I Can't Get My BlackBerry Curve WiFi to Work

FoodHomeStyleMoneyFamilyHealthShiftMore This SeasonSimplify the SeasonTailgatingTech Know HomeElectronicsBlackberryBlackberry CurveI Can't Get My BlackBerry Curve WiFi to WorkI Can't Get My BlackBerry Curve WiFi to WorkPrint this articleYour BlackBerry Curve is one of the phones in the BlackBerry family that has WiFi capabilities. Previously, a cell phone signal was required to connect to the Internet, but having WiFi access offers faster speeds and more functionality. If your BlackBerry Curve isn't connecting to a WiFi network, perform a simple setup to allow your phone to connect to available wireless networks. Once you've altered your settings, your BlackBerry Curve should connect to a WiFi network automatically.

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To allow your BlackBerry Curve to connect to an available WiFi network, you must first set up the WiFi capabilities on your phone. Start by touching "Manage Connections" from your home screen, then ensure that your "Wi-Fi" check box is filled with a check mark. This enables your Curve to start scanning for a signal so you're able to connect once it detects one. Note that all of the BlackBerry Curve models have WIFi capabilities, except for the 8500 model which operates only on the cellular network and cannot connect to a wireless network.

WiFi Setup

Once your WiFi has been successfully turned on, set up a WiFi connection so your Curve can scan for available networks, then apply proper settings -- such as the password -- to each specific network to allow a connection. Touch "Manage Connections" and then "Set Up Wi-Fi Network." After your phone scans and finds a connection, authorize the connection. You might need to enter a password if the WiFi connection is protected. When you create a new connection, it appears at the bottom of your priority list. To move a new connection to the top of the list, select "Prioritize Wi-Fi Profiles," then select which connection you'd like your phone to try first. Your Curve works down the list of available networks in order of priority to establish a secure connection.

Troubleshooting

If you've properly turned on and set up your Curve's WiFi capabilities and you still can't connect to the Internet via a WiFi connection, your settings could be incorrect. Check each of your available WiFi connections to ensure that passwords have been entered correctly and that your Curve has been set to automatically connect to available networks. Once your WiFi has the proper information for setup, it should connect. If it still doesn't connect, take it to the store where you purchased it for service.

WiFi Issues

If all of your settings are right, your WiFi is turned on and your Curve doesn't detect any wireless networks, it could be an issue with the wireless signal, not your phone. Make sure that you're within 150 to 180 feet of the wireless router, and avoid interference such as other wireless devices and concrete. If your Curve cannot detect a wireless network, you cannot connect to WiFi, regardless of your phone's settings.

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How to Lock Icons on the iPad So They Can't Be Moved

How to Restore Preloaded Apps on the iPadURL:Embed:CommentsVideo TranscriptHi, I'm Andrea Eldridge from Nerds On Call at callnerds.com, and the question that we're answering today is, how to lock the icons on an iPad? So normally when you have an iPad here, and you press and select that device, you can move them around if you're looking to change the location of an icon and you can actually delete, very handy, dandy functionality, unless you have a toddler for example who gets a hold of your iPad and starts to mess around to where you actually lose things or they are no longer where you can find them. So, the question is, is there a way to make it so that these are frozen in place, unable to be moved? The answer is yes, but, only if you have a jail-broken iPad. Unfortunately it's not a functionality that you're going to be able to achieve on a standard iPad that hasn't been jail-broken. So, assuming that you do have a jail-broken iPad, what you're going to go ahead and do is, launch your CD application, again an application that only appears on a jail-broken iPad, which will allow you to access some applications that you can't get on a standard iPad through the iTune store. You're going to go to search, and you're going to look for Icon Lock, which is the program that you're looking to install, select that. Since I have it installed already it's going to go ahead and give me the option to modify, but your button over here is going to say install, select install, it'll reboot your device. Once your device has been restarted, you're going to select settings, here from the bottom. And now under your extensions, you're going to have this options for Icon Lock. So, once you select Icon Lock, you're going to be able to choose to enable the Icon Lock settings. So you're going to go ahead and turn that on, you can also have the option to set a password, so that if you do want to still have the ability to move around your icons, when you press and hold long enough, it'll pop-up a password option, if you entered a correct password you'll have that functionality, but if you don't, then you can't move things around. And you can even enter a little message here for whoever you think is trying to move icons around on your iPad, so that when they fail to enter the correct password, you can give them a friendly little reminder to stop trying to move around your icons. But, once you've got that enabled, then now you press and hold, and nothing happens, you just scroll from one screen to the next, but it will never pop-up the option to delete or move.

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