Blackberry curve 8520 ShortCuts
These BlackBerry tips, tricks and shortcuts will help you work easier, better and faster. Enjoy!
Delete Multiple Messages: Search for messages, then press Delete Prior to delete all of the messages in the results.
Navigate Your Calendar Quickly: First, enable Quick Entry, then press "D" for day, "W" for week, "M" for month and "A" for agenda.
Select Text on a Page: To highlight text, press Shift, then move the wheel up or down.
Delete by Date: Click a date and press Delete Prior to restore order to your mailbox while still retaining your most recent messages.
Permanently Delete Emails: To ensure that you're permanently deleting emails, delete them from your email client rather than using the Delete Prior feature.
Capitalize Letters: Press and hold letters down to make them capitals.
Turn Off Messages: You can choose to turn off messages by going through your security options and modifying your firewall settings.
Get Better Coverage with Your Radio: If your coverage is not doing well, try turning your radio off and on to force a network scan.
Scroll Down: Use your spacebar to scroll down a page, then press Shift and the spacebar simultaneously to move back up.
Dial Letter Numbers: Call lettered numbers like 1-800-GOOG-411 by pressing Alt, hen typing the letters.
Empty Your Phone-Call Log: Enable Call Logging, then delete items in your Phone Call Logs folder.
Insert the "@" Symbol in an Email Message. Press the spacebar to enter an "@" symbol in a message or press it twice to insert a period.
Dry Your Device with Silica Gel: If you've dropped your BlackBerry in water, dry it out with silica-gel packets, which often come in shoeboxes. This also works with silica cat litter, which is generally labeled as crystal.
Select Special Characters: Press and hold a letter key, then move the thumb wheel up or down to get the appropriate character.
Stop a Page from Loading. Press the Escape button to keep Web pages from loading.
Reboot Your BlackBerry: You can reboot your BlackBerry without pulling out your battery by pressing Alt, Caps and Delete simultaneously.
Dry Your BlackBerry with Alcohol: Another drying option that also disinfects is 100 percent alcohol. Turn your BlackBerry off, soak it in alcohol and take it apart as much as possible. The alcohol should evaporate with exposure to air.
In the Message List (Some of these work in tasks, memos, and appointments also)
Sorting:
alt:+I - show only incoming mail
alt:+O - show only outgoing mail (messages you have sent - i.e. checkmark icon)
alt:+P - show phone log messages
alt:+S - show SMS messages
alt:+V - show VoiceMail messages
T - go to top of message listing
B - go to end/bottom of message listing
del: - close message listing and return to home screen (ribbon)
space: - pagedown
cap:+:space: - pageup
Deleting multiple messages at once:
Highlight a date (i.e. Fri, Oct 05,2001) in the message list, hit the thumb-wheel and select delete prior. All messages prior to that date will be deleted.
Hold down the :cap: key and use the thumb-wheel to scroll up or down to select messages. Click the thumb-wheel and select 'Delete Messages'. Combine this with a sorting tip to make it even more useful (i.e. To delete the last 5 messages that you have sent (checkmarks), press :alt: then the letter 'O' (for outgoing) this will show all of your sent messages, then per this tip scroll down and select the last five.
Navigating:
enter: or :space: - scroll down a page/screen at a time
alt:+:enter: or :alt:+:space: - scroll back a page/screen at a time
B - scroll to end of page
T - scroll to top of page
U - jump to closest unread message
N - jump to next message
P - jump to previous message
del: - close message and return to message listing
R - reply to or answer this message
F - forward this message Select Text (OS v2.1+): Press the :cap: key and then scroll the thumb-wheel to select. If you release the :cap: key and scroll the thumb-wheel you will select entire lines. Press the :cap: key again at any time to start selecting by character again.
Hold down :alt: key + CLICK the thumb-wheel (click it don't hold it down), release the thumb-wheel and then use it to scroll whole lines. You can press and hold the :alt: key at anytime to start selecting by character again.
Click scroll wheel and select SELECT from the menu. scroll wheel to select entire line. click scroll wheel again and select copy. With either method, click the thumb-wheel and select 'Cut Selection' or 'Copy Selection'... to paste, open a new message or whatever, click the thumb-wheel, and then select 'Paste Selection'.
Press and hold a letter to capitalize it (with Key Rate enabled).
Press the :space: key twice to insert a period and capitalize the next letter.
Press the :space: key to insert the "@" and "." characters in an Email field. Backspace and type again to over-ride this like you would with AutoText.
Press and hold a letter key and roll the thumb-wheel to scroll through international/accent characters, equation symbols and other marks.
Calendar
Press T to go to "Today" in the Calendar screen.
Press G to go to a specific date in the Calendar screen.
The default date range for Calendar synchronization in Desktop Manager may not suit most people. While configuring the Calendar synchronization, click the Advanced button and specify the desired range.
General
alt:+Escape - Allows multitasking, brings up Taskbar on any screen. Similiar to Windows ALT+TAB
alt:+:cap: - Turns on CAPS lock. Hold :alt: first then press :cap: . An oval with an up arrow shows up in the upper right corner of the screen.
cap:+:alt: - Turns on NUM lock. Hold :cap: first then press :alt: . A # sign shows up in the oval in the upper right corner of the screen)
pressing Alt, Caps and h simultaneously gives information about your blackberry device.
For unlocking blackberry without pressing Mute button. Press and hold end key and when it asks for key press, press any key to unlock.
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