Has anyone else ran into problems with Flash Player on BBv0.1. I tried to load up YouTube last night and couldn't get it up. When I woke up this morning I looked around for other users having the same issue. It turns out there was a problem with the original release the Pete let out yesterday afternoon that had a messed up version of Flash. He also released a second version of BB that doesn't have this problem. If you are one of the affected users you can follow these simple steps to fix your Flash Player.
1) Download Root Explorer from the Market (well worth the money - Astro does not allow for Read-Write access to the System Folders)
2) Download the Adobe Flash Player 10.1 APK (MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service)
3) Copy the APK to your SD Card
4) Open Root Explorer and select "Mount as R/W" at the top of the screen
5) Browse to the /system folder in Root Explorer
6) Open the /Apps folder
7) Locate the "Adobe Flash APK" -Long Press - Select DELETE
8) Return to the home screen of Root Explorer and browse to the /sdcard folder
9) Select the newly downloaded Flash Player 10.1 APK and choose to install
10) It will tell you that Flash Player is a system app, are you sure you want to replace it (it is actaully no longer there - so go ahead and replace - it never worked in the first place!)
11) Flash Player is now installed - If you browse back to /system/app you will see it is no longer there (that is because you removed it from the system - further proof of this is if you browse to Settings>Applications>Manage Applications you will see that Flash Player is no longer in "All Apps" but in "Downloaded" also the file is MUCH larger (around 13 megabytes)
Many thanks go out to z32589 from Droid-Life.com for this fix!
1) Download Root Explorer from the Market (well worth the money - Astro does not allow for Read-Write access to the System Folders)
2) Download the Adobe Flash Player 10.1 APK (MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service)
3) Copy the APK to your SD Card
4) Open Root Explorer and select "Mount as R/W" at the top of the screen
5) Browse to the /system folder in Root Explorer
6) Open the /Apps folder
7) Locate the "Adobe Flash APK" -Long Press - Select DELETE
8) Return to the home screen of Root Explorer and browse to the /sdcard folder
9) Select the newly downloaded Flash Player 10.1 APK and choose to install
10) It will tell you that Flash Player is a system app, are you sure you want to replace it (it is actaully no longer there - so go ahead and replace - it never worked in the first place!)
11) Flash Player is now installed - If you browse back to /system/app you will see it is no longer there (that is because you removed it from the system - further proof of this is if you browse to Settings>Applications>Manage Applications you will see that Flash Player is no longer in "All Apps" but in "Downloaded" also the file is MUCH larger (around 13 megabytes)
Many thanks go out to z32589 from Droid-Life.com for this fix!