Turn off the prompt that appears when connecting or pairing via Bluetooth on your Blackberry Storm 9500 series smartphone.
1. From the main menu press the Menu button.
2. Select Options.
3. Select Bluetooth.
4. Select a Bluetooth device.
5. Press the Menu key.
6. Select Device Properties.
7. Set the Trusted field to Yes.
8. Press the Menu key.
9. Select Save.
Turn the Bluetooth LED connection indicator light on or off on your BlackBerry Storm 9500 series smartphone.
1. From the Home screen, press Menu.
2. Select Options.
3. Select Bluetooth.
4. Press Menu.
5. Select Options.
6. Set LED Connection Indicator to On or Off as desired.
7. Press Menu.
8. Click Save.
Turn off or turn on the ability to share your BlackBerry Storm 9500 series contacts with other devices via Bluetooth connection.
1. From the main menu, press the Menu button.
2. Select Options.
3. Select Bluetooth.
4. Press Menu.
5. Select Options.
6. Change the Contacts Transfer field.
7. Press Menu.
8. Select Save.
To quickly bring up the keyboard on the BlackBerry Storm 9500 series smartphone, you don’t have to go to Menu > Show/Hide Keyboard. Did you know you can also quickly swipe your finger from the bottom to the middle of the screen to bring the keyboard up as well? To hide it, quickly swipe from the middle of the screen down.
Enable Bedside Clock Mode on your BlackBerry Curve.
What is Bedside Mode?
It makes it so that your BB won’t interrupt you with calls or messages while you sleep, are in a meeting, movie, etc.
How do I use Bedside mode?
A situation may happen where you can’t delete documents from the standard version of Documents to Go on your BlackBerry smartphone. There are no options within the software, but you can use the Media application to delete these documents.
1. Open Media.
2. Select Menu.
3. Select Explorer.
4. Select the Media Card.
5. Select Blackberry.
6. Select documents.
7. Delete the unwanted documents.
Probably the number one question I get about BlackBerry’s from people is “How can I forward my calls to a number and then an office extension?”. I thought that I could write a tutorial on this easily. So I started playing with the BlackBerry Curve and the Storm. I tried to add Call Forwarding numbers on both. Nowhere did it give me the option to add extensions. I couldn’t even add pauses, waits, pound signs(#), stars(*), or anything that would allow me to dial my office extension.
I found this very strange. I thought there had to be a solution somewhere. Unfortunately after searching for a solution for several hours, I have been unable to find a way to forward to something other than just a straight phone number. You just can’t put anything other than numbers in the phone number filelds to forward to.
Perhaps there is some type of third-party software solution I don’t know about? If anybody comes up with a solution to this, myself and fans of this web site would appreciate it if you submitted a comment or post on how this could be accomplished.
Sometimes when dialing a contact on your BlackBerry Storm 9500 series smart phone, you may need to dial a number then make it wait before it dials additional numbers. You can do this by adding a pause or wait to the phone number. Here’s how:
1. In the Contacts application, select the contact that you wish to add a pause or wait to.
2. Select Menu > Edit.
3. Scroll down to the phone number field you would like to edit.
4. Tap the part of the number you wish to add the pause or wait.
5. Select Menu.
6. Select Add Pause or Add Wait as desired.
Note: You can set how long each wait is under Phone Options > Smart Dialing.
You can switch between running applications on the BlackBerry Storm 9500 smartphone. Here’s how:
1. Press and hold the Menu button for about 2 seconds.
2. A screen appears that lists the applications running. Tap the application you wish to switch to.
Did you know that you can make the BlackBerry Storm show all of the messages in a thread? You can! Just tap and hold a message in the list and boom, the Storm will give you an easy list of email messages in the same thread.
Change the first day of the week in the Calendar application on your BlackBerry Storm 9500 series smart phone. Some may like Sunday, others may like to start the week with Monday. Here’s how to set this:
1. Open the Calendar.
2. Press Menu.
3. Select Options.
4. Select General Options.
5. Change the setting for First Day of Week.
6. Press Menu.
7. Select Save.
Add a caller ID picture to your BlackBerry Storm 9500 series contacts.
1. Highlight a contact.
2. Press Menu.
3. Tap Add Picture.
4. Highlight the picture you wish to use.
5. Press Menu.
6. Tap Select.
7. Center the picture how you’d like it to look.
8. Tap Menu.
9. Tap Crop and Save.
Turn off Ping Vibration on your BlackBerry Storm 9500 series device.
1. Open Contacts.
2. From the Contact list screen, press Menu.
3. Select Options.
4. Change Vibrate When Receiving a Ping field to No.
5. Press Menu .
6. Select Save.
If you are deleting multiple items on your BlackBerry Storm 9500 series smartphone, it can get irritating when you have to confirm the deletion on every single item. Here’s how to disable the Confirm Delete prompt.
1. Open an application.
2. Press Menu.
3. Select Options.
4. Select General Options.
5. Change the Confirm Delete to No.
6. Press Menu.
7. Select Save.
Now you will no longer be prompted to delete the item.
Q: Where can I locate the PIN, ESN and IMEI codes on my BlackBerry Storm?
A: You can find it within the software.
1. From the Home screen select Menu.
2. Select Options.
3. Select Status.
Your ESN will be located on the screen alone with the PIN and IMEI numbers.
Set how long the BlackBerry Storm 9500 series device stores messages.
1. While in a message list, press the Menu key.
2. Select Options.
3. Select General Options.
4. Set the Keep Messages field.
5. Press Menu.
6. Select Save.
Q: How do I operate the Camera functions on the BlackBerry Storm 9500 series smartphone?
A: Here are the main functions:
So you’ve downloaded a new application for your BlackBerry Bold. It’s stuck in a folder like Downloads. You want it to appear on your Main Menu so you can select it from there? Here’s how.
1. Navigate to where the file is located.
2. Scroll to the program you wish to add.
3. Select Menu > Move to Folder > Home.
It’s that simple!
You can invert or reverse the contrast of the screen on the BlackBerry Storm 9500 series device. Here’s how:
1. From the Home screen, select Menu > Options.
2. Select Advanced Options.
3. Select Accessibility.
4. Change the Color Contrast field to Reverse.
5. Press Menu.
6. Select Save.
The result will be a screen like the one below.
BB screen reversed
On the BlackBerry Storm 9500 series smart phone, you can skip music tracks or videos not only with the on screen options, but also by pressing and holding the Volume Up button on the side of the device. If you want to move to a previous song, you can use the Volume Down button. This trick is perfect for when you have your BlackBerry Storm in a pocket and don’t want to take it out to look on the screen to control your music.
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