[Minot]

I just got my Blackberry Bold 9700 two days ago. I really like it. I am upgrading from an 8310 Curve. I have been able to get all of the functionality I want. My mail, web browser (Mini Opera 4), and home Wifi are all working on the phone. But I have two questions that I need some expert help with:

1) How do you turn off the clicking sound whenever you use the trackpad?

2) Does leaving Wifi on all the time significantly reduce your battery life?

The clicking is the only thing driving me nuts with the new phone. But I am sure there is a setting to turn it off. I just haven't found it yet. The Wifi power question is just whether I should leave it on all the time. I'll auto-connect when I get home after work each day and it will stay on Wifi until I leave the house the next morning (or run out). Can I leave it setup with Wifi on all the time or should I only turn it on when I'm using the phone to web browse at the house?

Thanks all in advance for your expert advice.

-MINOT-

[forzahibs]

Originally Posted by Minot

I just got my Blackberry Bold 9700 two days ago. I really like it. I am upgrading from an 8310 Curve. I have been able to get all of the functionality I want. My mail, web browser (Mini Opera 4), and home Wifi are all working on the phone. But I have two questions that I need some expert help with:

1) How do you turn off the clicking sound whenever you use the trackpad?

2) Does leaving Wifi on all the time significantly reduce your battery life?

The clicking is the only thing driving me nuts with the new phone. But I am sure there is a setting to turn it off. I just haven't found it yet. The Wifi power question is just whether I should leave it on all the time. I'll auto-connect when I get home after work each day and it will stay on Wifi until I leave the house the next morning (or run out). Can I leave it setup with Wifi on all the time or should I only turn it on when I'm using the phone to web browse at the house?

Thanks all in advance for your expert advice.

-MINOT-

1) menu...setup......options....screen/keyboard........audible roll and set to mute

2)I have mine on all the time and am happy with battery life

[ftl900]

Depends a bunch on how often you use wi-fi, and how hard you are on your battery. If you have wi-fi and BT on all the time, it will make a noticeable difference vs. having them both off all the time.

There are aftermarket apps that will turn each on or off for you based on your GPS location, so when you arrive home, wifi is turned on, and when you leave, it's turned off. But if battery life isn't a problem, I'd smile and leave it all alone.

[JG in SB]

On the Wi-Fi vs. battery issue, yes Wi-Fi is going to drain it alot faster. Although "alot faster" on a 9700 is still pretty good battery life. I find the easiest thing to do is to program my left side button to activate the wireless settings window. This allows me to very quickly and easily turn Wi-Fi on when I know I am in a location where there is Wi-Fi access (like my house or Starbucks), and turn it off when I leave. Takes less than 5 seconds to manually turn it on or off this way. That allows me to avoid having to install an additional GPS locationsearching application. With Wi-Fi off most of the time, my battery life is so good on the 9700 that I don't even think about it.

[Minot]

Great! Thanks for the inputs. I was able to get my 9700 fully running as I want it within 3 days of getting this. I am very pleased with my upgrade so far.

-MINOT-

[Minot]

Well this is odd... all of a sudden yesterday I started getting a blinking green LED. I assumed this was due to low battery as my phone was below one battery bar. So I recharged the phone. It is now fully charged and the LED is still blinking. I looked through all my email and messages. I don't see any alerts I am missing.

What does this green LED mean and how can I turn it off? Thanks!

-MINOT-


***UPDATE***
I figured it out. I had turned on the wireless coverage indicator when I was troublshooting getting the LED to blink when I got new mail. That was just an issue of adjusting my profile settings. I must have changed the access area setting and forgot to change it back.

[The BlackBerry Kid]

Originally Posted by Minot

Well this is odd... all of a sudden yesterday I started getting a blinking green LED. I assumed this was due to low battery as my phone was below one battery bar. So I recharged the phone. It is now fully charged and the LED is still blinking. I looked through all my email and messages. I don't see any alerts I am missing.

What does this green LED mean and how can I turn it off? Thanks!

-MINOT-


***UPDATE***
I figured it out. I had turned on the wireless coverage indicator when I was troublshooting getting the LED to blink when I got new mail. That was just an issue of adjusting my profile settings. I must have changed the access area setting and forgot to change it back.

See this is odd. Because what i noticed, is when we set up all at&t BlackBerrys, the green service light is always blinking. but on verizon, sprint, and tmobile that is never the case. Same with the clicking thing. its sort of odd.

[DZD]

The blinking green light is the "coverage" indicator - you can turn that off or on in the same place you turn off and on the trackpad click noise. Just set "LED Coverage Indicator" to off. I have mine off as I know I always have coverage and it saves (albeit minimally) battery life.

[yoAlbby]

Is there any way of changing the light colors for different alerts?

[kart3r]

Originally Posted by yoAlbby

Is there any way of changing the light colors for different alerts?

You can go to AppWorld and look for BeBuzz, it does what you want. It has both free and premium versions.