BlackBerry Storm update landing tomorrow, bringing lots of good stuff (update: now with changelog!)

Hey, you -- yeah you, the BlackBerry Storm owner over there. You listening? Good. That mythical software update we heard about just last week is obviously the real deal, and a screen grab from Verizon's internal systems has shown up to prove it. We're told that it should go live tomorrow (that's October 25th for those in strange, potentially illegitimate time zones) at 6PM. On the whole, it'll make your Storm act a lot more like the forthcoming Storm2, but specifically you can expect a "faster, more accurate and more natural text input experience, word completion, a virtual QWERTY keyboard in portrait view and enhanced sensitivity when editing, copying and pasting." You'll also get the ability to "enable Auto Correction as opposed to Word Completion in landscape view." The full changelog should be coming soon, so hang tight! Oh, and cancel those plans for tomorrow night, okay?

[Thanks, Anonymous]

Update: Check out the full (purported) changelog after the break!

BlackBerry Storm - MR3 (5.0) Software Release
OEM: RIM
Model: 9530
Software Version: 5.0.0 Release 508(OS 4.2.0.128 / Applications 5.0.0.328)
Approval Date: 10/22/09
Available through the following methods:
Over The Air Software Loading (OTASL): NOT AVAILABLE for this upgrade.
Desktop Manager Software Loading: Customers will have access any time after
10/25 10PM Eastern time.
Web Based Software Loading (WebSL): Customers will have access any time
after 10/25 10PM Eastern time.
A software update to help enhance the performance on your BlackBerry ®
StormTM smartphone is now available. From your computer go to
www.verizonwireless.com/storm, select "Software Download" and follow the
on-screen instructions. Thank you, Verizon Wireless

New software has been approved for the RIM Blackberry Storm (9530), and will
be available effective 10/25/2009 at 7 PM PST for customers. Communication
will be provided to customers via a "Pin Message" to their device stating:

Symptoms Resolved:

* Significant improvements in rotation detection and screen painting have been introduced in this software.
* Device displayed a white bar at the bottom of the screen after a rotation event.
* When setting a custom SMS tone for a single contact, this tone may playback unexpectedly for SMS' received from other contacts.
* When swiping down the virtual keyboard in an MMS message the send and save draft icons did not appear as expected.
* When viewing an SMS there was no simple way to call the current user. Now the user can select the number from the Callback Number field or from the message body and call that number from the pop up menu.
* The delete prior function has the unwanted side-effect of triggering the compose email screen.
* The user cannot configure their profile settings to increase the number of alerts when being notified of an event such as incoming SMS or email.
* Previous software versions did not allow the user to increase the count of notifications (i.e. Beep 5 times when when I get an email and beep 3 times when I get an sms). In this software, this is now allowed with counts from 1-10.
* When trying to set a home screen background of a certain resolution (more specifically a resolution matching either the width or the height of the native resolution of the LCD) it may have appeared as a black screen.
* When trying to edit/create a folder, the virtual keyboard did not render to allow the user to enter the names of said folders.
* Intermittently, when streaming a video while doing a handover to 2G on a 3G network the video would stop playing.
* If you paused a video recording and then resumed, the icon state may not have reflected the current recording state.
* After recoding a video of a certain size (7M) the saved video may be corrupted and unplayable.
* During manual network selection, the radio buttons associated with the networks did not render as expected.
* When moving out of coverage your device display for no coverage may have been inconsistent.
* During voice calls, your device may have reset on a rare occasion.
* After viewing and accepting the End User Licensing Agreement of the App World application the application doesn't startup (fixes introduced in the latest version of App World).
* On some rare occasions, the device may reset on its own during a voice call or while idle.
* During an MTP side load of 16GB of music, the device would leak memory and stop the transfer at ~75%.
* During device full boot-up, the progress bar skips from 0% complete to ~66% complete instead of showing a gradual progression (Note: from 66% to 100% it does show a gradual progression).

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 24th 2009 11:39AM]

DO WANT!

[CJ100570 Posted Oct 24th 2009 11:52AM]

Well then, shut up and move along troll.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 24th 2009 1:00PM]

I thought this was supposed to be the release of 5.0.0.328, not 323?, seems to be something not right here somewhere have the sites are publishing one OS and the other this one , but dont let the verizon tag fool you, they also promo'd the new storm to be released and for got the "2 " part in the add...

andrew
The Blackberry Underground
Http://www.blackberryunderground.com

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 24th 2009 2:50PM]

it will be .328

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 24th 2009 6:20PM]

I've always been curious about this thing.
Here in Scandinavia and I think in the rest of Europe, for some reason it's not imported, but what I have read about it has been hardly flattering.
But what about the people who actually bought it?
Have they all been unanimously and absolutely disappointed of their purchase?

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 24th 2009 10:05PM]

Officially, it got pushed back to the 26th. That is direct from Verizon.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 25th 2009 2:53PM]

and when did that happen? all the reports and memos I've seen say 25th. oh, did I mention those came directly to my VZW employee email account inbox?

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 25th 2009 1:39PM]

Stiil no OS on the site. Just 5.0 desktop mgr....

Am I missing something????

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 25th 2009 2:55PM]

the expected time is around 6p. I don't know if that's eastern, pacific, greenwich mean time...

just later tonight (say.... after 6p whatever time zone you're in), plug in your phone and open desktop manager.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 25th 2009 2:53PM]

SPAM

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 25th 2009 2:56PM]

why do all of these sites say 5.0.0 Release 508(OS 4.2.0.128 / Applications 5.0.0.328)...that seems like a downgrade from my OS 4.7.0.148 to 4.2.0.128, whats going on with that?

[MJ Posted Oct 25th 2009 10:13PM]

Installing now :) 5.0.0.328

Sure took their sweet time!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 25th 2009 10:58PM]

I don't know why, but it's not coming up on my desktop manager. what gives?

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 26th 2009 9:10PM]

I saw the available update on my blackberry desktop, and I did download it. But when I hook up the phone itself, it mentions that it will delete my applications... and I just want to make sure it won't permanently delete my purchased apps. Does anyone who know if it permanently deletes these purchased apps?