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All of this information was tested on a BlackBerry Curve 8900 or BlackBerry Bold 9700 (but generally not both!) on T-Mobile, usually within Atlanta. | All of this information was tested on a BlackBerry Curve 8900 or BlackBerry Bold 9700 (but generally not both!) on T-Mobile, usually within Atlanta. | ||
==BlackBerry data== | |||
* <tt>btool -l</tt> will list connected devices: | |||
<pre>[hyperbox](0) $ btool -l | |||
Blackberry devices found: | |||
Device ID: 0xfb6d10. PIN: 228db871, Description: RIM BlackBerry Device | |||
[hyperbox](0) $ </pre> | |||
* <tt>btool -t</tt> will list supported databases. Use <tt>-P devpassword</tt> if a password has been set. | |||
<pre> | |||
==Character Modification== | ==Character Modification== | ||
To quickly capitalize a letter, hold it down for about a second. | To quickly capitalize a letter, hold it down for about a second. | ||
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* [http://www.google.com/mobile/sync/ Google Sync] is absolutely necessary | * [http://www.google.com/mobile/sync/ Google Sync] is absolutely necessary | ||
==[[Debian|Linux]]== | ==[[Debian|Linux]]== | ||
* BlackBerry uses WINDOWS-1252 by default, which is pretty much entirely useless. Use <tt>-i UTF-8</tt> to convert data to UTF-8. | |||
** No, btool doesn't appear to simply honor [[LANG]]. | |||
* <tt>[http://www.blackberryfaq.com/index.php/How_to_Use_BCharge bcharge]</tt> from the [http://sourceforge.net/projects/barry/ barry] package is used to properly set up USB-based charging | * <tt>[http://www.blackberryfaq.com/index.php/How_to_Use_BCharge bcharge]</tt> from the [http://sourceforge.net/projects/barry/ barry] package is used to properly set up USB-based charging | ||
* <tt>btool</tt> from the barry-util package: | * <tt>btool</tt> from the barry-util package: | ||