Awesome BlackBerry tip for giving out your PIN
Props to my buddy Richard Amar who taught me — yes, the tech guy who is supposed to know *everything* — a little ‘ol trick when sharing your BlackBerry PIN number.
So your buddies or colleagues want to chat with you via BlackBerry Messenger because when you use your smartphone’s PIN, a unique number/letter combination associated with your BlackBerry, you can do it without incurring any data costs with your carrier.
Previously, if someone wanted to know my PIN, I would go into the Options menu, then Status and finally copy my 8-digit PIN (e.g. 32482E09) to paste into an email or text message.
My buddy Rich, however, taught me a much easier way to give someone your PIN to chat via BlackBerry Messenger.
All you have to do is start an email to your friend and then type this phrase: mypin. After you press spacebar your PIN will automatically show up in this space.
How cool is that?
On a related note, here are some other BlackBerry tips and shortcuts I wrote about for Sync a few moons ago.
Know of any other hot BlackBerry tips you can share?
Neat tip but funny how PINs are actually down today.
yeah whats up with that ? why isnt messenegr working today ?? anyone know ???? and when will it be up and running again ?
What happened to memorization? But neat tip anyway.
If I could memorize something like that, I wouldn’t be so darned dependant on my Blackberry. :-)
Works in a text message too. Thx for the tip…
you can also type “mynumber” and it shows your cell number
also “myver” shows your device type and software version
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Thanks Les and Dreams,
Marc
It’s worth mentioning that you can’t use this everywhere. For example, filling out web fields.
Here’s a tip:
Use Shortcut keys to make life easier:
From the homescreen:
M Messages (Email)
L Calendar
C Contact or A = Address Book
V Saved Messages
N BlackBerry Messenger
T Tasks
B Web Browser
W WAP Browser
F Profiles – Sounds (Ring/Vibrate/Mute)
H Help
K Keyboard Lock
O Options Icon
U Calculator
S Search Icon
D MemoPad
P Phone (Call Logs)
From your Email:
T Top of Inbox
B Bottom of Inbox
U Go to next
SPACE – Page Down
ALT + Glide trackpad – Page Up/Down
C Compose new email
R Reply to selected
N Next day
P Previous day
ALT + U Toggle read / unread message
E Find Delivery Error(s)
V Go to Saved Messages Folder
Q (When highlighting email/name) Show/Hide Email Address
Or Friendly Name
L Reply All to selected message
F Forward selected
K Search for next message in thread (Replies, Forward, etc.)
S Search
From the BlackBerry Browser:
T/X Top of Web Page
B Bottom of Web Page
SPACE bar – Page Down
SHIFT + SPACE – Page Up
G Go to your Start Page where you can type in a web address
H Go to your Home Page (Set in Browser Menu > Options > Browser Configuration)
ESCAPE key/DEL key
Go Back 1 page
D Jump out of Browser, go to Home Screen of icons
C View connection information (bytes sent/received, security)
ENTER – Select (“click-on”) highlighted link
Y View History of web pages
R Refresh the current web page
P View the address for the page you are viewing with an option to copy or send the address (via email, PIN or SMS).
L View the web page address the clickable link that is currently highlighted
J Turn on JavaScript support
I Zoom Into Web Page
O Zoom Out of Web Page
U Show/Hide Top Status Bar
F/V Search for text on the current web page
Z Switch between column and page view
A Add New Bookmark
K View your Bookmark List
S View Browser Options Screens
From the Calendar:
D Day View
W Week View
M Month View
A Agenda View
N Next day
P Previous day
G Go To Date
T Jump to Today (Now)
C Schedule new event (detail view)
SPACE – Next Day (day view)
DEL Delete selected event
SHIFT + glide trackpad – select several hours – example if you wanted to quickly schedule a 3 hour meeting you would highlight the 3 hours and press ENTER.
ENTER – (in Day View – not on a scheduled event) Start Quick Scheduling
ENTER – (in Day View – on a scheduled event) Opens it.
From the Media Player:
N Next Track / Video
P Previous Track / Video
SPACE Key – Play / Pause
ENTER Key – Selects highlighted button (same as clicking Trackpad / clicking Trackball)
DEL Delete selected media item (song, video, etc. when in list or icon view)
Press & Hold Volume Up Key – Next Track / Video
Press & Hold Volume Down Key – Previous Track / Video
MUTE Key on Top – Play / Pause
$/Speaker Key – Switch between speaker and handset/headset (including Bluetooth headset)
Enjoy!
Wow, awesome Kyle, thanks,
Marc
Thank you for this great tip! This has made my life a whole lot easier to give out my pin to friends and family! I would love to know any other tips that you may know about the blackberry! Please share on your website! Thank you Eli!
Do all these tips… work on most pocket PC ?
Thanks Joe.
Pocket PC, as in Windows Mobile?
Check out Microsoft’s site: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/totalaccess/columns/windows-mobile-tips.mspx
As for BlackBerry, here’s a great list of all the shortcuts:
Part 1: http://www.brighthub.com/mobile/blackberry-platform/articles/13468.aspx
Part 2: http://www.brighthub.com/mobile/blackberry-platform/articles/13448.aspx
Part 3: http://www.brighthub.com/mobile/blackberry-platform/articles/13470.aspx
Thanks Jeremy,
Here’s another good site for Windows Mobile 6.5 shortcuts:
http://www.treoprotricks.com/post/Keyboard-shortcuts-for-Windows-Messaging.aspx
Marc