A guide to make your storm BETTER.

[sooks]

This is just going to be a little write up that will increase all aspects of your storm use. It will make it faster and have the battery life last much much longer. Something will have already of been mentioned but this will be a gathering of the info.

1. Delete all apps that you are not going to use. go to OPTIONS>ADVANCED OPTIONS>APPLICATIONS>HIGHLIGHT APP>DELETE . Do this to all of your unwanted apps , for example the only apps i have are : 4.7 core / 4.7 soft / BBerry attachment/ BBM/ Bolt/ Browser / capture it/ phone / and quick pull. as of now i am sitting at 61 MB of memory hide all the other icons keeping a main 4 not 8 there is a big speed difference in the two.

2.If you dont now use GPS, go to OPTIONS>ADVANCED OPTIONS> click GPS SERVICES > CHANGE TO E911> this will increase your battery life significantly.

3. Change your network to 1xev instead of global. This is increase battery life, over all proformance and gets rid of the faild sim message. Go to OPTIONS> MOBILE NETWORK> CLICK NETWORK TECHNOLOGY > SELECT 1XEV.

4.This one is simple yet effective, by lowering you backlight lever by even 30 it saves alot of battery with out much notice. OPTIONS> KEYBOARD/SCREEN > BACKLIGHT > SET IT TO 60.

5. This is disabling your even log , also seems to save battery and increase speed. turn your phone to landscape mode , MENU> SHOW KEYBORED> TYPE /"/"/ > even log will then pop up >CLICK MENU CLEAR LOG > THEN MENU > PROPERTIES > CLICK ON THE FIRST ITEM IN THE LIST > MENU HIDE ALL TYPE.

By taking the steps above you will get the most out of your storms i know there is this info outthere but its spread out. so here is a little step by step compressed guide.

(ALSO : if your having alot of problems with the media card error then verizon screen , simply take out the media card , boot the phone and put the card back in.)

[nightfishing]

Good post, but I would add discalimer that some of your "tweaks" will greatly decrease what the user can do with his BB.

Battery life and free memory are nice, but there is a purpose to a blackberry for many users and gps, bluetooth and productivity apps are a big part of it's appeal.

[rugbyjulia]

Thanks for the event log tip. I kept reading about it but never found the way to actually clear it...correctly.

[sooks]

Originally Posted by nightfishing

Good post, but I would add discalimer that some of your "tweaks" will greatly decrease what the user can do with his BB.

Battery life and free memory are nice, but there is a purpose to a blackberry for many users and gps, bluetooth and productivity apps are a big part of it's appeal.

the only issue is the gps , and as said if you dont use , its a good increase.

[ltrtiger]

Excellent. Much appreciated.

[MPSmith1]

Nice list. Thanks. But why would changing GPS to E911 increase battery life? It doesn't run in the background on any of my programs.

[Zooooom]

Originally Posted by sooks

This is just going to be a little write up that will increase all aspects of your storm use. It will make it faster and have the battery life last much much longer. Something will have already of been mentioned but this will be a gathering of the info.

1. Delete all apps that you are not going to use. go to OPTIONS>ADVANCED OPTIONS>APPLICATIONS>HIGHLIGHT APP>DELETE . Do this to all of your unwanted apps , for example the only apps i have are : 4.7 core / 4.7 soft / BBerry attachment/ BBM/ Bolt/ Browser / capture it/ phone / and quick pull. as of now i am sitting at 61 MB of memory hide all the other icons keeping a main 4 not 8 there is a big speed difference in the two.

2.If you dont now use GPS, go to OPTIONS>ADVANCED OPTIONS> click GPS SERVICES > CHANGE TO E911> this will increase your battery life significantly.

3. Change your network to 1xev instead of global. This is increase battery life, over all proformance and gets rid of the faild sim message. Go to OPTIONS> MOBILE NETWORK> CLICK NETWORK TECHNOLOGY > SELECT 1XEV.

4.This one is simple yet effective, by lowering you backlight lever by even 30 it saves alot of battery with out much notice. OPTIONS> KEYBOARD/SCREEN > BACKLIGHT > SET IT TO 60.

5. This is disabling your even log , also seems to save battery and increase speed. turn your phone to landscape mode , MENU> SHOW KEYBORED> TYPE /"/"/ > even log will then pop up >CLICK MENU CLEAR LOG > THEN MENU > PROPERTIES > CLICK ON THE FIRST ITEM IN THE LIST > MENU HIDE ALL TYPE.

By taking the steps above you will get the most out of your storms i know there is this info outthere but its spread out. so here is a little step by step compressed guide.

(ALSO : if your having alot of problems with the media card error then verizon screen , simply take out the media card , boot the phone and put the card back in.)

Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com

Can you please explain what might be lost with the "event log"?
Thx

Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com

[sooks]

Originally Posted by MPSmith1

Nice list. Thanks. But why would changing GPS to E911 increase battery life? It doesn't run in the background on any of my programs.

if you have gps enabled its always running and the gps reciever is always on always sending your position , if its enabled e911 only 911 can access your gps location. by sending a signal to your phone , activating the gps then they can track you. other if its off its off until activated by 911

[kcpaynev1]

thanks for the post

[sooks]

Originally Posted by Zooooom

Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com

Can you please explain what might be lost with the "event log"?
Thx

Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com

nothing will be lost , it just elimanates one more thing running in the back ground. if anything speed will be gained.

[maxmax]

is there anything negative to disabling the event log?

[sooks]

Originally Posted by maxmax

is there anything negative to disabling the event log?

nope , unless you want to go back and look at what you have done on the phone all day lol.

[JDevenger]

great post, found a couple things in there I didnt already know about. Thank you

[MPSmith1]

Originally Posted by sooks

if you have gps enabled its always running and the gps reciever is always on always sending your position , if its enabled e911 only 911 can access your gps location. by sending a signal to your phone , activating the gps then they can track you. other if its off its off until activated by 911

I've read conflicting information about that, including here:

http://forums.crackberry.com/f86/how...0/#post1421112

[sooks]

Originally Posted by JDevenger

great post, found a couple things in there I didnt already know about. Thank you

glad i can help ! it will make your storm life much better lol.