[Legal Eagle]

So I've had my very first BlackBerry (Bold 9900 on Vodafone UK) for a couple of months now and have decided to take the plunge and upgrade from stock.296.

Which is the way to go, leaked .440 or official .439 ?

Alternatively, am I better off waiting for my carrier to release an upgrade ?

All thoughts/comments greatly appreciated

[daveshiz]

go for it 440 ive had no probs 10 days so far wait on carrier will be a long wait

[EvilmasterMMA]

Haven't tried .440. But the .439 is working great for me. Also grab the latest appworld beta and you will be a happy camper.

[hateearth]

raise my 2 legs and 2 arms up & up for 440.

I think 439 sucks... just wiped and go for 440 again.

wat about max's 440 hybrid.

[mohawk apple]

440 been awesome here to. No complaints
;-)

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[maxrdlf]

Same platform so changes are .1 nothing noticeable..

[teostar]

Both 439 & 440 are buggy. I'd recommend .353. Both 440 and 439 cause wierd freezing of the touchscreen that's never happened on 353 also I had a random freeze an reboot on 439.

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[BlackRedBold]

440 has given me terrible battery life , I was on 296 before and tht was much better imo , the 440 drains my battery so fast and there's no apps running in background or any refresh evrey hour etc so I don't no how people are getting great battery life cos I can't

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[claykin]

440 has given me terrible battery life , I was on 296 before and tht was much better imo , the 440 drains my battery so fast and there's no apps running in background or any refresh evrey hour etc so I don't no how people are getting great battery life cos I can't

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I found the opposite since upgrading from .250 to .440. My batt life improved noticeably. I only recently installed Meterberry so I don't have any concrete observation to share yet.

BTW, during the RIM outage your phone would discharge much faster due to phone trying to constantly make a connection to RIMs backend. Things should be much better now.

So far I have been averaging about 6.5% discharge per hour according to Meterberry since upgrading to .440. That's with fairly average usage of phone, txt, email and some browsing.

[Abdullahh121212]

hey, can anyone give me the link to download .440 and .439? Like the proper links.. Right now I was updating to .440, found the link in this forum and it got stuck in the middle and said that there is no communication the device? now I am redoing it. Also, i did delete the vendor.xml

[Masahiro]

I've noticed a couple glitches in both 439 and 440. When texting, a duplicate draft will sometimes appear in the inbox, which gets a little annoying. I've also been having issues with my convenience key ever since 343 or so. It simply will become unresponsive at times. I wonder if it's a hardwaer issue, glitch across multiple OS builds, or an app that's causing it...

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[gyokuro]

Installed .439 WIND a few days ago over .250 T-Mobile. After a few reboots, the battery is better, and it keeps the signal a little bit better than before (which should be the case since their radio stacks are the same). It seems more stable overall. If you are on T-Mobile, then I recommend this over .400 until the official TM arrives with UMA and Hotspot.

[Blackberry9900hb]

Is there anyway i can update to these leaked OS's using a mac computer without getting parallels?

[Fnord]

Is there anyway i can update to these leaked OS's using a mac computer without getting parallels?

Unfortunately not.
The OS' are .exe files. You need a PC to install...

[Xterra2]

440 has given me terrible battery life , I was on 296 before and tht was much better imo , the 440 drains my battery so fast and there's no apps running in background or any refresh evrey hour etc so I don't no how people are getting great battery life cos I can't

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Please whre is your batttery made in
Check pls

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[mhw100]

I haven't noticed any appreciable difference between them I think both are good but then again I'm not noticing any battery or other non-cosmetic issues.

[echomouse]

I updated to the 440 and have noticed a huge increase in battery life.

I recommend the updated

[shungs9]

I've noticed a couple glitches in both 439 and 440. When texting, a duplicate draft will sometimes appear in the inbox, which gets a little annoying. I've also been having issues with my convenience key ever since 343 or so. It simply will become unresponsive at times. I wonder if it's a hardwaer issue, glitch across multiple OS builds, or an app that's causing it...

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Im having the same issue with the duplicated drafts, and I even rolled back to .353 with no luck.

[anon(4126017)]

I've noticed a couple glitches in both 439 and 440. When texting, a duplicate draft will sometimes appear in the inbox, which gets a little annoying. I've also been having issues with my convenience key ever since 343 or so. It simply will become unresponsive at times. I wonder if it's a hardwaer issue, glitch across multiple OS builds, or an app that's causing it...


Happens to me as well double txt (one of them saved green empty one)
Downgrading to 353 I think!!

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