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learn more welcome to the third installment of my Blackberry I switch
this installment as you can see I have Ted on my BlackBerry is all about
sideloading Android apps so there's two different main ways of doing this
there's the Google Chrome app way which you can click here and find the tutorial
for that on crackberry or there's the ddpb way which you can click here and
find the tutorial for that on crackberry both these ways are actually fairly
similar when you get down to it I prefer the Google Chrome app way because I just
find it simpler and easier to set up although the ddpb way is not actually
that complicated I just find Google Chrome one more streamlined so the first
thing you're going to want to do is to go into Google Chrome apps and install
Playbook App Manager leave that up on the p on your page or bookm Market at
least and then go to your Blackberry phone go into security and privacy and
then go into development mode mode after
enabling this it'll give you an IP and you're going to want to jot that down
somewhere and you want to set your own password which it'll also prompt you for
at this point you're going to want to go into the Chrome app enter the IP for
your phone which your phone gave you and then enter the password that you set for
developer mode and that will connect the Chrome app to your phone then you will
go to this website there are other ones but this one's pretty good in my opinion
it works and I like the crackberry community so that's good um and pick uh
bar files bar files download the different ones you want uh the bar files
are all for like whatever programs you're going to use I got stuff like
Winamp and Google Maps and Ted and
Instagram and a few things like that you can get whatever you want there's I
think like 180 apps on that list or something like that it somewhere on
there that's probably wrong but oh well um yeah and then basically you just drag
and drop those Bak files or bar files sorry after you've downloaded them into
the Google Chrome app app and the Google Chrome app will install them for you
when it's done installing it'll say success when it's done saying success
just disconnect to your phone from your computer and you're good to go I once
had to do a restart of my phone to get the app to work that might have been an
isolated case I'm not sure but it would worked fine after that I expected this
whole process to be actually a lot harder than it really was I did have
problems with Google Maps and Instagram but what I did was I went into the
Google Chrome app uninstalled the two that I had downloaded different bar
files than the ones that I had initially downloaded tried installing those and
they both worked fine so there's different options for some apps I think
Google Maps has like two or three or maybe even four different downloads that
you can choose so if one doesn't work for you just try another one it's really
not that long of a process to uninstall something and reinstall it once you have
the whole process set up uh one thing is if you restart your phone you do have to
go back into developer mode um as far as
I know there isn't a way to keep your phone in developer mode there might be I
haven't really looked into into this just as a heads up and other than that I
didn't run into any problems it was actually really easy this is unrelated to side loing apps but is a problem that
I ran into before I decided to start side loading apps I tried to update the
system software on my phone uh I tried to do the system update and it said it
was interrupted I didn't interrupt it I don't know anything on the phone that
would have interrupted it I looked up this problem and there was a lot of
information on it which can be a good or bad thing um for this one I read through
it a bit but didn't have a ton of time and I didn't have a ton of information on my phone so I decided the fastest way
to fix it would be to just factory reset my phone if I looked into it further I
probably could have fixed it but factory resetting it was the fastest way for me
after a factory reset it worked perfectly fine I hope the overall
easiness level of side loing apps doesn't actually make companies lazy I
could see companies go ah people can side loader app it's not a big deal and
then not developing a dedicated app for Blackberry we still need dedicated apps
guys they work pretty good but there is some functionality that you can tell is
not NE necessarily tuned for the device and I have found a few problems there
there are ways around it but it just maybe adds a few clicks or adds a few
something that are just not entirely enjoyable if you currently own a
Blackbeard I would highly recommend starting to sideload apps onto your
phone it's great it's really not that hard I could easily Chach my mom to do
it or maybe set it up and then my mom could do it on her own afterwards it's
it's just it's wonderful I wanted TED talks on my phone I wanted Google Maps
on my phone I wanted a few other things I was able to sideload everything I
really really wanted and now this phone
is able to do much more than it could for me before which is great and a
really easy way to add a lot of functionality to your blackberry I know we got a little bit away from the weekly
release schedule of these Blackberry I switch videos due to stuff like compex
but thank you for watching the third installment of my Blackberry I switched
the next installment will be more of a conclusion just an overwrapping comment
on everything that I've done so far uh if you like side loading apps if you're
interested in side loading apps comment in the comments I'm sure people can ask
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