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

• To answer the incoming call and place the current call on hold, click Answer - Hold Current.
• To answer the incoming call and end the current call, click Answer - Drop Current.
To return to the first call, press the Menu key. Click Swap or Flash.
Change your ring tone
1. On the Home screen, click the Sounds icon.
2. Click Set Ring Tones/Alerts.
3. Click the application or item that you want to change.
4. Perform one of the following actions:
• To use a preloaded ring tone, in the Ring Tone field, click a ring tone.
• To use a ring tone that you downloaded, in the Ring Tone field, click Select Music. Navigate to a folder that contains ring tones. Click
a ring tone.
5. Press the Menu key.
6. Click Save.
Mute a call
During a call, press the Mute key on the top of your device.
To turn off mute, press the Mute key again.
Place a call on hold
If your BlackBerry® device is connected to a CDMA network, you cannot place a call on hold.
1. During a call, press the Menu key.
2. Click Hold.
To resume a call, press the Menu key. Click Resume.
Turn on the speakerphone
During a call, press the Speakerphone key (
) on the keyboard.
Do not hold the BlackBerry® device near your ear while you use the speakerphone. Hearing damage can occur. For more information, see the
Safety and Product Information booklet for your device.
To turn off the speakerphone, press the Speakerphone key again.
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