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!
June 25th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
David (if this is David who posted), I’m glad you’re consistently providing tips and tricks for the Blackjack 2. I just got mine 3 days ago and have found more than a few useful tricks on this site.
You’ve been a big help.
I hope your InvisibleShield link is a referral, because I’ve purchased one via this site to assist/donate.
Cheers.
June 25th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
David this is awesome. it really irritated me that i couldnt erase quickly
keep up the great work!
expect donations
June 25th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
ye this is a great tip that i stumbled across awhile ago, keep up the great work
June 25th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
love it!
June 25th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
hey, isnt there supposed to be an update for windows mobile suppose to come out soon? The one that will make the txts look like a chat. Does anyone know when? Im going to be pissed if its been out there floating around with out me knowing lol
June 27th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Jererermyg,
Windows Mobile 6.1 upgrade is currently out for other existing phones however hasnt been released for the bj 2 yet and should be here shortly.
June 28th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
jeremy,
pukka’s got it dead on. don’t worry – when Windows Mobile 6.1 is released for the Blackjack 2 there will be a post on MyBlackjack2.com letting everyone know!
August 25th, 2008 at 5:29 am
an additional addon tip: if you want to select all the text and want to save a bit more time, hit return/enter key to goto the next line before you hold shift + up. that way you wont have to do, shift+up, shift+left for like 10 seconds.
September 8th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
My phone sometimes gets stuck on this, like it won’t let me just go tot eh left by itself, it highlights it. And I have to turn it off then back on. Do you know if it turns on & off or whaat?
February 3rd, 2009 at 2:54 pm
I love this tip thanks so much!
May 2nd, 2009 at 10:20 pm
i was screwing around and found if you hold the camera button on any screen even the home screen you zoom in and use the wheel to zoom in or out and press d pad buttons to move. pointless but nifty at the same time. press the center button and choose a direction and it will automatically move for you to read text.
May 2nd, 2009 at 10:21 pm
hold cv and you get power management.
September 7th, 2009 at 2:17 am
I am using the Tmobile Dash WM6 and when i try to hold the caps key and hold up on the D-pad the cruser or whatever just goes up and nothing is highlighted and how do i fix this??