Hola, BBMers!! Lois Lane, here!
I know that all of you have heard about the whole BlackBerry Messenger update. It was all the Berry community could talk about! I don't like speaking from a point of ignorance, so before I spoke to my audience about it, I wanted to see what the early birds has to say about this worm. **That's a lesson I learned from being first in line for the problem child (i.e. the Storm)** It seemed that as soon as the OTA file mirrors came out and my sister and I were ready to take the shot in the dark, the update was dubbed a "failure". Now I am intrigued.
As with any unofficial update, everybody ran the risk of bricking their phones and MANY actually did. When asked, on Twitter, for the update links, I provided them and made sure to tell everyone to update at their own risk... However, I didn't count on this being as catastrophic as it actually turned out to be! Here are a few of the complaints:
- Many people's downloads malfunctioned and they ended up with no BBM at all.
- Dramatically laggy message delivery.
- "Unavailable" contact statuses.
- Complete contact wipeouts. *Avoidable if you back your phone up before you do these things, guys!*
- Bricking of the device.
Now, there has been a little conspiracy theory released that has lead some to believe that the laggy messaging and "unavailable" contact statuses are thanks to a overload of the BBM servers. Allegedly, the amount of Berry users who downloaded the update, overloaded the servers and caused RIM to have to shut them down for a little while. I don't know how true this is, but I do know that overloaded servers are no excuse for the other problems. No server in the world should brick your phone.
So, now, the general consensus is that BBM 5.0 unofficial update has been a super womp, however, the option remains yours to update or not.
Here are all the links you'll need to do the deed.
Please, be advised, I do not recommend this update, especially if you are neither skilled nor patient enough to unbrick your phone or restore a lost BBM application. Do not, under any circumstances, perform this action without backing up your information using your DM.
Until next time guys, happy messaging!
-Lola
