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AT&T Official Bold 9000 OS 4.6.0.297 Now Available! By Adam Zeis | 25 Aug 2009 12:41 | 
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We knew it was coming, and today is the day. AT&T has officially released OS 4.6.0.297 for the BlackBerry Bold 9000. Head on over to the BlackBerry download page and get on it - Visual Voice Mail is waiting for you. You should also be able to run the wireless upgrade via Settings > Advanced Options > Upgrade. This is an official carrier OS, but if you're not on AT&T you'll have to delete the vendor.xml file before installing. Check out the links below for more information. Thanks to Morganizer for the screen cap.
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any difference if you download from OTA or tru DM?
ATT has the newest OS for the bold! They are usually the last to update.
...Will there be an os update for the 8900 from AT&T that does the same by bringing VVM to the 8900?
I'm pretty sure it wasn't there before. If you go into the mobile network settings, you can now force 2G only.
good update...it was in the last one. wondering what's new in this one
It says patch on the site.
Did the OTA update on one Bold, downloading the update for its replacement...
and they give u pacman...
The ability to do 2G only was also part of the update.
It is however, rather annoying that it put all of these games and new application downloads on my phone... Very frustrating cause now i have to go through there and delete all the crap.
Come on RIM... Don't pull a DELL and start pre-loading tons of crap that i don't want on the system.
2G option was found in .282. So it's not new. I wonder if there's any differences with this :/
I don't believe that .282 was a ATT update... I could be wrong though.
After downloading the update OTA, it said it could take up to 2 hours to upgrade. Because of this, I scheduled it to update at 12 AM. I'm currently backing up my Bold just in case.
I dont believe its RIM thats putting all these shortcuts on ur phone. im pretty sure its the carrier, in this case AT&T.
hmm... i love at&t.... (that was sarcastic btw....)
OTA download took 55 minutes to install
i cant wait
just started download hope it doesnt take FOREVER
http://rapidshare.com/files/271404042/
9000M_PBr4.6.0_rel508_PL4.0.0.243_A4.6.0.297_AT_amp_T.exe
Why bother uploading to rapidsuck when this isn't a beta? Just download it directly from RIM.
It's so he can compile and embed spyware and other nefarious applications that will log keystrokes, banking information and such. NEVER - I repeat - NEVER download operating systems hosted anywhere other than directly from the vendor or manufacturer. I don't care what people tell you.
Anyone else having this problem:
When replying to an SMS, I can't "Remove History".
It won't delete the old text.
Anyone else?
All said and done, it took less than an hour (connected to wifi). Visual Voice Mail is great. Note: to make sure it provisions and works properly, after the update you have to login to your AT&T account (web) and select that you want to activate the VVM. It's free. Seconds later, it was up and running with no hassles.
Also, after the update, do a batter pull and everything will be smooth as silk.
Thus far, the OS appears to have better memory management, too.
QUESTION: the update does put a bunch of AT&T "crap" icons/apps on your home screen. How do you get rid of those (I can "hide," but want to delete totally). Any suggestions?
You can delete the service books, but it will all reappear next time resend them. They're just launchers, not actual apps, so it's best to just hide them and forget.
Just finished the 2nd OTA update... anyone know about/or why some of my programs are now archived? or how to archive a program?
The ones that got archived were facebook and GPS Tracker... odd that it didnt do it on my other bold...
Yeah, I had archived programs too and when I went to restore them, it made my screen freeze and I had to do a battery pull.
OK I upgraded the os and everything seems ok. I did a test vm and I saw the vm icon. Did a few things, now i don't see the icon anymore. I remember reading that visual voice mail is part of this release, do I have to do anything to get this activated?
Nevermind I got it, had to call AT&T and have them activate the feature.
TIA
Dave
im liking the visual voicemail but why oh why am i getting texts AND visual voicemail alerts? this is annoying! help!
Why would I want to force 2g? Isnt one of the points of having the Bold to be on the 3G netowork?
a lot of the time, you are not doing anything with your phone that requires a high speed data connection. 2G uses less battery power, so you can use it when you aren't doing anything heavy with your phone... I just leave mine in 2G mode now to increase the bat life. If i am going to use my browser or any data-hungry app, i flip it back over to 3G. It only takes a second to switch back and forth.
I don't live in a 3G area, but when I travel to the closest one my battery only lasts about 2/3 as long.
does anyone have a full list of everything new that came out with the update?
do we have to delete the old software or did the software update take care of that? i thought i read somewhere that we may have to delete the older version of the software?
I have an AT&T Bold running 4.6.0167. I've tried "checking for upgrades" in the Options/Advanced Options/Wireless Upgrade menu, but the request returns "No Upgrades Available".
Shouldn't I be able to update the OS through this function or am I required to download the new OS to my desktop first?
Thanks.
You are doing it correctly you may have to call AT&T
...but getting it going. Lost more than I would've liked even with backup for some reason. Oh well...
Some people who are Att Customers will have to go on to ATT wireless website and go to Manage Features and Select Visual Voicemail to actually make it work
Just checked my services... now att navigator is free????
saved the print as pdf if anyone is wondering...
re: Navigator, free for 30 days. Then the charges kick in. When you click on details or select it and follow through, I believe it discloses this.
told att customer support that this was misleading... told them that it should say that the At&t Navigator Trial is priced at $0.00
updated, reset phone, resent service books, etc. went online to att to enable visual voicemail and it of course tells me that this option is not available for my phone/hardware. way to go att...idiots. anyone else having trouble with enabling this feature in their online account?
with at&t cust. support now...
we reset vm, restarted phone, reconciled messages, restart phone....
ive checked my services, visual vm is an option and enabled..
voicemails are still be sent as usual and not using the visual vm prog... ill let u know if i get it working...
got it working, they had the wrong provisioning on my account (advance tech support fixed) and then she updated my imei to verify... restarted and it worked!
att had the wrong imei associated with my phone so their system didn't see that i had a bold. once they fixed the imei issue, i could add the visual voicemail feature via my account online then set it up on my phone within a few moments of that. tested and working ;)
I went thru the prompts... after telling me I didnt have enough space and needed to free up memory i updated the OS.
Visual Voicemail didnt work... logged on to attwireless.com selected visual voicemail in my plans section. updated it. tried it again on my phone and was able to set it up. pretty cool how it shows the number and it plays back on the blackberry music player screen.
did the update ota first thing this morning. everything works well even the bbm 5.0 that didnt get erased like most other updates. As far as the visual voice mail, ummm could use some work, its free and you have to turn the service on with att, yes its free i called customer service to verify the claim. as far as how it works, it will play the voice mail in your media player and show you where the number came from like the missed call wasnt good enough. as far as the update as a whole i think its no diffrent from the .282 that rogers had out a few months ago and the addition to switching between 2g and 3g helps when driving long distances where 3g may be scarce, but the 5.0 update is what im really waiting for.
I will just stick with using youmail. As long as your not calling the voicemail your not using any minutes. You can accomplish everything through the icon or you can just log in on the mobile youmail site and accomplish other features. Plus I can save my voicemails and they don't get deleted after 30 days. I like being able to keep what I want for as long as I want. Plus there is no limit to the number of voicemails. Also keeps a history of the calls which is good to go back and look at incase you didn't have a number and more.VVM is a good step FINALLY for AT&T but a little late because they took to long.
Has anyone notice that their application memory increase? I still have the same 18 apps I had before the upgrade, and now I have 42.5MB of free space. Before I used to have 18MB.
This was one of the first things I noticed. I've also noticed that memory frees up from time to time. Memory management is vastly improved here.. this was one of my gripes about the phone and thankfully it's been addressed. I'm noticing some faster performance overall, even if there's been some slight increase in lag with some other things. Boot times are better too - down to slightly over 3 minutes on my device from what used to be just under 5.
Same here. I averaged about 15MB and now with the same apps and BES I started out with 42MB. A lot of playing around has me down to 27MB now but I bet if I reboot I will see 42 again.
I can't get an OTA update...
and I have a mac so this is UNdownloadable....
....What do i do?