Tuesday, 6 May 2008

BlackBerry Shortcuts (for the true geek)

Like most business professionals I'm addicted to my BlackBerry 8310 Curve. However, I'm also a geek so to enhance the geek experience I list some keyboard shortcuts...
  • Alt+Escape to switch from one application to another (like the Alt-Tab in Win32 or Unix)
  • View Event Log (didn't even know there was one!)
    • From the Home Screen - hold down the Alt key and type (with your free hand) LGLG.
    • Each item in the log is selectable by clicking to display the details.
    • You can change the default logging level from warning->info->debug by pressing the 'menu' key and select 'options'
  • Reboot blackberry w/o removing battery: Alt-RightShift-Delete.
    • NOTE: The Right Shift key is in the bottom right (key: aA^). This is a quick reboot.
  • Change signal strength display from bars to numeric in units of dBm (decibels per milliwatt).
    • Hold the Alt key and type 'NMLL'. To revert hold down Alt and type "NMLL" again. readings from -45 to -85 are very strong signals. The lower (more negative the number) the weaker the signal.
  • Help Me Screen - navigate to home screen then press and hold Alt-Shift-H. This is hard to execute as all three keys have to be pressed; easier if you press and hold the Alt and Shift with your left thumb. Hit the escape key to exit. Below is a list of items viewable in the Help Me screen
    • Vendor ID
    • App Version
    • PIN
    • IMEI - Internet Mobile Equipment Identifier
    • Uptime - in seconds (does not automagically convert to hours/days/weeks, etc)
    • Signal Strength - in dBm
    • Battery Level - percent capacity
    • File Free - in bytes
    • File Total - in bytes

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