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
Prerequisites: Restoring data over the wireless network...................................................................................................................................................................... 205
Delete device data, third-party applications, or media card files........................................................................................................................................................ 206
Empty the deleted items folder on your computer from your device................................................................................................................................................... 206
Synchronization troubleshooting............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 206
Bluetooth technology................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 209
Bluetooth technology basics..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 209
Bluetooth technology options................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 212
Bluetooth technology troubleshooting.................................................................................................................................................................................................... 215
GPS technology.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 217
About GPS technology.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 217
Get your GPS location............................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 217
Turn off location aiding............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 217
Prevent others from tracking your location............................................................................................................................................................................................ 218
GPS technology troubleshooting............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 218
Maps............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 219
Map basics.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 219
Navigation................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 221
Maps bookmarks........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 222
Map options................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 223
Map shortcuts............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 225
Maps troubleshooting................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 225
BlackBerry Messenger............................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 227
Contacts...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 227
Groups......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 228
Conversations............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 229
Availability................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 232
Applications................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 234
About multitasking..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 234
Keep an application running and switch to another application......................................................................................................................................................... 234
Keep an application running and return to the Home screen.............................................................................................................................................................. 234
Close an application so that it is not running......................................................................................................................................................................................... 235
About adding applications........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 235
Add, update, or return to the previous version of an application using the application center....................................................................................................... 235
Add an application..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 235
View properties for an application........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 236
Delete a third-party application............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 236
Receive a device password prompt before you add an application..................................................................................................................................................... 236