Service Pack 1 for BlackBerry Desktop Manager 5.0 Released
Posted in News & Rumors on 26 Oct 2009 13:40 by Adam Zeis | 102 comments

Service Pack 1 

RIM doesn't often offer "service packs" for Desktop Manager (they usually just release updated versions) so we're not sure what this one entails. The software is listed as Service Pack 1 (5.0.1). Just some minor bug fixes and not a whole lot of upgrades in this release.

  • User interface for using your device as an IP modem
  • Support for new fields on the address book for your device
  • Enhancements to the synchronization process for organizer data
  • Support for Greek and Hebrew languages
  • Support for Windows(R) 7 

Head over to the BlackBerry Software Download page to update. Be sure to let us know if you find anything else new.

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By: Yandar | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 12:49

The new features are from the readme doc with it.
NEW FEATURES

* User interface for using your device as an IP modem
* Support for new fields on the address book for your device
* Enhancements to the synchronization process for organizer data
* Support for Greek and Hebrew languages
* Support for Windows(R) 7

The whole package number has changed from the leaked 5.0.1.16 to 5.0.1.18

None of the internal components have changed their version numbers.

By: Adam Zeis | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 12:55

Updated - thanks!

By: jerde | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:23

Yofi, ani yachol likro b'ivrit!!! Kol hakavod!

By: TOTCM | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 12:50

Link leads to a message that the page I am looking for is not there ... wonder if it has been removed.

By: Yandar | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 12:55

http://bit.ly/2jpVPe

By: SuperableZeus | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 13:06

I had an error message the first time I tried. I just backed up one page, then clicked next again and it's downloading now as I type.

By: samosa | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 13:06

i would really like to be able to browse my email/sms via desktop manager, on average i receive upto 6000 emails daily.

By: Jonezed7 | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 13:12

6000???????????

By: matthewful | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 13:19

His BB mushr be on fire

By: SpaceMonster | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:29

It's nice to know my BB can hold that many emails/sms jeeeezus

By: mychair | Date: Tue, 10/27/2009 - 10:48

sooooooooooo popular!

By: storm83 | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 13:21

RIM trying to be like microsoft. Long way to go. Start by getting flash player to BB first.

By: Jonezed7 | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 16:17

Start with the 5.0 OS being released.

By: boman06210 | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 18:38

5.0 has been released, for the storm only tho

By: allupnya68 | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 16:48

Storm83, I coundn't have said it better myself. Work on getting flash not svc. pack.

By: El Band Geek | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 13:22

So is the windows 7 support just saying it's now "officially" compatible (not like it was ever at all incompatible) or does it include any new functions like jumplists etc.

I'm at school right now and won't get to download it till later.

By: mookish | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 13:32

It took a few tries but it will download...

By: chriscook.sv | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 13:32

does this apply to us MAC users too?

By: Yandar | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 13:41

No MAC. Windows only.

By: tory_237 | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:38

Mac*

By: Yandar | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 13:39

Here is a rapidshare link for those having problems DLing, just plain slow.

Why cant they get text wrapping to work on here Grrr.

I dont like posting shortened links as you never know what you are clicking on.

http://bit.ly/1u5u3Q

By: dankblaze | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:42

This link is useless, it says you have to have a premium rapidshare account to use. I hate that people are always trying to build their rapidshare points, UPLOAD IT TO SHAREBEE.COM OR MEGAUPLOAD!

By: MrPat | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 16:36

And i hate people that CAN'T read a webpage. You DON'T need a premium membership, just to be patient 90 seconds.

By: dankblaze | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 18:24

You are indeed a moron, The 90 seconds is not the problem, when the free slots are all used up it tells you that you must have a premium account. Get a brain.

By: scopeman | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 13:42

We must have crashed their servers. I tried to download DM and it would keep giving me a Proxy Error message.

By: cdulong | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:02

That is what I am experiencing.

By: jackie treehorn | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 13:59

This is ridiculous. I can't even get to the download page and the other posted in here is giving me a 45 eta to full download. This is crap

By: markj73 | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:02

Is it just me or can RIM not manage their servers very well?

BIS outages and they can't even host a file without crashing the server(s)...

By: daveastra | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:10

now where it used to show my pin at the bottom, it now shows the model and pin, i.e blackberry 9500 xxxxxxx
nice little touch

By: violatizzle | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:13

turns out the application won't even let me install once I finished downloading this crap on vista. Says it's not a valid Win32 application? wtf

By: SeaDuck79 | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:47

I had the same thing happen! WTF indeed!

By: cthomas1440 | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:56

More than likely your download didn't finish completely. Look at the file size and if this is the case, try the download again.

By: Gamecock9701 | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:15

link on bb.com keeps giving me error messages

By: fraunhofer | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:20

mirror anyone?

By: maizein | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:26

Is it worth using Desktop Manager 5.0 at all? I heard if you like to use Beta OS's on your BB, the best DM is 4.6. I once had problem upgrading the BB OS using DM 4.7, so downgraded to 4.6.

By: BBpixie | Date: Tue, 10/27/2009 - 09:14

I had trouble installing OS using DM 5.0 so I went back to DM 4.6 which works perfectly for installing OS's on my BB 8900. I'll test the DM 5.0 SP1 after I read more reviews on it.

By: coopsachillin | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:27

I have bb 8900 on T-mobile and i was wondering if this upgrade will work for me... im new to bb so help me seasoned bb vets.

By: tory_237 | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:39

If you're running Windows then this is for you, it doesn't matter what carrier. But if you have a Mac you don't get an update :P because I have a Mac and tried downloading it lol

By: bradbogy | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:42

Since bb download page is screwed for now and the rapidshare free slots are used anyone else going to throw it up on another file host?

Purty please?

By: coopsachillin | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:44

Good thing I have both! ha ha, but i have another question, when i get to the linked site it gives me 4 options, multilanguage,w/ or w/o media manager ( which im pretty sure i dont need and english w/ or w/o media manager. Whick one should i use I have no idea what this media manger thing is...

By: SHANTURN | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:51

Looks like RIM servers are overloading. I was gonna try later on. But now it seems to be downloading, but it is slow. 26 mins for 220MB on Broadband

By: Wooginator | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:53

Link doesn't work for me...502 Proxy Error.

By: Hairbear1954 | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:54

Continue to get a proxy error from the website. Poor RIM. Can't keep up with all these downloads.

By: coopsachillin | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:59

I'm still confused as to which one to use, and it IS taking forever to load up the pages

By: sumikefu | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 15:00

i just got through to blackberry to download! looks like they fixed the problem

By: coopsachillin | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 15:01

Do I need the media manager verison or should I go with the other version?

By: Yandar | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 15:24

Non media manager is fine. Drag and drop all your files instead of using the slow and buggy media manager.

By: streetdegree | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 15:07

Installed.... it updated my Telus storm to the latest OS 5.0.0.323.
Works perfect:)

By: Yandar | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 15:10

Here is an uploaded.to link.

http://ul.to/mk92ae

By: gtstang462002 | Date: Mon, 10/26/2009 - 16:21

Thanks, much easier than dealing with a crashed file server.

 
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