The company also said Chief Financial Officer James Yersh would leave effective Oct. 1 for personal reasons. It announced former Sybase executive Steven Capelli as his successor.
Shares of Waterloo, Ontario-based BlackBerry moved higher following the news.
The net loss came to $372 million, or 71 cents a share, on revenue of $334 million, as the company booked $147 million in charges from its reorganization.
A year ago, it reported a profit of $51 million, or 24 cents a share, on revenue of $490 million.
Excluding one-time items, the company said it said broke even. On that basis, analysts had on average expected an adjusted loss of 5 cents a share on revenue of $393.75 million.
The company raised its adjusted earnings outlook for the year to a range of breakeven to a 5-cent loss, compared with an earlier forecast of a 15 cent loss, after refinancing its debt and as margins improved.
The company’s shares rose 6.7 percent to $8.35 in premarket trading.
