digital signature errors when installing an application  
Support - No system software was found for your device  
Support - Unspecified error encountered [J-0x00000011] 
         when upgrading a third-party application  
What Is - An .alx file


Enterprise server application push
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How To - Deploy an icon to the BlackBerry smartphone for a web application or URL


Blackberry Application Web Loader
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Support - The BlackBerry Application Web Loader is unable to create a local 
         copy of files


2. Java APIs & Samples
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Memory Management
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How To - Download large files using the BlackBerry Mobile Data System
How to - Prevent a memory leak when implementing an ApplicationMenuItem  
Sample Code ---- Object Groups - Why and How to Use Them
What Is - File storage limits in the Content Store
What Is - Object Grouping - Using resources effectively

Mail
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How To - Retrieve the default email address for the device  
How To - Access HTML email messages
How To - Capture the contents of email and PIN messages before sending  
How To - Create a custom Attachment Handler on the BlackBerry device  
How To - Create an Attachment  
How To - Create and send messages  
How To - Display a PopupScreen from a SendListener  
How To - Implement the ViewListener interface  
How To - Programmatically send a PIN message  
How To - Retrieve More of a Message  
How To - Send a message from a non-default email address  
Support - Error when sending a PIN message - MessagingExceptionPin message 
         not sent. Do not have the permissions to send the message.
Support - Transport.more fails to retrieve all of a message  
What Is - Application is not notified when new messages arrive


Invoking Blackberry Application
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How To - Invoke applications
How to - Make a running UI application go to the background and resume
        in the foreground
How To - Open a file in a Documents To Go application
What Is - Application does not provide invocation feedback

GPS
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How To - Add an ApplicationMenuItem to BlackBerry Map  
How To - Configure a Bluetooth GPS Receiver for use with the Location API  
How To - Define criteria to retrieve a GPS fix  
How To - Detect when GPS is no longer available and when to reset the
         LocationProvider  
How To - Invoke BlackBerry Maps  
How To - Manage simultaneous GPS and phone usage on the BlackBerry 8703e and 
        the 7130e smartphones  
Support - Cellsite fix prevents acquiring autonomous GPS fixes  
Support - Incorrect network time  
Support - Invoking BlackBerry Maps throws unexpected runtime exception  
What Is - Best practices for designing GPS applications for BlackBerry 
          smartphones operating on CDMA networks  
What Is - BlackBerry Maps location document format  
What Is - The BlackBerry smartphone models and their corresponding 
         GPS capabilities  
What Is - Verizon GPSSettings signing requirement


Cryptography APIs and Security
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How To - Save requested application permissions in the Application
         Permissions screen  
How To - Create a Unique long from a String  
How to - Use Advanced Encryption  
How to - Use Basic Encryption  
How To - Use Content Protection


Browser API
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How To - Change the RenderingOptions of a RenderingSession  
How To - Create a Fixed Size BrowserField  
How To - Create a web icon  
How to - Create a web signal registration application  
How To - Enable cookies in BrowserField  
How To - Invoke a non-default browser session  
How To - Invoke the browser  
How To - Invoke the browser with raw HTML  
How To - Invoke the default browser
How To - Perform a browser push over SSL
What Is - A ControlledAccessException is thrown when using the HttpFilterRegistry  
What Is - The Push notification format

Bluetooth - USB - Serial
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How To - Run the BlackBerry Serial Port Demo  
How To - Use the Bluetooth classes  
How To - Use the ServiceRouting API  
Support - IOException thrown when opening a server-side Bluetooth connection 
What Is - Bluetooth support on BlackBerry devices


Audio & Video
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How To - Invoke the media application  
How To - Obtain the media playback time from a media application  
How To - Play audio in an application  
How To - Play video within a BlackBerry smartphone application  
How To - Record audio on a BlackBerry smartphone  
How To - Specify Audio Path Routing  
How To - Support streaming audio to the media application  
How To - Take a snapshot using the built-in camera of a BlackBerry smartphone  
Known Issue - Delay in playing audio when streaming to a Bluetooth headset  
Support - Alert.startBuzzer() does not work  
Support - Playing audio in an application pauses the Media application 
          on BlackBerry smartphones running on the CDMA network  
What Is - Media application error codes 
What Is - setMediaTime does not work for AMR files  
What Is - Supported audio formats


Menu Item and Options
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How To - Add a custom menu item to an existing BlackBerry application  
How To - Add application options to the BlackBerry Options  
How To - Handle ApplicationMenuItem Invocation


MIDP & CLDC APIs
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How To - Access images in a MIDP application  
How To - Capture volume keys in a MIDlet  
How To - Create a MIDlet that uses custom animation  
How To - Create an auto-start MIDlet using the PushRegistry  
How To - Establish an HTTP connection  
How To - Implement basic HTTP authentication  
How To - Register a MIDlet with the PushRegistry   
How To - Use RMS storage efficiently in BlackBerry applications  
Support - Classname does not exist in the current application package  
Support - Verification error using javax.microedition.rms.RecordStore on
          BlackBerry Device Software 3.8 and 4.0  
What Is - Cannot run a MIDP 2.0 application in BlackBerry Device Software 4.0


Micellaneous
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How To - Access and Obtain Service Books on a device
How To - Capture Signature on the BlackBerry Storm  
How to - Create a singleton using the RuntimeStore  
How To - Detect Alt and Shift key clicks  
How To - Determine if a BlackBerry smartphone supports Wi-Fi capabilities  
How to - Display custom messages in the request permission dialog  
How To - Format the electronic serial number (ESN)  
How To - Get time zone offsets with DST  
How To - Implement a Comparator to compare objects  
How To - Implement a string splitter based on a given string delimiter  
How To - Interpret wireless network signal levels How To - Write safe 
          initialization code  
Known Issue - The RadioStatusListener.mobilityManagementEvent method
             is not invoked  
Support - Preventing verification errors  
What is - Event injection  
What Is - New and Deprecated APIs in BlackBerry Java Development Environment 4.0
What Is - New and Deprecated APIs in BlackBerry Java Development Environment 4.1
What Is - New and Deprecated APIs in BlackBerry Java Development Environment 4.2


Networking
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How to - Determine the country code of the current mobile subscriber 
         How To - Determine the MCC and MNC of the current network


Persistence
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How To - Programmatically determine if a microSD card has been inserted

Phone
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How To - Implement the PhoneListener interface  
How To - Log Phone Calls  
Support - The getDevicePhone method returns null


PIM-PDAP
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How To - Access Address Book contacts  
How To - Add a PIM item to a custom category  
How To - Create an Event within the Calendar application  
How To - Launch the Address Book and return a contact  
How To - Use Remote Address Lookup through coding  Support -
         Application stops receiving event notifications when using the
        PIMListListener API


SVG Content
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How to - Use Plazmic Content Developer's Kit in your BlackBerry Application
Known Issue - Irregular focus behaviour on first hotspot when loading PME content  
Known Issue - Losing the anchor when rendering SVG images in MIDlets  
What Is - Browser fails to retrieve resources using relative URLs in PME content


Synchronization APIs
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How To - Backup and restore small amounts of data using SyncItem  
How To - Compile the Desktop Add-In sample  
How To - Save data with RMS  
How To - Store persistent data on the BlackBerry smartphone


System Classes
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How To - Add plain text or binary files to an application 
How To - Allow an application to restart itself  
How to - Capture power change events  
How to - Code time-sensitive applications  
How To - Detect if the BlackBerry smartphone is holstered or flipped  
How To - Display a GUI when the BlackBerry device starts up  
How To - Enable the backlight and prevent the screen from turning off  
How To - Launch a third-party application from another third-party application  
How To - Obtain the operating system version of a BlackBerry wireless device 
How to - Programmatically install and upgrade applications  
How To - Retrieve the BlackBerry Device Software version  
Support - An unsupported API was called by the JVM RadioGetGprsState  
Support - getObjectSize and getAllocated return 0  
What Is - Global Events and Global Event Listeners  
What Is - Supported System.getProperty keys  
What Is - System Global Events  
What Is - The reason a reset is required when upgrading an application



Voice Notes
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How To - Use the Voice Notes APIs
Samples --- VoiceNotesDemo Sample Code


XML
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How To - Control the behavior of white space when parsing an XML document  
How To - Use the XML Parser


User Interface
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Fields
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How To - Add a TreeField to a device screen  
How To - Apply a phone number filter to an AutoTextEdit field  
How To - Change the text color of a field  
How To - Create a colour ListField 
How To - Create a custom field using attributes of other UI objects  
How To - Create a custom width for a ListField  
How To - Create a ListField with check boxes  
How To - Create a Scrollable Image Field  
How To - Create custom fields  
How To - Determine the number of visible items on the BlackBerry device screen  
How To - Display a progress bar in handheld applications
How To - Display an animated GIF  
How To - Display dates and times in handheld applications  
How To - Format text in a RichTextField  
How to - Make list items appear on a screen  
How To - Show focus changes using BitmapField  
How to - Use an image in an application  
How To - Use the paint() method to draw objects to the screen  
How To - Work around ListField painting issue in early versions of BlackBerry 
         Device Software version 4.2.2  
Support - A Field's font is displayed incorrectly when set in the paint method  
Support - Error starting [Application Name].Symbol'DateField.[init] not found  
Support - NullPointerException is thrown when the isEditable and 
          fieldChangeNotify methods of EditField are overridden  
Support - The Custom Field is not drawing properly



Managers
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How To - Create a custom layout manager for a screen  
How To - Create a screen with stationary headings  
How To - Create tabbed view screens  
How To - Manage bitmaps in an application using field managers  
How to - Perform double buffering using the BlackBerry UI  
How To - Place multiple UI fields on one line  
How to - Use the User Interface API to create an editable table  
Support - My scrollable manager is not scrolling



Screens
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How to - Change the background color of a screen  
How To - Clear the status of a MainScreen  
How To - Create a custom Dialog  
How To - Create a File Selection Popup Screen  
How To - Create a splash screen  
How To - Have Your Application Perform an Action after a Global Alert  
How to - listen for a dialog closed event  
How To - Obtain the Height and Width of a Screen  
How To - Prevent a UiApplication from being listed in the application switcher  
How To - Properly Push and Pop Global Screens  
How to - Protect BlackBerry applications with a password screen  
How To - Remove the default "Close" or "Hide" MenuItems from a Screen  
How to - Update a screen on the Main Event Thread  
How To - Use a Backdoor Sequence



General
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How To - Add Copy, Paste, and other context-specific items to a menu
How To - Alert a user from a Background application  
How To - Capture and save a screen shot  
How To - Change fonts in a BlackBerry application  
How To - Control the screen orientation  
How To - Create an icon for an application  
How To - Define a rollover icon for an application  
How To - Detect when an application or screen moves to the foreground 
         or background  
How To - Distinguish between a full menu and a primary actions menu  
How to - Leverage pattern matching in BlackBerry smartphone applications 
         to provide an integrated user experience  
How to - Make your BlackBerry application more user-friendly  
How to - Manage UI interactions  
How To - Programmatically determine type of keyboard  
How To - Use a background image in application screens  
Known Issue - Screen.invalidate() does not cause a subsequent call to paint()  
What Is - BlackBerry UI hierarchy  
What Is - Image formats used in BlackBerry applications  
What Is - Screen buffer size



3. Blackberry Administration API
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How To - Get started with the BlackBerry Administration API
What Is - Sample application demonstrating BlackBerry Administration API
          technology



4. Blackberry JDE
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Executing clean.bat does not delete third-party applications from the
 BlackBerry Smartphone Simulator  
How To - Add a Certificate to DeviceKeyStore
How To - Add files to a project  
How To - Compile a JAR file into a BlackBerry Library  
How To - Compile a MIDlet into a COD file  
How To - Compile an application  
How To - Configure an application to start automatically when the device is
         turned on  
How To - Configure multiple versions of BlackBerry JDE on the same computer  
How To - Configure the BlackBerry Mobile Data Service Simulator to allow 
         reliable push connections  
How To - Connect the JDE to a specified simulator bundle  
How To - Debug an application running on a live BlackBerry smartphone  
How To - Detect a deadlock using the JDE  
How to - Detect system availability on startup  
How To - Determine the Current Network Name  
How To - Enable a keyboard shortcut for an application  
How To - Find memory leaks in code  
How To - Gain access to the BlackBerry JDE  
How To - Get started with the BlackBerry JDE  
How To - Obfuscate code for a BlackBerry application  
How To - Setup an alternate entry point for my application  
How To - Update the Path environment variable  
How To - Use Javaloader to take a screen shot  
How To - Use the Coverage tool to provide code coverage when testing applications  
How To - Use the Profiler tool to optimize application code  
How To - Use the RAPC compiler  
Support - BlackBerry Java Development Environment and supported locales  
Support - BlackBerry JDE 3.7 IDE Fatal Error on startup  
Support - BlackBerry JDE crashes when using the Objects view  
Support - BlackBerry JDE fails to start  
Support - BlackBerry JDE JAR files no longer function after WinRAR is installed  
Support - BlackBerry JDE stops responding when viewing project properties  
Support - Compiled application size is larger in BlackBerry JDE 4.3.0 or later  
Support - Connection Timeout error when launching JDWP from Eclipse  
Support - Error - com.sun.tools.javac.code.Symbol$CompletionFailure -
         file net\rim\device\internal\ui\Border.class not found  
Support - Error cod data section too large
Support - Error when debugging - Cannot find RIMIDEWin32Util.dll. 
          This is a required component of the IDE.  
Support - How to fix BlackBerry JDE screen artifacts  
Support - I/O Error CreateProcess  
Support - I/O Error Import file not found appears when building an application  
Support - Missing stack map at label  
Support - Ordinal 11 could not be located in the dynamic link library DSound.dll  
Support - Signing does not apply the RIM Runtime signature key  
Support - Unable to Open Socket when running JDWP 
Support - Vtable record size exceeds maximum record size
What Is - A library and how to use it  
What Is - A stack trace  
What Is - Appropriate version of the BlackBerry JDE  
What Is - Control Flow Verification Information Too Large 
What Is - Introduction to the BlackBerry JDE  
What Is - 'javaw' error when starting the JDE after installation  
What Is - Supported versions of Java for different BlackBerry JDE versions  
What is - The Alias List for a project in the BlackBerry JDE 
What Is - The debugger  
What Is - The project size limit
What Is - Writing applications for the Java-based BlackBerry Wireless
          Handhelds in C and C++ native code

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