It is that time of the week again. The time to sort out any BlackBerry woes you may have. This week's entry is a pretty quick one, however, I thought if one person asks, I'm pretty sure there are others out there who may not know how to find this either. This week's question goes like this.
Dear Berry,
I often have the need to CC or BCC my email, but I don't see a way to do this on the BlackBerry PlayBook. Is there an app or setting that allows me to do that?
Thanks!
- Jay
Dear Jay,
This is a simple answer but I can see how the feature can be over looked. I don't tend to have to need to BCC my email and I stumbled across this option by accident while on my PlayBook one time. While the CC field is there when you are composing an email, in order to add BCC you will need to swipe down from the top, you will then see along the top right that there is the option to 'Add BCC'. Voila, you will then have the BCC field available.
Thanks Jay for sending this in. Sometimes the simple things mean a lot.
- Berry
Now back to you CrackBerry Nation. Do you have any BlackBerry etiquette questions? Advice on your BlackBerry woes? Submit them to me, no matter how small or trivial you may think they are - dearberry@crackberry.com. You can also catch me on Twitter @DearBerryCB
See you next week!
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Dear Berry: Where is the BCC field on my BlackBerry PlayBook?
Dear Berry, Where is the Mark All Read functionality. When I turn my PB on I often have a few hundred emails. Very frustrating to have to select each one and pick Mark Read. Would be great if I could just pick Mark All Read.
Thanks.
mark prior read is missed as well :(
That is something I would like to have too. I hear your frustration and wish for it to be available. This are things I believe our Simon Sage has put forward to RIM while he was at the Mobile World Congress.
This! Plus ability to synch native addy book with bb contacts... Hopefully next update!
You can select multiple emails and then mark those all as read, but you do have to select them one by one.
Open the messages app > Swipe down from the top > tap on the "Select" icon > check the box next to every email you want to mark as read > tap the Mark as Read icon on the right side vertical toolbar
It's still a lot more cumbersome than it is on a BB phone, but better than having to actually mark as read individually.
You can select several emails using two thingers..
Good addition. I wasn't sure what you meant at first.
To clarify to others reading this: Once you get into the "Select" function you can press and hold on the first email, and then press an email further down and all the emails in between will be selected.
This doesn't help to select 200 at a time for example, as far as I've seen. At most you get about 9 at a time.
Confirmed selecting more than one email at a time is possible.
Before doing this, isolate the unread emails by clicking the magnifying glass in the upper left, then checking Unread in the list of checkboxes that is revealed.
You mean without actually reading them...;-)
I'd like to know how I can archive an email
you can't - and you can't label a email with many labels either... and you cannot search in old/external email as you can on the BIS version on the phone...
All in all - the "native" email app looks like an unfinished product released just because they had to... still a bit strange that they did not take time to at least include same features as we have on the BB phones today..
So still - the PB needs a PC companion to do the "pro" tasks......
+1 This is what is stopping me from using my PlayBook as my main email device.
Don't flame me if this is a stupid question. But isn't file basically the same as archive?
No.
"Archive" In Gmail, practically means that it takes away the "Inbox" label. IF other labels are connected to the email - you can find it there... if not - you will find it under "All Mail" label in Gmail,.. BUT be aware - IF you "Archive" from your Gmail on PC, and have NO labels connected to it - you won't be able to find it on the Playbook - since "All Mail" for some reason is not available.
Gmail don't have folders... it uses labels...
Dear Berry,
How do i delete old bridge profiles off of my PlayBook? I have about 5 different 9900 profiles saved on my PlayBook.
Cheers,
-Pringler
Pringler,
There is a very simple way to delete bridged devices. They are managed in the bluetooth settings, if you delete them from being paired via bluetooth they will disappear. I hope this helped.
V/R,
-Rusch
Links for photos:
https://www.box.net/shared/nij7hvyfo3793nzvkq9o
https://www.box.net/shared/90n8acctu2hobqocygam
Go into the Bluetooth configuration, tap on the pencil icon, then tap on the trash can that appears besides the profile name.
Thanks to both posts above! I think i looked in every setting option BUT Bluetooth.
Thanks!
Dear Berry,
How come you're still shedding developers like a long haired dog in the spring?
Dear Berry,
How come trolls like 1magine are not being banned for violating forum rules?
I love native email but would like to see the "Auto BCC to:" function that is available to us when we set up email accounts via BIS.
Must have BCC! These are some things I discovered by accident :) I too was looking for it but I did eventually find it.
One thing of note: for some odd reason, I always thought RIM only supported Serial Port Profile (SPP), which meant you would be restricted to Bluetooth keyboards that supported SPP. However, I've since realized that RIM has been supporting Bluetooth HID (Human Interface Device) since PlayBook 1.0. Duh!
Most, if not all, BT keyboards these days support HID. I picked up a great little Microsoft keyboard a few weeks ago to compliment by PlayBook. It is awesome. I just need to get a proper tablet stand.
don't use native email, just use bridge. it's much better. how many devices do you need to have email on anyway.
I'd love to see the "auto bcc" function in the same way as the BlackBerry phones. I don't run Exchange so getting a copy sent to a specified account (I use Outlook Rules to move them into my Sent Items) allows me to keep track of all of the emails I send from my phone.
This post really helped...thanks folks!
I have a very big problem with the email app. Ive re-installed the software twice and still no improvement.
1- even when im connected to wifi, the native messenger app shows -not connected to the network for gmail account but works fine for fb.
If i go to accounts in settings- either the green circle keeps rotating for hours and nothing comes up or it says- connected to network but some issues in server or something.
2- out of probably 80-85 times ive tried, each time at a well spaced out interval of even 7days and the attached files varying from 53kb to 24mbs, i've only ONCE succesfully emailed the attached file!!!!
My messege app becomes unresponsive whenever i try to send an attached file. It doesnt work unless i restart.
And the one time i succeeded, it took 32 minutes for this app to show that the file has been sent while it was sent.
PLEASE HELP! Its vety very irritating!!
Thank you for revealing the location of the elusive bcc field. I appreciate this a lot.
From my playbook can I connect to someone else's blackberry phone. I do not have a blackberry phone. Thanks for the BBC info.
Anne