How to Install 3rd Party Applications/Games on Your BlackBerry

[DataCentre]

Load an Application onto Your BlackBerry

To load applications onto your BlackBerry, you need to work closely with your PC. On your PC, you use an application called BlackBerry Desktop Manager (BDM), which comes on a CD along with your BlackBerry. Application Loader is a mini application within BlackBerry Desktop Manager.

If you have an employer-issued BlackBerry, your company might impose guidelines on what applications (if any) can and cannot be installed and uninstalled from your device. Be sure to familiarize yourself with your IT department's policy before attempting to install or uninstall software from a company-owned BlackBerry.

Accessing the Blackberry Application Loader

After BlackBerry Desktop Manager is installed on your PC, do the following to access Application Loader:

1. On your PC, select Start --> Programs --> BlackBerry --> Desktop Manager.

BlackBerry Desktop Manager opens.

2. Connect your BlackBerry to your PC via your USB cable.

Doing so connects your BlackBerry to your PC. If successful, you see the password dialog box. If not, check to see whether the USB cable is connected properly to both your PC and your BlackBerry and then try again. If all else fails, contact your service provider, or contact your system administrator if you're an enterprise user.

3. Enter your password.

This completes your BlackBerry-to-PC connection.

4. On your PC, double-click the Application Loader icon in BlackBerry Desktop Manager.

The Application Loader Wizard welcome screen opens. At this point, you're ready to use the functions of Application Loader.

Using the Blackberry Application Loader

To install an application onto your BlackBerry from your PC by using Application Loader, you first have to install that application onto your PC. The installation onto your PC varies, depending on which application you choose to install, so be sure to refer to the manual that comes with the application you choose.

After you get the application onto your PC, you need to locate the application's ALX file (a file with the .alx extension). The ALX file isn't the file that gets installed on your BlackBerry; rather, it tells Application Loader where the actual application file is located on your PC. You can usually find an application's ALX file in the folder where you installed the application on your PC.

After you download the application on your PC, you can install it on your BlackBerry by using Application Loader as follows:

1. Launch Application Loader from BlackBerry Desktop Manager.

The Application Loader Wizard welcome screen appears.

2. Click the Next button.

3. Enter your password, and then click Next.

If your handheld isn't connected properly, you see the Communication Port Selection screen. Connect your BlackBerry to the USB cable and make sure that the USB cable is connected to the PC. Then click Next.

The Handheld Application Selection screen appears. This screen lists the applications that are already installed on your BlackBerry.

4. Click the Add button.

An Open file dialog box appears, which you use to locate the ALX file of the application you want to install.

5. Locate the ALX file and then click Open.

You return to the Handheld Application Selection.

6. Click Next.

Doing so brings up the confirmation screen, listing the application to be installed.

7. Click Finish.

The installation process starts, and a progress window appears. When the progress window disappears — and if all went well — the application is on your BlackBerry.

[Jamal8820]

Hopefully people will check this out before making new posts asking the same question. Thanks Data.

[DataCentre]

Yup. Just found this earlier when someone asked a question. Amazing what one can find using Google.

[Jamal8820]

Very true lol. It was kinda funny when you asked somebody if they knew how to use google.

[DataCentre]

Well....you would think that would be the first stop. I know before I ask a question I search Google. If I can't find the answer, then I ask.

[snake eyes]

sigh.. wish i open this page first..
thx a lot, now it's clear as a crystal!

[kratos101]

Most ppl don't think about reading the stickys first, I'm sure data and alu hav anwserd the same question so many times that its driven them nuts, when if ppl would look around first they would find a sticky telling them everything to do step by step.

[DataCentre]

Originally Posted by kratos101

Most ppl don't think about reading the stickys first, I'm sure data and alu hav anwserd the same question so many times that its driven them nuts, when if ppl would look around first they would find a sticky telling them everything to do step by step.

We'd be out of a job! LoL. And yes...it does drive us nutz!

[Bwright]

I have a Blackberry Bold which was my office cell phone. When I left the company they let me keep it. When I signed up with AT&T to keep the phone number but on a new personal account I noticed that I could no longer get on the internet. Kept getting a message that the phone could not connect to the mobile data service. An AT&T tech diagnosed the problem as the phone still somehow being linked to my old office's Blackberry server network. He advised me to right click, go to options, browser configuration and then change the browser from blackberry to internet. He then sent some sort of reset signal and asked that I remove and replace the battery. Genius, it worked. With some curious side effects.

First, there were little things. The button on the side of the phone that triggered the camera stopped working. Oh, the camera worked, but you now had to go into the media icon, click pictures and then click camera. BTW, my pictures which all readily appeared when you clicked into pictures under the media icon now no longer appear. At first I thought I had lost them. But I found that if I right clicked and hit explore - device memory - home - user - pictures I can now get to them and my videos. Annoying. They used to just appear front and center when I went into pictures/videos.

The most annoying thing though is my favorite Word Mole game. It simply disappeared from the games section. It was the only one. All the other games (Brickbreaker, Klondike etc.) stayed. Strangely, the phone seems to believe it's there. If I go into Options (the icon with the wrench) - Advanced options - Applications - it shows it listed.

So following some web tips I found I installed Blackberry Desktop Manager and figured I would use Application Loader to put a check mark next to it. Here's what happens. When I click on Application Loader - Add/remove applications it seems to think I only have four applications (Bloomberg, Yellowpages.com etc.) on my Blackberry.

I give up.

[kratos101]

Sorry I don't see what ur post has to do with installing 3rd party apps but I would suggest backing up ur phone with the desktop manager and then doing a headset wipe.