Introduction
Starting with model 8100 aka the BlackBerry Pearl all new BlackBerry smart phone
models allow expanding the storage capacity with a media card.
The card is meant to hold large data files such as
images, audio and video, e-books, dictionaries etc.
BlackBerry applications capable of accessing
the card can then make use of those files.
Starting with version 6 the BEIKS talking
phrase books for BlackBerry can do just that.
Unfortunately, the BlackBerry does not provide an easy way to
download files to the storage card; the built-in browser can downloading ring
tones, MP3s, images and videos, but that's all it can handle and even they have
size limitations.
What about the e-books,
dictionaries, phrase books or whatever other type of data one may want to
download?
BEIKS' BeFTP expands BlackBerry's
capabilities by letting users download files of arbitrary type and size to the media card.
This manual is meant to show you how to use
BeFTP to download phrase books for BEIKS Phrase Book Viewer to the card.
Prerequisites
A BlackBerry phone with installed and
formatted media card with at least 2-3 MB free space on it (the more the
better).
You can check if the inserted card is recognized by the device by going to
the "Media" icon from the main launcher, then hitting the Menu button and
choosing "Explore".
A new window should come up, showing 3 or more folders; one of them
should be "Media Card".
Both
BeFTP 2.0 (or later) and BEIKS
Phrase Books Viewer 6.1
(or later) must be already installed on the device; it does not
matter if they were installed wirelessly or through a desktop.
Note:
BeFTP 2.0 makes it easy to download files by letting you transfer all remote
files in one step; BeFTP 1 only allows transferring one file at a time.
Getting down to business
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I. Starting BeFTP |
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1) Start BeFTP from
the main application launcher. On some devices the icon may be under a
folder called "Applications" instead in the main launcher view: |
2) Select and
hit "Continue" in the registration reminder screen. You are granted a limited free license to use BeFTP for
downloading files from the BEIKS FTP site. |
3) The main BeFTP screen shows up: |
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II. Ensuring there is a
directory/folder for the dictionaries on the media card |
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1)
Highlight the "Browse local files" menu in BeFTP and click to enter it.
A new window will appear, listing the available storages. Select and
click "SDCard". |
2)
One or more folders should appear under "SDCard". Select and click the
one called "BlackBerry" to enter it. |
3) If
you see a folder called "BEIKS" enter it and move on to 4).
Otherwise pull the menu, choose "New Folder...", type "BEIKS" and click
the ball to create and enter the folder. |
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4) Unless you see a "PhraseBooks"
folder under "SDCard/BlackBerry/BEIKS/" pull the menu again
and create it:
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5) You are done when
you see the "SDCard/BlackBerry/BEIKS/PhraseBooks/" folder.
There might be other folders and files as well.All
downloaded phrase book files must go in this folder. |
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III. Downloading content to the
BlackBerry's media card designated folder |
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1)
Choose "Open BEIKS Public FTP" from the main BeFTP menu. You should shortly see the BEIKS
FTP server's root (BeFTP 1.x shows "public" folder name).
If you encounter a problem
look here. |
2) Enter the "public"
folder (if you see one), then the "BlackBerry" folder by highlighting and clicking.
You should see something like this:
(BeFTP 1.x display may differ a bit) |
3) Enter the "PhraseBooks" folder, then the one
representing the exact or closest lower version of the BEIKS Phrase Book Viewer
version on your device. As of Aug 2008 this is version 6.1: |
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4)
You should see a long list of phrase books, each represented by a
folder. Locate, highlight and click to enter the one you want to
download. |
5) Highlight the
first file in the list and pull the menu. BeFTP 2 lets you download all
files at once, where with BeFTP 1 they have to go one by one. |
6) If this is the first time you navigate the
local storage you will see the below picture. Otherwise you will see the
last visited folder. |
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7)
You must navigate to the
"/BlackBerry/BEIKS/PhraseBooks/" folder in the "/SDCard/" device
storage.
When ready, pull the menu and choose "Download here..." as shown: |
8) The download
should start and a progress should be displayed. Upon completion you
should again see the remote folder contents just as before starting the
download.
If you had used BeFTP 1 and had only downloaded a single file then you
must repeat the procedure again for the other file from the phrase book. |
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Well this is it! Once you have all dictionary
files transferred from the BEIKS FTP server to the local
"/BlackBerry/BEIKS/PhraseBooks/" folder you are good to go - the BEIKS
Dictionary Viewer should be able to find them there.
The process is not as easy as it should be and we are working to improve
it.
Remember you can also use a regular desktop to browse the media card
contents and copy files there. You could, for example, download the
files via regular desktop, then create the required target folder
(directory) and move the files there.
BeFTP is only an instrument for moving files from an FTP file server to
the BlackBerry media card. |
What do you want do do now?
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