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How to upgrade your BlackBerry OS

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July 6, 2006 at 8:59 am · Filed under General, Hardware, Howtos, Software

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To upgrade your BlackBerry to the latest OS version, you have to go to the provider-specific download page::

ALLTEL BASE Bell Mobility Bharti Tele-Ventures Limited Cable and Wireless (Cayman Islands) Cincinnati Bell Cingular (Mobitex) Cingular / AT&T Dobson Cellular/Cellular One E-Plus Hong Kong CSL Hutchison KPN Netherlands LUXGSM M1 Mobistar SA/NV NexTel O2 Europe O2 Ireland Optus Mobile Pty Limited Orange Netherlands Orange UK Proximus

Rogers Sasktel Mobility SMART Communications Inc Sprint StarHub Ltd SunCom Wireless T-Mobile T-Mobile Europe TDC Mobil Telefónica Móviles Telenor Sverige AB Telstra Australia Telus US Cellular Verizon Vodafone Australia and Fiji Vodafone D2 Vodafone Egypt Vodafone Ireland Vodafone Netherlands Vodafone New Zealand Vodafone Spain Vodafone UK

The most recent BlackBerry Desktop software is available here: http://www.blackberry.com/support/index.shtml

In most cases it is also possible to install an update from a different carrier (if they have the same BlackBerry model). This might be useful if your carrier does not provide the most recent version you need, or you want to have a special foreign charset. For example you can install the “Hong Kong CSL” version to have chinese character and input support (the Operation System is still in english).
To install a OS update from a different carrier you have to delete C:\Program Files\Common Files\Research In Motion\AppLoader\VENDOR.XML first.

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   July 10, 2006 @ 7:03 pm

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   July 17, 2006 @ 11:23 am

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3. Newbie needs help to upgrade to 4.2 - BlackBerryForums.com : Your Number One BlackBerry Community said,

   January 17, 2007 @ 12:22 pm

   [...] Originally Posted by pgmcclure I just purchased 7250 at end of 2006. I was advised that for one specific application I needed 4.2+ Desktop & same on 7250. I found on website the Desktop Software v4.2 which I downloaded and installed but there seemed no way to upgrade device. I then downloaded Device Manager 4.2.msi and it proceeded to remove DM software. I have experimented but where it should seem so simple – download software, connect device and upgrade accordingly evades me. Thanks in advance for any help received Here is a good manual on: BlackBerryInsight » How to upgrade your BlackBerry OS __________________ News and Backstage infos: BlackBerryInsight The BlackBerry Search: Berryquery.com [...]

4. BlackBerryInsight » Buying a BlackBerry Pearl in Hong Kong said,

   January 25, 2007 @ 7:43 pm

   [...] Because we all know the Pearl is available in Hong Kong for a while I thought that is easy. Wrong! Right, the BlackBerry page tells us there are 2 providers that have the Pearl in their stock. So there must be a shop (some of the fancy, small, not so serious looking shops that sell nearly every everything) which has the Pearl to sell. After some hours of looking around I found some of them and asked for the price. 2500 HK$ (~$320)! Wow! Great price, I want it! But, first of all, I saw that it is “T-Mobile” branded. So this device was not from Hong Kong. After some time of checking the manual and stuff … I figured out that it was an imported Pearl from the UK. 1 day and nearly thousand shops later I came back and wanted to buy the Pearl I have seen at the first shop. After 30 minutes of waiting they figured out they don’t have it on stock and I will have to wait for at least 2 days. No time no money … So I checked the next store and they had the Pearl available there but for 3200HK$ (~410$). Who cares, I bought it and it was the T-Mobile branded UK version. I though, no problem, upgrading the OS is easy… [...]

5. tim said,

   April 13, 2007 @ 2:04 am

   i purchased a bb pearl from cingular, just got it unlocked, and changed its os to HKCSL, and it still doesn’t show Chinese characters, anyone can help?

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   May 12, 2007 @ 4:52 pm

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   November 16, 2007 @ 9:27 am

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   June 5, 2008 @ 4:01 am

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    July 25, 2008 @ 2:42 am

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11. Iulian said,

    October 11, 2008 @ 3:57 pm

    Hey guys,

    I bought a blackberry 8310 from Vodafone Romania and I can’t update the software because the operator is not included in the list. Is there a way I can update my software (currently 4.2.2) to the latest 4.6?

    Thanks,

    Iulian

12. brambo said,

    October 17, 2008 @ 6:25 pm

    I have a T-Mobile Blackberry Curve 8320 I wanna upgrade to the newest software, from Rogers, will it work right? Also, it says I have to connect my phone wirelessly to use it again after the update, what does this mean? I do not have service on my phone ATM, but I wanna upgrade for video recording feature! Anyone have any idea if you gotta have service on your BB to perform the software upgrade?

13. vinod said,

    December 17, 2008 @ 3:21 pm

    Ihave black berry perl 8100 v4.2 when i downlaod to update it to v4.5 it’s not detecting to update finding no updates my service provider for T-mobile is 8100EastAsia_PBr4.5.0_rel52_PL2.7.0.55_A4.5.0.37_Bharti
    but not working any solution plz

    thank you

14. Sunjay said,

    January 29, 2009 @ 4:49 pm

    i have a blackberry 7290. I would like to know , if i can upgrade to OS 4.2 or not. If yes from where doi download the OS 4.2

    Thank you
    Sunjay

15. k said,

    January 30, 2009 @ 12:06 pm

    OS 4.2 is not available for the 7290. Sorry mate.

    Check out our hardware store if you want to get a new BlackBerry

16. steve said,

    February 9, 2009 @ 7:44 am

    So I just updated my pearl and it killed the address book on my bluetooth to my truck (LR2). It just shows the numbers now. I have tried all the options and a hard reboot…suggestions?

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18. peer said,

    May 31, 2009 @ 4:49 pm

    hi

19. olayemi solomon said,

    August 31, 2009 @ 2:45 am

    Vodafone blackberry 7230 was sent to me in nigeria,but it does not work with Nigeria network on gprs and browser.Tell me how to configure it to MTN Nigeria network.

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