Programming The Left And Right Convenience Keys - Blackberry dummies 2 Manual

1. Press the menu key and touch-press the options icon.
2. Touch-press Screen/Keyboard.
3. Touch-press the Backlight Brightness field and then select the desired
brightness from the drop-down list.
You can choose 10 to 100, where 10 is the darkest and 100 is the brightest.
4. Touch-press the Backlight Timeout field and choose an amount of
time.
You can choose ten seconds up to two minutes. The lower this set-
ting, the less time you'll have backlighting (after you press each key).
However, a low setting helps you conserve battery life.
5. Touch-press the Tap Interval field and decide how sensitive you want
the tap to be.
You can choose 100 to 500, where 100 is the most sensitive and 500 is
the least sensitive.
6. Touch-press the Hover Period field and decide how sensitive you want
your touch on the touch screen to be.
Here, 100 is the most sensitive and 1000 is the least sensitive. Keep in
mind that if your setting is too sensitive, it might be hard to control.
When you hover your finger over an icon or link without touch-pressing
the screen, a small yellow text box appears, giving you hints at what you
can expect by touch-pressing the icon.
7. To confirm your changes, press the menu key and touch-press Save.
Programming the left and
right convenience keys
The folks at RIM have given the Storm left and right convenience keys as
a way for you to quickly get to the programs you use the most often. By
default, the left convenience key is set to open the voice dialing app, and the
right convenience key opens the Camera app.
If you want to setup your convenience keys differently, here's what you can do:
1. Press the menu key and touch-press the options icon.
2. Touch-press Screen/Keyboard.
3. Touch-press Left Side Convenience Key Opens field.
4. Touch-press an application that you want the convenience key to open.
Typically, we set these keys to open applications we often need, such as
the Browser or Task application.
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