1. In the BlackBerry Administration Service, on the Servers and components menu, expand BlackBerry Solution
topology > BlackBerry Domain > Component view.
2. Click MDS Connection Service.
3. Click Edit component.
4. In the Media content type field, type the media type and subtype using standard definitions for MIME media types.
Use the format <type>/<subtype>. You can substitute an asterisk (*) to represent all types or subtypes except for the
types you have already configured. Some examples of entries for the Media content type field include application/
msword, application/pdf, video/mpeg, application/*, image/*, */*.
5. In the Maximum KB/Connection field, type the maximum size (in KB) of content that a user can download to the
device, during each connection to the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service.
6. In the Disallow content drop-down list, click No.
7. Click the Add icon.
8. Click Save all.
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Default download limits for media content types
BlackBerry device users can only download a specific amount of media content to BlackBerry devices with each
connection. You can configure a limit in the BlackBerry Administration Service. If you do not configure a limit, the default
limit applies. The following table lists the default values.
There is no limit for the amount of media content that users can download using HTTP POST.
MIME type Maximum number of bytes per connection (KB)
application/msword 2048
application/pdf 2048
application/vnd.ms-excel 2048
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint 2048
application/vnd.oma.drm.message 5120
application/vnd.oma.dm.message 5120
multimedia types such as audio and video 32,768
other 2048
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