These things always make my day :)

second? i guess this means we're another step closer to an official release right? still on .75, so that can't come soon enough.

I've been waited for this one since 9500 released few days back and known this will follow...

Hmm the link points to the right thread but the text says Vodaphone 9500 :)

Started the birthday partying already?

anyone have any idea when vz might release an offical version??

ROFL nice! and I just upgraded to .103 this morning. Yeah... little late on that, but I'm sick in bed, figured I'd do it now lol.
Will def. get it and keep an eye on it lol

ill bet this the hybrid version its the .131 version same as .103

When is the official release coming.

niceee!!

Finally going to dive in and try a leaked OS!

Finally going to dive in and try a leaked OS!

This may sound like a noob question even though I am not, but I missed the whole explanation of what a "Hybrid" OS is. Someone please explain.

where is the download link? the only link is for the 9500.

also....no discussion forum?

Yes!!!!!its things like this that make me go thru the day at work

I am a fairly new user to the page, through my wife, who uses your site for lots of neat things for her phone. When I got tired of saying "where did that come from" I decided to log on and start looking for my own styles.

I just wanted to touch base, thank you, AND wish you another successful year.

WOOT !!!

If i could get passed these damn Gateway errors trying to load every page, maybe i could download it

agreed with Daves024...

also the mobile blog is rendering incorrectly on my BB for some reason...meh, anyways

great!!! :D im downloading it now

What can I say Crackberry is off the chain...I've been up for the last couple of nights checking out the site...looking for different OS Beta system so far No problems yet! Thanks CrackBerry for making my phone what it is today!

How's the new OS?

The pic posted for this article is wrong..some people might look at it and think they dont need to upgrade! This pic is of the .103/.109 hybrid! The platform version should read 4.0.0.136 if it is the actual 4.7.0.109 bb storm 9530 OS.

I would like to suggest all of the threads about hybrid builds in the Storm Beta OS Discussion forum be moved to a separate forum for hybrid OS discussion only. I have no problem with people building whatever form of OS they want on their own phone, but those hybrid builds are NOT Beta OS from RIM and discussion threads about them should be kept separate.

Can any color scheme be chosen or only main body color?

Hay all I have downloaded this OS and put it up on my sight for download I just love getting these updates and is great to get them and I like spreading the happiness so go head and download it. I like to make things easy that is how I think about things. Again Thanks for them updates

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

Can anyone running .109 comment on the color degradation since 0.99? Is it still there? Plus, what specific improvements are there from 0.103 to 0.109? Thanks.

Waiting for official OS update.....

WOW! so far so good. Loaded rather quickly. Was not the horror story I have been reading about. Seems to be very quick and it has affected the accelerometer, in a positive way. Very fast, I noticed a problem with v.103, couldn't pick up phone fast enough. V.103 wouldn't let me transistion from horizontal to vertical to answer the phone, I would get the spinning clock. I hope this won't happen with V.109. I will keep you advised as I learn more.

Hey guys, I've been updating my OS faithfully sine .99. I have both .99 and .103 installed on my laptop pc. should i uninstall those before i install this one or does it matter?

ive been clicking on the "download..." link since 10am then i click on the "try alternate mirror..." (only option on that page) and am STILL getting "Network Error (tcp_error)

A communication error occurred: "Connection refused"
The Web Server may be down, too busy, or experiencing other problems preventing it from responding to requests. You may wish to try again at a later time "

WHAT IS THE DEAAALLLL!!!!

The pic in the blog is for a hybrid os. .109 should have platform .136

Anyone having problems with this update and the last? I tend to get random reboots and the screen freezing up. I changed my theme back to the original theme. Had the AppleBerry recent new theme (which I really like). Maybe the theme change will help.

I have also notice alot more random reboots with the appleberry theme... Much more often, being that I never had a problem before, this is really unusual... But I haven't upgrade to any beta updates, due to the BT video issues... I watch youtube on the subway so I would hate to lose that feature....

Help! I downloaded the update successfully. I see it in my
update software options in bberry connect. But when i check it to update phone, it says no updates available and i'm still stuck with version .94

i'm using an unlocked storm on att's network. i even deleted the verizon file indicated in the "how to update OS system" instructions.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!!!!

i like all the new os's coming out but verizon seriously needs to put out the official versions...... and thanks to all that have put thier storms up to the table and try out these leaks so it can at least give us the gist how long it will be b 4 an offcial update is sent out

can anyone help me i downloaded the update which is the best so far but i only have one problem, when i try to send a mms picture the image does not come out its blank so how do i fix it?

this is way faster and seems to be more stable all around. I was running .75 I tried the firmware release before 109 and it sucked bad (forgot which rev it was) downgraded to .75 and then to .109 .
This is a huge improvement in every way.
faster scrolling
faster program transitions
camera is about 4x faster (still could be better)
graphics seem okay on main icon page
and the landscape/portrait seems to be improved
thats all for now
good luck!

My Storm is the most responsive its ever been after installing the newest update. I've been a little pissed w/ the responsiveness so far but this update is awesome. Thx Thx to those who keep finding them.

I'm waiting on the Official release. Does anybody know when this will happen. I notice as I add the new apps that come out the more the Storm slows down. Hopefully the new OS will fix this.

Heard that an official release should be out sometime in march. I have the .75 OS wich I know is stable and hasn't froze on me once. Yeah the camera takes forever but atleast Its not given me any of the promblems that the leaked OS's are giving "constantly freezing up/lagging ect".

On each upgrade i have had some lag problems the first few days, never a need for excessive battery pulls, but i have had great luck with each of the leaked upgrades. Now for my .02 cents worth.... I think .103 was much faster on unlocking and locking the phone and on changing direction on the phone (acceelerometer). I think .109 is much faster for typing. I dont see any difference in browser speed but i was not complaining about browser speed on .103 I actually thought it was great. Much faster than my friends Palm or IPhone in a Google speed test. I do have the AppleBerry theme and as many apps almost as possible on the phone and have always had a memory leak somewhere that seems to get worse on each upgrade, this one as of today seems to have the biggest leak somewhere, i thought it was Weatherbug but its not (Cant figure this one out) it has pretty much always gone from around 32 to 18 during the course of the day but on .109 it seams to go from 32 to 12 within 3-4 hours. My next test will be to remove YouMail other than talk lock it's the only app that stays open other than the usual 5 and yes i check this.
On another note...I took my girlfriend to VZW to look for a new phone for her and played with the store's Storm with .75 I CANT BELIEVE ANYONE WHO READS ABOUT ALL THESE UPDATES IS STILL RUNNING ON .75 (and did i hear someone above state .75 is a stable os... it wasnt for me, locked up daily) and by the way as I was playing with the store's Storm with .075 it still sucks.
THANK YOU CRACKBERRY and Kevin for being here and to all the contributors.

Bought my Storm last Saturday and have been running the latest VZW OS version that is out obviously and was fairly happy. Just upped to this .109 build and have to say I am thoroughly impressed. Overall responsiveness increased dramatically. Will take more casual usage to feel it out but so far so good. Thanks for the post ^^

best upgrade by far, no more lags, quickpulls, or batt pulls. It keeps gettin' better, and better...go upgrade fellow crackaholics

Yes I have the the official .75 as stated and haven't had any of the issues you are dealing with gate... Some of us don't have the time to waist trying to figure out why our BB storms keep crashing ect with leaked beta versions. Honestly I have tried each OS and ran into far more worse issues as I said earlier. Some of us are willing to deal with these issues but as a productivity tool I can't afford to have my BB crash randomly through out the day! Oh BTW most VZ BB Storm owners are running the official update lol.

how do i uninstall the new os from my phone can any one help me please and thanks email me @ big213bola@yahoo.com

can someone tell me how to uninstall the new os from my phone please and thank you

Does anyone have problem with there new themes. I buy a new theme, and use it but i slows down the phone and when i have to reboot the homescreen wont come back until I put the default theme back then it works fine all my theme do the same except for the default theme that comes on the phone. Am I the only one. What the hell?