[knottyrope]

Originally Posted by NJBlackBerry

Which is the summary of every release of every OS:

It is either much faster or much slower
It either boots much faster or much slower

YMMV

I noticed that too.

[kriswilliams03]

But is the difference statistically significant?

[NJBlackBerry]

Yes. Or no. Only you can decide. There are no release notes. Everyone runs different apps. So there is no definitive answer.

[Cooper]

Anyone care to make a comment? Faster boot, faster overall?

Noticeable drawbacks?

[NJBlackBerry]

Did you read the comments in this thread?

[Cooper]

Originally Posted by NJBlackBerry

Did you read the comments in this thread?

Yes and I'm wondering if anyone wishes to comment further.

[NJBlackBerry]

Oh.

[Cooper]

Look like it's not an issue any more, but for the first 10-15 minutes after the upgrade my upload/download arrows were going crazy, and Enterprise actiation was already done.

Seems to have stopped now, but used up 5-10% battery.

[NJBlackBerry]

Very likely that was BlackBerry Messenger groups getting set up. Seen it before.

[racs]

I'm thinking about upgrading.
How long should I think about it.

I can wait 10 min for start up or 1 sec i seriously don't care about the boot time because when my bb is on its stays on :D.

Just rockin it to the max so lets do this beta yo.

O wait i forgot to ask my stupid question.

Does it boot fast? (WinkWink)

[Rob377]

speed seems to be about the same. Battery life slightly better than last version. I used it quite a bit (3G/wifi and BT) yesterday and was still at 80% when I threw it on the charger for the night.

I'm pretty happy with that, since battery life was one of the primary reasons I switched from the iPhone.

I did have on issue in which music would stop every time I got an email. Did a battery pull and that went away. Weird.

[Rob377]

Just for grins, I broke out the stop watch to time Reboot: 2 minutes, 54 seconds. I should've timed the previous version to see if this was an improvement or not.

[PaulM]

My 9700 DID NOT like this Beta at all. As with any OS install, I followed the rules to a 'T'. I did a back-up, wiped, and installed .938 after sizing it down a bit with Shrink-a-OS.

All seemed well for a few minutes as I went thru the process of updating the 3rd party apps and whatnot until I loaded App World and updated my BBM from v 5.0.0 to 5.0.1.38.

This is where the phone started to really act weird. When I attempted to load the internet, I would get an error message that I didn't have any connectivity. This was right after I loaded up App World, Viigo, and Pandora.
Seeing as all 3 of them worked, It didn't even occur to me to check my BIS status. Thinking that it was a matter of the new service books being sent, I sent a request to re-register my phone on the network with no joy. Next I tried to connect via wi-fi with no joy. I deleted my home network settings and re-entered the info, but it wouldn't acquire the signal and connect.

During this time, when I looked at the services status page, I was getting a mobile voice and 3G/Att indication, but nothing for BIS.

Right about then, I got the '523' code and white screen for the 1st time. I let the phone re-boot, which took 8+ minutes, gave it a few minutes and pulled the battery just for good measure.

After getting the 523 code a few more times, wiping and re-installing the OS (without ASAOS) and multiple battery pulls, I was still getting the same symptoms. (random 523's w/ restarts and no connectivity through BIS or wi-fi.)

Eventually, I just wiped it again and re-loaded .862 and now all seems to be good. Within a minute of re-booting my phone with .862, I got the network registration message from BIS, Wi-fi is working and everything seems to be back to normal.

This is very odd, since I've done numerous OS updates on this and previous BB's without so much as a hick-up. I'm taking into account that this is a Beta and there is obviously something within it that my phone just does not like. Wierd...

[Rob377]

Originally Posted by PaulM

My 9700 DID NOT like this Beta at all. As with any OS install, I followed the rules to a 'T'. I did a back-up, wiped, and installed .938 after sizing it down a bit with Shrink-a-OS.

All seemed well for a few minutes as I went thru the process of updating the 3rd party apps and whatnot until I loaded App World and updated my BBM from v 5.0.0 to 5.0.1.38.

This is where the phone started to really act weird. When I attempted to load the internet, I would get an error message that I didn't have any connectivity. This was right after I loaded up App World, Viigo, and Pandora.
Seeing as all 3 of them worked, It didn't even occur to me to check my BIS status. Thinking that it was a matter of the new service books being sent, I sent a request to re-register my phone on the network with no joy. Next I tried to connect via wi-fi with no joy. I deleted my home network settings and re-entered the info, but it wouldn't acquire the signal and connect.

During this time, when I looked at the services status page, I was getting a mobile voice and 3G/Att indication, but nothing for BIS.

Right about then, I got the '523' code and white screen for the 1st time. I let the phone re-boot, which took 8+ minutes, gave it a few minutes and pulled the battery just for good measure.

After getting the 523 code a few more times, wiping and re-installing the OS (without ASAOS) and multiple battery pulls, I was still getting the same symptoms. (random 523's w/ restarts and no connectivity through BIS or wi-fi.)

Eventually, I just wiped it again and re-loaded .862 and now all seems to be good. Within a minute of re-booting my phone with .862, I got the network registration message from BIS, Wi-fi is working and everything seems to be back to normal.

This is very odd, since I've done numerous OS updates on this and previous BB's without so much as a hick-up. I'm taking into account that this is a Beta and there is obviously something within it that my phone just does not like. Wierd...

Maybe Shrink-a-OS did something to it?

[Raptor464]

After two weeks of running this build, I have to say that this is a very solid OS version. Battery life is amazing, memory stays fairly constant. No hourglasses or reboots.

[yahjoogooleh]

I'm enjoying this OS as well no issues at all except the previous mentioned no green little phone symbol. Overall solid OS. Now only thing left is come on OS6!!
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[PaulM]

Originally Posted by Rob377

Maybe Shrink-a-OS did something to it?

I thought about that, but considering that I was having the same issues even after removing the shrunken .938, redownloading/loading it to my PC and installing the OS unmolested onto my phone. The only other thing that I can think of is that the OS doesn't like the new BBM.

I'm going to re-attempt a fresh install again tonight without shrinking and staying with the 5.0.0 version of BMM.

Anyone else encounter any sort of incompatibility between BBM 5.0.1.38 and the .938 OS?

[dbltap]

Nope. I've got 5.0.1.38 running on .938 with no issues at all on my personal 9700. (the 9800 is the work BB)

[MaxPayne79]

Originally Posted by Raptor464

After two weeks of running this build, I have to say that this is a very solid OS version. Battery life is amazing, memory stays fairly constant. No hourglasses or reboots.

thats good to hear boss.
my ass just bought a 9700 lol. that 9000 is just to giant for it not to be a touch-screen. it just looks old with all the devices that are out there. and what im about to say, may sound insane but...i think that keyboard's too big. u cant drive and text with it to save ur life. u need two hands. so i finally moved on. i don't know why i just went into all this but..there u go...merry christmas lol!

looking forward to throwing this OS on.

[kriswilliams03]

So, I take it you didn't take Oprah's No Phone Zone pledge?!