If you own a BlackBerry mobile phone (or plan to buy one), here’s a very useful shortcut (or can we say Easter Egg) that enables you to perform a complete health checkup of your BlackBerry hardware.
You will be able to test the keys of your BlackBerry keyboard, trackball movements, audio volume, Bluetooth connection, handset, speakers, LED, LCD screen pixels, etc.
To begin the test, click "Options" icon on the home screen of your BlackBerry and then select "Status."
On the status screen, type the wor d "test" without quotes and from the menu on the Device Self Test Application screen, select Start.
If you have a BlackBerry Pearl or another model that supports SureType, use the multi-tap input method to type "test".
As you may have seen in the test report, it says "Fail" for the Keypad Backlight Test on my BlackBerry Curve – that looks like a false positive to me.
Thanks Crackberry and BBNews.
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Reader Comments
This is a nice tip for who wants to buy a used BlackBerry. As if we are going to purchase a new one, i think there is no need to test its performance and its hardware. If someone wants to buy a used mobile then there is no guarantee for the hardware.
Written by kishore on 09.27.08
This is a nice trick. Of course, you are in trouble if your ‘t’ key is busted :D
Written by Vaibhav on 09.28.08
This tip is good. But how can we test when we buy this? We can use the device after buying it right :-(
Written by iamatechie on 09.28.08
Thank you sweet dear.its really helpful for me and my team.
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Written by mudassar on 11.20.08