repairing a waterdamaged blackberry

So for some reason someone felt the need to spill a glass of applejuice on my blackberry.
At first all seemed well and I dried it off a little and it was still OK.

The morning after my phone was still doing what it should until I tried to check my mails. I got the little clock symbol and then it shut down. I opened the phone and saw that the waterindicators were red...
The phone wouldn't boot and show a constant red led. When connected to AC power it would show a "battery missing" on the display.

So I took the phone and put it in a box of dried rice for 3 days, not expecting anything of it. Since I didn't remove the battery right after it got wet, nor did I clean the phone with rubbing alcohol...
But sure enough after 3 days the phone booted and was working the same a before :)

How to reset Blackberry calendar

Here's an easy way to reset a corrupt blackberry calendar:
-Open the calendar on the device
-Press the "Menu" button -Choose options
-Then type "RSET" , you don't have a text field, just type it in the option screen
-Confirm you want to reset the calendar and have it resync

Blackberry Administration Service keeps stopping with event ID 7031

I just had a BES Server where the Administration service - Application service would keep starting and then stopping.
Turns out that the service was competing with M$ DNS Server for the ports.
To fix this open the registry editor and navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters

-Right-click ReservedPorts, and then click Modify.
Paste these ports in the list:
48855-48858
45588-45588
49955-49955
45599-45599

BES Express Server stops working after installing outlook

Last I came across an issue which looking back at it was obvious enough, but not at the time:
I needed to export some mailboxes to pst files on exchange 2010 NOT SP1 using the EMS (Shell), so as you might (not) know you need Outlook x64 installed on the server where you want to do the export from.

No problem, I just installed outlook and proceeded with my exports. But then it turbed out that my BES Express which was on the same server stopped working. The BES Services wouldn't start anymore.
So after some digging in the event logs it turns out that outlook overwrites the mapi32.dll file that you installed as a BES Prerequisite (MAPI CDO 1.2.1 pack).

The solution:

-Uninstall outlook , then reboot the server.
-Then go to control panel --> Add/Remove programs --> select the MAPI/CDO pack from the list and remove it.
-Download the pack again from here
-Reinstall the pack
-That's it, the BES Services should start now and you should be up and running again.