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Barefoot Andrew
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 Posted: Thu May 26, 11 8:14 am Post subject: Ooh, BlackBerry 6 OS. Do I or don't I? |
 
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I see it's now available for the Bold 9700. I may be tempted to traverse this route at some point soon.
Anyone updated to 6 yet?
My bold has two particularly annoying issues which I doubt RIM will ever fix in v5. Wonder what advances / problems 6 will bring...
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Bernie66
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what are annoying issues?
Do you venture onto crackberry forums to see whats available in terms of fixes and workarounds? |
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Barefoot Andrew
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1. It keeps dropping off my Wifi here and refuses to reconnect (refuses to re-associate, to be technical). Much research and fiddling has failed to conclusively point the finger at the fruit or the modem.
2. It occasionally gets its knickers in a twist with long SMS threads, and refuses to open the thread for reading/sending. Usually the only remedy is to delete the thread and start again.
Crackberry forums. Yes, hours worth.
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mochyn
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I like pencil and paper. |
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Barefoot Andrew
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That's only because technology doesn't work up your way 
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Bernie66
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| Barefoot Andrew wrote: |
1. It keeps dropping off my Wifi here and refuses to reconnect (refuses to re-associate, to be technical). Much research and fiddling has failed to conclusively point the finger at the fruit or the modem.
2. It occasionally gets its knickers in a twist with long SMS threads, and refuses to open the thread for reading/sending. Usually the only remedy is to delete the thread and start again.
Crackberry forums. Yes, hours worth.
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don't suffer with the wifi issues but tend to clear long chat threads on bbm and text as I'm old and can't follow them.
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misty07
Joined: 22 Jan 2010
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| mochyn wrote: |
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dont forget the pigeon |
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mochyn
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That's only because technology doesn't work up your way
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Good, isn't it? 
And Misty: we tend to eat the pigeons... |
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misty07
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Barefoot Andrew
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| Posted: Thu May 26, 11 9:36 am Post subject: |
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| Bernie66 wrote: |
| crackberry is useful IMO |
It has its fair share of tedious dross, just like any other techie forum.
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Barefoot Andrew
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Well, I like the look of what BBOS6 can do. Just need to allocate an entire afternoon to actually do it...
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Barefoot Andrew
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Well I've started the lengthy upgrade process... and already had my first panic after it had passed the point of no return 
However it just wanted a direct PC->device connection, and not via a USB hub.
So far the error message plus hints on what to do plus recovery have been reassuring.
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Barefoot Andrew
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...although I'm still a bit tense 
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Barefoot Andrew
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| Posted: Wed Jun 15, 11 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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Ooh my, it has completed the upgrade and just played me a snazzy welcome video 
Setup page showing, but that can wait till later. Right peckish...
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vegplot
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What's it been upgraded to? Raspberry? |
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