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Instinct Application Upgrades Live

As you have noticed, the application updates for the Instinct were turned on recently.  We are pushing updates to improve your experience with Picture Mail, the web browser, Sprint TV and Radio, Sprint Navigation, Sprint Email, Sprint Music Store, Visual Voicemail and Mobile Sync.

 

Not all apps are updating at the same time – but we have released the ‘go’ signal to the vendors. As you run each app, you will be prompted to upgrade – all the upgrades will be over the air.   We’ll keep you posted as new information comes out about this and future updates to your Instinct phone.

 

 

---- Update Aug 14 - what's changing:

 

Picture Mail
    •    Reduce system busy errors for large picturemails
    •    Reduction of "408" timeout errors when sending large picturemails
 
Browser
    •    Optimized vending machine shopping experience
    •    More robust and user friendly access to Yahoo, Hotmail, Best Buy, YouTube
    •    Remove feature that sent browser back one page with camera button
 
Sprint TV/Radio
    •    Optimizations to resolutions for streaming video playback
    •    Reductions of pausing. freezing and "flashing" during streaming video playback
    •    Greatly increased start up and channel change speed
 
Sprint Navigation
    •    Session will no longer run in background, preserving battery life
 
Sprint E-Mail
    •    Ability to save email address from favorites menu
 
Sprint Music Store
    •    Eliminates skips when listening via Bluetooth headset
    •    Eliminates periodic timeouts for Websync of music
    •    Eliminates changing of tracks when turning on screen from sleep mode
    •    Eliminates periodic failure of skip button
    •    Eliminates play/pause stopping after 30 - 35 minutes of music play
 
Push Info Services/Pocket Express
    •    Increased ability to play video clips
    •    Content for movie listing displays correctly
    •    Eliminates periodic error for movie details/review
 
Visual Voicemail/Mobil Sync
    •    Handle and present voicemail notification when out of data service
    •    Eliminates "choppy" playback when dragging progress bar
    •    Contact picture/image now shown correctly in playback form
 

Please keep in mind that these applications are updated by the vendor, and the vendors set their own schedules.  For example, they may turn it on for one hour per day, updating 1/24th of the handsets in service per day.  You will be automatically notified of the update when you launch the application.Message Edited by InstinctAdmin on 08-14-2008 03:55 PM

Posted by: InstinctAdmin 4 months ago
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Greego:  WIN!!

 

Posted by: mikebrinkerhoff 4 months ago
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I think all of these so called updates are fake

and some of the reply are also one guy said, wow the great improvement on TV!  Liar

Posted by: whats up 4 months ago
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I received the update for email and tv, no others. But under the FUN tab I noticed when you click ADD there is a new icon for MySpace.

 

Email still doesn't auto recieve, never has for me. Hotmail and Comcast POP accounts.

 

Web freezes when I try to view this site.

 

TV picture is awful, was much better on the Touch that I returned for this.

 

 

 

 

Posted by: andyf 4 months ago
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Myspace is not new.  It's been there since day one. 

Posted by: chadaccount 4 months ago
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"Myspace is not new.  It's been there since day one. "

 

Same for your other issues :)

 

Posted by: VR4 4 months ago
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My email also hasn't worked correctly since the first update. Where it used to arrive in seconds/minutes, now it sometimes takes hours. This recent email update has not fixed it. I would like an update to fix what the first update screwed up.

 

I don't know what the changes to SprintTV were. I had given up on it long ago. Now I watch it on my wife's M520. The picture is smaller, but it's a lot cleaner and doesn't skip near as much. I checked out the NFL network after the update. Still blocky, still skips, audio STILL out of sync.

 

I've been defending Sprint and this phone since June 20, hoping the update would fix the minor bugs. So far, it seems as though for a lot of people the updates have no effect or are making the phone worse.

 

Figure this out, Sprint. 

Posted by: sweet greggo 4 months ago
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I cancelled the email upgrade when it asked if I wanted to upgrade because my signal was really bad. I have better signal strength now, how do I get the upgrade now?

Posted by: anna35 4 months ago
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Nevermind, I found the upgrade button.

Posted by: anna35 4 months ago
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InstinctAdmin wrote:

As you have noticed, the application updates for the Instinct were turned on recently.  We are pushing updates to improve your experience with Picture Mail, the web browser, Sprint TV and Radio, Sprint Navigation, Sprint Email, Sprint Music Store, Visual Voicemail and Mobile Sync.

 

Not all apps are updating at the same time – but we have released the ‘go’ signal to the vendors. As you run each app, you will be prompted to upgrade – all the upgrades will be over the air.   We’ll keep you posted as new information comes out about this and future updates to your Instinct phone.


 

None of the above is new information that has not been posted here before.  Doesn't even bother to mention what app updates have already pushed, much less what was updated.

 

What was this point of this thread?  To consolidate some of the rumors, speculation and confusion?  Absurd.

 

Why is it all such a big secret? 

 

 

Posted by: Drybonz 4 months ago
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Who knows, in all this confusion, if this has already been posted... but I just got an update to my news app.  It was automatic when I launched the app.

 

I have no idea what this fixed and I'm sure Sprint isn't going to tell us.

Posted by: Drybonz 4 months ago
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