[Shocktribe]

So I downloaded it and installed it this morning, so far no huge changes that I can see, anyone else download and install successfully?

P.S. - This is the first time I ever downloaded a leaked OS I usually stick to the vendor one but I felt like I needed change.

[BoldPreza]

My keyboard is a lot more accurate now. Aside from that, nope not really.

[Shocktribe]

I found the new parental control settings and also my device is faster. I am still looking around and checking out what can possibly be different.

[Joltcola1234]

There isn't much difference between .402 and .342. There are some changes like the parental controls, media server, and firewall. I notice no difference in the keyboard accuracy though like Bold mentions. Battery life and memory leaks seem largely unchanged, and a few minor bugs remain. Overall all of the variations of the 7.1 releases have been pretty solid for me.

[kbz1960]

It seems to respond faster to me. Other than that it works.

[loth]

Battery went from 5.40 %/hr to 2.61%/hr, actually love the firewall and I'm still looking for another features.

[petworks97]

One thing I noticed is that when typing on suretype sometimes the predictive typing shows the word but I have to press the space button twice to pick the word I want. This didn't happen on the previous OS.

[Searzy]

Rocking .402 and lovin'it!

RE: Security Apps - My BB has all features NATIVELY installed - That's why BB's rock!

[abramadhi]

i agree with bold, the keyboard is more accurate especially if i use the direct input. Battery is also better, from arround 9% to arround 5%. I use my bb heavy everyday for emails and bbm, even do a meeting using the bbm and it can consumes the battery to arround 15% per hour.

Sent from my BlackBerry 9860 using Tapatalk

[Lego Star Wars]

Have .402 installed. Not much difference but then I noticed that the battery is excellent now. Wifi always on and heavy use will see the battery go down by an eighth/day. Everything appears to be crisper as well, but that is probably just the case of being a fresh install. Without any of the gizmo's I can't say alot more, o yea, camera's alot more responsive.

If anyones having doubts, don't, I would download this guys

[Rex_kwon_do]

My keyboard no longer has a delay, and input seems more accurate. Battery life and memory seem better too, but I am just on my second day with this install, so the freshness of the OS may wear off. So far this is a big improvement in performance with no real noticeable improvement in features.

[Ronzdaname]

I've installed this leak and no one could hear me during phone calls. This happened even after wiping my phone and installing it. My phone also locked up a lot. I ended up rolling back to v7.1.0.342 where I have no issues at all.

I'm on AT&T, has anyone else had this problem?

[1magine]

After several days use: Everything remains a wee bit snappier. With all apps re-installed, there is a a few megs more memory. Can't comment on battery life. GPS seems weak. Antennae same as .340 which is terrible compared to the 7.0 software.

Witrhout using Media Player - I have no memory leak whatsoever. Will stay on 218.5 all day. As soon as I begin to use Media Player memory now drops at an alarming rate. Currently losing 40 megs in 24 hours. Resorting to 2 battery pulls a day to stem the tide.

My 3rd party apps: FB, MLBatBat; BEweather; Tether, Endomondo Pro; Telenav Plus; RSA; Docs to Go; Pinball Deluxe; Food Ninja.

RIM apps - Compass; BBM; Calculator; Appworld.voice dialing; voice notes recorder.

[CharlesH]

There is also a discussion about this leak over in http://forums.crackberry.com/leaked-beta-os-f95/
Seems that some at&t users are having a problem with the person they call not being able to hear them, but no reports of such problems from the CDMA side.

[Marathon]

This leak work with Verizon 9850 if vendor.xml deleted??

[Undenied]

I think as long as you're using the leak for the right device (your 9850). You can delete the vendor.xml file, no problem.

[Marathon]

But this leak = 402 is it for 9860 or 9850?

TIA!

[Joltcola1234]

But this leak = 402 is it for 9860 or 9850?

TIA!

If you go down to the leak forum you will notice there is a separate link for the 9860 and the 9850, the leak is available for both phones.

[Marathon]

If you go down to the leak forum you will notice there is a separate link for the 9860 and the 9850, the leak is available for both phones.

Thanks Found it.
Go Celts!
Go Bruins!

[Undenied]

Shrunk the OS down to 76MB, Installed .402, looked like it was a smoothly.

Now the Desktop Manager can't connect to the device.
Today is a good day. Such a beautiful day. Amazing... I feel like smashing something.

Update: Well this is fun. I downgraded to .340 just for kicks, and DM is recognising it again. I feel the vein growing

[Undenied]

Any Sprint kids having issues like I do with Desktop Manager? I'm attempting this again to eliminate possibilities as to why it happens.

[Marathon]

Installed on Verizon 9850, and no issues at all.

Seems pretty snappy, and no problem with desktop manager either.

All programs seem to be working, so so far this seems to be a really nice build.

[trsbbs]

Had my first processor busy (something like that) last night. The phone became unstable and had to do a battery.
Didn't do it on the prior 342 but showed its face in the last leak.
Disappointing to say the least.

It appears that the 9860 is having more issues then the 9850 but both phones
and their OSs need some TLC from RIM. Will it get it? I am not so sure.

RIM seems to have put the 9850 on the back burner. In fact it seems OS7 is
all on the back burner. (almost a year for an OS7 theme builder????)
This is major mistake by RIM as those that went for the full touch screen BB are the
ones that would jump on a full touch screen BB10 phone.

If they cant stabilize an OS that has been used for years, with slight warm over improvements how the heck can we expect them to get BB10 stable and dependable?

Tim

[1magine]

Had my first processor busy (something like that) last night. The phone became unstable and had to do a battery.
Didn't do it on the prior 342 but showed its face in the last leak.
Disappointing to say the least.

It appears that the 9860 is having more issues then the 9850 but both phones
and their OSs need some TLC from RIM. Will it get it? I am not so sure.

RIM seems to have put the 9850 on the back burner. In fact it seems OS7 is
all on the back burner. (almost a year for an OS7 theme builder????)
This is major mistake by RIM as those that went for the full touch screen BB are the
ones that would jump on a full touch screen BB10 phone.

If they cant stabilize an OS that has been used for years, with slight warm over improvements how the heck can we expect them to get BB10 stable and dependable?

Tim

Tim - You can't. I know many are hanging their hopes that when BB10 releases in Oct./Nov. that it will wow and win over all. They seem to want to ignore what RIM has done in the hardware and especially software space since the release of the Tour with the high percentage of faulty trackballs. In fact, since the release of the 8700 serie, I don't think RIM has done very much. They were brought kicking and dragging to include media players, cameras, media card slots and have never resolved the app memory issues. The Storm was not the only failure. The way RIM continues to test and release OSes to its carrier partners is disgraceful. The hardware choices of their latest round of flagship devices (plastic screens, half baked cameras, no video zoom, inconsistant NFC) is incongruant at best. RIM has not shown in more than three years that they understand the consumer market or the changing business market. They have not shown the ability to get devices to market in a timely manner; meet their own terrible deadlines; provide relatively bug free, complete software on release. But all this will change in Oct./Nov? I'm sorry but even the fact that we are looking at an August reveal and an Oct./Nov release, tells me that nothing has changed. They've been working on this OS for nearly 2 years. Its April, in NA many OS7 devices are already EOL. What will the next 6 months bring? A stop gap is a temporary measure; that is what OS7 was intended to be; but it will be a year from the OS7 flagships to BB10, that's not a stop gap.

I've said it before, I'll say it again. It's not the media. It's not the bloggers. It's not Wall Street analysts. It's RIM. The stock is selling between $12 & $13. And that's exactly where it belongs.

[Shocktribe]

This is about the latest leak, not about whether RIM will succeed in the future or BB10 phones. Please stay on topic