Sprint BlackBerry Tour owners can now update to OS OS 4.7.1.57. RIM has officially released OS 4.7.1.57 for current Sprint customers only. Improvements include better battery life, glitch fixes, media improvements, gps improvement and visual voicemail enhancements.Sprint customers can update to the BlackBerry Tour OS 4.7.1.57 through Desktop Manager. Before you update, be sure to backup your data.
To Back Up Data:
Open up the Blackberry Desktop Manager Program and click on Backup and Restore .
How to Update BlackBerry Tour From Your Computer:
- Open up
Blackberry Desktop Manager Program (available for download from your service provider or RIM.)
- Click on Application Loader.
- Click on Update software and follow the prompts.
- Make sure the USB cable is connected to your computer and your BlackBerry Tour.
The improvements of the 0.S.4.7.1.53. update for BlackBerry Tour, reported in forums include; faster boot-up times, GPS now works in Google maps, Bluetooth fixed, better battery life and better trackball responsiveness.
Here are some features that have been reported in the BlackBerry Tour Update 4.7.1.53 which should be included in 4.7.1.57
- Better battery life.
- It's slightly faster.
- Better Bluetooth and voice quality.
- More responsive trackball.
- Better MMS notifications.
- Enhanced Visual Voice Mail app.
- The geo-tagging error in the camera application is fixed.
- Error with DRM music skipping fixed.
- Better video player.
- You can now check for new BBM updates automatically or manually.
- The BlackBerry Tour no longer restarts after activating the morning alarm.
- Memory cleaning is better and its less sluggish.
- The first character is no longer duplicated when dialing from the
home screen. - Glitch where the BlackBerry Tour 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, user's BlackBerry Tour
may have jumped to "Bluetooth® Setup," leaving them unable to navigate back to email setup. - Users who tried to save changes to a contact that only contained a
company name, could have received the error message "Contact
updated externally. Changes will be lost and the view closed."
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