Tricks: Change Signal Bar to Signal Meter for Blackberry Touchscreen

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During my post "Do Different Grip and Measure Your Signal Meter with Antenna Meter", I mentioned that for Blackberry non-touchscreen can change the signal bar to signal meter by pressing alt + NMLL. I thought there is no way to achieve this in touchscreen as the virtual keyboard cannot be shown at home screen but I just found the trick to achieve it. Here is how to accomplish the trick:

1. Go to Options>Screen/Keyboard
2. Set Left or Right Convenience Key Opens to Virtual Keyboard
3. Set Portrait View Keyboard to Full Keyboard
4. Hit Save 
5. Go to your home screen, press your Left or Right Button, depends on what you set. A virtual keyboard will be shown
6. Press & hold then press !,"" (punctuation mark, comma, double quote, double quote)

Now your signal bar will change to signal meter, to get back signal bar just repeat the steps. Happy trying.

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Tips: How to Organize Blackberry Messenger Contact

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For those having hundreds of contacts in Blackberry Messenger, you often get hard time to find a contact or you need to scroll all the way down just to get to it. It can be buried deep down in single category or the person use a weird character so you can't find it using the find function. Organizing your contact and a bit tuning up your Blackberry Messenger might save you a lot of time, here is few ways to organize it:

Categorize Your Contacts
You can create new category to classify your contact. It can be based on what kind of relationship you have, such as family, colleagues, clients etc or based on contact frequency like often, seldom, never. This will help in finding your contact. Here is how:

1. Go to Blackberry Messenger 
2. Press  menu and choose Add Category
3. Give the new category a name and hit OK
4. Choose from list of contacts to move to the new category
5. Hit Ok when you are done

To move a contact to existing category:

1. Choose the contact
2. Press  menu and choose Move Contact
3. Select the new category
4. Hit OK to move it

Rename Your Contact Name
If you go your contact list, you might notice some of your friends/contacts use special character, e.g. Ғє̲̣̣ЯΔiп̥aп̥Δ , If I use this as my name, you can't find me via find function. So if you have someone in BBM whom you often contact, use special char and of course, asking them to change their name to use standard characters will be near impossible, here is the workaround:

1. Choose the contact
2. Press  menu and choose Contact Profile
3. Change the Display Name to something more meaningful for you. (You can reset it to default if you change your mind)
4. Press  menu and Save

With this, you can use find function to find them quickly :)

Sort Your Contact
If you have a lot of active chats in your Blackberry Messenger and app Messages, that compile all your message from different media into one place, is not your fave, finding the recent chat will be troublesome as it is sorted based on alphabets. You can change the sorting to be based on activity, so your recent chat will be on top and the last active will be at the bottom. To change it, take these steps:

1. Go to your Blackberry Messenger again
2. Press  menu and press Options
3. Change Sort Chats By from Alphabet to Activity
4. Hit Save

Happy trying.

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Tips: Turn Your Blackberry to Emergency Flashlight

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If you are caught up in the dark or power failure and with only Blackberry in your hand, like most people do. (People don't bring around flashlight but they will have their Blackberry close hehe). Here is quick steps to turn your Blackberry to flashlight without any app:

1. Press your camera shortcut button, the default is the right-side button. You will go to camera
2. Press  menu then choose Video Camera. You will enter video camera mode
3. Press  menu, press options
4. Change Video Light from Off to On
5. Hit Save 

The flash will light up and only turn off when you change the options back to Off or when the screen is dimmed. Now, there will be light.

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Tips: How to Change Your Icon Email Name

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If you have a lot of emails push to your Blackberry, like mine I have 8 emails set in my Storm for a lot of different purposes, from private mail, mailing list to my business, this tip is gonna help you a lot. Here is how:

1. Go to Email Settings
2. Log In to your BIS Email Settings
3. Choose one of your email
4. Change the Email Account Name to anything you like
5. Hit Save

So with this, you can change from a boring user@gmail.com name to something more meaningful or whatever you like it.

Happy trying

Note: If you wonder why all my emails don't use the default icon, hit here to custom it

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Video Blackberry Platform

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Here is a short video of Blackberry Platform exploiting the benefits of using Blackberry as your smartphones especially if you are business users. Enjoy

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Do Different Grip and Measure Your Signal Meter with Antenna Meter

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As the claim by Steve Jobs regarding different grip of your smartphone can cause different level of attenuation continue buzzing around the web. Xtreme Labs released an application for Blackberry to do different kind of grips and monitor the effect to your signal strength and then share it if you want to. Grab the app here and share it to the comment below :)

Additional  Info:
If you want to know each bar represent what dBm check graph below.

For non-touchscreen Blackberry, you can change your default signal bar to number dBm strength by pressing alt + N M L L

Happy gripping :)

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Tips: How to Make Your Blackberry Text Bigger

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Here is a short tip. If you have hard time to read text on your Blackberry, change your font size by going to Options>Screen/Keyboard. Change Font Size to bigger value, you can check how big the size from the sample text before you hit Save. You can change the typeface as well by change the Font Family to other values. Hit Save when you are done.

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