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There are quite a few Blackberry Storm users that decided on the 9530 model instead of the 9500 model that are using EDGE; including myself. Why?? I have no idea; but if you’re like me you have toyed around with plenty of leaked OS along with tons of Hybrids. There was only 2 OS’s that actually worked flawless when it came to the radio code. 4.7.0.75 and 4.7.0.90. Unfortunately they were both terrible in terms of stability. Random reboots, lockups, and the oh so famous VSOD (Verizon Screen of Death).
Quite a few leaks have came after these versions, and sadly only the Verizon users were able to take advantage of all the great new features without as many issues as we had. RIM never quite worked on the GSM portion of the radio code on any OS. After 4.7.0.90 we all encountered the EDGE/edge issue in OS after OS; basically rendering our devices useless without solid data connectivity. Luckily for us there was a couple of Blackberry enthusiast out there willing to take risks. Thus the Hybrids were born. We were now able to use the .90 radio code in the future leaked OS’s which finally allowed us to have solid EDGE.
There was an issue though. Swapping the .90 radio code to these new and functional OS’s brought along some of those pesky bugs from the .90 OS’s such as Random reboots, lockups, and the oh so famous VSOD. After months of struggling with this issue, and countless hours of browsing through the Crackberry Forums, I came across a thread that mentioned a fix for us unfortunate GSM users that would allow us to have solid EDGE without having to use an older or Hybrid OS in general sacrificing the phones stability.
With all this being said, I present you the fix of all fixes that helped cure my phone of such horrid issues mentioned above and made me the happy Storm owner we ALL should have been from day one.
Make sure you have these setting applied and you should be good to go!
Options >Advanced Options >TCP/IP
Options >Mobile Network
With this fix you lose and you gain. The gain being the biggest factor, and the loss a minor sacrifice for a stable phone. The only downfall about this method is not being able to use Youtube in anyway without dropping to edge. Also apps requiring TCP only will not work. Apps such as Youtube and Pandora will not work with this method. To me these are not necessary and not worth the risks using .90.
Apps not working with fix:
Pandora Radio
Google Youtube App
Vision Youtube App - Works to stream video, but once done EDGE drops to edge. Will keep playing around.
Please PM me if something in this how to is inaccurate Ill be more then glad to update it.
Is it possible to move this to the HOWTO section?Last edited by XJRodzx; 06-19-09 at 07:27 AM.
06-16-09 11:01 AM - Ive never used .90 radio code. Only the ones that came with the leaks. I thought .113 was decent. But I have done this with every leak I used. It is good information Im not disputing that.
But Im not sure what you mean crash? Are you meaning just losing EDGE or having a complete reboot because I have only had that happen 1 time.06-16-09 08:17 PM
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