BlackBerry Storm OS 4.7.0.76, other versions left dead in their tracks
What’s that? You somehow got a hold of the 4.7.0.75 OS for the BlackBerry Storm? Well, in this heavily-connected world we call BG Land, you’re already rockin’ something old. We’re running 4.7.0.76 on our Storm, and boy, does this thing improve a whole heap more than 4.7.0.75 did. Here’s a list of the improvements we’ve found (and bugs):
- For starters, switching portrait to landscape is even faster than on .75. We’re talking half a second to make a clean switch. No more “double keyboards” (half SureType, half QWERTY) on the screen.
- After around a full day of use, our battery is sitting pretty at 50%. This is probably a 25% increase over .65. We can’t say how much better it is than .75 since that wouldn’t be fair seeing as how it wasn’t in use for long, but we believe there will still be an improvement.
- There was this annoyance where you’d go to tap on an icon, it wouldn’t select if you tried to tap it fast. That’s all cleared up here…
- This was in .75, but DTMF tones in the phone application no longer lag and cause you to hit the wrong prompts, etc.
- The issue where the keyboard sometimes disappears when you are typing is still there.
- In the browser, if you tapped once in the .65 build, the bottom navigational toolbar would hide and so would the top status bar. In .75, only the bottom bar would hide but the top bar would stay. Here in .76, both hide again.
- In the browser, when you flip to landscape, the text size is increased tremendously. It scales up to fit the width of the page. Very helpful.
- There has not been one reboot so far. In .65 there were probably two a day
- There’s a weird bug where sometimes the back button doesn’t actually work. Can’t figure out what causes this to happen. Oh well.
- When navigating through the music player, playing MP3s is probably 50% better than .65 and 20% better than .75. Very, very quick.
- When navigating through photos, thumbnails appear almost instantly. Even on the Bold it sometimes took a while to load, and it loaded them one-by-one. Here they basically just pop-up after a second or two.
- Overall data connectivity feels a little slower in our non-scientific tests. Web pages take a little longer to load and we get the infamous BlackBerry clock when sending messages and Messenger nonsense.
- The camera application has way more problems than it started out with. For instance, the green autofocus rectangle no longer appears, the bottom navigational buttons flicker on and off, and it’s just all around chaos. The camera app in .75 was a little better than .65 so don’t get too worried, we’re sure this will be cleared up.
The OS version, again, is 4.7.0.76 and the platform version is 4.0.0.96. We have no idea in terms of when (or if) this version will be released, and have no additional information for you at this time. Other than the fact that your leaked OS is older than the one we’ve got. Got any questions? Let’s answer a couple of them off the bat… No, we will not send you the software. No, we have no idea what the status of this is, whether it’s being tested on Verizon, or anywhere else, and we don’t know if this will ever be released. It probably will, we just don’t want to promise anything we can’t 100% confirm. The friendly staff at BGR including myself are around to help if you’ve got any others. Just fire them off in the comments.
I have had .76 Software and yea its good but I deletes your Web Browser and you wont be able you use it whatsoever because its not an Official Verizon update. Since its not Official it deletes anything then related with data and anything on the air. I traded it for a new one well I had to go back to .65 because if I told them I updated it I wouldnt get a new one because I pretty much hacked in to it which they would say is my fault and I should have Not Done that so. So for the one that has .76 its nice but to have no Web Browser anymore is not worth it and patience is a Virtue.
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I have 4.7.0.76 and notice no difference from .75…..It is still painfully slow switching from portrait to landscape, and vice versa. The browser appears to be the same, not slower. And, I DO still have the green autofocus square on my camera app. Overall, I hope when this actually is available, they still work out some much NEEDED kinks.
You can get .76 on demonoid.com
Anyone who wants OS 4.7.0.76 I’m uploading it right now to MegaUpload for your convenience, I just tried it and it works great. I’ll post everything here in 30 min.!
Blackberry Storm OS 4.7.0.76
Download Link:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0UER7BWI
Instructions:
1. Back up your phones data in desktop manager
2. Unplug phone from computer
3. Install 4.7.0.76
4. Delete vedor file in program files/common files/Research in Motion (Very Important)
5. Plug in phone and install new software onto phone
6.You’re done
If these guys are holding out to make us pay for this upgrade then I think us BB users should start making a ruckus….! This piece of equipment cost a lot of money and upgrades to us should be free……!!!!!
@ Marc did u lie? Where the hell is the .76 megaupload post??
The already buggy camera having even more quirks does not bode well at all.
Hopefully these camera issues will get fixed.
click on the megaupload link and follow directions to download for free. It’s not too hard guy! You gotta be a bainiac to figure out megaupload
AND NO, I DIDN’T LIE!
its available on the blackerry website
Should I stick it out and wait for the update or take it back during my 30 day return period. This thing is really disappointing…I have an iPod touch and almost feel like I’d be better of getting a VOIP application and using that as a phone.
Still customer service rocks with Verizon and I hate AT&T. Any thoughts on the Samsung Omnia or HTC Touch Pro?
My Blackberry, Storm, works fine after I recharge it at home, but when I charge it at work, using a 3rd party recharger cable purchased at Verizon, it crashes and I have to do a hard reset(take battery out)….and then it works fine. I am neophyte BB user and love the device. Any advice