Blackberry P'9981 manual Synchronise organiser data over the wireless network

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Synchronise organiser data over the wireless network

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

1.In the Contacts application, Calendar application, Tasks application or MemoPad, press the key > Options.

2.If necessary, click a calendar account or contact list.

3.Select the Wireless Synchronisation check box.

4.Press the key > Save.

If you use the BlackBerry Internet Service, you must use the BlackBerry Desktop Software to synchronise calendar data. For more information, see the Help in the BlackBerry Desktop Software.

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About backing up and restoring smartphone data

If you have installed the BlackBerry Desktop Software on your computer, you can back up and restore most of your BlackBerry smartphone data, including messages, organiser data, fonts, saved searches and browser bookmarks using the BlackBerry Desktop Software. For more information, see the Help in the BlackBerry Desktop Software.

If you haven't saved anything on your media card, you can back up and restore most of your smartphone data using your media card.

If your email account uses a BlackBerry Enterprise Server, you might be able to restore synchronised organiser data to your smartphone over the wireless network. To restore synchronised organiser data over the wireless network, you must have an activation password. For more information, contact your administrator.

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

About synchronisation conflicts

A synchronisation conflict occurs when you change the same email or organiser data item on your BlackBerry smartphone and in the email application on your computer.

If you reconcile your email using wireless email reconciliation, on your smartphone, you can set whether the email on your smartphone or the email on your computer takes precedence when an email reconciliation conflict occurs.

If you synchronise your organiser data using wireless data synchronisation, the organiser data on your computer takes precedence over the organiser data on your smartphone when a data synchronisation conflict occurs.

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