The latest OS 247 is the best so far, and I have been going through all of them! I wish I got this OS when I unboxed my Bold a few months ago.

I definitely like it, only one thing is a bit annoying somewhere in between all the upgrades, the information on the media card when looking at stored videos, music, etc. do not come up so easily anymore but only via explorer,I have not figured out why they don't show my default...

I usually delete all of the BBThumbs.dat files...that usually does the trick.

R

I don't know if this has anything to do with this new OS, but with .247 I can no longer save the third party apps in a folder with the BB PIN by doing the first half of the "Switch devices" from one BB to another in the Desktop Manager. This is a neat trick I learned in some BB tips--doing this ahead of an OS upgrade creates an alx file with all the 3rd party apps with their cods, just in case the upgrade fails and you have to wipe the BB or start from scratch.

When I try to do it, it looks at all the apps, but doesn't copy them to the usual folder in the temps directory, nor create the folder, for that matter.

Anyone else run into this problem?

Less than 24 hours after upgrade and this is the only issues I have seen:

When reading some messages, display suddenly changes to 'Revese Contrast'. If I check it under 'Options-Advanced-Accessibility-Color Contrast' its still set at 'Normal'. Changing it to 'Reverse Contrast' will make it normal or rebooting the device will bring it to normal. This has happened 3 times so far in less than 24 hours.

Anyone else notice this?

I cant get BB Maps to show up?? Anyone else?

Well, I upgrade it mine from 4...185 to 247, all apps r working fine and also no improvement occurred regarding application memory, the next couple of days will monitor performance & battery usage post my experience for whom wanna upgrade to this ver.

I want a bold but I'll have to do with the 8320 Curve. There's not a whole lot of difference so it's not worth the upgrade.

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You've got to be kidding in saying there's not a lot of difference between the bold and the 8320.

Darn near identical. Both are Blackberrys.

Yea right, like a Ford and a Porche are darn near the same as they both have wheels.

Yes att is still on .167.... still i looked all att for a newer one and no luckno change to .247 here

Me get the same result like yours....anyway...wish to find out more...

I did the mistake of forgetting to delete the vendor.xml :(!.
What would be the effect of this.
I am on a vendor that is licesned with Blackberry.
What can I do to restor my original vendor.xml?

Thanks,
E

A noob question but wanted to find out ....

Can i install this OS on my unlocked blackberry bold issued from a BB vendor in dubai ?

Thanks alot...

Yes you surely can

3G is dropping the data connection after a few hours. 221 was the most stable 3G OS for me.
244 has the annoying .rem bug

3G on .247 is dropping as most people pointed out.
.244 worked great for me. Didn't really mind the .rem issue as not a heavy user of the media card.
How can I fall back to the .244 using the Blackberry desktop manager. Do not want to use the uploader as I do not want to re-activate my BES?

Any ideas?
Thanks,
E

Rolling back to 244.
With 247 I am experiencing data connection losses/lags and 3G instability

Seems 244 has the same 3G issues as 247.

Might revert to 221 on monday if this is confirmed. (in 2G, Edge mode only, no problems at all)

Think I'll just stick with 237 until AT&T puts out their next official release with Visual Voicemail

I got the impression that AT&T is, at best, slow about official updates...

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Just upgraded to this and I am getting the "today screen font bug". Was there a fix for this or was it just chalked up to being a bug?

I can now confirm 244 & 247 have the same 3G issues (data connection loss, switching to EDGE when signal is poor). In 2G only mode, no problems. Furthemore the 3G acquisition is taking a long time (between 10 to 20 seconds), compared to 221 where it takes less than 5 seconds.
247 = 244 - the .rem bug
I am rolling back (unfortunately) to 221 which was stable, fast and had good 3G.

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I am considering rolling back as well, but I was on .190, and I don't know if I want to go that far back, are there better ones to consider between .190 and .244/247?

.216 is good

I am on ATT. I upgraded to .247 and like you, I also now have the icon for visual voice mail but am getting the exact same message! Is that just because neither ATT or T-Mobile have introduced visual vmail - or is it a problem with my Bold? If so, I could take it into the ATT store to fix. Has anyone else got visual vmail to work?

Visual Voicemail has not been provisoned (activated) by At&T yet, which is why it doesn't work.

any one here has problems with themes ???
i got some from this site and it makes the font cut off
BlackBerry Info, Themes & More | BlackBerry | Magnum

Yup, i have no problems myself using this setup as i hardly use 3G to save battery life, which now gives me two days of full use. I can probably push it to 3 days if i wanted to.

uptowngirl, you need to edit the bb_vvm or something like that alx file and change it's value to false and not true, then goto add remove apps from the phone and remove the check mark besides visual voicemail, then your regular voicemail will work again.

jt

I have been on 244 for about a week. I keep it on 3G only and find it is about as good or better than earlier OSs for locking in on 3G. I take the subway to work which has occasional open spaces and it will lock in fast to 3G immediately on getting to an uncovered section, if not before leaving the tunnel. I am keeping this one.

I am now back on 221, and have absolutely no more issues.
3G stable and fast, no .rem bug

AHAHHAHAHA I think it's the second one. But your first point is very valid. I sit here and comtemplate the same thing...

What is the main difference between .244 and .247?

I have been happy with my bold since i bought it back in November except for one single bug: My Car Kit HF850 kept disconnecting once in a while:

When I used voice dialing, the bluetooth icon disappeared for one second and come back again once the phone started dialing..... well.... Once in a while, the icon didn't appeared back and the call came back to the phone (that is inconvenient when you drive and the phone in your pocket)

I have made the upgrade most of the O/S and .244 is the "FIRST" O/S that is able to keep the call in the car kit (Solid bluetooth icon with no drops in a week)

Well, I had one strange phenomenon occur: After loading .247 this past weekend, I couldn't get my Bold to play music through either the car stereo or my headphones. I reloaded .216, and it started working fine again. I was afraid I had a hardware issue, but it appears to have been the OS version. I wonder if anyone else has experienced this.

Hello!

I got problem by upgrading my BB Bold, I had never been through this,,,,

The thing when I want to upgrade it its just show me that the upgrade is for MSN messanger and Poker. thats it... any one can help in this please URGENT I need to get back to work tomorrow

I have .167, is there really a purpose to upgrade the OS? What are the benefits.

I also have BES that I use for my work Lotus notes, will I have to have my IT department set my phone back up to receive emails?

im using the new code and love it, fast 3G, browser is great, msn and facebook seem to connect right away without any probs and the WI FI seems to have great signal and speeds, i know it fixed a fault with MMSing where if i were to attach a pic it wouldn't show a preview only the file name.. so i love it. no probs so far

Just switched from .167 on AT&T, works well for me too

Dave, I too have the .167 on my bold and I'm not going to upgrade until ATT throws an official update out for the bold.


Personally, I do not see anything "lacking" on the V.167. I've read more about folks rolling back rather than keeping the upgrade they went through.


:::shrugs:::

I have not had any problems reinitializing on my BES connection, by following the procedure at the start of the thread, but I use desktop manager 4.6 (instead of loader.exe) and have the desktop manager installed on my work computer.

I used .167 briefly (it was my third OS), but found it used much more memory than other OSs. Later OSs, provide better 3G support, faster acquisition of signals, better browser, in my opinion.