Tips and Tricks for the BlackBerry 7520

Learn all the tips and tricks for your BlackBerry® 7520 smartphone. Select an application or topic below to get started.

• Home Screen Tips
• Phone Tips
• Browser
• Typing
• Messages
• Calculator
• Navigating Screens
• Organizer/Calendar
• General Tips
• Attachments
• Connect

Home Screen Tips

• Move icon on Home screen

• Select the icon, Press Alt and click Trackwheel, Click Move Application. Position icon, Click Trackwheel again to set icon

• Jump directly to an icon

• Type first letter of icon

• Vertically scroll between icons

• Hold Alt+roll Trackwheel

Phone Tips

• Open the Phone screen

• Press Spacebar

• Change volume during call

• Roll Trackwheel

• Insert an extension

• Press Alt+X+Ext.#

• Dial the last number

• Press Spacebar+Enter

• Assign speed dial to a letter

• Hold letter key, then type number

• Access your voice mail

• Hold 1

• End a call

• Press the Escape button

• Type letters in a phone number

• Hold Alt and type letters

• Mute call

• Use Trackwheel to select menu and select Mute or UnMute in the active call screen

• Switch between the speaker and earpiece during a call

• Press Symbol button

Browser

• Toggle full-screen mode/normal mode

• Press U

• Add a bookmark

• Press A

• Open bookmarks

• Press K

• Refresh a web page

• Press R

• Close a web page

• Press Escape

• Save a web page to Messages screen

• Press S

• Return to Home Page

• Press H

• View, copy or send the address for a link

• Press L

• Move a page down

• Press Spacebar

• Move a page up

• Press Shift+Spacebar

• Move to the top of the web page

• Press T

• Move to the bottom of the web page

• Press B

• Stop a web page from loading

• Press Escape button

• Open browser options

• Press O

Typing

• Capitalize a letter

• Hold letter key

• Insert a period

• Press Spacebar twice

• Type alternate character

• Hold Alt+character key

• Type a symbol

• Press Symbol+click symbol

• Type accented/special character

• Hold key+roll Trackwheel

• Turn on CAP-Lock

• Alt+Right Shift (CAP)

• Turn on NUM-Lock

• Right Shift+Alt

• Turn off NUM/CAP-Lock

• Press Right Shift key

• Select text by character

• Hold Shift+roll Trackwheel

• Select whole lines

• Press Shift once+roll Trackwheel

• Insert “@” into an email field

• Press Spacebar

Messages

• Jump to bottom of Messages screen

• Press B

• Jump to top of Messages screen

• Press T

• Mark a message opened/unopened

• Press Alt+U

• Move down a page in a message

• Press Enter

• Move up a page in a message

• Press Alt+Enter

• Reply to a message

• Press R

• Forward a message

• Press F

• Reply-to-all

• Press L

• View SMS messages

• Press Alt+S

• View phone log

• Press Alt+P

• View voice mail messages

• Press Alt+V

Calculator

• Display calculation results

• Press Enter

• Clear screen

• Press Y

• Clear last entry

• Press T

• Add

• Press I

• Subtract

• Press U

• Multiply

• Press A

• Divide

• Press G

• Metric conversions

• Click on Menu, select from list

Navigating Screens

• Select multiple items/icons

• Hold down Shift+roll Trackwheel

• Jump to item in list

• Press first letter of item

• Move cursor to bottom of page

• Press Spacebar

• Move cursor to top of page

• Press CAP+Spacebar

Organizer/Calendar

NOTE: For these tips to work in Day view,
in the calendar options, set Enable Quick Entry field to No

• Find a contact in address book

• Type contact’s name or initials
  (separated by a space)

• Jump to next day in calendar

• Press Spacebar

• Jump to previous day in calendar

• Press Shift+Spacebar

• To change to Week format

• Press W

• To change to Month format

• Press M

• Move to current date

• Press T

• Move to specific date

• Press G

• To create an appointment

• Press C

General Tips

• Delete prior messages

• Highlight date, click Trackwheel
  +select Delete Prior in Message list

• Change ‘signal strength’ from numbers to bars

• Hold Alt+type NMLL

• Open ‘Help Me!’

• Alt+CAP+H. This screen lists the version, application version, PIN, IMEI, uptime, signal strength, battery level, file free and file total.

• Reboot

• Alt+CAP+Backspace

• Save battery

• Turn off the wireless radio
  in fringe or no-coverage areas

Attachments

• Move to specific cell

• Press G

• Display the contents of specific cell

• Press Spacebar

• Move to bottom

• Press B

• Move to top

• Press T

Direct Connect

• Use the Push To Talk™button

• Hold the Push To Talk button to speak
  during a Direct Connect call. Release
  the Push To Talk button to listen during
  a Direct Connect call.

• Send a Direct Connect Call Alert

• 1. In the phone, type a Direct Connect
  number (AreaID* NetworkID*
  MemberID).
  2. Click Alert.
  3. Press the Push To Talk button.

• Respond to a Call Alert

• 1. Press the Push To Talk button.
  2. Hold the Push To Talk button
  to speak to your contact.
  3. Release the Push To Talk button
  to listen to your contact.

To learn more about making the most of your BlackBerry smartphone, view the BlackBerry 101 interactive demo.