Comments on: UPDATE: Bold 9000 OS 4.6.0.219 Found Online

By: stevebercy.com

stevebercy.com — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:47:44 +0000

The upgrade is stable and very works well. I use it since 2 weeks and everything is OK… And I can also use the modem again (I lost the feature since I’ve upgraded to the 207) !!

By: Sovak75

Sovak75 — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:30:00 +0000

Reboot your PC and this time don’t connect to the Internet. If your connection is always on turn it off.

By: Sovak75

Sovak75 — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:28:14 +0000

Resend your service books. That will fix your problem.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:51:17 +0000

I installed the fw on my rogers bb bold and everything was successful. However there is no sign of a vvm icon or app store icon, and i even pushed ’show all’. Does anyone know why this is?

By: Jatt

Jatt — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:16:55 +0000

Hi all,

I am a blackberry bold newbie, I am running applications v.1.1.190 and just downloaded this file, i also deleted vendor xml. The loader only offers me language support update not the OS itself…

Please help.

By: Jatt

Jatt — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:15:19 +0000

I am a blackberry newbie.. I just downloaded the file, deleted vendor xml and clicked on application loader, the only option i had to update was language support and not the OS.

I am currently running applications 4.1.1.190.

Please help.

By: Sovak75

Sovak75 — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:00:14 +0000

No just do a wipe and reinstall the OS from scratch. I hope you at least backed up your database first.

By: pengwan

pengwan — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:44:41 +0000

HELP!! I was doing this update. I backed up my phone before the process, I left my phone alone. When i went back to it the computer said “unable to restore application software”. I unplugged my phone and did a battery pull. Now the phone has a white screen with a little picture and says “reload software: 507″. When i went to restore the previous data to my phone, desktop manager would not recognize my phone was plugged in and would not give me the option to restore. IS MY BOLD FUBAR?!?!? Please HELP!!!

By: studio253

studio253 — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:13:55 +0000

Thank you for the Rapid Share link!!

By: Screencandy Of RIM’s Visual Voicemail For BlackBerry | BerryReview.com »

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:48:19 +0000

[...] OS 4.6.0.219 release that we mentioned earlier this month raised a few questions when it installed an icon for visual voicemail. Zach over at the BoyGenius [...]

By: boy_de_ghet

boy_de_ghet — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:34:43 +0000

Mirror : http://rapidshare.com/files/185841876/9000AllLang_PBr4.6.0_rel369_PL4.0.0.185_A4.6.0.219.exe

By: Visual Voicemail on Bold! | Fommy - Wireless Tech News and Reviews

Visual Voicemail on Bold! | Fommy - Wireless Tech News and Reviews — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:53:58 +0000

[...] you are looking to upgrade your firmware to this version to check this out, you can download here, but make sure you back up all your stuff [...]

By: Bold-battery life falls off the cliff - Page 2 - BlackBerry Forums at CrackBerry.com

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:45:30 +0000

[...] functional upgrade feature on the unit at this point. How to upgrade to latest official release. How to upgrade to latest beta release (use instructions on how to upgrade in link above). Mine does, noticed it yesterday. [...]

By: sovak75

sovak75 — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:14:41 +0000

Gee that’s a smart idea. Let them know you are running BETA unsupported software on your Berry and give then an excuse to void your support warranty. If it’s being tested, I’ll wager both AT&T and Rogers are working on it. Give them some time.

By: sovak75

sovak75 — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:12:18 +0000

Yes it will work just fine. Just make sure to make the appropriate backups of your data and apps just in case you run into problems and/or need to downgrade. Also if you need help you will need to find it online as Orange wont support anything newer than their supported OS.

Orange really boggles the mind. They talk about pulling the Bold from their lineup but at the same time run ancient ancient software on it. Don’t they get it, newer software should fix their reception issues?

By: franglish

franglish — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:36:32 +0000

I installed it and now i cant turn on my wi-fi
somebody can help ?

By: Bold Firmware 4.6.0.219 found online | blackberry-abenteuer.de

Bold Firmware 4.6.0.219 found online | blackberry-abenteuer.de — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:50:59 +0000

[...] selbst habe die Firmware noch nicht getestet, wer dies aber machen möchte, der kann hier weitere Informationen finden. Wie immer jedoch die Warnung an alle, die einen Versuch [...]

By: Astral Weeks

Astral Weeks — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:52:29 +0000

After deleting visual voice mail and application center i could not be happier (excluding the media player volume bug)

By: sovak75

sovak75 — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:07:14 +0000

Remember this is a leak. No doubt one or more of the major carriers of the Bold are testing VVM internally, but it is apparently not publicly available yet

By: Amir Saad

Amir Saad — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:03:22 +0000

Ronen, you are most welcome…I have never heard of or even seen that visual voice mail till 5 minute ago on my bold when it popped up. It didn’t work by the way…it said:
Provisioning unsuccessful. To resolve this issue, contact your wireless service provider.
Update: 12 hours of use including 1:20 of CACHED slacker tracks, 50 minute of phone calls and 6 hours of using epocrates (medical stuff…) And, I still had 60% left..P.S.: I’m in an EDGE location so no 3G.
One thing I noticed since I came to Texas (Dallas area) 3G drops easily to edge or GPRS during phone calls. That NEVER happened to me in Indianapolis, IN and I’m getting more dropped calls here in Dallas. edge means no data and no NEW phone calls can be initiated…bummer.
Locationwise makes a difference so firmwares are not to blame or praise all the time yall….

By: Ronen Halevy

Ronen Halevy — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:26:58 +0000

Very nice review!
I will definitely be recommending the upgrade based on what you reported. Any idea what the voicemail app is about? Is it the same one Verizon uses for visual voicemail on the Storm?

By: Amir saad

Amir saad — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:09:48 +0000

Firmware install time:
22 min, longer than v.217 which took less than 15 min.
Note: backup everything before you install the firmware…I know, it automatically backs it up and restores it…not!!
Backup manually and restore manually AND…register the phone with BlackBerry again, Options, advanced options, Host Routing Table, select the line in bold and click menu, then register. You will realize what this does when you try to open your BlackBerry web browser and it opens your MediaNet one.

Reboot time:
2:03 which is as good as v.217

Modem mode:
Standard modem didn’t disappear this time unlike v.217 and thus, no need to repair desktop manager 4.7

Pictures:
Faster than ever…questions?

Music:
Same issue with the volume as v.217, doesn’t save the previous volume level.

Video:
Same issue with the volume here too and, the menu bar doesn’t disappear automatically since you need to hit the menu button twice to take it out (same issue with v.217)

Memory:
They all start in the 40s and 50s and after a week they end up in the 20s after a reboot and in the low teens after a couple of days.

Responsiveness:
No lag, which means it’s as good as v.217 (flashback: with v.167. When you left your phone for a while and got back to it, it wouldn’t respond to any button you’d press for a couple of seconds – 5-20 sec, that lag is gone since v.217)

Battery:
12 hours alive including 2 hours of phone calls, web browsing for about 30 min and 5 minutes of youtube. some text messages and an MMS. Battery starts flashing green at 10% and phone calls are possible up to 5%.
v.217 lasted over 200 min from full to 5% (I’d call it a tie)

Applications:
All you who have cached over 200MB of songs on your memory card from Slacker, you need to recache everything again…bummer

Recommendation: Install it. Not that different from v.217 since both are winners really.

By: Norman

Norman — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:14:21 +0000

Installed the 219 last night, memory is stable, hits 45mb after restart (I have a lot of crap installed, 5 3rd party themes, Viigo, Gmail, Opera Mini, BeeJive, SmsScheduler, BBAlerts, Google Map, Quickpull, Dictionary, Aerize Alerts and a screen capture SHE program).

Memory is stable, holds still at about 35mb after 24 hours of usage.

I think the build is very nice, even nicer than 217.

By: sgordon

sgordon — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:07:29 +0000

just google the final portion of the firmware ie….A4.6.0.219.exe
you should find some megaupload or rapidshare links to the files…
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By: sgordon

sgordon — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:04:52 +0000

195, 210, and 217 have worked fine on my Rogers bold…anything would be better then whats you have…..I dont know why they dont put out at least 210 for Orange…