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Re:What's Up With BBM's Android Reviews? by ufmace on Thursday October 24, 2013 @11:26AM (#6605794)
If only the app was actually worth it. I tried it out, and so far: There's a persistent notification that never goes away, even after you tell Android not to allow notifications from the app (no idea how they did that, never seen another app do that) I haven't gotten past the signup yet, even though I got the email. Seems that the signup process resets if you switch out of the app. Too bad if you want to use Lastpass to generate a password. After I gave up and wrote the password down, it decided that I hadn't gotten the approve email. No amount of clearing data or retrying would convince it otherwise.
Re:What's Up With BBM's Android Reviews? by kevb on Thursday October 24, 2013 @12:47PM (#6606298)
> There's a persistent notification that never goes away, even after you tell Android not to allow notifications from the app (no idea how they did that, never seen another app do that)

This is actually a bug in Android 4.3 and nothing malicious on Blackberry's part. While fixing a bug that allowed apps to start foreground services without a notification icon, Android 4.3 inadvertently broke user disabling notifications for foreground services.

Re:What's Up With BBM's Android Reviews? by ibelimb on Thursday October 24, 2013 @11:44AM (#6605887)
This is the exact same problem I had. I ultimately uninstalled the app because I didn't want to see the "BBM Connected" notification, particularly since I haven't even created an account yet.