Where is profiles on my blackberry curve

You need to get your BlackBerry Curve to sound how you want it to. The whole appeal of the BlackBerry phenomenon is the idea that this little electronic device can make your life easier. One of the ways it accomplishes this is by acting as your personal reminder service — letting you know when an appointment is coming up, a phone call is coming in, an e-mail has arrived, and so on. Basically, your BlackBerry Curve is set to bark at you if it knows something it thinks you should know, too.

Figure lists the kinds of things your BlackBerry Curve considers bark-worthy, ranging from browser alerts to task deadlines. Figure Set attention-needy applications here. Different people react differently to different sounds. Some BlackBerry Curve barks would be greatly appreciated by certain segments of the population, whereas other segments might react to the same sound by pitching their BlackBerry Curve under the nearest bus.

The folks at Research In Motion are well aware of this and have devised a great way for you to customize how you want your BlackBerry Curve to bark at you — they call it your profile. You can jump right into things by using a predefined profile, or you can create your own profile.

The upcoming sections take a look at both approaches. Whether you create your own profile or customize a predefined profile, each profile is divided into several categories that represent the application for which you can define alerts. In BlackBerry OS 4.

Browser: Alerts you when you receive a new channel push, which is just a Web page sent to your BlackBerry Curve. Calendar: Alerts you when you have upcoming appointments. Level 1: Alerts you with a special tone when you have an urgent as defined by your sender e-mail.

Messages [Email]: Alerts you when a new e-mail message is in your inbox. Phone: Alerts you if you have an incoming call or a new voice mail. Tasks: Alerts you to an upcoming to-do deadline. Phone: Alerts you if you have an incoming call or voice mail. Also, you can set different alerts for each individual e-mail account.

Instant Messages: Alerts you if you have any BlackBerry Messenger Alerts; if you have third-party instant messaging installed such as Google Talk , you can set the alerts here as well. Reminders: Alerts you if you have set up calendar reminders, tasks reminders, or e-mail follow-up flags see Chapter 8.

Other: This category is a notification setting for third-party applications such as Facebook a well as the Browser application. You can personalize all the listed applications according to how you want to be alerted.

Because how you customize them is similar, we use one application, Messages, as an example in the text that follows.

After this, we go over creating a profile from scratch. You may be wondering why you need to create a profile if you can personalize the predefined ones. If your needs are different from the predefined settings, creating a profile is the way to go. A pop-up screen appears, listing different profiles Quiet, Vibrate, Normal. Select Advanced, which appears at the end of the list. A screen appears, listing different profiles. Highlight the Normal profile in the list, press the menu key, and then select Edit.

The Normal screen appears, listing the applications with alert capabilities mentioned in the preceding section refer to Figure Select the Messages [Email] application. BlackBerry Curve is smart enough to know when it is in a holster. For the Out of Holster field, select a tone from the drop-down list of alert options. Doing so enables sound in Out of Holster mode. Figure Choose a tone to alert you when your BlackBerry Curve is out of its holster. For the Ring Tone field, select the tune you want from the drop-down list.

As you scroll through the tunes and pause, your BlackBerry Curve plays the tune so that you know what it sounds like before you change it. Press the menu key and then select Save. As you may have guessed from how Messages in the Normal profile is divided, your BlackBerry Curve can notify you in different ways based on whether your BlackBerry Curve is in plain view Out of Holster or tucked away next to your belt In Holster.

To set up a different sound for In Holster mode, just put the necessary info in the fields for the In Holster section — and be sure to choose a different tune this time. You can set up your Curve so that it notifies you only if an e-mail has been marked urgent, requiring your immediate attention. You can do this by setting the notification for your Messages application to None for both In Holster and Out of Holster. Then, in the Level 1 option refer to Figure , you can set your desired notification for both In Holster and Out of Holster.

That way, you conveniently filter any unnecessary e-mail notifications, leaving just the urgent stuff to sound off to you. Select Edit Profiles, which appears at the end of the list. Expand the Messages heading by pressing the trackball or trackpad once, and select any of the e-mail accounts you have. A screen appears with options to set the ring tone, LED, and vibration.

For vibration, set it to be On, Off, or Custom. You can have your BlackBerry Curve so personalized that you can tell whether you have a phone call or an incoming message just by how your BlackBerry Curve sounds.

As we mention earlier, you can achieve the same result by personalizing the predefined profiles that come with your BlackBerry Curve. But if you like to keep the predefined profiles the way they are, create a new profile by following the steps for your OS version.

A new Profile screen appears, as shown in Figure , prompting you to name your profile. Figure Create your own profile from this menu in OS 4. In the Name field, enter a name for your profile.

For this example, just type My Own Profile. Configure your new profile. To customize each of the nine applications, refer to the OS 4. Your newly created profile appears in the Profile screen.

Select My Profile. You can start to use your newly created profile. If you have OS 5. A pop-up screen appears, listing different profiles. A screen appears, with a line Add Custom Profile and also a list of profiles. Select Add Custom Profile. A New Custom Profile screen appears, prompting you to name your profile. For this example, just type MyOwnProfile. To customize each of the categories of applications, refer to the OS 5.

You can switch between your current profile and the Quiet profile by pressing and holding the key. Regardless of whether the ring tone is for an incoming call or an incoming e-mail, you can download more ring tones to personalize your BlackBerry Curve. Also, you can use any MP3 file in your Media application as your personalized ring tone.

From the Home screen, press the menu key and then select the Media application. In Media, select the Music category. Doing so brings up various music classifications such as Artist, Album, and Genres. Highlight the music file you want to use for your ring tone. Press the menu key and then select Set as Phone Tune. This sets the music file as your new phone tune. Press and hold the escape key to return to the Home screen. The folks at RIM take security seriously, and so should you.

Always set up a password on your BlackBerry Curve. Select the Password option. Highlight the Password field and then select Enabled. All this does for now is enable the Password feature.

Click the Set Password button. At this time, you should be prompted to enter a new password, as shown in Figure If you have set a password before, the button will be called Change Password. Type a password and then type it again for verification. From this point on, whenever you lock your BlackBerry Curve and want to use it again, you have to type the password. How do you lock your BlackBerry Curve? Good question. Keep reading. When you set your password on a BlackBerry Curve, you must make sure that you know what letters your password uses and not just which keys you pressed.

You need the same password if you link your BlackBerry Curve with Desktop Manager for synchronization. For more on Desktop Manager, read Chapters 16, 17, and So how do you lock your BlackBerry Curve? Let us count the ways. The Password screen appears. Highlight the Security Timeout field and then select the desired minutes. The preset times range from 1 minute to 1 hour.

Pressing K while on the Home screen does the same thing. Make sure to turn off the Dial from Home Screen option. See Chapter 2 for more info on using Home screen shortcuts. From the Home screen, select the Options wrench icon.

Select the Security option. Option Description Audio Source A2DP This profile allows you to output audio from your BlackBerry smartphone to enabled devices that support stereo audio such as stereo headsets, speakers, and car kits. Data Transfer This service allows you to connect your BlackBerry smartphone to Bluetooth enabled devices that support the transfer of data such as media files. Desktop Connectivity This service allows you to connect your BlackBerry smartphone to a Bluetooth enabled computer that is running BlackBerry Desktop Software so that you can synchronize your organizer data.

User Guide Bluetooth technology Handsfree HFP This profile allows you to connect your BlackBerry smartphone to Bluetooth enabled headsets and car kits that support the Handsfree profile. This profile can also help you read, delete, browse, compose, and send messages.