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Dec
05
2006

How To Change Your Signature on a Blackberry

Posted by: Aaron Brazell
Woodlawn, MD, USA

If you are a non-BES user (Blackberry Enterprise Server) - or if you bought your own Blackberry as opposed to your company giving it to you - you may wonder how to change that default signature block that gets appended to the end of all your Blackberry-sent messages. Mine was, “Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry”. I hate that for a few reasons:

1. Verizon Wireless doesn’t pay me to advertise for them.
2. I don’t necessarily need people to know I can be reached at anytime, anyplace.
3. I want to set my own signature.

When I worked for Northrop Grumman, I supported Blackberrys so I know that in a corporate environment, you can change the signature via Redirector Settings but that is only available if you set the Blackberry up in the BES environment - something most of us small business people probably don’t have access to.

After several months of digging, and tons of bad advice from the internet, I discovered that Blackberry provides a standard web portal for managing email accounts directly from the web. Though I can only confirm this works for Verizon Wireless, my research leads me to believe it will work with any carrier.

Follow these steps:

  • Browse to https://bis.na.blackberry.com/html?brand=vzw. Replace vzw with your own provider. I tested cingular, telus and rogers and each have their own branding. I’d imagine this would work for other providers as well.
  • Login with the account information you typically log into Email Settings on the handheld.
  • From here, signatures can be edited, email accounts can be added, removed, etc.

I’d be interested to hear from non-Verizon Wireless customers as to whether this works.

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About the Author: Aaron Brazell is the lead editor of Technosailor.com and a social media expert. His passion is to see companies and individuals use the internet and web technologies wisely and effectively to promote their brands and companies. He served as Director of Technology at b5media from 2005-2008 and is currently an independent consultant.
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      Sean 1 year ago 1 point

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      Can't you also do it from within the email options on the bberry itself?

      Messages->Options->Email Settings

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      R 3 weeks ago 1 point

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      The key piece of information here if you don't know what your username is, is to go (on your BB) to email settings, then "Create User Name".
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      Aaron Brazell 1 year ago 1 point

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      Nope. I tried. That field is uneditable. At least with VZW.
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      do you know what the branding is for cingular?
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      Aaron Brazell 1 year ago 1 point

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      I think just cingular. On Firefox there's a broken image which tells me their branding is screwed up but I'd think this would be the url:

      https://bis.na.blackberry.com/html?brand=cingular
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      Zak 1 year ago 1 point

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      Great tip! I'm going to do this as soon as I get a Blackberry... :/ Oh well...
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      Dave Zatz 1 year ago 1 point

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      I'm between Berrys at the moment, but on TMobile BIS it's pretty easy -- just log into your web account and start poking around.

      http://support.t-mobile.com/knowbase/root/publi...
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      It worked! Excellent advice. Thanks.
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      hope 1 year ago 1 point

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      Thank you so much - I Just switched from using a tmobile blackberry that let me edit it myself to a verizon one that would NOT let me edit it, it was driving me crazy!
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      Noah L-H 1 year ago 1 point

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      Just discovered the login for Cingular...

      http://bis.na.blackberry.com/html?brand=mycingular

      Note it's "mycingular", not "cingular" -- accounts will not work if the branding is not set properly.
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      Yessurr 1 year ago 1 point

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      Such a great tip... I have been trying to do this for like a week...

      thank you very much!
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      The USCellular address is
      http://www.uscellular.blackberry.com
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      Great tip - this was driving me crazy as well and I had no idea where to start. Thanks a bunch.
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      I just spent an hour reading through the ridiculously poor advice from all the other forums. I wish I had stumbled on yours earlier -- I fixed it in 10 seconds.
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      It worked in a Blackberry of Telcel (Mexico)... Thanks for the great information!
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