I just got my blackberry & having trouble figuring out how to turn off the first letter capitalization? I just think it looks awkward while using AIM. Please help :(
BTW- its an 8830. thanks
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I just got my blackberry & having trouble figuring out how to turn off the first letter capitalization? I just think it looks awkward while using AIM. Please help :(
BTW- its an 8830. thanks
Sorry, this appears to be a feature so good that there is no way to turn it off. Used to be that you could just hold down the key to make it not capitalized, but that doesn't seem to work on the newer Blackberries.
A work around is to enter the letter then delete the capital.
Not sure of a way to do this, I've tested a few combinations. I read why the original poster wanted to turn off having capital letters. But, why? Even if you're chatting via IM (AIM), you should still user caps in the right place, no?
Unless, you're chatting in 'slang'...
In password storage for example, it may be case sensitive and you want to remember which. A workaround would be Aa then delete the first a
i'm with the op. i'd rather type in all lower case, so it looks like my regular e-mail from my desktop.
wow i bet all your recipients appreciate no capitalized letters. it must be really annoying reading an email where there is nothing in caps. that is almost as bad as typing in all caps. see what i mean, no caps in this post. it is just wierd. but to each his own. :cool:
Umm ok, this from a post that has no capital letters. :D
Agree strongly, its the most annoying thing in the world to type in a password a couple of times until you remember that the first letter will be capitalized....ergh.
Actually when it comes to passwords the auto-caps doesn't apply, they're all lower case...and if it does, it auto capitalizes it anyways so it's kind of moot no?
Your blackberry detects password and other entries and temporarily disables auto-capitalization in order to avoid issues with case sensitive entries.
There is no way to turn the feature off. As others have mentioned, the only real workaround is to enter your desired letter, delete itn then enter it again.
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From Trevor-->wow i bet all your recipients appreciate no capitalized letters. it must be really annoying reading an email where there is nothing in caps. that is almost as bad as typing in all caps. see what i mean, no caps in this post. it is just wierd. but to each his own. :-)
That was the point of the post, duh.
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The blackberry being savvy to passwords is not true in every case, for instance, with SSH clients (at least the one I'm using.) Nor is it the case where passwords are the only issue with auto capitalization. The delete and redo thing used to work with my 8800 but doesn't with my Perl Flip - so I guess I'm relegated to creating user accounts in unix beginning with capital letters. Interesting how severe software oversights like this can perpetuate bad practices (like caps in unix.) This is a particularly wretched flaw on RIM's part, IMHO.
The main reason for me to have this feature (which I also can't find yet) is to send commands to remote systems that don't start with a capital letter. It can get pretty annoying to constantly fix the beginning letter. Not sure why this feature is not there.
There's only one place the auto-capitalization bothers me - my facebook status. It just looks silly:
Robin is Out and about...
TTT - thread's a year and a half old, surely someone has found a fix for this?
it drives me insane in texts/aim/facebook/etc.
whenever I type "if" it puts it in caps [IF] for some reason. Can someone help me fix this? I don't like this at all :/
Why? Abbreviated words. Once I type the period after the abbreviation, it capitalizes the next word.
Almost 1 year later aaaand...?
If you want to type a lower case letter after a period, backspace over the capitalized letter and type it again. It will stay lower case.
You can actually hold the letter and use the trackball to make it a lower case ;)
Sorry for the bump but i was also looking for a workaround and I was letting u guys know my way of doing it.
People..you got to be kidding. Stop supporting a brand name just because....
I am new and I want to type a contact pin as it is ( lower case). I have a 9300 3G and none of the previous mentioned work. So if I input a pin in the wrong case letter the WRONG PERSON WILL GET THE URGENT MESSAGE!!!! DUHHHH
This auto caps is just dumb . the English language is not like that.Know your grammer
I need to type several numbers with lower case letters in Pin contact. Is there a way to do that?? :mad:
A BlackBerry PIN is a hexadecimal number. The letters A-F are normally written in upper case for that reason. There should be no need to enter a PIN in lower case, but if you do, I would expect a BlackBerry app to handle it correctly. I don't understand how auto-capitalization could be causing a problem in that situation.
Three years on from the last post and around eight years since the OP, has this fault *still* not been fixed for my Curve 9320? I avoid using my phone to input to social media where possible because it always interprets any full stop [period] as the end of a sentence... so that "S" would just have been capitalised! ;)
In proper grammar, the first letter after a full stop ". " IS capitalized.