Very - Very use full Hardware Fixes

1) Screen is too mushy or bouncy or anything else.
-There is a torx screw visible with the battery cover removed, tightening or loosening it has an affect on the screen.

2) Battery door is loose or too tight. Try these solutions at your own risk!
-Try to remove it, put the top in first, lay it down and press the side bottom down till it clicks.
-Just need to bend the 2 little tabs on to upper part of the door slightly

3) Battery draining too fast. How to improve?
-Change mobile network to 1xEV instead of Global.
-Turn Wi-Fi and Blue tooth off
-Reduce screen brightness

4) The 4 main buttons aren't clicking correctly.
-Make sure that you are pressing the button correctly near the center. Sometimes when trying to press between 2 buttons, it will be solid and unable to click. Same when pressing to high or too low on the button.

5) Battery charging advice
-For newer lithium ion batteries (as in the Storm2) there's no such thing as conditioning. Just take it out of the box and use it.

keep her topped off and never let it fully discharge. also dont keep it plugged in too long past fully charged. over night is fine.

OS Tips & Tweaks
1) Only sure-type in portrait mode.
-You can change to any keyboard type by pressing the BB Menu key and selecting from there.

2) The application I installed is tiny with a keyboard I can't remove
-Go into Options>Applications>Highlight Program>Menu>Disable Compatibility Mode. You may be unable to use the application anyways though if it does not support touch interface.

3) What is my PRL and what is the latest?
-To find out your PRL number press #4357*>SEND
-As of now, the most current is 51611 (10/31/09)
-A 65xxx PRL is a hybrid PRL, Hybrid PRL's are mainly for those customers who came over from Alltel..it basically looks for alltel towers before it does VZW's...but in another year or less all Alltel's towers will be VZW towers and vice versa...thats why doing a *228 update is a good idea while towers are constantly being updated...

4) How do I select a set of messages to delete at once?
-Use 2 fingers and touch each on the screen, one at the top of what you want to select, and the other at the bottom. You can then adjust as necessary. Same principle for Cut or Copy & Pasting.

5) Set any song as a ring-tone. If file is on sd card, ring tone will only work while sd card is inserted into the phone.
-Go to Media > Music and highlight the file>Hit BB Menu button > Set as Ring Tone

6) Find all items associated with someone on your phone
-Under messages, Tap and hold (don't click) on the name and it will auto-search and display all messages/calls/texts/etc to/from that name. You can do the same on a subject line of an email to search and display all emails in that conversation.

7) To erase the entire field of text you are typing, do any of the following
-Hold down the backspace button
-Hit the bb menu->clear field
-Take advantage of the multi click by pressing the Capitalize button and hitting backspace

8) How to bring up the App Switcher without a convenience key
-Push and hold the BB button for a second or 2 and the app switcher will come up.

9) Exit the browser completely and quickly
-Hold the back button for a second or 2 and the browser will close

10) Testing and Status Tips
-Dial #4357* for a full status / setup menu
-Go to options-->status type test test screen comes up

11) Hide the keyboard without bring up the menu
-Set a convenience key
-Swipe down on the middle of the keyboard

12) My email is displaying separate from my SMS, how can I combine them?
-Go into Messages
-Bring up the Menu
-Options>General Options
-Change SMS and Email In-boxes from Separate to Combined.

13) Separate colors for emails from different accounts
-Go to Options -> Security Options -> Information.
-Look at Message Outline Colors and choose your color for each message option

14) Reset device without 3rd party programs
-press the green talk button
-dial ##000000 then press green button again
-scroll down to "SIP Password"
-type "vzw"
-press the blackberry menu button
-select "Save"

15) Have voice mail password entered automatically.
-Go to the dial-pad
-hit the BB button and select "options".
-Select "voice mail" and enter your voice mail pin
-Phone will automatically enter pin when voice mail is dialed.