BlackBerry

Character Modification

• To quickly capitalize a letter, hold it down for about a second.
• To type characters with commonly-used diacritics, hold down the closest English letter, and spin the trackball.
  • This will not work for input fields limited to ASCII (for instance SMS test messages).

Apps

• Google Voice as of at least 2009-07-15
• Google Sync is absolutely necessary

Linux

• bcharge from the barry package is used to properly set up USB-based charging
• btool from the barry-util package:

[recombinator](0) $ btool -t -P devpassword
Blackberry devices found:
Device ID: 0x8f5710. PIN: 21420533, Description: RIM BlackBerry Device
Using device (PIN): 21420533
Database database:
    Database: 0x0 'MMS Options' (records: 1)
    Database: 0x1 'Input Method Switcher Option' (records: 1)
    Database: 0x2 'RMS Databases' (records: 4)
    Database: 0x3 'Certificate Options' (records: 0)
    ....
    Database: 0x59 'Bluetooth Options' (records: 1)
    Database: 0x5a 'AutoText' (records: 108)

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