Hi all
Just recently got a Blackberry Bold 9780. Very impressed with it so far (Brilliant battery life by the way - I charged it up on Weds afternoon when I first got it and have been trying it out quite heavily ever since and it's now Saturday morning and the battery is still at 50 percent full!)
Anyhow, just a quick question: I've installed the Blackberry software on my main desktop pc and successfully transferred music and piccy's using this (I notice that once this software is installed you can also just simply "drag and drop" various items into the various folders - so dead easy to do)
My question though is this: On, say, my laptop, do I have to install this same software from the supplied disc in order to get my phone recognised? With the laptop, I am simply wanting to plug the phone in via USB and then transfer some the photo's from the phone.
I am right in thinking that the computer (laptop) won't recognise this phone unless you have this software installed first? In other words, you can't just simply plug it in via USB, then locate it (or wait for the box that pops up giving you the options of what you want to do)?
I found the software a little cumbersome/slow on my main desktop so didn't really want to put it on my laptop if I could get away with it - but having tried it and nothing happens, I guess I've perhaps answered my own question!
The other thing I did try was to remove the memory card and plug that in a USB adapter - this did work fine and let me drag and drop without using the software...just puzzled as to why you have to use the disc with the USB lead connected to the phone when other phones, like my old Nokia 6303 for example, showed up straight away with no additonal software needed....
Any help really appreciated!
Just recently got a Blackberry Bold 9780. Very impressed with it so far (Brilliant battery life by the way - I charged it up on Weds afternoon when I first got it and have been trying it out quite heavily ever since and it's now Saturday morning and the battery is still at 50 percent full!)
Anyhow, just a quick question: I've installed the Blackberry software on my main desktop pc and successfully transferred music and piccy's using this (I notice that once this software is installed you can also just simply "drag and drop" various items into the various folders - so dead easy to do)
My question though is this: On, say, my laptop, do I have to install this same software from the supplied disc in order to get my phone recognised? With the laptop, I am simply wanting to plug the phone in via USB and then transfer some the photo's from the phone.
I am right in thinking that the computer (laptop) won't recognise this phone unless you have this software installed first? In other words, you can't just simply plug it in via USB, then locate it (or wait for the box that pops up giving you the options of what you want to do)?
I found the software a little cumbersome/slow on my main desktop so didn't really want to put it on my laptop if I could get away with it - but having tried it and nothing happens, I guess I've perhaps answered my own question!
The other thing I did try was to remove the memory card and plug that in a USB adapter - this did work fine and let me drag and drop without using the software...just puzzled as to why you have to use the disc with the USB lead connected to the phone when other phones, like my old Nokia 6303 for example, showed up straight away with no additonal software needed....
Any help really appreciated!