Applications and automated emails

Question

Please can anyone advise me how I can delete unwanted Apps on a Pearl 8120 and also, how can I stop receiving messages from the Apps I do want to keep like Ebay for instance?  Thanks

Answer 1

LegalVA wrote:
but I can't seem to get anywhere with this phone.
You may want to peruse these areas:
http://us.blackberry.com/support/blackberry101/#tab_tab_pearl
LegalVA wrote:
I can't find the blackberry desktop manager (from BB website) to download onto my PC (if that's what you mean)
http://us.blackberry.com/apps-software/desktop/
LegalVA wrote:
and when I go into the apps themselves they just continue onto the app - i.e. if I press the ebay app I go straight to ebay - when I press the menu button again I just get options to close or switch apps or full menu - I can't find the menu to define my app.
That's because you went too far. Option 2 in the KB I linked first discusses how, on the BB itself, to remove apps. Going into the App is not part of that method.
LegalVA wrote:
Also, this is a pre-owned phone from Orange
Uh oh...this could now get much more complicated. Here's another KB:
KB05099Steps to take before selling or after buying a previously owned BlackBerry smartphone
If the prior owner did not complete all of the steps in the seller section, then it has happened in the past where the new owner can never use BB services at all. I would advise you contact them and have them conduct all of their steps, most especially having the BB PIN released from their BIS account with their carrier...until that is released, you will never be able to configure your own email accounts.
Once they have done their steps and the PIN is released, you should do your steps.
LegalVA wrote:
I want to delete the apps supplied to me by Orange like twitter etc as I don't use them anyway
If the apps are installed, you already have the instructions to remove them. If the apps are not installed yet there is an icon, then it is likely a shortcut "teaser" pushed to you. You cannot really get rid of those. Rather, what I do is to create a homescreen folder called "Spare Icons" (some call it "Junk") and move all of such icons there. That way, they are out of my way.
LegalVA wrote:
and I don't want to keep receiving Facebook messages as I don't use it that much that I want to be connected to it by my phone.
What? I don't quite understand that sentence. If you don't want FB installed, then see above. If you want it installed but don't want the messages, then go into the Options within FB and there is a setting there to integrate with the BB Messages app...uncheck that. If it's the notifications, then I've already told you how to stop those.
LegalVA wrote:
Same with Ebay which I do use a lot, but I don't want to keep receiving messages telling me that my watched items are coming to an end.
I thought I already answered that question...unless something about my prior answer didn't work, asking again is just wasting everyone's time, isn't?
Good luck!
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