Common Blackberry Codes & Tricks

• Name: Decibel meter.

• Description/purpose: Displays your signal strength in decibels, instead of bars.

• Process: Hold “Alt” and press “N”, “M”, “L”,”L” (repeat to reverse the effect).

• Name: Address Book file verification.

• Description/purpose: Checks the data in your Address Book for inconsistencies.

• Process: In the Address Book, hold “Alt” and press “V”, “A”, “L”, “D”.

• Name: Address Book data structure rebuild.

• Description/purpose: Forces a data structure re-build in the Address Book…

• Process: In the Address Book, hold “Alt” and press “R”, “B”, “L”, “D”.

• Name: View source code.

• Description/purpose: Displays the source code of a Web page.

• Process: In the Browser, hold “Alt” and press “R”, “B”, “V”, “S”.

• Name: Help Me! menu.

• Description/purpose: Provides crucial technical information about your device, for when seeking technical support or help in forums…

• Process: Hold “Alt” and (left) “shift”, then press “H”.

• Name: IMEI display.

• Description/purpose: Displays your device’s international mobile equipment identity (IMEI -your serial number) on-screen… Also works

from all other GSM handsets.

• Process: Type “*”, “#”, “0″, “6″, “#” on the Home screen.

• Name: “Soft” reset.

• Description/purpose: Performs a “soft” reset of your device; the equivalent of doing a “battery pull” (i.e. Removing the battery for a few seconds).

• Process: Press-and-hold “Alt”, then press-and-hold (left) “shift”, then press-and-hold “Del”.

• Name: Event Log.

• Purpose: Displays event logs of all the system-level events that occur on your device…

• Process: Hold “Alt” and press “L”, “G”, “L”,”G”.

All of these secrets have been tested on the BlackBerry 8800 and BlackBerry Curve 8300; I would expect them to work on all keyboard-

featured BlackBerry devices…

Common Blackberry Codes & Tricks