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US Cellular To Upgrade BIS 2.6 Tomorrow

by Ronen Halevy on Mar 20th, 2009 at 4:54 pm EST
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Jacob let me know that US Cellular is going to be the first US carrier to upgrade to BIS 2.6 tomorrow. Other international carriers have already upgraded but its a welcome change. Hopefully AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, & Sprint will follow closely in their footsteps. Nothing really crazy new in this update but still worth a heads up. I am just glad that RIM finally fixed their Gmail integration so you don’t have to jump through workarounds to get it to function properly.

Details about the upgrade:

Existing Customers:  Any existing customers who have a BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) account as of March 21, 2009 (Midnight) will automatically get the the update without having to do anything.
For Existing Gmail Users:  Subscribers who have a Gmail account integrated prior to the launch of BlackBerry Internet Service Email 2.6 and want to take advantage of the new IMAP features will need to delete and reintegrate their Gmail account. 
New Customers: Any new subscribers who are activated as of March 21, 2009 and set up a BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) account will automatically benefit from the enhancements.

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26 Comments to “US Cellular To Upgrade BIS 2.6 Tomorrow”

  1. Posted by: Bla1ze
    March 20, 2009 at 5:28 pm EST

    AT&T will be rolled out on the 21st as well.

  2. Posted by: Nikolaus
    March 20, 2009 at 5:51 pm EST

    Any one know about T-Mo?

  3. Posted by: Cybrwulf
    March 20, 2009 at 6:07 pm EST

    Verizon is updating 21st as well. BIS outage from 12am – 6am 3/21/09

  4. Posted by: Bla1ze
    March 20, 2009 at 7:39 pm EST

    All North American carriers should be updated as it’s not an incremental update, the update covers “The Americas”.

  5. Posted by: Bob
    March 20, 2009 at 8:22 pm EST

    How would you know what BIS you got?

  6. Posted by: webchetan
    March 20, 2009 at 9:42 pm EST

    Will it update on T-Mobile too?

  7. Posted by: Lyle
    March 21, 2009 at 1:34 am EST

    Yes. Tmobile too. All us servers will be updated by Rim.

  8. Posted by: webchetan
    March 21, 2009 at 10:22 am EST

    Thats good news. But how would we know its been updated to 2.6?

    Thanks

  9. Posted by: Raptor
    March 21, 2009 at 11:02 am EST

    At&t is currently running BIS 2.6, all you need to do is go to the BIS page: http://bis.na.blackberry.com/html?brand=mycingular and delete your gmail account and re-add it. It will set it up for IMAP automatically.

  10. Posted by: willsoriano
    March 21, 2009 at 12:19 pm EST

    So Im noticing that the new BIS 2.6 with gmail is VERY SLOW. Before when i would get an email it would take around 3 seconds before my phone recieved it, now im going on 5 minutes plus before I get those ever increasing important emails. Is there a way to speed it up?

  11. Posted by: Lyle
    March 21, 2009 at 12:42 pm EST

    It may be slow, I know the tmobile site is slow since the upgrade. But, the emails seem to be coming thru as quick as before with gmail for me at least. Within 2 to 6 seconds (removed and readded the account). I do like the autoread part now, and obviously dont need to setup a filter to kill the second message for gmail anymore :) For those of you wondering if you are at 2.6, if you resend your service books, you will see a new header sent with the welcome message. It will say your email has been added, and have a footer from RIM. This is 2.6, but again, every CARRIER has been upgraded in the US last night.

  12. Posted by: papped
    March 21, 2009 at 6:29 pm EST

    Gmail is still instant for me.

  13. Posted by: Lyle
    March 21, 2009 at 8:04 pm EST

    Did you remove and readd it? It is almost instant for mee to, seems slower thouugh.

  14. Posted by: conceptv
    March 21, 2009 at 9:14 pm EST

    before it was instant and now i dont even get the emails anymore. this is kinda sucks. besides the one-way syncing, what benefits from switching BIS with imap instead of pop?

  15. Posted by: alb123
    March 22, 2009 at 1:47 am EST

    I dunno what happened. But deleting and re-adding my gmail account (I dont use the GMail app) royally screwed my calendar…..GAH!

  16. Posted by: Yitzchaq
    March 22, 2009 at 2:17 am EST

    what exactly is bis 2.6? Excuse the ignorance

  17. Posted by: conceptv
    March 22, 2009 at 7:38 am EST

    it sucks cuz there is no way to go back to pop, even if i do the manual way, it defaults to imap server even if i use the pop setttings.

  18. Posted by: socio
    March 22, 2009 at 4:54 pm EST

    i tried reintegrating my gmail accounts with t-mobile, and none of them were receiving mail afterward. after waiting for an hour and seeing no change, i went back and set it up leaving the password blank and then specifying the gmail imap server (the way i had it). oh well.

  19. Posted by: Lyle
    March 22, 2009 at 7:14 pm EST

    Don’t know what to say. It has been great for me since the update with TMobile.

  20. Posted by: alb123
    March 23, 2009 at 2:05 pm EST

    It took a few hours of banging my head….But i finally got a message from blackberry.com to just re-enter my gmail password and since then all has been right with my BlackBerry e-mail…