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I would try it out, but having only today upgraded mine to .592, and then installing the willyboy hybrid, I think my phone's had enough for one day.

Now

this is good news

come on 8520!

Uploaded to my server space, free fast no waiting download.

http://www.ventshop.net/bbCurve8900-500681.htm

Well, nothing huge to note, other than a tiny bit more free memory. Big problem is after all was said and done, I cannot complete the enterprise activation with BESX. Was working fine prior to this. No changes made to anything other than the phone's OS, obviously.

I cancelled the EA and retried, now I get a server cannot be found error.

Argghh the madness.

I'm not sure about you all but I have a very extremely long boot time.

soooo the difference with this OS and .592 ???

Dang I just now downloaded to leaked version of o.s 5.0 for my 8900 today lol I agree I think my blackberry has done enough for today. PLUS VER .592 IS WORKING EXCELLENT!!!

How do you change the OS? is there a blog for the steps or something? Last time I tried to connect my 8900 to my mac, for some reason it said "no operating system detected" and wiped my 8900 .. I panicked and once I rebooted my 8900 I never connected it again ... is there a way to do it without using the usb to the computer?

Just installed the OS. Only problem I ran into was that my icons got all reorganized after the install so I had to setup everything again. Other than that, seems to be running smoothly so far. Will see how the battery consumption is over the next day!

i hope this a good build. i have the .610 and its gr8 so far.. im going wait till tomorrow and what you guys think of it first. just beacuse it takes me a few weeks to get it the way i like it..

any bugs??

i download the leaked 5.0.0681 but it wont come up on the desktop manager for me to update..what do i need to do?

Not impressed so far. App World has been hidden once again and the information for my contacts got jumbled together. For example I have three "Carl"'s they all have phone numbers and info of other people. I'm pissed. I assume this is not directly related this OS leak though.

New camera sound when you capture :D

yeah me to with the annoying ass boot time. but it works

Downloaded newest version, been playing with it less than an hour but so far I'm not able to listen to music while viewing my pics. Everything else is ok so far. Camera shutter sound is different but I have third party app to silence it anyway.

password lock still does not work...I think im going to go back to .592 as this was the best version i have used so far.

Mind you I've been using OS 4.6xxx until yesterday 5/18 bc that's all BB desktop manager had available (so wack). So I don't have any experience with 5.0 OS's (that's right this is my first experience with 5.0) lol. That being said, I like this 5.0 way better than the slow 4.6 I was using previously. This OS is way quicker (browsing and screen/application transition) and the menus are more intuitive. Like the "share" feature when trying to email or MMS a pic in your media library. I was finally able to run the Snow Leopard Theme I downloaded like 2 months ago. Battery life has improved to about 1 day and 1/2 even with heavy usage. I couldn't get through breakfast the next day without the low battery LED notification. So overall, I'm way better off than I was. A pleasant feature that's nice about this OS like I mentioned above are it's transitions between screens. They're cleaner and more interesting than before (can't tell if that's the snow leopard theme or the overall OS). Also, when selecting small hyperlinks in the web browser, a bubble pops up when u hover over the link, so as to help the user know that your pointer is indeed on top or around the link you want. All my BBM contacts were saved perfectly and so were my regular phone contacts. I lost my twitter app but I was able to DL that w/ no problem. The downloading of this OS went well too. Easy and efficient. Just go to the forums and find the leaked OS download instructions and paste the "app loader" command in the run function in windows to delete the "vendor.xml" file and you should be good to go.

That's all I got.

Peace!

I am with Orange UK, and have been informed they will not be upgrading from my 4.6 to 5 anytime soon. Can someone talk me through upgrading the leaked version, and let me know if it's safe to do so.. I have never done anything like this before. Thanks for the help. Dee.x

Thanks to mercybreaker for all the info... have now installed OS5 on my Curve8900... and its great.. I love Crackberry!! Dee.x

How do i get this to work. i removed da vendor file n still nothing

This is the first upgrade I did for my Curve 8900, I was running 4.6 I guess... or something like that, the latest official OS, but I was getting tired of it, so these are the improvements I've seen in this one so far

- Menus and graphics looking better, kind of like a 3D looking for the buttons.
- Capability to change the font size to even 5 (which is way small for those who like to see a lot in the screen)
- When you do a battery pull, there is a bar that appears showing you the progress of the restarting OS (I really like this feature)
- The camera sound is much shorter.
- It gives you the option to vibrate and ring the "ringtone" at the same time (before you needed to wait till the two vibrations finish and then the ringtone will start"
-It gives you the option to change between three diff vibrations (short, medium, long)
-They created a new icon where they store all your sms and mms, so they dont get mixed in the "messages" icon or folder.
-The SMS and MMS look better, they changed in way that you can see the conversation like a chat in bb messenger, with the name and picture of the people you are texting with, and keep the converstion in the "bubble" style (you can even use the emoticons).
-The icons showing in the main screen get fade when you scroll up.
-and finally, they changed the lady for the voice commands, this one seems to be much younger and excited... hahaha.

I didn't find anything wrong with the apps I have, so far all of them work, except for Blackberry World Apps.

I'll give more feed about the battery life, appears to be much longer... ahh... and it seems to be a little more fast.

it is the same version than the official release for Hutchison?