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Quick Start Guide | RIM BlackBerry Platforms

This is a quick start guide for the wireless fabric keyboard for RIM Blackberry devices.
Please take some time to read the main User Manual on the keyboard to familiarise
yourself with all the features of your keyboard.

Note: A Blackberry device needs to have event (or keyboard) injection enabled. To do this
please follow one of the options below:

OPTION 1 - Device is registered on the BES

If the BB device is on BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES), permission must be obtained
from the BES administrator to download the fabric keyboard software and enable event
injection. The BES must be 4.0 or higher.

For instructions provided by RIM BlackBerry, see:

http://www.blackberry.com/knowledgecenterpublic/livelink.exe/fetch/2000/8021/8149/8052/How_To__Configure
_an_application_control_policy_to_support_peripherals_using_EventInjector_API.html?nodeid=1018328&vernu
m=0

OR

Visit

www.blackberry.com/knowledgecenterpublic

<outbind://40/www.blackberry.com/knowledgecenterpublic> (Search for "KB-04219").

OPTION 2 - Device not registered on the BES

To check permissions on a device (security policy) to check ‘event injection is ON) navigate
through the selections below:

Options > Advanced > Applications > Modules

OR

For some devices running 4.0.2

Settings > applications > (click)
Settings > applications > (anywhere) > modules > FabricKeyboard > properties > view
Settings > applications > policy restrictions

You should be able to 'allow' event injection from here.

Note: If the Blackberry was used on the BES and now no longer is, (and event injection is
disabled) then there seems to be no way to reverse this without putting the device back on
the BES and following the above.

Wireless Fabric Keyboard | Quick Start Installation Guide

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Quick Start Guide | RIM BlackBerry Platforms

To enable the wireless fabric keyboard to work, a driver or application must be installed
onto the device. To do this, the following should be done:

Note: The standard ‘Blackberry Desktop Manager with the ‘Application loader’ must be
installed on a PC and the device must be connected to the PC via the USB cable for
transfer to be possible.

The desktop manager software comes as standard when a device is purchased.

a. Download the BB zip file and unzip files (fabrickeyboard.alx and fabrickeyboard.cod) to

a suitable place on the pc (not important where this is done).

b. With the device connected to the PC, run the BB desktop manager and then the

application loader.

c. Wait for the device to connect and receive handheld data, and show the application

selection screen.

d. Select the Add button and navigate to the location of the files that have been

downloaded, and select fabrickeyboard.alx and then press ‘open’

e. Ensure that the ‘fabrickeyboard’ application is checked on the application selection

menu wizard.

f. Press ‘next’ repeatedly until the message is displayed ‘your device has been

successfully updated’.

g. Wait for device screen to return to main menu.
h. Disconnect and navigate to the fabric keyboard icon and select it to run the keyboard

program.

Wireless Fabric Keyboard | Quick Start Installation Guide

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