Rating: Drivesafe.ly completely refuses to disappear
It just won’t shut up.* Our BlackBerry Curve 8520 simply won’t stop translating all our received messages from speech to text. The crazy thing is that, in theory, the application which performs this task – Drivesafe.ly from iSpeech.org – has been completely deleted from the handset. Yet still the handset refuses to keep quiet. GoMo News appears to have discovered a serious bug in the deletion of this particular app. The whole thing with the Drivesafe.ly app started when GoMo News discovered that two version of this app were actually included in RIM’s Thank You Gift campaign. (See our previous story here).DriveSafe.ly Pro and DriveSafe.ly Enterprise were downloadable for free, so GoMo News installed both along with iSpeech.org’ Speech Translator.
If you run the DriveSafe.ly app, you’ll note that there’s a new menu option when you go into the standard BlackBerry Messages app. This allows you to disable DriveSafe.ly.
Disabling the facility made no difference. The BlackBerry still insisted on reading out messages as they were received.
Chatting with a couple of other BlackBerry users, GoMo News discovered that they had experienced similar problems. However, uninstalling the app worked for them.
It didn’t for us. Even though we deleted both versions and DriveSafe.ly wasn’t listed as an installed app, the Curve kept on reading out our messages.
We decided to try a ‘complete’ reset. This is described in the BlackBerry Knowledge base here.
The hard reset is easy. Just take the battery out. Wait a while and then put it back in again. No joy.
We tried a soft reset which involves holding down the Alt, Right Shift and Backspace/Delete keys simultaneously. Again no joy.
We reckon we’re going to have to resort to a file utility and try to remove DriveSafe.ly manually. Any other suggestions?
* Update: We have fixed it. See new story here.
Hello Tony,
I read your post and I will be glad to help you. If you tried to reboot the phone and the messages are still being read the best you can do is re-download the application (free version is fine) and once it’s installed in your phone go to the application icon (in your downloads or your applications folder), hit the BB menu key and select ‘Delete’. After the application is deleted please do a battery pull and it should work.
The origin of this issue is not clear, but it was not on the application, it was on the operating system side. I hope you find this information useful.
Anna Vilarnau, ispeech.org
I will give it a go ASAP and let everybody know the results
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I have the opposite problem, it just won’t read emails nor texts
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