TIP: Helpful Keyboard Shortcuts

[srd05c]

I've never seen this posted yet so it may be well known, but I found it by accident: alt + enter = locks phone

[kbear]

Do you know if there is a shortcut to change my phone profile from Normal to Quiet without having to go through the entire menu options? Can I make this a convenience key?

[John Yester]

Yes you can, you can make the profile the right or left side...

[dloubnine]

Originally Posted by CDN.Lumberjack

Is there a shortcut to "send" msg without hitting the menu button?

i just hit my trackball twice

[tomvb2000]

Originally Posted by enrich2u

* To lock the keyboard from the Home screen, hold the asterisk ( * ) key.
...
* To switch between the Default and Vibrate notification profiles, from the Home screen, hold the pound ( # ) key.

I believe these two are specific to the Pearl. Like srd05c said, alt-enter on the Curve locks the keyboard. Anyone know a Curve equivalent for # to switch notification profiles? I've searched the doc and forums but haven't found anything yet.

[petebocken]

On my Curve 8310 when in Media>Ring Tones I can play a sound but cannot press "n" to go to the next sound or "p" to go to previous like i can when in Media>Music. Is this right? Is there a keyboard shortcut or do you always have to play, go back, play, go back, etc.

[rockigirl]

Originally Posted by srd05c

I've never seen this posted yet so it may be well known, but I found it by accident: alt + enter = locks phone

This was a great tip! I tried it out and then ooo'd and aaah'd because it worked. I did it again to show my friend 20 sec later only to see my bb shut off. So now I know alt + enter twice shuts down the bb lol.

[danpass]

free bump..

[petebocken]

Originally Posted by petebocken

On my Curve 8310 when in Media>Ring Tones I can play a sound but cannot press "n" to go to the next sound or "p" to go to previous like i can when in Media>Music. Is this right? Is there a keyboard shortcut or do you always have to play, go back, play, go back, etc.

I figured out a way to get around this:

1. Click the "Media" icon
2. Press the menu button and select "Explore" (i didn't even know this was there!)

Now you can hit the menu button again on a song/ringtone file and play and it plays in the media player, but now you can press "n" and "p". Not sure why this way works but if you go in through the main media screen you can't do it.

The "explore" option is nice to actually see the folder structure i have put on my SD card. I organize out my ringtones into folders and if you go through the normal media>ringtones, you don't see those folders.

[rollman06]

wow helpful tips! thanks

[cz10]

This should be a sticky!!!

[YaYa]

Originally Posted by LuvMyBB

Not to be a wet blanket, but most of these shortcuts are in the manual and in the phone's help files. There used to be an old internet jargon we used a lot: RTFM!

LOL...that said, it's still good to have it here for reference.

Thank you for posting these tips. I have referred to this several times while I have been learning them. I guess I don't have a photographic memory since I actually did "RTFM" and appreciate quickly accessing this site from my desktop at work....:

[Boomh4u3r]

When you cell signal is a number like -92 or -102...Is lower better?

[missadrienneg]

great info. thanks for the post

[mikeyg164]

Good to know, good post, thanks!