Use shortcut key to reboot your BlackBerry

Most experienced BlackBerry user knows that BlackBerry need occasionally reboot to solve performance problems, refresh memory or fix other minor issues. One way to do it is remove the battery and insert back. There is another way is via third party BlackBerry apps call “Quickpull”. (Pls refer to my previous post)

Here to share the easiest way to reboot via BlackBerry keyboard shortcut. To reboot, simply hit ALT, RIGHT SHIFT and DEL.

After pressing these three keys together, your device powers down, your LED indicator turns red for a few seconds and the reboot process perform as normal.

Note: Applicable for Curve & Bold. (Storm is not supported)

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Capture It - To capture your BlackBerry screenshot

Capture It is an application designed to help Blackberry users share a picture of their screen easily. It similar to “print screen” feature in Windows environment. I see many bloggers show off their new home screen or use screenshots to review applications.

Capture It allows you to take a screen shot, and save as jpeg file into memory card. If no memory card in device, then it will be saved to the device memory.
This application supports all Blackberry devices with OS 4.3 or higher.

For OTA download, please click HERE

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How to make your BlackBerry battery last longer

• Delete unwanted application to free up more memory
• Go to option > screen/keyboard, change backlight brightness to “10”
• Turn off Bluetooth if not using
• Turn off WIFI if not using
• Turn off GPS if not using
• Turn off 3G services. For normal usage, EDGE is more than enough
• Always perform memory cleaning – go to option > security options > memory cleaning, press menu button, clean now
• Turn off event log – at home screen, hold alt button, then press “GLGLG”. Press menu button > options, highlight any event log, press menu button and select “hide all types”. Save setting and quit.

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Facebook 1.7 now available for download

Official facebook 1.7 now is available to download
There is a lot of feature waiting for discovered. Here are the major changes in this release:

Caching Improvements - The application uses the device memory in more efficiency way.

View Profile Menu Option - Clients can easily view their own profile by selecting 'View my Profile' from the menu

News Feed – New feature in facebook 1.7, it can display more information compare to previous version.

Feed filter – allow to filter out those information that you need. You can toggle between 'News Feed, Status Updates, Photos & Links'


Facebook 1.7 now can display share movie link

Facabook game update from friend also can be display in your BlackBerry smartphone.

For OTA download, please click HERE

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QuickPull to reset your Blackberry smartphone

For regular Blackberry users, most of them should know that full reset Blackberry smartphone is required to pull battery out. By doing phone resetting, it will free up unnecessary memory, make your smartphone response faster and stable. It is quick hassle to pull battery out, but you have to do it after certain period of time usage.

Here to introduce QuickPull. This software will perform a phone reset or on a pre-determined schedule reset without battery pull. Quickpull is a free application, and you can download it at below OTA:

http://go.mobihand.com/?op=dlmh&pd=22989&l=1&ps=102


Schedule a reset time while you are sleeping so that you don't have to experience the slowness. BlackBerry are really taking extremely long reset time. I would say even worse than Windows. Anyway like me, I set it to reboot at 4am automatically.

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How to configure email into Blackberry smartphone

Most of people know Blackberry phone allows user to send and receive email with it’s “push email” feature. Basically, there are 2 type of services provided by service provider

Blackberry Enterprise Server
BES is mainly connect to Corporate / Organization email system such as Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino and Novell GroupWise that allow users always have access to their company email

Blackberry Internet Service
BIS is allows POP3 and IMAP email integration for the personal user. It allows up to 10 email accounts to be accessed, including many popular email clients such as Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo and AOL.

Email configuration in Blackberry phone is extremely simple. If you would like to access personal email such as Yahoo, Gmail… then you need BIS from service provider and just with below simple configuration steps.

How to setup email account on your Blackberry
Press Menu, go to Setup > E-mail setting



You need a Blackberry Account to configure email. If you don’t have, click on “Create New Account” to create one. If you already have, just login with your username and password. Once you already login, you will see below screen


Click “Add My Existing Email Account” to add new email account, below screen will appear


Assume that you would like to configure Yahoo mail into Blackberry phone, just insert your Yahoo email address then follow with the password that use to login to Yahoo mail.

That’s all for the configuration step. Now you are ready to send and receive Yahoo mail. And you can see a new icon added into Blackberry menu.



See also:
BlackBerry Email Account Type
Blackberry Swiss Army Knife Tool (BBSAK)
How to sync BlackBerry contact to Outlook
How to upgrade BlackBerry OS
Enable vibrate while ringing in Blackberry with BeBuzz free

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Check if your Blackberry unlocked

Go to: Options -> Advanced Options -> SIM CARD -> Then type: MEPD
Your phone will shows

Note: Each value should status “Disable”. If you see any “Active” value, probably this phone is locked by provider.

To unlock the phone, type: MEP alt + E
The phone will show up dialog screen for you to insert 13 digits unlock code. Once you insert correctly, phone will become unlocked permanently.
The 13 digits unlock code is vary from phone to phone; it’s depend on phone IMEI. To obtain the unlock code, you should contact your service provider.

See also:
BlackBerry Email Account Type
Blackberry Swiss Army Knife Tool (BBSAK)
How to sync BlackBerry contact to Outlook
How to upgrade BlackBerry OS
Enable vibrate while ringing in Blackberry with BeBuzz free
How To Backup Blackberry 3rd Party Application

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