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Hey CBheads!!
Ok, so normally I'm not a big poster on here, just a lurker, but I thought I'd share my experience in case anyone wanted to "Search" and maybe my opinion would help sway them.
I have been extremely hesitant about upgrading to something unofficial like 5.0.0.230, and then all this talk about hybrids and beta and yiiiiikes!!! STOP. HOLD THE PHONE. Whaaaa???
You see, I came from the Storm1 to the Tour the DAY the Tour came out. I had the Storm 1 from day 1 and it was a NIGHTMARE. Always searching for an upgrade, for the next "leak" for the next beta, for the next anything...just so when I got a text message, my phone actually made a sound. Or just so when I turned the phone on its side, it actually rotated the screen within a 25 second time span. So upgrading a "working" Tour didn't seem like waters I wanted to swim in. I figured "I'll just wait for the official"
But, on 4.7, my phone was hemorrhaging memory. I'd start out with 85mb and in a day it would plummet down to ~39mb. I am not an avid gamer or music listener with my BB, I use the crappy browser, BBM, the camera, and some texting. I didn't even dare venture into Poynt or any of that jazz. I only know BB's for just bogging down when installing software, and there's no explanations or consistency across the board with other users, you'll always hear half a story from someone (even me, ha!) but there's never a culprit to the issues.
Sooooo...yesterday, after waiting about 9 minutes for my phone to start and then another 20 seconds for my phone to unlock from the lock screen I decided to take the plunge.
Man, am I happy I did! I'll admit, I ran into a few issues - it's no easy task because again, issues arise and there isn't one central place where you can find an answer - the forum search wasn't working for me, but what I found out was that using VMWare on a Mac only got me so far - after it loaded the JVM onto the phone (or uploaded the ram image) the software couldn't detect the phone, so it didn't go through. I used another PC laptop and everything worked flawless.
I did a full wipe using JL_Cmdr and loaded 5.0.0.230. I even backed up my APPS with BBSAK, but truth be told, it wouldn't load them back properly, it just backed them up, so I decided to just redownload my apps anyhow - it's a fresh start!
OS5, though not "groundbreaking" is a MUCH improved version of the OS. I wish OS5 would have been something more, like the way Android and WebOS and iPhone have been developing, but you know, coming from 4.7 to 5.0 is a great start. Sure the GUI is antiquated as all heck, but it's much, much quicker than 4.7
First off, with the profiles: You can set how many times you want to hear a alert. I missed that so much from the original Curve. A text comes in - it beeps 1, 2 or 3 times...I have berrybuzz, but I never used it. I didn't need something to ring constantly for however long, I just needed to hear something ring 3 times, like a text. I love this feature.
Going from lock screen to home screen is INSTANT. No lag. And somehow, the whole "look" seems softer...as in, the look of the screen, or the fonts, or the something...it just looks more "liquid"
I didn't think I was gonna be such a fan of threaded sms because I love using Beyond 160 (which I think works for me on this os) but it's been awesome. Addicting to say the least.
It's definitely snappy, and I highly recommend going to 5.0.0.230. I'm shocked I didn't do this sooner because I'm such a techie when it comes to these things...the Storm REALLY scarred me for life, but slowly I'm learning that it beat me because it loved me...
I wish RIM could make an OS like WebOS or Android or iPhone, but no one makes a hardware keyboard like RIM, so hopefully they get their act together and can really make a good combo of the two. 5.0 isn't the answer to fixing an "outdated" OS, but it's a load better than 4.7. So go go go go go go...install it! You'll be happy
11-13-09 10:50 AM
