Official OS 4.7.1.53 For The BlackBerry Tour 9630 Being Pushed Out By Verizon (Changelog)

Posted by Mauricio on Sep 19, 2009 at 10:49 AM | Comments

verizon logo Official OS 4.7.1.53 For The BlackBerry Tour 9630 Being Pushed Out By Verizon (Changelog)

UPDATE Verizon and RIM have pulled OS 4.7.1.53 after releasing it for only a few hours. Apparently this OS was bad and really messed up some Tours. If you attempted to upgrade to this OS let me know if you were successful in the comments. *

BlackBerry OS 4.7.1.53 for the Tour 9630 was just leaked a few days ago but it looks like Verizon has decided to make it official and is pushing it out through BlackBerry Desktop Manager.

Here is a changelog put together by BGR:

  • Improved MMS notifications
  • Improved Visual Voice Mail app
  • Improved sound quality for Bluetooth headsets and voice calls
  • Fixed geo-tagging error in the camera application
  • Fixed an error with DRM music skipping
  • Improved video player
  • Added BlackBerry Messenger update notifications — check for new BBM updates automatically or manually.
  • Fixed an issue with device restarting after activating morning alarm
  • Fixed an issue with memory cleaning and sluggishness
  • The first character is no longer duplicated when dialing from the
    home screen.
  • Your smartphone may not have detected headset removal, causing it to remain connected to a disabled headset.
  • When prompted to add an email account in the Setup Wizard, your smartphone may have jumped to “Bluetooth® Setup,” leaving you unable to navigate back to email setup.
  • If you tried to save changes to a contact that only contained a company name, you may have received the error message “Contact updated externally. Changes will be lost and the view closed.”

This update is only available through BlackBerry Desktop Manager and not through Verizon’s BlackBerry Downloads site (at least right now). To get this update load BlackBerry Desktop Manager and plug in your Tour 9630. Everything should be automatic from there.

Even though this is an official update you should always backup beforehand in case something goes wrong. Let me know how you like the update in the comments!

More info about the AT&T BlackBerry Bold’s Visual Voice Mail

Posted by Mauricio on Jan 27, 2009 at 2:58 PM | Comments

blackberry bold More info about the AT&T BlackBerry Bolds Visual Voice Mail

BlackBerry Forums member codes was able to provide everyone with how he was able to get Visual Voice Mail on his AT&T BlackBerry Bold.

This are what allowed codes to get Visual Voice Mail on his Bold:

  • Visual Voicemail Password from iPhone
  • Active BES
  • iPhone Data Plan
  • Running OS 4.6.0.219

Has anyone else been able to get Visual Voice Mail on their Bold? Maybe through a different method?

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Check out the Visual Voice Mail for the BlackBerry Bold

Posted by Mauricio on Jan 19, 2009 at 7:33 PM | Comments

bbvm3 Check out the Visual Voice Mail for the BlackBerry Bold

BGR was able to get some screenshots of the new Visual Voice Mail for the BlackBerry Bold 9000 from AT&T.

BG’s BlackBerry Bold 9000 is running on OS 4.6.0.219. Before I posted about the icon being on some Bolds but not actually working. BG was able to get a working version of the Visual Voice Mail and took some good screenshots showing the icon, message list and menu.

Check it out: First look: Visual Voicemail for BlackBerry Bold

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BlackBerry Bold to get visual voice mail?

Posted by Mauricio on Jan 13, 2009 at 4:59 PM | Comments

blackberryvoicemail2 BlackBerry Bold to get visual voice mail?

A tipster sent BGR a screenshot of their Bold and what looks to be an icon for BlackBerry Visual Voice Mail.

It seems like the application itself isn’t complete since it errs when the tipster tries to run it. The tipster currently has 4.6.0.219 installed on his BlackBerry Bold, so maybe it will be ready in a later build?

Personally, I’m enjoying the awesome VyMail application.

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