Some themes may switch up your signal meter to graphical meters and what not.  Here’s a simple trick you can do with your BlackBerry to transform those bars as seen above to a numerical value instead.  I don’t know how useful you may find it, but it is definitely more “cool” than it is savvy.

• 1. Go to your home screen.
• 2. Start off by pressing the ALT key, and press NMLL to change to numerical value.
• 3. To switch back, perform the same function by again pressing the ALT key, and press NMLL to change to bar value.

UPDATE: For the BlackBerry Storm:

• 1. Open the keyboard on home screen.  Easy way of doing this is setting one of your convenience keys to “Virtual Keyboard.”
• 2. Hold  the ‘!?123′ button to enable the number lock.
• 3. Type an exclamation point, a comma, and two sets of double quotation marks.
• 4. Type the same thing over again to go back to graphic bar display.

-by Mac Jadalhack

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