After looking over the traffic that is coming to my site, I realized that my problem that I mentioned with the volume on the Blackberry Pearl is a common one. I have seen lots of searches for that phrase that has brought people to my site. I thought I might mention how I got my volume up on my ringer. First you need to go to the Speaker Icon to change the ringer profile. Then scroll all the way down to the bottom. There is a divider and then one option called “Advanced..”. Inside of that option, you can change your profiles as well. If you highlight the one that you use and click the menu button, you can go in and edit the profile. Then you have a choice of a bunch of different type of alerts. The most common is the “phone” section. This is the calls coming into you. The SMS text and MMS are both common ones to change as well, since that is a text messages and a media message (a text message with a picture or sound). If you click on the menu button and edit the option, you can change the volume as well as the number of vibrations that will happen on the chosen event. You have 5 options for the volume: Mute, Low, Medium, High, and Escalating. I usually set it to High. I haven’t tried the Escalating, but since I use 2 vibrations, I am not sure it would be loud enough before the call was sent to voice-mail.
One final note that I wish was included is the repeat notification is only able to flash the LED. I would like to be able to have it beep at me until I checked somethings, especially since I am on-call a week a month and I need to respond to text messages that come in. If I miss the first alert it might be awhile before I get another one. Maybe I need to send some of these ideas to RIM.
I still am waiting for the update to fix the memory leak on the 4.2 software. I have to pull the battery out occasionally to get it back to a usable state.