[ofelas]

Hi,

Are preloaded pictures present?
Are preloaded ringers present?

Thx.

[Redflea]

Another nice improvement in 4.5...when you load your SD card (put it in, or add new music to it) there is a "scanning" message at the bottom of the Media screen, letting you know that the card is being scanned for changes...nice to finally have that.

[johnnyrichter]

Have they fixed the empty preloaded pictures folder?

I guess it's not really an issue, it's just annoying having an empty folder displayed. Is there a way to remove that folder, that I'm not yet aware of?

[WillJitsu]

I'm still having the bug where I hear the speakerphone for a few seconds when answering calls, then it switches back to the handset.

Not a huge deal, but I don't think it should be doing that.

[Sarlic]

Originally Posted by Redflea

The internal GPS is always blocked by Verizon unless you pay them $10 a month to unlock it/use VZ Nav.

I remember reading a post somewhere that, if I turn on the "follow me" option in VZNav and "minimize", Google Maps will then be able to access my GPS connection. I've tried that but it has never worked. I'll never understand why Verizion's $10 a month plan won't just unlock GPS for your phone, regardless of use of VZNav (I know I'd pay it!). Unless and until VZNav features all of the options that Google Maps does, all they are doing is limiting our ability to use our phones to their fullest potentential. (Apologies to those of who you who have read the slightly less than three billion threads b**tching about Verizon GPS I have read that the Storm may be fully unlocked..... but I'll believe it when I see it!!!)

Has anyone ever been able to get the "follow me" option in VZNav to work with Google Maps?

With regards to the changes to the OS specifically, I haven't noticed a major difference between .56, but one thing I have noticed is that sometimes the Internet takes a bit to activate/work. I'll open my BeeJive IM or browser, and have to wait a minute or two for the "requesting" to dissapear, even for the mobile google site. Anyone else have this issue?

[Dan East]

Originally Posted by Redflea

Another nice improvement in 4.5...when you load your SD card (put it in, or add new music to it) there is a "scanning" message at the bottom of the Media screen, letting you know that the card is being scanned for changes...nice to finally have that.

Funny, because I think this is a major negative compared to 4.3 for me. With 4.3 I could copy movies onto my BB via USB, unplug it, they would show up immediately and off I go. Now every time I disconnect from USB it says "scanning" for 20-30 seconds the next time I use the media player. I only have a dozen songs, a dozen movies, and around 100 pictures. I can only imagine how long it would take if I did have several hundred songs on my MicroSD. It's like it does a complete rescan of all media every time now, where before it was incremental and thus much faster.

[Dan East]

Originally Posted by ofelas

Hi,

Are preloaded pictures present?
Are preloaded ringers present?

Thx.

No preloaded pictures, probably around 45 ringtones.

[Redflea]

Wirelessly posted

Originally Posted by Dan East

Funny, because I think this is a major negative compared to 4.3 for me. With 4.3 I could copy movies onto my BB via USB, unplug it, they would show up immediately and off I go. Now every time I disconnect from USB it says "scanning" for 20-30 seconds the next time I use the media player. I only have a dozen songs, a dozen movies, and around 100 pictures. I can only imagine how long it would take if I did have several hundred songs on my MicroSD. It's like it does a complete rescan of all media every time now, where before it was incremental and thus much faster.

I have an 8 GB card completely full of movies and music (6 GB of which is music), and while I hadn't timed it because it hasn't been an issue for me, the scan is most importantly complete. In OS 4.3, the scan would leave out music and videos from the index (music and videos on the card wouldn't appear in the list of available music and videos). They've made changes to the scan process to finally make it actually work reliably.

So I like the fact that 1) There is positive confirmation the scan is occurring, and 2) The scan actually works properly. You may not have experienced the issue of missing files in 4.3 due the the very small number of files on your card, but believe me, it was maddening to add some new music or videos and then go see which albums/artists/movies from the library would be missing.

I tried timing it - attached and added a new artist/album and then detached. It took about a minute to complete the scan. The album may have been available before the minute was up (scanning doesn't keep you from actually browsing the library) but I spaced and just watched the scan progress bar.

Since the scan was "hidden" in the previous OS (no UI for it) there's no way for me to determine if it actually takes longer w/my very full card now than it did in 4.3...

[Moonshadow]

Wirelessly posted (8130)

Just upgraded. All went well and it seems to be working fine!

[Dan East]

Another difference. Previously when using the web browser, you could not move the pointer to the very right of the screen, where the little vertical scroll bar is that shows what part of the page you're viewing. Now you can move the pointer into that area, and completely off the page (which is a good thing - before you couldn't move the pointer completely off of the content, so it was always obscuring part of it). You cannot drag the scroll bar, like a real scroll bar, but you can click above or below the scroll indicator to go up or down a page.

[Dan East]

A few things that are NOT improved with the media player:

• The directory structure that videos are placed in is ignored, and all videos are thrown together in a single list. For me, the desired behavior is the same as with photos, where it will show you the folders and let you navigate into them.
• The player does not remember the last playback position for each video. It should keep track of each video independently, and when you pull up a specific video, it should automatically seek to the last viewed position. It's aggravating when I have to stop watching a two hour movie half way though, and later when I go back to it (perhaps after loading something else in the media player) the player starts at the beginning and I have to try and find where I was at last.
• The seek step is still huge when dragging the position control. It only allows 21 steps regardless of the length of the media. For a 2-4 minute song that is okay, and allows 6-10 second jumps. However for a 2 hour movie, like Batman Begins, that results in a MASSIVE seek resolution of 7 minutes. The display is 240 pixels wide, and the scroll bar is around 24 pixels wide. That means there is a possible precision of over 200 steps, which would allow seek increments of less than a minute for a two hour video. They really need to improve that.

[Moonshadow]

Wirelessly posted (8130)

I can now get images on my HTML mail. On .56 it didn't work!

[Redflea]

Originally Posted by Dan East

A few things that are NOT improved with the media player:
[*] The directory structure that videos are placed in is ignored, and all videos are thrown together in a single list. For me, the desired behavior is the same as with photos, where it will show you the folders and let you navigate into them.

Yup, I've never seen the video list provide any folder-level sorting on any release of 4.3 or 4.5, it just lists all videos in all folders under Videos in one long list.

Originally Posted by Dan East

[*] The player does not remember the last playback position for each video. It should keep track of each video independently, and when you pull up a specific video, it should automatically seek to the last viewed position. It's aggravating when I have to stop watching a two hour movie half way though, and later when I go back to it (perhaps after loading something else in the media player) the player starts at the beginning and I have to try and find where I was at last.

You know, it works for me, but not consistently. I haven't found the pattern yet, or maybe it's just a random bug. If I am watching a video and use the back key to go back to the video list, play another video, and then return to the first video, sometimes it restarts in the right place, sometimes it doesn't. Just tried it several times right now, and it both worked and didn't work...and, for one video it kept going back to the same spot even if I hadn't been playing it at that spot.

Originally Posted by Dan East

[*]The seek step is still huge when dragging the position control. It only allows 21 steps regardless of the length of the media. For a 2-4 minute song that is okay, and allows 6-10 second jumps. However for a 2 hour movie, like Batman Begins, that results in a MASSIVE seek resolution of 7 minutes. The display is 240 pixels wide, and the scroll bar is around 24 pixels wide. That means there is a possible precision of over 200 steps, which would allow seek increments of less than a minute for a two hour video. They really need to improve that.

Yup...that's still frustrating.

[Redflea]

Some folks have complained about the download speed from Cellular South...here are other providers that also have .77 available for download:

Appalachian Wireless:

https://www.blackberry.com/Downloads...C4C1BAAE25D6AF

Bluegrass Cellular:

https://www.blackberry.com/Downloads...821DC88FEA0631
Cellcom US:

https://www.blackberry.com/Downloads...AEA643A7706A42

NTELOS:

https://www.blackberry.com/Downloads...615847C1CAA69A

[bby31288]

When I connect to my PC with my phone and USB it wants to connect via broadband. There is no option for upgrade. HELP!

[Redflea]

Are you sure you followed all the steps in the first post in the correct order?

Clarify what you mean by "wants to connect via broadband."

[Cntdwn]

i seem to be having a problem getting the new O/S loaded....it doesn't prompt to load when i launch desktop manager.

I have a 8130 CDMA w/ v4.3.0.127 loaded (yea...i'm behind :P )
I downloaded both the 4.5.0 O/S and Desktop Manager 4.6.

Installed Desktop, O/S file, removed vendor.xml, connected my phone, launched desktop.
It does the whole synk thing like usual, however it does nothing after that.

i'm using vista sp1 + post updates.

i've tried..2-3 different searches on here, but didn't see anything (might of missed).

[Redflea]

Have you tried running the app loader?

[Cntdwn]

yes, it says there is nothing to upgrade or install.

i can do backups, access roxio, etc....

edit
fyi, does not work on server 2003 sp2 install either

[Redflea]

I'm a bit stumped...other than the "are you sure you installed the new OS, and are you sure you deleted or renamed the vendor.xml file" questions, I can't think of any obvious issues.