BlackBerry® Tour™

[Jaroam]

There has to be a way to stop the automatic wireless updates!  Long story short, as it was the topic of another post, I inititated an update on my BB Tour, Sprint, from 4.whatever to 5.whatever.  Had no clue it was a big update and it basically wiped my phone clean.  Not happy.  My fault.  Fine.  Seems to be the way to go about doing things is to update via a PC along with backups so you don't lose anything, yadda yadda.  I dig.  But, uh, how I'm I suppose to go about doing that when my phone is now updating on its own, like, once a day.  I ask you!  And each time it does, I have to redo all my settings.  Argh!  So, yeah, anyway to stop the madness?  Thanks!  Oh, as an aside, now 'Word Mole' doesn't recognize "Zit" as a word when it did previously.  Really?!  

[JSanders Resident Expert]

The BlackBerry won't perform any upgrades to which you don't first click to agree. Don't agree and don't proceed.

Do a backup of your BlackBerry using the BlackBerry Desktop Software before any upgrade.

[Jaroam]

Okay, so if that's true, then what's happening?  Here's the scenario:  I'll glance down at my phone and notice 'Black Berry'  and a progression bar filling up.  While this is happening, I can't do anything with my phone.  Once the bar fills, the phone reboots.  Once it does, my theme needs to be reset, my paused games are reset to the beginning, the phone asks me if I want to go through the 'setup wizard'...  This whole process takes about, I think, 5 minutes or so.  Any clue what's going on?    

[JSanders Resident Expert]

Sounds like some wireless upgrade to me!

Did you ever complete and finish the initial wireless upgrade?

What is your Operating System loaded to your device? Look at Options > > Device > About, third line down beginning with a "v.6.0.x.xxx", What is yours?

[Jaroam]

Sorry it took so long to reply.  Right now the phone reads:  v5.0.0.983

[Jaroam]

So, finally did an update via PC instead of OTA to see if that would stop the continued "automatic update madness" that my phone kept going through since my last OTA update.  It is now:  v5.0.0.1030 (Bundle 1675, Platform 4.2.0.451).  As of the last 24 hours the phone has not done an automatic update or whatever it was doing, however, it still freezes for a couple seconds every now and then.  Funny thing, none of this was happening when I was still in the v4.whatever zone.  And, even with, what I suppose was a small update to my last, the phone still asks me to set the language and such - and I keep having to redo my phone's settings like theme and such - after each update .  Very annoying.  Got anything for me?  Thanks!