All In One Guide - How To Upgrade Your Device - with Pictures & Videos

Hey everyone,

It's time once again for a tutorial.
This is an all inclusive guide on how to upgrade your device. Everything you will need from start to finish.
Whether you are the proud new owner of a Blackberry and want the latest and greatest official operating system or you sit by the forums waiting for the next leak to drop, this guide should be for you.

I broke this down into sections so whether you need to do it all or just in parts, it should be organized for you.

Guide Index:

Each section is titled in blue and is in its own post.

• Post 1 = Backing Up Your Devices Main Information Using Desktop Manager (This post)

• Post 2 = Backing Up Third-Party Applications with BB Swiss Army Knife

• Post 3 = Wiping Device Memory Using BB Swiss Army Knife

• Post 4 = Loading A New Operating System Onto Your Device

• Post 5 = Resending Your Service Books & Restoring Your Data

Video has been added to the top of each step, under the title, if you would rather follow along that way. Enjoy, and good luck...

The very first thing you need to do before anything else is backup your device!!!

There are two types of backups that you will become familiar with.

1. The Device Backup using the Desktop Manager which is also referred to as "DM".

2. The Third-Party App backup, which does like it says, it saves all of the third-party application information into a file on your PC to be restored at any time.

1. *Backing Up Your Devices Main Information Using Desktop Manager*

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1. Connect your device to your PC with your USB cable.

2. Open your Desktop Manager software.
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3. Click on Backup and Restore and then click Backup

4. Choose the location of where you would like to save the backup file.

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5. Click save and wait for the process to finish

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6. When finished, it will say the backup was successfully created
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Please do not copy & paste this guide, (in part or whole), outside of BlackberryOS.com without my permission. Please contact me via Personal Message with any questions.
Thank you