Yesterday I was shown how to turn off the blinking red light on my blackberry. And it has changed my life in less then 24 hours...
I'm not sure about you (maybe you don't have a blackberry for work but in my opinion iPhones just aren't enough of solid work-horse for me!) but blackberries are both a curse and a blessing in equal-ish measures. I love the flexibility that they offer but its the blinking red light that drives me crazy. I literally cannot stop myself from checking my emails day or night, weekday or weekend, holiday or workday. It drives me crazy but I cannot help myself.
Nicola showed me how to de-activate the light and I tweeted about it straightaway. Judging from the amount of tweets and DMs that I got it's something that bugs the hell out of a lot of other people too.
So this is how you do it:
- Go to your RingTone Profile setting (the one where you change what kind of ring/vibrate that you want)
- Scroll down and click on Advanced
- Click into your Ringtone Profile
- Click on "Level 1 Messages"
- Click on "Repeat Notification" and change it from "LED Flashing" to "none"
- (Make sure that you do it for what is called "In Holster" and "Out of Holster")
- Relax!
Let's end the tyranny of the blinking red light one Blackberry at a time!
Thank you - I've just done this and I already feel less stressed!
Posted by: Le'Nise Brothers | Thursday, 24 September 2009 at 04:24 PM
Yup, that's my top Blackberry configuration tip. It's great to see the surprise and relief on some people's faces when you show them that they don't have to be bugged by the flashing light all the time.
Posted by: Mark Pack | Thursday, 24 September 2009 at 08:15 PM
Glad you've found some Blackberry Zen
Just wonder how long it'll take you before you keep on picking it up and manually checking.
Old habits die hard....in the nicest possible way ;)
Posted by: Graeme Harrison | Thursday, 24 September 2009 at 09:50 PM
Very useful. I'm going to pass it on to the husband ASAP!!
Posted by: Anjali Ramachandran | Friday, 25 September 2009 at 10:01 AM
Or, get an iPhone.
Posted by: Paul H. Colman | Friday, 25 September 2009 at 04:42 PM
You're right Paul, but I just can't use an iPhone for work. I need to be able to text under the table in meetings, impossible with an iPhone
;-)
Posted by: amelia | Saturday, 26 September 2009 at 01:16 PM
it didnt work & i went and took the LED light off everything ... =(
Posted by: april | Thursday, 29 October 2009 at 09:54 PM
Thank you thank you thank you!!
Posted by: Erin | Tuesday, 29 December 2009 at 05:16 PM
Thank you! No more stress inducing, flashing red lights ruining my evenings and weekends. The Blackberry is a truly evil invention.
Posted by: M | Sunday, 31 January 2010 at 11:31 PM
Extremely long but very useful and informative article. How i wish i can do all of that in a short period of time. But for sure doing those will produce results. I will try to spread your words through my blog and link it back to you. Thanks a lot for those tips.
Posted by: dissertation | Monday, 01 March 2010 at 12:18 PM
Thanks! The flash was driving me insane.
Posted by: MsAfropolitan | Saturday, 27 March 2010 at 01:37 PM
Oh you are God Send. I just knew I was gonna have a seizure one of these times. The red light hurts my eyes. Its OFF finally!
Posted by: Kita | Thursday, 16 December 2010 at 08:22 AM
My gosh! I felt exactly the same when I saw the blinking red light on my phone! It made me paranoid for a while, 'coz I thought there might be wrong with my BES. But thankfully, it can be turned off easily. Sigh!
Posted by: Samantha Cole | Friday, 08 July 2011 at 04:45 PM
Or just get some black tape
Posted by: B | Thursday, 27 October 2011 at 02:00 PM
THANK YOU!!!...what a releif
!!!
Posted by: ron | Wednesday, 20 June 2012 at 05:14 AM
i was about to hurl my phone.. i hate the blinking red light. i heard the email come in, i don't need it blinking at me for 10 minutes after the fact.
Posted by: Cristosgonz | Sunday, 25 November 2012 at 12:09 AM
THANK YOU!!! :) :) :)
Posted by: Cristosgonz | Sunday, 25 November 2012 at 12:10 AM