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BlackBerry Priv, the first Android smartphone from the Canadian company will not receive Android 7.0 Nougat update. Alex Thurber, GM of Mobility Solutions at BlackBerry confirmed that the Priv launched in 2015 won't be getting the Nougat update.

While speaking on UTB Blogs, Thurber said that Priv has already received one major update in the form of Marshmallow last year and added that it is next to impossible to bring all partners together for another major update. He also seemingly confirmed that company's DTEK series of devices won't be getting any update either. Crackberry notes that Priv and other devices will continue to receive security updates but major software updates won't be pushed to these devices.

Thurber describers DTEK series of devices as transition products designed for testing the reality of licensing model. With TCL now licensing the brand name, the DTEK50 and DTEK60 might lose out on software updates. BlackBerry KEYone, the last smartphone designed in-house by BlackBerry, will receive Android 8.0 Oreo update. He also confirmed that new devices coming from TCL will also receive Oreo update depending upon the market.

  1. BlackBerry Apps for Android Smartphones. Reload PRIV Software. Find useful information to get the most out of your BlackBerry smartphone or app.
  2. Download the applicable autoloader.zip file for your BlackBerry smartphone powered by Android by visiting this support page. Press and hold both the Power and Volume Down buttons for 30 seconds to boot the BlackBerry smartphone powered by Android into fastboot mode.
  3. Confirmed: BlackBerry Priv won’t get Android Nougat update. Scott Adam Gordon / @scottadamgordon. There have been several disappointments this year on the subject of Android updates.

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During the hour long podcast, Thurber also shared more details on company's plans around licensing model. He confirmed that BlackBerry encourages its phone licensee partners to work together and KEYone will be manufactured by its India partner Optiemus in the coming weeks.

With the sales of BlackBerry smartphones declining globally, the Canadian company has pivoted to software and has started licensing its brand names to other smartphone makers. BlackBerry smartphones will now be made by TCL globally while Optiemus Infracom will be responsible for its India operations.

You can add a skin to the Android™ Virtual Device (AVD) Manager in the Android Studio SDK so that you can emulate the look and feel of a BlackBerry PRIV. This allows you to simulate the hardware keys on the PRIV, including the power, volume up, volume down and the physical keyboard.

Before you begin, make sure you have installed the most recent version of the Android Studio and Android SDK that matches the version of Android on PRIV (as of writing 5.1.1 API 22). Once you have that installed, download the PRIV skin files available in the knowledge base article: BlackBerry PRIV Emulator

The following steps are also mirrored in the knowledge base article above.

Place the skin for PRIV in the SDK
Download the PRIV.zip archive, and extract the PRIV folder to <path to your local sdk>platformsandroid-xxskins, where xx is the platform version.

Set up the emulator in Android Studio – AVD Manager

  1. On the Android Studio toolbar, click AVD Manager.
  2. Click + Create Virtual Device > Import Hardware Profiles.
  3. Import <path to your local sdk>platformsandriod-xxskinsPRIVdevice.xml, where xx is the platform version.
  4. Confirm that the new device “PRIV” appears in the devices list. Press the Refresh button to refresh the list for PRIV to appear. It might be necessary to close Select Hardware (cancel), and click Create Virtual Device again in order to refresh the list.
  5. Select PRIV and then click Next.

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  1. Select x86_64 (assuming you are using a 64-bit operating system) and then click Next.
  1. Click Show Advanced Settings to show all settings. In the Android Virtual Device (AVD) window, configure the following emulator settings to your preferred values:
  • Android Virtual Device (AVD) Name
  • Startup scale and orientation
  • Camera orientation
  • Network characteristics
  1. Ensure Show Advanced Settings is selected, and set the following emulator preferences:
  • Memory and storage limits (we suggest increasing RAM to 3 GB and VM heap to 128 MB)
  • For skin, select PRIV
  1. Click Finish
  2. Launch the emulator.