The SmartFONE » Tips & Tricks http://www.thesmartfone.com Your Windows Mobile 6 Standard Resource Mon, 03 May 2010 03:05:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Delete Large Amounts of Text Quickly http://www.thesmartfone.com/tips-and-tricks/delete-large-amounts-of-text-quickly/ http://www.thesmartfone.com/tips-and-tricks/delete-large-amounts-of-text-quickly/#comments Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:54:32 +0000 david http://www.myblackjack2.com/?p=218

Delete Large Amounts of Text Quickly

Its often I’ll find myself typing out a text message or an e-mail and after two are three sentences I’ll decide it’s not really what I want to send… so i sit there holding the “backspace” button deleting character after character – which is pretty annoying (not as annoying as discarding the message and creating a new one though.)

Well tonight I stumble upon a solution to my problem!

With your cursor at the end of your text, hold down the “caps/shift” key, click UP on the D-Pad until you reach the top of the message (or however far you want to delete). Once all the text you want to delete is highlighted, hit the “backspace” key once!

Presto! All gone!

Delete Large Amounts of Text Quickly

]]> http://www.thesmartfone.com/tips-and-tricks/delete-large-amounts-of-text-quickly/feed/ 13 Create New Text Messages with Speed Dial http://www.thesmartfone.com/tips-and-tricks/add-speed-dial-to-text-messages/ http://www.thesmartfone.com/tips-and-tricks/add-speed-dial-to-text-messages/#comments Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:09:07 +0000 david http://www.myblackjack2.com/?p=198

Create New Text Messages with Speed Dial

There are always those couple people in your phone that you text all the time .. Creating a new Text message on the Blackjack II can be annoying (Going to Messages, New Text Message, Add Recipients, Search for your recipient, Select recipient … not to mention all the load time between those steps).

Bryan J. sent me a great tip for streamlining this process using Speed dial!

When you think about it, its fairly self evident, but I wasn’t taking advantage of it, so I’m guessing there are a lot of other people that aren’t either.

Here’s what you do:

  1. Go to “Contacts”
  2. Select the Contact (Center D-Pad button)
  3. Highlight “Send text message”
  4. Click “Menu” (Right soft key)
  5. Select “Add Speed Dial” (Second from the bottom)
  6. Change keypad assignment to the desired Speed Dial number
  7. Select “Done” (Left soft key)

When you’re on the home screen, hold down the corresponding Speed Dial number key (you don’t need to press Fn) . This will open up the standard “Call Search” screen, keep holding the Speed Dial number key down. After 2 seconds a blank Text Message will open with the correct recipient already added.

Note, if you use a two-digit Speed Dial number (Ex. 24), from the home screen, type in the first number (Ex. 2) and then press and hold the second number (Ex. 4) until the new Text Message screen appears.

This same technique can be used to add Speed Dial to Call or E-mail; In Step 3, highlight the function you want to add Speed Dial to.

Thanks to Bryan J. for the great tip!

]]> http://www.thesmartfone.com/tips-and-tricks/add-speed-dial-to-text-messages/feed/ 11 Turn Off the Backlight http://www.thesmartfone.com/tips-and-tricks/turn-off-the-backlight/ http://www.thesmartfone.com/tips-and-tricks/turn-off-the-backlight/#comments Thu, 01 May 2008 21:13:28 +0000 david http://www.myblackjack2.com/?p=61

Turn Off the Backlight

To force the backlight off, press and hold the “Messages” hard button!

]]> http://www.thesmartfone.com/tips-and-tricks/turn-off-the-backlight/feed/ 2 How to Install a CAB File http://www.thesmartfone.com/tips-and-tricks/how-to-install-a-cab-file/ http://www.thesmartfone.com/tips-and-tricks/how-to-install-a-cab-file/#comments Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:04:07 +0000 david http://www.myblackjack2.com/?p=109

How to Install a CAB File

Here is a quick tutorial on how to run CAB files on your Blackjack 2. CAB files are software installation packages (similar to .MSI files in windows). Most software you will install on your Blackjack 2 will come packaged as a CAB file.

  1. Do NOT unzip the CAB file!!!
  2. Transfer the CAB file to your phone; remember what folder you copy the CAB file to — “My Documents” is generally the default location.
    1. Copy the CAB file using ActiveSync
    2. Send the CAB file using Bluetooth
    3. Copy the CAB file to your microSD card, and then put the microSD card in your Blackjack 2.
    4. E-mail the CAB file to yourself; Save attachment to your Blackjack 2
    5. Download the CAB file from a Web site from your Smartphone.
      • Save the CAB file to your phone using your web browser’s “Save As” feature; Go to Step 3 below.
      • Open the CAB file using your web browser’s “Open” feature; Skip to Step 6 below.
  3. Goto Start > Applications > File Explorer
  4. Navigate to the folder containing the CAB file (generally “My Documents”)
  5. Select the CAB file, and click the select button on the D-Pad
  6. Follow the onscreen instructions (If pompted you will generally want to install software to your Device rather than a Storage Card)
  7. After the installation is complete, goto Start > Applications and run the newly installed software.

Once a CAB file has been installed you may delete the CAB file from your Blackjack 2.

To uninstall a CAB file, go to “Start > Settings > Remove Programs” and Select the corresponding program you wish to uninstall.

Copy files to your Blackjack 2 with Bluetooth!
]]> http://www.thesmartfone.com/tips-and-tricks/how-to-install-a-cab-file/feed/ 88 Zoom In On Your Screen http://www.thesmartfone.com/tips-and-tricks/zoom-in-on-your-screen/ http://www.thesmartfone.com/tips-and-tricks/zoom-in-on-your-screen/#comments Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:07:23 +0000 david http://www.myblackjack2.com/?p=107

Zoom In On Your Screen

The Samsung Blackjack 2 has a built in “Zoom” feature that can come in handy for those of you with eyes as poor as mine. 

  1. Hold down the Camera hard button and your Blackjack 2 will Zoom in on the screen.
  2. Use Volume Up/Down to Zoom In and Out.
  3. Press the D-Pad Select button to select the “scroll” method (horizontal, vertical, zig-zag).
  4. Use the Left and Right Select buttons to increase and decrease the scroll speed.
  5. Press the D-Pad and select the “X” to exit from the Zoom feature.

Check out the great video on YouTube for a demo!

Thanks to Cyclefreaksix for suggesting this Tip!

]]> http://www.thesmartfone.com/tips-and-tricks/zoom-in-on-your-screen/feed/ 1 Select Multiple Files in the File Explorer http://www.thesmartfone.com/tips-and-tricks/select-multiple-files-in-the-file-explorer/ http://www.thesmartfone.com/tips-and-tricks/select-multiple-files-in-the-file-explorer/#comments Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:01:11 +0000 david http://www.myblackjack2.com/?p=59

Select Multiple Files in the File Explorer

To select multiple items in the File Explorer (Applications > File Explorer), hold down the “Shift” key while pressing Up or Down on the D-Pad. You will be able to select multiple files and cut, copy, delete or send/beam them all at once!

]]> http://www.thesmartfone.com/tips-and-tricks/select-multiple-files-in-the-file-explorer/feed/ 1 Turn off Camera Zoom Sound Effects http://www.thesmartfone.com/tips-and-tricks/turn-off-camera-sound-effects/ http://www.thesmartfone.com/tips-and-tricks/turn-off-camera-sound-effects/#comments Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:26:16 +0000 david http://www.myblackjack2.com/?p=33

Turn off Camera Zoom Sound Effects

By default the camera feature on the Blackjack 2 has some seriously annoying sound effects associated with the Zoom feature — Luckily they can be turned permanently off.

  1. Click the Camera hard-button
  2. Select “Menu” using the right select button
  3. Select menu item “9. Options”
  4. Select menu item “2. Camera”
  5. Scroll down to “Sound”
  6. Change “Zoom” to “Off”
  7. Select “Done” using the left select button
Get a Memory Card to store all your Photos!Turn off Camera Zoom Sound Effects
]]> http://www.thesmartfone.com/tips-and-tricks/turn-off-camera-sound-effects/feed/ 0 Restore Factory Default Settings http://www.thesmartfone.com/tips-and-tricks/restore-factory-default-settings/ http://www.thesmartfone.com/tips-and-tricks/restore-factory-default-settings/#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:48:24 +0000 david http://www.myblackjack2.com/?p=30

Restore Factory Default Settings

To restore factory default settings:

  1. Turn off your Blackjack 2
  2. Press the Up button on the D-pad
  3. While holding the Up button on the D-pad, turn the Blackjack 2 back on
  4. You should immediately see instructions on how to restore your phone to factory settings

Note: if you see the at&t and 3g animations, try again – most likely you were not pressing the Up button on the D-pad when you turned the phone back on.

]]> http://www.thesmartfone.com/tips-and-tricks/restore-factory-default-settings/feed/ 8 Navigate “Settings” Quickly http://www.thesmartfone.com/tips-and-tricks/navigate-settings-quickly/ http://www.thesmartfone.com/tips-and-tricks/navigate-settings-quickly/#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:38:05 +0000 david http://www.myblackjack2.com/?p=22

Navigate "Settings" Quickly

When paging through the “Settings” menu, click “left” and “right” in the D-Pad to move through pages instead of selecting the “More…” menu option.

 

 

]]> http://www.thesmartfone.com/tips-and-tricks/navigate-settings-quickly/feed/ 0 Fn Key Shortcut http://www.thesmartfone.com/tips-and-tricks/fn-key-shortcut/ http://www.thesmartfone.com/tips-and-tricks/fn-key-shortcut/#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:36:35 +0000 david http://www.myblackjack2.com/?p=21

Fn Key Shortcut

Instead of pressing the Fn (Function) key to gain access to your numbers or symbols while in “abc” mode – just hold down the key for 2 seconds.

]]> http://www.thesmartfone.com/tips-and-tricks/fn-key-shortcut/feed/ 2