8/13/10

How to Access BlackBerry Engineering Screens

Accessing Blackberry Engineering Screens is a cakewalk for those who have technology as their main domain. For amateurs, an in depth technical know-how is a must. Those who are brave enough and curious to dive deep into the guts of the blackberry operating system would be interested to hear more about the tool used to access the hidden engineering screen. This way, it's a pretty easy process.

Guidelines
Now, from your home screen, click on to Shift + Alt + H (or Face + Alt on certain Sure Type devices such as Escape or Pearl + tap the top left thrice, followed by once on Sure Press on the top-right.

Now, this would bring up the Help Me screen. Simply take the values shown there (Apple's version, which includes uptime, PIN number and bracketed value) and the number of time you wish to have the Help Me screen get replaced by other engineering screens.

Type the figures in the Thyth-o-matic engineering screen's unlock code generator. Try not to close the Help Me screen, as the code generated is specific to the uptime. Now type in the unlock code offered, and your Help Me screen would automatically get switched to the engineering screens for that particular duration.

Technical Know-How
Unless you specifically know your job, you wouldn't like to mess around with the things in there as there are few relatively low functions which may mess up with your Blackberry.
Nevertheless, it's worth enabling technical utility or out of idle interest, as the case would be. You can observe the battery's internal temperature and check memory usage and internal logs, besides other stuff.

Hardcore techies can check out the algorithm used for generating the code, as the automated code won't probably last long online, especially after RIM Legal has its rage on.

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