Blackberry 9380 Tips Keeping your information safe, Shortcuts Phone, Click Security Password

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Tips: Keeping your information safe

You can take some simple steps to help prevent the information on your BlackBerry smartphone from being compromised, such as avoiding leaving your smartphone unattended.

Research In Motion recommends that you regularly create and save a backup file on your computer, especially before you update any software. Maintaining a current backup file on your computer might allow you to recover smartphone data if your smartphone is lost, stolen, or corrupted by an unforeseen issue.

Set a smartphone password.	On the home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon.
	Click Security > Password.
Encrypt contacts and files.	On the home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon.
	Click Security > Encryption.

Back up your smartphone data to your computer.

Use the BlackBerry Desktop Software to back up your smartphone data to your computer. To download the BlackBerry Desktop Software, from your computer, visit www.blackberry.com/desktop and select the appropriate option for your computer.

Back up your smartphone data to a media card.

On the home screen, click the Setup icon. In the Setup section, click Device Switch > Save Data.

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Shortcuts: Phone

Depending on the typing input language that you're using, some shortcuts might not be available.

Change your ring tone From the home screen, press the key. Press the

key > Phone Ring Tones.

Send an incoming call to voice mail when your BlackBerry	Press and hold the Volume Down key on the right side of
smartphone is inserted in a holster	your smartphone.
Set up speed dial for a contact	From the home screen, press the	key. Press and
	hold the key that you would like to assign speed dial to.
Insert a plus sign (+) when you are typing a phone number	Press and hold 0.

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