Memory cleaning is designed to delete sensitive data from the temporary memory on your BlackBerry Bold 9000 series device such as the cache for the browser, unencrypted data from email messages, LDAP authentication passwords, and the clipboard (copy & paste). To enable this feature, follow these steps:

1. From the Home screen, go to Options.

2. Select Security Options.

3. Select Memory Cleaning.

4. Change Status to Enabled.

If you like, you can change Show Icon on Home Screen field to Yes and use the feature that way. This way , you’ll have a Memory Cleaner icon on your Home screen that will show you what data is being deleted.

5. Press Menu.

6. Select Save.

If your BlackBerry Bold 9000 series device is frozen or not responding, you will probably want to reset the unit. Here are the different types of resets that can be perfomed in the order they should be tried.

Soft Reset
Press ALT + RIGHT SHIFT(CAP) + DELETE.

Double-Soft Reset
Press ALT + RIGHT SHIFT(CAP) + DELETE . The screen will go blank for a few seconds. When the screen comes back on, immediately press ALT + RIGHT SHIFT(CAP) + DELETE again.

Hard Reset
If none of the above works, pull the battery out of the unit for a few seconds, then reinsert it.

Do the games or applications you use not have any sound when you user them on your BlackBerry smart phone? This happens with any of the models, the Pearl, Curve, Bold, etc. Try changing this setting to fix this problem:

1. Press Menu > Options.

2. Select Advanced.

3. Select Applications.

4. Select the program that you wish to enable sound for.

5. Press the Menu button.

6. Select Edit Permissions.

7. Set Interactions to Allow.

Test it out now. Your game or application should now have sound enabled.

Q: Where can I locate the MAC Address for my BlackBerry Bold smartphone?

A: 1. At the Home screen, press the Menu key.

2. Click Options.

3. Click Status.

You should be able to view WLAN MAC address on this screen.

How to change the ringtone on your BlackBerry Bold 9000 series device.

1. From the Home screen, select Profiles.

2. Click Advanced.

3. Highlight a notification profile.

4. Press Menu.

5. Click Show Tunes.

6. Click a media folder ringtones.

7. Select a ringtone.

8. Press Menu > Set As Phone Tune.

Add words to the BlackBerry Bold 9000 series dictionary.

1. Open Options and select Custom Dictionary.

2. Press the Menu key.

3. Click New.

4. Type a word.

5. Press Enter.

Bedside Clock Mode turns your BlackBerry Bold into a clock that won’t interrupt you with calls or messages while you sleep.

Enable this mode by selecting Menu > Enable Bedside Mode in the Clock application.

To turn off bedside clock mode, press Escape.

You can access the settings for Bedside mode by selecting Menu > Options and changing settings under the Bedside Mode section.

Keep your BlackBerry Bold 9000 series device clean of old email messages. From time to time you may need to delete more than one email message at a time. Here’s how:

1. Highlight a message.

2. Hold down the Alt key.

3. Roll the trackball up or down to highlight multiple messages.

4. Release the Alt key.

5. Press Menu.

6. Click Delete Messages.

You can also purge messages that are prior to a certain date.

1. Highlight a date field.

2. Press Menu.

3. Click Delete Prior.

4. Click Delete.

On your BlackBerry Bold 9000 series smartphone, a Bcc or blind carbon copy field is kind of hidden. To add a Bcc to any email, PIN, or MMS message, follow the steps below:

1. While writing the message, press Menu.

2. Click Add Bcc.

‘Airplane mode’ on certain devices refers to the ability to turn off anything that transmits a signal. You can put your BlackBerry Bold 9000 series device in this mode with the following steps:

1. On the Home Menu click Manage Connections.

2. Click Turn All Connections Off.

Now all communication on the device is disabled.

Don’t want your BlackBerry Bold 9000 series smartphone to answer calls when you remove it from the holster anymore? There is a setting that controls this.

1. In the phone, press the Menu key.

2. Click Options.

3. Click General Options.

4. Change Auto Answer Calls to Out Of Holster or Never.

5. Press Menu.

6. Click Save.

So you have an incoming call and you are already on a call. You fumble around trying to answer the call, but how do you answer the incoming call on your BlackBerry Bold 9000 series without disconnecting the first call?

1. When the call comes in, press Menu.

2. Select  Answer - Hold Current.

Now you might want to swap back to the other call when you get done with the second caller. You can do this by pressing Menu > Swap.

How to manually forward a call on your BlackBerry Bold 9000 series smartphone.

1. Press Menu on your phone.

2. Click Options.

3. Click Call Forwarding.

4. Press Menu.

5. Select a call forwarding number.

6. Press the Menu key.

7. Click Save.

Are you annoyed by the Confirm delete prompt that appears when you delete messages, tasks and almost anything on your BlackBerry Bold 9000 series device? Here’s how to disable it.

1. In an application, press Menu.

2. Click Options.

3. Click General Options (may not be an option in some apps).

4. Change the Confirm Delete to No.

5. Press Menu.

6. Click Save.

Now when you delete an item in that application, you will no longer be prompted to delete the item.

Want the image of your callers to appear when they call you on your BlackBerry Bold 9000 series? Here’s how to add a photo to a Contact.

1. Highlight a contact.

2. Press Menu.

3. Click Add Picture.

4. Highlight the picture.

5. Press Menu.

6. Click Select.

7. Center the picture how you’d like it to look.

8. Press Menu.

9. Click Crop and Save.

How to change the display name on your BlackBerry Bold 9000 device.

1. In BlackBerry Messenger, on the Contact list screen, press the Menu key.

2. Click Edit My Info.

3. Type the name you wish to change the display name to. Select OK when finished.

When somebody pings you, your BlackBerry Bold 9000 series device will vibrate. You can enable or disable this feature with the following steps.

1. In BlackBerry Messenger go to the Contact list screen.

2. Press the Menu key.

2. Click Options.

3. Change the Vibrate When Receiving a Ping field to Yes or No.

4. Press the Menu key.

5. Click Save.

Location aiding is enabled by default on your Blackberry Bold 9000 series device to enhance the GPS functionality. The only problem is that it will contact the network periodically and cost you money toward your data service charges. You can disable this feature with the following steps:

1. Under Options, click Advanced Options.

2. Click GPS.

3. Set Location Aiding to Disabled.

4. Press the Menu key.

5. Click Save.

Now Location Aiding has been disabled.

You can turn on or off the vibration alert on your BlackBerry Bold 9000 series device. The thing that controls whether or not your device vibrates is called the Notification Profile. You can switch between Notification Profiles by pressing and holding the Mute button.

How to enable Javascript on the BlackBerry Bold 9000 series browser.

1. While you are in the browser, click the trackwheel.

2. Click Options.

3. Click Browser Configuration.

4. Check the Support JavaScript box.

5. Click the trackwheel.

6. Click Save Options.