An easy fix for those BlackBerry Storm users who are having trouble with their screen click.

Here’s a relatively simple way to fix a hard-to-click-the-corners problem on the BlackBerry Storm.

Step-by-Step

1. Open up the battery case and pull out the battery.
   
2. Insert a piece of paper where the battery should be
   
3. Re-insert the battery and put on the battery door.
   

And voila, the whole screen should now be slightly higher. If it’s too high, try thinner paper. If it’s too hard to click the corners, use a thicker paper. For this example, I used the remnants of my California license plate sticker.

Originally I used a Disneyland Fastpass line card cut in half. A business card cut in half seems to be the perfect thickness.

warning – don’t use something too thick (something that makes putting in the battery really difficult) because it may break something.

OS 5.0.0.230 has a feature known as Popup Keys.

When you touch (but not press down) on a key, a blue box shows up saying what letter button you’re currently on. It’s helpful for those that have trouble hitting the right keys.

The feature was on 5.0.0.230 and .238 for the 9530.

The feature has returned for 9500 Storms with the new .400’s OS.

OS 5.0.0.328 for the BlackBerry Storm 9500 has found it’s way into our hands. Now, 9500 BlackBerry Storm users can use what 9530 users use by installing OS .328 on their smartphones.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MD5AQYUT

Instead of having a 1xEV sign on the upper right corner of the screen, BlackBerry Storm 5.0 OS’s have a 3G + a BlackBerry symbol. Other than how it looks, it makes no difference to the signal and speed. It looks cool, I guess, just to be different.

This feature was available for BlackBerry Storm OS’s prior to 5.0.0.323. The symbol was changed back to 1xEV for OS 5.0.0.323 and above.

One of my favorite theme makers, Hedone Design is having a one day sale (November 12th 5am to November 13th 5am GMT) of all their themes for their one year birthday. That means you can buy each of them for only 70 cents. (Does the cent sign still exist on the keyboard?)

You can find all their themes here and use the code HDBDay90OFF when you buy them.

My favorite theme and the theme I currently use is the black and white simple theme in black. Even if you don’t like the themes, you’d be losing only 70 cents.

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GMT is greenwich mean time.. which is about.. 8 hours ahead of Pacific Standard Time.. so I guess, from when this was posted, there’s only 11 more hours to take advantage of this deal.