Blackberry REX41GW manual About using your smartphone as a tethered modem

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About using your smartphone as a tethered modem

Depending on your wireless service plan or administrator, you might be able to share the Internet connection on your BlackBerry smartphone. For example, if you are travelling, you can use your smartphone's Internet connection to access the Internet on a laptop or tablet.

To use your smartphone as a tethered modem with a laptop, you must connect your smartphone with your laptop using a USB cable and open the BlackBerry Desktop Software. To use your smartphone as a tethered modem with a BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, you must pair your smartphone with your tablet using Bluetooth technology.

While using your smartphone as a modem, you might not be able to use your smartphone's Phone application, Messaging applications, or applications that use the Internet. To receive a phone call, your smartphone might turn off the tethered Internet connection.

For more information about tethering, see the Help on your BlackBerry PlayBook tablet or in the BlackBerry Desktop Software.

Copy contacts from your SIM card to your contact list

Depending on your wireless service provider and wireless network, this feature might not be supported.

1.In the contact list, press the key > SIM Phone Book.

2.Press the key > Copy All To Contacts.

Note: If you try to copy a SIM card contact with a phone number that matches the phone number of a contact that already appears in your contact list, your BlackBerry smartphone does not copy the SIM card contact.

Change your ring tone, notifiers, reminders, or alerts

In any sound profile, you can change your ring tone or notifier tone to an audio file that's stored in your BlackBerry smartphone's built-in media storage or media card. You can also change the options for volume, notifications during calls, LED, and vibration in all of the profiles. The All Alerts Off profile can't be changed.

1.On the home screen, click your Sound and Alert Profiles icon.

2.Click Change Sounds and Alerts > Sounds for Selected Profile.

•To change your ring tone or ring volume, click Phone.

•To change notifiers or reminders, click to expand a section. Click an option.

3.In the Ring Tone, Notifier Tone, or Reminder Tone field, do one of the following:

•Click a tone.

•To use a song that is on your smartphone or on a media card, click All Music. Find and click a song.

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