[DanielJay]

I will say this right away. I tried to contact Verizon technical support first about this and they basically said since we are on BES that they really could not help me and I would have to contact BlackBerry.

Verizon has pushed a Bing icon out to it's BB devices and there is no real way to remove it. You can delete the service book but the problem with that is that Verizon constantly re-pushes it back out. Our organization disables all 3rd party applications on the devices so the user cannot attempt to install it. Our 8330 devices seem to slow down constantly with this app icon there and not installed. As a last resort I created a new IT policy to allow 3rd party apps and installed it and the device seemed to work a little better.

What I am looking to do is to push this app out via BES and control it via the application control policy to block access to email/messages. I have found this post here describing how to push software out however when I try it I get: "The application files are not packaged correctly. The application could not be published".

I have used Javaloader to determine which .cod files have been added/updated since I installed Bing. I then created a .zip file with the 3 .cod files in it and went into the Add or update applications section on the Administration Service (I am on BES 5) which is when I got the above error.

Anybody have any ideas?

[CyphrMedic]

Did you include an alx file?

[DarthBBerry]

Bing is the Verizon version of spam like Sprint/Nextel's TeleNav application. Tell your users not to use it.

[RadHaz75]

In the IT policy settings, under Browser set "Allow Application Download Services" to NO.

Desc: Specify whether application download service icons appear on the BlackBerry device when the wireless service provider assigns a service and the appropriate service books are present on the BlackBerry device.

Set this rule to No to hide all application download service icons.

If you do not set this rule, a default value of Yes will be used.

This rule applies only to Java-based BlackBerry devices version 4.3.0 and higher.

[DanielJay]

Originally Posted by CyphrMedic

Did you include an alx file?

No what I did was used javaloader to export a list files using: javaloader -u dir > PreBing.txt Then I installed Bing and did: javaloader -u dir > PostBing.txt.

Then I used PSPad (A free code editor) to compare the txt files line by line to see what changed. Once I had that information I used javaloader save command to save all 3 of the changed Bing files. Then I zipped up the 3 .cod files and attempted to use that to install. I am still trying to learn how to push apps OTA through BES 5.


@RadHaz75 thanks for that information. I have adjusted many of the IT Policies we have with that setting.

[zerog46]

Hide the icon, that's all you can do.