Os .148 W/ .90 Radio Code.....woohoo!
- marcus..
have you not experienced any lag with apps or browsing?
from what I've read the reason the color banding first came up was that RIM discovered it was taking too much to render the graphics, which slowed the device down, so they compromised the graphics in order to have everything else be speedy....
If you're not experiencing any slow down anywhere, it makes me wonder if their whole graphics slowdown theory was incorrect....
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com05-20-09 04:26 PMLike 0 -
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- How do you guys use Pandora and Slacker with no 3G??? Anyway I cannot get any of those to work on my phone or any of the other music radio apps...
HELLLLLPPPP!!!!
THANKS!!!!05-20-09 05:22 PMLike 0 - Got a quick question. My only reason I left .90 was because whenever I recorded video, it would freeze and then video recorded would be deemed unplayable ("Error in media player"). Had this problem when I crossed it with other leaked OSs. Can OP and anyone else check and see if you can record 2 or 3 videos for a duration of 1 minute without freeze and reboot? Thanks.05-20-09 06:21 PMLike 0
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I'm running the .148 and 90 radio code. Only had one freeze while using Pandora and the Amazon app simultaneously. Had to do a battery pull, but nothing since then.05-20-09 06:34 PMLike 0 - Thanks for reply... Gonna try tonight anyway but wad gonna try to save myself trouble if someone already did.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com05-20-09 06:37 PMLike 0 -
If you're using the .90 "radio" code (SFI file); you're running the .90 OS "kernel"; the only thing .148 you'd be running are the java apps themselves (COD files, which to be fair are responsible for a fair amount of functionality of the device)
To make it simple, in the Windows world on a PC, the underlying core of the OS is called the NT kernel. On a Blackberry device, the kernel resides in the SFI file, as do the hardware drivers for the device, including the radios (bluetooth, CDMA, GSM, GPS, etc) - A .148 OS using the .90 "radio" code is no more a .148 OS than a Windows 2000 PC (NT 5.0) hacked to run Windows XP's (NT 5.1) built-in applications would be a Windows XP PC. This is why the .90 code won't "play nice" with the .148 COD files, the OS kernel is simply too old to run the new java applications.
It just seems that marcuswyse prefers the .90 OS kernel, as it seems to work best for him.05-20-09 06:48 PMLike 0 - Trust me, it's not something you'll notice unless you stare at your icons all day. On .90; the color gradient on the icons is smooth, and on the later builds you can see distinct bars of color instead of a smooth transition. It's most noticable on 3rd party themes, but alot of those are being fixed to make it a non issue. It doesn't affect the media player or any 3rd party apps, and was simply done to allow quick GUI scrolling even with alot of home screen apps.05-20-09 06:53 PMLike 0
- So I've read so far that the .148 radio is pretty good. So will using the .90 radio be better, worse, or about the same?
Edit: what I'm asking is actually about the reception as this would be referring to the radio, would I be correct about this?Last edited by Stormified; 05-20-09 at 07:15 PM.
05-20-09 07:11 PMLike 0 - Technically speaking, the newer the "radio"; the newer the OS.
If you're using the .90 "radio" code (SFI file); you're running the .90 OS "kernel"; the only thing .148 you'd be running are the java apps themselves (COD files, which to be fair are responsible for a fair amount of functionality of the device)
To make it simple, in the Windows world on a PC, the underlying core of the OS is called the NT kernel. On a Blackberry device, the kernel resides in the SFI file, as do the hardware drivers for the device, including the radios (bluetooth, CDMA, GSM, GPS, etc) - A .148 OS using the .90 "radio" code is no more a .148 OS than a Windows 2000 PC (NT 5.0) hacked to run Windows XP's (NT 5.1) built-in applications would be a Windows XP PC. This is why the .90 code won't "play nice" with the .148 COD files, the OS kernel is simply too old to run the new java applications.
It just seems that marcuswyse prefers the .90 OS kernel, as it seems to work best for him.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com05-20-09 07:16 PMLike 0 - Technically speaking, the newer the "radio"; the newer the OS.
If you're using the .90 "radio" code (SFI file); you're running the .90 OS "kernel"; the only thing .148 you'd be running are the java apps themselves (COD files, which to be fair are responsible for a fair amount of functionality of the device)
To make it simple, in the Windows world on a PC, the underlying core of the OS is called the NT kernel. On a Blackberry device, the kernel resides in the SFI file, as do the hardware drivers for the device, including the radios (bluetooth, CDMA, GSM, GPS, etc) - A .148 OS using the .90 "radio" code is no more a .148 OS than a Windows 2000 PC (NT 5.0) hacked to run Windows XP's (NT 5.1) built-in applications would be a Windows XP PC. This is why the .90 code won't "play nice" with the .148 COD files, the OS kernel is simply too old to run the new java applications.
It just seems that marcuswyse prefers the .90 OS kernel, as it seems to work best for him.Last edited by Stormified; 05-20-09 at 07:21 PM.
05-20-09 07:19 PMLike 0 -
- So, what you are saying is that if by running .90 radio code you're not actually running the newer .148 OS but only its java apps? So one would actually be "running" .90 OS with upgraded software intended for newer operating systems, e.g., apps intended to be run in WinVista not exactly compatible with Win2000?05-20-09 07:49 PMLike 0
- So, what you are saying is that if by running .90 radio code you're not actually running the newer .148 OS but only its java apps? So one would actually be "running" .90 OS with upgraded software intended for newer operating systems, e.g., apps intended to be run in WinVista not exactly compatible with Win2000?05-20-09 10:07 PMLike 0
- thank u so much. the missing piece to the puzzle. ive been asking and nobody replied to my messages. i hope this is the solution. thanks05-20-09 10:33 PMLike 0
- Just installed it when I got home from work. OMG i missed the color/sharpness so much... and the larger text keyboard that actually looks more appealing than the current one (big/smooth buttons/letters). It does weigh down the phone a bit on screen transitions but very minor IMO. Thanks to marcuswyse for the lookout and will be attempting tests like video (had problems before where it crashed and video file corrupted) as well as keeping a lookout for crashes.
Last edited by BiggyMcWang; 05-21-09 at 12:40 AM.
05-21-09 12:35 AMLike 0 - To any one running this can you confirm that the audio boost bug is still present?
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