User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Quick Help
- Tips and shortcuts
- Tips: Doing things quickly
- Tips: Extending battery life
- Tips: Finding apps
- Tips: Freeing space for your music, pictures, videos, and files
- Tips: Freeing space to optimize your smartphone's performance
- Tips: Updating your software
- Tips: Keeping your information safe
- Tips: Managing indicators
- Phone shortcuts
- Message shortcuts
- File and attachment shortcuts
- Typing shortcuts for the physical keyboard
- Media shortcuts
- Browser shortcuts
- Search shortcuts
- Map shortcuts
- Calendar shortcuts
- Phone
- Voice commands
- Messages
- Files and attachments
- Media
- Ring tones, sounds, and alerts
- Browser
- Calendar
- Contacts
- Clock
- Tasks and memos
- Create a task or memo
- Send a task or memo
- Change or delete a task or memo
- Change the status of a task
- Hide completed tasks
- Show tasks in the calendar
- Synchronizing tasks and memos
- About categories
- Categorize a contact, task, or memo
- Create a category for contacts, tasks, or memos
- Turn off the prompt that appears before you delete items
- Typing
- Keyboard
- Language
- Screen display
- Maps
- Applications
- BlackBerry Device Software
- Manage Connections
- Bluetooth technology
- Smart accessories
- Power and battery
- Storage space and media cards
- Search
- SIM card
- Security
- Service books and diagnostic reports
- Synchronization
- Accessibility options
- Calculator
- Glossary
- Legal notice
Security
How to: Security
Security basics
About the smartphone password
If you set a BlackBerry smartphone password, you'll be prompted to enter your password to unlock your smartphone.
If you forget your password, it can't be recovered. If you exceed the number of allowed password attempts, your smartphone
deletes all your smartphone data for security reasons and you'll be prompted to set a new password. If your smartphone uses a
BlackBerry Enterprise Server
, depending on the IT policies that have been set by your administrator, data on your media card
might be deleted as well. For more information, contact your administrator.
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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Set or change your smartphone password
If you forget your BlackBerry smartphone password, it can't be recovered. You can reset your password without knowing your
current password by deleting all your smartphone data.
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.
1. On the home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon.
2. Click Security > Password.
• To set a password, click Set Password.
• To change your password, click Change Password.
3. Type a password.
4.
Press the
key > Save.
To turn off your smartphone password, clear the Enable checkbox.
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219