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How to Clear BlackBerry World Cache on BlackBerry 10

I have been asked this a few times but for some reason I never got around to writing it up. With the launch of WhatsApp and other apps I have once again run into this annoying double cache issue and Piotr at BBNews reminded me with his post about it. There Read the Rest of the story [...]

Step By Step Guide to Sideloading Apps on BlackBerry 10

As many of you may have noticed, a lot of our recent posts for popular apps involve sideloading. If you are unfamiliar with sideloading, it is taking a downloaded .BAR file, mainly an Android port or a beta copy of a new app and then installing Read the Rest of the story [...]

If you watch ‘private’ videos on your BlackBerry, make sure you turn off status updates in BBM first

We stumbled across this one in the CrackBerry forums earlier and couldn’t help but pass it along.

As you may or may not know, BBM has an option to share what music you listen to in the media player as your status update. This feature is disabled by default but if you happened to Read the Rest of the story [...]

Setting up payment options in BlackBerry App World

When BlackBerryÂ® App Worldâ„¢ 2.0 was released last year, several new features were added, including new payment options for when you make purchases within BlackBerry App World. Today, Iâ€™ll be providing an overview of the various payment options as well as outlining how you can change your billing option/payment service type.

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Now Available on BlackBerry App World: BlackBerry Parental Controls for BlackBerry 6 and BlackBerry 7 OS smartphones

As of today, BlackBerryÂ® Parental Controls is now available in the BlackBerry App Worldâ„¢ storefront for customers with a BlackBerryÂ® 6 or BlackBerryÂ® 7 OS smartphone. For those using BlackBerryÂ® Device Software 5, a compatible version of Parental Controls will be available in the near future.

After installation of this app, parents Read the Rest of the story [...]

Quick Tip: Updating your BlackBerry to a different carrier’s OS? Make sure you delete BOTH vendor files

As I found out earlier this morning, installing another carrier’s OS on your BlackBerry isn’t as easy as downloading and deleting the vendor.xml file — now you have to delete both vendor files. It seems that in one of the updates to BlackBerry Desktop Manager, the vendor.xml file is Read the Rest of the story [...]

BlackBerry PlayBook 101: Software Update

BlackBerry PlayBook 101: Check out this guide for help on how to update the software on your BlackBerry PlayBook. [ youtube video link for mobile viewing ]

When you first fire up your BlackBerry PlayBook you’ll be required to do a software update. It doesn’t take too long but it gets you Read the Rest of the story [...]

Have you nuked (or bricked) your BlackBerry 7 Smartphone yet? I have, twice.

To be dead honest, I’m kind of pi$$ed off at my BlackBerry right now. Yesterday, for the second time in two weeks, my BlackBerry Bold 9900 nuked itself on me.Â If you’re not familiar with “nuking” (my term) or “bricking” (the more popular/standard term), it refers to the BlackBerry white screen Read the Rest of the story [...]

How to Reload the Operating System on a Nuked or Bricked BlackBerry

NHCBBA explains how to restore a Nuked BlackBerry

Good Afternoon Class! Iâ€™ve been a bit slack in my BlackBerry 101 lectures as of late â€“ I blame the Smartphone Round Robin, all the Contests weâ€™ve been running on the site and the busy Holiday Season. My apologies! This will be the Read the Rest of the story [...]

Backing up your BlackBerry smartphone

Quick guide on how to backup your BlackBerry Smartphone from NHCBBA!

One of the things we can never stress enough is the importance of backing up your BlackBerry. There is so much data on your device including emails, SMS, phone call logs, passwords and memos that if something were to happen to the information Read the Rest of the story [...]

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