Saturday, March 28, 2009

Auto On/Off on your Berry

Another built-in goodie that I thought everyone would already know about, but found out last week that's not the case. At a training session for our region I had a short-lived issue with my Berry which I asked someone about. That someone was a lead service guy for our area and carries a Berry himself, so I asked him if he had ever seen what was happening before (the issue is not important and turned out to be a problem with my magnetic case, not my berry). He said no, and another service guy sitting with him asked me if I ever turned my device off. I politely answered that I did and even pulled my battery once a week or so for good measure. I said that I had my auto on/off set during the weekdays, to which I got "you can do that?". For those of you who don't know, your Berry (or any cell phone, for that matter) should be power-cycled regularly. They're mini-computers these days and need to be restarted just like your desktop or laptop to run smoothly. RIM has conveniently made that easy by including an automated feature to do this for us. Just go to Options>Auto On/Off and you can set an automatic time for your Berry to turn itself on and off. There are separate settings for weekdays and weekends to accommodate your work and personal schedule. Now go and set it so you'll have less Berry hang-ups!

3 comments:

  1. Or you can use QuickPull http://store.berryreview.com/product.asp?id=22989&n=QuickPull to do it automatically for yourself.I set mine at 5 AM in the morning when i am asleep and works like a charm. Just don't holster you BB , it won't work.

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  2. Does it matter how long/short you have it power down?

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  3. The time doesn't really matter. I would recommend at least 60 seconds or so.

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