thank you for a reminder

Is this going to affect tethering?

Since its in the morning hours I don't think muchof north America will be awake. There is of course those crackberry parties that go down at those hours. Lol.

So when will we get new ota for our blackberries?

Good timing im at the club gaming girls at that time.

lets have it already. nice time for a bis down sale right kev?

In live in Central America (Panama) post says 100% BIS costumers but title says North American?

I wanted to ask, I live in dominican republic, is like latin ameerica, Central america, so will my country get the updàte of the BIS aswell ?

My school's B-ball team (GO BUTLER!) is coming back at 2am, we're having a party/pep rally, and I can't use my phone. Figures.

I'll be in dreamy land. =)

I'M A NIGHT PERSON SO THIS STRONGLY EFFECTS ME!:'(:'(

Its just for email and messenging' i'm posting this from my storm right now, your internet connection should be fine.

Glad to see BIS 3.0 coming, hopefully it will begin 2010 as a year of great strides for RIM!

I had completely forgotten about this. Kudos Bla1ze.

My BBM and Internet seems to be working. I am in Toronto, Canada on Fido with a Rogers branded BB 9700.

Anyone else notice their service has not gone down?

Why are you talking about service not being down? It's 10 minutes to 1 am CT, geez.

my internet still works fine. well into the upgrade time and my bb's been fine the whole time.

EDIT: actually i just realized although my internet works....im not getting any new emails!!! thats a good thing for once i guess.

An hour and twenty minutes into the 3.0 update and bis still working.. Hmmm

Well I was at an Erykah Badu show at the new space at the Hudson Hotel (in nyc) that has 0 service so I barely noticed.

just emails dont work. I wish RIM can do outages like this :p

Haha thanks a lot RIM for the early April fools prank. No bbm eh? ahaha

Thanks for the heads up

BIS 3.0 is up and running, but no 2way Gmail sync.

Its 5:42 am and my emails just turned back on.

BIS went out at 1:42 am and back on at 5:45am....anybody have the same blank spot in email delivery/received?

yup confirmed on pacific time its working :D

So it seems Verizon hasn't followed suit yet, no surprise. Located in Atlanta

I'm on at&t...emails started working again at 5:34am Nothing looks different on the BIS site...at all.

I'm trying to use BIS on my Verizon storm 9550 and the BIS website says my information isn't correct when it is, or my device isn't register with my service provider which I did that on my phone.

Woke up in the morning and noticed no change on Rogers. Neither on the phone nor at the BIS management page online.

Ideas?

I haven't noticed a single change... anywhere. There is still no two-way sync on GMail. There is no contact sync. What changed?

Is there a new version of the gmail plugin? cause when u go to download it, that site is down?

Nothing changed for me on VZW.

Something has happened in Kansas. I had to renenter all of my email account passwords this morning.

The GMail plugin has been updated from 1.0.0.49 to 1.0.0.59 for me. No changes noticed though. Still no two-way sync.

i'm confused, but maybe i just haven't been paying attention, but my gmail accounts, including google apps (business email powered by google) email accounts have all had the check-box for "sync contacts" at the bis edit page. so was there going to be better sync features rolled-out? or am i just not paying enough attention? im on sprint, tour 9630.

I'm not noticing anything new here. Do I need to delete my Gmail account and re-add it?

I haven't notices a single change except an email that came in at 6:47 CT idk if that tells u anything :s and btw I'm on Fido using a Rogers branded Bold 9000

And my BIS was working, well atleast I recieved one email. So far haven't noticed anything new, except (maybe my imagination?) My internet connection is a bit faster! I think it is my imagination xD
Did BIS update for all of the americas? Or just North? Mexico is part of north, right? :D

Edit: my Bolt browser (1.7) doesn't stick at the 20% mark anymore!

What are the (noticable) changes this morning?

How can I tell? Also, I can't seem to find the info on my gmail plugin. I must have had a rough weekend so far... I can't remember how to do anything this morning. Thanks.

Maybe it's just the link I clicked on this morning, but my native browser was almost smokin when it opened the page. It seemed like it was 2 or 3 times faster than it was yesterday. I am with Verizon, running 5.0.0.591 and last soft reset was Saturday morning. If I'm dreaming please don't wake me up, because this is great so far!

Could this be another case of carriers rolling out on their own after RIM does?

RIm released the 5.0 software and each carrier did it on their own - Still waiting for 5.0 on my curve 8900 from rogers to come out!! :(

Why does Rogers suck with everything?

Love my BB buy why do we have to have carriers release software.

Sick of downtime with no noticable upgrades. Upgrading to iphone or android device soon!

Perhaps it is my imagination, but the native browser seems to load significantly faster after this BIS 3.0 upgrade. Anyone else notice a performance boost? I'm on Rogers.

I also noticed that Bolt 2.0 doesn't "stick" at the 20% mark anymore... it blazes through now.

So wait, will this increase the internet speed?

How can you tell if you are running BIS 3.0?

I went into my email settings and clicked on my gmail account and then scrolled to sync options where I found sync contacts and sync deleted items. Is this new? I don't remember seeing it before .hopefully it is . :)

Seriously, can someone please let those of us that are clueless how to tell what BIS version we have? I searched high and low and can't seem to figure it out. I never "log in" to anything. I can't see what version of BIS is in ANY of the settings, I don't see BIS or Enhanced Gmail Plugin under options - Applications... what can I do to see this info?

I feel like I'm losing my mind. Hahaha.

noticed everything seemed faster esp the native browser. Is this for real? I'm on unlocked 8900 on Fido

people all the changes are server-side.its not a complete overhaul of anything.nothing will look different.its strictly a server side update.just read the notes provided at rims website.and everyone got it in NA.

Don't know if this counts but if you go to the manage internet email option, the layout looks different (I'm on T-Mobile). Is that an indication there was an upgrade?

I've noticed switching between apps, the app world, bbm, email etc...I'm seeing a network speed increase. I'm on TMO with a 9700. Hmmm...

I haven't found any difference so far. The only thing I noticed is that all the icons of IM apps which I don't use and never installed, dissapeared (yahooM, google talk, flickr and Myspace) I haven't received any emails throughout the morning but maybe is that I don't have friends lol.
I have a 9000 running on Rogers in Montreal. BTW I've never logged in on the BIS service page, what are the benefits? Am I missing something because of that? I feel like a total noob in that subject

no major changes at all with bell which I am using BB storm 9530

no changes at all

Somebody, please enlighten me; I recall seeing screen shots from the 3.0 upgrade in Europe a week or two ago. AT&T BIS looks as it always has (well, at least since the 2.4 upgrade) and is functioning the same as it always has. BIS was indeed down last night - but I'm not seeing anything new here (in both physical appearance of the BIS page, and functionality.)

Hope I'm missing something! RIM has been on the naughty list this year -- too many outages and not enough advancements.

Simply check for a BIS 3 feature, like the email secret question / answer option.

Set up email...Need an email account..

If it has the secret question / answer then you are on BIS 3.

woke up and saw no difference on my phone... how do u check that you got an update? or can someone tell me what changes actually happened?

I believe BIS is run on a RIMM server and application, the carriers simply subscribe to it to allow their customers to get RIMM push email. Thus, various providers cannot use different versions, that part is controlled by RIMM. One indication of this is that the various BIS websites (can access here are all in the blackberry.com domains.

If you look at the official KB article, it says that read/unread status will be implemented in Spring 2010. Also, note that it indicated that 3.0 users can set the read receipt sending options on the blackberry - I checked mine this morning (VZW Tour on 5.0.591) and those options are available - I can't remember if they were not there before, but its an indication that 3.0 has hit.

For users seeing faster internet - that is possibly due to BIS upgrade. Remember, the Blackberry has 3 ways of connecting to the internet - Direct (TCP), through BIS, or thorugh BES. I believe the default connection method for the Browser and most third party apps is through BIS, so if there was any upgrades to BIS it could result in speedier internet.

Sorry I can't post links to the websites I referenced above - CB truncates the links and doesn't make them hyperlinks, so you can't follow...

- Good looks on da update

Looks like Boost Mobile has not upgraded to 3.0, I added a new email account and was not prompted for a secret question/answer.

2-way gmail sync seems to be working for me on VZW. I had about 20 emails when I woke up this morning on my Storm 2. I decided to use Outlook to read them as I had other work to do this morning. As soon as I read them or deleted them on Outlook, my BB updated read/delete as well. I did some test emails and tried read/delete on the BB and Outlook updated within a minute.

I haven't noticed this before. Maybe i'm going crazy. Can anyone else confirm?

I never noticed an outage...

Thats is the version I have downloaded in the UK a few moments ago.

elmbrook is right! I just tried adding a hotmail account and and the option Show Password is now there, which I DEF do NOT recall being there before. It's not much, but it's better than not recognizing anything! LOL

I found the Secret question/answer when ur creating a new blackberry email account idk if that's the one everyone's talkin about

Guys, just do a battery pull.. do not use restart app. Just do a battery pull, and you will see changes.

I don't know about everyone else, but my data is greased up or something. It's FAST!! Thanks for the awesome 3.0 update. BTW, I don't think we should see too many physical changes on the BIS update, I'm guessing it's an overhaul of Blackberry's system (not carrier systems) in order to bring future software changes. As for now, I'm going to enjoy how fast my info flows.

How do you know if your BIS is 3.0?

Definitely no changes (at least for me) using my Bold 9000 on AT&T w/ a valid BIS plan and the latest OS 5 leak.

I have done battery pulls, re-sent service books, deleted & re-added accounts. Not even one of the features anyone who claims to have this up and running (i.e., security question) is appearing for me.

My BIS and BlackBerry are as they always have been. Ergo, those of you running AT&T saying otherwise (if any) please let me know what you did to get these new features, because quite frankly I'm stumped.

Ive seen NO difference whatsoever.... I had to log into bis site, send service books, and click the link to manually upgrade my gmail plugin. I got emails and notifications through the night, so I dont think this thing went through. It would be nice if RIM could send some kind of confirmation, or have some info on their home page that tells us this went through.

My data is flying today. Browser FAST! Connection is MUCH improved. I am on AT&T.

My browser speeds def improved, I connected my BB to the DM and asked for enhanced gmail plug in to be updated, I did it but to be honest what exactly is supposed to change in gmail plug in?

How to tell if your running 3.0

Ok it only took RIM about a thousand years to do this.

When you switch BB and you need to validate each of your email addresses (except Blackberry's own email), you are on BIS 3.0. And I don't like this change, especially when you have several email accts.

No change on tmobile in California... nothing that i can tell anyways. Same ol same... Is there someway to look up if i actually got the update???

I haven't noticed any change at all. Either its because there is no update for verizon or something else. Someone help me if I'm wrong.

there is not supposed to be a noticeable difference in any of the ui.i dont know where people got the idea something was supposed to "look" different.as i said before.......the update is server-side.NOTHING SHOULD LOOK DIFFERENT ON YOUR PHONE!!.Mass craziness i tell you. the masses have gone mad.

??? I just did a batt pull and the only thing I noticed was that a Skype icon was now on my home screen. My browser got much faster when I did the 5.0 update to my 8530 last week.

I'm on the sprint network and as soon I woke up and logged onto crackberry.com using my tour, I instantly noticed that my browser was about 2x faster!

I am also on Sprint. I resent service books and it prompt me to download the Gmail Plugin. That all went fine and also noticed increased speed in the browser as others have mentioned.

Anyone on US Cellular completely lose service? I can't make calls, text, or browse the web. Started yesterday evening. I noticed a triangle about the time and a compass with three ) on my main screen. I have pulled the battery twice and was able to send one text after the first pull, now nothing.

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does anyone know how i can check and see if i am running this bis 3.0?

How do you know you have recieved the BIS Update?

What in the heck did you people expect?

LOL!