Tag Archives: BlackBerry

BlackBerry PlayBook & Linux

Posted on Friday November 18th, 2011 by Nicolas

While most phones, tablets, cameras and other USB devices … act as a mass-storage device, RIM has opted for another solution to the tablet PlayBook. That’s why I post this article. Indeed, the PlayBook looks like a CD-ROM with drivers to install for Windows ! Once the driver for Windows installed, the PlayBook looks again. It is then available as a network drive. The PlayBook indeed behaves as a network interface. The data is then accessible via the network. If …
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BlackBerry PlayBook

Posted on Sunday November 6th, 2011 by Nicolas

BlackBerry PlayBook Introduction The BlackBerry package Wi-Fi settings File sharing setting Bridge setting Multimédia – Video format BlackBerry PlayBook Introduction The multimedia pads are starting to bloom in stores. My choice is made, and I turned to the pad of the Canadian RIM : The “BlackBerry PlayBook.” Several reasons for this : the price drop ! I have a BlackBerry (function proposed by the manufacturer Bridge is very convenient). the PlayBook is one of the best tablets on the technical, …
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SignatureTool & BlackBerry JDK & IPv6

Posted on Saturday January 22nd, 2011 by Nicolas

A new post to update the post about “Devel on a BlackBerry device”. If your system suppots the IPv6 protocol ; the SignatureTool tool doesn’t work To work, you have to only add a command line option to force the tool to work with the IPv4 protocol. So the command is : $ java -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -jar SignatureTool.jar This option is true for all Java applications aren’t compliant with IPv6.

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Tether BlackBerry

Posted on Saturday January 1st, 2011 by Nicolas

Hi and happy new year.

To begin the year, a new post to use your BlackBerry as a modem.

Be carefull ! this option can be expensive and don’t permit by your peer.
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Barry using

Posted on Friday December 31st, 2010 by Nicolas

With several developpers, I help to add the BlackBerry support on Linux. Barry is an Open Source application that will provide synchronization, backup, restore and program management for BlackBerry devices. Barry is primarily developed on Linux, but is intended as a cross platform library and application set, targeting Linux, BSD, 32/64bit, and big/little endian systems.

My repository : http://repo.or.cz/w/barry/progweb.git
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BlackBerry Torch device with Linux

Posted on Thursday December 30th, 2010 by Nicolas

Yes ! I have received my new toy ! a BlackBerry Torch. I have quickly tested the new device with Barry tools : btool, barrybackup… ; and the OpenSync synchronization framework.

Here the first results of my tests. Later I’ll post an article about Barry using.
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Devel on a BlackBerry device

Posted on Saturday December 25th, 2010 by Nicolas

An old post where I explain a solution to write applications for your BlackBerry with Linux.
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BlackBerry Storm device with Linux

Posted on Wednesday December 8th, 2010 by Nicolas

This evening, an old post about the BlackBerry using with Linux. I use for this several tools : barry and barrybackup ; and also the OpenSync synchronization framework. I explain how use a BlackBerry Storm as a MTP multimedia player.
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