When Verizon shocked the world by releasing OS 5.0 for the 9530 Storm, the OS unfortunately shipped with a bug that prevents users from viewing the event log.
To view the Event Log on a Storm you need to switch to the Home screen, show the keyboard, and activate alt/num lock by holding down the '123' button. Once alt is 'locked', press ", /, ", /. That's double-quote, forward-slash, double-quote, forward-slash. On all the QWERTY devices you can type ALT+LGLG.
The OS released approved for release by Verizon (application version 5.0.0.328, bundle 508) doesn't have a Show Keyboard menu item on the home screen, leaving users with no way to view the event log or configure any event log filters.
I thew together a quick little application that does one thing, and one thing only, launch the Event Log Viewer.
OTA install: http://coreygilmore.com/ota/eventviewer/EventViewer.jad
Desktop Manager install: http://coreygilmore.com/ota/eventviewer/EventViewer.zip
Tags: BlackBerry, Event Log, OTA
November 18th, 2009 at 11:42 am
thank you for this app, very useful for us developers
November 22nd, 2009 at 1:05 am
The new way to show system long on Storm 2 with OS 5.0 is:
Press and hold ESC key, tap(no click) top-left, top-right, top-left, top-right, then select "show event log"
November 24th, 2009 at 7:43 am
@EasyDialer – Maybe with recent OS releases of the Storm 2 (not with eval unit I had, which was running 5.0.0.224), but on the Storm 1 with bundle 308 there is no Show Event Log option from the Help screen.