Yes, password protection is a pain in the butt! Glad for you that you don’t find it so, & that you are happy having your BB password protected, but for those of us who actually use our BB constantly through-out the day for things OTHER than calling people from our contact list, it is indeed a pain in the butt! I don’t want to have to enter my password every single time I have to answer a call, or get a message, or use my BB for the zillion other things I use it for during a day. Simple password protection might be a solution to keeping people out of your BB, but it’s ridiculous for anyone who uses the phone for more than answering or making a few calls every day. I don’t need nor want to hide everything in my BB, but my business & some personal contacts? Definitely. If I lose my phone, and someone can go in & call Joe Blow from my call log & be a dick, I don’t care, but if I lose my phone & someone calls an important business contact? Completley different. An application that I only have to put a password in when I actually want to contact someone “confidentally”, instead of every single time I want to do ANYTHING on my phone? That makes way more sense than typing in my password 40 or 50 times a day. I know I’m not the only person who uses their BB this much during a business day.

I think it’s hilarious that you think it’s really annoying that you would have to unlock your private contact list everytime you want to use it, but you think unlocking your phone everytime you want to use it for anything at all isn’t a pain in the ass. That really makes no sense to me.

As much as you are joking (I am assuming) about giving your mistresses & dealers etc. code names, I’m sure some people do indeed do this… well they still show up with their real phone number, don’t they? Meaning that anyone could still call them back or recognize their number, regardless of their code name. Though I haven’t needed to do this myself, what I consider one of the neatest features of blackbook is that you can spoof any incoming call from a blackbook contact to show up as a different name AND number. That’s neat.

The data is stored in a secret location, not the native address book. It is completely separate. There is no app icon to give way that you have it installed, there is no way for someone to know you have it unless you say “hey, I have blackblook, and here is my secret code that brings that app up!”. I mean, for someone who seems all for protecting your information to the best of your ability, I find it weird that you seem so against an app that surpasses the normal security of password protecting your phone, and that could actually get rid of the need to do so for a lot of people.

I had a problem with contact importing and got a reply from their support in less than 5 minutes. Turns out I was an idiot. Everything works for me. Maybe your OS is too old. who knows.

Start by grabbing your blackberry and going into the address book.
1.once in hit the “Menu”button which is to the left of the trackball
2.then scroll to “Filter” and click trackball
3.once in u will see 2 category’s u can remove them or use them up to u
4.hit the menu button again and go to “New” and give it a “Category” Name name it all contacts
5.once u done that hit the “menu” button again and uncheck the category u made

WARN THIS IS THE PAIN IN THE BUT PART IF U WANT TO HIDE THE CONTACTS
your contacts u have below will have to be changed to all contacts category u do that by editing the info of the contact
1″Menu” button and go to “Edit” scroll down to “categories” and hit the space button or trackball 2 times will open the “categories” window
from there u pick all contacts “category” save it and do it for all contacts u will still see them all in the address book that is normal cause we have more to do

Go back to the “Filter” window by again doing the “Menu” and Picking “filter” and check “all contacts” and there u go u will keep it on this for default and im sure if u restart the bb should stay like this now back to more steps.

once u see all your contacts u want to show hit the “Menu” button and go to “Filter” again and “Menu” button again and go to “New” name it “blackbook” or something once u done add the contacts u want here and rem when u add the numbers and stuff to scroll down to “categories” and hit “space” button or trackball 2 times and move them into the blackbook and once u done u go into the filter again and check all contacts and there u go they are now hidden when u go to call from addy book and do a sms

to all who did this must of been a pain but in the end will make u happy cause no need for app to do this

If it ever works properly, I would love to use it but for now, it is a money well wasted… too sad

but there should be a way to do this

Celebrities would probably love this to keep their business/personal contacts safe as well. Also anyone doing something illegal. haha, but it’s has obvious uses aside from cheating on your significant other.