You’re working with a BlackBerry application, when, all of a sudden, a dialog box pops up with the message:

“Unexpected error: java.lang.RuntimeException:PushModalScreen called by a non-event thread”.

What gives?

The error message is an indication from the system, that the app you are working with is trying to display a popup screen to show you some information, but it’s doing it in an inappropriate way. In a nutshell, this is caused by poor programming on the part of the app developers.

This isn’t something that’s “fixable” by you. There is no general setting or configuration option that you can toggle in your system that would resolve the issue. You would need to contact the makers of the app directly for support, and they would need to fix the issue in their application, and release a patch update.

When you contact the developers, they may ask you to change a configurable option or toggle a setting to resolve the issue. If this helps, it’s because the developers are probably aware of the problem, and know of a temporary workaround. Their suggestion would get you around the immediate issue, but wouldn’t resolve the underlying cause of the error. For that, there is no getting around having the developers fix the issue in their application, and release a proper patch.

You download an update for your favorite BlackBerry app, and after the update, the icon is nowhere to be found! What now?

Well, the solution is a bit cliché, but it works – restart your device.

On some new BlackBerry devices, after downloading a new version of an app, the system pops up a dialog box telling you that a restart is required for the update to complete properly. Sometimes, this dialog box is hidden behind another application or popup, and the system never gets the restart it needs. This leads to a situation where the icon for the old version of the application is gone, and the icon for the new version of the app is not yet added.

When you restart the BlackBerry, the application icon will return. It’s always recommended to restart the device after you install an application update.

The easiest way to restart your BlackBerry? Pull the battery! Wait a few seconds and then put it back in, allowing the system and all of your application to get a fresh restart.

When you have an email that you think will come in useful in the future, you simply choose Create Snippet from the menu.

Assign a shortcut if you want, and save your new Snippet.

But what if you wanted to create a Snippet from a portion of your email? Well, that’s easy too.

Simply highlight the section of the email you want to save, and choose Create Snippet from the menu.

Antair Snippets is smart enough to figure out that you want to create a Snippet from your selection, and does exactly that.

Or, just visit http://mini.opera.com from your BlackBerry, download the Opera Mini browser, and use that to download the .MP3 directly to your phone – just like you wanted to in the first place.