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New update.

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Anyone know what's new?

Change log?

After the 1.0.20 update screwed the Pearl it took me 3 days to get Slacker working right again. I won't be updating Slacker again. If it breaks, I will just delete it instead of wasting so much time and effort getting logged in and stations cached.

My biggest problems are getting the music from a cached station and every now and then it wont take my login.

This version is a lot more responsive. The lag is cut down a lot, and shutting down the program is REALLY fast compared to what it used to be!

Compared to 1.20?

When you upgrade, what happens to your cached stations on the media card?

I can answer this, because my daughter ran the update on my Blackberry in an effort to "help me out", so even though I swore I would never do it again I did.

My cached stations showed as "0" when I actually had 18. I plugged the thing in to my computer and let if refresh stations. Everything showed right, but when I tried to play it just scrolled through songs without making a single sound. I was going to try one more time this morning to make it work, but my cached stations show as "0" again.

I deleted it and wiped all Slacker data from my memory card. It is a great idea in theory but they just can't make it work yet. I will keep an eye on it and maybe try again in a few months but I have wasted hours on this application and gotten very little actual listening done.

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Yes. Because without the cache function you will go through your battery rather quickly in 2 hrs

I've been listening to streaming stations (not cached) upwards of 4 hours per day, and haven't noticed a large hit on the battery.

Hi guys, I'm new to the Slacker Radio thing so pardon me if these are stupid questions.

I cached a coupla stations and now it seems there's a very restricted playlist for them. Now that's probably because you can only cache so many songs on a memory card so eventually it has to start repeating itself. My question is, can't it detect when I'm plugged in on AC power and stop using music from the cache?

Also, shouldn't it be able to update the cache automatically via wifi when you're connected to a hot spot and connected to AC power?

Finally, I have a pretty decent internet connection at home (I have Time Warner's fastest level of cable internet) - no problems streaming HD video and what not, but it takes literally hours to update my 5 cached stations. Anyone know why? Do I need to fix something?

Thanks guys!

i recently updated my slacker. after updating, now the music doesn't play through the external speakers.....only through the phone speaker. pressing the speaker phone button on my curve does nothing, and i don't see an option within slacker anywhere to change it. is anyone else having this issue?

I can't help but to agree with you, except that I got rid of mine a couple weeks ago.
I love this concept, but its got a lot of bugs yet to work out.

When you all updated Slacker, did you install the new version over the old? Or did you remove it from the device first?

I've just been installing mine over the version I already have. Haven't noticed any problems yet.

Thanks, I might update it then. When I first installed 1.0.20, which is my first time version, it was slow and bogged down my BB, but now it's playing well, no problems, even the non-cached stations. Slacker is the first internet radio app that has worked well for me. BerryTunes didn't work that well for radio and FlyCast was worse.

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Daphne, nice call! I think I originally just installed over my previous version, but I just deleted it, hard reset, resent service books, re-downloaded slacker, and everything works great now. I couldn't log in with the existing ID I had, so I created a new one. Works great since.



So is deleting an app before you upgrade it always a wise thing to do? I've always just installed over the top with Viigo, Google Maps, etc....this was the first problem I've noticed though

I am not interested in hard resets, resending service books or in reformatting my memory card every single time Slacker wants to update. When you get a response from Slacker support it A L W A Y S involves reformatting your memory card. The problem that I have with that is that my memory card has about 4GB of data on it that I need. It isn't that I don't have backups of that data; I do. It is that I would have to backup new data, reformat and then >>copy 4GB of data back to my memory card<< so that this buggy application can properly update.

No thanks. I refused to sign up for premium radio in the early days because I don't spend enough time in front of my computer with Internet access. I later refused to buy their hardware because, well, if I am spending $200 on an MP3 player I am buying an iPod or an XM radio. The one chance that Slacker had to convert me into a paying customer is gone now as well because they released this half baked beta as a finished application that was ready for prime time. It isn't.

I just updated it like I would any other pgrm and it did fine. Odd.

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I think it's pretty sweet for a free app. Yeah, it lags a bit, but that's a lot of data streaming so I can't complain too much. Also, most of the steps I did to try and fix the problem probably weren't necessary, I just did them for good measure.

The only memory card thing it does for me is removing the cached stations it had saved from a previous install. It would be pretty cumbersome to have to backup data and put it back on later, but luckily I haven't had to do that.

It could be a sweet app, if it worked more consistently for more people. Go to the Slacker forum and see how many different people can't get the thing to work. I was more than willing to put up with a little lag, but that isn't even an issue as I can't get the thing to play music.

While you may have taken steps that weren't needed to get the thing to work reformatting your card IS the most common suggested fix for upgrade issues. I have gone both ways, simply installing over top of the old version and also deleting and reinstalling. I have not and will not do a hard reset for a music application. I have not and will not reformat my card for a music application. There is reasonable and acceptable steps to get something to work and then there is the excessive and unreasonable steps that Slacker requires.

It at times worked for me for several days while at other times it was screwed from the moment that I installed.

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Just out of curiousity, why are you so against a hard reset anyway? This is a pretty standard BlackBerry procedure, and should actually be done periodically anyway for improved performance. If a hard reset was required upon every Slacker use, then that's certainly one thing...but it only took one for me and I'm up and running. Perhaps your issues are beyond the scope of a hard reset, however.

Do like me and just don't worry about it until they get it right. I keep up on the forums & boards about it, but for the time being, I'm just chillin'.
For the time being, I have Moodio and Nobex, both of which have worked flawlessly for me. For me, it's just that I'm always on the lookout for improvements or something that's the next "new & improved" thing.

I have only had my Pearl for a year, but I have never had to do a hard reset. Not yet at least. That is why I am so opposed to doing a hard reset for Slacker. I would stop using the Gmail app, Google Maps or anything else on the device if updating it required a hard reset before hand to make it work right.

So, while I was listening to Slacker last night, after I posted here about it, I got a prompt asking if I wanted to upgrade. So I installed the new version over the old version. My cached stations would play a song for 22 seconds and quit. I connected and updated them, but still no dice. I deleted all the Slacker data from the memory card and started over caching the stations. Now it works fine.

A hard reset on the BlackBerry is like restarting your PC. It lets everything start fresh and elimimates errors and slow downs.

I come from the Treo world where hard reset means to wipe the phone and start over. Given that I am not having errors or slow downs I don't see a need to hard reset.

I think when people say hard reset here, they mean doing a battery pull with the device powered on. They don't mean doing a wipe and reload. I can see why you would not want to do that.

OK, now that we all know what we are talking about, I did that. Numerous times. In my house there is a Curve and Pearl that can use Slacker and a Curve and a Pearl that can't. Battery pulls, delete before update, update over top of old version and every other way that doesn't involve a wipe or a memory card format.

My phone has a number of 3rd party apps installed, but oddly the Curve that can't run Slacker has no other 3rd party applications loaded. It seems to be a totally random problem.

I just updated to 1.23 on my 8330. All my cached stations are still there and everything is working fine. Sorry for all the problems everyone is having. I did have issues when I went to 1.20 and had to uncache, uninstall. delete all remnants of slacker ... yada yada. But now it works beautifully to me and I think is worth the effort to resolve any issues.

Is this the first time that you have had to "resolve any issues"? Come back after you have resolved issues a dozen or more times and wasted hours of time. Tell us then if you think it is still worth it. Wasn't for me.

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I have version 1.0.3 but was prompted to upgrade to version 1.0.23. How is that an upgrade?

I follow the download link to upgrade on my storm and it says this device is not supported?

Sticking with 1.2