[nunofyer bzness]

thanks. I'll wait until I have a new password, although email is all but unusable right now anyway. I checked the books, and there are quite a few of them. Do I have to delete all of them?

Do you think this will fix the problem I am having (timeout errors and freezes)? I did have some timeout messages even before I started the activation. I thought they went away after I took out the battery and rebooted, but now I'm not sure. At this time I don't really have any critical data on the device. Wouldn't it be better to start from scratch? Unfortunately I don't know how to do that, how to completely wipe the device.

[John Clark]

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Options >Security Options >general Options. Menu key: "wipe handheld."

Again if you do this you will be disconnected from your BES.

[nunofyer bzness]

I understand. Reconnecting to the BES then requires to run the activation again with a new password from the admin, right? As I see it, I have 2 choices:

1) deleting the service book and then reactivate BES, oder
2) wipe the device, reinstall the OS, and then reconnect to the BES.

Given the problems that I have (freeze and error messages), would you agree that a start from scratch (option 2) is the best one? Or do you have some suggestions as to the cause of the problems?

[John Clark]

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Option 3: wipe the device and see how the device reacts. If it still gives problems then reload the OS. If not, reactivate on BES and see what happens.

[nunofyer bzness]

Wiped it. Took a while, too...

First thing I got was an error message about some Java thing. It just poped up, then disappeared. Then I went through the setup. I saw that I had a message and clicked on the messenger. Same problem. It didn't open. After about 3 minutes, I got the follwing error message:

Uncaught Exception
Application Registry.waitfor
(0x125d69656ffebdd2) timeout.

So, after wiping the device, I am still where I was before.

Next, I am going to reload the OS.

[nunofyer bzness]

No dice. this is getting frustrating.

I'm going to downgrade now and then upgrade again.

[John Clark]

Do you have any 3rd party apps? Did you edit the java folder or Blackberry.alx file?

[nunofyer bzness]

No, no, and no.

I just downgraded to 4.2, and everything seems fine. No error messages, no freezes. Just now wiping 4.2, then I will upgrade to 4.5 again. Can you think of anything I need to do before upgrading (other than deleting the xml file?

[John Clark]

No...that's all thats required. You might reinstall the OS to the computer and then delete the vendor.xml file again. You have NO 3rd party applications or themes or anything?

[nunofyer bzness]

Absolutely none. Once it's done scrubbing, I'll load 4.5. I'll try to keep it at the minimum configuration to see if that works. Keeping my fingers crossed...

[nunofyer bzness]

Well, I guess this release is not quite ready for primetime yet.

After downgrading to 4.2 and not having any problems, I re-installed the 4.5 OS, and what do you say, I have the same problems I had earlier, error messages and freezes. Now it's a message that "messaging is not responding".

Too bad. I think it's back to 4.2 for me after 2 days of fiddling.

[John Clark]

Strange since many people with the same device, on the same network aren't having any issues. The only thing left is IT policy.

[Fate]

Installed and running fine so far. I've been able to still play music, watch movies, all ringtones still work. My custom built theme and the 2 I have downloaded work just fine. I've only had a few problems with some 500 internal server errors, but that shouldn't be caused by the OS.

[Decibal]

Does this OS support Japanese language?

[quillhill]

Downloaded and installed painlessly last night (despite the fact I forgot to delete the vendor.xml file, oops) and so far, so good. I just need to go scope out the HTML sticky in General.

I have more free memory right off the bat so it's already running snappier. I'll probably get rid of PTT this time (that's one of the first buttons I remapped when I got the Curve) but I couldn't believe when I saw I had 20MB of memory last night. With my previous OS (4.2.2xx whatever, it was SingTel from like February, I got lazy) I would typically have about 12 or 13MB so this is great. Not too worried about battery life since I have a spare wall charger here at the office. :D

Anyway, off to read the sticky. I'm glad I did this. Really digging it so far.

[connor1]

HI everyone,

Prob a stoopid q, but if I download the MTS official 4.5.0.89 version to use on my UK Voda, can I hack it the same as a beta download? you know, just delete the vendor file and install?

Many thanks

[John Clark]

Yes, you can "hack" it. It's not really a hack but an OS is an OS.

[connor1]

Thanks John,

I was just debating doing this as I have the beta 4.5.0.55 installed, no probs or anything with it, but figured using this would be better, kinda more stable as its an actual app rather than a beta...

Is that the case or shall I just stick with the beta?

Thanks again

[John Clark]

if you have version 4.5.0.55 then there is no difference between what you have and what is posted here. The only difference is that this carrier released that version. They don't change things and release it as the same software version.

[connor1]

Cheers John, I'll stick with the beta version.