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learn more welcome to the third installment of my Blackberry I switch

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this installment as you can see I have Ted on my BlackBerry is all about

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sideloading Android apps so there's two different main ways of doing this

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there's the Google Chrome app way which you can click here and find the tutorial

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for that on crackberry or there's the ddpb way which you can click here and

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find the tutorial for that on crackberry both these ways are actually fairly

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similar when you get down to it I prefer the Google Chrome app way because I just

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find it simpler and easier to set up although the ddpb way is not actually

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that complicated I just find Google Chrome one more streamlined so the first

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thing you're going to want to do is to go into Google Chrome apps and install

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Playbook App Manager leave that up on the p on your page or bookm Market at

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least and then go to your Blackberry phone go into security and privacy and

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then go into development mode mode after

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enabling this it'll give you an IP and you're going to want to jot that down

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somewhere and you want to set your own password which it'll also prompt you for

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at this point you're going to want to go into the Chrome app enter the IP for

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your phone which your phone gave you and then enter the password that you set for

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developer mode and that will connect the Chrome app to your phone then you will

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go to this website there are other ones but this one's pretty good in my opinion

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it works and I like the crackberry community so that's good um and pick uh

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bar files bar files download the different ones you want uh the bar files

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are all for like whatever programs you're going to use I got stuff like

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Winamp and Google Maps and Ted and

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Instagram and a few things like that you can get whatever you want there's I

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think like 180 apps on that list or something like that it somewhere on

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there that's probably wrong but oh well um yeah and then basically you just drag

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and drop those Bak files or bar files sorry after you've downloaded them into

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the Google Chrome app app and the Google Chrome app will install them for you

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when it's done installing it'll say success when it's done saying success

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just disconnect to your phone from your computer and you're good to go I once

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had to do a restart of my phone to get the app to work that might have been an

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isolated case I'm not sure but it would worked fine after that I expected this

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whole process to be actually a lot harder than it really was I did have

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problems with Google Maps and Instagram but what I did was I went into the

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Google Chrome app uninstalled the two that I had downloaded different bar

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files than the ones that I had initially downloaded tried installing those and

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they both worked fine so there's different options for some apps I think

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Google Maps has like two or three or maybe even four different downloads that

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you can choose so if one doesn't work for you just try another one it's really

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not that long of a process to uninstall something and reinstall it once you have

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the whole process set up uh one thing is if you restart your phone you do have to

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go back into developer mode um as far as

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I know there isn't a way to keep your phone in developer mode there might be I

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haven't really looked into into this just as a heads up and other than that I

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didn't run into any problems it was actually really easy this is unrelated to side loing apps but is a problem that

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I ran into before I decided to start side loading apps I tried to update the

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system software on my phone uh I tried to do the system update and it said it

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was interrupted I didn't interrupt it I don't know anything on the phone that

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would have interrupted it I looked up this problem and there was a lot of

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information on it which can be a good or bad thing um for this one I read through

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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

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to fix it would be to just factory reset my phone if I looked into it further I

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probably could have fixed it but factory resetting it was the fastest way for me

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after a factory reset it worked perfectly fine I hope the overall

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easiness level of side loing apps doesn't actually make companies lazy I

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could see companies go ah people can side loader app it's not a big deal and

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then not developing a dedicated app for Blackberry we still need dedicated apps

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guys they work pretty good but there is some functionality that you can tell is

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not NE necessarily tuned for the device and I have found a few problems there

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there are ways around it but it just maybe adds a few clicks or adds a few

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something that are just not entirely enjoyable if you currently own a

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Blackbeard I would highly recommend starting to sideload apps onto your

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phone it's great it's really not that hard I could easily Chach my mom to do

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it or maybe set it up and then my mom could do it on her own afterwards it's

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it's just it's wonderful I wanted TED talks on my phone I wanted Google Maps

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on my phone I wanted a few other things I was able to sideload everything I

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really really wanted and now this phone

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is able to do much more than it could for me before which is great and a

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really easy way to add a lot of functionality to your blackberry I know we got a little bit away from the weekly

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release schedule of these Blackberry I switch videos due to stuff like compex

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but thank you for watching the third installment of my Blackberry I switched

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the next installment will be more of a conclusion just an overwrapping comment

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on everything that I've done so far uh if you like side loading apps if you're

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interested in side loading apps comment in the comments I'm sure people can ask

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