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BlackBerry Storm Smartphone
Power, battery, and memory
Turn off your device
Depending on your theme, the location or name for Turn Power Off might differ from the location or name in this procedure. For more
information about application locations and names, see the printed documentation that came with your BlackBerry device.
- If you have not set your device to turn on and turn off automatically at specific times, hold the Power key.
- If you have set your device to turn on and turn off automatically at specific times, on the Home screen, click Turn Power Off. If you
want the device to stay turned off until you press the Power key, click Full Power Off. If you want the device to turn on again at the
specified time or for alarm or calendar reminders, click Turn Off.
Set your device to turn on and turn off automatically
- In the device options, click Auto On/Off.
- Set the Weekday field to Enabled.
- Specify the times when the BlackBerry device should turn on and off on weekdays.
- Set the Weekend field to Enabled.
- Specify the times when the device should turn on and off on weekends.
- Press the Menu key.
- Click Save.
Reset the device
Remove and reinsert the battery.
Check the battery power level
In the device options, click Status.
Extend battery life
Try performing the following actions:
- Set your BlackBerry device to turn on and turn off automatically.
- Charge your device regularly.
- Keep your battery connections clean. Every few months, use a cotton swab or dry cloth to clean the metal contacts on the battery and
the device.
- Set backlighting to remain on for a shorter period of time and lower its brightness.
- Turn off the connection to a wireless network when you are not in a wireless coverage area.
- Switch your vibrating notifications to sound notifications or LED notifications, lower the volume of your sound notifications, or select a shorter ring tone.
- Delete the original message when you send a reply.
- Send a message to multiple contacts using Add To, Add Cc, or Add Bcc.
- Turn off the flash in the camera.
- Close third-party applications from the application menu when you are finished with them.
- Change your browser options for animated graphics so that they repeat less often on web pages.
Format the device memory or a media card
If you format the BlackBerry device memory or a media card, all the files in the device memory or on the media card are deleted.
- In the device options, click Memory.
- Press the Menu key.
- Click Format.
- Complete the instructions on the screen.
View the amount of available memory
To view the amount of memory available for application data or for storing files in the BlackBerry device memory or on a media card, in
the device options, click Memory.
Best practice: Optimizing your device performance
Try to maintain at least 400 KB of application memory on your BlackBerry device. To increase the amount of application memory, try
deleting items that you do not need from your device. Consider the following guidelines:
- Delete old email and MMS messages, especially messages with attachments.
- Delete contacts that are already in your organization's address book.
- Delete applications and languages that you do not use.
- If you recently upgraded the BlackBerry Device Software over the wireless network, delete the previous version of the BlackBerry
Device Software.
- Clear the browser cache.
To use less memory, try changing options for email messages, calendar entries, and media files. Consider the following guidelines:
- Reduce the amount of time that your device stores email messages and calendar entries.
- Stop forwarding email messages to your device when your device is connected to your computer.
- Receive only the first section of long email messages.
- If you changed the picture quality for pictures that you take, change the picture quality setting to Normal.
- Reduce the picture quality in the browser.
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