[jdbertrand]

Hi Guys,

I'm a new BB user and also new to the BBForums. I just came out of the stone age and left my Franflin Covey planner in the trash at the turn of 2K7.

My company does software development and had a BB 7290 in a drawer from T-Mo. After initial inspection and looking thoroughly, I found out T-Mo had already unlocked everything, which makes sense, because I live in the Ottawa area, in Canada and I use FIDO as my present day GSM provider with my blackberry which works fine. I am waiting on TLN to kick in on March 14th so I can transfer my wireless number to Rogers and get BIS. Right now i'm just enjoying the benefits of having a Phone-PDA combo which was never really a success with the windows-mobile platform or distinct cell phone companies in my case.

I have to say I am pleased with the capabilities of my BB7290.
I presently have the 4.0.0.198 on my BB.

I had a straight and simple question.
'Will upgrading-flashing to either Rogers Wireless or T-Mo newer BB software re-lock my device?'

T-Mo presently has 4.0.2.49 which is not too recent - probably because they issued newer models quickly and catered to those new models

Rogers being in Canada is a bit slower than most major US carriers to release newer hardware, this probably explains a newer OS release, since they support older models a while longer after they've hit the market. So it seems the BB OS is at v4.1.0.379 (Multilanguage)

Which would be my preference - any problems if I use the Rogers one?

Thanks to anyone who can help.

[ZeroKool]

Update that beast. It will be ok. Unlocking carrier signals has really nothing to do with the device's software OS.

Have fun.

[NJBlackBerry]

You can use any version that you'd like to - RIM writes all of the code and the carriers test and release it.

Upgrading the Handheld OS will not relock a BlackBerry.