Welcome to Part 17 of the 20 part series looking at the BES logs (Part 16) ... the BRK Tool BBCheck.exe (and BBCheckCmd.exe).

The wonderful secretive tool that I first stumbled upon a few years ago from a friend of a co-worker of a friend of a cousin ... well you get the point ...

Finally included in the 4.1 SP6 BRK release BBCheck.exe (GUI) and BBCheckCmd.exe (command-line version) is one of the few tools that actually generates log data and doesn't read from the already...

Much like your favorite PC or PC accessory manufacturer there is a science behind BlackBerry smartphone model numbers.

As of now, here's what it all means:

First 2 digits

81xx - Suretype, Non Flip, Camera
82xx - Suretype, Flip, Camera
83xx - QWERTY, Non Flip, Camera
85xx - QWERTY, Non Flip, Camera, Expanded Internal Memory
88xx - QWERTY, Non Flip, No Camera, GPS, GSM
89xx - QWERTY, Non Flip, Camera, High Res Screen, Expanded Internal...

Welcome to Part 16 of the 20 part series looking at the BES logs (Part 15) ... the BRK Tool Pending.exe.

No surprise here, but that the Pending.exe tool tracks user accounts with a pending count that is higher than the pending count specified.

To utilize Pending.exe you need only the BlackBerry Messaging Agent log and the tool itself. The Pending tool parses the MAGT log, and while I can't speak to the exact logic it uses when parsing I can tell you how the output it creates...

Ok, this is blatant thievery from KB15871, but I've seen this a few times recently and figured it was worth noting.

Unfortunately, there isn't an automated way to do this from the BES ... The posted resolution is:

<content> To resolve this issue, delete and undelete the Desktop [SYNC] service book on the BlackBerry smartphone. Have each BlackBerry smartphone user complete the following steps:

1. Go to Options> Advanced Options> Service Book and highlight

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Welcome to Part 15 of the 20 part series looking at the BES logs (Part 14) ... the BRK Tool OutOfCoverage.exe (OOC).

Simply put, the OutofCoverage.exe BRK tool checks for BlackBerry users that do not send or receive data in a specified period of time. To utilize OOC you need only the BlackBerry Dispatcher log and the tool itself. The OOC tool parses the DISP log, and while I can't speak to the exact logic it uses when parsing I can tell you how the output it creates correlates to...