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Serkle K · 02-20-2009, 09:40 AM

There have been soo many Beta releases since this, I cannot remember the reviews of this when it was leaked as a Beta... Will this have corrections to any issues that was on the beta of .221? I'm just trying to get a better understanding. Thx!

espresso · 02-20-2009, 09:41 AM

Just upgraded from .216 to .221 (multilanguage) and everything works like a charm... I hope this would fix the rebooting issue once and for all

BBAddict07 · 02-20-2009, 10:12 AM

Any noticeable changes? I am still on .167 w/ AT&T and have been debating an upgrade for quite some time now.

craigw9292 · 02-20-2009, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by BBAddict07

Any noticeable changes? I am still on .167 w/ AT&T and have been debating an upgrade for quite some time now.

I went from the .167 to this one and it made a huge difference in the speed of my media, I only had around 200 or so mp3s but it was dog slow on .167 and now it flies.

Battery life seems worse .... not sure if something else happened in the last week but that might have been due to the upgrade - I'm on the "edge" of 3G and Edge so my phone does nothing but switch all day so ...

Call setup seems more stable on these later builds for me, on .167 I got Call Failed all the freaking time.

bembol · 02-20-2009, 02:08 PM

I finally upgraded (from .162) after 5-6 failed attempts, I was running Desktop Manager before I deleted the vendor.xml file. :o

I haven't really played around with it to notice any difference.

mjbanks · 02-20-2009, 06:01 PM

Upgraded from .190 to .221 and am happy so far. I figured I'd have the Visual Voicemail icon on my AT&T Bold, but it's not there (looked everywhere).

jimfraser · 02-20-2009, 07:03 PM

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Originally Posted by espresso

Hey everyone,
For those who tried the upgrade, is BES re-activation required like .216?
Cheers,
E

Yes, anytime you upgrade the device, a BES reactivation is required; unless you upgrade using a PC that is on the same network as the BES server and the Desktop Manager was installed using the BES option.

I am on BES and when I upgraded to .216 I used loader.exe in accordance with the instructions above and had to get the IT guys to get me a new activation password. This afternoon I upgraded to .221 using desktop mamager on my office computer as recommended above and got reactivated - reinialized without a problem. Good advice above.

mase1981 · 02-20-2009, 08:04 PM

this OS sucks:(
had the avea 216 was gr8
upgraded to this my phone got heated up so fast all the time
and battery died after 2 hours with barely usage...
on 216 had to charge once in 2 days and never heated up
wired...

cupidchild · 02-21-2009, 12:23 PM

I have used this OS for several days [upgrade from 167] -> Several comments:

YES, you have to do new Enterprise activation if you are on BES
YES, reboot of the phone takes much LONGER time than 167
YES, it still has random drop connection issue on AT&T (during call)

I had the BB restart on me, while playing a mp3 audio file once.
Battery life - seems about the same. I say either buy AutoStandby program or put the phone on StandBy when not using it, set Backlight Brightness = 10, Timeout = 20 secs. to maximize battery life.

No major issue. I never had battery heat up issue on mine.
I'm satisfied with 221.
I just hate it that I have to re-activate BES and also re-configure my LaunchPad preset settings after OS upgrade.

mjbanks · 02-21-2009, 04:56 PM

My battery life seems better than with .190. Been using it fairly hard all day with Beejive and SocialScope running in the background and still have 4/5 bars of battery life. Normally would be down to 3/5 by now with this type of usage.

That70sGAdawg · 02-21-2009, 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by mjbanks

Upgraded from .190 to .221 and am happy so far. I figured I'd have the Visual Voicemail icon on my AT&T Bold, but it's not there (looked everywhere).

That "172" that appears on the top screen from time to time must be the Visual Voice mail error on AT&T. I'm on 221 with no issues. Hopefully, AT&T releases their own updated OS firmware that includes the service soon...

tankee531 · 02-21-2009, 09:18 PM

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Originally Posted by csinghj0

hi guys....im from malaysia and I'm using celcom as my carrier on Bold 9000. I was wondering if anyone know whats the latest OS for bold and where can I gt it.I did call my carrier's helpline and they don't know as well. My current OS is v4.6.0.162(platform 4.0.0.155)
can anyone please help me out as my batt is always low eventhough I don't use much and my memory is also low eventhough I only have 3 third pary app installed. I've read from the net that if I do a software upgrade it might fix the problem...so need some help here guys....thanx in advance

please check these for the answers to your questions

BlackBerry FAQ - BlackBerryFAQ

BlackBerry Operating System Downloads - BlackBerryFAQ

tankee531 · 02-21-2009, 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by mase1981

this OS sucks:(
had the avea 216 was gr8
upgraded to this my phone got heated up so fast all the time
and battery died after 2 hours with barely usage...
on 216 had to charge once in 2 days and never heated up
wired...

hmm .. perhaps you should try to removing the OS and reinstall from scratch. the heating up and short battery life issue could be due to some inproperly installed OS or program that went into a deadlock.

TallPaul86 · 02-22-2009, 06:39 PM

Needing a bit of help guys if anyone knows the solution

Last time i done an OS upgrade i was running Windows XP SP2 however now i am running Windows 7 Beta (which is working sweet!)

I do my usual of deleting the vendor.xml file try to run it and it always jams on the uploading RAM image process.

Anyone else using Windows 7 having any problems like this?

Enverex · 02-23-2009, 06:09 AM

I must be missing something here, I downloaded the update, installed it to my PC, went to Common Files/Rim/etc deleted vendor.xml and ran Loader.exe but it just asks me what programs I'd like to add/remove and if I don't change any of them (there is nothing about Core files or anything in there) it just says there is nothing to do.

Am I missing a step here?

Blackberry is currently running 162.

MidnightDraven · 02-23-2009, 06:33 AM

Did you have .162 installed on the PC? and if so have you unistalled it?
It may be recognising that instead of the new one.

Enverex · 02-23-2009, 06:45 AM

I had 162 on the pc but uninstalled it before installing the new one in case it may interfere.

MidnightDraven · 02-23-2009, 07:11 AM

plug the BB in the PC, wait for it to be found etc. then serach for vendor.xml.

if you set up DM to automatically find updates or something similar, more than one vendor.xml file can be produced when plugging the BB in.
It could be theres another vendor file that isn't allowing you to update to the latest version.

mseif · 02-23-2009, 07:17 AM

I am going to buy BB bold, but I like to have Arabic on it ( as a maater of fact there are arabized sets and have Arbic letters on the QWERT KB) .
My questions is, if I upgrade an English set to the Multilanguage rom, would I have Arabic then?
If yes, would it include an Arabic SW Keyboard?

Klotar · 02-23-2009, 10:55 AM

I upgraded to .221 yesterday. A bit too early for battery/signal/memory assessment, but one thing I did notice: the reboot time is now ~90 seconds.

I have run .134, .162, .167, .190, .216, .217 and for all of these OS versions, it took a good 4 to 5 minutes to boot up after a soft reset or battery pull.

This might not be a big deal for those that don't reboot often, but I do, daily. No, I don't have to reboot daily, but it keeps things fresh and avoids any issues IMO.

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