User Guide
Local Navigation
- Quick Help
- Getting started: Your smartphone
- Your BlackBerry smartphone at a glance
- New in this release
- About the BlackBerry ID
- Visit the Setup application
- Important keys
- Flashing LED
- Icons
- Your Home screen
- Home screen at a glance
- Use a picture as your smartphone wallpaper
- Add a shortcut to your home screen or Favorites panel
- Show or hide a home screen panel
- Show, hide, or find an application icon
- Move an application icon
- Change where apps that you download appear
- Change themes
- Set the number of icons that appear on the Home screen
- Add a message that appears when your smartphone is locked
- Feature availability
- Find more information
- How to: Top 10
- Set up an email address
- About downloading apps with the BlackBerry App World
- Transfer a file from your computer to your smartphone using your smartphone as a USB memory drive
- About using your smartphone as a tethered modem
- Copy contacts from your SIM card to your contact list
- Send a text message
- View a location on a map
- Lock or unlock your smartphone
- Turn on or turn off airplane mode
- Turn off word substitution
- Tips: Top 10
- Personalize: Top 10
- Change your ring tone, notifiers, or reminders
- Use a picture as your smartphone wallpaper
- Add, rename, or delete a folder on the home screen
- Add or change your signature
- Change the language
- Change the display font
- Assign an application to a convenience key
- Set up speed dial for a contact
- Add or delete a contact alert
- Add a contact picture for caller ID
- Troubleshooting: Top 10
- I can't make or receive calls
- I'm not receiving messages
- I can't send messages
- I forget my smartphone password
- My smartphone isn't ringing or vibrating when I receive a call or message
- The screen turns off
- Email messages aren't reconciling over the wireless network
- Organizer data isn't synchronizing over the wireless network
- I can't pair with a Bluetooth enabled device
- The media player screen closes
- Getting started: Your smartphone
- Tips and shortcuts
- Phone
- Voice commands
- Messages
- Files and attachments
- Media
- Ring tones, sounds, and alerts
- Browser
- Calendar
- Contacts
- Clock
- Tasks and memos
- Typing
- Keyboard
- Language
- Screen display
- GPS technology
- Compass
- Maps
- Applications
- BlackBerry Device Software
- Manage Connections
- Bluetooth technology
- Smart accessories
- Power and battery
- Storage space and media cards
- Search
- SIM card
- Security
- Getting started: Security
- How to: Security
- Security basics
- About the smartphone password
- Set a smartphone password
- Change the smartphone password
- Lock or unlock your smartphone
- Lock your smartphone when you insert it in the holster
- Change the amount of time before your smartphone locks
- Set a limit for smartphone password attempts
- Delete smartphone data, third-party applications, or media card files
- Password Keeper
- About the Password Keeper
- Add, change, or delete a password in the Password Keeper
- Change the Password Keeper password
- Set a limit for password attempts in the Password Keeper
- Copy a password
- Prevent password copying
- Hide or show passwords in the Password Keeper
- Generate a random password
- Set criteria for randomly generated passwords
- Encryption
- Memory cleaning
- Certificates
- About certificates
- Certificate basics
- Download a certificate from an LDAP-enabled server or DSML-enabled server
- About certificate enrollment
- Download a certificate from a certification authority
- Import a certificate or PGP key that is saved on your smartphone
- Import certificates or PGP keys from a media card
- Install a root certificate on your smartphone
- 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 certification authority profile checks certificate status
- PGP keys
- About 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 that is saved on your smartphone
- Import certificates or PGP keys 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
- Certificate servers
- Key store
- About the key store
- Change the key store password
- Synchronize the key store password with the smartphone password
- Change when your smartphone deletes the key store password
- Add contacts automatically when you add certificates or PGP keys to the key store
- Change the service that your smartphone 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 smartphone
- Turn on two-factor authentication
- Import a certificate from a smart card
- Lock your smartphone when you remove your smart card from your smart card reader
- About smart password entry
- Turn off smart password entry
- Turn off notification for smart card connections
- Switch smart password filters
- Prerequisites: Using authentication certificates
- Use a certificate to authenticate your smart card
- Check the status of your authentication certificate automatically
- Store the passphrase for your smart card on your smartphone
- VPN settings
- Verify security software manually
- Third-party application control
- About permissions for third-party applications
- Set permissions for a third-party application
- 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
- Turn off a prompt for a third-party application connection
- Interaction permissions for third-party applications
- Data permissions for third-party applications
- Connection permissions for third-party applications
- Security basics
- Tips: Security
- Troubleshooting: Security
- Service books and diagnostic reports
- Synchronization
- Accessibility options
- Calculator
- Glossary
- Legal notice
I forget my smartphone password
If you forget your BlackBerry® smartphone password, it can't be recovered. If your smartphone uses a BlackBerry® Enterprise Server, your administrator might be able to reset your password without deleting your smartphone data. Otherwise, the only way you can reset your password without knowing your current password is to delete all your smartphone data. You can do this by exceeding the number of allowed password attempts.
If your email account uses a BlackBerry Enterprise Server, depending on the options that your administrator sets, when you delete your smartphone data, you might also delete the data on your media card. For more information, contact your administrator.
Research In Motion recommends that you regularly create and save a backup file on your computer, especially before you update any software. Maintaining a current backup file on your computer might allow you to recover smartphone data if your smartphone is lost, stolen, or corrupted by an unforeseen issue.