Just upgraded to 4.6.0.282 on my AT&T Bold 9000.

Time to upgrade: 22 mins

Checked the following based on the issues reported by others:

1. Overall performance: Excellent

2. Call quality: Excellent

3. Browser performance: Excellent

4. Tethering performance: Usable (AT&T)
Connects at 921.6 (377k Download, 141k Upload, 224ms Latency)

5. Battery performance: TBD

I've used BB's for years, and for me this is the best of the lineup. Screen is so sharp and bright, performance is quick, overall a real joy to use.

This firmware update seems to render picture thumbnails faster. I'll let y'all know if I find any problems. Pretty good at first blush.

Regards,
Rob

Hey gents.. My first post. yay... anyway im torn in doing this update. I don't want to lose all my appointments on my calander. what are the big differences between what i have and this new one? I have 4.6.0.167. should I upgrade or wait...

I use the 3G only with Rogers, otherwise in weak 3G signal areas (as in 28th floor office) it will go down to edge where I get gsm buzzing in my speakers, more multipath bounce on the cell phone and much less speed on data.
Lots of advantages to being on 3G. Yes the 3G setting is "3G or nothing".

3G Only, would be a nice option.

I believe I am seeing a faster than normal battery drain, and I have an extended Seidio battery on my Bold. Will keep an eye on it.

Regards,
Rob

I just installed the Rogers 4.6.0.282 over the Vodafone version of 282 and I am seeing a big improvement in overall performance, battery life, and free memory. I don't know what Rogers may have done to their build of 282, but it seems to yield much better results on my AT&T Bold.

I know I'm not imagining this. There is a noticable difference. Even though all of this code is distributed by Blackberry, does each carrier have the option of tweaking the packages somehow? I'm curious. Something is different...

Regards,
Rob

your posting in the wrong place.

Wirelessly posted (8300)

Has anyone noticed the bb losing time? Sometimes during battery pulls or scheduled power off. Whenever I boot up again it asks me to edit the time. By default I have it set to pull the timer from cell towers. Not it seems to lose (be 20minutes) behind. And recently it seems to be prompted this whenever I use quickpull.


Any ideas? Really annoying.

I've had my bold for nearly 2 months now and never experienced an issue with it losing time...

I have had it be out by about 3 - 6 mins after a battery pull. even though the battery pull was less than aa minute.
not sure what causes it, but I just edit the time.

battery drains quickly with the new os, so reverted back to .266

Does anybody really know what time it is?
Does anybody really care?
If so I can't imagine why,
We've all got time enough to cry.

I dont care, hence why i just edit it instead of worrying why it does it.

Wirelessly posted

I had massive battery drain, too. Unfortunately, my bold bricked when I was downgrading ;-(. Thank god for my warranty.

Upgrading from 4.6.0.266

Here's hoping that this battery issue people have been advising about doesn't happen.

--Phil

Been running this since the post was updated.

I've had no issues. Battery life is normal, but I'm not running any applications.

I haven't read all the posts in this thread, but I think some of the battery issues are due to running data intensive apps while on 2G. This was an issue with my Pearl and the 8700 before it.

This new version has actually improved my battery life !!!

--Phil

In a week post upgrading to 4.6.0.282 on my AT&T Bold 9000, here are my observations:

- 34 mins to upgrade
- Overall performance - excellent
- Battery life has increased instead decreased times reported
- no java exception errors on running minimonitor utility or any other app
- GPS - very fast acquisition of satellites
- Bluetooth - I have had issues with prior version using 2-3 Plantronics headsets, this version works brilliant and not sure why but range is over 40 feet
- Pictures seem to show faster
- Browser is faster than before
- Wi-Fi works even when I hide the SSID on my router
- No dropped calls so far

Been using Blackberry for years, I believe that this version is the best of all.

If problems show up, I will post them.

same here!

I have noticed that e-mails received are not showing up on my today screen unless I get more than one. Then the second line will show the e-mail but the first line does not.

I'm gonna try updated the home theme's version too see if that fixes. Will report later.

been getting frequent reboots with this OS and also my applicatin memory is at around 28...it was at 40 with prior versions. Thoughts?

FWIW, I've been running this for a while now and the ONLY problem I've experienced is reduced battery life...

My Bold was getting something like 36 hours+ battery life, and now it's down to like 24+ so it doesn't really have any real-world impact on me since it's in the charger every night.

This is still miraculous to me, coming from a AT&T 8525 (HTC) that got maybe 10 hours on a lucky day, and a Treo 650 before it that got maybe 18 with the same amounts (or less) of data usage.

Is there anyway to trace the cause of the substantially increased battery usage in OS 4.6.0.477/4.6.0.282? There has to be a way! I don't leave anything running, no bluetooth, wifi, nothing!

I wonder if there is a way to get ahold of an issues log for BB OS's?

Let's get creative!!! Aside from this issue, this is the best OS I've had on my Bold.

~B

no, RIM do not release "release notes" for their OS's

Hello everyone,
can I use this on my BB in Germany?
What are the Changes to this version?
Everything that works now should work after the Update as well, right?

I currently have the 4.6.0.216 on my phone.
T-Mobile will not release a better version.

Some advice please???

Thanks
Tim

yes you can use ANY carrier OS on your phone, just follow the instructions.
Changes are whatever people say, RIM do not release "release notes" about it.

I just installed the 282.

wish me luck...

Everything should work the same or better with a new version, right?
Email, Sync and Telephone???

Tim

Yes it should, been running it since it popped up.

No problems with .282 on BB Bold, but waiting on OS 5!

Well said..

I've been trying to install .282 and I installed it last night but I go to check what version I have and it says .167. I used DM 5.0 and I downloaded the OS from the link in this thread. I uninstalled the OS from the computer and installed it again and it showed that OS 4.6.0.282 was there but when I go to upgrade DM says there is no software upgrade for this device. Can anybody help with this problem? Thanks.

did you remove the vendor.xml file?

yup, I removed vendor.xml file and it shows that I have .282 installed on my computer on DM. When I go to the next step it says I have nothing to update when it says I'm running .167 on my phone.

Did you remember to uninstall .167 from desktop?

yup, I only have .282 installed on the desktop..

I'm using DM 4.6 and had no problem going from .167 to .266 and then to .282 don't know anything about DM 5.0 maybe someone else can give you some clues. Good luck.

Hi, I installed the .282 yesterday.
Everything went good.
The performance is better, the phone loads faster (email, Camera, internet)

but the phone hast restarted its self two times since yesterday.
Yesterday evening it was off. I had to restart. and this morning when i woke up, i had to enter my pin.

anyone else had this?


Tim

I am using .282 OS w/ 5.0 BBM and 4.6 DM - No Issues Here. All is A-OK!

Picture thumbnails display is a huge problem in 282! i copied all images off my card. reformatted the card in BB and copied them all back (without the BBThumbs.DAT of course). let the .DAT files rebuild and everything seemed ok. but when i go into any of my picture folders the images come in at anywhere from 1/2 second to 2 seconds each! very unacceptable!!

switching 2G and 3G a nice new feature but easy to drop in to the engineering screens and do that anyway. Also battery life on this build seems HORRIBLE!!

might have to rollback in another day or so.

i looked at engineering logs and VVM is trying to connect every 1-5 minutes and also logging some java exceptions. i assume this is the source of the battery drain. i have to look into how to remove the .COD on this build. I knew how to do it once, but forgot. if anyone has a link to instructions i'd appreciate it. thanks