[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Rafael K:
I know this thread is dead for some time, but I would like to get ne1fl0w5 wave here.

I have a Qtek 9100 from Claro (Telmex Brazilian sub). It was running 2.22.17.1 PTB ROM and 2.46.11 radio rom. First tried all BBConnect clients available (they were many). All installed but would halt at "Not connected" after first provisioning of the device and connection through GPRS/EDGE. After duly CIDunlocking the Qtek at imei-check (mine is a G4, I forgot to mention), I took a deep breath and decided to give it Vodafone's ROM a shoot.

I followed these instructions and managed to make it work.

Now, to your questions:

Questions:

1. What are the advantages of using BBConnect (other than receiving emails from BB Servers)

First of all, I have to say that I find (or thought, at first) BB email services excelent, but the devices really bad. Those little keys are small even for my 9-month old baby. Besides that, that trackwheel will certainly cause repetitive stress injuries. I used for less than a day and my arm started aking (please, don't say I am fragile) :) In addition, it was not made for lefties such as me. And the 8700g does not have an efficient cursor (for instance, if you are to delete a letter in the beggining of a line (or two words before the cursor), you would have to delete everything and retype the text. :mad:

For those reasons, I prefer the Qtek...

As per the system itself, I have to say that emails are delivered really fast to each of them. In Blackberry connect, the calendar items are also syncronized correctly as well. However, it did not sync my contacts (and it is probably not meant to), as opposed to the Blackberry device, in which both were available.

2. Where does it write emails to (Outlook Inbox or any designated folder)?

Designated folder. You can chose which server folders you want sync'd as well.

3. If I use BBConect can I still use ActiveSync to synchronize with other Outlook Inbox folders?

Yes. However, BBConnect uses a dedicated GPRS connection and it will compete with Outlook for the radio. You will probably have issues if you are looking for concurrent exchange push functionality.

4. I have seen somewhere that the WAP proxy needs to be changed: How does it affect other apps like T-Zones? Can I still connect to the Internet using GPRS?

Whenever you connect to do anything else, your BB connection will be lost.

5. How easy is it to install, configure & operate BBConnect?

It was hard to install all Roms required to make it work, but once you have this part finished, it is very easy to get things going.

Also if somebody could give a step-by-step install guide (all pdfs I downloaded are not in English), that will really help out.

The post above gives you all the directions (except for creating the blackberry.net connection, which is not necessary).

Sorry for the lenghty (and completely out of time) post, but I would like to share this with you.

Also, I would like to say that I was not very impressed with the way things eventually got working. first thing I noticed was that the reconciliation with the server was not complete. For instance, read messages did not display as such at my server, only at the device. In addition, the BB service uses lots of storage and memory.

In the end, I prefered my Qtek 2.22 rom (much faster to load) and much better loking style. Because of all this, I have just reverted to Qtek's rom and decided to go with email redirection to an external exchange sp2 account. Although we have that in the office, they have high security standards (but forgot to prevent email redirections).:p

Rafael K