You need:

1. BBSAK (BlackBerry Swiss Army Knife) 1.7 or 1.8
2. Blackberry Destop Manager 5 or 6.
3. Blackberry 8330 Firmware Ver 5 for Boost Mobile.
4. Blackberry 8330 Firmware Ver 5 for Verizon.

You have to Install everything. Better if you do in the order showing above.


- Backup your device, if you need.
- Open BBSAK and "Wipe Device" . The phone will be delete everything, include the firmware.
- IN BBSAK press "Load OS". It will open blackberry Loader automatically and delete the vendor file insede of the loader folder for you.
- Follow the instruction and wait, wait and wait.
- The device take a long time to start, maybe looks like freezing but wait, is normal.
- When finish you going to have a new Ver. 5 OS on you blackberry Verizon.

This Only work for Blackberry 8330 and not for 8330m.
Only Tested on Blackberry 8330 Verizon with ESN or MEID.
Sprint 8330m does not work.

Download BBSAK 1.7 here
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

Blackberry Firmware and Desktop Manager download from [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] and select North America to be able to download the right firmware.