Fix My Berry

I’ve been asked many times “What is this icon?”, and over the phone some of the descriptions people will tell me are amazingly hard to decipher. So I’ve put together a list of different icons as they are shown on different devices, now these icons are for the default theme for blackberry’s, and your provider may have different default theme, or yours may differ completely from what is shown, but this list should give you a pretty good idea of what an icon is for.

Notifacations:
-These icons appear at the top of your home screen where the time usually is. I’ve taking a picture of that area encase your not familiar with it:

Message Notifacations:

	New Message
	New High Importance message
	New SMS (Text) Message
	New MMS (Multimedia) Message
	New Browser Push Message (usually a text message with a link to a website)
	New Blackberry Messenger Message

These Icons will have a number beside them indicating how many messages are unread. The Icons will also have a red asterisk (*) on top if you have recieved any new messages since the last time you went in to your messages folder.

General Notifacations:

	Missed Call
	Text telephone (TTY) is enabled
	New Voicemail

General Information Icons
This icons are found in the same general area as the notifacations, yet are not notifying you of a “New phone event”. Once again heres picture of that area encase your not familiar with it:

Signal Indicator and Type:
These icons are in the top right corner of the above picture, heres a cropping of the area:

	Connected to RIM, this icon only appears when you have a full data connection to the RIM servers, as well it will only appear when you are using 3G.
	This indicates you are connected to 3G, and have access to voice and data functions.
	These indicate that you have a FULL data connection to the RIM severs, and access to both voice and data services.
	All of these icons mean you have voice services, but no data connection. Note that with the exception of GSM, its safe to say if its not capital letters, you have no data connection.
	This is your signal indicator, 5 bars is the best signal possable, and 1 bar is the worst possable, while still being able to operate.
	This indicator appears when you are out of a serviceable area, also known as “No Service”.
	This indicator usually appears when you don’t have an active SIM card in your phone, or your phone is not active on a cell network (for those networks that do not use SIM cards). SOS appears because you will still be able to call 911 in emergency situations, but thats all. (Please do not test this unless you have a real emergency.)
	You’ll see this if the radio (also know as the antenna), is turned off. you might see this if your battery is really really low.

Other:

	This icon indicates that the Bluetooth function of the phone is turned on. if a blue dot appears to the side, that means theres a Bluetooth connection present.
	This is the Wifi Icon in both of its states.
If its White and theres is a wifi network name beside the cell network name, than there is a full connection, via wifi, to the RIM servers If its Gray and theres is a wifi network name beside the cell network name, than that means while you have a conneciton to the internet, some data functions may not work, emails and pins for example. these functions will then resort to the cell network. If its Gray and no network is present beside the cell network name, than the wifi is on, but not connected to any wifi network.
	This icon appears when you are roaming on a network other then your own providers.

Sending and receiving information:

	This icon appears in the top right corner of your screen, and means your berry is sending information to the cell tower.
	This icon appears right beside the top icon, and means your berry is receiving information from the cell towers.

I’ve put these two last for a reason, I want to settle a common mis conception. I’ve heard many customer complain even call me a liar when i say that these icons do not mean you are being charged for data. These icons simply indicate when your phone is communicating with a local cellular tower, this can be an incoming phone call, a Text message, data(yes the chargeable kind), OR simply checking with the tower to make sure its still with in range. I’ve tested and confirm this many times myself, including with a berry whose data was turned off both on the phone and on the mobile network, so there was no possible way for it to be using internet data, and the arrows still appeared.

You can see a longer, more device specific list offered by AT&T, remember this is for their default theme, so it may not match up to yours exactly, AT&T’s list