Rating: Ask Anna steps in to tell us how to delete the app
Avid GoMo News readers might recall a recent story – ‘My BlackBerry won’t stop taking to me ‘ here. We think we have been provided with the solution by the app’s author – ispeech.org. It worked for us. A very alert Anna Vilarnau from Anna ispeech.org provided us with instructions which, when followed exactly, stopped our RIM BlackBerry from continuously reading out received messages. GoMo News tends to favour Anna’s theory that it is a BlackBerry OS problem rather than her company’s direct fault.If you’re experiencing the same problem as we did, then even though you’ve deleted the app, the text to speech translation carries on.
The first thing to do is re-download the application. (There is a free version simply called Drivesafely which will work fine.)
Once the app has installed, go to where the Drivesafely application icon is located. It should be either in your downloads or your applications folder. Highlight it.
Next press the BB menu key and select ‘Delete’. After the application is deleted, the handset will offer to perform a reboot. This is a soft reboot and it won’t work.
You have to do a ‘hard’ reboot. This involves taking the battery out; waiting for at least 30 seconds; and then re-inserting the battery. The problem should have completely disappeared.
GoMo News has decided to be brave and has re-installed the free version of Drivesafely. We are now going to see if the ‘disable’ feature provided by the app, now actually works. We’ll keep
you posted.
Nope. The disable feature doesn’t work. It’s uninstall time again.
As Anna Vilarnau said, “The origin of this issue is not clear, but it was not on the application, it was on the operating system side.”
