I am going to go out on a limb and assume that many BlackBerry users have no clue you can reprogram the side buttons on their BlackBerry devices. RIM has provided this little known feature for some time now. The reason I say this is because, far too frequently, I hear the classic statement, Say a command. I have been in meetings, elevators, planes, bathrooms, and even the movies and heard this break the silence of the room.
Maybe Buttons Are Bad?
I’ve personally hit the voice dialing or camera button on my BlackBerry Storm so often that I’ve just disabled them both. I am sure some iPhone fan will explain that this is exactly why Steve Jobs hates buttons. I don’t believe that the side buttons on a BlackBerry are a design flaw because they are very actually very useful. It is just that most BlackBerry users forget to lock their device before they put it into their pocket.
Change The Defaults
I, myself, don’t need dedicated buttons for the BlackBerry camera or voice dialing as they both have prime spots on my home screen on opposite sides of the screen, so, if your like me and you want to disable or reprogram the buttons dedicated to camera or voice dialing on your device, do the following:
Got Options –> Screen/Keboard and scroll down until you see Right Side Convenience Key Options and Left Side Convenience Key Options. You can set them to nothing, as, I have, or to something less annoying than the voice command prompt or your BlackBerry camera for those times that you accidentally hit the button.
To answer the question in the headline:
No.
In fact, never.
You must be running out of topics to discuss…..
I have to agree, I use my convenience keys for voice dialing and quicklaunch. My voice dialing goes at the worst times even when I was certain I had locked my phone.
not so much an issue anymore, but I did that A LOT when I first got the phone… Handy to change it to something else, since I’ve found that the voice dialing don’t seem to like my voice anyway.
My Bold 9700’s two keys are quite hard so I never hit they keys by an accident. However, I changed one of the key to Google Apps since the first day I got the phone 🙂
Any one know how to get text message icon back. I can see the text logo on the screen but once into the menu I can not any more open the text messages.
“…your like me…”
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Thanks so much for solving that … it became so annoying my favourite answer to the prompt became %@#* off … the only time I use voice is when I have my bluetooth headset on which also has a button … but don’t get me started on that piece of junk !! LOL