User Guide

Quick Help

If your smartphone has a camera flash, turn off the flash.

On the home screen, click the Camera icon. Click the flash icon

 

at the bottom of the screen until the flash off indicator

 

appears.

 

 

Keep your battery connections clean.

Every few months, use a cotton swab or dry cloth to clean the

 

metal contacts on the battery and the smartphone.

 

 

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

key

documents.

> 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, 125

Receive only the first section of long email messages, 86

Change the size of pictures that you take, 144

View the amount of available storage space on your smartphone, 266

Set how long your smartphone stores messages, 75

Stop storing messages sent from your computer on your smartphone, 85

Stop storing messages sent from your smartphone on your computer, 86

Change how long your smartphone stores calendar entries, 177

Keep an application running in the background and switch to another application, 224

The application storage on my smartphone is low, 269

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Blackberry SWD-1735726-0622010334-001 manual Memory Use, Image Size or Video Format field