• Turn off the connection to a wireless network when you are not in a wireless coverage area.
• Delete the original message when you send a reply.
• Lower the brightness of the backlighting.
• Turn off the flash in the camera.
• Send a message to multiple contacts using Add To, Add Cc, or Add Bcc.
• Charge your device regularly.
View the amount of available memory on your device
1. Remove and reinsert the battery.
2. In the device options, click Status.
The File Free field displays the amount of available memory on your BlackBerry® device.
Best practice: Optimizing your device performance
Try to maintain at least 400 KB of available memory on your BlackBerry®device. To increase the amount of available memory, try deleting
items that you do not need from your device. Consider the following guidelines:
• Delete old email and MMS messages, especially messages with attachments.
• Delete contacts that are already in your organization's address book.
• Delete media files from the device memory.
• Delete applications and languages that you do not use.
• If you recently upgraded the BlackBerry® Device Software over the wireless network, delete the previous version of the BlackBerry
Device Software.
• Clear the browser cache.
To use less memory, try changing options for email messages, calendar entries, and media files. Consider the following guidelines:
• Reduce the amount of time that your device stores email messages and calendar entries.
• Stop forwarding email messages to your device when your device is connected to your computer.
• Receive only the first section of long email messages.
• Store media files on a media card.
• Reduce the maximum amount of device memory available for all media files.
• Reduce the minimum amount of device memory available for pictures.
• If you take a picture, verify that the picture quality is set to Normal.
• Reduce the picture quality in the browser.
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