.90 may be better than we thought! in fact they all might be
I know this is long but please read it may just help, not just with this os but any bugs you may be experiencing.
First off I know I am likely to get flamed for posting this but let me begin by saying that yes I know it says newbie next to my name but though I have only used a blackberry for a little over a year I am no stranger to beta testing. I have been beta for both hardware and software for as long as I can remember. It is my nature to take things that should work and try to make them behave the way they are supposed to.
I tried all of the leaked os for the storm and really had few if any problems until I got to .90 (I know I was one of the lucky ones). I was beginning to believe my Storm was charmed but was wanting more speed and better functionality. It just didn�t feel like the Storm was living up to its potential. I dl�d .90 with great anticipation and was rewarded with much more speed and enhanced functionality. I was so excited�. For about 20 minutes. Then I started experiencing every bug posted ie. Random reboots, reboots while playing music, sim error, vsod, poor battery life� you name it I had it. I was disgusted. Still I was intrigued by the fact that so many seemed to have it running flawlessly on their machines� what was the difference� it didn�t seem to be related to any one thing and that just doesn�t sit well with me. I knew it had to be user related in some way. What was I doing wrong? I tried everything I could think of. I did a complete wipe reinstall� I tried removing all 3rd party apps (with the idea that I would re-install one at a time to find the culprit/culprits but I still had many of the errors regardless) finally I decided it was a hopeless os for my machine gave up and reinstalled .86. I continued to read the posts of folks having such varied experience with this and other os�s and my mind just couldn�t let it go. I began to see patterns in most of the complaints and decided to give it one more try. What happened was eyeopening.
I dl�d a fresh copy of .90 made sure it was the only os installed on the computer. Formatted my media card
Set my mobile network to 1xev
Deleted all bbthumb files on both the device and the media card
And because I was exhausted just installed .90 on top of .86
When the install was completed I converted all the music I wanted to add to plain ole mp3 (I converted all music whether or not it was tagged as mp3 or not) and then just did drag and drop into the music folder instead of using a sync program.
I then tested and found everything working perfectly� did a battery recondition (ran it to failure and did a total recharge).
Then added every 3rd party app one by one checking for fatal errors�. Nothing�
It has been running like a champ� only one freeze while browsing and I can live with that on any machine.
Here is why i think it worked
The two patterns that emerged as i beat my head against all of the apparent bugs in this OS seemed to be associated with the sim card (vsod random reboots etc), and strange effects from any programs that pulled from music, photos, etc. especially from the media card... even the polling/scanning of the media card at boot.
First... the sim subroutine appears to be unstable sooo... since we don't need it in the US... disable it.
Second and more importantly.. we all use different methods of ripping, downloading, and syncing music,pictures and files. Some of the os's have been more tolerant of the variances than others... but different os's seem also to have stored and handled them differently. Had .90 been a first release then procedures for loading and using files would have been old hat by now and would not seem like much of a hassle at all. It would be nice, regardless of what direction the developers go with the OS, if they would add a convert option to Media Sync.