Clean the Trackball on a BlackBerry Pearl
Are you having problem with the trackball on your Blackberry 8100? Will the trackball on your blackberry pearl 8110
not move left, right, up, or down?
If you are having problems scrolling with your trackball on your blackberry pearl, then a quick cleaning may fix your problems.
Follow the procedure below and it enjoy a shiny, almost new like trackball today.
1: Take a deep breath and blow on the trackball area, rotate and do it again. This may blow any particles that are blocking the sensors. If you spit a lot, make sure you have a handy wipe nearby!
2: This requires a Q-tip and some alcohol. Turn off your blackberry pearl (we don't want it to smoke), wet the end of the q-tip, and gently clean the trackball while rotating and pushing down. Use the dry tip of the q-tip to dry off and clean again with another alchohol dipped swab. Let dry for a minute and try it out. If this doesn’t work then try again.
See a video of the cleaning below.
If you have problems with it scrolling still after cleaning it really well, it may be time to get a new trackball. They are fairly cheap and really easy to replace.
