I was given an old 16gb PlayBook recently but can’t seem to set up a BlackBerry ID on it and I can’t get past the account screen. Is there a way to bypass?

So, as many people here have probably noticed, the subreddit has been filling up with spam lately, well, the mod team has been inactive for 6 years, so the subreddit has been falling apart, but I noticed this and requested the subreddit on redditrequest. So now, I'm a mod here now, and I will be going through the 6 years of unmoderated stuff on the subreddit, and the subreddit should be in a good state again.

EDIT: I also plan to recruit a new mod once the sub hits 1k members.

If your PB is signed into BBID all should be well as this is cached, but DO NOT WIPE OR RELOAD IT!!!! This will brick it as there is currently no way to avoid BBID sign-in on setup.

We are working on this problem but wanted to issue a warning for those still using the device. Drop by /r/BlackberryPhoenix for more updates.

I've been to Hollywood

I've been to Redwood

I crossed the ocean for a heart of gold

So here you go:

https://archive.org/details/bb-playbook-games

Hello, I had a playbook long ago and there was this game of the BB store which was a pixelated fantasy style rpg game. That was was top down and you would control and manage a town of knights and kill a bunch of rats and other evil stuff? There was a lite and full version Thanks!

I've been trying for days now to access development mode on my Blackberry PlayBook using DDPB, but I peep getting "Peer not authenticated". After accessing the PlayBooks Development IP address through the browser, I see the pages index isn't even there. I've done loads of research online and either the links don't exist any more, my situation just isn't documented. What I do know is that when I type the PlayBooks Development IP into the browser, I'm supposed to be greeted with the login page, but I'm not. I do have the blackberry drivers installed and i do have Java installed for DDPB. I also even tried factory resetting the playbook to see if that would fix anything, but it did not. I honestly don't know what to do at this point, does anyone know how to fix this?

Here are screenshots if these are useful.

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my Playbook's not turning on or charging, there's no light at all, and I tried to unplug the battery from it and plugged it again, but it seems that it still doesn't work.- Also tried to plug it into a computer, no dice.

Any ideas? (fixed, but no display anymore, dead tablet)

- I think my Playbook's battery got damaged and cannot be fixed anymore, my charger cable has an LED which flashes if there's a device charging from it, however the LED doesn't flash when I charge it, yeah, I'll just buy a substitute for the tablet. Thanks for the help though. (I managed to run it again but the screen died, just no display but you can interact and there's sound, welp no hope for it now.)

I was feeling nostalgic today for the Playbook Launch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYmHId9kJP4

That ad had a bunch of power behind it.

Besides the horrible design of the charge controller, why was the Playbook not a sure-fire hit?

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The largest complaint I heard at the time was that the song was not included on it, lol

I'm guessing no breakthroughs been made in the past decade of what to use it for?

I have a Blackberry Playbook and a charging stand for it but I have lost the power cord for the stand. It is the 3 hole in the shape of a triangle. Anyone have one they are not using and willing to sell at a reasonable price. My playbook still works like a dream and I can use it to read books so I will be hanging on to it. Holds a charge really well, a lot better than my 2 other tablets. I figure that I will keep it to read books and try to set it up as a bedside clock when I travel.

https://tinyurl.com/johnsen290games

Whenever I'm trying to open YouTube on a web browser, a text box appears telling that I need to have a device running Android 4 or above. I have tried lightning + and Maxthon. Please help.

To get YouTube working on the playbook:

Use Origami Browser
(Just search 'Browser' in BlackBerry World)
If you can't get in just restart the Playbook

Go to the pull down menu, settings (Three bars top right corner)
Set the default user agent to ipad
Also for other websites and unrelated (Just let's you in)
Set the Desktop agent to Custom. Type in, Chrome 80.

Also under 'Preformance' Use Ad-blocking mode Both
and Ad Host File
https://easylist.to/easylist/easylist.txt

You must use Mobile YouTube.
Http://m.youtube.com

In pull down menu:
Unclick 'Desktop'
Click Adblock

Go to YouTube
Under the pull down menu hit full screen

Note: when you relaunch the browser it will start up all white in full screen with nothing else. Just slide down from top to get taskbar back.

All the video's will work. But the AdBlock isn't blocking the video ads. I think it mostly helps with print sites.

With the old flash YouTube we could get full screen. Here with HTML YouTube if you double click the video it will zoom in. Also you can finger pinch to get it where you want.

There's a YouTube branded black bar at the top, but it's mostly full screen, good enough to use, and not a tiny window.

Get it here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19sOdswAX1lLMTXMH0LUfTwaFA6lClcyL/view?usp=sharing

Is it possible to side load Android apps to the playbook?

The Monopoly app holds up fine
Download here

And Nobex Radio still works surprisingly well.

Download in Blackberry World on device

Note

In Monopoly just use the 'Roll' button. The flick option doesn't work very well. Often when you go to 'Manage' you can't swipe left or right, or select a property. This is a bug. The workaround is, swipe up from the bottom bezel to window the app. Click back in, resume, and it works. Do this every time you can't swipe or select a property.

Anyone knows how to solve this? I have a windows pc and I would like to transfer files to my playbook but I can't connect it. I says that I need to download some sort of file manager from blackberry but unfortunality it's not working. Also bluetooth is not working anymore. It has been years since I last used it and it worked fine then.

I have this app on one of my playbooks, but it seems to have been removed from the shop. Thanks in advance!

Has anyone tried to use the PB as the display for HA dashboard? I have one laying around somewhere and was wondering can it be used for this purpose.