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- Shortcuts
- Phone
- Phone basics
- Emergency calls
- Volume
- Voice mail
- Speed dial
- Conference calls
- Call logs
- Call waiting
- Call forwarding
- Call blocking
- Fixed dialing
- Smart dialing
- Multiple phone numbers
- Phone options
- Turn on dialing from the Lock screen
- Sort phone numbers or contacts on the Phone screen
- Hide or display your phone number when you make calls
- Turn off the prompt that appears before you delete items
- Reset a call timer
- About hearing aid mode
- Turn on hearing aid mode
- About TTY support
- Turn on TTY support
- Phone shortcuts
- Troubleshooting: Phone
- Voice commands
- Messages
- Message basics
- Email messages
- Email message basics
- Send an email message
- Delete the original text from a reply message
- File an email message
- Attach a file to an email message
- Forward messages from a specific email message folder to your device
- Stop storing messages sent from your device on your computer
- Stop storing messages sent from your computer on your device
- Resize a picture before you send it as an attachment
- Email message filters
- Email message folders
- Email message flags
- Email message options
- Check spelling automatically before sending email messages
- Set an out-of-office reply
- Turn on or turn off read receipts or delivery receipts
- View email messages in plain text format
- Stop loading pictures in HTML email messages
- Turn off the prompt that appears before downloading external pictures in HTML email messages
- Hide filed email messages
- Receive only the first section of long email messages
- Change the email address that you use to send messages or meeting invitations
- Stop forwarding email messages to your device
- Email message basics
- PIN messages
- SMS text messages
- SMS text message basics
- Options for SMS text messages
- Set whether pressing the Enter key sends SMS text messages
- Change the appearance of SMS text messages
- Show names in the history of SMS text messages
- Turn off AutoText for SMS text messages
- Store SMS text messages on your SIM card
- Request delivery reports for all SMS text messages
- Set how long your service center attempts to send SMS text messages
- Set a wireless network type for sending SMS text messages
- Cell broadcasting
- MMS messages
- Message list options
- Turn off the prompt that appears before you delete items
- Turn off the prompt that appears when you mark messages as opened
- Set how long your device stores messages
- Use color to differentiate work messages from other messages
- Change how a message list displays messages
- Open a new message automatically when you remove your device from your holster
- About multiple message lists
- Hide messages from the main messages application
- Hide the new or unopened message indicator
- Hide sent messages
- View call logs in the messages application
- Block incoming messages
- Allow messages from contacts in your contact list or allowed sender list
- Add a contact to your allowed sender list
- Reset a blocked message counter
- S/MIME-protected messages
- S/MIME-protected message basics
- About signing and encrypting messages
- Sign or encrypt a message
- Encrypt a message with a pass phrase
- Attach a certificate to a message
- Download the certificate used to sign or encrypt a message
- Add a certificate from a message
- Add a certificate from an attachment
- Attachment indicators in S/MIME-protected messages
- Add connection information for a certificate server from a message
- View the certificate used to sign or encrypt a message
- View encryption information for a weakly encrypted message
- S/MIME-protected message status
- S/MIME-protected message options
- Change your signing or encryption certificate
- Change options for downloading attachments in encrypted messages
- Change the default signing and encryption option
- About message classifications
- Change the default message classification
- Change the size of S/MIME indicators in messages
- Change the encryption algorithms for S/MIME-protected messages
- Request delivery notification for signed S/MIME-protected messages
- Turn off the prompt that appears before an S/MIME-protected message is truncated
- Turn off the prompt that appears when you use an S/MIME certificate that is not recommended for use
- S/MIME-protected message troubleshooting
- S/MIME-protected message basics
- IBM Lotus Notes native encrypted messages
- PGP protected messages
- PGP protected message basics
- About signing and encrypting messages
- Sign or encrypt a message
- Encrypt a PGP protected message with a pass phrase
- Attach a PGP key to a message
- Download the PGP key used to sign or encrypt a message
- Add a PGP key from a message
- Add a PGP key from an attachment
- Attachment indicators in PGP protected messages
- Add connection information for a certificate server from a message
- View the PGP key used to sign or encrypt a message
- PGP protected message status
- PGP protected message options
- Change your signing and encryption key
- Change options for downloading attachments in encrypted messages
- Change the default signing and encryption option
- About message classifications
- Change the default message classification
- Change the size of PGP indicators in messages
- Change the encryption algorithms for PGP protected messages
- Turn off the prompt that appears before a PGP protected message is truncated
- Turn off the prompt that appears when you use a PGP key that is not recommended for use
- Troubleshooting: PGP protected messages
- PGP protected message basics
- Message shortcuts
- Troubleshooting: Messages
- I cannot send messages
- I am not receiving messages
- I cannot file email messages
- I cannot send SMS text messages
- I am not receiving SMS text messages
- The number of new or unopened messages is different than I expected
- Some messages no longer appear on my device
- A message or attachment does not appear or is truncated
- HTML email messages do not appear correctly
- Some email message folders appear dimmed
- Email message filters are not working correctly
- I cannot turn on cell broadcasting
- I cannot attach a file to an MMS message
- I cannot use a shortcut to view one type of message in a message list
- Some features are not available on my device
- Files and attachments
- File and attachment basics
- About files and attachments
- Open a file or an attachment
- Download a file or an attachment
- Stop downloading a file or an attachment
- Locate a file saved on your device
- Locate a file saved on your organization's network
- Save a file from your organization's network to your device
- Send a file as an attachment
- Open a link in a file or an attachment
- Set font options for a file or an attachment
- Managing files and attachments
- Documents
- Spreadsheets
- Media files
- Presentations
- Contact cards
- File and attachment shortcuts
- Troubleshooting: Attachments
- File and attachment basics
- Media
- Audio and video files
- Play a media file
- Change your ring tone
- Record a voice note
- Play the next or previous song
- Fast-forward or rewind a media file
- Pause a media file
- Play a media file on a web page
- Repeat songs
- Shuffle songs
- Adjust the volume
- Amplify the volume using the audio boost feature
- Improve sound quality for songs
- About using a headset
- Keep backlighting on when you play a video
- Display closed captions in videos
- Playlists
- Video camera
- Camera
- Pictures
- Managing media files
- Storage space and media cards
- About media cards
- Format the device memory or a media card
- View the amount of memory used by media files
- Supported media cards
- Change the amount of memory available for media files
- Turn off media card support
- Change how you transfer files between your device and your computer
- Turn off mass storage mode or MTP
- Turn off the prompt for mass storage mode
- About compression
- About file encryption
- Turn on encryption
- Repair your media card or device memory
- Transferring and downloading media files
- About transferring and synchronizing media files
- Supported audio and video file formats
- Transfer a file between your device and your computer using the Roxio Media Manager
- Synchronize your music from your computer to your device using BlackBerry Media Sync
- Transfer a file between your device and your computer in mass storage mode or MTP
- Change how you transfer files between your device and your computer
- Save a media file from a web page
- Save a picture from an MMS message or a web page
- Download a file or an attachment
- Stop downloading an attachment
- Receive a media file using Bluetooth technology
- Send a media file
- Download a ring tone
- Download a picture
- Media shortcuts
- Troubleshooting: Media
- I cannot play a media file on a web page
- I cannot open media files
- I cannot save media files
- My device does not recognize my media card
- My device is not using the correct ring tone or wallpaper
- The flash dims or turns off
- Some pictures that I take are blurry
- Some features are not available on my device
- Audio and video files
- Browser
- Browser basics
- Browsing webpages
- Visit a web page
- Search the Internet
- Switch browser views
- Zoom in to or out from a web page
- Move back or forward a web page
- Refresh a web page
- Save a web page to the main messages application
- Stop loading a web page
- Search for text in a message, in an attachment, or on a web page
- View a list of web pages you visited recently
- Return to the home page
- Close the browser
- Viewing, copying, and forwarding web addresses
- Viewing pictures and playing media files
- Browsing webpages
- Browser bookmarks
- About bookmarks for web pages
- Add a bookmark for a web page
- Change a bookmark for a web page
- Send a bookmark for a web page
- Delete a bookmark for a web page
- Add a bookmark folder for web pages
- File a bookmark for a web page
- Rename a bookmark folder for web pages
- Delete a bookmark folder for web pages
- Web feeds
- Browser options
- Change the default browser view
- Change the home page or start page
- Change JavaScript options
- Change options for pictures and animation on web pages
- Change display options for web pages
- Change font options for web pages
- Set the character encoding for all web pages
- Receive a prompt before closing the browser or running a script
- Clear a browser cache
- Clear the browser history
- About browser configurations
- Set the default browser configuration
- About Gears
- Change the Gears permissions for a web site
- Browser security
- Browser push
- Browser shortcuts
- Troubleshooting: Browser
- Browser basics
- 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
- Troubleshooting: Date, time and alarm
- Personal organizer
- Contacts
- Calendar
- Calendar basics
- About calendar views
- Switch calendar views
- Move around a calendar
- Schedule an appointment
- Schedule an appointment quickly in Day view
- Schedule a meeting
- Recurrence fields
- Schedule an alarm
- Check spelling
- Open an appointment, meeting, or alarm
- Delete an appointment, meeting, or alarm
- Switch days in Day view
- Meetings
- Schedule a meeting
- Recurrence fields
- Respond to a meeting invitation
- View your calendar when responding to a meeting
- Check availability of meeting participants
- Change the list of participants for a meeting
- Forward a meeting invitation
- Delegate a meeting invitation
- Send an email message to all meeting participants
- Contact a meeting participant
- Conference call meetings
- Calendar options
- Change the default calendar view
- Change the default reminder time for calendar entries
- Change the start and end time for days
- Change the snooze time for reminders
- Change the email address that you use to send messages or meeting invitations
- View tasks in a calendar
- Change the first day of the week
- Hide free time in Agenda view
- View more of the subject line for appointments in Agenda view
- Change how long your device stores calendar entries
- Turn off the prompt that appears before you delete items
- View the number of calendar entries stored in a calendar
- Multiple calendars
- Calendar shortcuts
- Troubleshooting: Calendar
- Calendar basics
- Tasks
- Memos
- Categorizing contacts, tasks, or memos
- Calculator
- 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
- 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
- Troubleshooting: Language
- Change the language for voice commands
- Display and keyboard
- Backlighting
- Display options
- Use a picture as your device wallpaper
- Download a Home screen background
- Set owner information
- Change the display font
- Use reverse contrast for the screen display
- About organizing applications
- Add an application folder
- Change an application folder
- Move an application icon
- Hide an application icon
- Delete an application folder
- Set the number of icons that appear on the Home screen
- Turn on LED notification for wireless coverage
- Keyboard
- Themes
- Troubleshooting: Display
- 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
- Troubleshooting: Synchronization
- Email messages are not reconciling over the wireless network
- I am not receiving email messages from personal folders on my computer
- Email messages are not being deleted over the wireless network
- Organizer data is not synchronizing over the wireless network
- Custom contact list field data is not appearing on my computer
- Some characters in calendar entries do not appear correctly after synchronization
- Bluetooth technology
- Bluetooth technology basics
- About Bluetooth technology
- Turn on Bluetooth technology
- Pair with a Bluetooth enabled device
- Connect to a paired Bluetooth enabled device
- Switch to a paired Bluetooth enabled device during a call
- Share contacts with a paired Bluetooth enabled car kit
- Receive a media file using Bluetooth technology
- Send a media file
- Rename a paired Bluetooth enabled device
- Delete a paired Bluetooth enabled device
- Bluetooth technology options
- Bluetooth profiles
- Prevent your device from sharing contacts with Bluetooth enabled devices
- Restrict outgoing calls
- Make your BlackBerry device discoverable
- Change the pairing name for your BlackBerry device
- Turn off Bluetooth connection notification
- Turn off the prompt that appears when connecting or pairing
- Set the message types that your Bluetooth enabled car kit notifies you of
- Turn off a Bluetooth profile
- Encrypt data that you send or receive using Bluetooth technology
- Turn off automatic reconnection to Bluetooth enabled devices
- Troubleshooting: Bluetooth technology
- Bluetooth technology basics
- GPS technology
- Maps
- 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
- About instant messaging applications
- About social networking 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
- Troubleshooting: Applications
- 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
- Troubleshooting: BlackBerry Device Software
- 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
- Change the connection speed for the wireless network
- Turn on LED notification for wireless coverage
- Check the status of network connections and services
- Roaming
- Preferred wireless network list
- Troubleshooting: Wireless network coverage
- Wi-Fi technology
- About connecting to a Wi-Fi network
- Turn on Wi-Fi technology
- Connect to a Wi-Fi network
- Connect to a Wi-Fi network using the Push Button Setup method
- Connect to a Wi-Fi network using the PIN method
- About Wi-Fi profiles
- Change the order of Wi-Fi profiles
- Delete a Wi-Fi profile
- Prevent your device from connecting to a Wi-Fi network
- Turn off the prompt that appears for hotspots and Wi-Fi networks that you connect to manually
- Advanced Wi-Fi connection settings
- UMA connection settings
- Wi-Fi technology 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
- Security basics
- Password Keeper
- About the Password Keeper
- Add a password to the password keeper
- Generate a random password
- Set criteria for randomly generated passwords
- View a password in the password keeper
- Change a password in the password keeper
- Hide passwords in the password keeper
- Turn off the prompt that appears before you delete items
- Delete a password from the password keeper
- Change the password keeper password
- Copy a password
- Prevent password copying
- Set a limit for password attempts in the password keeper
- Encryption
- Memory cleaning
- Certificates
- Certificate basics
- Download a certificate from an LDAP-enabled server or DSML-enabled server
- About certificate authority profiles
- Download a certificate from a certificate authority
- Import a certificate or PGP key from the device memory
- Import a certificate or PGP key from a media card
- View properties for a certificate
- Certificate properties
- View one type of certificate in the certificate list
- Send a certificate
- Delete a certificate
- View the certificate chain for a certificate
- Certificate status
- Certificate options
- Change the display name for a certificate
- Add an email address to a certificate
- Turn off the display name prompt that appears when you add a certificate to the key store
- Turn off the fetch status prompt that appears when you add a certificate to the key store
- Change how often a certificate authority profile checks certificate status
- Certificate shortcuts
- Certificate basics
- PGP keys
- PGP key basics
- Download a PGP key from an LDAP-enabled server
- Download a personal PGP key from the PGP Universal Server
- Download an updated PGP key from an LDAP-enabled server
- Import a certificate or PGP key from the device memory
- Import a certificate or PGP key from a media card
- View properties for a PGP key
- PGP key properties
- Send a PGP key
- Delete a PGP key
- Clear the PGP data cache
- PGP key status
- PGP key options
- PGP key shortcuts
- Troubleshooting: PGP keys
- PGP key basics
- Certificate servers
- Key stores
- About the key store
- Change the key store password
- Synchronize the key store password with the device password
- Change when your device deletes the key store password
- Add contacts to your contact list automatically when you add items to the key store
- Change the service that your device uses to download certificates
- Turn off automatic backup and restore of key store data
- Change the refresh rate for certificate revocation lists
- Reject certificate revocation lists from unverified CRL servers
- Smart cards
- About using a smart card with your device
- About two-factor authentication
- Turn on two-factor authentication
- Import a certificate from a smart card
- Lock your device when you remove your smart card from your smart card reader
- About smart password entry
- Turn off smart password entry
- Switch smart password filters
- Prerequisites: Using authentication certificates
- Use a certificate to authenticate your smart card
- Check the status of your authentication certificate automatically
- Use a certificate to encrypt the encryption keys on your device
- Store the pass phrase for your smart card in the application memory
- Turn off notification for smart card connections
- Software tokens
- VPN settings
- About security self-tests
- Verify security software
- Third-party application control
- About permissions for third-party applications
- Reset connection permissions for third-party applications
- About direct Internet connections for third-party applications
- Set up a direct Internet connection for a third-party application
- Turn on safe mode
- Set permissions for a third-party application
- Turn off a prompt for a third-party application connection
- Connection permissions for third-party applications
- Interaction permissions for third-party applications
- Data permissions for third-party applications
- Troubleshooting: Security
- Service books and diagnostic reports
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Accessibility options
- About accessibility options
- Display closed captions in videos
- 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
- Word Substitution
- Predictive input method
- BrickBreaker
- Word Mole game
- Glossary
- Legal notice
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