I was asked the other day how to best “unstick” a uncooperative BlackBerry trackball. I dug around a little and found this link, which describes using a piece of white paper.

The link goes to “unsharp Tech“, a nice little tech blog (with a tip of the hat to lifehacker.com).

The idea is:

• Lock your keyboard
• Run your BB trackball across the paper a bunch of times (undefined as to what “bunch” means – zillion? quadrillion? Somewhat less than that; see the video for details)
• Repeat as necessary

This makes good sense, as the paper will act as the scouring agent, and/or can help dislodge a piece of debris that may be the problem.

Here is the link to the video