Well folks, with WES coming up in May it was bound to get out at some point in time considering it's expected RIM will announce the existence of 5.0 OS at the Florida event held by RIM. With that being said, I really cannot recommend this OS for any long term use - it's not as stable one would hope it too be, some applications don't work after install and device reboots will happen. This feels more Alpha then Beta (or let's just call it early stage OS 5.0), so I suggest looking around, checking it out and reverting back to a more stable OS.
Also if you look at this thread there are plenty of signs of the 8900 version floating around as well.
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its aight.. reminds me of the storm OS on a bold.
Ya, pretty much..maybe that's why it crashes and apps don't work lmao!!
only app not working for me is viigo, cb and the browser. but thats not bad to be a unfinished OS. hasnt crashed...yet
The only app not working turns out to be my favorite. Go figure.
In this video they also say that MSN is not working anymore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0wzFa2QM8I&feature=channel_page
wow, can't wait. too bad i cant go to wes.
Hey its still 5.0 right
yea
Now where's the 5.0 for 8900? :(
Sounds like most of the Storm leaks lol
link doesn't work
Damn! Wish i had a Bold to take a peak at 5.0
ok.. link works now..
can someone post 8900 OS5 link too?
Why does every blog post on this site end in one (or sometimes -- multiple) exclamation points? STOP YELLING AT ME!
From what I saw of the preview, the small amount of changes doesn't warrant a version change. This is still version 4 software and an insult to our intelligence calling it 5.0 when its maybe 4.6.2. Rim is really starting to take lessons from Apple make a point release and call it a whole new OS.
I will hope someone who is actually going to bother loading this up can tell us the drastic new changes.
My understanding is that they're doing it to bring all devices into the same major and minor versions. Rather than have most on 4.5, the Bold on 4.6.0, 8900 on 4.6.1 and Storm on 4.7.0, and others elsewhere. Making it 4.8 would feel like the Storm people got shafted, since they only get a .1 increase while everyone else gets a .2 or even .3 increase. But 5.0 is a "big" jump for everyone.
That said, I hope they take your view and add some huge new feature that blows the socks off the iPhone and others. I'd love for them to be unable to deny that my BB is better :D
I found one potential awesome feature. Someone in the forums said they noticed a "gears settings" option in the browser. Could they be bringing Google Gears to the BB?
Wheres the Storm with a OS 5.0? not to mention waiting for an official os, this is truly getting out of hand.. this makes me just wait for the niagara 9630 and give up on the storm, but the storm has the potential to be a better phone once VZW and RIM decide to stop drinking and getting drunk at the job letting canadian and european carriers like BELL, hutchison, etisalat and others passing them releasing storm official Os before them......what gives?
I feel like our official release is coming in the next few days . Cross your fingers fellow 9530 owners!!!!!
Here's a RS link for those interested:
http://tinyurl.com/dg3glk
Links is not opening.. Can you plz check it?
Wow, very cool. I hope the 8900 5.0 is out soon!
anyone else have a missing internet browser problem? I tried the host routing tables and still nothing! arrrg!
Yeah, I'm having the same problem. The BB Browser isn't there...just Media Net. Anybody know how to fix that?
I have one launcher that is configured for "Hotspot" and the other is wap set to "Media Net". Good to go...
my desktop manager wont detect the 5.0 software i dont get it ......does my bold have to be unlocked to install it?
Could not use messaging apps, couldn't even find AIM at all. When I tried to access sd card always resulted in a reset. Not at all stable. Seems to me BB has a lot of work to do with this one.
A very soon release of 5.0...it still has so many bugs. So I had to downgrade to 4.6
Some of the issues I noticed in a one day test were:
Unable to play videos
No facebook
No live msn
No internet browser
But the menus have been improved, Storm-like and thats good. I´ll wait for the next release of this upgrade and I´m sure it will be better.
Have a nice day!
So I remember way back in the day with Cingular not allowing the use of Yahoo IM. So the work around is to update you BB with T-Mobile Service books to load Yahoo IM app. then reregister the BB on the Cingular network to get web access. Sooo I wonder if any one knows how to pull the service books from the 4.6OS loaded on the pc and add them through third party app loader, like in the old days to get are Fix blackberry-abilities
I am unable to open that link?
i have the os but it wont let me install! it keeps sending me this message
"http://na.blackberry.com/eng/services/"
crap!!!
any takers?
and does anyone know how to unbrand the bold cause i am on t-mobile and figured that maybe unbranding the pfone would help with apps!