You can visit your carrier’s website, the website, do an OTA update, or use the desktop manager. There are MANY ways that you can update your software. The faster we narrow down and confirm the 5.0 OS faults… The faster RIM will be willing to roll out a quick OS fix. If you have noticed similar issues to the ones that I described, or any other issues that I haven’t found yet, please leave a comment saying so. – Quickpull can no longer be used to reset your device. Meaning you can’t drag the cursor to adjust the position of video playback. – Youtube videos are now only viewable in the, “Streaming”, method. I don’t know about you guys, but I like having my email account icon on my home-screen. Locate the hidden icon, open the menu again and uncheck the “Hidden” status to make it visible. To fix this, open the main menu and select, “Show All”. – This one isn’t exactly a software problem, but as soon as you start using the 5.0 Software, you should notice that your email account icon is missing.ĭont freak out, its just been marked as a hidden file. Possibly an issue of the landscape background refresh rate? This causes the icons to slur in the background of the screen… (see pictures below) – When using a Plazmic Built Theme, (Or anything other than the carrier theme), I have noticed that the screen background doesn’t completely fit to width of the icons when in landscape mode. Is there anyone else having this problem? Or is just me…? Yet when I use any other regular headphones, it plays sound through the head-jack just fine. When I plug my blackberry headphones into the headphone jack, the storm doesnt seem to recognize that they are inserted and continues to play music through the handset. – My Blackberry Headphones Lost Compatibility With the My Storm? Here are some problems I’ve come across already since using the new software. There are many more features included in the new update that weren’t even able to fit on this list! For more info on what the OS 5.0.0.238 contains, check out my similar post on an older version of the 5.0 software. * During device full boot-up, the progress bar skips from 0% complete to ~66% complete instead of showing a gradual progression (Note: from 66% to 100% it does show a gradual progression). * During an MTP side load of 16GB of music, the device would leak memory and stop the transfer at ~75%. * On some rare occasions, the device may reset on its own during a voice call or while idle. * After viewing and accepting the End User Licensing Agreement of the App World application the application doesn’t startup (fixes introduced in the latest version of App World). * During voice calls, your device may have reset on a rare occasion. * When moving out of coverage your device display for no coverage may have been inconsistent. * During manual network selection, the radio buttons associated with the networks did not render as expected. * After recoding a video of a certain size (7M) the saved video may be corrupted and unplayable. * If you paused a video recording and then resumed, the icon state may not have reflected the current recording state. * Intermittently, when streaming a video while doing a handover to 2G on a 3G network the video would stop playing. * When trying to edit/create a folder, the virtual keyboard did not render to allow the user to enter the names of said folders. * When trying to set a home screen background of a certain resolution (more specifically a resolution matching either the width or the height of the native resolution of the LCD) it may have appeared as a black screen. In this software, this is now allowed with counts from 1-10. Beep 5 times when when I get an email and beep 3 times when I get an sms). * Previous software versions did not allow the user to increase the count of notifications (i.e. * The user cannot configure their profile settings to increase the number of alerts when being notified of an event such as incoming SMS or email. * The delete prior function has the unwanted side-effect of triggering the compose email screen. Now the user can select the number from the Callback Number field or from the message body and call that number from the pop up menu. * When viewing an SMS there was no simple way to call the current user. * When swiping down the virtual keyboard in an MMS message the send and save draft icons did not appear as expected. * When setting a custom SMS tone for a single contact, this tone may playback unexpectedly for SMS’ received from other contacts. * Device displayed a white bar at the bottom of the screen after a rotation event. * Significant improvements in rotation detection and screen painting have been introduced in this software. Here goes my best shot at giving you all the info you will need when updating to the 5.0 Software. Last night, at 10PM eastern time, Verizon Wireless released the 5.0 Software Update for the Blackberry Storm!
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