Holy Geebus. Talk about leaky leaky. After OS 5.0.0.154 showed up in the forums for the BlackBerry Storm 9530 late last night, our pal TimBuk2 sent in some BlackBerry OS download links for the Tour, Bold and Curve 8900. For the Tour, version 5.0.0.140 is pretty old now and kinda buggy, but OS 5.0.0.190 is hot off the press for the Bold and 8900 and makes some jumps forward with OS 5.0 including the appearance of threaded SMS (as pictured above)!! Finally - a native threaded SMS client on BlackBerry! Tabbed browsing is gone (for now at least) in .190 but there's some other cool features too, like theme previews upon downloading and a few other tweaks (just installed an am playing with it now)! Be sure to visit the Storm OS forum and Beta OS forum (for all other devices) for the details on all of these versions.
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I just downgraded from .100 a few hours ago! WELP... back to the DM... lol.
Our stock OS is super buggy and slow. Why upgrade to 5.0 to take on additional bugs and slowness. Want an udated OS? Use Irtehun's Hybrid. It's really solid. No Memory Leaks. Super Fast and no wierdness. Just my 2cents
Finally!
When is a leaked version of 5.0 going to drop for the 8350i ???
So im confused, .140 for the Tour is buggy but .190 has threaded SMS? Why the link for .140 then?
.140 is for the Tour.
.190 is for the Bold & 8900. There isn't a .190 for Tour to install yet...
Cant wait to load to my Tour and Curve 89000!
ok, 4th
I'm so excited for threaded SMS... Oh god.. Haha
im excited! i cant wait to try it. ive been waiting for months! :)
should we wait for a hybrid with the tour os?
Would there be a way to extract the treaded sms and incorp. that into the current OS?
Like how BBM5 was.
Finally AT&T releases the latest OS and now a new Beta comes out the same day.
I believe I'll pass the update for this time but it would be really nice if someone could figure out if all the software works (IMs, facebook, google voice/sync/maps...etc) on it.
Cheers..:D
cool was looking for an upgrade for my bold
Apparently FB does not work :( Here's to hoping someone leaks the new version of BBM with the threaded text :) Come on, you know you want to!!
bbm 5.0 has been leaked. ive had it for months. search around and find the link
wow. looks like the 8330 really is left in the dust these days... :(
Yeah, I was just gonna comment on that. The damn vendors keep coming out with new phone, and the carriers lock us into frickin long a@@ contracts that we can get out of to get the newer phones... OH, unless you wanna pay $500 for the newest phone... sucks.
omg, when is os 5.0 actually gonna be released? like officially? any eta's? that is gonna be sweet when it does.
Can someone let me know how its working for the Curve 8900? Cons?
there is no bbm 5.O with this one. and facebook nor the app world for that matter works with it
It is working fine for the Curve 8900, it took me about 2 hours to download and I had to disconnect it from my comp to finish it. You may loose all of your info when you finish but if you go back to DM then you can put the backed up info back on there and it's smooth sailing. I have it on mine and I'm in love with the new threaded sms and the cool way you can customize everything, you can even go from Zen to Today style Precision themes, yourself.
installing now, is .190 only for threaded does .140 contain threaded also?
I just downgraded my blackberry messenger 5.0 due to having to readd my contacts who are on my list everytime I want to talk to them- like they'll be on my list and when I send someone a message it says I need to readd them and then they're pending authorization, then they're added and we can talk, then the next day it starts again- I send someone a message and I get the readd prompt again- over and over- and now that I'm back to regular bbm, there is the whole os 5.0 for my phone lol - how ironic
anyway, threaded sms, wow, who uses sms anymore? after I discovered bbm, sms seems so prehistoric lol and all my friends have blackberrys so forget sms lol
what really are the other new features besides threaded sms or memory statistics or whatever? a loading screen progress bar? there has to be something more... (i guess the regular os has so many features that there aren't really any more to put on there)
you can now uninstall apps without going into options. Just highlight the app, hit bb button and Delete, WOWzer! tabbed browsing, bettering sound profile management over the previous OS(for the storm atleast) a native today screen.. just get it, you'll love it. besides telling you everything it can do takes away from the fun.
so it DOES have tabbed browsing?
What phone did you own in the past because my Storm had that option from the start.
my BB Curve 8900 has been doing that forever...
also there Tasks, memopad, documents to go and the other frills are now available(on the 9530 atleast) whereas with .140 on the 9530 they were not supported.
My apologies. tabbed browsing is not supported. stick with what the man says, he knows.
seriously? not everyone has a blackberry. so almost everyone accept the 5 ppl i know who r on my list still use sms. bbm i would prefer though, if more of my friends had bb's
wish they had one for the older curve or at least the threaded sms!
love staying up late updating my Berrys, all 3 of them...
Just please don't call us (the carriers) when it causes issues.
Also remember what happened a few weeks ago with the leak of bbim 5.0, it crashed the system. Lets not let that happen again.
i cant wait to try this out for my bold! I'm downloading now, will update soon.
i downloaded the old 5.0 os buti had to downgrade again. Can someone play around and let me know some problem kinks before i download....ie facebook?
No love for the 8300's I know the hardware is limited but it doesn't seem like much to ask for a clock/timer and threaded SMS.
now, WHY......(frustration)....out of all things, would they leave out tabbed browsing?<-------- (rhetorical question) that was the seller for me. no tabbed browsing, no deal. what could they have added that was better than tabbed browsing? is it a front facing camera?
I can't wait to get this on my Pearl 8110!
Yessss Cant wait to see what happens
I know how tempting it may be to want to upgrade to 5.0 for the Tour but, it's best to just wait. There's nothing noticeably different at all, besides the loading screen in fact, it actually takes away from 4.7. Just wait. I'm going back to 4.7. Just trying to help.
DONT DO IT....
PLEASE DONT DO IT IT WILL DAMAGE YOUR BLACKBERRY
Why? Because you don't know what YOU are doing?
None of my favorite apps work on it.. Facebook App World.. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.... but I am anxious for the official.. Internet loading is super fast.
i've heard that you gotta wait for FB 1.7 before it will run on an 5.0 OS
I'm gonna wait on the official for the Tour
I'm starting to lose my optimism that the 8220 will get OS 5.0
i'm not sure what the difference is i'm pretty sure mine look like that already?
Does SMS look like BBM when talking to folks? Don't think so. Threaded SMS will make the texts as conversation like BBM. SMS now is not like that.
anyone know if this will delete all my third party apps? Cause its such a pain to re-add them all.