Blackberry 9700 users - OS6

JamesRJ · 2 Nov 2010 at 20:05

Quick heads up there been a leak of OS6. Loaded it up on mine and im very impressed so far.

Head over to crackberry for download link

sunny007 · 2 Nov 2010 at 20:14

Once you upgrade do you lose your data ? like mgs ?

JamesRJ · 2 Nov 2010 at 20:34

Just use the desktop manager to back your phone up before you update

Yas786 · 2 Nov 2010 at 21:00

LOL i already posted it in the 9780 thread but anyone whose after the download link its here: http://crackberry.com/finally-leaked-get-blackberry-6-your-blackberry-bold-9700-now

Enjoy and i have to say im pretty impressed with the speed of it altho i havent put any 3rd party apps as ive transferred them to my 9800 and id have to get new activation codes which will take about 24 hrs or so.

Super Tigers · 2 Nov 2010 at 21:35

I am just looking forward to getting OS6 on my Pearl 3G. Hopefully with this release the Pearl version won't be far away.

Yas786 · 3 Nov 2010 at 01:11

Super Tigers said:
I am just looking forward to getting OS6 on my Pearl 3G. Hopefully with this release the Pearl version won't be far away.

Well your in luck fella...OS6 has just been leaked as well

Get it here: http://crackberry.com/leaked-os-6-0-0-344-blackberry-pearl-3g-9100-9105

tom_e · 3 Nov 2010 at 01:25

Just stuck os6 on my 9700 very nice peice of software seems nice and snappy so far, the new menu system is going to take some getting used to and its a pitty theyve lumped sms and mms into 1 option in the firewall meaning both crunchsms and the inbuilt message app alert me to txts

premist · 3 Nov 2010 at 06:42

Have you guys noticed a memory leak in the new OS6?

My free space went down from 67mb to 47mb overnight and only after a battery pull it went back up to 67mb

tom_e · 3 Nov 2010 at 11:40

I've had it on since last night and my memory hasn't moved, its possible it may be one of your apps not being os6 compatible

Fubsy · 3 Nov 2010 at 11:50

Just had my 9700 replaced because my old one broke after 5 months, so this is nice to wake up to this morning, new phone and a new OS to try out

sunny007 · 3 Nov 2010 at 14:10

what about bbm contacts ?

Paul11 · 3 Nov 2010 at 14:16

does this do an upgrade or a clean install so to speak ?

LM101 · 3 Nov 2010 at 16:04

Anyone know if they will do this for the blackberry 8520? i have seen that they did it with the 3g version the 9300

Yas786 · 3 Nov 2010 at 16:21

Paul11 said:
does this do an upgrade or a clean install so to speak ?

You need to do a clean install...back up your data in desktop manager then do the upgrade.

theone91 said:
what about bbm contacts ?

What about them??..you should be using remote backup to backup your contacts...it will be in your BBM options, you will need to use an email in order to use remote backup...i remotely back up my contacts with my BB with my gmail account.

LM101 said:
Anyone know if they will do this for the blackberry 8520? i have seen that they did it with the 3g version the 9300

Nope...the 8520 will not be getting OS6 as the hardware doesnt support it.

Just letting you guys know that this isnt official, its a leaked beta OS which might give you issues when you have loaded it up ie certain 3rd party apps may no longer work.

Simmz · 3 Nov 2010 at 17:50

It's definitely very nice, smooth and quick, but it seems to eat the battery a lot quicker!

tom_e · 3 Nov 2010 at 17:57

Simmz said:
It's definitely very nice, smooth and quick, but it seems to eat the battery a lot quicker!

I'm finding the opposite my batterys hardly drained at all since this morning and ive been using it just as much as usual

Cheetah Designs · 3 Nov 2010 at 17:58

tom_e said:
I'm finding the opposite my batterys hardly drained at all since this morning and ive been using it just as much as usual

Super Tigers · 3 Nov 2010 at 20:52

Just got it installed on my Pearl 3G, it looks very nice, just setting my home screen and favourites. I am just hoping the browser is a significant improvement.

muttclugg · 3 Nov 2010 at 21:59

Ive had it on my 9700 for 24 hours now and very impressed. Battery seems good on it and loving the new browser

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Super Tigers · 3 Nov 2010 at 22:18

The browser is a vast improvement on os5, not quite as good as the Android browser but still very useable. I can see my T-mobile data usage will be increasing. At present my T-mobile online account is showing 16 pages of data usage with 3 days left of this month to go!!