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Official OS 5.0.0.484 from Sprint for BlackBerry Tour 9630

posted by Zach Gilbert at 6:42 pm on Feb 16, 2010 | 5 comments

toursprint5.0 Official OS 5.0.0.484 from Sprint for BlackBerry Tour 9630

Last week we mentioned that Sprint users were able to get an Update to OS 5.0 on their tour 9630 through desktop manager. Well now the new Tour OS is available for download via the Sprint BlackBerry software download page for everyone to grab. Remember if Sprint isn’t your carrier you will need to remove the vendor file before you can install it onto your Tour. Oh and don’t forget to post your findings in the comments.

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  • jeremy

    zach my man arent u tired of waiting for the new tour? i mean whats the deal?

    • http://www.theberryfix.com Zach

      of course I am, there are a few rumors as to why Verizon has yet to release this device. The main rumor is that they have not yet approved OS 5.0 for the Tour 9630 (Verizon is very meticulous on approving an OS build) so if they were to release the Tour aka essex now with OS 5.0 then many Verizon users would be outraged, and because Verizon is the biggest carrier in the US they get to release it first this is why we have not seen it on sprint. So once we see a Tour 9630 OS update we should then shortly see the Tour 2 9650. the device was scheduled for feb 3rd but no OS 5.0 was ready for the 9630 so the date was changed.

      Hope this helps, soon tho soon.

  • jeremy

    hey man thanks for your response. hopefully we will be wont be waiting for to much longer..

  • jeremy

    i talked to a vzw rep today who kinda indicated the hold up was cause the new tour for vzw will be able to do something that the sprint version wont. thats why sprint could release the update faster, vzw had to tweak some things. any thoughts?

    • http://www.theberryfix.com Zach

      Interesting, havent heard anything like that. But hey that would be cool, I wonder what the would do to it if t is true. We shall only wait and see ;)