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I recently updated the Android Runtime of OS 10.3.2.2876 to 10.3.3.2205 on a Z10 STL100-1. The runtime is updated and it's working just fine. The only thing that's bugging me is that "Android Player" is still the same. That is, Android of OS 10.3.2.2876. Why is that?
Via Z10. OS 10.3.2.2876
Because BlackBerry didn't make any modifications to the runtime, so it was left just as it was.
BB announced more than a year ago that there would be no further updates to the Android Runtime. Even if their licensing of GMS and Google Play Store didn't prevent them from doing so (though it does), they also reassigned or laid off the developers who did that work (back in 2014), and won't be doing any further development of BB10 in general. "Support" continues, but that "support" means simply that they will continue to sell the remaining stock of BB10 phones, they'll keep the servers that run BB World and most BB mobile services running, and they'll probably release one last security patch (10.3.4) before BB10 is officially retired.
I think you misunderstood me. What I mean by the updated Android Runtime is the optimized runtime in OS 10.3.3 and not Android 4.x. I updated the runtime of 2876 to that of 10.3.3.2205. Why isn't the Android Player showing 10.3.3?
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Via Z10. OS 10.3.2.2876
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PassportSQW100-1/10.3.3.2163
It might just be parroting the OS version (system apps tend to do that), in which case nothing is wrong.
