Tips: Support World Cup Team with Mail Icons

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As the world cup reaching the end and all the qualified countries are preparing for next matches. Why don't you prepare yourself also with your Blackberry. Change your default email icons with rocking icons and support your country or your favorite.

Here is how

1. Go to Options>Advanced Options>Service Book. Pick email you want to custom. CICAL or CMIME doesnt matter. Click on one of them.
   
   
   
2. At the Service Record page, note down the UID number.
   
3. You can do it directly from your Blackberry or using your PC. Here I use my windows. Enable your mass storage. Open your Device Memory then go to appdata/rim/bda/icons. If you don't see the folder appdata, you need to enable show hidden folders in the Folder Options. If you cannot find any folder mentioned after appdata, just create new folder and name it accordingly.
   
4. Now under appdata/rim/bda/icons create a new folder and named it the save as your GUID No. Mine is GBISXAPC00S03. Afterwards, go to the folder and just paste from one of the picture below or you can create your own or download all pictures below here.
   
   
   
   
   
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5. rename the file to "1-73-70.png"
6. for it to take effect, you can do either changing for another theme and change it again or restart your Blackberry
7. For other emails, just repeat the step

The icons above are only for Storm 1 (Blackberry 9500, 9530) and Storm 2 a.k.a Odin (Blackberry 9520, 9550). Other Blackberry devices use other dimensions; Javelin (8900), Bold (9000), Onyx (9700) 80x80pixels, Gemini (8520) 52x52pixels.

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Tips: Speed Up Your Blackberry Messenger 5.0

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Maybe this tips is a bit old but I found it quite recently at berryreview.com and it works. So I thought I will share it here. You just need to change small thing and you can notify slight improvement of your Blackberry Messenger (BBM) in individual chat or even in Blackberry Group (BBG). I found big improvement especially in BBG.
Here is how:
1. Go to your Blackberry Messenger. Press  menu, choose Options
2. Under Chats, you need to change Conversation Style to Standard. Bubbles and Stripes have the alternate colors between you and the other recipients with blue and White. So change it to Standard means no alternate colors.
3. Hit  and press Save

You should notice improvement over your chat. Give it a shot.
I found this tips from here

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Tips: Adjust Your Picture for Wallpaper

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I snap a lot of pictures with my Blackberry Storm since that is the handiest tool I always have around. But for several reasons sometimes the picture composition not as right as I thought to become wallpaper. And I'm not a fave of retouch, resize & crop my mobile pictures with image editor in my PC, as I'm lazy to copy, edit and move it back. But luckily Blackberry OS is smart enough so we can recompose the picture for wallpaper. The steps is very simple and no 3rd party app:

1.  go to Media>>Pictures and choose the picture you want. For example, I found this picture in my gallery. If I want to use this dove as my wallpaper, setting it as it is, is not that attractive, in my opinion. I need to recompose it
   
   
   
2. What I need to do is just tap on my Blackberry Storm or Blackberry menu and select Zoom In and repeat until certain level and move it around so it can fit nicely on the front page.
   
   
   
   
3. After that press Blackberry menu, and choose Set As Wallpaper, there is also option Set As Caller ID   for picture profile in your contact.
   
   
   
4. and here is the result.  Looks much nicer :)
   
   

   Happy trying :) remember don't go bigger than its resolution, or the picture will look awful

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Just Ringtones

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while cleaning up my bookmarks, I found one old bookmark I made last year that provides sound files from Nexus One. So I thought I will share it here. Below are the links:

• Nexus One Notifications
• Nexus One Ringtones

Enjoy :) 

This is the link to the original post here/

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I Have Hundreds Unopened Email, Help Me!

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Have you experienced receiving hundred mails in  1 day? I do, everyday actually, it is because I joined 1 very active mailing list. Which of course I don't really read those mails one by one. Sometimes I just browse through and pick interesting subject. If the subject is indeed interesting then I do some filtering for the subject only.

The beauty of Blackberry Storm and its younger brother Odin is filtering a subject or from mail as easy as 1-2-3. What you need to do just tap and hold, in this matter, the subject. After 1 or 2 seconds there is a highlight moving across the subject, next it will display all emails with the related subject. Of course some of you will say, why don't use GMail Plugin if we use GMail. As you may know, GMail plugin will make your email on your Blackberry looks like web-based GMail, which lists in threads.. First, this works on any email on your Blackberry, second GMail Plugin takes too much memory for just a simple features.

After you browse and read some of your emails, what's next. You still have hundreds unopened mails. This what I normally do. This really save you a lot of time.

1. tap on the date bar
2. press Blackberry menu. Choose Mark Prior Opened
3. Click Yes and you are done :)
4. If you want to delete all, you simply go to Blackberry menu and choose Delete Prior

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Where My Blackberry Memory Goes

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Have you wondered what data eats your Application Memory, why over time your Blackberry seems getting slower or why now your Blackberry requests a battery pull / reset more often than before. Of course this can be caused by a lot of things such as new application installed, or some changes in application settings and many more. One way to check is by checking your Blackberry Database Sizes. You can accomplish this by going to Options > Status, press Blackberry menu and select Database Sizes. Afterwards it will display a list of database with its sizes.

Here is the description of each Database, so you can know which database use the most of your Application Memory

Database	Functionality
Address Book	Stores the contents of the Address Book.
Address Book Options	Stores Address Book settings.
Alarm Options	Stores the settings for the Alarm program.
Attachment Data	Stores attachments that have been viewed on the device.
Attachment Options	Stores user-defined settings for the Attachment Viewer.
AutoText	Contains the dictionary for automatic substitution of commonly misspelled words while you type. For example, adn > and.
Browser Bookmarks	Contains the bookmarks for web pages in the Browser application. Browser Channels Lists the channels the Browser is subscribed to. For example, weather updates.
Browser Data Cache	Holds cached data from the Browser.
Browser Folders	Allows sorting bookmarks into various folders.
Browser Options	Contains Browser setting information.
Browser Push Options	Contains push content settings for the BlackBerry Browser.
Browser URLs	Contains a list of the URLs that have been typed into the Browser on the device.
Calendar	Stores the contents of the Calendar.
Calendar Options	Stores Calendar settings.
Categories	Allows you to sort various Addresses, Appointments, Tasks and Memos by category.
Content Store	Contains pictures and other content stored on the device.
CustomWordsCollection Default Service Selector	Stores the custom word list on the 7100 series handhelds. Defines the default message service.
Email Filters	Holds the settings for filters applied to incoming messages to the device.
Email Settings	Defines the way messages are sent and received on the device.
Firewall Options	Enables or disables the firewall. Folder Id Determines which folder a message is filed to.
Folders	Lists the user-created folders in the Inbox.
Handheld Agent	Contains diagnostic information about the device.
Handheld Key Store	Securely stores encryption keys for encrypted communication and signing.
Key Store Options	Configures options for the Handheld Key Store
MemoPad Options	Stores MemoPad settings.
Memos	Contains the memos stored on the device.
Message List Options	Defines the way Messages are displayed in the Messages application.
Messages	Contains all the messages on the device.
Options	Stores miscellaneous configuration options.
Phone Call Logs	Logs phone calls made to and from the device.
Phone Hotlist	Stores the list of phone numbers on the device.
Phone Options	Stores Phone settings
Policy	Stores the IT Policy for the device.
Profiles	Contains the various device alerts. For example, a vibration for a new calendar appointment, or a tone when a new message arrives.
Profiles Options	Selects the current profile for device alerts.
Purged Messages	Contains a reference for messages deleted from the device.
Quick Contacts	Stores telephone numbers in the Speed Dial list.
Random Pool	Stores numbers to securely generate random numbers for encryption.
Recipient Cache	Contains encryption profiles for the people you communicate with.
Ribbon Bar Positions	Sets the sequence of icons for the home screen of the device.
RMS Databases	Stores information about registered applications.
Service Book	Stores all the service books that allow the device to access various services.
SMS Messages	Contains Short Message System (SMS) messages sent to and from the BlackBerry.
Tasks	Lists the Task items on the BlackBerry device.
TLS Options	Configures Transport Layer Security settings.
Trusted Key Store	Contains the Trusted Keys for the device.
WAP Push Messages	Contains information from Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) push services.
WTLS Options	Contains settings for Wireless Transport Layer Security.

The list above is taken from Blackberry Knowledge Base. From this, you can know whether it is your data that occupies most of your Application Memory or there are others more hindering.

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Monitor Your Traffic Usage

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If you live in the country where there is quota for your Blackberry Internet Service (BIS), it is sure you need to monitor your traffic and get alert when it reaches near your quota. You can use this free Blackberry application to monitor the download and upload in your handheld.

It can show data traffic for daily and monthly. You can set on what date to reset for month summary in the configuration as well as the decimal precision.

When I installed, it asked permission to connect to its server to download a license key but it didn't ask anything about paying the app.

You can download it OTA from http://mda.e-office.com/
Happy trying

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