Hi guys!

i have a blackberry 8820 that i use for buiseness....it has all my important info and its locked and i cant open it!.

i had a auto keylock with password and somehow in my pocket the keyboard has chenged to arabic...and not when i enter the password text comes up in arabic and it writes from right to left!

how can i bypass the keylock and get in to my phone?, i read in a nother forum that i should connect to pc do a backup and then wipe me phone and restore....but i dont know how to wipe or restore can anyone tell me....

I managed to do a backup of my contacts though as when i connect to pc it askes me the password but on the actualy keyboard of the phone its in arab.

Cheers in advance.

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On your BlackBerry press ALT+. enter and choose English

To prevent that again disable the input language shortcut.In options go to language and go to bottom.

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And don't toss your BlackBerry in your pocket. Holster it or use a case or sleeve!

On your BlackBerry press ALT+. enter and choose English

Im not sure if you missunderstood or im doing it wrong....My blackberry is locked (i.e its asking for the password whitch i know but the keyboard has changed to arabic and i cant enter it)....when i push Alt+ and then enter?....nothing happens...


am I doing it wrong?

I believe you are just going to have to enter the password wrong again and again (maybe ten times, unless it is set to a lesser value) until the blackberry does a security wipe. Then, I would install from your last backup (if you have one).

I believe if you backup now while it is locked, then wipe and restore, the blackberry will still be set to the other language, and you will still have to enter the password when the blackberry boots after the restore. I'm not 100% sure this is what will happen, but that's what I would expect. EDIT: I don't think you can even do this, anyway, because when you connect, you will have to enter the password in desktop manager as well as enter it on the blackberry.

ok, so can someone tell me how to wipe?....and how to Restore?....i have entered the password in excess of 10 times and its now asking me to spell blackberry...but I still have the same problem......wrong language theifore dont know how to write it.

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Never been through this myself. You might search on "password blackberry and wipe" and see what you find. Otherwise, enter something and see what happens. Also, if you need to, see

http://blackberryfaq.com/index.php/H...ng_Jl_Cmder%3F

And

http://blackberryfaq.com/index.php/W...ect_and_w ipe

I recently came accross this problem for one of our users, the only way to I found to wipe the device was to attache it to the pc and enter the incorrect password 5 times, this will wipe your device.

Welcome to the Forums, manicmurph.

Correct, you are on BES? Others may need to do as instructed 10x.

what, no arabic speakers on here?

THANKS VERY MUCH!

I managed to fix it doing what you said, attaching in to the pc and entering password wrong more then 10 times...and it wiped and now is completely working like out of the box, all i need to do now is restore my backup.

Thanks for the advice!

Hi, go to OPTIONS from the main screen, LANUGUAGE- change to ENGLISH (us or british) you will see that one has defaulted to arabic...

worked for me!

T.

That would work under normal circumstances and would have been suggested; however you may need to read the original post, again. That option was not available to the user.