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Keep your battery connections clean. Every few months, use a cotton swab or dry cloth to clean the
metal contacts on the battery and the smartphone.
Tips: Freeing space for your music, pictures, videos, and files
You can store files in the built-in media storage on your BlackBerry smartphone or on a media card.
Check how much storage is used by media files and
documents.
On the home screen, click the Media icon. Press the key
> Memory Use.
Delete unneeded files. On the home screen or in a folder, click the Files icon. Find and
highlight a file. Press the key > Delete.
Reduce the size of pictures you take and videos you record. On the home screen, click the Camera icon or the Media icon
> Video Camera icon. Press the key > Options. Change
the Image Size or Video Format field.
Store files on a media card instead of your smartphone. On the home screen, click the Camera icon or the Media icon
> Video Camera icon. Press the key > Options. In the
Storage section, change the Store Pictures or Store Videos
field.
Research In Motion recommends that you regularly create and save a backup file on your computer, especially before you
update any software. Maintaining a current backup file on your computer might allow you to recover smartphone data if your
smartphone is lost, stolen, or corrupted by an unforeseen issue.
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Receive only the first section of long email messages, 87
Change the size of pictures that you take, 145
View the amount of available storage space on your smartphone, 265
Set how long your smartphone stores messages, 76
Stop storing messages sent from your computer on your smartphone, 86
Stop storing messages sent from your smartphone on your computer, 87
Change how long your smartphone stores calendar entries, 178
Keep an application running in the background and switch to another application, 223
The application storage on my smartphone is low, 268
Tips: Keeping your information safe
You can take some simple steps to help prevent the information on your BlackBerry smartphone from being compromised,
such as avoiding leaving your smartphone unattended.
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