Glass OS is now live on the Google Play Store, and I think Q25 owners in particular will like it.

Before anything else, a big thank you to the 300 testers who helped get it here. I spent the last few weeks getting it as polished as possible for the Play launch, and a lot of that came from people telling me what was broken and what was missing.

The part BlackBerry fans will probably care about most is the Hub. Swipe right from the Home Screen and every message is in one list: texts, WhatsApp, email, calls and social, with tabs to sort them. You can open a conversation and reply on the keyboard without leaving the Hub, and Alt+Backspace brings it up over any app, a bit like the old Hub on BB10.

The rest is built around the keys too. Start typing on the Home Screen and it opens your apps, or start with a symbol to add a to-do, a note or an event, or to message or call someone, all in one line. Notes, To-do and Events are built in, and it's laid out for the Q25's square screen. It also has a liquid glass look, which I know isn't everyone's BlackBerry taste, but there's a calmer frosted glass in Settings if you prefer.

It's one price, no subscription and free updates. More updates are on the way as features get requested and bugs get found, so if you try it, please tell me what you think.

Join us on Discord for help, requests and what's coming next.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.illuminati.glasskeyboard

Q25 page: https://glass-os.app/zinwa-q25-launcher

Discord: https://discord.gg/5uw39SpJzD

Thanks everyone.

I’ve made sure there’s good contact with the pins, I’ve left it on charge for a hour so far, I really don’t know what to do, ChatGPT was saying to put the battery in the freezer but that would 100% kill the battery. I’m charging it with the origina charger and cable.

Looks like I bricked my Passport while trying to root it.

Don't have a windows pc, so running autoloaders is not available.

Virtual machine not quite works, at least BlackBerry Link can't detect the device from the VM, Sachesi doesn't work either.

So I decided to do it directly, I downloaded the patched autoloader v2 and precompiled bb10mt from Novel Professor's site. I extracted 2 images from autoloader and used flash command.
bb10mt did connect and started flashing just fine but after first partition it showed signature error and script aborted.

So, now the phone just flashing red LED repeatedly and not loading.

Maybe positive thing is that bb10mt still can see the device and restart the flashing though result is the same.

I'm not sure what to do next, either try an original firmware or try v3 patching.

What do you think, is it recoverable situation?

UPD: Shit, I was scared. I made final attempt – installed non-patched firmware, crossing my finger.

And it worked.

Now I will try to manually patch the firmware and try again. Then I'll try to add some usability to this process using clanker. For example, right now it's trivial to swap order of partitions or flash firmware that doesn't belong to the device. I'll share my results with the community.

Also, btw, I found that password-protected phone is still password-protected after flashing. Maybe it's a common knowledge.

I decided to downsize and I want to sell my classic q20.

I have been using it a music player and not much else .

I am wondering why would people buy an outdated phone ?

Hey,

I wanted to switch to Keepass2Android after all those years due to the EOL issue and such. Unfortunately, the CSV file is missing many entries. Specifically those where one entry has multiple passwords. Only the first password is stored.

That's a big bummer, since I used these entries to group many passwords together and separate them with notes to make it clear what is what...

Am I doomed to retype them by hand or maybe has someone had this issue and found a solution?

Thank you!

Give me ideas on what apps you guys would like to see made for old blackberry devices that run OS 5/6/7