AWS Pearl 3G

**NikosB** · 06-04-2011, 01:24 PM

Afternoon fellows
This is my first post (and my first BB

) so go easy on me

I have a Wind BB9100 and i'm moving in a few days, going back to europe.
Now Wind hasn't updated their BB OS to V6, so i was wondering can i just download the UK Vodafone OS6 and install that,or will it not work?Also there was an article on bgr.com stating that a change in bands might be possible (article link is here )
i looked back several pages on the forum already without finding anything, but if there is please point me to it!
thank you
Rgds
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**kurtla** · 06-04-2011, 03:14 PM

now why would you want to upgrade to vista when you have a working copy of xp? really. no, you cannot change the hard settings in the phone.

**Denise in Los Angeles** · 06-04-2011, 06:11 PM

Your Pearl will only get EDGE speeds in UK, changing the OS does not make any difference, but if you can't buy a new BB right now, its better than no BB.

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**grahamf** · 06-04-2011, 08:56 PM

Originally Posted by TequilaAddict

Your Pearl will only get EDGE speeds in UK, changing the OS does not make any difference, but if you can't buy a new BB right now, its better than no BB.

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Really? I thought aws bbs had euro bands.

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**NikosB** · 06-04-2011, 09:50 PM

thanks a lot for the help guys

i don't use 3G too much so i'm fine with Edge

**Denise in Los Angeles** · 06-04-2011, 10:23 PM

Oh by the way, don't pay any attention to that bgr story. Its been a while since it was written, and RIM is not doing anything about changing bands on phones.

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**NikosB** · 06-17-2011, 11:20 AM

Afternoon people,
afte a lenghty flight, i find my self in europe only to find out that my AWS bb which i though would be running on a 2G network...is actually running on 3G :O :O :O i was surprised as ****, the bbm is working and everything.This makes no sense since from what i've been reading here and everywhere else the bands are different and it shouldn't happen.Happy as a clam and not complaining about it.
However, for some odd reason, my wifi refuses to do a proper connection.It says connected, but the wifi icon is grey :s and there is no green check mark.I didn't touch the settings at all, i'm stumped here...what to do?
thank you for your help all of you
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**NikosB** · 06-17-2011, 12:05 PM

never mind guys, it fixed itself...
but out of curiosity, how is it possible that my AWS phone picks up 3G signal in europe?
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**kurtla** · 06-17-2011, 02:06 PM

don't know what carriers device you are using but you are prob using band 1, 2100 not AWS band 4

**grahamf** · 06-17-2011, 03:14 PM

Originally Posted by NikosB

never mind guys, it fixed itself...
but out of curiosity, how is it possible that my AWS phone picks up 3G signal in europe?
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AWS phones have euro bands. They always have.

**NikosB** · 06-17-2011, 03:49 PM

huh, interesting, i thought it would only be getting 2G...good to know.
Now it's coming up with something weird again, the wifi only works when i have the canadian sim in it :s

**kurtla** · 06-17-2011, 05:22 PM

I don't know much more other than when I travel to Europe once a year and get off the plane it all works. I have tmo in los angeles -- I don't use the device for calling much, just txt and email so I have never even noticed how fast a pipe I am getting, I am just so happy to have email @ my fingertips that its enough for me