User guide
Table Of Contents
- Welcome to BlackBerry!
- Shortcuts
- Phone
- Voice commands
- Messages
- Files and attachments
- Media
- Browser
- Date, time, and alarm
- Set the date and time manually
- Get the date and time from the wireless network automatically
- Change what appears on the display when your device is charging
- Change the clock face
- Display a second time zone
- Turn on bedside clock mode
- Set options for bedside clock mode
- Turn on the alarm
- Silence the alarm
- Change alarm notification options
- Use the stopwatch
- Set the timer
- Change timer notification options
- Date, time, and alarm troubleshooting
- Personal organizer
- Ring tones, sounds, and alerts
- Typing
- Language
- Change the display language
- Add a display language
- Delete a display language
- About typing input languages
- Change the typing input language
- Change the voice dialing language
- Use a shortcut to switch typing input languages while you type
- Change the shortcut for switching typing input languages
- Turn off the shortcut for switching typing input languages
- Change the display options for contacts
- Language troubleshooting
- Display and keyboard
- Search
- Synchronization
- About synchronization
- Reconcile email messages over the wireless network
- Delete email messages over the wireless network
- Prerequisites: Synchronizing organizer data over the wireless network
- Synchronize organizer data over the wireless network
- About synchronization conflicts
- Manage email reconciliation conflicts
- Manage data synchronization conflicts
- About backing up and restoring device data
- Prerequisites: Restoring data over the wireless network
- Delete device data, third-party applications, or media card files
- Empty the deleted items folder on your computer from your device
- Synchronization troubleshooting
- Bluetooth technology
- GPS technology
- Maps
- BlackBerry Messenger
- Applications
- About multitasking
- Keep an application running and switch to another application
- Keep an application running and return to the Home screen
- Close an application so that it is not running
- About adding applications
- Add, update, or return to the previous version of an application using the application center
- Add an application
- View properties for an application
- Delete a third-party application
- Receive a device password prompt before you add an application
- View the size of an application database
- Check for application updates
- Application troubleshooting
- BlackBerry Device Software
- About updating the BlackBerry Device Software
- Update the BlackBerry Device Software over the wireless network
- Return to the previous version of the BlackBerry Device Software
- Delete the previous version of the BlackBerry Device Software
- Check for BlackBerry Device Software updates that you can install over the wireless network
- About updating the BlackBerry Device Software from a web site
- Update the BlackBerry Device Software from a web site
- BlackBerry Device Software troubleshooting
- Wireless network coverage
- Turn on the connection to the wireless network
- Turn off the connection to the wireless network
- Turn on or turn off data service or set roaming options
- Wireless networks that your device connects to
- LED notification for network connections
- Turn on LED notification for wireless coverage
- Verify the status of network connections and services
- Roaming
- Preferred wireless network list
- Wireless network coverage troubleshooting
- Power, battery, and memory
- Turn off your device
- Set your device to turn on and turn off automatically
- Reset the device
- Check the battery power level
- Extend battery life
- Format the device memory or a media card
- View the amount of available memory
- Best practice: Conserving memory on your device
- The application memory on my device is low
- SIM card
- About the SIM card phone book
- Add a contact to your SIM card
- Copy contacts from your SIM card to your contact list
- Copy a contact from your contact list to your SIM card
- Change a SIM card contact
- Delete a SIM card contact
- Store SMS text messages on your SIM card
- About SIM card security
- Protect your SIM card with a PIN code
- Change the SIM card PIN code
- Change the display name for a phone number
- Security
- Service books and diagnostic reports
- Accessibility options
- About accessibility options
- Change the display font
- Use reverse contrast for the screen display
- Use grayscale for the screen display
- Set the number of icons that appear on the Home screen
- Turn on event sounds
- Assign ring tones and alerts to a contact
- TTY support
- Hearing aid mode
- Voice dialing
- AutoText
- Predictive input method
- BrickBreaker
- Word Mole game
- Glossary
- Legal notice
Welcome to BlackBerry!
This is one of the many resources available to help you use your BlackBerry® device. You can look for answers in the Help application on the
Home screen of your device, or by pressing the Menu key and clicking Help in most applications.
Please read the Safety and Product Information booklet, located on the BlackBerry® User Tools CD, before using your device or any accessories
for your device. For the most recent version of the booklet, visit www.blackberry.com/go/docs.
Feature availability
The following items affect the availability of features on your BlackBerry® device. The features discussed are meant as examples, and are not
inclusive of every feature that might or might not be available on your device.
Device model
Features such as an internal GPS receiver, Wi-Fi® connection capability, and the camera and video camera are dependant on your device
model. To find feature specifications for your device model, visit www.blackberry.com/go/devices.
Wireless service plan
A wireless service plan with phone or voice is required to use the phone application and to send and receive SMS text messages and MMS
messages.
A wireless service plan with data is required to use the browser service and instant messaging applications, and to send and receive email
messages and PIN messages.
For more information, contact your wireless service provider.
BlackBerry Internet Service and BlackBerry Enterprise Server
Once you have a data plan, you must set up your email address or third-party instant messaging account in order to send and receive
email messages, use third-party instant messaging applications, and use certain browser configurations.
If you are an individual user, when you set up your email address or instant messaging account, you are associating it with the BlackBerry®
Internet Service.
If you are a corporate user, your administrator sets up your email account by associating it with a BlackBerry® Enterprise Server. Your
administrator might set options that determine the features and settings that are available on your device.
Wireless service provider
Features such as MMS messages, location-based services, and some phone features are dependant on your wireless service provider's
offerings. For more information, contact your wireless service provider.
Wireless network
The wireless network that your device is connected to might affect the availability of some features. Depending on your wireless service
provider and available roaming options, different wireless networks are available. Some wireless networks do not support features such
as call blocking, call forwarding, or cell broadcasting. For more information, contact your wireless service provider.
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