Tips & Tricks BB 7520


Tips and Tricks for the BlackBerry 7520 Learn all the tips and tricks for your BlackBerry® 7520 smartphone. Select an application or topic below to get started.

Home Screen Tips
Phone Tips
Browser
Typing
Messages
Calculator
Navigating Screens
Organizer/Calendar
General Tips
Attachments
Connect
Home Screen Tips
Move icon on Home screen
 Select the icon, Press Alt and click Trackwheel, Click Move Application. Position icon, Click Trackwheel again to set icon
Jump directly to an icon
 Type first letter of icon
Vertically scroll between icons
 Hold Alt+roll Trackwheel
Phone Tips Open the Phone screen
 Press Spacebar
Change volume during call
 Roll Trackwheel
Insert an extension
 Press Alt+X+Ext.#
Dial the last number
 Press Spacebar+Enter
Assign speed dial to a letter
 Hold letter key, then type number
Access your voice mail
 Hold 1
End a call
 Press the Escape button
Type letters in a phone number
 Hold Alt and type letters
Mute call
 Use Trackwheel to select menu and select Mute or UnMute in the active call screen
Switch between the speaker and earpiece during a call
 Press Symbol button
Browser Toggle full-screen mode/normal mode
 Press U
Add a bookmark
 Press A
Open bookmarks
 Press K
Refresh a web page
 Press R
Close a web page
 Press Escape
Save a web page to Messages screen
 Press S
Return to Home Page
 Press H
View, copy or send the address for a link
 Press L
Move a page down
 Press Spacebar
Move a page up
 Press Shift+Spacebar
Move to the top of the web page
 Press T
Move to the bottom of the web page
 Press B
Stop a web page from loading
 Press Escape button
Open browser options
 Press O
Typing Capitalize a letter
 Hold letter key
Insert a period
 Press Spacebar twice
Type alternate character
 Hold Alt+character key
Type a symbol
 Press Symbol+click symbol
Type accented/special character
 Hold key+roll Trackwheel
Turn on CAP-Lock
 Alt+Right Shift (CAP)
Turn on NUM-Lock
 Right Shift+Alt
Turn off NUM/CAP-Lock
 Press Right Shift key
Select text by character
 Hold Shift+roll Trackwheel
Select whole lines
 Press Shift once+roll Trackwheel
Insert “@” into an email field
 Press Spacebar
Messages Jump to bottom of Messages screen
 Press B
Jump to top of Messages screen
 Press T
Mark a message opened/unopened
 Press Alt+U
Move down a page in a message
 Press Enter
Move up a page in a message
 Press Alt+Enter
Reply to a message
 Press R
Forward a message
 Press F
Reply-to-all
 Press L
View SMS messages
 Press Alt+S
View phone log
 Press Alt+P
View voice mail messages
 Press Alt+V
Calculator Display calculation results
 Press Enter
Clear screen
 Press Y
Clear last entry
 Press T
Add
 Press I
Subtract
 Press U
Multiply
 Press A
Divide
 Press G
Metric conversions
 Click on Menu, select from list
Navigating Screens Select multiple items/icons
 Hold down Shift+roll Trackwheel
Jump to item in list
 Press first letter of item
Move cursor to bottom of page
 Press Spacebar
Move cursor to top of page
 Press CAP+Spacebar
Organizer/Calendar NOTE: For these tips to work in Day view,
in the calendar options, set Enable Quick Entry field to No

Find a contact in address book
 Type contact’s name or initials
(separated by a space)
Jump to next day in calendar
 Press Spacebar
Jump to previous day in calendar
 Press Shift+Spacebar
To change to Week format
 Press W
To change to Month format
 Press M
Move to current date
 Press T
Move to specific date
 Press G
To create an appointment
 Press C
General Tips Delete prior messages
 Highlight date, click Trackwheel
+select Delete Prior in Message list
Change ‘signal strength’ from numbers to bars
 Hold Alt+type NMLL
Open ‘Help Me!’
 Alt+CAP+H. This screen lists the version, application version, PIN, IMEI, uptime, signal strength, battery level, file free and file total.
Reboot
 Alt+CAP+Backspace
Save battery
 Turn off the wireless radio
in fringe or no-coverage areas
Attachments Move to specific cell
 Press G
Display the contents of specific cell
 Press Spacebar
Move to bottom
 Press B
Move to top
 Press T
Direct Connect Use the Push To Talk™button
 Hold the Push To Talk button to speak
during a Direct Connect call. Release
the Push To Talk button to listen during
a Direct Connect call.
Send a Direct Connect Call Alert
 1. In the phone, type a Direct Connect
number (AreaID* NetworkID*
MemberID).
2. Click Alert.
3. Press the Push To Talk button.
Respond to a Call Alert
 1. Press the Push To Talk button.
2. Hold the Push To Talk button
to speak to your contact.
3. Release the Push To Talk button
to listen to your contact.
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