Tips: Updating Your Software - Blackberry Torch 9850 User Manual

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Reduce the amount of time that your smartphone stores email
messages and calendar entries.
Stop storing sent messages on your smartphone.
Receive only the first section of long email messages, and
choose whether to download more.
Store files on a media card instead of the smartphone.
Reduce the size of pictures you take.
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.
Related information
Copy, move, rename, or delete a file, 123
Receive only the first section of long email messages, 84
Change the size of pictures that you take, 141
View the amount of available storage space on your smartphone, 264
Set how long your smartphone stores messages, 73
Stop storing messages sent from your computer on your smartphone, 83
Stop storing messages sent from your smartphone on your computer, 84
Change how long your smartphone stores calendar entries, 174
Keep an application running in the background and switch to another application, 224
The application storage on my smartphone is low, 267

Tips: Updating your software

Updated BlackBerry® Device Software and BlackBerry® Desktop Software are released periodically, and you might be able to
update the software from either your computer or your smartphone. 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.
Check to see if there is updated BlackBerry Device Software
that you can download over the network.
On the home screen, click the Messages icon or Calendar icon.
Press the key > Options.
On the home screen, click the Messages icon. Press the
key > Options > Email Preferences.
On the home screen, click the Messages icon. Press the
key > Options > Message Display and Actions.
Your BlackBerry smartphone supports media card sizes up to
32 GB. Only microSD media cards are supported.
On the home screen, click the Camera icon. Press the
key > Options.
Depending on your smartphone model, this feature might not
be supported. On the Home screen or in a folder, click the
Options icon. Click Device > Software Updates.
Tips and shortcuts
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