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About media cards
Depending on your BlackBerry® smartphone model, you can insert a microSD media card into your smartphone to take videos
and increase the storage space that's available on your smartphone for storing media files such as songs, ringtones, videos or
pictures. For more information about inserting a media card into your smartphone, see the printed documentation that came
with your smartphone.
Supported media cards
Your BlackBerry® smartphone supports media card sizes up to 32 GB. Only microSD media cards are supported.
Turn off media card support
When you turn off media card support, your BlackBerry® smartphone can't access the files that are on your media card. This
might be useful if you want to make sure that your files are saved to your smartphone's built-in media storage rather than your
media card.
1. On the Home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon.
2. Click Device > Storage.
3. Clear the Media Card Support check box.
4.
Press the key > Save.
Back up smartphone data to your media card
To perform this task you must have a media card inserted in your BlackBerry® smartphone, and mass storage mode must be
turned off.
If your email account uses a BlackBerry® Enterprise Server, depending on the options that your administrator sets, you might
not be able to perform this task. For more information, contact your administrator.
CAUTION: If you perform this task, any existing data on your media card is deleted and replaced with your smartphone data.
1. On the Home screen, click the Set-up icon.
2. In the Set-up section, click Device Switch > Using a Media Card > Save Data.
• To back up smartphone data including email, select the Save emails option.
• To back up smartphone data excluding email, select the Don't save emails option.
3. Click Continue.
4. To set a password for your data, in the Password field, enter a password.
5. In the Confirm field, re-enter the password.
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