Thursday, December 9, 2010

Useful Blackberry tips and tricks - Others

Free Up Memory by Clearing the Logs

In the Home Screen, hold down the ALT key and then type "LGLG".
To delete the logs, press the MENU key and then select "Clear Log".

This will help your blackberry to run faster.



"Help Me" Screen for Device, System Data

Help Me screen displays useful device and system information:
vendor ID, Platform version, App version, PIN, IMEI, Uptime, signal strength, battery level, free file space and total used space.

To pull up the Help Me screen, hold down ALT and SHIFT key together and press H.
To return to Home Screen, press ESCAPE or open the MENU and select Close.


Reboot Blackberry without taking out battery

Press ALT, RIGHT SHIFT (the right bottom one) and DEL together

Useful Blackberry tips and tricks - Message

When you are in the message screen...

Press spacebar to scroll down a page/screen at a time.
Press shift and space key together to scroll back a page/screen at a time.
Press b to move to bottom of the message list.
Press t to move to top of the message list.
Press u to jump to the next unread message.
Press n to move to next date.
Press p to move to previous date


Within a message...

Press r to Reply.
Press l to Reply to all.
Press f to Forward this message.


AutoText...

In the message body, type the following AutoText entries followed by the SPACEBAR will insert information into the message.

mypin - Inserts BlackBerry PIN number.
mynumber - Inserts BlackBerry Phone number.
myver - Inserts BlackBerry Model number / Software version.
ld - current date
lt - current time

Press SPACE twice - to end sentence with a period.



Different blackberry models might have different shortcuts...
Check here if the above shortcuts don't work for you.

Useful Blackberry tips and tricks - Calendar

When you are in the Calendar screen...

Press T to go to "Today" in the Calendar screen.
Press N or Space to go to Next (day, week or month, depending on the view you are in).
Press P to go to Previous: (day, week or month, depending on the view you are in).
Click Trackball to create a new entry.
Press A to go to Agenda View.
Press M to go to Monthly View.
Press W to go to Weekly View.
Press D to go to Daily View.
Press G to go to a specific date in the Calendar screen.