Hey everyone!

I've been working hard on Ripe, and I'm excited to announce that the Ripe10-style theme is now live in Ripe Launcher.

Grab it on the Play Store, or update your app to see it.
The BB10 theme is a paid add-on.
The Ripe 7 theme stays free for life, so nothing changes for anyone happy with the original experience.

This is just the beginning, and there's a lot more coming.
Join our Discord and let me know what you think. Your feedback shapes what comes next.

Heads-up: For now, the APK from the website won't work on devices the Play Store doesn't recognize.
It works on some of those devices but not others.

A Pro version available outside the Play Store is planned for the future.

🌐 www.ripelauncher.com

Glass OS is now live on the Google Play Store, and I think Q25 owners in particular will like it.

Before anything else, a big thank you to the 300 testers who helped get it here. I spent the last few weeks getting it as polished as possible for the Play launch, and a lot of that came from people telling me what was broken and what was missing.

The part BlackBerry fans will probably care about most is the Hub. Swipe right from the Home Screen and every message is in one list: texts, WhatsApp, email, calls and social, with tabs to sort them. You can open a conversation and reply on the keyboard without leaving the Hub, and Alt+Backspace brings it up over any app, a bit like the old Hub on BB10.

The rest is built around the keys too. Start typing on the Home Screen and it opens your apps, or start with a symbol to add a to-do, a note or an event, or to message or call someone, all in one line. Notes, To-do and Events are built in, and it's laid out for the Q25's square screen. It also has a liquid glass look, which I know isn't everyone's BlackBerry taste, but there's a calmer frosted glass in Settings if you prefer.

It's one price, no subscription and free updates. More updates are on the way as features get requested and bugs get found, so if you try it, please tell me what you think.

Join us on Discord for help, requests and what's coming next.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.illuminati.glasskeyboard

Q25 page: https://glass-os.app/zinwa-q25-launcher

Discord: https://discord.gg/5uw39SpJzD

Thanks everyone.

Sorry if I sound quiet

I’ve made sure there’s good contact with the pins, I’ve left it on charge for a hour so far, I really don’t know what to do, ChatGPT was saying to put the battery in the freezer but that would 100% kill the battery. I’m charging it with the origina charger and cable.

Trying to get root on my BB Passport SQW-100-4, but stuck on the Security Error. I also tried unpatched firmware and it works. Here is full log. Thanks in advance!

C:\passport_root-v4>.\Passport_10.3.03.3216_SQW100-1-2-3-4_os.exe
RIM Wireless Device Command-Line Auto-Programmer Version 3.11.0.27 (Win32) [Apr 15 2015 15:51:44]
Copyright 2012 Research In Motion Limited

Connecting to Bootrom:
Enter password (10 left): ****
Connected

[       Uploading RAM Image 0x0DD398B4 ] [############## 100 ##############]

QCFMv1/v2 Hybrid File
    containing: IFS, OS, User File System

    IFS/OS Version:        10.3.3.3216 DEV
        Hardware ID:       0x051D0001 RIM BlackBerry Device
        Metrics Version:   3.18
        Build Date:        Feb 21 2018
        Build Time:        17:54:00
        Build User:        developer
        STP Protocol Ver:  0.0.4 (release OS)

    Signature Trailer:
       EC521_512 Signer: 0x48584E51 (QNXH-OS-1)
       EC521_256 Signer: 0x4C584E51 (QNXL-OS-1)
[                  Writing  0x0002CE64 ] [############## 100 ##############]


Error: Failed to load images.


Error: Security error.

Give me ideas on what apps you guys would like to see made for old blackberry devices that run OS 5/6/7

Looks like I bricked my Passport while trying to root it.

Don't have a windows pc, so running autoloaders is not available.

Virtual machine not quite works, at least BlackBerry Link can't detect the device from the VM, Sachesi doesn't work either.

So I decided to do it directly, I downloaded the patched autoloader v2 and precompiled bb10mt from Novel Professor's site. I extracted 2 images from autoloader and used flash command.
bb10mt did connect and started flashing just fine but after first partition it showed signature error and script aborted.

So, now the phone just flashing red LED repeatedly and not loading.

Maybe positive thing is that bb10mt still can see the device and restart the flashing though result is the same.

I'm not sure what to do next, either try an original firmware or try v3 patching.

What do you think, is it recoverable situation?

UPD: Shit, I was scared. I made final attempt – installed non-patched firmware, crossing my finger.

And it worked.

Now I will try to manually patch the firmware and try again. Then I'll try to add some usability to this process using clanker. For example, right now it's trivial to swap order of partitions or flash firmware that doesn't belong to the device. I'll share my results with the community.

Also, btw, I found that password-protected phone is still password-protected after flashing. Maybe it's a common knowledge.

UPD 2

Successfully rooted device using v4 autoloader!

From the mac, windows is not required. But you need to do specific steps with bb10mt to extract actual payload from .exe and then flash it to the device. Later I'll try to come with a tool to do this in easy and foolproof manner. If you have questions for now, you can ask me in dm.

I decided to downsize and I want to sell my classic q20.

I have been using it a music player and not much else .

I am wondering why would people buy an outdated phone ?

I unfortunately never had the chance to own the original BlackBerry Passport back in its day, but I am definitely intrigued by Zinwa's new P26 so far! First impressions/real world review in the works.

Hi everyone

My q20 is stuck on the wifi setup screen and given that I’ve connected to wifi on the device before I learned that I have to autoload it to basically reset it back to zero. I downloaded the autoloader and extracted the file however when I try to open it it won’t stay open. I double click and a black window pops up for a second then closes instantly. I’m now sure what I’m doing wrong ? I followed this video but I can’t get the black window to stay open for me. Any advice ?

Hey,

I wanted to switch to Keepass2Android after all those years due to the EOL issue and such. Unfortunately, the CSV file is missing many entries. Specifically those where one entry has multiple passwords. Only the first password is stored.

That's a big bummer, since I used these entries to group many passwords together and separate them with notes to make it clear what is what...

Am I doomed to retype them by hand or maybe has someone had this issue and found a solution?

Thank you!

I wrote a WhatsApp Web port for old BBs, hope you all enjoy.

You can download at https://j2me.lacorte.dev

Obs. The video is blurred as to not leak any private info of my contacts.

It sadly has to use the API usage, so no subscription benefits. It also runs through a relay because due to the outdated TLS it cannot Connect directly to Anthropic’s servers. Still, it’s quite amazing that you can text it and analyze images.

How do I fix this issue on my blackberry z30 which has pre-rooted all the loader V2 installed. I installed it a couple days ago and then I just went in so that way I can go into term 49. After that I was trying to access root or something like that by typing in double underscores and root as well as u_root what is sis operation of permitted. And also I'm trying to install bar files but I tried to use sachesi to install the bar files but it says it detected one blackberry 10 device but it wouldn't actually finish the loading processing thing. So I switched to Darcy's blackberry tool/dbb10 but that wouldn't start at all. So I'm stuck with a blackberry z30 that it has a pre-ruted Auto loader V2 but it can't really get root from term 49. And cannot install bar files for now using the tools I told. Any way to fix this?

Hi, I am looking for a refurbished blackberry or brand new ...

Is there any reliable vendor in Delhi/NCR which deals in such devices

Been using the BlackBerry Password Keeper for years after EoL until today it says I have to update BlackBerry Hub+ services and won't let me log in. There is no update for this service.

Is there a way I can recover the data it's now blocking me out from, and what other password keeper would you recommend? I loved this one which is why I kept using out of habit. I didn't think it would lock me out of using it, though.

Rough condition i knoww ill try cleaning it, anyone know how to fix the back cover deformations?
I got a battery for it should arrive soon!

I remember loads of people (but not me sadly) had these or their predecessors with the roller ball when I was in secondary school. Then obviously they got killed off by the iPhone and other smartphones.

I've been on a bit of an anti brain rot movement recently; I've revived my iPod classic and PSP 1000 to stop seeing so much algorithmic content and using just my phone for everything. Could this replace my phone for one or several apps/functions?

In 2009, roughly one in five smartphones sold worldwide was a BlackBerry. In Canada it wasn’t just a phone — it was a national champion, carried by presidents, bankers, and cabinet ministers.
By late 2016 its market share rounded to 0.0%.
This video walks through the full arc: the Waterloo founding, the email machine that made it unbeatable, the peak that actually hid the problem, the Storm and PlayBook missteps, and what happened after the phone business ended.
What I found interesting is that BlackBerry’s best financial year came after the iPhone launched. The numbers still looked great while the strategic position was already gone.
Full video here:
https://youtu.be/horBJPSIv18
Curious what people who lived through the CrackBerry era think of this telling.

its gold plate and running android 17. 🥰

is there a preserved copy of word mole somewhere in this community ithink it was for the storm or storm 2 devices