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Tips: Freeing space for your music, pictures, videos, and files

You can store files in the built-in media storage on your BlackBerry smartphone or on a media card.

Check how much storage is used by media files and

On the home screen, click the Media icon. Press the

documents.

key > Memory Use.

 

 

 

Delete unneeded files.

On the home screen or in a folder, click the Files icon. Find

 

and highlight a file. Press the

key > Delete.

Reduce the size of pictures you take and videos you record. On the home screen, click the Camera icon or the Media

icon > Video Camera icon. Press the key > Options.

Change the Image Size or Video Format field.

Store files on a media card instead of your smartphone.

On the home screen, click the Camera icon or the Media

icon > Video Camera icon. Press the key > Options. In the Storage section, change the Store Pictures or Store Videos field.

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.

Related information

Copy, move, rename, or delete a file, 131

Change the size of pictures that you take, 148

View the amount of available storage space on your smartphone, 286

Change how long your smartphone stores calendar entries, 186

Keep an application running in the background and switch to another application, 232

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.

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Blackberry REX41GW manual Tips Keeping your information safe, Key Memory Use, Change the Image Size or Video Format field