Garrett Kelley

I wanted to share a few quick settings changes which can greatly improve the battery life of your BlackBerry.

Go to Options then Screen/Keyboard.

1. I changed my Backlight Brightness from the default of 100 to 50. This will set the maximum brightness to 50%. It is noticeably dimmer at first, but after using it for a few minutes you will not notice the difference anymore.

2. Make sure Automatically Dim Backlight is set to On. This will automatically adjust the Backlight according to the light level of the room you are in. The backlight however will never be brighter than what you set the Backlight Brightness to.

3. Change the Backlight Timeout to 10 seconds. Sometimes this can be a little bit annoying, but more often than not I do not need the backlight to say on for the default 30 seconds.

These three settings working together can greatly improve the battery life of your BlackBerry. My BlackBerry Tour went from barley making it a day on a single charge, to running well into the night.

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