BlackBerry® Tour™ 9630 smartphone – Take Life With You

Learn all the tips and tricks for your BlackBerry® Tour™ 9630 smartphone. Select an application or topic below to get started.

BlackBerry Basics

  • Move back a screen
  • Press the Escape key
  • Move to a list item or menu item
  • Type the first letter of the item
  • Switch applications
  • Press and hold the (insert BB data flow symbol key) key
  • Return to the Home screen or application list
  • Press the End key

Phone

  • Answer a call
  • Press the Send key
  • Check your voice mail
  • Hold 1
  • View your contact list in the phone application
  • Press the Send key
  • Add an extension to a phone number
  • Press the Alt key and the X key
    Type the extension number
  • Type a letter in a phone number field
  • Press the Alt key and the letter key
  • Turn on the speakerphone during a call
  • Press the Speakerphone key
  • Turn off the speakerphone during a call
  • Press the Speakerphone key again

Message

In a message

  • Reply to a message
  • Press R
  • Reply to all in an email message or a PIN message
  • Press L
  • Forward a message
  • Press F

In a message list

  • Open a highlighted message
  • Press the Enter key
  • Compose a message from a message list
  • Press C
  • Mark a message as opened or unopened
  • Press Alt key + U
  • View received messages
  • Press Alt key + I
  • View sent messages
  • Press Alt key + O
  • View voicemail messages
  • Press Alt key + V
  • View SMS text messages
  • Press Alt key + S
  • View call logs
  • Press Alt key + P

Moving around a message list

  • Move up the screen
  • Press Shift key + Space key
  • Move down a screen
  • Press Space key
  • Move to the top of a message list
  • Press T
  • Move to the bottom of a message list
  • Press B
  • Move to the next date
  • Press N
  • Move to the previous date
  • Press P
  • Move to the next unopened item
  • Press U
  • Move to the next related message
  • Press J
  • Move to the previous related message
  • Press K

Attachment

In a spreadsheet

  • Move to a specific cell
  • Press G
  • View the content of a cell
  • Press Space key
  • Switch worksheets
  • Press V
    Highlight a worksheet
    Press the Enter key
  • View hidden columns or rows
  • Press H
  • Hide the columns or rows again
  • Press H

In a presentation

  • Switch presentation views
  • Press M
  • Move to the next slide when viewing a presentation in slide view
  • Press N
  • Move to the previous slide when viewing a presentation in slide view
  • Press P

Camera and Video

NOTE: Depending on your BlackBerry® device,
the camera or video camera feature might not be supported

  • Take a picture
  • Press the Right Convenience Key
  • Change the flash mode for a picture or to turn on low-light mode for a video
  • Press the Space key

Media

  • Pause a song or video
  • Press the Mute key
  • Resume playing a video or song
  • Press the Mute key
  • Play the next song in a category
  • Press N
  • Play the previous song in a category
  • Press P
  • Play the previous song in a playlist
  • Press and hold the Volume Down key
  • Play the next song in a playlist
  • Press and hold the Volume Up key
  • Pan up in a picture
  • Press 2
  • Pan down in a picture
  • Press 8
  • Pan right in a picture
  • Press 6
  • Pan left in a picture
  • Press 4
  • Return to the center of a picture
  • Press 5
  • Zoom in to a picture
  • Press 3
  • Zoom to the original picture size
  • Press 7
  • Zoom out from a picture
  • Press 9
  • Zoom to the original picture size
  • Press 7
  • Rotate a picture
  • Press L
  • Fit a picture to the screen size
  • Press 1

Browser

General Tips

  • Insert a period (.) in the web address field
  • Press Space key
  • Insert a slash mark (/)in the web address field
  • Press the Shift key + Space key
  • Stop loading a web page
  • Press the Escape key
  • Close the browser
  • Hold the Escape key

On a web page

  • Switch between Column view and Page view
  • Press Z
  • Zoom in to a web page
  • Press I
  • Zoom out from a web page
  • Press O
  • Turn on support for JavaScript
  • Press J
  • Move to a specific web page
  • Press G
  • Return to the home page
  • Press H
  • Open the bookmark list
  • Press K
  • Add a bookmark
  • Press A
  • View a list of web pages you’ve recently visited
  • Press Y
  • Refresh a web page
  • Press R
  • Follow a link, highlight or pause on the link
  • Press the Enter key

Navigating a web page

  • Move up a screen
  • Press Shift key + Space key
  • Move down a screen
  • Press Space Key
  • Move to the top of a web page
  • Press T
  • Move to the bottom of a web page
  • Press B

Calendar

NOTE: For shortcuts to work in Day view,
in the general calendar options, change the Enable Quick Entry field to No

  • Schedule an appointment
  • Press C
  • Change to Agenda view
  • Press A
  • Change to Day view
  • Press D
  • Change to Week view
  • Press W
  • Change to Month view
  • Press M
  • Move to the next day, week or month
  • Press Space key
  • Move to the previous day, week or month
  • Press Shift key + Space key
  • Move to the current date
  • Press T
  • Move to a specific date
  • Press G

Typing

  • Insert a period
  • Press the Space key twice – the next
    letter is capitalized.
  • Capitalize a letter
  • Hold the letter key until the capitalized letter
    appears
  • Type an alternate character on a key
  • Hold the Alt key + the character key
  • Type an accented or special character
  • Hold the letter key + roll the trackball
    left or right (For example, to type ü,
    hold U and roll the trackball to the left
    until ü appears)
    Release letter key when accented
    or special character appears
  • Type a number in a number field
  • Press a number key
    You do not need to press the Alt key
  • Type a number in a text field
  • Hold Alt key + press the number key
  • Turn on NUM lock
  • Press Alt key + Left Shift key
  • Turn off NUM lock
  • Press the Shift key
  • Turn on CAP lock
  • Press the Alt key + the Right Shift key
  • Turn off CAP lock
  • Press the Shift key

Insert symbols

  • Insert an at sign (@) or a period (.) in an email address field
  • Press the Space key
  • Type a symbol
  • Press the Symbol key + type the letter
    that appears below the symbol

Work with text

  • Highlight a line of text
  • Press Shift key + roll Trackball up or down
  • Highlight text character by character
  • Hold Shift key + roll Trackball
    left or right
  • Cancel a text selection
  • Press the Escape key
  • Cut highlighted text when typing
  • Press Shift key + Backspace/Delete
    key
  • Copy highlighted text when typing
  • Press Alt key +click Trackball
  • Paste highlighted text when typing
  • Press Shift key + click Trackball

Search

  • Search for a contact in a list of contacts
  • Type the contact name or initials separated by a space
  • Search for text in a message
  • Press S
  • Search for text in an attachment or on a web page
  • Press F
  • Search for text in a presentation attachment
  • Verify that you’re viewing the presentation in text view or in text and slide view Press F

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