Howto: Delete 3rd Party Applications from your BlackBerry using the BlackBerry Desktop Manager

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June 30, 2008 at 11:23 pm · Filed under Howtos

Sometimes you need to remove an application from your BlackBerry completely. Seems to be an obvious task and pretty to accomplish but there are actually some steps you really need to take care of. This howto is meant for people who want to remove an application from their BlackBerry and also want to delete the program settings and anything a program might have created on the BlackBerry’s internal memory. This will also help you to free some space on your BlackBerry in case you are running out space.

Delete the program binary from your BlackBerry
- Connect your BlackBerry to your desktop Computer.
- Start the BlackBerry Desktop Manager.
- Open the Application Loader.
- Click Next.
- Find the application you want to remove and uncheck the application’s checkbox.
- Click Next.
- Click Next.
- Wait until the device is initialized again. This might take some minutes if the program you just uninstalled has put a menu item into an internal BlackBerry application and therefor requires a reboot of the device.
This will actually just delete the program’s .cod file from your BlackBerry. The program’s configuration, most probably registration information and anything the program stored on the internal memory were not deleted.
Delete the program’s configuration and RecordStore (respectively PersistentStore) from your BlackBerry
- Connect your BlackBerry to your desktop Computer.
- Start the BlackBerry Desktop Manager.
- Open the Application Loader.
- Click Next.
- Find the application you want to remove and select the name of the application.
- Click Delete and confirm.
- Click Next.
- Click Next.
- Wait until the device is initialized again.
Now you have deleted everything from your BlackBerry that might have been created by the application.