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Leaked: OS 4.7.0.106 for the Storm 9500 and OS 4.7.0.103 for the Storm 9530

by Kevin Michaluk on 11 Feb 2009 04:19 PM
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What the frack?! Two Storm OS updates at once! OS 4.7.0.106 has been leaked for the BlackBerry Storm 9500, and OS 4.7.0.103 has hit us for the 9530.

* Keep in mind these are NOT official releases, so install at your own risk and only if you're comfortable with doing so. If you've never installed an OS beta before be sure to dive into the CrackBerry forums and read all of our tutorials. Follow the links below for more information and to download! There's a pretty good list of known fixes and issues for this version in the findings and discussion thread. If you install, be sure to share your further observations in the comments and in the forums!

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Posted by andyadidas575 Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009 1092 days ago

I just updated to the .99 last night and now there is a .130?!?! How can we keep up?!?!

 
 
Posted by claxan Friday, Feb 13, 2009 1090 days ago

Video Review of the new leak 4.7.0.103 on my youtube channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpTawtIeE4I

in case anyone has not upgrade it there storm.

 
 
Posted by dynasti23 Monday, Feb 23, 2009 1081 days ago

for some odd reason, I cant download the file to my computer...Any Ideas?

 
 
Posted by robrowald Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009 1092 days ago

Link to Known fixes is wrong
it goes to the curve fixes

 
 
Posted by nate7761 Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009 1092 days ago

just downloaded...will have to wait till tomorrow to install...can't wait!!

 
 
Posted by WoRrDd Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009 1092 days ago

Let me know how the .130 version works better than the .99 version

ty sir

 
 
Posted by nate7761 Friday, Feb 13, 2009 1090 days ago

Wiped out all my email accounts, all my contacts, all my speed dials. I have done every update as they have come out and never had this problem. Not sure what happened with this one. These are all things I had backed up but still. I will update more once I re-load everything and have time to play with it.

 
 
Posted by fisk112 Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009 1092 days ago

you can keep up by checking here everyday like the rest of us. what do people do with storms that don't know about crackberry?

 
 
Posted by open air Friday, Feb 13, 2009 1091 days ago

Have a wife, kids, dog, get outside for fresh air. Basically have a life.

 
 
Posted by swamp_water Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009 1092 days ago

Has issues with colors and some other things. Better wait.

 
 
Posted by toyman300 Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009 1092 days ago

Such a shame to say this but.... I hope they never stop leaking and making it better! I have crackberry tracks all up n down my arm!

"The crack it just be callin me man it just be call me and I gotta go to it when it call me man!"

Pookie- 'New Jack City'

 
 
Posted by Romp Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009 1092 days ago

Will Verizon EVER release an Update?

 
 
Posted by jamrichie Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009 1092 days ago

I bought a storm on ebay unlocked it to use it on a gsm network in Jamaica to find that this look great but has the worse battery of any phone I have ever had.Does anyone have a solution apart from trying to offload it on another unknown crackberry user that wants the best.Does the 8900 curve have the same problem?

 
 
Posted by cubillas Monday, Feb 16, 2009 1087 days ago

Jam, how can I unlock my Blackberry Storm to work as GSM in mexico ?

 
 
Posted by cubillas Monday, Feb 16, 2009 1087 days ago

Jam, how can I unlock my Blackberry Storm to work as GSM in mexico ?

 
 
Posted by cubillas Monday, Feb 16, 2009 1087 days ago

Jam, how can I unlock my Blackberry Storm to work as GSM in mexico ?

 
 
Posted by keebler0617 Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009 1092 days ago

When in the world will Verizon release an official update???? There have been about 4 leaks since the official Verizon update in December 2008!!!!! WTF??!!!

 
 
Posted by piggly009 Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009 1092 days ago

i was talking to a verizon rep online and she said that there should be one out my the end of the month...but then again who the hell really know im getting sick of all this waiting crap with verizon.

 
 
Posted by cleex024 Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009 1092 days ago

Im using desktop manager and it cant seem to recognize the new OS. Can someone help me with this problem? I tried restarting the computer and doing a battery pull.

 
 
Posted by JOHNNY RAMIREZ JR Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009 1092 days ago

how the hell do i use Megaloader

 
 
Posted by ldlorcad Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009 1092 days ago

I went to open one of the links posted on this page for the software upgrade 4.7.0.103 for the Storm 9530. The link where it says "known fixes and issues for this version". It took me to a page with the wrong device. I really wanted to look at the info before I downloaded the new software. Can someone please tell me if I have done something wrong?
-L

 
 
Posted by MDGirl1984 Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009 1092 days ago

How wonderful it is to come home and scroll down and see LEAKED and STORM in the same title :o)

 
 
Posted by eddol Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009 1092 days ago

.99 its good ...... please let us know if .103 its better 'cos i wanna get the upgrade

 
 
Posted by prince_3 Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009 1092 days ago

Hello

If you like a easy way to down load the new OS just go to here I have made my own link

http://home.comcast.net/~home_made_website

 
 
Posted by blindfromthesun Thursday, Feb 12, 2009 1091 days ago

Thank you :-)

 
 
Posted by octaivoi Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009 1092 days ago

Mirror RS :
http://rapidshare.com/files/197044266/9530AllLang_PBr4.7.0_rel147_PL4.0....

http://rapidshare.com/files/197040311/9500_omadrmEuropean_PBr4.7.0_rel15...

 
 
Posted by headshrink Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009 1092 days ago

Is this the norm for getting OS upgrades. You get about 5 to 10 leaked versions before the real deal rolls out. I just want some official Love from verizon, pretty please.

 
 
Posted by headshrink Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009 1092 days ago

Is this the norm for getting OS upgrades. You get about 5 to 10 leaked versions before the real deal rolls out. I just want some official Love from verizon, pretty please.

 
 
Posted by Michaelgenetoledo Thursday, Feb 12, 2009 1092 days ago

This weekend. Hopefully it's true!

 
 
Posted by GiveMeAHit Thursday, Feb 12, 2009 1091 days ago

Debating on upgrading now or waiting for Verizon, for my 1st OS upgrade. New to BB nation and I need some action, even though I added slacker and that works great!

 
 
Posted by dgburns Thursday, Feb 12, 2009 1091 days ago

You should DEFINATELY upgrade to at least 4.7.0.99. I'd say the verdict is still out of this .103 is better than .99, but .99 is SOOOOO much better than the .75 Verizon released its like having a totally different phone!

 
 
Posted by js1473 Thursday, Feb 12, 2009 1091 days ago

Does anybody know how to kill a process on a Blackberry Storm or bring up some sort of task manager. My phone goes so slow and I don't have any applications running. I don't understand why the phone runs fine sometimes, but other times it doesn't run fast at all.

In fact, it runs so slow sometimes that I can't use it as a phone. Somebody called me today, I couldn't pick up. In an emergency situation, I wouldn't trust it to dial 911 at all. What is the deal with it?

I'm a computer science major, so I know computers and operating systems inside and out, but this Blackberry OS seems to have so many bugs in it, it's ridiculous. Any help from you power users?

 
 
Posted by icallshenanigans Thursday, Feb 12, 2009 1091 days ago

I dont belive there is a task manager, but one thing to check is to make sure you are actually exiting the application. It depends on the app itself, sometimes you can just hit BACK until ur at the home screen, but some applications don't actually exit, some require you to use an exit option.

PS. "Computer Science Major"!? really!? get off your high horse. I'm pretty sure RIM only hires people that are NOT comp sci majors, NOT software engineering majors, NOT computer engineering majors, so you MUST be better than them.

Want a challenge, no, a REAL challenge? Do a job interview with them for a firmware developer position,, find out how much you don't know.

 
 
Posted by Dark Cobra Thursday, Feb 12, 2009 1091 days ago

Well if the "firmware developers" over at RIM are supposedly "ALL THAT" . . . explain how/why these same brilliant developers put this STORM out for consumption in this sad a condition. No doubt there are some very talented people up there, but the ball was badly dropped on the Storm.

 
 
Posted by Anonymous101 Sunday, Feb 15, 2009 1088 days ago

There is a tast manager on the BB storm. Just press and hold the BB menu and it will pop up. There should be only 5 apps that are always running in the backround (phone, home screen, BB messenger, messages and browser) everything else should be closed unless your using an app. also it helps if u dont use the hang up botton to close down apps it will just keep them running in the backround. Either back out or click on the menu botton and close.

 
 
Posted by js1473 Thursday, Apr 02, 2009 1042 days ago

there isn't a task manager

yes i am exiting the application....some you have to choose "close"....but what if an application freezes, but the phone is running...how do you close it? that's why i need the task manager...to force the process(es) to close

well, the people at RIM that were hired must have missed some important classes in school such as operating systems and human factors for HCI....and probably the biggest one software engineering including those specific chapters about evolutionary design, quality, user feedback, requirements, testing...instead it appears they pushed the phone out so they could sell it instead of making it a viable product...hmmm where has this happened before? microsoft?

although, i think microsoft has done amazing things and they are on the right path now....i still think that Blackberry having been a big phone designer could have spent just a little more time on this phone to make it mind blowingly better than its competition...instead they settled on semi-mediocre and have not garnered the market share they could have had they just worked on it a little more...

they are already working on a new phone to replace the storm with a hybrid interface of touch screen and tactile keyboard...

i wouldn't want to develop firmware...firmware is boring...artificial intelligence, operating system design, or human factors is more my thing

 
 
Posted by js1473 Thursday, Apr 02, 2009 1042 days ago

oh..and the reason i mentioned that i was a comp sci major is because i wanted the power users to give me more technical answers instead of the standard battery pull answer...i'm trying to explain that i understand how each program is running a process and that i understand how virtual memory and a paging file works and what a hard fault is and why a program might be leaking memory and why a process might be "frozen" and need to be killed and all of the detrimental aspects of killing a program or performing a hard rest on a running system of any type

 
 
Posted by js1473 Thursday, Apr 02, 2009 1042 days ago

to give an example...how can i stop the Message program/process when it somehow gets into an infinite loop because of some problem with my message list database or what not...

i do not want to restart my phone...i'd like to kill the process and restart that process....

the OS already does this for me, but it is set on a timer of some sort that gives the process a chance to try to respond and regain normal execution...but i don't have time to wait for the OS to auto-determine the integrity of my process when it takes like 30 minutes....i'd rather just kill it since i know it's gonna kill it anyway in the end of 30 minutes...

 
 
Posted by claxan Thursday, Feb 12, 2009 1091 days ago

Can i upgrade with my Mac or do i need a pc friend?

 
 
Posted by moucon Thursday, Feb 12, 2009 1091 days ago

I was having trouble with my Storm... (which is truly a piece of $h!t BTW - far worse than the Treo it replaced. Biggest dissapointment is the worthless "keyboard") -

Storm would not recognize as a modem, or much of anything when tethered... so I stopped in a Verizon store on the outskirts of Las Vegas, the dude fiddled with it for over an hour and couldn't get it work, blaming Vista64. He told me a new version of the OS would be out "Next Week" blah blah blah....

That was January 19... three + weeks ago.

His info came from Crackberry - he was as clueless and misinformed as the rest of us :-)

BTW - The reason the phone would not recognize as a modem was because a required Windoze service was not starting. Once I got that fixed, everything (Modem, file transfer, DT Manager, etc. started working correctly. Once again, the clueless Verizon "technical expert" wasted over an hour of my time. At least I didn't have to wait in line for it - I was the only person in the store.

Now let's talk about that missing keyboard. Blackberrys are known as email/text devices largely b/c of their excellent physical keyboards. Well, the Storm's virtual keyboard sucks the big donkey dink by comparison. I'm not a big texter, I bought the storm b/c Verizon doesn't offer the Bold - I wanted it for file support etc so it's not the end of the world. But... if i was going to try and use this piece of crap for messaging, it would be in the trash. The Samsung touchscreens Verizon sells are much better. The whole "one big button" approach of the Storm is just plain a bad idea. It's inaccurate, it doesn't work consistently, and it gets tiresome after the third character typed. Never again.

Anyway - I am still waiting for that magic OS update that is going to make me happy . According to the Verizon rep, it's going to...

- Make the keyboard better
- Make everything faster
- Improve battery life
- Improve the "Acceleromwhatever" (the deal that flips the screen... it truly sucks too)

I can't wait for all those great improvements. Maybe by next Christmas or so?

 
 
Posted by dgburns Thursday, Feb 12, 2009 1091 days ago

Since it's "truly a piece of $h!t BTW", why didn't you take it back within your 30 days? Sorry, nobody cares if you don't like the phone, yet chose to not return it under the "worry free guarantee" within the first 30 days.

 
 
Posted by Iron_Archer Friday, Feb 13, 2009 1090 days ago

Your fault for taking it into a store. The are going to TRY to help you at a store, but until you speak to an actual Technical Support rep, you're not going to get far, especially if you're using a version of an OS that barely anybody uses--which therefore there is not going to be much info on other peoples' trial&error.

BTW how long did it take you to find out it was some obscure Microsoft Service that wasn't starting? Do you really think us Techs can just waive a magic wand and make Windows (64-bit no less) work worth a damn?!

 
 
Posted by Casper200519 Tuesday, Feb 17, 2009 1086 days ago

I was wondering what service it was that you had to start to get everythign working on your computer... I have a Dell Studio 1536 and I can get the DM to see the Storm connected via BT however when I plug it in through USB DM does not see the phone. Windows sees the phone with no problem and I can access everything on it connected over USB with windows.

 
 
Posted by yhwhsozo Thursday, Feb 12, 2009 1091 days ago

How is this upgrade. the last one was pretty good. Is this one better?

 
 
Posted by sergio81 Thursday, Feb 12, 2009 1091 days ago

my comment is this. How do these os updates get leaked? It seems to me that RIM releases them into the wild to see what costumers find good and bad with them and from that they tweak the updates and then release a final. I just don't see how a cooperation like RIM would let so many things "leak out"
either way i'm willing to take one for the team and try new things out.

-Serge

 
 
Posted by pcassano Thursday, Feb 12, 2009 1091 days ago

Is verizon ever going to get off the .75 version and progress like the rest of the world? What is up with that!!!!!

 
 
Posted by Dark Cobra Thursday, Feb 12, 2009 1091 days ago

Good question. Just a guess on my part but Verizon is probably just as frustrated and waiting for RIM to release a version that really fixes this thing in a significant way that also doesn't screw up several other things in the process. The leaked beta versions clearly are coming from RIM are being put out in the field for people to experiment with and render comment on.

You can see a growing discontent on the part of many in being turned into RIM's "Beta Bitch" to be blunt about it. It's definitely getting old. Crackberry and KEVIN specifically here have been doing a fantastic job in delivering those leaked betas so we can try them. Some have fixed a few things but a great deal of frustration remains and continues.

The sad truth is becoming evident . . . this phone may NEVER get totally fixed as it is what it is by design. We may have to simply live with it "as is" or just get over it and move on. The new Curve and Bold are incredible, but the Storm just didn't pan out as RIM wanted or as we hoped. That's life. I have a Storm and I've resolved to just wait for the Curve or Bold and then I'm moving on to one of them, as I'm sure many others will as well.

 
 
Posted by 3STOOGES Thursday, Feb 12, 2009 1091 days ago

How do your download the software v44.7.0.103? When I click on it I go to another page and I do not see how to access the software My phone came with v4.7.0.76. Lots of little issues but I like the phone. Bell has no new updates of course.

 
 
Posted by prince_3 Monday, Feb 16, 2009 1087 days ago

If you have not got the OS up date yet you can go to my sight and download it

http://home.comcast.net/~home_made_website

 
 
Posted by cleex024 Thursday, Feb 12, 2009 1091 days ago

Hey guys just upgraded to 103 and having problems with running videos...for some reason the babylon video goes extremely slow when it has to render lots of information. so please let me know if this is one of the problems with this software update.

 
 
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