The BlackBerry Pearl 9100 and 9105 have not had much OS love. The last OS 6 build to hit was OS 6.0.0.344, which was not a very good build. Now, OS 6.0.0.418 has dropped, and so far .418 builds seem to be pretty solid.
Thanks installing now, like .344, it detected the update as being available directly from Desktop Manager running Windows XP SP3. Will post findings later
Wow! That was fast. Got the update up and running in less than 20 minutes This build seems faster that .344. SMS now sends properly and the cursor bug in messages is now fixed. The calculator interface is larger now. The app shortcuts from the homescreen initially didn't work but a simple battery pull did it. Will update some more as the day progresses. Thanks for this!
Last edited by eryanc; 12-13-10 at 06:51 PM.
Reason: addendum
just installed the new OS with the loader app (Vista x64). Success. will be testing over the next few days to see. will update as issues/resolutions come up.
after first battery pull, when accessing messages, OS hung on "grouping messages", however 2nd pull fixed issue. Also, message highlight issue hasn't been resolved when i updated. Still same issue of when scrolling through history of messages, message not highlighted, only time stamp is updated.
Edit:
Cursor issue is fixed with SMS messages however for BBM messages i still don't know where i am in my history (same as before). Can anyone answer regarding this issue and if it's always been this way, i honestly don't recall OS5. and BBM cursors.
Last edited by jugolic; 12-13-10 at 09:09 PM.
Reason: New findings.
Thus far all applications that i use have worked after upgrade exceint for Ping!
Just had to reinstall Ping and it worked fine.
No Issues with :
TSN
SCORE
GMAIL
Google Sync
Twitter
MSN
Google Chat
Endomondo
Scanlife
Poynt
Opera Mini
Trapster
Traffic eye
Weather eye
Memory Up
restartMe
The issue where the browser had issues going to the next line in a text box has been resolved. I had this problem with the browser with the old leaked version when using facebook and various other sites while using the web browser.
So far so good, changing profile to vibrate with # still not working, other than that, browser seems to work ok out of the box. Will know more in a few days
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com
Tried to upgrade my (Bell Mobility) 9100 to this build (from 5.0.0.714). It is the first 6.0 upgrade on this phone (no other 6.x leaks installed).
I have downloaded and installed the file from Rapidshare (and also tried Hotfile), deleted vendor.xml, opened DM 6, it detects the new OS, I click "Upgrade Device", then I get the error that "one or modules could not be resolved" and the install aborts.
What os are you running and did you remove the os 5 files from pc? Also may need to run ccleaner prior to os6 install
Thanks for the reply. Actually I found another thread on crackberry where others had the exact same problem, but with the 9700. The solution is to not use DM to do the upgrade, but to run loader.exe from Explorer instead. That worked great.
I CFP'd my 9100 and used the BBHybridTool to launch the Application Loader and install.
So far, I am very impressed with this build over the previous leak of 6.0. I had to downgrade from .344 because of GPS issues with BlackBerry Maps and Telenav.
I've hit a few UI snags but performance-wise, nothing.
had an issue with some applications in .314 not being able to us the blackberry key to pull up a menu of options (send, switch) etc. seems to be resolved. Had this issue with ping! and google mail for the most part.
still seems that the search function in google mail isn't' working. not sure if this is an OS issue or a gmail issue.
also, no issue with sms not being able to send thus far!!