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BlackBerry Bold 9790
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Version: 7.0

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  • Page 1 BlackBerry Bold 9790 Smartphone User Guide Version: 7.0...
  • Page 2 SWD-1735726-0622010334-001...
  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Contents Quick Help.......................................... Getting started: Your smartphone..................................How to: Top 10........................................Tips: Top 10........................................Personalize: Top 10......................................Troubleshooting: Top 10....................................Tips and shortcuts......................................Tips: Doing things quickly....................................Tips: Extending battery life....................................Tips: Finding apps....................................... Tips: Freeing space for your music, pictures, videos, and files........................... Tips: Updating your software.....................................
  • Page 4 Security options for messages.................................... Files and attachments......................................How to: Files........................................Troubleshooting: Files......................................Media..........................................How to: Media........................................Music..........................................Videos..........................................Video camera........................................Camera..........................................Pictures..........................................Voice notes......................................... Ring tones, sounds, and alerts.................................... How to: Ring tones, sounds, and alerts................................Troubleshooting: Ring tones, sounds, and alerts............................... Browser..........................................
  • Page 5 GPS technology........................................How to: GPS technology..................................... Troubleshooting: GPS technology..................................Compass..........................................How to: Compass........................................ Troubleshooting: Compass....................................Maps........................................... How to: Maps........................................Troubleshooting: Maps...................................... BlackBerry Device Software....................................How to: BlackBerry Device Software.................................. Troubleshooting: BlackBerry Device Software..............................Manage Connections......................................Mobile network........................................Wi-Fi technology........................................ Bluetooth technology......................................
  • Page 6 View, submit, or delete a diagnostic report............................... Set a default recipient for diagnostic reports..............................I can't run or submit a diagnostic report................................Find your smartphone model number and version of the BlackBerry Device Software..................Synchronization........................................How to: Synchronization....................................Troubleshooting: Synchronization..................................
  • Page 7 Accessibility options......................................How to: Accessibility......................................Calculator........................................... Use the calculator....................................... Convert a measurement..................................... Glossary..........................................Legal notice........................................
  • Page 8: Quick Help

    BlackBerry ID A BlackBerry ID is an email and password that you create that gives you convenient access to BlackBerry products and services. After you create your BlackBerry ID, you can log in to any BlackBerry product that supports BlackBerry ID. For example, with BlackBerry ID you can manage apps that you downloaded from the BlackBerry App World storefront and keep apps you downloaded when you switch smartphones.
  • Page 9 Some services and apps that support BlackBerry ID require you to re-enter your login information after a certain amount of time has passed if you are not actively using the app. You might also be required to re-enter your BlackBerry ID login information if you change any of your BlackBerry ID information, if you delete all the data on your smartphone, or if you update your BlackBerry Device Software on your smartphone.
  • Page 10 Visit the Setup application The Setup application helps you learn about navigation and typing, change options to personalize your BlackBerry smartphone, and set up network connections, such as Bluetooth connections. You can also set up email addresses and social networking accounts.
  • Page 11: Flashing Led

    Select an item. Speakerphone Turn on or turn off the speakerphone during a call. Flashing LED The LED on the top of your BlackBerry smartphone flashes different colors to indicate different statuses. Flashing LED color Description Green You're in a wireless coverage area. You can turn on or turn off this notification.
  • Page 12: Application Icons

    Depending on your BlackBerry smartphone model, administrator, and wireless service provider, some applications might not be available. You might be able to download some applications from the BlackBerry App World storefront. To see a full icon guide, go to www.blackberry.com/docs/smartphones. Click your smartphone model, then click the Icon Guide.
  • Page 13 Instant messaging Instant Messaging folder Some applications might appear in this folder including applications that you download. Windows Live Messenger for BlackBerry AOL Instant Messenger Service for BlackBerry smartphones smartphones Google Talk for BlackBerry smartphones Yahoo! Messenger for BlackBerry smartphones...
  • Page 14 Social Feeds Facebook for BlackBerry smartphones Twitter for BlackBerry smartphones BlackBerry Device Software update A software update for the BlackBerry Device A software update for the BlackBerry Device Software is available. Software is being downloaded. A software update for the BlackBerry Device A software update for the BlackBerry Device Software is ready to be installed.
  • Page 15: Home Screen Icons

    Home screen icons These icons are status indicators that appear at the top of the home screen. Depending on your BlackBerry smartphone model and wireless service provider, some of these icons might not appear. New item Update is available in the BlackBerry App World...
  • Page 16: Phone Icons

    User Guide Quick Help To clear this indicator, open each chat that has this indicator. Read message BBM chat is open Draft message New BBM Groups item Filed message New RSS item Message with an attachment Message is being sent Message is high priority Message has not been sent Text message with an attachment...
  • Page 17: Calendar Icons

    User Guide Quick Help Missed call Received call Placed call Voice mail message Calendar icons These icons appear when you highlight a calendar entry. Event reminder Recurring appointment Meeting reminder Exception for recurring appointment Notes Camera icons These icons appear at the bottom of the screen in the camera. You can click these icons. View pictures Geotagging is turned on Geotagging is turned off...
  • Page 18: Your Home Screen

    User Guide Quick Help Your Home screen Home screen at a glance Use a picture as your smartphone wallpaper 1. On the Home screen, click the Media icon > Pictures icon. 2. Browse to a picture. 3. Press the key > Set As Wallpaper. Related information My display changed, 212 Add a shortcut to your home screen or Favorites panel...
  • Page 19: Change Themes

    User Guide Quick Help Show, hide, or find an application icon Depending on your theme, you might not be able to hide some application icons. On the Home screen or in a folder, do any of the following: • To see all your application icons, on the navigation bar, click All. •...
  • Page 20: Feature Availability

    1. On the Home screen, press the key > Options. • To search your BlackBerry smartphone or the Internet when you type on the Home screen, change the Launch by Typing field to Universal Search. • To open applications when you press shortcut keys, change the Launch by Typing field to Application Shortcuts.
  • Page 21 Region Depending on your region, you might have the option to add or update apps using the BlackBerry App World storefront. You might also be able to download apps from a web page or an application. The availability of certain apps varies by region.
  • Page 22: How To: Top 10

    Your wireless service provider website: Find information about your wireless network or wireless service plan. How to: Top 10 BlackBerry smartphone users have spoken! Here are the top 10 things they want to know how to do on their smartphones. Set up an email address 1.
  • Page 23: Copy Contacts From Your Sim Card To Your Contact List

    USB memory drive You must use the BlackBerry Desktop Software to manage and preserve the information or the encryption that is associated with your media files when you transfer files between your BlackBerry smartphone and your computer.
  • Page 24: Send A Text Message

    If you are viewing a location other than your current location, to get directions to this location from your current location, press the key > Navigate to Here. Your BlackBerry smartphone must have an internal GPS receiver or be paired with a Bluetooth enabled GPS receiver to perform this task.
  • Page 25: Tips: Top 10

    You should keep network connections turned off in certain places, such as on an airplane or in a hospital. For more information, see the Safety and Product Information booklet for your BlackBerry smartphone. On the home screen, click the connections area at the top of the screen, or click the Manage Connections icon.
  • Page 26 Management. 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.
  • Page 27 User Guide Quick Help Check to see if there is updated BlackBerry Device Software Depending on your smartphone model, this feature might not that you can download over the network. be supported. On the Home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon.
  • Page 28 Manage Connections icon. Click a network connection to clear the checkbox. If your BlackBerry smartphone supports Wi-Fi, use Wi-Fi when On the home screen, click the connections area at the top of you're in an area with reduced wireless coverage.
  • Page 29 Tips: Freeing space for your music, pictures, videos, and files You can store files in the built-in media storage on your BlackBerry smartphone or on a media card. Check how much storage is used by media files and On the home screen, click the Media icon.
  • Page 30: Phone Shortcuts

    Quick Help Tips: Keeping your information safe You can take some simple steps to help prevent the information on your BlackBerry smartphone from being compromised, such as avoiding leaving your smartphone unattended. Research In Motion recommends that you regularly create and save a backup file on your computer, especially before you update any software.
  • Page 31: Typing Shortcuts

    User Guide Quick Help Turn on or turn off the speakerphone during a call Press the key on the keyboard. Stop listening to a call with a wireless headset Press the key on the keyboard. Change the active phone number From the home screen, press the key.
  • Page 32: Personalize: Top 10

    Change your ring tone, notifiers, reminders, or alerts In any sound profile, you can change your ring tone or notifier tone to an audio file that's stored in your BlackBerry smartphone's built-in media storage or media card. You can also change the options for volume, notifications during calls, LED, and vibration in all of the profiles.
  • Page 33: Change The Language

    Assign an application to a convenience key Your BlackBerry smartphone has one or more convenience keys on the side of the smartphone. Depending on your theme, you might not be able to change the application that is assigned to a convenience key.
  • Page 34 You can create contact alerts that allow you to customize ring tones and alerts for calls and messages from specific contacts or groups of contacts. When you receive a call or message from the contact, your BlackBerry smartphone uses the assigned ring tone or alert, even if you select the Silent profile or Vibrate Only profile.
  • Page 35: Troubleshooting: Top 10

    • If you're using your BlackBerry MVS Client phone number, verify that support for the BlackBerry MVS Client is turned on. • If you're using your BlackBerry MVS Client phone number, verify that your smartphone is registered with the BlackBerry Mobile Voice System.
  • Page 36: I Can't Send Messages

    If you created an email address or added an existing email address to your smartphone using the email setup screen in the Setup application, verify that you have received an activation message on your smartphone from the BlackBerry Internet Service. If you haven't received an activation message (the message might take a short period of time to arrive), in the Setup application, open the email setup screen to send a service book to your smartphone.
  • Page 37: I Forget My Smartphone Password

    The screen turns off When you don't use your BlackBerry smartphone for a period of time, the screen turns off to conserve battery power. You can change the length of time that the backlight stays on when you aren't touching your smartphone.
  • Page 38: The Media Player Screen Closes

    If you pause or stop a media file for a certain period of time, the media player screen closes to optimize the performance of your BlackBerry smartphone. In the media options, you can stop the media player screen from closing or change the amount of time before the media player screen closes.
  • Page 39: Tips And Shortcuts

    Click an app. Note: The other app might still be running in the background. Open an app with a convenience key. Press a convenience key on the side of your BlackBerry smartphone. Note: You can customize which app a convenience key opens.
  • Page 40: Tips: Extending Battery Life

    Manage Connections icon. Click a network connection to clear the checkbox. If your BlackBerry smartphone supports Wi-Fi, use Wi-Fi when On the home screen, click the connections area at the top of you're in an area with reduced wireless coverage.
  • Page 41: Tips: Finding Apps

    BlackBerry smartphone. Tips: Freeing space for your music, pictures, videos, and files You can store files in the built-in media storage on your BlackBerry smartphone or on a media card. Check how much storage is used by media files and On the home screen, click the Media icon.
  • Page 42: Tips: Updating Your Software

    The application storage on my smartphone is low, 269 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.
  • Page 43: Tips: Keeping Your Information Safe

    Tips and shortcuts Tips: Keeping your information safe You can take some simple steps to help prevent the information on your BlackBerry smartphone from being compromised, such as avoiding leaving your smartphone unattended. Research In Motion recommends that you regularly create and save a backup file on your computer, especially before you update any software.
  • Page 44: Phone Shortcuts

    You might be able to identify an indicator by seeing the icon of the application that the indicator refers to. To see a complete list of applications on your BlackBerry smartphone and their icons, on the Home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon.
  • Page 45: Message Shortcuts

    User Guide Tips and shortcuts Message shortcuts Depending on the typing input language that you are using, some shortcuts might not be available. In a message Reply to a message Press R Reply to all in an email or a PIN message Press L Forward a message Press F...
  • Page 46: File And Attachment Shortcuts

    User Guide Tips and shortcuts Move to the bottom of a message inbox Press B Move to the next unread item Press U Move to the next related message Press J Move to the previous related message Press K File and attachment shortcuts Depending on the typing input language that you are using, some shortcuts might not be available.
  • Page 47: Typing Shortcuts

    User Guide Tips and shortcuts Typing shortcuts Depending on the typing input language that you are using, some shortcuts might not be available. Insert a period Press the Space key twice. The next letter is capitalized. Insert an at sign (@) or a period (.) in an email address field Press the Space key.
  • Page 48: Media Shortcuts

    Depending on the typing input language that you're using, some shortcuts might not be available. Audio and video files Pause an audio or video file Press the Mute key on the right side of your BlackBerry smartphone. Resume playing an audio or video file Press the Mute key again.
  • Page 49: Browser Shortcuts

    User Guide Tips and shortcuts Browser shortcuts To use browser shortcuts, you might need to turn on shortcuts in the browser options. Depending on the typing input language that you are using, some shortcuts might not be available. Insert a period (.) in the address bar Press the Space key.
  • Page 50: Calendar Shortcuts

    Press G Search shortcuts Depending on the typing input language that you're using, some shortcuts might not be available. Search for an item on your BlackBerry smartphone Start typing on the home screen. Search for text in a message Press S...
  • Page 51: Map Shortcuts

    User Guide Tips and shortcuts Map shortcuts Depending on the typing input language that you are using, some shortcuts might not be available. Zoom in to a map Press I Zoom out from a map Press O Move to the next direction on a route Press N Move to the previous direction on a route Press P...
  • Page 52: Phone

    User Guide Phone Phone How to: Phone Phone at a glance Phone icons These icons appear at the top of the home screen and in the Phone application. Missed call Received call Placed call Voice mail message Phone basics Find your phone number Do one of the following: •...
  • Page 53: Make A Call

    User Guide Phone • If you have multiple phone numbers associated with your BlackBerry smartphone, to view a list of your phone numbers, from the home screen, press the key.Click the phone number at the top of the screen. If your wireless service plan supports text messaging, the first phone number in the list is the phone number that you use to send and receive text messages.
  • Page 54: Place A Call On Hold

    Change your ring tone, notifiers, reminders, or alerts In any sound profile, you can change your ring tone or notifier tone to an audio file that's stored in your BlackBerry smartphone's built-in media storage or media card. You can also change the options for volume, notifications during calls, LED, and vibration in all of the profiles.
  • Page 55: Emergency Calls

    Your BlackBerry smartphone is designed to allow emergency calls even when your smartphone is locked. Depending on your smartphone model and the wireless network that your smartphone is connected to, your smartphone is also designed to allow emergency calls when the SIM card isn't inserted.
  • Page 56: Adjust The Volume

    Volume Adjust the volume • To increase the volume, press the Volume Up key on the right side of your BlackBerry smartphone. • To decrease the volume, press the Volume Down key on the right side of your smartphone. •...
  • Page 57 Depending on your wireless service provider, one or more call forwarding phone numbers might already be available on your SIM card or BlackBerry smartphone. You might not be able to change or delete these phone numbers or add new ones.
  • Page 58 Block or stop blocking calls To perform this task, your BlackBerry smartphone must use a SIM card, and your wireless service provider must set up your SIM card for this service and provide you with a call blocking password.
  • Page 59: Fixed Dialing And Smart Dialing

    PIN2 code. Depending on your wireless service provider and wireless network, this feature might not be supported. Turn on fixed dialing To perform this task, your BlackBerry smartphone must use a SIM card, and your wireless service provider must set up your SIM card for this service and provide you with a SIM card PIN2 code.
  • Page 60: Conference Calls

    I can't make or receive calls, 33 Add, change, or delete a call forwarding number To perform this task, your wireless service provider must set up your SIM card or BlackBerry smartphone for this service. 1. From the home screen, press the key.
  • Page 61: Make A Conference Call

    Depending on your wireless service provider or your wireless service plan, this feature might not be supported. If your BlackBerry smartphone is connected to a CDMA network, you can't join more than two contacts to a conference call. 1. During a call, press the key >...
  • Page 62: Delete Call Logs

    About multiple phone numbers When you have multiple phone numbers associated with your BlackBerry smartphone, you can switch the phone number that you use as your active phone number. You have multiple phone numbers associated with your smartphone if one of the following situations applies: •...
  • Page 63: Phone Options

    If your wireless service provider has provided you with a phone number, and your organization has provided you with a BlackBerry MVS Client phone number, you can make calls using your active phone number only, but you receive calls to all phone numbers.
  • Page 64: Turn Off The Prompt That Appears Before You Delete Items

    Change how you answer calls with a headset If your BlackBerry smartphone is paired with a Bluetooth enabled headset or you have a headset plugged into your smartphone, you can set your smartphone to answer calls automatically after 5 seconds.
  • Page 65: Turn On Hearing Aid Mode

    About TTY support When you turn on TTY support and you connect your BlackBerry smartphone to a TTY device that operates at 45.45 bits per second, you can make calls to and receive calls from TTY devices. Your smartphone is designed to convert received calls to text that you can read on your TTY device.
  • Page 66: Voice Mail

    I can't check my voice mail, 66 Change the voice mail access number and password If a voice mail access number isn't already set on your BlackBerry smartphone, you can type the access number for a different voice mail system.
  • Page 67: Troubleshooting: Phone

    Email Preferences screen. If your email account uses a BlackBerry Enterprise Server, your organization might not have set up some features or might prevent you from using some features or options. If your administrator has set an option for you, a lock indicator appears beside the option field.
  • Page 68: I Can't Check My Voice Mail

    For more information, contact your wireless service provider. My phone number appears as Unknown in the Phone application If your BlackBerry smartphone uses a SIM card, try changing the phone number on your SIM card to change how your phone number appears in the Phone application.
  • Page 69: My Headset Makes Calls Instead Of My Smartphone

    User Guide Phone My headset makes calls instead of my smartphone If your BlackBerry smartphone is connected to a Bluetooth enabled headset, your smartphone might automatically make calls on the Bluetooth-enabled headset. Try the following actions: • Disconnect the Bluetooth-enabled headset from your smartphone.
  • Page 70: Voice Commands

    User Guide Voice commands Voice commands How to: Voice commands Perform an action using a voice command 1. On the Home screen or in a folder, click the Voice Dialing icon. 2. After the beep, say a voice command. Related information I can't make calls using a voice command, 70 Change the options for voice prompts After you say a voice command, voice prompts might prompt you for further information or clarification, or voice prompts...
  • Page 71: Change The Language For Voice Commands

    Turn off choice lists for voice commands If your BlackBerry smartphone identifies more than one possible match to a voice command, your smartphone presents you with a list of possible matches, or a choice list. You can turn off choice lists so that your smartphone always selects the best match and dials the phone number automatically.
  • Page 72: Troubleshooting: Voice Commands

    • Verify that your BlackBerry® smartphone is connected to the wireless network. • If you're using a Bluetooth enabled device, such as a hands-free car kit or wireless headset, verify that the Bluetooth enabled device supports this feature and that you have paired the Bluetooth enabled device with your BlackBerry smartphone.
  • Page 73: Messages

    User Guide Messages Messages How to: Messages Messages at a glance Send an email 1. On the Home screen, click the Messages icon. 2. Press the key > Compose Email. 3. In the To field, type an email address or a contact name. 4.
  • Page 74: Check Spelling

    • Type a phone number that can receive text messages (including the country code and area code). For languages with non-Latin characters, press the Alt key to type numbers. Press the key on the keyboard. • If your BlackBerry smartphone is connected to a CDMA network, you can type an email address. 4. Type a message. 5. Press the key on the keyboard.
  • Page 75: Save A Draft Of A Message

    User Guide Messages Save a draft of a message When you are composing a message, press the key > Save Draft. Delete a message On the Home screen, click the Messages icon. • To delete a message, highlight the message. Press the key >...
  • Page 76: Save A Message

    To view the display name again, press the key > Show Name. Save a message Saved messages aren't deleted even if your BlackBerry smartphone is set to delete messages automatically after a certain period of time. On the Home screen, click the Messages icon.
  • Page 77 User Guide Messages 3. Click a folder. Set how long your smartphone stores messages 1. On the Home screen, click the Messages icon. 2. Press the key > Options > Message Display and Actions. 3. Change the Days To Keep Messages field. 4.
  • Page 78: Email

    Attach a file to an email, 76 Attach a file to an email To attach a file that is saved on your organization's network, your email account must use a BlackBerry Enterprise Server that supports this feature. For more information, contact your administrator.
  • Page 79 Email filters About email filters You can create email filters to specify which email is forwarded to your BlackBerry smartphone and which remains in the email application on your computer. Email filters are applied to email based on the order in which they appear in your list of email filters. If you create multiple email filters that could apply to the same email, you must decide which one should be applied first by placing that filter higher in the list.
  • Page 80 User Guide Messages For information about completing this task for a personal email account that you have on your BlackBerry smartphone (such as Google Mail™ or Windows Live™ Hotmail®), visit www.blackberry.com/docs/smartphones and click the link under Email Setup. 1. On the Home screen, click the Messages icon.
  • Page 81 Set the sensitivity level of email that the email filter applies to. Action Set whether email that the email filter applies to is forwarded to your BlackBerry smartphone. If email is forwarded, specify whether it is forwarded with high importance or with the email header only.
  • Page 82: Synchronizing Email

    If wireless data synchronization isn't available on your smartphone or if you turned off this feature, you can use the BlackBerry Desktop Software to synchronize your organizer data. For more information, see the Help in the BlackBerry Desktop Software.
  • Page 83: About Synchronization Conflicts

    Messages Empty the deleted items folder on your computer from your smartphone To perform this task, your work email account must use a BlackBerry® Enterprise Server that supports this feature. For more information, contact your administrator. 1. On the Home screen, click the Messages icon.
  • Page 84: Viewing And Replying To Email

    Depending on your theme, a separate icon might appear for text messages. Preview more of grouped email messages To display more lines of each email in a group, you must have set your BlackBerry smartphone to group email messages by subject.
  • Page 85 Add, change, or remove a flag If you make changes to a flag in an email that you sent, the changes are reflected only on your BlackBerry smartphone and are not sent to the recipient. Depending on the message service you're using, you might not be able to do this task.
  • Page 86: Mark A Message As Read Or Unread

    User Guide Messages • To set an outline color for email that is sent to your BlackBerry smartphone through a BlackBerry Enterprise Server, change the Enterprise Messages field. • To set an outline color for your other messages, change the Other Messages field.
  • Page 87 • To delete a folder, click Delete Folder. Forward messages from a specific email folder to your smartphone To perform this task, your work email account must use a BlackBerry® Enterprise Server that supports this feature. For more information, contact your administrator.
  • Page 88: Email Options

    Messages Stop storing messages sent from your smartphone on your computer To perform this task, your work email account must use a BlackBerry® Enterprise Server that supports this feature. For more information, contact your administrator. 1. On the Home screen, click the Messages icon.
  • Page 89: Change Options For Your Personal Email Account

    3. If the Message Services field appears, set this field to the appropriate email account. 4. To set whether your BlackBerry smartphone sends a read receipt or delivery receipt when a sender requests it, change the Send Read Receipts field.
  • Page 90: Google Mail

    Depending on your wireless service plan or administrator, you can add a Google Mail account (also known as a Gmail account) to your BlackBerry smartphone. Similar to the Google Mail web application that you can use on your computer, related messages are grouped into a single conversation.
  • Page 91 2. Highlight a Google Mail message or conversation. 3. Press the key > Archive > Yes. Note: Depending on how you've set your BlackBerry smartphone to store messages, archived messages might be automatically deleted from your smartphone after a certain period of time.
  • Page 92 Report spam sent to your Google Mail account When you report a Google Mail message as spam, it's deleted from your BlackBerry smartphone. If you report a message that is part of a conversation, all of the messages in the conversation are also reported as spam.
  • Page 93 Some messages no longer appear on my smartphone If the application storage on your BlackBerry smartphone is full or you have more than 65,000 email messages, PIN messages, and text messages, your smartphone deletes the oldest messages from the message list. Your smartphone doesn't delete saved messages.
  • Page 94 Try the following actions: • Verify that your email filters are turned on. • Verify that your email filters appear in the order that you want your BlackBerry smartphone to apply them to email messages. Related information Email filters, 77 The number of new or unread messages is different than I expect The number of new or unread messages includes saved messages and filed messages.
  • Page 95: Text Messages

    User Guide Messages If you have set your BlackBerry smartphone to hide filed messages and you receive a new message in an email folder other than your inbox in the email application on your computer, your smartphone files the message.
  • Page 96: Composing And Sending Text Messages

    User Guide Messages If you have more than one phone number associated with your BlackBerry smartphone, your smartphone sends text messages using the first phone number that appears in the My Number field in the Phone application. Message inbox icons These icons indicate the type or status of each message in your inbox.
  • Page 97 User Guide Messages • If your BlackBerry smartphone is connected to a CDMA network, you can type an email address. 4. Type a message. 5. Press the key on the keyboard. Related information Personal distribution lists, 186 I can't send messages, 34...
  • Page 98: Viewing And Replying To Text Messages

    User Guide Messages • To receive notification when the recipient opens the message, select the Confirm Read check box. 4. Press the key > Save. Set whether pressing the Enter key sends text messages You can stop your text messages from being sent each time that you press the , which might prevent you from accidentally sending a message if you plan to include several lines of text.
  • Page 99: Store Text Messages On Your Sim Card

    Depending on your wireless service provider and wireless network, this feature might not be supported. If your BlackBerry smartphone uses a SIM card and you set your SIM card to store text messages, your text messages still appear in the Messages application.
  • Page 100 User Guide Messages Options for text messages Stop receiving text messages when roaming 1. On the Home screen, click the Text Messages icon. 2. Press the key > Options. 3. In the MMS section, set the Multimedia Reception field and Automatic Retrieval field to Home Only. 4.
  • Page 101: Cell Broadcasting

    Turn on cell broadcasting To perform this task, your BlackBerry smartphone must use a SIM card, and your wireless service provider must set up your SIM card with a cell broadcast channel or provide you with the ID for a cell broadcast channel.
  • Page 102 Depending on your wireless service plan, this feature might not be supported. Try the following actions: • Verify that your BlackBerry® smartphone is connected to the wireless network. If you're not in a wireless coverage area, your smartphone should send the messages when you return to a wireless coverage area. •...
  • Page 103: Pin Messages

    I can't turn on cell broadcasting If your BlackBerry smartphone uses a SIM card, your SIM card might not support the display languages that you have selected for cell broadcast messages.
  • Page 104 If you created an email address or added an existing email address to your smartphone using the email setup screen in the Setup application, verify that you have received an activation message on your smartphone from the BlackBerry Internet Service. If you haven't received an activation message (the message might take a short period of time to arrive), in the Setup application, open the email setup screen to send a service book to your smartphone.
  • Page 105 Some messages no longer appear on my smartphone If the application storage on your BlackBerry smartphone is full or you have more than 65,000 email messages, PIN messages, and text messages, your smartphone deletes the oldest messages from the message list. Your smartphone doesn't delete saved messages.
  • Page 106: Attachments

    The number of new or unread messages includes saved messages and filed messages. If you have set your BlackBerry smartphone to hide filed messages and you receive a new message in an email folder other than your inbox in the email application on your computer, your smartphone files the message.
  • Page 107 The type of file that you're trying to send, the email account that you use, and the applications that you have installed on your BlackBerry smartphone determine the method you can use to send a file. You can select and send multiple picture files at one time.
  • Page 108: Contact Cards

    A contact card (sometimes called avCard or .vcf file) contains information for a specific contact. You can send contact cards as attachments to email messages, PIN messages, text messages, or BlackBerry Messenger messages. Attach a contact card to a message You can attach a contact card to an email, a PIN message, or a text message.
  • Page 109: Security Options For Messages

    Security options for messages Block incoming messages If your work email account is associated with a BlackBerry Enterprise Server, you might not be able to block or unblock PIN messages from contacts within your organization, from contacts outside of your organization, or both.
  • Page 110: Reset A Blocked Message Counter

    > Save. Reset a blocked message counter If you block messages, the blocked message counter tracks how many messages your BlackBerry smartphone has blocked. You can set the blocked message counter back to zero. 1. On the Home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon.
  • Page 111 About signing and encrypting messages If your email account uses a BlackBerry Enterprise Server that supports this feature, you can digitally sign or encrypt messages to add another level of security to email and PIN messages that you send from your BlackBerry smartphone. Digital signatures are designed to help recipients verify the authenticity and integrity of messages that you send.
  • Page 112 > Continue. Download the certificate used to sign or encrypt a message If a certificate isn't included in a received message or isn't already stored in the key store on your BlackBerry smartphone, you can download the certificate. 1. In a message, highlight the encryption indicator or a digital signature indicator.
  • Page 113 S/MIME-protected message status Digital signature indicators for S/MIME-protected messages Indicator Description Your BlackBerry smartphone verified the digital signature. Your smartphone can't verify the digital signature. Your smartphone requires more data to verify the digital signature. Your smartphone trusts the certificate chain.
  • Page 114 Check the status of a certificate or certificate chain If a certificate is included in a received message, or is already stored in the key store on your BlackBerry device, you can check the status of the sender's certificate, or you can check the status of the sender's certificate and all other certificates in the certificate chain.
  • Page 115 Change the default signing and encryption option Your BlackBerry smartphone is designed to use the default signing and encryption option when you send a message to a contact that you haven't previously sent a message to or received a message from. Otherwise, your smartphone uses the message history to suggest a signing and encryption option.
  • Page 116 > Save. Change the encryption algorithms for S/MIME-protected messages If a message has multiple recipients, your BlackBerry smartphone uses the first selected encryption algorithm in the list that all recipients are known to support. 1. On the Home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon.
  • Page 117: Ibm Lotus Notes Native Encrypted Messages

    The message might have been encrypted with an algorithm that isn't supported. • If you are using the PGP Support Package for BlackBerry smartphones, you can't open an attachment in a PGP protected message that was encrypted using the OpenPGP format by an IBM Lotus Notes client working with PGP Desktop Professional or that was encrypted by the PGP Universal Server.
  • Page 118: Pgp Protected Messages

    About signing and encrypting messages If your email account uses a BlackBerry Enterprise Server that supports this feature, you can digitally sign or encrypt messages to add another level of security to email and PIN messages that you send from your BlackBerry smartphone. Digital signatures are designed to help recipients verify the authenticity and integrity of messages that you send.
  • Page 119 Download the PGP key used to sign or encrypt a message If a PGP key isn't included in a received message or isn't already stored in the key store on your BlackBerry smartphone, you can download the PGP key. If you use the PGP Universal Server, you might not be able to download the sender’s PGP key, or your smartphone might download the sender’s PGP key from the PGP Universal Server automatically.
  • Page 120 The message is weakly encrypted. Digital signature indicators for PGP protected messages Indicator Description Your BlackBerry smartphone verified the digital signature. Your smartphone can't verify the digital signature. Your smartphone requires more data to verify the digital signature. Your smartphone trusts the sender’s PGP key.
  • Page 121 Change your signing and encryption key Your BlackBerry smartphone uses your PGP key to encrypt messages in the Sent Items folder and includes your PGP public key in messages that you send so that recipients can encrypt their reply messages.
  • Page 122 Sent Items folder. Change the default message classification To perform this task, your work email account must use a BlackBerry Enterprise Server that supports this feature and your administrator must turn on message classifications.
  • Page 123 The message might have been encrypted with an algorithm that isn't supported. • If you are using the PGP Support Package for BlackBerry smartphones, you can't open an attachment in a PGP protected message that was encrypted using the OpenPGP format by an IBM Lotus Notes client working with PGP Desktop...
  • Page 124: Files And Attachments

    About files and attachments You can view and download attachments and store them on your BlackBerry smartphone or a media card. If your email account uses a BlackBerry Enterprise Server that supports accessing files on your organization's network, you can preview files from your organization's network and save the files to your smartphone or attach them directly to email messages without downloading them.
  • Page 125 The type of file that you're trying to send, the email account that you use, and the applications that you have installed on your BlackBerry smartphone determine the method you can use to send a file. You can select and send multiple picture files at one time.
  • Page 126: Managing Files And Attachments

    To perform this task, your work email account must use a BlackBerry® Enterprise Server that supports this feature. For more information, contact your administrator. When you save a file from your organization's network to your BlackBerry smartphone, the file is saved in its original format. 1. On the Home screen or in a folder, click the Files icon.
  • Page 127 > Properties. 5. Select the Hidden checkbox. 6. Click OK. After you hide a file or folder, it is no longer visible on your BlackBerry smartphone. Related information View a hidden file or folder, 125 View a hidden file or folder You can view files or folders that you hid.
  • Page 128: View Tracked Changes In A Document

    Files and attachments Open a password-protected .pdf file To perform this task, your email account must be associated with the BlackBerry Internet Service or a BlackBerry Enterprise Server that supports this feature. For more information, contact your wireless service provider or administrator.
  • Page 129 User Guide Files and attachments • To change the column size for all spreadsheets, press the key > Options. Change the Column Width field. Press key > Save. Set display options for a spreadsheet 1. In a spreadsheet, press the key >...
  • Page 130: Troubleshooting: Files

    Try the following actions: • Wait for a short period of time. Your BlackBerry smartphone receives long messages and attachments in sections. • If "More available" appears at the end of the message or attachment, press the key > More or More All.
  • Page 131: Media

    Adjust the volume • To increase the volume, press the Volume Up key on the right side of your BlackBerry smartphone. • To decrease the volume, press the Volume Down key on the right side of your smartphone.
  • Page 132 > Save. Turn on or turn off audio and video shortcuts By default, your BlackBerry smartphone uses the Volume and Mute keys as shortcuts to play, pause, and skip audio and video files. 1. On the home screen, click the Media icon.
  • Page 133 Turn on or turn off media card support When you turn off media card support, your BlackBerry smartphone can't access the files that are on your media card. This might be useful if you want to make sure that your files are saved to your smartphone's built-in media storage rather than your media card.
  • Page 134 The type of file that you're trying to send, the email account that you use, and the applications that you have installed on your BlackBerry smartphone determine the method you can use to send a file. You can select and send multiple picture files at one time.
  • Page 135 To perform this task, you must turn on Bluetooth® technology. When a media file is sent to your BlackBerry smartphone using Bluetooth technology, a dialog box appears on the screen. 1. In the Accept connection request dialog box, click Yes.
  • Page 136: Music

    Wave Synthesizer For information about media file extensions and media file formats for your smartphone, visit www.blackberry.com/docs/ smartphones and click Smartphones > BlackBerry Smartphones > Supported Media. Music How to: Music Shuffle or repeat songs 1. On the Home screen, click the Media icon > Music icon.
  • Page 137: Rename Or Delete A Playlist

    Create a standard or an automatic playlist You create a standard playlist by manually adding songs that are on your BlackBerry smartphone storage space or media card. You create an automatic playlist by specifying criteria for artists, albums, or genres of music. The songs that meet all of the criteria are automatically added to the playlist.
  • Page 138 BlackBerry smartphone that you used to encrypt the file, insert the media card into the BlackBerry smartphone that you used to encrypt the file.
  • Page 139: Videos

    If you pause or stop a media file for a certain period of time, the media player screen closes to optimize the performance of your BlackBerry smartphone. In the media options, you can stop the media player screen from closing or change the amount of time before the media player screen closes.
  • Page 140 Email Preferences screen. If your email account uses a BlackBerry Enterprise Server, your organization might not have set up some features or might prevent you from using some features or options. If your administrator has set an option for you, a lock indicator appears beside the option field.
  • Page 141: Video Camera

    BlackBerry smartphone that you used to encrypt the file, insert the media card into the BlackBerry smartphone that you used to encrypt the file.
  • Page 142 Delete video Record a video To perform this task, you might need to have a media card inserted in your BlackBerry smartphone. 1. On the Home screen, click the Media icon > Video Camera icon. 2. To start recording, click the record icon.
  • Page 143 Email Preferences screen. If your email account uses a BlackBerry Enterprise Server, your organization might not have set up some features or might prevent you from using some features or options. If your administrator has set an option for you, a lock indicator appears beside the option field.
  • Page 144: Camera

    BlackBerry smartphone that you used to encrypt the file, insert the media card into the BlackBerry smartphone that you used to encrypt the file.
  • Page 145: Camera At A Glance

    User Guide Media How to: Camera Camera at a glance Camera icons These icons appear at the bottom of the screen in the camera. You can click these icons. View pictures Geotagging is turned on Geotagging is turned off Take another picture Flash is turned on Flash is turned off Automatic flash mode...
  • Page 146: Change The Autofocus Setting

    User Guide Media Record a video, 140 Change the flash setting for pictures that you take 1. On the Home screen, click the Camera icon. 2. To switch between flash settings, click the flash icon at the bottom of the screen. When you close the camera, the flash setting is saved.
  • Page 147 User Guide Media 2. Press the key > Options. 3. Clear the Digital Zoom check box. 4. Press the key > Save. Reduce blurriness in the pictures that you take The image stabilization option helps reduce blurriness that is caused by slight movements of the camera when you are taking a picture.
  • Page 148 Email Preferences screen. If your email account uses a BlackBerry Enterprise Server, your organization might not have set up some features or might prevent you from using some features or options. If your administrator has set an option for you, a lock indicator appears beside the option field.
  • Page 149: Pictures

    BlackBerry smartphone that you used to encrypt the file, insert the media card into the BlackBerry smartphone that you used to encrypt the file.
  • Page 150: View Pictures As A Slide Show

    Save a picture from a text message or a webpage You can save picture files, such as .jpg, .png, .gif, or .bmp files, to the BlackBerry smartphone storage space or a media card. 1. Open a picture attachment in a text message or highlight a picture on a webpage.
  • Page 151: Import Pictures To The Pictures Application

    5. Click OK. Import pictures to the Pictures application Importing pictures from other folders on your BlackBerry smartphone or media card into the Pictures application allows you to have access to your pictures, while maintaining your existing folder structures and file locations.
  • Page 152 Email Preferences screen. If your email account uses a BlackBerry Enterprise Server, your organization might not have set up some features or might prevent you from using some features or options. If your administrator has set an option for you, a lock indicator appears beside the option field.
  • Page 153: Voice Notes

    BlackBerry smartphone that you used to encrypt the file, insert the media card into the BlackBerry smartphone that you used to encrypt the file.
  • Page 154 BlackBerry smartphone that you used to encrypt the file, insert the media card into the BlackBerry smartphone that you used to encrypt the file.
  • Page 155 If you pause or stop a media file for a certain period of time, the media player screen closes to optimize the performance of your BlackBerry smartphone. In the media options, you can stop the media player screen from closing or change the amount of time before the media player screen closes.
  • Page 156: Ring Tones, Sounds, And Alerts

    Change your ring tone, notifiers, reminders, or alerts In any sound profile, you can change your ring tone or notifier tone to an audio file that's stored in your BlackBerry smartphone's built-in media storage or media card. You can also change the options for volume, notifications during calls, LED, and vibration in all of the profiles.
  • Page 157: Silence Your Smartphone

    • To turn off all alerts, including contact alerts, click the icon. When a ring tone, reminder, or alert sounds, if available, press the Mute key on the right side of your BlackBerry smartphone. Related information Silence the alarm, 190 Flashing LED The LED on the top of your BlackBerry smartphone flashes different colors to indicate different statuses.
  • Page 158: Change Alarm Notification Options

    Turn on or turn off event sounds Event sounds alert you when you turn on or turn off your BlackBerry smartphone, when the battery power level is full or low, and when you connect or disconnect a USB cable or accessory to or from your smartphone.
  • Page 159: Troubleshooting: Ring Tones, Sounds, And Alerts

    My smartphone is ringing or vibrating more times than expected For calls, the number of times that your BlackBerry smartphone vibrates isn't determined by the number of vibrations that you set in your sound profile, and there's no setting for the number of rings if you don't subscribe to voice mail. Your smartphone vibrates or rings until the caller or the wireless network ends the connection.
  • Page 160: Browser

    User Guide Browser Browser How to: Browser Browser at a glance...
  • Page 161: Browser Basics

    About tabbed browsing With tabbed browsing, you can open multiple webpages on your BlackBerry smartphone at the same time. You can quickly switch between tabs that are open, open a new tab without closing another, or close the current tab without closing the entire browser.
  • Page 162: Turn On Browser Shortcuts

    User Guide Browser Search for text in a message, in a file, or on a webpage To search for text in a presentation, you must view the presentation in text view or in text and slide view. 1. In a message, in a file, in an attachment, or on a webpage, press the key >...
  • Page 163 User Guide Browser Return to the browser home page To perform this task, you must have a browser home page set on your BlackBerry smartphone. 1. On a webpage, press the key. 2. Click Home. Close the browser 1. On a webpage, press the key.
  • Page 164: Browser Bookmarks

    User Guide Browser • To copy an address for a link, pause on or highlight a link. Press the key > Copy Link. • To copy an address for a picture, pause on or highlight a picture. Press the key > Copy Image Link. To paste the address, press the key >...
  • Page 165: Browser Options

    User Guide Browser 4. Press the key. • To change a bookmark, click Edit. Change the bookmark. Press the key. Click Save. • To delete a bookmark, click Delete. Send a bookmark for a webpage 1. On the home screen, click the Browser icon. 2.
  • Page 166 > Save. Change your default search engine Your default search engine in the browser is also the default search engine that your BlackBerry smartphone uses when you search the Internet using the search icon on the Home screen. 1. On the Home screen, click the Browser icon.
  • Page 167: Delete Browsing Information

    Closing Browser on Escape checkbox. • To receive a prompt before your BlackBerry smartphone uses your wireless service provider's browser portal to stream media from the Internet, select the Switching to Carrier Network for Streaming Media checkbox.
  • Page 168: Browser Security

    Browser security About TLS The browser is designed to use TLS or SSL to encrypt data that your BlackBerry smartphone sends or receives over the Internet through the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Communication between your smartphone and the BlackBerry Enterprise Server is encrypted using Triple DES.
  • Page 169 Browser security options, 166 Add a trusted content server If your email account uses a BlackBerry Enterprise Server, you can add content servers to your list of trusted content servers to accelerate the authentication process when you are authenticating with a content server.
  • Page 170: Browser Push

    Browser push About browser push Browser push is designed to push information from a web application to your BlackBerry smartphone as the information becomes available. For example, you can receive updates for weather reports, stock quotes, or breaking news. When your smartphone receives an update, a new browser push message might appear in the messages application or an icon on the Home screen might change to indicate that new information is available.
  • Page 171: Troubleshooting: Browser

    4. Press the key > Save. RSS feeds For more information about using RSS feeds on your BlackBerry smartphone, on the Home screen or in a folder, click the Social Feeds icon. Press the key > Help. About RSS feeds You can add RSS feeds to your BlackBerry smartphone so that you receive updates on your favorite blogs and websites.
  • Page 172 Receive a prompt before you close the browser or stream media from the Internet, 165 I cannot play a song or video on a web page Your BlackBerry smartphone might not support the size or file format of the song or video file. Related information...
  • Page 173: Calendar

    If wireless data synchronization isn't available on your smartphone or if you turned off this feature, you can use the BlackBerry Desktop Software to synchronize your organizer data. For more information, see the Help in the BlackBerry Desktop Software.
  • Page 174: Synchronize Organizer Data Over The Wireless Network

    Calendar About synchronization conflicts A synchronization conflict occurs when you change the same email or organizer data item on your BlackBerry smartphone and in the email application on your computer. If you reconcile your email using wireless email reconciliation, on your smartphone, you can set whether the email on your smartphone or the email on your computer takes precedence when an email reconciliation conflict occurs.
  • Page 175: Manage Data Synchronization Conflicts

    • To move to the current date, click Go To Today. Schedule a meeting or an appointment To invite participants to a meeting, your work email account must use a BlackBerry Enterprise Server that supports this feature. 1. On the Home screen, click the Calendar icon.
  • Page 176: Switch Calendars

    3. Click a calendar. Meetings Schedule a meeting or an appointment To invite participants to a meeting, your work email account must use a BlackBerry Enterprise Server that supports this feature. 1. On the Home screen, click the Calendar icon. 2. Press the key >...
  • Page 177: Respond To A Meeting Invitation

    Check availability of meeting participants To perform this task, your work email account must use a BlackBerry® Enterprise Server that supports this feature. For more information, contact your administrator. You can only check availability of meeting participants in your organization.
  • Page 178: Calendar Options

    Delegate a meeting invitation To perform this task, you must be using IBM Lotus Notes and your email account must be associated with a BlackBerry Enterprise Server that supports this feature. If you do not have the option to delegate a meeting invitation, you might be able to forward meeting invitations instead. You might not have the option to delegate a meeting invitation if the meeting organizer has turned off meeting delegation.
  • Page 179 3. Change the Keep Appointments field. 4. Press the key > Save. Your BlackBerry smartphone deletes calendar entries that are older than the number of days that you set. Show tasks in the calendar 1. On the Home screen, click the Calendar icon.
  • Page 180: Conference Call Meetings

    About conference calls You can create two types of conference calls with your BlackBerry smartphone. If your organization or a conferencing service has provided you with a conference call bridge number, you can create conference call meetings in the calendar on your smartphone or computer.
  • Page 181: Troubleshooting: Calendar

    Some characters in calendar entries don't appear correctly after synchronization If you schedule appointments or meetings on your BlackBerry smartphone that contain special characters or accents, your computer might not support these characters. On your computer, verify that you are using the correct default code page and that the correct font support is installed on your computer.
  • Page 182 I can't enter a conference call with the Join Now option The Join Now option might not appear in the meeting notification if the meeting organizer isn't using a BlackBerry smartphone that supports the Join Now feature or if the meeting organizer didn't enter the conference call information correctly. You might need to change your smart dialing options so that you can enter the conference call using the Join Now option.
  • Page 183: Contacts

    6. Press the key > Save. You can synchronize contact fields that you customize on your BlackBerry smartphone with the email application on your computer. For more information about synchronizing contact fields, see the Help in the BlackBerry Desktop Software.
  • Page 184: Search For A Contact

    > Delete. Search for a contact You can search for contacts in your contact list or, if your email account uses a BlackBerry Enterprise Server, you might also be able to search for contacts in your organization's contact list.
  • Page 185: About Categories

    Category names are not case sensitive. More than one category can apply to a contact, task, or memo. If you use IBM Lotus Notes, you can apply more than one category to a task on your BlackBerry smartphone, but only one category synchronizes with the task in Lotus Notes.
  • Page 186: Synchronizing Contacts

    If wireless data synchronization isn't available on your smartphone or if you turned off this feature, you can use the BlackBerry Desktop Software to synchronize your organizer data. For more information, see the Help in the BlackBerry Desktop Software.
  • Page 187: About Backing Up And Restoring Smartphone Data

    About backing up and restoring smartphone data If you have installed the BlackBerry Desktop Software on your computer, you can back up and restore most of your BlackBerry smartphone data, including messages, organizer data, fonts, saved searches, and browser bookmarks using the BlackBerry Desktop Software.
  • Page 188: Personal Distribution Lists

    About multiple contact lists If your BlackBerry smartphone is associated with multiple email accounts, you might have contacts from each email account on your smartphone. For example, if your smartphone is associated with a work email account and a personal email account, you might be able to view your work contact list and your personal contact list on your smartphone.
  • Page 189: Contact List Options

    User Guide Contacts View a different contact list 1. On the Home screen, click the Contacts icon. 2. Press the key > Select Contacts. 3. Click a contact list. Change the default contact list 1. On the Home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon. 2.
  • Page 190: Troubleshooting: Contacts

    You can only synchronize the data in a custom contact list field with a text field in the email application on your computer. For example, you can't add a contact's birthday to a custom contact list field on your BlackBerry smartphone and synchronize it with the email application on your computer, because the birthday field is a date field in the email application on your computer.
  • Page 191: Clock

    Change the time or date. Click OK. 3. Do any of the following: • To receive a prompt when your BlackBerry smartphone detects a new time zone, change the Auto Update Time Zone field to Prompt. • To have your smartphone update the time zone automatically when it detects a new time zone, change the Auto Update Time Zone field to On.
  • Page 192: Turn On The Alarm

    User Guide Clock 4. Press the key > Save. Change what appears on the screen when your smartphone is charging 1. On the Home screen or in the Applications folder, click the Clock icon. 2. Press the key > Options. 3.
  • Page 193: Turn On Bedside Clock Mode

    User Guide Clock • To turn off the connection to the wireless network, so that your BlackBerry smartphone doesn't receive phone calls or messages, select the Disable Radio checkbox. • To dim the screen, select the Dim Screen checkbox. • To use a different sound profile, change the Sound Profile field.
  • Page 194: Troubleshooting: Clock

    If you're in a region that has recently made changes to daylight saving time or has switched to a different time zone, you might need to update the time zone data on your BlackBerry smartphone. To update the time zone data, press the key >...
  • Page 195: Tasks And Memos

    User Guide Tasks and memos Tasks and memos Create a task or memo You can create tasks in the Tasks application or Calendar application, and you can make any of your tasks visible in the calendar. 1. On the Home screen, click the Calendar icon, or in the Applications folder, click the Tasks icon or MemoPad icon. •...
  • Page 196: Hide Completed Tasks

    If wireless data synchronization isn't available on your smartphone or if you turned off this feature, you can use the BlackBerry Desktop Software to synchronize your organizer data. For more information, see the Help in the BlackBerry Desktop Software.
  • Page 197 About backing up and restoring smartphone data If you have installed the BlackBerry Desktop Software on your computer, you can back up and restore most of your BlackBerry smartphone data, including messages, organizer data, fonts, saved searches, and browser bookmarks using the BlackBerry Desktop Software.
  • Page 198: About Categories

    Category names are not case sensitive. More than one category can apply to a contact, task, or memo. If you use IBM Lotus Notes, you can apply more than one category to a task on your BlackBerry smartphone, but only one category synchronizes with the task in Lotus Notes.
  • Page 199: Turn Off The Prompt That Appears Before You Delete Items

    User Guide Tasks and memos Turn off the prompt that appears before you delete items You can turn off the prompt that appears before you delete messages, call logs, contacts, calendar entries, tasks, memos, or passwords. 1. On the Home screen, click the application icon for an application that prompts you before you delete items. 2.
  • Page 200: Typing

    User Guide Typing Typing How to: Typing Typing icons These icons appear in the upper-right corner of the screen when you type. CAP lock (capital letter lock) Multi-tap mode NUM lock (number lock) Current input language Alt mode Typing basics Copy and paste at a glance Highlight, cut, copy, or paste text 1.
  • Page 201: About Typing Input Methods

    The typing input method that you use determines how you type. For example, if you are using the predictive input method, your BlackBerry smartphone displays a list of suggested words as you type so that you do not have to type the entire word.
  • Page 202: Typing Input Methods

    About the custom dictionary You can add words to the custom dictionary so that your BlackBerry smartphone recognizes the word when you check spelling. Because SureType technology uses the same dictionary, if you're using the Arabic or Russian input methods, words that you...
  • Page 203: Word Substitution

    Add, change, or delete a word in the custom dictionary You can add words to the custom dictionary so that your BlackBerry smartphone recognizes the word when you check spelling. 1. On the Home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon.
  • Page 204: Spelling Checker

    Stop displaying spelling suggestions in the list that appears when you type By default, if you start typing a letter combination that your BlackBerry smartphone doesn't recognize, spelling suggestions, when available, appear in bold in the list that appears when you type.
  • Page 205: Troubleshooting: Typing

    You can change the type and length of words that the spelling checker includes when checking spelling. For example, you might not want the spelling checker to include acronyms or one-letter words. You can also set your BlackBerry smartphone to check spelling automatically before you send an email.
  • Page 206 User Guide Typing If you change your smartphone typing style back to a typing style other than Direct, Advanced Style Options becomes available again.
  • Page 207: Keyboard

    Assign an application to a convenience key Your BlackBerry smartphone has one or more convenience keys on the side of the smartphone. Depending on your theme, you might not be able to change the application that is assigned to a convenience key.
  • Page 208: Troubleshooting: Keyboard

    User Guide Keyboard 3. Select the Key Tone checkbox. 4. Press the key > Save. Set the trackpad sensitivity You can set how the trackpad responds to your touch. A high sensitivity level requires less pressure than a lower sensitivity level.
  • Page 209: Language

    When you set a typing input language, Word Substitution and other typing options change to the selected language. Add a display language You can use the BlackBerry Desktop Software to add a display language to your BlackBerry smartphone. To download the BlackBerry Desktop Software, from your computer, visit www.blackberry.com/desktop...
  • Page 210: Troubleshooting: Language

    For more information, contact your wireless service provider or administrator. I can't find a display language on my smartphone You can use the BlackBerry Desktop Software to add a display language to your BlackBerry smartphone. To download the BlackBerry Desktop Software, from your computer, visit www.blackberry.com/desktop...
  • Page 211: Screen Display

    • To change the brightness of the backlight for the screen, change the Backlight Brightness field. • To change the length of time that the backlight stays on when you're not touching your BlackBerry smartphone, change the Backlight Timeout field.
  • Page 212: Move An Application Icon

    User Guide Screen display You can reorder application icons to change which icons appear first on the Home screen. You can also create and delete folders, change the folder icon style for folders that you create, and move application icons into folders and out of folders. You can also select which panels appear on the Home screen by selecting Manage Panels from the Home screen menu.
  • Page 213: Turn On Flashing Led Notification For Wireless Coverage

    About themes Depending on your wireless service provider, you might be able to set a theme on your BlackBerry smartphone that changes how items such as applications, indicators, words, and icons appear. Themes might be preloaded on your smartphone. You might also be able to download themes from the BlackBerry App World.
  • Page 214: Troubleshooting: Screen Display

    The screen turns off When you don't use your BlackBerry smartphone for a period of time, the screen turns off to conserve battery power. You can change the length of time that the backlight stays on when you aren't touching your smartphone.
  • Page 215: Gps Technology

    To turn off GPS technology, change the Location Services field to Location Off. Set the GPS receiver that you use to track your movement To perform this task, if you don't have an internal GPS receiver, you must pair your BlackBerry smartphone with a Bluetooth enabled GPS receiver.
  • Page 216: Troubleshooting: Gps Technology

    I can't use GPS technology Depending on your wireless service provider, this feature might not be supported. If you are outdoors, move away from buildings and expose your BlackBerry smartphone to open sky. If you are indoors, move close to a window.
  • Page 217: Compass

    When "Calibration required" appears at the bottom of the screen, you should calibrate the compass manually for a more accurate compass reading. 1. On the home screen or in the Applications folder, click the Compass icon. 2. Press the key > Calibration. 3. Flip and tilt your BlackBerry smartphone until it vibrates.
  • Page 218: Troubleshooting: Compass

    I'm not receiving an accurate reading from the compass Try the following actions: • If the compass doesn't point north, move your BlackBerry smartphone away from metal or magnets. • If "Calibration required" appears at the bottom of the screen, calibrate the compass manually.
  • Page 219: Maps

    Zoom in to or out from a map To zoom in to or out from a map, your BlackBerry smartphone must be in zoom mode and not pan mode. The mode that your smartphone is in is displayed at the top of the map.
  • Page 220 User Guide Maps View an address on a map using a link When your BlackBerry smartphone recognizes an address in certain applications, such as instant messaging applications or the MemoPad, your smartphone underlines the address. 1. Highlight an underlined address.
  • Page 221: Get Directions

    3. Do one of the following to specify a starting location: • To specify your current location, if your BlackBerry smartphone has an internal GPS receiver or is paired with a Bluetooth enabled GPS receiver, set the Start field to My Location.
  • Page 222: Set The Gps Receiver That You Use To Track Your Movement

    > Clear Map. Set the GPS receiver that you use to track your movement To perform this task, if you don't have an internal GPS receiver, you must pair your BlackBerry smartphone with a Bluetooth enabled GPS receiver. 1. On the Home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon.
  • Page 223: Troubleshooting: Maps

    Troubleshooting: Maps Some features aren't available on my smartphone The availability of certain features on your BlackBerry smartphone might be affected by items such as your smartphone model and wireless service plan. Depending on your messaging service plan, some features or options might not be available in the message options on the...
  • Page 224 Maps If your email account uses a BlackBerry Enterprise Server, your organization might not have set up some features or might prevent you from using some features or options. If your administrator has set an option for you, a lock indicator appears beside the option field.
  • Page 225: About Multitasking

    Keep an application running in the background and switch to another application, 224 Create a BlackBerry ID When you create a BlackBerry ID, you can use any email address for your BlackBerry ID; you do not have to use an email address that you have added to your BlackBerry smartphone.
  • Page 226: View Properties For An Application

    Close an app so that it is not running in the background To optimize the performance of your BlackBerry smartphone, try to close apps when you are finished with them. 1. To see which applications are running, press and hold the key until the application switcher appears.
  • Page 227: Delete An Application

    Verify that your smartphone has enough storage space to add or update the app. I deleted an app that I want back If you delete an app that you downloaded, you might be able to restore the app to your BlackBerry smartphone. Try one of the following: •...
  • Page 228 • If the error message still appears after you reset your smartphone, reload your Error 106: Graphics system error BlackBerry Device Software. The reload process deletes your smartphone data. Error 205: Security service error Error 502: Process terminated error Error 503: Data corruption issue...
  • Page 229 Before you reload the BlackBerry Device Software, download and install the latest version of the BlackBerry Desktop Software. You may need to reload the BlackBerry Device Software to resolve a technical issue. It might take up to an hour to reload the BlackBerry Device Software.
  • Page 230 • To encrypt your backup data, click Encrypt backup file. • If you want to receive an email when an updated version of the BlackBerry Device Software is available, select the Email me when new versions are available checkbox.
  • Page 231: Blackberry Device Software

    Update the BlackBerry Device Software from a website If your email account uses a BlackBerry Enterprise Server you might not be able to perform this task. Check with your administrator for BlackBerry Device Software updates that have been approved for use in your organization.
  • Page 232: Update The Blackberry Device Software Over The Wireless Network

    Update the BlackBerry Device Software over the wireless network You can use your BlackBerry smartphone when you download the BlackBerry Device Software but not while you install the software. During the installation process, your smartphone might reset or display a white screen. If encryption is turned on, you might need to type your password at various times during the installation process.
  • Page 233: Delete The Previous Version Of The Blackberry Device Software

    Depending on the options that your wireless service provider or administrator sets, you might not be able to perform this task. If a BlackBerry Device Software update is optional, you can hide the update on the Software Updates screen and hide the Software Update icon.
  • Page 234: Troubleshooting: Blackberry Device Software

    Try to update your BlackBerry Device Software over the wireless network at a later time. Depending on your wireless service provider, you might not be able to update your BlackBerry Device Software at certain times of the day, when there is a greater volume of network traffic.
  • Page 235: Manage Connections

    Manage Connections at a glance Check what wireless networks your smartphone connects to You can check the types of networks your BlackBerry smartphone can connect to on your smartphone, as well as by visiting www.blackberry.com/go/devices to see feature specifications for your smartphone model. The types of networks listed do not reflect network connections, only the ability of your smartphone model to connect to those networks.
  • Page 236: Check The Status Of Network Connections And Services

    For more information about roaming and roaming fees, contact your wireless service provider. Switch wireless networks manually To perform this task, your wireless service plan must include this service and your BlackBerry smartphone must be connected to a GSM or UMTS network.
  • Page 237: Turn On Or Turn Off Data Service Or Set Roaming Options

    Your wireless service provider might have agreements with other wireless service providers that permit you to use their services when you are traveling. You can use the preferred wireless network list to control the order in which your BlackBerry smartphone uses these other wireless networks.
  • Page 238: Add A Wireless Network To The Preferred Wireless Network List

    Manage Connections Add a wireless network to the preferred wireless network list To perform this task, your BlackBerry smartphone must be connected to a GSM or UMTS network. Depending on your wireless service plan, this feature might not be supported.
  • Page 239: Change The Connection Speed For The Wireless Network

    3. Select the LED Coverage Indicator checkbox. 4. Press the key > Save. When your BlackBerry smartphone is connected to the wireless network, the LED light flashes green. To turn off the wireless coverage notification, clear the LED Coverage Indicator checkbox. Wireless coverage indicators Indicators in the upper-right corner of the Home screen display the wireless coverage level for the area in which you are using your BlackBerry smartphone.
  • Page 240 Try the following actions: • If your BlackBerry smartphone uses a SIM card, verify that your SIM card is inserted in your smartphone correctly. • If your smartphone normally connects to a CDMA network and your smartphone supports international roaming, verify that your smartphone is in global roaming mode and that your SIM card is inserted in your smartphone correctly.
  • Page 241: Wi-Fi Technology

    How to: Wi-Fi technology Check what wireless networks your smartphone connects to You can check the types of networks your BlackBerry smartphone can connect to on your smartphone, as well as by visiting www.blackberry.com/go/devices to see feature specifications for your smartphone model. The types of networks listed do not reflect network connections, only the ability of your smartphone model to connect to those networks.
  • Page 242 About connecting to a Wi-Fi network With Wi-Fi technology, your BlackBerry smartphone can access the Internet by connecting to a wireless router or wireless access point at your home, work, or in a hotspot area. Your smartphone uses the Wi-Fi network instead of the mobile network to visit webpages, send and receive email messages, and so on.
  • Page 243: Prevent Your Smartphone From Connecting To A Saved Wi-Fi Network

    • To change options for the saved network, click Edit. Change the options. Click Save. • To move the saved network and change the order that your BlackBerry smartphone tries to connect to your saved networks, click Move. Click a new location.
  • Page 244 Turn on or turn off the prompt that appears for hotspots By default, your BlackBerry smartphone prompts you if you're within range of a saved Wi-Fi network that appears to be a hotspot. If you turn off these prompts, you can turn them on again.
  • Page 245 User Guide Manage Connections Option Description Domain suffix Type the domain that your smartphone uses to resolve host names into IP addresses. WEP options These options appear if you choose the WEP security type. Option Description Select WEP key Set the type of WEP key for the Wi-Fi network. WEP key Type the WEP key for the Wi-Fi network in hexadecimal format.
  • Page 246: Uma Connection Settings

    Install a root certificate on your smartphone You might not be able to connect to some Wi-Fi networks until you install a root certificate on your BlackBerry smartphone. You can install the root certificate on your computer, and then use the BlackBerry Desktop Software to synchronize the root certificate between your smartphone and your computer.
  • Page 247: Wireless Coverage Indicators

    About using Wi-Fi with VPN and software tokens If you have a Wi-Fi enabled BlackBerry smartphone and if your organization uses a VPN to control access to its network, you might be able to log in to the VPN and access your organization's network using a Wi-Fi network. If you have a Wi-Fi enabled smartphone, you might also need a software token to connect to your organization's network using a Wi-Fi network.
  • Page 248 You are in an area of no wireless coverage. The connection to the mobile network is turned off. You are connected to a Wi-Fi network and you can access BlackBerry services such as email messaging and Internet browsing over the Wi-Fi connection.
  • Page 249 If your wireless service provider supports Wi-Fi calling, verify that your connection preference isn't set to Mobile Network Only. • If your email account uses a BlackBerry Enterprise Server, your smartphone might prevent you from connecting to certain wireless access points. For more information, contact your administrator. •...
  • Page 250: Bluetooth Technology

    (a typical range is approximately 10 meters). For best results, keep your BlackBerry smartphone within direct line of sight of the Bluetooth enabled device. For example, if your BlackBerry smartphone is on the right side of your body, wear a Bluetooth enabled headset in your right ear.
  • Page 251: Connect To Or Disconnect From A Paired Bluetooth Enabled Device

    Your BlackBerry smartphone might attempt to connect to a Bluetooth enabled device automatically when Bluetooth technology is turned on and the devices are within range. Your BlackBerry smartphone will usually stay connected to a paired Bluetooth enabled device, such as a car kit or headset, until you disconnect the devices.
  • Page 252 The type of file that you're trying to send, the email account that you use, and the applications that you have installed on your BlackBerry smartphone determine the method you can use to send a file. You can select and send multiple picture files at one time.
  • Page 253: Bluetooth Technology Options

    Delete a paired Bluetooth enabled device To perform this task, you must first disconnect your BlackBerry smartphone from the Bluetooth enabled device. 1. On the Home screen, click the connections area at the top of the screen, or click the Manage Connections icon.
  • Page 254: Turn Off A Bluetooth Profile

    If your BlackBerry smartphone uses a SIM card, this profile allows you to use a Bluetooth enabled car kit to control the SIM card on your BlackBerry smartphone so that you can make and receive calls using the car kit. When you use this feature, data services (browser service, email messaging, PIN messaging, and MMS messaging) are not available on your smartphone, and phone services are accessible only through the car kit.
  • Page 255: Restrict Outgoing Calls

    4. Change the Contacts Transfer field. 5. Press the key > Save. To allow your BlackBerry smartphone to make contacts available to other Bluetooth enabled devices again, change the Contacts Transfer field to All. Restrict outgoing calls 1. On the Home screen, click the connections area at the top of the screen, or click the Manage Connections icon.
  • Page 256: Troubleshooting: Bluetooth Technology

    > Save. Turn off automatic reconnection to Bluetooth enabled devices By default, when you turn on your BlackBerry smartphone, your smartphone attempts to connect to the last Bluetooth enabled device that you used. 1. On the Home screen, click the connections area at the top of the screen, or click the Manage Connections icon.
  • Page 257: I Lose My Connection With A Bluetooth Enabled Car Kit

    • Move your BlackBerry smartphone to another location in your vehicle or turn your smartphone to face another direction. The location of your BlackBerry smartphone's Bluetooth antenna in relation to your car kit's Bluetooth antenna may affect...
  • Page 258: I Can't Share Contacts With A Paired Bluetooth Enabled Device

    Verify that, in the Bluetooth options, the Contacts Transfer field is not set to Disabled. • Verify that your BlackBerry smartphone is connected to a Bluetooth enabled device that supports the Handsfree profile or the Object Push profile. For more information about supported profiles, see the documentation that came with the Bluetooth enabled device.
  • Page 259: Nfc Technology

    Do one of the following: • To connect to a smart accessory, tap the smart tag reader on the back of your BlackBerry smartphone against the smart accessory. If necessary, click Pair with Bluetooth. If necessary, enter your smartphone password.
  • Page 260: Smart Tags

    Organizations might add smart tags to items such as posters, flyers, or t-shirts. When you tap the smart tag reader on the back of your BlackBerry smartphone against a smart tag, your smartphone views the smart tag and presents you with the options to view or delete the smart tag.
  • Page 261 1. In the Applications folder, click the Smart Tags icon. 2. Click a smart tag. 3. Tap the smart tag reader of an NFC-enabled device against the smart tag reader on the back of your BlackBerry smartphone Copy smart tag data from your smartphone to a writable smart tag You can copy the data of a smart tag that you created to a writable smart tag.
  • Page 262: Troubleshooting: Nfc Technology

    • If you are trying to make a payment transaction using NFC technology and your BlackBerry smartphone's backlight is off or your smartphone is off, verify that your smartphone is set to allow NFC payment transactions when the backlight is off or the smartphone is off.
  • Page 263: Smart Accessories

    About the Smart Accessories application You can change how your BlackBerry smartphone functions when you connect it to a dock, charger, or charging pod by creating a dock profile to identify the dock or charger in the Smart Accessories application. For example, you might be able to identify a dock as a bedside dock so that when you connect your smartphone, your smartphone's sound profile turns off, and your smartphone's alarm clock turns on.
  • Page 264: Delete A Saved Dock Profile

    User Guide Smart accessories 3. Click a dock profile. 4. Change the dock settings. 5. Press the key > Save. Delete a saved dock profile 1. On the home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon. 2. Click Device > Smart Accessories. 3.
  • Page 265: Power And Battery

    Set your smartphone to turn on and turn off automatically You can set your BlackBerry smartphone to turn off while you aren't using it for an extended period, like when you sleep. Data you receive when the smartphone is turned off automatically updates when the smartphone turns on.
  • Page 266 Manage Connections icon. Click a network connection to clear the checkbox. If your BlackBerry smartphone supports Wi-Fi, use Wi-Fi when On the home screen, click the connections area at the top of you're in an area with reduced wireless coverage.
  • Page 267: Storage Space And Media Cards

    Turn on or turn off media card support When you turn off media card support, your BlackBerry smartphone can't access the files that are on your media card. This might be useful if you want to make sure that your files are saved to your smartphone's built-in media storage rather than your media card.
  • Page 268 Restore smartphone data from your media card, 266 Restore smartphone data from your media card If you have backed up your BlackBerry smartphone data to your media card, you should be able to restore the data to your smartphone. 1. On the home screen, click the Setup icon.
  • Page 269: About Compression

    About file encryption File encryption is designed to protect files that you store on your BlackBerry smartphone and on a media card that can be inserted in your smartphone. You can encrypt the files on your smartphone and on your media card using an encryption key that your smartphone generates, your smartphone password, or both.
  • Page 270: Tips: Storage Space And Media Cards

    Tips: Storage space and media cards Tips: Freeing space for your music, pictures, videos, and files You can store files in the built-in media storage on your BlackBerry smartphone or on a media card. Check how much storage is used by media files and On the home screen, click the Media icon.
  • Page 271: Troubleshooting: Storage Space And Media Cards

    The application storage on my smartphone is low When the application storage available on your BlackBerry smartphone is low, your smartphone displays a dialog box that lists applications and languages that you don't use frequently. You can delete applications and languages in this list.
  • Page 272: Search

    Search for an item using voice enabled search Voice enabled search might not be available in all languages. To complete this task, your BlackBerry smartphone must be connected to the wireless network. On the home screen, click the icon.
  • Page 273: Search For Messages

    Search for messages You can search for messages on your BlackBerry smartphone. You might also be able to search for messages in the email application on your computer or in another associated email account if your email account uses the BlackBerry Internet Service or a BlackBerry Enterprise Server that supports this feature.
  • Page 274: Do More With Your Message Search Results

    User Guide Search Field Description Service If your smartphone is associated with more than one email address, change the email account that your smartphone should search in for messages. Not all email accounts support this feature. Folder Change the folder that your smartphone should search in for messages.
  • Page 275: Troubleshooting: Search

    > Find Next or Find Next on Page. Search for a contact You can search for contacts in your contact list or, if your email account uses a BlackBerry Enterprise Server, you might also be able to search for contacts in your organization's contact list.
  • Page 276: Sim Card

    User Guide SIM card SIM card Depending on your wireless service provider and wireless network, your BlackBerry smartphone might not use a SIM card. How to: SIM card Add a contact to your SIM card 1. In the contact list, press the key >...
  • Page 277 Depending on your wireless service provider and wireless network, this feature might not be supported. If your BlackBerry smartphone uses a SIM card and you set your SIM card to store text messages, your text messages still appear in the Messages application.
  • Page 278: Change The Display Name For A Phone Number

    About SIM card security You can protect your SIM card with a PIN code to add another level of security to your BlackBerry smartphone. If you lock your SIM card with a PIN code, other people cannot use their SIM card in your smartphone. Before you can use your SIM card in another device, you must type the PIN code.
  • Page 279: Security

    If your smartphone uses a BlackBerry Enterprise Server, depending on the IT policies that have been set by your administrator, data on your media card might be deleted as well.
  • Page 280 4. Press the key > Save. Delete smartphone data, third-party applications, or media card files Before you delete your BlackBerry smartphone data or media card files, consider backing up these items so that you have a copy on your computer.
  • Page 281: Password Keeper

    4. Click Wipe Data. If you're preparing your smartphone for resale and you have an email account that uses the BlackBerry Internet Service, to prevent messages from this account from being sent to your smartphone, contact your wireless service provider to disassociate the account from your smartphone.
  • Page 282 User Guide Security Copy a password 1. On the Home screen or in the Applications folder, click the Password Keeper icon. 2. Highlight a password. 3. Press the key > Copy Username or Copy Password. To clear the clipboard, press the key >...
  • Page 283: About File Encryption

    About file encryption File encryption is designed to protect files that you store on your BlackBerry smartphone and on a media card that can be inserted in your smartphone. You can encrypt the files on your smartphone and on your media card using an encryption key that your smartphone generates, your smartphone password, or both.
  • Page 284: About Encryption Keys

    Set encryption strength If encryption of data that is stored on your BlackBerry smartphone is turned on, you can set the strength of the encryption that your smartphone uses to protect data that you receive when your smartphone is locked with a password.
  • Page 285: Memory Cleaning

    1. On the home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon. 2. Click Security > Advanced Security Settings > Memory Cleaning. • To prevent your BlackBerry smartphone from deleting sensitive data when you insert your smartphone in a holster, clear the Clean When Holstered checkbox.
  • Page 286: Certificate Basics

    I can't download a certificate, 308 About certificate enrollment If your work email account uses a BlackBerry Enterprise Server that supports this feature, you can download certificates over the wireless network using a certification authority profile provided by your administrator. Depending on your organization, enrollment for a certificate might be required and might also occur automatically.
  • Page 287 Install a root certificate on your smartphone You might not be able to connect to some Wi-Fi networks until you install a root certificate on your BlackBerry smartphone. You can install the root certificate on your computer, and then use the BlackBerry Desktop Software to synchronize the root certificate between your smartphone and your computer.
  • Page 288 (the certificate itself is trusted), implicitly trusted (the root certificate in the certificate chain is trusted on your BlackBerry smartphone), or not trusted (the certificate isn't explicitly trusted and the root certificate in the certificate chain isn't trusted or doesn't exist on your smartphone).
  • Page 289: Delete A Certificate

    > Show All Certificates. Send a certificate When you send a certificate, your BlackBerry smartphone sends the public key, but doesn't send the corresponding private key. 1. On the Home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon.
  • Page 290 Security Indicator Description The certificate has a corresponding private key that is stored on your BlackBerry smartphone or a smart card. The certificate chain is trusted and valid, and the revocation status of the certificate chain is good. The revocation status of the certificate chain is unknown, or a public key for a certificate in the certificate chain is weak.
  • Page 291: Certificate Options

    • To trust the highlighted certificate and all the other certificates in the chain, click Entire Chain. Revoke a certificate If you revoke a certificate, the certificate is revoked only in the key store on your BlackBerry smartphone. Your smartphone doesn't update the revocation status on the certificate authority or CRL servers.
  • Page 292 6. Press the key > Save. When you add a certificate, your BlackBerry smartphone uses the certificate subject as the name for the certificate. Turn off the fetch status prompt that appears when you add a certificate to the key store 1.
  • Page 293: Pgp Keys

    About PGP keys If your work email account uses a BlackBerry Enterprise Server that supports this feature, you can download PGP keys over the wireless network from a certificate server provided by your administrator. Depending on your organization, enrollment with the PGP Universal Server might be required and might also occur automatically.
  • Page 294 PGP key itself is trusted), implicitly trusted (the PGP key is associated with a private key on your BlackBerry smartphone), or not trusted (the PGP key isn't explicitly trusted and isn't associated with a trusted PGP key on your smartphone, and a chain of digital signatures to a trusted key doesn't exist).
  • Page 295 This field displays the PGP key fingerprint in hexadecimal format. Send a PGP key When you send a PGP key, your BlackBerry smartphone sends the public key, but doesn't send the corresponding private key. 1. On the Home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon.
  • Page 296 > Trust or Distrust. Revoke a PGP key If you revoke a PGP key, the PGP key is revoked only in the key store on your BlackBerry smartphone. Your smartphone doesn't update the revocation status on the PGP Universal Server.
  • Page 297: Certificate Servers

    6. Press the key > Save. When you add a PGP key, your BlackBerry smartphone uses the name that the PGP Universal Server set for the key when it generated the key. Turn off the fetch status prompt that appears when you add a PGP key to the key store 1.
  • Page 298: Change Connection Information For A Certificate Server

    Authentication Type Specify whether you must log in to the server. Connection Type Specify whether your BlackBerry smartphone uses an SSL connection or a TLS connection to connect to the server. Send connection information for a certificate server 1. On the Home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon.
  • Page 299: Delete A Certificate Server

    > Change Key Store Password. Synchronize the key store password with the smartphone password If you synchronize the key store password with your BlackBerry smartphone password, when you change your smartphone password, the key store password changes to match it automatically.
  • Page 300: Change The Refresh Rate For Certificate Revocation Lists

    Add contacts automatically when you add certificates or PGP keys to the key store You can set your BlackBerry smartphone to add a contact to your contact list using information from a certificate or PGP key in your key store. For example, if you add a coworker's public certificate to your key store, your smartphone can automatically create a contact entry with that person's name, organization, phone number, and address.
  • Page 301: Reject Certificate Revocation Lists From Unverified Crl Servers

    Smart cards store certificates and private keys. You can use a smart card reader to import certificates from a smart card to the key store on your BlackBerry smartphone, but you can't import private keys. As a result, private key operations such as signing and decryption use the smart card, and public key operations such as verification and encryption use the public certificates on your smartphone.
  • Page 302: Import A Certificate From A Smart Card

    Turn off smart password entry To perform this task, you must be using a smart card and a password to unlock your BlackBerry® smartphone. You can turn off smart password entry to reduce the chance that someone might guess your smartphone password or smart card password based on the smart password filter that your smartphone applies to password fields.
  • Page 303 Use a certificate to authenticate your smart card To perform this task, you must be using a smart card and a password to unlock your BlackBerry® smartphone. If you use a certificate to authenticate your smart card, the certificate authenticates your smart card whenever you use your smart card to unlock your smartphone.
  • Page 304: Vpn Settings

    Check the status of your authentication certificate automatically To perform this task, you must be using a smart card and a password to unlock your BlackBerry® smartphone. 1. On the Home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon.
  • Page 305: Verify Security Software Manually

    About software tokens You might need a software token to log in to a VPN. A software token includes a token code that your BlackBerry smartphone regenerates periodically and a PIN. If you use a software token to log in to a VPN, the software token must be on your smartphone and the software token information that appears in the VPN profile must be correct.
  • Page 306 About permissions and trust status for third-party applications You or your administrator can set permissions that control how third-party applications on your BlackBerry smartphone interact with the other applications on your smartphone. For example, you can control whether third-party applications can access data or the Internet, make calls, or track your location.
  • Page 307: Turn Off A Prompt For A Third-Party Application Connection

    About direct Internet connections for third-party applications Some third-party applications that you add to your BlackBerry® smartphone might require a direct TCP or HTTP connection to the Internet. For example, a stock price application might need to connect to the Internet to retrieve the latest stock prices.
  • Page 308 Description Cross Application Communication Specify whether third-party applications can communicate and share data with other applications on your BlackBerry smartphone. Device Settings Specify whether third-party applications can turn on or turn off your smartphone or change smartphone options, such as display options.
  • Page 309 Connection permissions for third-party applications Permission Description Set whether third-party applications can use physical connections, such as a USB cable or RS-232 cable, that you have set up for your BlackBerry smartphone. Bluetooth Set whether third-party applications can use Bluetooth connections. Phone Set whether third-party applications can make calls or access call logs.
  • Page 310: Troubleshooting: Security

    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.
  • Page 311 Verify that your organization permits you to download PGP keys from an LDAP-enabled server. For more information, contact your administrator. • If you changed the connection type that your BlackBerry smartphone uses to connect to an LDAP-enabled server, try using the default connection type.
  • Page 312: Service Books And Diagnostic Reports

    Service books and diagnostic reports Accept, delete, or restore a service book Your wireless service provider or administrator might send a service book to your BlackBerry smartphone over the wireless network to add an additional service or application to your smartphone.
  • Page 313: Set A Default Recipient For Diagnostic Reports

    Set a default recipient for diagnostic reports If you set the default recipient, each time that you submit a diagnostic report, your BlackBerry smartphone sends the report to that recipient. If you want to specify a recipient each time that you submit a report, don't set the default recipient.
  • Page 314: Synchronization

    If wireless data synchronization isn't available on your smartphone or if you turned off this feature, you can use the BlackBerry Desktop Software to synchronize your organizer data. For more information, see the Help in the BlackBerry Desktop Software.
  • Page 315 3. Select the Wireless Synchronization checkbox. 4. Press the key > Save. If you use the BlackBerry Internet Service, you must use the BlackBerry Desktop Software to synchronize calendar data. For more information, see the Help in the BlackBerry Desktop Software. Related information...
  • Page 316: Troubleshooting: Synchronization

    About backing up and restoring smartphone data If you have installed the BlackBerry Desktop Software on your computer, you can back up and restore most of your BlackBerry smartphone data, including messages, organizer data, fonts, saved searches, and browser bookmarks using the BlackBerry Desktop Software.
  • Page 317 You can only synchronize the data in a custom contact list field with a text field in the email application on your computer. For example, you can't add a contact's birthday to a custom contact list field on your BlackBerry smartphone and synchronize it with the email application on your computer, because the birthday field is a date field in the email application on your computer.
  • Page 318: Accessibility Options

    Turn on or turn off event sounds Event sounds alert you when you turn on or turn off your BlackBerry smartphone, when the battery power level is full or low, and when you connect or disconnect a USB cable or accessory to or from your smartphone.
  • Page 319: Tty Support

    About TTY support When you turn on TTY support and you connect your BlackBerry smartphone to a TTY device that operates at 45.45 bits per second, you can make calls to and receive calls from TTY devices. Your smartphone is designed to convert received calls to text that you can read on your TTY device.
  • Page 320: Voice Dialing

    You can dial extensions only within your company. "Check my phone number" If you have multiple phone numbers associated with your BlackBerry smartphone, say this voice command to check your active phone number. "Check signal strength"...
  • Page 321: Typing Accessibility Options

    • To ignore the suggestions, keep typing. Change your typing style You can change how your BlackBerry smartphone recognizes what you type by selecting a typing style. 1. On the Home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon.
  • Page 322: Calculator

    Use the calculator On the Home screen or in the Applications folder, click the Calculator icon. • To press a key in the calculator, click the key or press the corresponding key on the BlackBerry smartphone keyboard. Convert a measurement 1.
  • Page 323: Glossary

    Compressed Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions certificate revocation list CRL server A BlackBerry smartphone uses a CRL server to check the most recently published revocation status of a certificate. Certificate authorities publish certificate revocation lists on CRL servers. Domain Name System...
  • Page 324 IMSI International Mobile Subscriber Identity Internet Protocol IT policy An IT policy consists of various IT policy rules that control the security features and behavior of BlackBerry smartphones, BlackBerry PlayBook tablets, the BlackBerry Desktop Software, and the BlackBerryWeb Desktop Manager.
  • Page 325 LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP-enabled server A BlackBerry smartphone uses an LDAP-enabled server to search for and download certificates and PGP keys. light-emitting diode mass storage mode Mass storage mode enables users to transfer files between a media card and their computer when they connect their BlackBerry smartphone to their computer.
  • Page 326 A public key is a key that people other than the certificate subject can use. BlackBerry smartphones use public keys to encrypt email messages or PIN messages that users send to certificate subjects and to verify the signature on email messages or PIN messages that users receive from certificate subjects.
  • Page 327 User Guide Glossary Transmission Control Protocol Transport Layer Security Triple DES Triple Data Encryption Standard teletype Unlicensed Mobile Access virtual private network wide area network Wireless Application Protocol Wired Equivalent Privacy Wireless Markup Language Wi-Fi Protected Access WTLS Wireless Transport Layer Security...
  • Page 328: Legal Notice

    Legal notice Legal notice ©2012 Research In Motion Limited. All rights reserved. BlackBerry®, RIM®, Research In Motion®, and related trademarks, names, and logos are the property of Research In Motion Limited and are registered and/or used in the U.S. and countries around the world.
  • Page 329 Some airtime service providers might not offer Internet browsing functionality with a subscription to the BlackBerry® Internet Service. Check with your service provider for availability, roaming arrangements, service plans and features. Installation or use of Third Party Products and Services with RIM's products and services may require one or more patent, trademark, copyright, or other licenses in order to avoid infringement or violation of third party rights.
  • Page 330 RIM. Certain features outlined in this documentation require a minimum version of BlackBerry® Enterprise Server, BlackBerry® Desktop Software, and/or BlackBerry® Device Software.
  • Page 331 NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. BlackBerry Bold 9790 smartphone model number: REC71UW or RED71UW This is a Wi-Fi enabled device subject to restrictions of use in some member states of the European Community.
  • Page 332 User Guide Legal notice Waterloo, ON N2L 3W8 Canada Research In Motion UK Limited 200 Bath Road Slough, Berkshire SL1 3XE United Kingdom Published in Canada...

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