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
4. Press the Menu key.
5. Click Save.
Assign an application to a Convenience key
Your BlackBerry® device has one or more Convenience key on the side of the device. Depending on your theme, you might not be able to
change the application that is assigned to a Convenience key.
1. On the Home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon.
2. Click Screen/Keyboard.
3. Change the Right Side Convenience Key Opens or Left Side Convenience Key Opens fields.
4. Press the Menu key.
5. Click Save.
Set the trackball sensitivity
You can set how the trackball responds to your touch. A high sensitivity level requires less pressure than a lower sensitivity level.
1. On the Home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon.
2. Click Screen/Keyboard.
3. Set the Horizontal Sensitivity and Vertical Sensitivity fields.
4. Press the Menu key.
5. Click Save.
Turn on standby mode
If you are not on a call, you can turn on standby mode to avoid pressing keys accidentally when you are not using your BlackBerry® device.
Press and hold the Mute key on the top of your device.
To turn off standby mode, press the Mute key again.
Themes
About themes
Depending on your wireless service provider, you might be able to set a theme on your BlackBerry® device that changes how items such as
applications, indicators, words, and icons appear. Themes might be preloaded on your device, or you might be able to download themes that
are in .cod file format.
Switch themes
1. From the Home screen, press the Menu key.
2. Click Options.
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