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Yes … I’ve read the 35 pages of posts and did myself a favor – I copied out everything that I personally found useful and some tweaks that I wanted to make sure I didn’t lose for later. I’ve got some more tips coming from other places and things I’ve found on my own so I’ll be adding some more over the next little while. I’ll leave a couple on the main page so you get an idea of what’s covered….

Posted By: iJITSU
– You can adjust the brightness of the screen in Settings.

– Pressing and holding the Home button brings up the task manager

– Pressing and holding the jog dial brings up a list of apps

– Pressing the power button brings up the quicklist

Posted By: forest007
– Hold down message key to turn off backlight on screen

Posted by Sparkomatic
– Disable Message Sent Notification

Disable the "Message Sent" notification after sending a text message by following these steps:

1. Navigate to: HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftInbox
2. Create a new key "Settings"
3. Create a new string value "SMSNoSentMsg" and set the value to 1

Posted By: john1027
Hard Reset:
Settings>security>more>reset …its at the very end. Password default is 0000.

Ditch the Blackjack Startup & Shutdown Screens/Sounds

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If you find the startup and shutdwon screens on the Blackjack to be annoying, you can get rid of them with a registry change as folows:

HKey_Local_Machine>system>
-under system there are two entries: Shutdown and Startup
-under each one you will find an entry named 1
-under 1 there is a value name of Dll
-the default value for both entries is OemAnimationDll.dll
-change the default value data of each of those files (startup and shutdown) to the word none (I suppose null would work also but I know the word none does for sure)
-after changeing the value to none, back out to the main menu – wait a couple seconds and shut down and then restart, and you will find the annoying shutdown and startup screens and audio are gone.

When you shut down, hold the on/off button down for the normal 2-3 three seconds and release. At that point when you normally would have seen the shutdown screen and audio, it appears that nothing is happening, but just be patient and wait the few seconds a shutdown normally takes and the screen will go blank as the unit powers off.

On startup, you will immediately see the standard blue Windows Mobile Screen which will be there until the home screen comes up and loads. Just remember that it still takes the normal time to shutdown and startup. I guess all the startup and shutdwon OEM .dll files did was run in the foreground while the normal o/s functions ran in the background.

Posted by: txcas
Startup/Shutdown sound removal:
You can change the sound using the HKLMSoftwareHTCStartup and HKLMSoftwareHTCShutdown

Posted by: Otterley
You are correct. Fn + B toggles Bluetooth. There are a few other (not-so-useful) shortcuts listed in the Getting Started Guide that ships with the Blackjack:

Fn + C = Cingular Mall
Fn + M = Cingular Music
Fn + V = Cingular Video
Fn + W = MEdia Net

Posted By: maswell
I noticed If you hold a key down it will auto switch to its alternate character!

Posted By: dre3101
Gmail message deletion solved
Those of you who are having an issue with GMail messages being deleted – put the word recent: in front of your username in the Outlook setup.

recent:username@gmail.com

GMail’s documentation:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=47948&topic=1555

I posted a long version of how to set it up on a BlackJack on the Cingular board:

http://forums.cingular.com/cng/board/message?board.id=samsung&message.id=15235&query.id=77997#M15235

Posted By: brian_huff
In any of the edit fields (contacts, I.E., and others) if you hold down Undo (top right U-Turn with an arrow) it will delete the contents of the field you are in.

In I.E. it’s nice because it’s smart enough to only delete the portion of the field to the right of http://

Posted By: jdec141
Save Pictures to SD Card instead of main memory -
Open the camera go under menu and options

Posted By: sortaconfused
Recurring message notification:
Here’s the app everybody uses on the Motorola Q, works fine on any other WM5 smartphone as well:

http://blog.softimage.cz/?page_id=26   — ( DontForget is the name of the app )

The author is Czech, so don’t mind the language translation issues…the app works fine.

Posted By: jlczl
scroll by page instead of by line or link on PIE. Press the V key for PAGE DOWN and the T key for PAGE UP

Posted By: forest007
Hold down message key to turn off backlight on screen.

My little Contribution
— Use the directional pad to navigate between messaging accounts (like outlook / sms / mms)

— Remember my review of the i320 and the little lines that outlined various keys? Well that little dialing trick works with the BlackJack too. See the image below:

— Change the right softkey on your homescreen – go to Start / Settings / Key Settings / Home Screen RSK

— Change the Side key – same area as soft key. (This is the side button long press option)

— Save some cash on a data cable … the Samsung OEM d807 cable is identical and works just as well. (eBay they’re like $5). I bought one of the $24.99 Samsung d807 cables from the Cingular store for my BlackJack (lost mine in the snow one night) and it worked like a charm, like I said save some cash and buy a d807 cable from eBay.

[tags]Samsung i607 Tips, Cingular BlackJack Tips[/tags]