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Well I am here with this much awaited tutorial over how to flash your Blackberry smartphone with BB OS and save you tons of money you would spend when you take the phone to be fixed.
Firstly you will need to install the blackberry desktop manager, to take back-up of your contacts and messages, it comes in a CD when u purchase you BB phone but can easily be downloaded. here
An additional software to download would be BBSAK, its used to back up BB applications and restore them among other functions. It can be downloaded from here
Lastly you’ll need to download the version of the OS you want to install. a simple way of getting this is by visiting Official Blackberry Firmware download and trace a suitable OS from there.
1: Download & install the blackberry flash file (blackberry desktop manager is optional if you don’t want to take backup of existing phone data)
2: Delete the vendor.xml file located in c:program filescommon filesresearch in motionapploader for 64-bit pc location shall be c:program files (x86)common filesresearch in motionapploader
3: With battery connect your BlackBerry device to your computer
4. Backup all important contents with the blackberry desktop manager by clicking device>restore
5. Back up all 3rd party applications using blackberry desktop manager by selecting the back-up app option (optional)
6: Run Loader from c:program filescommon filesresearch in motionapploader & click Next
7: Select all software you want installed.
8: Proceed to the end portion until you see the “Finish” button
9: Very IMPORTANT. do not hit the finish button, instead select the ADVANCED button.
10: Make sure both boxes are checked.
11: Proceed until it ask you if you want to automatically back-up and restore, Select “DO NOT AUTOMATICALLY BACK UP MY HANDHELD” do next
12: & wait for “Your device’s software has been updated successfully”
WARNING: Phone flashing is a tough as well as risky; please don’t try unless you are sure. We are not responsible for any damages. If you felt any difficulty, you can always ask them in comments section.
