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this video is brought to you by the corsair voyager air the high-performance wireless media hub for your connected life visit Corsair calm / Voyager dash air to 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 side loading 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 DDP bway which you can click here and find that 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 DDP bway 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 pay on your page or bookmark it at least and then go to your blackberry phone go into security and privacy and then go into development mode after enabling this it will 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 and pick ba our files ba our files download the different ones you want the ba our files are all for like whatever programs are 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 those things like a hundred and eighty apps on that list or something like that it somewhere on there that's probably wrong but well um yeah and then basically you just drag and drop those bak file or ba our files sorry after you've downloaded them into the google chrome app and the google chrome app will install them for you when it's done installing it'll say success when it's done tank success just disconnect 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 ba our 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 I reinstall it once you have the whole process set up one thing is if you restart your phone you do have to go back and developer mode 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 this just as a heads up and other than that they didn't run into any problems he was actually really easy this is unrelated to sideloading apps but is a problem that I ran into before I decided to start sideloading apps I tried to update the system software on my phone 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 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 sideloading apps doesn't actually make companies lazy eye could see companies go uh 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 us not 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 some things that are just not entirely enjoyable if you currently own a black grout highly recommend starting to sideload apps onto your phone it's great it's really not that hard i could easily choose my mom to do it or maybe set it up and then my mom could do it on our own afterwards it's it's just it's wonderful I wanted to talk to my phone I want a google maps in 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 really schedule these blackberry i switch videos due to stuff like computex but thank you for watching the third installment of my blackberry i switched the next installment will be more of a conclusion just an over wrapping comment on everything that I've done so far if you like sideloading apps if you're interested in sideloading apps comment in the comments i'm sure people can ask answer all your questions and don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips