about me being lazy and you being an enabler
July 11, 2008 9 Comments
I don’t know how to use my blackberry.
There. I said it.
I do the bare minimum with it – email, phone, text, pictures, the occasional web surfing.
I don’t have enterprise activation, I’m not sync’d to my work email, I haven’t downloaded any cool apps.
I haven’t set up smart dialing, voice dialing, or anything else.
Hell, I haven’t even downloaded a RING TONE.
In my defense, I DID manage to figure out how to turn it into a Large Print Edition Blackberry AND Himself reminds me that I made it a FINE Shower Alarm (it never goes off unless I’m in the shower).
But I’m pretty tyro.
So, I come to you, in all my ignorance, FAR too lazy to look it up on the interwebs myself, knowing nothing save one thing: that you guys know EVERYTHING, and I bet you can help me fix these two things:
1) my crackberry camera doesn’t zoom anymore. I read the help and neither of the methods they outline for zooming (volume up/down, or trackball up/down) work anymore. The Boy was convinced that it was because it was out of memory, so I deleted all the pictures on it. Didn’t help.
b) my call log doesn’t show me past calls anymore … it comes up with an input screen where it wants me to type in a name/number.
Why?
Actually, I don’t really much care “why” … I just want to know how I can get it back to where it was, when I could zoom and see my call log.
Anyone? Bueller?
And yes, I realize that in the time I took to write this post, I could have looked it up myself. But what fun would THAT be? I’d MUCH rather talk to you guys.
my phone doesnt zoom unless the resolution is set to a lower level… try that
That would imply the zoom is digital rather than optical.
I’m almost sure it is digital and not optical so I think that is the resolution to this problem (no pun intended!)
hmmm wish I could help but that little bit of technology has by passed me as yet. Hoping you get your zoom back baby…
tried both reducing picture size and lowering the resolution. Still no dice.
Duh – I looked it up – took less than a dozen key strokes and the most obvious thing EVER! – Shut it down – take out the battery and voila – it works again!
But THAT’s not clever, Himself.
That’s the NORMAL resolution to such things. 
Step 1: Accidentally through said crackberry into the harbour.
Step 2: Buy an iPhone
Step 3: Rinse and repeat.
Taking out the battery is the equivalent of Ctrl-Alt-Delete on these things, bizarrely. I had the same experience where my camera stopped zooming – a “hard reset” fixed it as described here.
+1 for the iPhone vote, but I suspect the camera on the BB is probably better