How to Add New Blackberry Ringtones

If you receive an email containing a link to a ringtone that you want to download, open the email, highlight the URL, and select Get Link. Depending on the software used, if a URL is not clickable, you can just copy and paste the address directly into your mobile browser. Then follow these steps:

Save the downloaded file, either to the ringtones folder on your Blackberry or onto a memory card (if you have one installed). If both are options, using the card conserves a bit of memory.

• After the download completes, leave the browser


• Back in the home screen, you can edit the ringtone’s settings (when you want it to play, etc.) under Profiles -> Advanced. If you want to, you can set custom ringtones for each of your contacts.

Blackberry Tips : How to increase speed of internet browser in blackberry

There are a few things that you can do to significantly increase the speed of the BlackBerry Browser.

Turn Off Show Images: Downloading images takes a lot of bandwidth, and strains your BlackBerry when loading them. From the Browser Options --> Browser Configuration screen, set Show Images = no, and uncheck "Use Background Images".

Note: You can easily download the images for any page by pressing "M" for more images, or "Q" for all images. These options are also available from the menu.

Turn Off JavaScript Support: Some JavaScripts are very large and can't be processed by your BlackBerry anyways, so turning off JavaScript support will not only save on bandwidth, but on processing time by your

Blackberry Tips : How to restore blackberry system to default settings

You can restore your BlackBerry to the default settings, by performing a security wipe on the handheld.

The easiest way to perform the wipe, is to go to Options --> Security, click the track-wheel to bring up the menu, and select "Wipe Handheld".


You may also wipe a handheld by entering the password incorrectly 10 times (or whatever setting the IT Admin has set).

WARNING! You will not be able to send email, use the BlackBerry Browser until you have activated your handheld again, either by connecting to the Desktop Manager, or performing Enterprise Activation.

Access Gmail from Blackberry is Easy Job

There's a new push purveyor on the mobile scene, come to show the competition what's what -- despite being completely dependent on that competition, at least for the moment. Hot on the heels of RIM adding a push API, Google is enabling some BlackBerry users to get their Gmail and Google Calendar goodies shoved straight to their handsets. However, there are a number of shortcomings here that make this addition somewhat limited in usefulness.

For one thing users have to be connecting to BlackBerry Enterprise Server instances, and furthermore those instances have to be backed by Microsoft Exchange. Additionally, only 250 users per Enterprise Server instance can get their mobile Gmail on, changes made to appointments on a handsets cannot be pushed back to Google Calendar, and to top it all off searching for Gmail messages still requires a separate app. Updates and improvements are coming, but until then it's caveat emailor.

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