I put a post out several days ago and said that I was still running the original firmware. Today I got bored and decided that I would try out .517.
So far I am very happy with the move. It is just much better then .320. If that's what your still on then its a good idea to switch.
Some things that I notice
- Much quicker lock button
- No keypad sticking (before I had problems when the storm was on its back, but no longer)
- screen seems to click more smoothley when typeing
Overall everthing is just a bit more quick
Its to soon to tell on my battery life, but so far so good
I will post back here in several hours to update
Btw I'm on an unlocked storm 2, and if anyone is wondering the phone stays unlocked... Just thought you may want to know.
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Yeah...I just upgraded from .320 several days ago. I "did" have about a fifty percent chance of my menu & back button freezing on .320. But with .517, I have had "NO" button freeze. Everything about the touch screen is more responsive (peppy, if you will).
I'm still playing around with other functions (don't find that the pop-up letters are much to scream about).
The only reason I decided to upgrade was to see if my button problem would still be there. It's 100% funtional now.
Any memory issues? I have a memory leak for the first time in a long time. Was at 105 and got down to 66.6 before resetting. Now back to 104.5 but didn't do anything but install .517. Haven't had a leak in months before this.
I'm curious to know where you downloaded it from. Today, I had decided I might give it a whirl (on .320 now) and went to the SaskTelus site....FIVE HOURS TO DOWNLOAD?? I tried four times and once, it was 12 hours...unreal...about 2kbs download speed. Is there someplace better?
Thank you, mischiefse, but unfortunately, that's the same place I tried multiple times earlier. I just tried three more times...fastest time I could get was about 5 KB/s. HOURS to download 109MB file. I give up!
I put a post out several days ago and said that I was still running the original firmware. Today I got bored and decided that I would try out .517.
So far I am very happy with the move. It is just much better then .320. If that's what your still on then its a good idea to switch.
Some things that I notice
- Much quicker lock button
- No keypad sticking (before I had problems when the storm was on its back, but no longer)
- screen seems to click more smoothley when typeing
Overall everthing is just a bit more quick
Its to soon to tell on my battery life, but so far so good
I will post back here in several hours to update
Btw I'm on an unlocked storm 2, and if anyone is wondering the phone stays unlocked... Just thought you may want to know.
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Also fixed the WeatherBerry updating to home screen.
I've been listening to the 9550 guru listening to the 9550 gurus and they been saying that any upgrade, hybrid or leaked, can't be bad. They're right. Matt said to download a hybrid and that would solve my key problems and he was right. I don't want to replace my brand new phone with a refurb or reman if I don't have to. Love the advice.
well its been a day and the battery life is pretty good. I never really faced major issues with it dieing to fast but it lasts even longer now on .517
My phone has been on since 6am and the battery is still at 40%
Oh yes and the best best thing about the firmware is this!!!!!!!!!!!
Im on ATT with an unlocked storm so when i use to connect to a wifi network the browser would dissapear until i restarted the phone. Then I was able to surf the web on thru wifi, but now my phone does not lose the browser icon anymore and the service books stay put!!!
Im happy about this anyways!
I dont know why it use to do this, but now its no longer a pain
The only problem I had with the .517 was the battery life. Seems everyone here is really split. Some experienced better battery life, others had horrible battery life. Mine was frakking terrible on phone calls. A couple calls and I was in the yellow. .517 would also lag a bit every once in a while and for whatever reason, I would suddenly lose 1.6 - 1.9 MB at the end of the day. Not a huge leak, but I had never experienced that before.
So after testing .517 for several days, I then tried the .571 and the .591 hybrid, but the screen on .517 felt SO much better.
I finally used the .517 radio with the entire 553 Java folder from the 9520 build and BAM! Perfect OS! The great screen feel of the .517 OS, no lag whatsoever, and so far battery life has been great!
Is it possible I had a bad download or install of .517? Sure it is. Whatever the case may be, the .553 Java solved my problems 100%.
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