Comments on: OS 4.5 now officially available via BlackBerry.com/Upgrades (UPDATE)

By: Panda

Panda — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:44:50 +0000

Apparently 4.2 is still “up to date” for 8100 T-Mobile ):

By: BlackBerry Cool

BlackBerry Cool — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:28:55 +0000

DavidB is correct, you can see the post below for info and instructions:

http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/02/os-45-available-for-sprint-blackberry-curve-8330-and-pearl-8130/

By: DavidB

DavidB — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:48:03 +0000

@Aaron and all:
Sprint officially released 4.5 for ALL 8xxx phones. Go download as you would any official upgrade for Sprint.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:07:15 +0000

Any update to 4.5 for Sprint’s 8330 yet?

By: Hashiman

Hashiman — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:43:19 +0000

I updated my bb curve 8320 to os4.5 and now my screen will blackout like its goin to reset then pops back on… very annoying and I cant figure out whats wrong!!!

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:34:23 +0000

Updated my Curve 8300 on AT&T and it works awesome. I just needed to delete the vendor.xml file before installing. Piece of cake. I did need to get the password from my IT folks to set it back up with our enterprise server, but the upgrade was done from my desktop.

By: 757sneakerqueen

757sneakerqueen — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:45:27 +0000

can you receive text msgs after download rogers os 4.5 to blackberry curve??

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:48:28 +0000

This site worked fine for me with Telus 8330 (Curve)

http://na.blackberry.com/eng/services/devices/#tab_tab_update

By: buttnugget

buttnugget — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:33:32 +0000

forgot to mention press the start button, and use the “Search” function, then paste the string from item number 6 in there, that will get you in to your C:\ drive.

By: buttnugget

buttnugget — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:30:31 +0000

Try this here:

http://forums.crackberry.com/f3/proper-upgrade-downgrade-procedure-53359/

if you are using windows XP, right click on the “Start” button. pop up menu gives you some options. Copy and paste the item in instruction number 6 in there.

Open the apps…. at the very bottom of the list of files, you will a folder with the exact same string with the “XML” at the end of the string. Delete that file, that is the file of Vodafone Carrier or whoevers software it is.

By: DavidB

DavidB — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:56:47 +0000

@jason:
Use the site search!

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 05:13:46 +0000

Can someone please post instructions on how to find and remove the vendor file. I feel like we will be waiting a while for AT&T to make this update available? Thanks

By: edward t

edward t — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:14:22 +0000

i dont see any update for sprint

By: BlackBerry OS 4.5 now available from BlackBerry.com/Upgrades. No, seriously. | BlackBerry Cool

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:22:02 +0000

[...] patiently waited for the “official version” of the OS and your wait is no more. Unlike what we believed in September, http://www.blackberry.com/upgrades, allows for an official OS 4.5 update. So far, we have confirmed this [...]

By: Nan Palmero

Nan Palmero — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:04:23 +0000

Update to OS 4.5 now works for Sprint – wahoo!

By: Aamir

Aamir — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:52:25 +0000

I own an Unlocked Curve 8300 from RIM. Currently it’s O/S v4.2…will upgrading to v4.5 lock the device to my carrier, or will my device remail unlocked??

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:58:23 +0000

Tried updating Curve 8330 from Telus. It says by software is up to date (4.3). Anyone else have luck with this?

By: Kent W.

Kent W. — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:35:08 +0000

Update: using the 8310 Curve release 4.5.0.108 for Rogers Wireless customers and BB Desktop Manager 4.3.x worked without any problems. The complete upgrade took about 40 minutes or so.

By: Kent W.

Kent W. — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:01:07 +0000

I did go to the BB site and followed the ugprade procedure to get my 8310 Curve to 4.5.0.81 (currently running 4.2.2.163 on Rogers Wireless). The upgrade procedure had me download the BB Application Loader.

Following the process…it detected my firmware, identified 4.5.0.81 to be the update, backed up my data, and then before it even started to change any of the data on by Curve, I get a “fatal error” message from BB Application Loader.

Retried a few times and appears it “breaks” at the same place.

I found another link on Google which points me to a f/w release 4.5.0.108 for Rogers Wireless customers. Looks like this updates through the BB Desktop Manager. Giving this a shot now.

By: akshay ghai

akshay ghai — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:51:51 +0000

i wantt to upgrade software but i am unable to download the file in india kindly guide

By: youngbee

youngbee — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:32:43 +0000

How do you remove the vender file from the bb 8310?

By: Rocco

Rocco — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:44:40 +0000

If ATT supported OS4.5 upgrades then you may not want to upgrade your phone to maybe a “Blackberry Bold” with a new 2 year contract. I can’t help but to believe that Blackberry and ATT planned it this way.

By: hairyasian

hairyasian — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:26:21 +0000

i just went ahead and manually installed vodaphone’s 4.5 os on my tmo pearl. it was quite glitchy for some time… kept crashing and rebooting. but i let it be for about 6 hours and it finally stabilized.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:17:11 +0000

Called ATT today and finally spoke to tech rep, re: 4.5 OS on my 8310.
He said ATT does not yet officially support OS over 4.2.2 yet, but he understood my frustration.
“Is there anything else I can help you with today?”
Gah!

By: JRO

JRO — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:43:42 +0000

This upgrade does not work for branded devices (T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon, etc.) It only works for unbranded devices as per the Blackberry rep. I talked to.

By: DavidB

DavidB — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:16:16 +0000

Seems to be cart before horse. The upgrade app released before the carriers approved device software. And bloggers got all worked up without checking it out first.

By: Cent

Cent — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:58:49 +0000

I’ve been following the comments here closely. Is it me or is no one able to upgrade to OS 4.5. On my Curve with T-Mobile, the upgrade app says my BB is up-to-date although its still on 4.2.

By: senyorcitoninja

senyorcitoninja — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:12:01 +0000

Well, that’s just bs.

By: hairyasian

hairyasian — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:11:56 +0000

tmo 8100 (pearl) on 4.2.1.109 – no upgrade available…

By: DavidB

DavidB — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:24:04 +0000

Right clexman. 9530 is the only CDMA device we know of in the pipes. All the otheras we hear about are GSM. There is rumor of a Curve type 9xxx CDMA device in perhaps April/May/June 2009, but that’s it.