Recent content by Desynthesis

Has anyone else had more success with this? I tried Dan's solution and it worked...at first. And then it didn't. It seems to have a 50% success rate, which I think is more or less what using the basic "home" feature was. I don't think it matters, but I'm using a Blackberry Priv (and thus...

Thank you for your answer Midnight doom, but I think you might be missing the point also. I'm asking if you can change the option under 'default apps' in the settings for things like maps. Other Android phones have it. The Priv does not. Even if I disable Google Maps, if I search for an address...

Uh...thank you for your response, but I was under the impressed than no one had actually rooted the Blackberry Priv. That aside, how do you do replace Google Maps?

As a newcomer to Android, I'm learning the hardware that finding answers to simple questions in other phone ecosystems is frequently an ordeal on Android, and the Priv is not an exception. 1) Is there a way to change default apps besides the Browser, Phone and SMS? These are particularly...

Thanks for all your useful answers, Matty--having studied the phone longer, I've actually figured out a whole new set of questions to answer that have to deal with issues unique to Android (mostly) that I had never even considered--so I better ask them now. 1) So, it seems like most people here...

Thank you both for your answers--I should've been more clear, good speakers, while of course appreciated, aren't that important--I'm more worried about the quality of digitizer when listening to headphones (really 1% of my time with a smartphone is spent using its own speakers for multimedia)...

How is it as a music player? I'm thinking of picking up a Priv as a replacement for my very long-in-the-tooth Windows Phones I've owned (hence my attraction to the physical keyboard), but at least half my time with my phone, if not more, is spent as a music player. Is there any "Cracking" or...