I used the "Setup Internet Email" icon and it takes you to the TMO site? It opens a browser page and one of the options is Service Books.

After I resent the service books, I pulled the battery. Once re-booted, I opened up message and hit the menu. Under options, I selected Email Settings and teh second option is Enable HTML Email.

I have to say, after enabling this, my emails look just like my computer. A Lot better than before.

Lovin the .52
Minor probs. Ie: mousing over, arrow freezing/disappearing.
That's it so far

Well, thanx guys you have encouraged me to give it a second chance.. i'm going to upgrade my BB this weekend AGAIN!.. i'll tell YOU if i have the same problems!....hope no... 4.5 is the best... like someone said.. it's like having a diferent phone.....

wow...i want it. as soon as i get out of work i'll start installing it...

i've been searching for screenshots...where can i see them?

Does anybody knows when it's going to be released the official version of this OS?

This is an offical release - just likely on a different carrier than yours.

Oh and welcome to BBF!

finally got it all installed, and as I'm actually talking on the phone right now, at least that works!

its still hour glassing a lot when I try to open anything for the 1st time. and the spinning glass of death has happened a couple of times, but goes away with a battery pull.

After I get done with the crazy man from Sallie Mae I'm going to uninstall color pearl and see if that helps speed things up any.

I'm going to give it a couple of days and make sure all my apps work if its still crazy slow, I'll have to downgrade.

Life with 3 kids can't move at this slow of a pace.

N~

Have an 8100 on T-Mobile. Went ahead and tried this new version out. Downloaded without a problem. Here are a few things I have noticed:

1) It is incredibly faster than previous versions. Switching from application to application is super quick. Opening up messages has zero lag (didn't even notice one before but now I know there was one).
2) Camera works perfectly - no problem from the get go
3) Seems to come with a different font than I noticed before. It might have been on previous versions and I just didn't try/see it. But the new font is very cool.
4) Several interfaces have been improved including media, browser, calendar, messages, etc. Very slick - attempting to look more like iPhone.

All in all, very happy with the upgraded version. One thing I did notice, though, was that it seemed to lock up from time to time. It happens less and less now so I think it is "breaking in" but it froze a few times and that never happened before. So had to take the battery out to reset. Problem is, when it loaded back up, none of the preferences in BB Dimension Today Plus were saved. So all the applications that I had re-ordered and hidden were all messed up. Every time I had to take the battery out, I would have to go trough the exhaustive process of setting my order back up and hiding all the applications I didn't want to see. Other than that, great update.

camera is so bad and the trackball still cannot flash

Great Upgrade...

I Recommend It Strongly......

I wish that my camera worked on my t-mo 8100. I Like to take a lot of pics and the white balance was so messed up I had to revert back to 4.2.1.109.

Did you wipe and then install or just upgrade?

I really want to know how your cam works and most others don't?

Removing Color Pearl will no doubt make thisngs better since it is incompatable right now with 4.5 OS

Just to put it out there. I have used this release and 2 other betas with my 8100 t-mo and My sim card is fine. I just installed the latest beta and the camera works great. no other problems.

thanks :>

I just installed this version on my Pearl, and while the new fonts and the general improved appearance of the OS as well as the 'get images' option in the messaging menu were nice additions, the camera was very dark even in a brightly lit room, and the BB started to reboot repeatedly and I was getting a number of uncaught exception errors from java, so I chickened out and ended up going back to 4.2. I'll just have to wait for T-Mobile to release their version, which with TMo's reputation for being unfashionably late to the technology party will probably be around December of '09. LOL Oh well, at least I got a very small taste of things to come.

I upgraded and everything seems to work fine except now the led (signal indicator) light is always on. It doesn't flash or anything, it's just constantly on. It was red so i changed the indicator led to ON. I set it back to off and now it's stays on..........yeah.

Remove ColorPearl and your led will go back to normal. ColorPearl doesn't work properly with OS 4.5.

I'm assuming you have an 8100 and not the 8700 you have in your profile.

Well i have both but yeah, i was referring to the Pearl (8100). Yeah Colorpearl does not work with BB which sucks, because i really loved how different my BB was from everyone else's just because of the color of my trackball.

Thanks a lot for the info.

So far so good on this new os, been on it for a couple weeks now and it seems to be working fine with a few exceptions. One is the camera, it is way too dark when it is just normal room lighting, and if I go outside it is WAY too bright, basically a comletely white screen. White balance is set to auto. I played with that setting and it doesnt seem to matter much either way. My girl friends perl is acting the same way. Its not a big deal because I rarely use the camera, it is just nice to have it on occasion. Second is the hourglass on things sometimes, but that has seemed to dimish with use thankfully. It was getting pretty annoying having to wait so long for the phone to do basic things.

oh yeah, battery life seems to be better as well which is nice

What version did you upgrade from to get your camera to work from the start? I was using .18, the camera worked fine, upgraded to .37, camera is all jacked up. Any ideas?

I guess with the later reviews of people installing it I will try it tonight

Roh-Oh. I didn't delete vendor.xml when I installed..
is this a bad thing X_x?

Wirelessly posted (BB 11020)

If the OS installed then its fine. If the OS doesn't install then delete it. Many of the betas out there have empty vendor.xml files because they are not from a specific carrier so deleting the vendor.xml isn't always required. I always delete it as a matter of practice, though.

How about Camera quality ? maybe it still dark ?

Despite the common issues i keep reading about in this thread! i am going to give it a shot! and yes I do have an 8100 from T-mo also.

The camera is still FUBAR. I hope the next update fixes that. Other than that, the update is nice, HTML email works great.

hi all, after the update finished with a 205 app error

can someone upload photos of how this os looks like ????
6 or 7 ? thanks.

yeah slow motion hahaha

yeah, the camera is bogus now for me.. it's too dark and too bright..
even though i don't use it often. it would be a nice option if it works.

I like the new things though.
New text message layout.
Voice recorder.
Better Media Access.


I'll post pictures for those who have been craving :P

:EDIT: Pictures!






enjoy. I blurred the text one.. well, lol hopefully for obvious reasons.
These are the most that stood out for me.
The better media player, the find media, voice recorder, and text messages.

well... same problems.. camera too dark/bright and problems hearing the voicenotes... :( dont know what to do!

Wirelessly posted (8100 Pearl)

Has anyone else noticed that 4.5 is a bit of a power hog?

Have we had any problems with this release on ATT sims?

Wirelessly posted (BB 11020)

There are no reported sim issues on ATT

can someone please answer this ~ =\

Wirelessly posted (8100 Pearl)

I have been following the thread and have noticed folks referring to .37 and .52. Is there actually a newer OS than .37 and is so where is it? I got what I thought was the latest 4.5 OS for the 8100 from the links on this thread and it was .37.

T-Mobile 8100 here - running the .52 OS since Saturday.

Love the media player and the camera. The white balance is fine. Outdoor shots looks bright, but they always did for me. Indoor shots are dark, if it's dark in the room. It's a friggin cellphone camera - if I want awesome quality, I'll use an awesome camera. It works for me.

I had the colorpearl app, but after the upgrade it was stuck on all color, and it made my LED indicator stay on. I deleted it this morning, and it makes me very, very sad. I'm waiting for a new release. There's another color ball application out there, but it's $5, and I cannot confirm that it's OS4.5 compatible. I'll just have to wait.

I upgraded without reading ANY of the reviews. My friend just got an 8110 through at&t, and it had 4.5.0-something. Her media player looked phenomenal, and her menus were smoother, and faster. I got jealous and upgraded. After reading about all the bad things, and it making T-Mo phones break within a week I got a little scared, so I deleted ColorPearl. I also need to go back and see if I can install the Doc2go. I forgot to check that when I installed.

I'm very happy. I just need to keep reading so I can discover how to load themes onto the phone. I have a few themes on my PC, and I want to eventually get em over to the BB.

I know its just a cellphone camera, but all my family is living in another country so the fact that i can send them pictures of what im doing is a big plus for me... i will have to wait i guess...

Same goes for me, my Dad is very un-savvy with technology, so having him input an email address on an mms would be like asking Microsoft to give us free MS points for more Rockband downloads!