Quickpull has been one of the most downloaded apps in BlackBerry’s App World for a long time running and many times BlackBerry users take a lot of heat for the app even being necessary. Put simply, Quickpull is a free application that allows you to schedule your BlackBerry to reboot itself. Most BlackBerry users are very familiar with term “battery pull” and are accustomed to doing at least one reboot a day, mainly due to memory leaks and sporadic behavior in the BlackBerry operating system. A battery pull is usually the one assured remedy for this.

Quickpull is a nice way to schedule reboots during times when you won’t be using your device, in an attempt to prevent issues from arising during the day. Typically Quickpull is scheduled to reboot your device during the early morning when you will hopefully be sleeping, it can be customized to suit your individual usage patterns. The app also has a built-in memory manager which allows for the application to trigger a reboot if memory falls below a user-determined level.

Yesterday the Quickpull team released the next version of Quickpull, version 4. Don’t worry, it’s the same simple, light application you’re used to but with greater reliability, especially when using OS 5.0. In the previous version of Quickpull the application would work in a few builds of 5.0 but most (at least the Tour 5.0 builds I’ve used) didn’t work properly. As promised version 4 has fixed these issues and so far (one scheduled reboot last night) things are working perfectly on a 5.0 build that previously was not so Quickpull-friendly.

Quickpull v4 should be showing up in App World sometime this week but if you can’t wait till then you can hit this link from your BlackBerry browser for the OTA download. You can also hit the Quickpull blog for more info on the release.