There is nothing worse than being caught out in the middle of the day, with a dead BlackBerry on your hands. And without a car charger, you aren't going to be making those all important calls or sending those urgent emails any time soon.
Charging
- Charge your BlackBerry® as much as possible
- Use wall chargers as the preferred charging method
- Only use car chargers when you really have to as the rapid charge can reduce battery life in the long run
- Reduce volume
- Use headphones
- Load media using BlackBerry® Desktop Manager (avoids resizing)
- Turn off equalizer settings (Media > Options)
- Visit mobile sites where applicable
- Turn Repeat Animations to a lower setting (Browser > Options > General Properties)
- Close browser when finished using (close with ESC key, not red End key)
- Reduce Backlight Timeout
- Reduce Backlight Brightness
- Holster smartphone (turns off LCD automatically)
- Set Audible Roll to mute
- Key Tone Off
- Use a sleeve when storing your BlackBerry® in a pocket
- Turn off unused connections when not in use, i.e. GPS, Wi-Fi®, Bluetooth®
- Use Auto On/Off
- Use single mode only (2G only or 3G only)
- Turn off flash
- Set picture size to Small
- Set Colour Effect to Normal
- Set Picture Quality to Normal
- When exiting, be sure to close the application, not leave it running in the background (close with ESC key, not red End key)
- Log out of third-party applications when they are not needed
- Set Audible notification to Off
- Turn off coverage LED
- Use the zoom out function to get the largest viewable area that you can still use usefully
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