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
BlackBerry Device Software
About updating the BlackBerry Device Software
You might want to update your BlackBerry® Device Software for one of the following reasons:
• to access new applications and features
• to resolve a technical issue
• your wireless service provider requires that you update the BlackBerry Device Software.
The duration of the update process can range from 15 minutes to 2 hours, depending on the type of update, the amount of device data, and
the number of applications on your BlackBerry device. You cannot use your device or make emergency calls when the update is in progress.
During the update, your device might reset or display a white screen momentarily - this is expected. Do not remove the battery while the update
is in progress.
You might be able to update your BlackBerry Device Software over the wireless network, from a web site, or using the BlackBerry® Desktop
Manager.
You can update your BlackBerry Device Software over the wireless network if a Wireless Update icon appears on the Home screen of your
device. You can also check for updates manually through the device options. The available update might be a complete software update, or a
partial software update only. If the available update is a complete software update, your device data is backed up on your device and restored
during the installation process. Depending on the options set by your wireless service provider or administrator, you might not be able to update
the BlackBerry Device Software over the wireless network. Depending on your wireless service provider, extra fees might apply when you
download the update to your device.
If your device is associated with the BlackBerry® Internet Service, you can update the BlackBerry Device Software by connecting your device
to your computer and visiting www.blackberry.com/update.
If you have installed the BlackBerry® Desktop Software on your computer, you can update the BlackBerry Device Software using the BlackBerry
Desktop Manager. For more information about updating the software using the BlackBerry Desktop Manager, see the online help that is
available in the BlackBerry Desktop Manager.
Update the BlackBerry Device Software over the wireless network
Depending on the options set by your wireless service provider or administrator, you might not be able to perform this task.
You can use your BlackBerry® device when you download the BlackBerry® Device Software but not when you install the software. You have
the option to schedule the update to occur at a specific time.
1. On the Home screen, click the Wireless Update icon. If you do not have the Wireless Update icon, on the Home screen, click the
Options icon. Click Advanced Options. Click Wireless Update.
2. Complete the instructions on the screen.
Note: During the installation process, your device might reset or display a white screen. If encryption is turned on, you might need to type
your password at various times during the installation process.
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