How to Side Load Blackberry World Apps 10.2.1 OS
I am sure a lot of people are enjoying 10.3... but I am not. And for those who think I complain about everything... well when 10.1 and 10.2 came out I embraced those updates right away and found they actually improved things. 10.3 has not improved anything for me. I tried 10.3 for a month... and have had a lot of problems with it.
The camera is worse and I don't need the panoramic photo taking ability. The way the ringer/sound settings work drives me nuts. The calender is really bad compared to 10.2's calender. The browser is broken... before if I was in a page I could push down on a link and have it open in a new tab without leaving the current webpage... also flash doesn't work, and unfortunately I travel to a lot of places that still use flash websites. I don't want/need Blackberry Blend, the Blackberry Assistant just takes up space, I have no use for the Blackberry Meetings The texting window is all squared off and less efficient use of space... it looks good on the classic but on the Q10 it's really bad. The color theme going back and fourth between Light and Dark waste a lot of the battery life... I want the old Dark theme back on 10.2. In general there is just more junk that takes up space, uses more battery and that I don't want on the device. The new squared off theme and smaller icons are so ugly.
The only thing I really liked about the update was the data tracking. Everything else makes me hate my Q10 so much. The one problem with 10.2.1 was that the Blackberry Maps was still bad and needed fixing... it still hasn't been fixed and now everything else is worse.
Alright, so I picked up an auto loader for an older version 10.2.1 wiped the device and put it in.... everything is back to normal... accept what the OP was referring to at the end. App support. Blackberry World requires the latest version to work........... that's really stupid they could've at least phased it out over time. They're really trying to push everyone onto the new 10.3 OS I guess. I already have Amazon App store sideloaded on my 10.2.1 and that works fine... I got a lot of the apps but still missing some.
Does anyone have a work around for (and I never thought I'd say this but) sideloading Blackberry World apps onto the phone? or I guess they could come from somewhere else... is there anywhere I can get the files?
I feel like the Q10 is now ruined :*( so why not just move up to the The Classic or The Passport, I would but they are just to big for me and there is no possibiltiy of removing the battery, which is a must for me. I use the Q10 external battery charger on a regular basis and an external battery charger. when my Q10 gets low on battery I swap it for a fresh battery and put the empty battery in the external battery charger then hook that up to a mobile battery pack (16000mAh) that I carry with me in my pack while traveling... I always charge while on the go. On busy days I can go through as many as 3 or 4 charge cycles.
Anyway if I could get my Q10 back to how it was before... I'd be happy with that. If anyone has any suggestions on how to get other apps on the device aside from the Amazon App Store let me know...