Getting Started with Videos on your BlackBerry Part 3

How To Get Videos Onto Your BlackBerry Device


This will be the final item we cover in this BlackBerry 101, so now that we looked into some of the applications to”convert” or “encode” the videos to a BlackBerry compatible format we need to cover the methods on how to get it transferred to your BlackBerry device. the first and most common method would be to use the BlackBerry Desktop Manager, utilizing the “move up” and “move down” feature as pictured below.

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Select the Folders tab, then navigate to the desired location (folder or file) on the computer for media to be transferred.

Navigate to the desired location (Media Card or Device Memory) on the BlackBerry for media to be transferred.
IMPORTANT: Files larger than 2.86MB cannot be transferred to the BlackBerry device when using the device memory.

Once the desired locations have been selected, click on the media file to be transferred and select the appropriate action.
NOTE: If transferring a media file to a Media Card, mass storage must be enabled on the BlackBerry.

Copy Down: Transfers a copy of the media file from the computer to the BlackBerry.
Copy Up: Transfers a copy of the media file from the BlackBerry to the computer.
Move Down: Moves the media file from the computer to the BlackBerry.
Move Up: Moves the media file from the BlackBerry to the computer.

The second option of course would be to have your media card act as a extra hard drive on your computer in which case you may just be able to drag and drop the files right into the video folder of your BlackBerry device. Again, Mass Media Mode must be enabled for this to work and you can achieve this by going to to Settings > Options > Media Card > Auto Enable Mass Storage When Connected (see below):




Now that those settings have been configured, anytime you connect your BlackBerry to your computer you will see the following screen.

In which case you will want to “Open folder to view files”. Inside you will see a folder called “videos” you may then drag and drop your videos into that folder. Once transferred, disconnect your BlackBerry from your computer then browse to your Media and look under your videos, if encoded correctly you will see your files listed and it will be viewable on your BlackBerry!! Enjoy Folks, I hope this guide was in some way helpful to you.

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