Profiles

•Set profiles

•Create a notification profile

•Use notification profiles

•Manage downloaded ring tones

•Silence your handheld

•Set the alarm

•Set the alarm volume

•What is the escalating volume level?

Set profiles

Notification profiles alert you of appointment and task reminders, incoming messages, calls, and browser content. You can create a profile that specifies which sounds to use, whether to notify you when the handheld is in or out of the holster, and what volume level to use. You can use different sounds for each type of item.

The handheld has five preset notification profiles: Quiet, Loud, Vibrate, Default, and Phone Only. You can edit these default profiles, but you cannot delete them.

In the profiles list, click a notification profile. Click

Enable.

Note:

To change the current notification profile quickly, select a profile. Press the Space key.

Create a notification profile

1.In the profiles list, click the trackwheel.

2.Click New.

3.Type a name for the profile.

4.Click an item.

5.Click Edit.

6.Set how you want to be notified for that item.

7.Click the trackwheel.

8.Click Save.

9.Click the trackwheel.

10.Click Save.

Use notification profiles

Click a profile. Perform one of the following actions:

•Edit

•Delete

Manage downloaded ring tones

In the profiles list, click a profile. Click Show Tunes. Click a ring tone.

Perform one of the following actions:

•Listen to the ring tone

•Delete the ring tone

Silence your handheld

To silence your handheld, in the profiles list, enable the Quiet profile.

To receive only vibrate notification, in the profiles list, enable the Vibrate profile.

To turn notification back on, in the profiles list, select a different profile. Press the Space key.

Related topic

•Silence the alarm

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BlackBerry specifications

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