Blackberry Messenger (Android) App Crashes

asked 2014-10-07 15:25:34 +0200

sifartech
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updated 2014-10-08 00:37:45 +0200

Has anybody successfully managed to install and use the Blackberry Messenger (BBM) android app on Jolla?

It installed successfully for me, but I am unable to login as the app keeps crashing. There is a demo of BBM working on Jolla, so it does look it can be done. Any suggestions?

(P.S: I downloaded the BBM apk through http://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/ )

Update:
I tried installing various versions of the BBM messenger through 'Aptoide', yet everyone of them crashes after logging in and is thus unusable.

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Is there any benefit in using BB Messenger? A proprietary app with limited platform support (no desktop or web clients), closed source (so its security cannot be verified - BlackBerry could very well be sending your data to whoever), no public API, solely owned by a company in a bad financial situation (therefore with an uncertain future). There might be some benefits, I'm just not seeing them.

I can understand that BB owners use it (it cannot be turned off in BB10 so they just might as well use it), but IMHO it doesn't make sense anywhere else.

nodevel ( 2014-10-08 00:54:12 +0200 )edit

Don't go by the media perception being created - Blackberry is doing fine. Just as Nokia was doing ok before its useless CEO made his famous "burning platform" speech to kill it. Anyway, my rant apart, I don't really want to or like using BBM or Google Hangout or Facebook Messenger. But my clients have blackberry phones and want to communicate with me on it. Can't say, "get lost", to them, now, can I? It's like how even if you don't use Gmail, Google still gets to read all your email when you send it to anyone using Gmail ... privacy is really a scarce and valuable commodity today. :(

sifartech ( 2014-10-08 02:25:54 +0200 )edit

answered 2014-10-08 05:35:21 +0200

simo

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http://reviewjolla.blogsp...

Jolla aims to fully support all Android apps, and even that this one isn't among the popular ones, it should work on Jolla. Some Android apps might crash due to lack of memory as Sailfish OS reserves a huge part of it. In a messaging app, a lot of memory is needed right after logging in especially if there's lot of content (latest messages) to update.

To find out if this is a memory issue, you could try to start the app with no other apps running, and using a brand new account with none/less content. If you manage to get it running once with this trick, it might run again with your correct account too. If not, we can hope that the memory handling for Android side gets better in future system updates.

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Its not a memory issue. I had a version working here before. Can't remember what version it was but the newest ones don't work anymore. I know that BlackBerry added some encryption stuff to it. Maybe that broken it.

leszek ( 2014-10-08 13:21:27 +0200 )edit

Ok... At Aptoide there's a downgrade option, maybe you'll find out the last working version and share it to us here ;)

simo ( 2014-10-08 13:25:58 +0200 )edit

I don't see a downgrade option in aptoide. Maybe because I just installed the apk back then and did not use aptoide. As far as I remember it was some kind of version 2.0.0.x

leszek ( 2014-10-08 13:32:01 +0200 )edit

Maybe uninstall that one, try one version from Aptoide and downgrade to find the working one?

simo ( 2014-10-08 21:12:50 +0200 )edit

No, don't think this applies to my case - I made a new account and tried to login, and don't have any contacts or messages in it yet. Also, I randomly tried 5-6 different versions from Aptoide - the oldest version, the newest version, and those in between. Nothing worked.

sifartech ( 2014-10-08 22:02:46 +0200 )edit

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