Some people upgrade from BBM 7 only to miss some wonderful features such as:
1. Press Your Blackberry button to go to Menu
2. Select Applications in your Menu
3. Run Blackberry Protect and backup your contacts
4. After backup is complete, go back to Menu
5. Select 'Options'
6. Select 'Device' inside Options
7. Select 'Application Management' inside Device
8. Scroll to Blackberry Messenger and delete it
9 After deleting is complete, it will ask you to restart your Phone, let it restart'
10. After your phone restarts, just type 'about' at the home screen of your phone and some icons will pop-up (Browser History, Social Feeds, Facebook, Options, Help etc)
11. Select Options and Click 'About Device Versions' to see your Blackberry OS version
You will see an option that looks like this...
Blackberry (R) 9900
smartphone (3G, CDMA, Wi-Fi)
7.1 Bundle 921 (v7.1.0.267, platform 5.1.0.230)
The red text above tells you that the device is running OS Version 7.1 (Note: Yours might be different from this...maybe 6.1, 7.0 and so on)...
12. After taking note of your OS version
13. Make sure your phone Network is on 3G (for fast download ) and Download the corresponding Blackberry Messenger according to your OS from the list below...
Blackberry Messenger v7.0.1.23 (OS5)
Download
Blackberry Messenger v7.0.1.23 (OS6)
Download
Blackberry Messenger v7.0.1.23 (OS7)
Download
Blackberry Messenger v7.0.1.23 (OS7.1)
Download
14. After Clicking on any of the links above, a new page will appear, wait for the page to load completely, lets say 10 seconds.
15. After the page loads completely, scroll to the top right side of the page and click 'SKIP AD'
16. Download and Blackberry Messenger that will pop up, then RUN IT. This usually takes time to complete but if its taking so much time lets say more than 30 minutes, remove your phone's battery and put it back.
- BBM upgrade notifications – BBM will notify you when there are updates to download straight from within the app
- BBID Synchronization – your BBM profile, Groups and Contacts are linked to your Blackberry ID
- 16 Additional emoticons – even more choice for those times when words just aren’t enough.
In case you miss these features and want to go back to BBM 7 here are the steps to do that:
1. Press Your Blackberry button to go to Menu
2. Select Applications in your Menu
3. Run Blackberry Protect and backup your contacts
4. After backup is complete, go back to Menu
5. Select 'Options'
6. Select 'Device' inside Options
7. Select 'Application Management' inside Device
8. Scroll to Blackberry Messenger and delete it
9 After deleting is complete, it will ask you to restart your Phone, let it restart'
10. After your phone restarts, just type 'about' at the home screen of your phone and some icons will pop-up (Browser History, Social Feeds, Facebook, Options, Help etc)
11. Select Options and Click 'About Device Versions' to see your Blackberry OS version
You will see an option that looks like this...
Blackberry (R) 9900
smartphone (3G, CDMA, Wi-Fi)
7.1 Bundle 921 (v7.1.0.267, platform 5.1.0.230)
The red text above tells you that the device is running OS Version 7.1 (Note: Yours might be different from this...maybe 6.1, 7.0 and so on)...
12. After taking note of your OS version
13. Make sure your phone Network is on 3G (for fast download ) and Download the corresponding Blackberry Messenger according to your OS from the list below...
Blackberry Messenger v7.0.1.23 (OS5)
Download
Blackberry Messenger v7.0.1.23 (OS6)
Download
Blackberry Messenger v7.0.1.23 (OS7)
Download
Blackberry Messenger v7.0.1.23 (OS7.1)
Download
14. After Clicking on any of the links above, a new page will appear, wait for the page to load completely, lets say 10 seconds.
15. After the page loads completely, scroll to the top right side of the page and click 'SKIP AD'
16. Download and Blackberry Messenger that will pop up, then RUN IT. This usually takes time to complete but if its taking so much time lets say more than 30 minutes, remove your phone's battery and put it back.
