[ElusiveAura]

Thinking of going to .103 but before I do I wanted to ask if when you upgrade, you lose your contacts? I haven't synced mine with outlook yet and I'd hate to retype all those contacts in lol. Thanks.

[jsconyers]

You will get prompted if you would like to create a backup. Make sure you check that box and everything should copy over after the installation.

[jhalpinjr]

Originally Posted by ElusiveAura

Thinking of going to .103 but before I do I wanted to ask if when you upgrade, you lose your contacts? I haven't synced mine with outlook yet and I'd hate to retype all those contacts in lol. Thanks.

You will lose your 3rd party apps....You will have to reinstall them afterward.

[adorkable]

Originally Posted by jhalpinjr

You will lose your 3rd party apps....You will have to reinstall them afterward.

Not true.

[jhalpinjr]

Originally Posted by adorkable

Not true.

Backing up your blackberry does not back up the apps.........

It never has for me.

[jsconyers]

Yes, that's correct.

This isn't a normal backup. It will copy 3rd party apps over after the install as adorkable stated.

If you've ever done a switch device wizard, it works the same way. It will copy all data, settings, AND 3rd party apps from the old device to the new one.

AFAIK, the backup/restore feature in loader.exe works the same way.

[jhalpinjr]

Originally Posted by jsconyers

Yes, that's correct.

This isn't a normal backup. It will copy 3rd party apps over after the install as adorkable stated.

If you've ever done a switch device wizard, it works the same way. It will copy all data, settings, AND 3rd party apps from the old device to the new one.

AFAIK, the backup/restore feature in loader.exe works the same way.

I have learned something new from you both- Thank to both of you!!!

[cscotty]

Yup, thats true. It WILL copy your 3rd party apps. I just wiped everything yesterday because my 9530 got stuck on the verizon screen. I reloaded the OS and all my apps were there.

The only thing that was not there were all my Blackberry Messenger Contacts. Its gonna be so tedious re-adding them all again :(

[adorkable]

Originally Posted by cscotty

The only thing that was not there were all my Blackberry Messenger Contacts. Its gonna be so tedious re-adding them all again :(

That's odd. I've done a few OS upgrades and never lost my BBMessenger contacts. :\

[cscotty]

Originally Posted by adorkable

That's odd. I've done a few OS upgrades and never lost my BBMessenger contacts. :\

It is weird. You know, I did a full backup before I installed to new OS. Then on installation, the OS made a separate backup. So when I noticed that my contacts in BBM werent there, I restored from the first backup I made, and look! When I open BBM, it greeted me with the enter your name as you would like it to appear screen. lol..

That was the first time it did that. I have other backups (of course) but its about a week or so old. A lot has changed since then. lol

Scott

[ElusiveAura]

Thanks for the input.

[cscotty]

Yes! I just restored my BBM contacts only from my previous backup. Yay!