User Guide

Media

Memory and media cards

About media cards

Depending on your BlackBerry® device model, you can insert a microSD media card into your device to take videos and extend the memory that is available on your device for storing media files such as songs, ring tones, videos, or pictures. For more information about inserting a media card into your device, see the printed documentation that came with your device.

Format the device memory or a media card

If you format the BlackBerry® device memory or a media card, all the files in the device memory or on the media card are deleted.

Depending on your device model, you might not be able to format your device memory.

1.On the Home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon.

2.Click Memory.

3.Press the Menu key.

4.Click Format.

5.Complete the instructions on the screen.

View the amount of memory used by media files

1.On the Home screen, click the Media icon.

2.Press the Menu key.

3.Click Memory Use.

Supported media cards

Your BlackBerry® device supports media card sizes up to 32 GB. Only microSD media cards are supported.

Change the amount of memory available for media files

To optimize the performance of your BlackBerry® device, you can change the amount of memory that your device allocates for media files.

Depending on your BlackBerry® device model, this feature might not be supported.

1.On the Home screen, click the Media icon.

2.Press the Menu key.

3.Click Options.

4.Perform any of the following actions:

To change the maximum amount of device memory available for all media files, change the Device Memory Limit field.

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Blackberry BB9630TOUR manual Memory and media cards