After taking so long to transition to its next-gen OS platform, BlackBerry has an awful lot riding on its first BB10 handset, the Z10. Experience the new BlackBerry Z10 smartphone, featuring BlackBerry Hub, a touch screen keyboard, BBM Video and much more. While, for some newbie to BlackBerry, the issue connecting Z10 to PC always occurred.
My Z10 doesn't connect to my PC via USB regardless of whether link is up and running or not. I just wanna transfer some media files videos, music to my Z10 from my computer. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cannot do any backups or syncs until this is resolved.
The way to fast connect BlackBerry Z10 to PC we found:
Method 1: Mass storage
Connect BlackBerry Z10 to PC with USB 2.0 and set the phone up as a hard drive. Follow
Settings>Storage and Access> USB Mass Storage
With that option on, you can select the SD card from your computer to manually move video, photo, music files on it, but note that it’s not on the actual phone.
Method 2: BlackBerry Link
Download BlackBerry Link and install fine and it will recognize your BlackBerry Z10 as well as show any media you have on it. With BlackBerry Link, you can manage and sync content between BlackBerry Z10 and your computer.
Tip: If your Blackberry Z10 won't connect to PC, you can try: disable Symantec Endpoint Protection or Kaspersky Internet Security or else. Then BB Link will recognize Z10 wirelessly within seconds. Also, you can plug it in with an USB cable and that will be recognized too.
Trying the two methods above, you can connect your Z10 to PC successfully. Afterwards, you can freely transfer music/photos/videos to BlackBerry Z10 from PC.
Tips: Get your video/audio files fit for BlackBerry Z10 playback
1. BlackBerry Z10 video formats: 3GP, 3GP2, M4V, MOV, MP4, MKV, MPEG-4, AVI, ASF, WMV, F4V.
2. BlackBerry Z10 supported audio files M4A, WMA, MP3, MKA, AAC, WAV, AWB, OGG, FLAC
3. Compress 1080p videos to BlackBerry Z10 best video format MP4 including but not limit to 1080p MKV, FLV, MTS, M2TS, TiVo, FLV, AVI, etc for playback if necessary.
4. The best video/audio settings for BlackBerry Z10:
a. For 720p/1080p source movie, you can set the video code as h.264, video size as 1280*720. And set video bitrate as 1000~1500kbps.
b. For DVD movies, you’d better set the video size as 720*480 according to DVD movies’ native resolution.
Well, this Ultimate Video Converter for BlackBerry Z10 is the best app for you to convert any video/movie files including MKV, AVI, MTS, MPG, Blu-ray, DVD to BlackBerry readable format with the best output quality.
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