Comments on: Remember to upgrade your AT&T BlackBerry Bold OS today

By: Jayabala

Jayabala — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 01:05:00 +0000

On 17th Sept 2011, I updated my BlackBerry 9000 OS from V4.6.0.304 (Platform 4.0.0.247) to V5.0.0.1067(Bundle 1728, Platform 5.2.0.89 successfully. But, option to connect WiFi is not available whereas, it was available in the previous version.
Why?. Any solution to solve this problem.

By: GT

GT — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:04:16 +0000

Upgrade to the .297 build went well for me except for one app – Not sure if it is unique to my upgrade or pervasive. AT&T Navigator stopped recognizing voice requests. It is as if it lost its bearings with the microphone on my unit. I went through the setup options to make sure nothing got changed during the upgrade. I put a feedback to the vendor, Telenav, so perhaps that will lead to a resolution. Anyone else experience this?

By: GT

GT — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:04:00 +0000

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:51:57 +0000

And oh, how could it forget:
- Holding the BB button allows to switch between application. Very nice! Now I can really operate my Bold with one hand.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:51:00 +0000

And oh, how could it forget:
- Holding the BB button allows to switch between application. Very nice! Now I can really operate my Bold with one hand.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:08:21 +0000

The upgrade works pretty flawless to me. Some nice key improvements:
- App memory is increased. After a hard reset (aka: battery pull), free app memory was 25MB before the upgrade. After upgrading to x.297, free app memory is 42MB.
- It’s already mentioned above, but the ability to switch to 2G (EDGE) sure is nice. Note: unfortunately, you can’t change from 3G to 2G (and vice versa) without service disruption. I was hoping it’ll be seamless. But if you’re on the phone call, for example, the call will be dropped during the swap.
- I haven’t tested it yet, but operating in 2G has a great potential of increasing battery life.
- There’s a folder for “Instant Messaging,” similar to the one on Curve 8900. I hide this folder since I personally find it useless. I prefer my BB Messenger, GoogleTalk icons, etc. to be on the main page.
- Not sure if this is categorized as improvement, but there’s a bunch of “bloatware.” In the “Download” folder, there are new icons that will direct you to the browser to download Pacman, Tetris, MobiTV, etc. Anybody knows how to get rid of these crapware shortcuts?

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:08:00 +0000

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:08:00 +0000

By: RM

RM — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:07:01 +0000

@ Kevin J

I agree- even you use the DM trick to back up your apps you still have to hunt through for your license codes.

I think a lot of BlackBerry sites do a great job providing the new os’s but I would like to see a Cnet type rating system on each. like an editors rating for speed, stability, new features etc etc along with same but from end users. i had .282 which had visual voice mail so i didnt have to upgrade (and didn’t) but if i find out on forums such as this one I might be compelled to do an upgrade.

By: RM

RM — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:07:00 +0000

@ Kevin J

I agree- even you use the DM trick to back up your apps you still have to hunt through for your license codes.

By: Kevin J

Kevin J — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:23:25 +0000

Why does every update require every app to be re-setup? Everything that has a user name associated or security settings requires this process. So does the Enterprise Activation to connect to a BES server. This make a short process take hours for updates. Very aggravating to have to do this with each OS upgrade.

By: Kevin J

Kevin J — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:23:00 +0000

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rvavalera (Valera) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:24:59 +0000

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By: arbgal (Amber Ledbetter)

arbgal (Amber Ledbetter) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:32:13 +0000

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By: arbgal (Amber Ledbetter)

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