# Official BB Crew Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [January 5, 2009, 10:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-bb-crew-thread/60766 "2009-01-05T10:57:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 48
**Author:** ![9c1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/9c1/32/7392_2.png) [@9c1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/9c1)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 8:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-bb-crew-thread/60766/941 "2009-10-01T08:56:35Z")
I used Win7 to update my Storm to 5.0.0.230. No issues at all. What version of Desktop Manager are you using? ---
**Author:** ![brent\_strong](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/brent_strong/32/7203_2.png) [@brent\_strong](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/brent_strong)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 9:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-bb-crew-thread/60766/942 "2009-10-01T09:01:37Z")
So, is .230 really worth putting on the Tour? I’m getting more and more tempted… ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 9:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-bb-crew-thread/60766/943 "2009-10-01T09:35:14Z")
It takes 20 minutes and you can go right back if you don’t like it, but yes it’s nicer and I really don’t have any new problems with it. BBM5 still doesn’t work, but who cares. You get threaded SMS and a much more warm & fuzzy look and feel. ---
**Author:** ![Geehee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/geehee/32/7238_2.png) [@Geehee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geehee)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 9:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-bb-crew-thread/60766/944 "2009-10-01T09:54:25Z")
and you can say you are running 5.BRO ---
**Author:** ![Cavi\_Mike](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/cavi_mike/32/5217_2.png) [@Cavi\_Mike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Cavi_Mike)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 9:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-bb-crew-thread/60766/945 "2009-10-01T09:58:31Z")
> [@Fry](#): > > You must be doing it wrong. I’ve done it on XP and Vista. > > Install 5.0 exe file. **Delete vendor.xml file**. Launch Desktop Manager, “yes I would like to upgrade to 5.0”, make a sammich, eat said sammich, enjoy 5.0. fixed ---
**Author:** ![9c1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/9c1/32/7392_2.png) [@9c1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/9c1)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 12:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-bb-crew-thread/60766/946 "2009-10-01T12:43:39Z")
> [@Geehee](#): > > and you can say you are running 5.BRO That’s a bonus right there. :tup: ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_T](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mr_t/32/7454_2.png) [@Mr\_T](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mr_T)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 12:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-bb-crew-thread/60766/947 "2009-10-01T12:53:37Z")
> [@Fry](#): > > It takes 20 minutes and you can go right back if you don’t like it, but yes it’s nicer and I really don’t have any new problems with it. BBM5 still doesn’t work, but who cares. You get threaded SMS and a much more warm & fuzzy look and feel. this is still the beta tho right? not the official? a bunch of ppl told me never to dl stuff from rim and just to wait for the official ---
**Author:** ![Cavi\_Mike](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/cavi_mike/32/5217_2.png) [@Cavi\_Mike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Cavi_Mike)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 12:59pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-bb-crew-thread/60766/948 "2009-10-01T12:59:51Z")
If you’re super anal, you’ll want to wait for official releases. If you just want to be like GeeHee LIKE OMG 5.OH LIKE WAT you’ll overlook the small problems, that’s why they’re called beta releases. The chances of you really bricking your phone are slim, most likely it would be on your end. And I don’t mean what these guys call bricking where a battery-pull or reinstall of the OS fixes things, I mean a real brick where the phone becomes 100% useless. ---
**Author:** ![newman](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/newman/32/7569_2.png) [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 1:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-bb-crew-thread/60766/949 "2009-10-01T13:03:30Z")
Threaded SMS sounds hot, but i \<3 BBM ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 1:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-bb-crew-thread/60766/950 "2009-10-01T13:07:41Z")
> [@Cavi Mike](#): > > If you’re super anal, you’ll want to wait for official releases. If you just want to be like GeeHee LIKE OMG 5.OH LIKE WAT you’ll overlook the small problems, that’s why they’re called beta releases. The chances of you really bricking your phone are slim, most likely it would be on your end. And I don’t mean what these guys call bricking where a battery-pull or reinstall of the OS fixes things, I mean a real brick where the phone becomes 100% useless. It’s really hard to brick a Blackberry. Even if you were to yank power halfway through an OS reload it’s really easy to recover. Windows phones are much easier to turn into paperweights. ---
**Author:** ![Cavi\_Mike](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/cavi_mike/32/5217_2.png) [@Cavi\_Mike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Cavi_Mike)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 1:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-bb-crew-thread/60766/951 "2009-10-01T13:08:13Z")
I wasn’t a big fan of the threaded SMS. It looked cool but it felt weird in hand so I reverted. ---
**Author:** ![Cavi\_Mike](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/cavi_mike/32/5217_2.png) [@Cavi\_Mike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Cavi_Mike)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 1:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-bb-crew-thread/60766/952 "2009-10-01T13:08:37Z")
> [@Fry](#): > > It’s really hard to brick a Blackberry. Even if you were to yank power halfway through an OS reload it’s really easy to recover. Windows phones are much easier to turn into paperweights. That’s why BB wins. ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 1:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-bb-crew-thread/60766/953 "2009-10-01T13:13:34Z")
😛 I still can’t wait till the Touch Pro 2 hits local stores so I can go in and bitch until they let me exchange my tour. ---
**Author:** ![Cavi\_Mike](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/cavi_mike/32/5217_2.png) [@Cavi\_Mike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Cavi_Mike)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 1:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-bb-crew-thread/60766/954 "2009-10-01T13:19:27Z")
What don’t you like about the tour? Maybe I’ll take it off your hands. I prematurely jumped on the Javelin. ---
**Author:** ![Geehee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/geehee/32/7238_2.png) [@Geehee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geehee)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 1:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-bb-crew-thread/60766/955 "2009-10-01T13:21:21Z")
threaded sms rox sox. bbm pwns. ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 1:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-bb-crew-thread/60766/956 "2009-10-01T13:37:54Z")
> [@Cavi Mike](#): > > What don’t you like about the tour? Maybe I’ll take it off your hands. I prematurely jumped on the Javelin. Not if I exchange it for a different phone. The loose battery door is a bit annoying, but no big deal. The headphone jack still cuts out sometimes, but it’s usually not a problem. (My first 3 were unusable.) The horizontal scrolling is a bit sticky and getting worse, I don’t like that I have to run beta software to have a feature that I had on winmo a year and a half ago, I can’t sync wma audiobooks to it 🤓, I can’t play flash content, I can’t have a home screen that displays my appointments and tasks in chronological order (I even learned how to make my own theme trying), the audio player hardly fast forwards at all then jumps forward 20 minutes (again audiobook nerd.) The fucking cursor jumps around or inserts weird characters while I’m typing. That one drives me fucking nuts. No wifi sucks because I have a year left of night school and I don’t get a signal in the business buildings at UB. Wifi is also nice for free skype calls home when I’m on vacation overseas. Really nothing big at all and if VZW tells me to go pound salt I’m not going to be heartbroken, I’d just be happier living with a winmo that I can customize the shit out of anything I don’t like over the next 2 years. EDIT: Almost forgot, the lock button stopped working the first week I had #4. Which is sort of cool because I don’t want it to work because it fucking unlocks the phone in my pocket! What a fucking shitty design… ---
**Author:** ![Geehee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/geehee/32/7238_2.png) [@Geehee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geehee)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 1:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-bb-crew-thread/60766/957 "2009-10-01T13:39:51Z")
god, you’re such an engineer. ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 1:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-bb-crew-thread/60766/958 "2009-10-01T13:41:38Z")
I know. It’s not healthy. ---
**Author:** ![brent\_strong](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/brent_strong/32/7203_2.png) [@brent\_strong](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/brent_strong)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 1:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-bb-crew-thread/60766/959 "2009-10-01T13:46:17Z")
Did you try a bit of scotch tape to snug up the battery door? It’s worked great for me… ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 1:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-bb-crew-thread/60766/960 "2009-10-01T13:47:24Z")
android should be a more customizable solution fry…word on the street is that it’s coming in one or two forms this month [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-bb-crew-thread/60766.md?page=47) [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-bb-crew-thread/60766.md?page=49)