The default home screen background on your Blackberry may have been unchanged since you bought it. Learn how to personalize your home screen with an image of your choice that conforms to your screen resolution. You can set a digital camera image as your background or choose from a huge repository of images for your Blackberry from online portals. Choosing an image that conforms to your screen resolution will prevent fuzzy looking images that do not fit in your screen.
While selecting an image to set as your background you need to choose one that conforms to your Blackberry's screen resolution. The screen resolution for most Blackberry Smartphones are given below -
- 72xx series- 240 x 160
- 71xx series- 240 x 260
- Pearl (8100 series)- 240 x 260
- Pearl Flip (8820) - 240 x 320
- Curve 83xx series - 320 x 240
- 87xx series- 320 x 240
- 8800 series- 320 x 240
- Curve 8900 - 480 x 360
- BB Bold 9000 - 480 x 320
- Storm 95xx series - 360 x 480
Make sure that whenever you download or create images for the home screen on your Blackberry, you should choose an image sized for the resolution supported by your phone screen.
Using your camera to take pictures for use as your home screen background will result in appropriately sized images. You can click pictures of your loved ones and set them as your background. You can resize these pictures from your phone to make them fit for use as your background.
To resize pictures from your device memory for use as your background image follow the steps below -
Step 1 : Open up the media icon and select Pictures
Step 2 : Select All Pictures from the on screen options
Step 3 : Select the Image which you want to use as your home screen Background.
Step 4 : Open up the context menu on this images using the Blackberry Home Screen Menu located near your trackball.
Step 5 : From the options that appear, choose Fit to screen.
You can now set this image as your wallpaper. Images that are not of the correct shape will be resized to your screen resolution.