You can type even faster and navigate better. The shortcuts help you save time by allowing you to never take your hands off the phonekeyboard to use the touch-screen. Knowing some of the basic actions in Blackberry OS can go a long way toward helping you use your phone quickly and efficiently.
Reboot the phone (like taking out the battery): Hold the “Alt” Key and then hit the right “CAPS” key and the “Del” key all at the same time
Holding the BB key – task manager.
Scan barcode – BB-key in AppWorld.

To highlight text character by character, hold the Shift key and roll the trackball left or right.
• To cut highlighted text when typing, press the Shift key and the Delete key.
• To copy highlighted text when typing, press the Alt key and click the trackball.
• To paste highlighted text when typing, press the Shift key and click the trackball.
Speaker Phone On/Off – Press the speaker-phone symbol ($) on the keyboard.
Alt-Shift-H – displays your Device Info
To type an accented or special character, hold the letter key and roll the trackball to the left or right. For example, to type ü, hold U and roll the trackball to the left until ü appears. Release the letter key when the accented or special character appears.
While holding down [alt] scroll your accelerate upwards or downwards.
Alt+Enter Switch between input language – to switch applications, hold the Alt key and press the Escape key. Continue holding the Alt key and select an application. Release the Alt key (or Shift and then BB key). Can be changed to Shift+Space in the BB Input Settings.
To add an extension to a phone number, press the Alt key and the X key, then type the extension number.
Insert period/Q – Space twice
Capitalize letter – press the letter and keep it held down
Turn on Num lock – Alt + left Shift
Turn on Caps lock – Alt + right Shift
Turn off Num/Caps lock – Shift
Go to top of a page or list T
Go to bottom of a page or list – B
Hold Q – vibro
Space (in address bar) – insert period
Insert slash in Go To field Shift + Space

ALT-RBVS – in Web Browser Any HTML/WML webpage View web page source code
Close browser Press and hold Escape (arrow key to the right of the trackpad)
hold * – block the screen
E-mail / Messages:
Incoming only – Alt+I
Outgoing only – Alt+O
Phone calls only – Alt+P
SMS messages only – Alt+S
Oldest e-mail – B
Newest e-mail – T
Compose e-mail – C
Forward e-mail – F
Reply to – R
Reply to all – L
Search – S
To mark a message as opened or unopened, press the Alt key and U.
To move to the top of a screen, press the Shift key and the Space key.
To search for text in a message or memo, press S.
Typing “ld” and then hitting the spacebar in an email will insert the local date.
Typing “lt” and then hitting the spacebar in an email will insert the local time.


Play the next audio file – press and hold the “Volume Up” key on the right side of your BlackBerry.
Play the previous audio file – press and hold the “Volume Down” key on the right side of your BlackBerry.
Turn on the audio boost feature – if you’re using a headset, press the “Volume Up” key until the audio boost feature turns on.
ALT-N-M-L-L – switches the signal strength from bars to a numeric value.(and a second time to return to bars)
Locate Your IMEI – in “Universal Search” type *#06#
From the home screen hold the “ALT” key, type LGLG when the Java log appears hit the “Berry” key and select “Clear Log”