My blackberry pearl will not ring or vibrate - RIM BlackBerry Pearl 8100

Blackberries...hahah my specialty. Go to the sound section, click on Set Ring Tones/Alerts and make sure that you are on a Normal Profile. If you are, then make sure your ringer volume is not set at "vibrate"

i would check your profiles. usually the default setting for the load profile is for it to vibrate twice and then ring, so that usually only gave you two rings to answer the phone after it vibrated twice. make sure that within your profile setting that you have it to ring with a tone, and make sure you have a volume selected. i would also use blackberry desktop manager and perform a back up or sync of your blackberry, and then perform a wipe handheld. the wipe hand held feature is in your options---security---general settings---and then press your options button (right of the trackball) and select wipe hand held. you will type the word blackberry and then it will wipe the handset. after it resets try the volume before you restore it, if you still don't have volume your speaker is bad.

Go to profile, select advance, you will get all the profiles highlight any one of the profile,then press Menu key, select Edit, then select Phone, you will get an option called Out of holster, press Menu key, select Change option under this select Tone, Now you're will only ring.

You have to pop the battery out to reboot it...happens ALL the time!!! I have to do it almost every other day

Not sure if the pearl interface is the same as mine, a Storm - I have an option on my main screen to fast-select ring volume (called Notification), which affects both calls and messages, and I can choose loud, soft, vibrate, silent, and also go into options for more detailed settings. You may have such an option that is easy to find, and maybe easy to set by mistake, without realising it.

Pearl manual at this location:
http://docs.blackberry.com/en/smartphone_users/deliverables/1217/userguide_bb8100_gprs.pdf
see p193, Notification Profiles.
There are other keys, eg # that affect notification sounds/vibrate. Download and search in the manual for 'Notification" to find all the places mentioned.

Even if you have a paper manual, I recommend keeping the electronic one since you can easily search for keywords and find all the places they are mentioned quickly.

Reboot the HH,restart the HH and follow the follwing steps Press Menu,Select Clock-press menu-select alert type as tone-select the tone from the given list and save it.Check whether if you are able to listen to the tone.

Check to see if you have enabled notifiers for coming in and out of cellular coverage, data coverage, bluetooth, etc. I disabled these notifications.

Otherwise try switching the ringing profiles and see if it continues. If it stops after switching profiles, then you know it is something in your selected ring profile.

If it continues, try resetting the device. I would recomend downloading the Blackberry Desktop software to backup your phone. After resetting the phone, see if it vibs and rings randomly (note: no not restore the backup yet).

If it still does, try to update the Blackberry OS software on the phone from the same place you downloaded the BB Desktop software or your cell provider. If it stops, then restore your backed up data. If it starts up again, then it's a setting in your old config.

These are some of the things the cellular provider would do. Hope this helps!

I have the same problem.  Tmobile as well as a cell phone repair shop said the speaker is blown.  When I checked online many speakers blow on the pearl after 5months.  The repair shop said they could fix it for $100

Sounds like it just need to change the profile settings. Click the menu button then Profiles and select either the loud or normal profile.

Have you checked the "profiles" (click the icon on the desktop). Make sure it is not in silent or vibrate mode.

Hope that helps... :)