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So after using OS 6 for about a month, I honestly think I can say I like 5 better and so am going to switch back to it for now. Before everybody goes and calls me crazy for switching back, that's not the point of this post! The point is: For those of us wanting to stick with OS 5, what do you think is the best release for the 9700? I believe the last 4 were 862, 938, 979 and 1014, so I'll stick with those. Which would you pick?
EDIT: Well I tried to make this a poll... but I guess I did something wrong
Maybe a mod could fix it? If not just post your answers!Last edited by Alex338; 02-14-11 at 12:18 PM.
02-14-11 12:14 PM - Why switch back? 6.O.O.448 is great! On 97OO unless there was a bug or something or simply just don't like it.So after using OS 6 for about a month, I honestly think I can say I like 5 better and so am going to switch back to it for now. Before everybody goes and calls me crazy for switching back, that's not the point of this post! The point is: For those of us wanting to stick with OS 5, what do you think is the best release for the 9700? I believe the last 4 were 862, 938, 979 and 1014, so I'll stick with those. Which would you pick?
EDIT: Well I tried to make this a poll... but I guess I did something wrong Maybe a mod could fix it? If not just post your answers!
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com02-14-11 06:47 PM - Yay, how I've missed my OS5 Bold - back together at last!
With 2 days on OS6 and 2 full battery charges and getting utterly lost in the new menus, sub menus and sub sub menus for various settings, I decided to go back to OS5. Call me old fashioned but I'll stick to OS5 for as long as I can.
I fancied the pants off my 9700 when I got it and I still do, I think it's a killer combination and that the hardware and OS5 work together very well. It's a sort of 'does what it says on the tin' and a pretty much no-nonsense clear cut setup which is difficult to get lost in, for example, I love the clarity of 'Options' as the only place you need to go to get all the parameters and settings etc. Clean and simple, very unlike OS6.
What I don't like in OS6 is that it's done a bit of a 'Windows', the look and feel is a bit wishy washy, a bit softer and more complicated - pointless eye candy in many cases. Plus I hate the wallpapers it comes with, making it a hassle to try & find something less offensive. Similar to good old solid reliable Nokia phones then they turned into nebulous Symbian phones, becoming bland in my opinion. 6 seems like just a variant of what's out there on the market already in smart phones.
Was hoping it would be a more honed and sleeker 5 but there's loads of things I can't do the way I want them to work (which are perfect on 5); having said that there are definitely some good moves in 6...
Still, I went from 97Mb available with 5 to 28Mb free on 6 and there's nothing I can really delete to free up some space as I'm not into games or horoscopes or cheap entertainment or whatever. And the battery drained very quickly for just my average use!
I gave it a shot and pored over it determined to like it and see it as a positive change but I just got such a huge relief when I went back to 5! Couldn't stick it any longer. And I'm chuffed to bits that the downgrade process was smooth, with only 2 minor glitches (calendar wiped - easily synced, and BrickBreaker is, err, broken now but no big shakes really).
Here's hoping my Bold lasts me a long time with 5. Cheers.02-15-11 08:39 PM
