User Guide

Organizer data

Organizer data

About synchronizing your organizer data

You can synchronize your organizer data between your BlackBerry smartphone and your computer to keep the data the same in both locations. When you make changes, you can synchronize data again to keep your data up-to-date.

If wireless synchronization is not available for your smartphone, or you have turned it off, you can synchronize your organizer data using the BlackBerry Desktop Software instead of over the wireless network. You can turn off wireless synchronization for each organizer application on your smartphone. This feature isn't available for the BlackBerry® PlayBooktablet.

Organizer data includes your calendar entries, contacts, tasks, and memos. You can set options for each type of data, such as the application that you use on your computer for your organizer data and how you want to synchronize your data.

Prerequisites: Organizer data synchronization

To synchronize organizer data, verify that you have configured options for your calendar, contacts, tasks, or memos in the BlackBerry Desktop Software.

If wireless data synchronization is available for your BlackBerry smartphone, but you want to synchronize your organizer data using the BlackBerry Desktop Software, verify that wireless synchronization is turned off on your smartphone. For more information about wireless synchronization, click Help on your smartphone.

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7.1 specifications

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