Blackberry Porsche Design P 9981 7 1 User Guide

Contacts
How to: Contacts
Contact basics
Add a contact
Do one of the following:
 • To add a contact using the Contacts application, on the home screen, click the Contacts icon. At the top of the screen, 
click 
New Contact. Type the contact information. Press the  key > Save.
 • To add a contact from a message, call log, or webpage, highlight the contact name, number, or email address. Press 
the 
 key > Add to Contacts > Create New Contact. If necessary, add contact information. Press the  key > 
Save....

•To copy a contact from your contact list to your SIM Card, in the contact list, click a contact. Highlight a phone number .
 • Press the  key > Copy to SIM Phone Book. Press the  key > Save.
Create a custom contact field
Custom contact fields can store information that you want to remember about a contact, for example, you might want to 
add a custom contact field named Sports team or Favorite color. If you create a custom field for a contact, the field appears 
for all your contacts.
1.When you are...

 • To delete a contact from your Contact list, on the home screen, click the Contacts icon. Highlight a contact. Press the 
 key > Delete.
Change or delete a SIM card contact
1.On the home screen, click the Contacts icon.
2.Press the  key > SIM Phone Book.
3.Highlight a contact.
 • To change a SIM card contact, press the  key > Edit. Change the contact information. Press the  key 
> 
Save.
 • To delete a SIM card contact, press the  key > Delete.
 • To delete all SIM card contacts, press the  key >...

When you are composing a message, press the  key > Attach > Contact. 
2.Find and highlight a contact.
3.Press the  key > Continue. 
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Add a contact picture for caller ID
1.On the home screen, click the Contacts icon.
2.Highlight a contact.
3.Press the  key > Edit. 4.Press the  key > Add Picture. 
5.Find, highlight, and click a picture.
6.If necessary, move the crop box to the portion of the picture that you want to use.
7.Press the  key...

Category names are not case sensitive. More than one category can apply to a contact, task, or memo. If you use IBM Lotus 
Notes
, you can apply more than one category to a task on your BlackBerry smartphone, but only one category synchronizes 
with the task in 
Lotus Notes.
Categories are shared between the contact list, the task list, and the memo list and changes that you make in one 
application are made in all applications.
Categorize a contact, task, or memo
1.When you are creating or changing a...

Research In Motion recommends that you regularly create and save a backup file on your computer, especially before you update any software. Maintaining a current backup file on your computer might allow you to recover smartphone data if 
your smartphone is lost, stolen, or corrupted by an unforeseen issue.
Synchronize organizer data over the wireless network
Before you begin: Research In Motion recommends that you regularly create and save a backup file on your computer, 
especially before you update any...

If you reconcile your email using wireless email reconciliation, on your smartphone, you can set whether the email on your smartphone or the email on your computer takes precedence when an email reconciliation conflict occurs.
If you synchronize your organizer data using wireless data synchronization, the organizer data on your computer takes 
precedence over the organizer data on your smartphone when a data synchronization conflict occurs.
Research In Motion recommends that you regularly create and save...

 • To change a personal distribution list, click Edit Group. Click a contact. Click Add Member, Change Member, or 
Delete Member. Press the  key > Save Group.
•To delete a personal distribution list, click Delete Group > Delete.
Note: When you delete a contact from a personal distribution list, the contact remains in your contact list.
Multiple contact lists
About multiple contact lists
If your BlackBerry smartphone is associated with multiple email accounts, you might have contacts from each email...

3.If necessary, click General Options.
4.Clear the Confirm Delete checkbox.
5.Press the  key > Save. 
Change the display options for contacts
You can change how your contacts appear in all applications, including the phone, message list, contact list, and calendar.
1.On the home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon.
2.Click Typing and Input > Language.
3.Change the Global Name Display field.
4.Press the  key > Save. 
View the number of contacts stored on your smartphone
1.On the home screen,...

Store SIM card contacts on your wireless service provider's contact 
backup server
Depending on your wireless service provider and your wireless service plan, you might be able to store your contacts on  your wireless service provider's contact backup server. For more information, contact your wireless service provider.
Replace or merge contacts on your wireless service provider's contact 
backup server
To perform this task, you will need to sign up for your wireless service provider's...