1. goosebuster's Avatar
    when i hit address book i cant just type in a letter and it shows meeveryone whos name begins with that letter. i have to type in the first two letters of the name and then it goes to everyone with those two letters in their name.... its nothing bad, it just annoys me very badly!
    03-09-07 07:04 PM
  2. tmag2005's Avatar
    Nope, I can do just one letter....How is your address book configured?
    03-10-07 03:47 AM
  3. kasperapd's Avatar
    I only type one letter and it works for me.
    03-10-07 05:58 AM
  4. dbjt's Avatar
    One letter here, too. A friend at work had the 7100 and had the same problem, though.
    03-10-07 07:02 AM
  5. Rob#CB's Avatar
    One letter for me too.....what model of BB do you have?
    My 7280, 8700, and my 8703e all do it by first letter.
    03-10-07 07:59 PM
  6. goosebuster's Avatar
    mine is a 7100i....... i swear it is the most annoying thing in the world, especially since every phone i have had for the past 10 years have all been just one letter and im on the page with all my contacts begining with that letter.......... someone tell me how to fix it, i feel like the only poor soul who suffers from this!!
    03-11-07 09:46 AM
  7. palmprethemecentral's Avatar
    I am okay with this configuration
    03-11-07 02:51 PM
  8. goosebuster's Avatar
    im not.... is there any way to fix it?
    03-13-07 03:52 PM
  9. anon(153966)'s Avatar
    I wonder if a software update, or something is needed. Try pulling the battery, and then 'booting' up again, and see what gives...
    03-13-07 05:17 PM
  10. goosebuster's Avatar
    the phone is only 2 months old and has the newest software. i dont think pulling the battery will help either because it has did it since day one, and the battery has been pulled a few times since then
    03-13-07 11:02 PM
  11. anon(153966)'s Avatar
    ...it worst. I would call the service provider, and see what gives.

    Wait, do you have "content protection", on? If yes, try turning it off, reboot the device, and then try it...
    03-14-07 04:25 AM
  12. tmag2005's Avatar
    If its that new? Cant they replace it under warranty if you go on about fault? Is there a newer OS you could load?
    03-14-07 04:27 AM
  13. Cellularamps's Avatar
    My 7130 does the same thing. Two letters to get the contacts to come up, I was wondering why one letter didn't do any good.

    Just got mine last week from Verizon, not sure it that makes a difference. It may be one of those things that is locked down by the carrier...
    03-14-07 09:30 AM
  14. kasperapd's Avatar
    I could be wrong here, but this may be a SureType issue. It seems that those with SureType models are having this issue. I can't remember how it worked on my Pearl.
    03-14-07 09:48 AM
  15. goosebuster's Avatar
    is sure type where it tries to guess what you want? if so i hate that feature and i turned it off!

    navilyn,what is content protection and how do i turn it off?

    tmag. i dont think it is a malfunction that they would replace it for... i think it is something RIM designed into my device to annoy the he!! out of me with!
    03-14-07 05:19 PM
  16. kasperapd's Avatar
    SureType is the style of keyboard you have where 2-letters are assigned to each key. The BB predicts what word you are typing. It actually works pretty good. The secret is not to watch the screen as you type. Wait until you are finished and you'll see most of it is right.

    If you wat to disable it, open up a message like you are going to compose an email, then go to options. I can't remember the exact phrase it says, but you should see something like Enabale MultiTap or something.
    03-14-07 05:29 PM
  17. goosebuster's Avatar
    yeah i turned off multi tap the day i got it.... the suretype was what i was not sure of what it meant. i dont think the suretype has anything to do with it though because my fiance has a 7100g and hers only needs one letter and it shows all teh contacts.
    03-14-07 05:45 PM
  18. anon(153966)'s Avatar
    Go to Options / Security / General Settings / Content Protection - but to be honest if you don't know where it is, you probably did not change it in the first place, thus it's still at it's default...
    03-14-07 08:03 PM
  19. goosebuster's Avatar
    content protection is disabled..... is that howit should be? what would happen if it was enabled?
    03-14-07 09:41 PM
  20. anon(153966)'s Avatar
    That's how it should be. If you enable it, caller ID does not work correctly if you have a password for your device...
    03-15-07 03:39 AM
  21. goosebuster's Avatar
    10/4... thanks!
    03-15-07 08:38 AM
  22. w0lfgang's Avatar
    you would think that these old posts would be shut down by now
    05-06-13 04:20 PM
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