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QSMS – Free Keyboard Shortcut To Compose SMS

by Ronen Halevy on Jul 2nd, 2008 at 10:08 am EST
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TheletterqI know quite a few people who have asked me if there was a keyboard shortcut to send an SMS message. Just like you can hit ‘C’ to compose an email.

BerryCoder once again comes to the rescue with QSMS. If you install this application you can use the ‘Q’ shortcut to compose an SMS!

The best part is that it is free!!!

You can pick it up OTA by going to www.berrycoder.com from your BlackBerry.

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26 Comments to “QSMS – Free Keyboard Shortcut To Compose SMS”

  1. Posted by: Carlos
    July 2, 2008 at 10:15 am EST

    cool tip.. so simple.. but yet so useful!!! thanks.

  2. Posted by: Randy R.
    July 2, 2008 at 10:58 am EST

    Sweet :-)

  3. Posted by: trinybwoy
    July 2, 2008 at 11:01 am EST

    great simple app
    love it

  4. Posted by: Kaleb
    July 2, 2008 at 12:09 pm EST

    Hey I’m running 4.5 on my 8820 and it doesn’t work …. Any ideas?

  5. Posted by: Canson
    July 2, 2008 at 1:00 pm EST

    I am also on OS 4.5 for the 8830. No luck so far getting this to work. I have Docs to go installed and have set the permissions all to allow.

  6. Posted by: oakie
    July 2, 2008 at 2:19 pm EST

    tried it on my 8320 with 4.5.0.46 and it doesnt work.

  7. Posted by: Nikolaus
    July 2, 2008 at 3:27 pm EST

    It would be great if RIM would allow us to assign actions/apps in the OS to unused keys ourselves.

  8. Posted by: Ronen Halevy
    July 2, 2008 at 3:34 pm EST

    Yeah RIM loves to hold back the small things. For example why can’t we create our own damn homescreen shortcuts!!! They just don’t seem to get it some times…

  9. Posted by: Kaleb
    July 2, 2008 at 4:29 pm EST

    Well so I guess it doesn’t work on 4.5 …………… Dang it I was so hoping ……………

  10. Posted by: Ronen Halevy
    July 2, 2008 at 4:51 pm EST

    I will let the devs know about the 4.5 issue

  11. Posted by: JerryD
    July 2, 2008 at 4:52 pm EST

    Q is the shortcut key for RIN’s BlackBerry Enterprise Messenger.

    Duhoo!

  12. Posted by: Peg
    July 2, 2008 at 6:40 pm EST

    I installed it on an 8310 running 4.5.0.44 and it’s working great. I’m only on BIS.

  13. Posted by: Canson
    July 2, 2008 at 6:55 pm EST

    Only on BIS aswell and not working at all for me :(

  14. Posted by: keith
    July 2, 2008 at 7:13 pm EST

    Oh no. Do you mean that the keyboard shortcuts on qwerty devices that I’ve known and loved with pre-OS 4.5 devices no longer work? On my 4.2.2 8830, keyboard shortcuts like ‘c’ for Compose work great.

  15. Posted by: Peg
    July 2, 2008 at 10:30 pm EST

    Yes the shortcuts still work with 4.5, but as always the “Dial from home screen” option needs to be disabled thru the phone menu options.

    Those that the shortcut is not working for should verify you have it shut off also.

  16. Posted by: conedude13
    July 3, 2008 at 8:49 am EST

    Why not just use the keyboard shortcut ‘c’ from the home screen, go to the name you wanna text, menu click to sms then start typing. Next time you do the same thing it will automatically remember what you did last time and will assume that you want to text that person. or am i missing something?

  17. Posted by: Kaleb
    July 3, 2008 at 9:50 am EST

    Ok so on 4.5 you hav to disable the dialing from home screen to use it …. Dose anyone know if in like 4.2 you don’t need too? I live off dialing from the home screen ….

  18. Posted by: Peg
    July 3, 2008 at 10:49 am EST

    Yes on OS 4.2 you also have to disable dial from home screen. Once you have disabled the option dialing from homescreen still works but you have to “press and hold” until it dials. I quick press activates the shortcut.

    The same goes for OS 4.5.

    I hope this helps clarify things.

    Happy Berrying!

  19. Posted by: keith
    July 3, 2008 at 10:58 am EST

    Thanks Peg, glad to know they’re still there in os4.5. I can’t live without the keyboard shortcuts. On my Pearl I just couldn’t do much without the shortcuts like on my 8830.

    Kaleb, I’ve lived fine so far without dialing from the home screen, all it takes is an extra press of the green send button anywhere to bring up the call screen, from there, I just make my calls. HTH. Thanks for the info.

  20. Posted by: Canson
    July 3, 2008 at 11:02 am EST

    Hey! Silly question I know… Where can I disable to shortcuts from home screen??

  21. Posted by: Peg
    July 3, 2008 at 11:22 am EST

    Hit the green send key, which takes you into the phone application. From there hit the menu key and go to Options, it’s in there.

    Good Luck and Enjoy.