Written by Media Tips:
- Screen Capture – Press Volume Up and Volume Down simultaneously.
- A quick way to crop an image is to zoom in on the image how you want it cropped and take a screen shot of the zoomed in image.
- Push and hold the volume up or down key to skip forward or back through your media
Watch a Tutorial on how to sync media with your PC
Browser Tips:
- Open a link in a new tab. Press and hold a link and a menu appears.
- If your in the browser and your trying to enter a address that doesnt end in “.com”, you can press the “.com” button and hold it – this will bring up a menu with the following extensions that you can select: “.net”, “.org”, “.edu”, “.gov”, “.ca”, and “.biz”.
- Double tapping videos such as youtube and embedded vids on crackberry makes them go full screen.
- To Access Files on your PlayBook, type “file:///accounts/1000/shared” into your browser
- To add a bookmark to your PlayBook Homescreen, press and release the “add bookmark” icon (white star with the + sign). Choose Add to Home Screen, enter a name for the shortcut and you’re done.
OS Tips:
- Mute – Hold the “Play/Pause” Button.
- Hard Reset – Press and Hold the Power Button along with the Volume Up and Down Buttons.
- Show Status Bar from Inside App – Swipe diagnally from either top corner.
- If you hold the uppercase button on the keyboard, it will border it blue, now you can type everything uppercase.
- Besides tapping in a text field to bring up the keyboard, you can bring it up anytime, any app, by swiping up from the bottom left corner – basically where the little keyboard icon sits when the keyboard is up.
- By tapping the clock/date on the home screen you can bring up the calendar and then swiping up within the calendar takes you to the Date and Time screen in settings.
- Auto capitalization, periods, and spell check work in the bridged apps and Docs to Go. Possibly a hint at whats to come system wide.
- Your PlayBook must be powered on in order to charge it.
- Wake Up Your PlayBook – Swipe from Bezel to opposite Bezel (Left to Right, Right to Left, Top to Bottom, or Bottom to Top)
If you are experiencing Bridge issues, please try the following:
- Delete Bluetooth pairs on both the BlackBerry Smartphone and the PlayBook
- Go to Options
- Go to Network and Connections
- Go to Bluetooth Connections
- Press the menu key and choose MAP Options
- Uncheck all options under Message Services
- Press the Back button and choose to Save
- Within the Bluetooth Connections screen, press the menu key
- Select Options
- Under Serial Port Profile, uncheck everything but Data Transfer
- Press the Back button and choose Save
After going through these steps, please restart both the BlackBerry Smartphone and the PlayBook then attempt to use BlackBerry Bridge again.
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