How to trick out your Samsung Blackjack, part one

Blackjack tricks
For your hacking pleasure, I dug through a massive tips and tricks thread to find the best tips and tricks for your Samsung Blackjack I (SGH-i607). Part two will, of course, feature tips and tricks for your Samsung Blackjack II (pink? blue? I’m so torn!)

  • Hard reset the phone by holding down UP and POWER to boot. It will ask to confirm.
  • You can adjust the brightness of the screen in Settings under Power (scroll down)
  • 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
  • Hold down message key to turn off backlight on screen.
  • Fn + B = Toggle Bluetooth
  • Press the V key for PAGE DOWN and the T key for PAGE UP.
  • Hold down any key while typing to get its “alternate” character. i.e. Hold down the Q for a moment and you’ll get the + symbol. This is nice if you don’t like hitting Caps/Shift Q to get it.
  • if you are reading an email, press the center d-pad “action” button… it will take you to the new contact entry with that persons email address already filled in.
  • Apparently the phone doesn’t support automatic keylock, you have to hold down the “end call” key for 3-4 seconds and it locks the phone.
  • When you have a URL in the address bar hold down the BACK button above the red hang up button and it will delete the entire URL.
  • 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.
  • There is no way to get periodic reminder tones for missed calls or messages. This little app addresses that deficiency.
  • Holding down the back button on the right hand edge of the device launches the Camera app for taking pictures.
  • **You can also get into the admin settings etc with the following code: *#1546792*#
    Menu:
    1 Version
    2 Preconfiguration
    3 Network and Call settings
    4 Internal

    Two of the menus require a password, it is *#81230#

    Handy as the Network and Call settings menu enables you to force it off 3G if you should so choose.

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