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squirrel said:
Is there an update for the Bold 8900? My girlfriend has one and is looking to update to OS 6. She's with Vodacom. What's the best way to do so and is the update even available for her phone?
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No such thing, never going to happen. The 8520 is already to weak to supports OS6, the 890 iss about 2 years older.

9300, 9100, 9105, 9700, 9800 and 9780 are the only phones currently supporting OS6, some newer ones will also, but they busy switching to 6.1 which has even higher requirements, its like that the 9780 is the only phone on that list that will be able to make that upgrade.

If you GF wants OS6 the first requirement would be a new phone, 1 from the above list, the 9300 is a curve like hers, you can get the cash for about 2500, its about the cheapest way to go about it.

Honestly, even if you could somehow install, the memory requirements alone would make it a miracle if that phone even completed the boot sequence, and then if it did it would be slow as all hell.

Question, does that phone even support OS5?
 
BB9300
OS6 .461 official Telus Mobility

Having connectivity issues with the above immediately after I restart - shows 3G with BB logo but no internet access on any app. Also can't pick up EDGE/GPRS with this problem. But after some minutes to hours it works fine again until I restart.

Anyone else have this problem with the above update?
 
AirWolf said:
Upgraded to .534 Virgin Mobile Canada official version and sent the above problem to hell :D.
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Thanks for that, think I will have to do that.

Some of my menus are missing. When I go to third party apps, there is a blank list.
I also cant set the quality of images downloaded.
AND in email, the image quality is SO poor I cant even read the mail, if the email is on the image.
I have tried 'downloading' the image separately, but it still doesnt download the full image.

I had a storm, and I could clearly see email images. Now with the Torch I am having this issue.

Edit: Wow used the word 'image' waaay too many times!! :D
Anyone else having this? I am assuming it's the software.
 
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Third party apps has always been blank on the OS6 versions I have loaded.

In emails, I zoom in and the image attached gets clearer. Not sure about downloading images off the web as I haven't tried that.
 
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AirWolf said:
Third party apps has always been blank on the OS6 versions I have loaded.

In emails, I zoom in and the image attached gets clearer. Not sure about downloading images of the web as I haven't tried that.
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Still not clear enough to read :( I get mails from travelstart or something, and can never get the image clear enough. But I could on my storm.

I also read somewhere that the 3rd party list shouldn't be blank... :/
 
Hi there. I recently bought a Curve 8900 overseas which is unlocked. If i update the software will the unlock still work?? Thanks
 
anyone knows the difference between OS6 and OS7?
 
TFTC said:
anyone knows the difference between OS6 and OS7?
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Mostly that no current market phone will support it, it will have all the OS functions, security and support of the playbook and it will have full android app integration.
Its based on the same QNX code that they using to code the playbook on.
 
Claymore said:
It's not - they are releasing what would have been 6.1 as OS 7, and it's still BBOS-based.
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Check your info, OS7 is the handset version of the playbooks OS, they redoing the whole OS, playbook OS1 and BOS7 are both using a new code base.

They cannot achieve the functions in OS7 without changing the code base, its alla available on crackberry, they scrapped 6.1 as it was going to be an exact scaled down version of PBOS1 including all its limits. OS7 with have the full android support which is the same plan for the playbook upgrade, possibly OS2.

6.1 was a rush patch update that was actually released on 2 or 3 CDMA handsets which work very few places outside USA.

Its all over gsmarena and crackberry. Its why current devices are locked to 6 as 6.1 and 7 are not compatible and require much more powerful hardware to run the new code and functions.
 
CranialBlaze said:
Check your info, OS7 is the handset version of the playbooks OS, they redoing the whole OS, playbook OS1 and BOS7 are both using a new code base.

They cannot achieve the functions in OS7 without changing the code base, its alla available on crackberry, they scrapped 6.1 as it was going to be an exact scaled down version of PBOS1 including all its limits. OS7 with have the full android support which is the same plan for the playbook upgrade, possibly OS2.

6.1 was a rush patch update that was actually released on 2 or 3 CDMA handsets which work very few places outside USA.

Its all over gsmarena and crackberry. Its why current devices are locked to 6 as 6.1 and 7 are not compatible and require much more powerful hardware to run the new code and functions.
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http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/02/rim-announces-blackberry-os-7/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_OS

Oh, and in case you were wondering, there's no trace of QNX in BB 7.
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Guys i need some help please.
I have a Bold 9780 with firmware version 6.0.0.246 on, this is the latest one on vodacom's website. I want to know if I will have a problems if I upgrade it to the latest OS available worldwide, version 6.0.0.570.
Please also any info on what is the best, stable and battery friendly version that we in SA can use at the moment would be great.

Thanks
 
Tariq786 said:
Guys i need some help please.
I have a Bold 9780 with firmware version 6.0.0.246 on, this is the latest one on vodacom's website. I want to know if I will have a problems if I upgrade it to the latest OS available worldwide, version 6.0.0.570.
Please also any info on what is the best, stable and battery friendly version that we in SA can use at the moment would be great.

Thanks
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You should be fine with that. I've found build 570 for the Torch to be improved over earlier builds.
 
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