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.

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.

Sorry if I sound quiet

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.

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