BlackBerry® Curve™

[ctsully]

How can you retrieve text messages from the blackberry if the trackpad is broken and won't work?

[FozzieBear]

Hello ctsully,

Welcome to the BlackBerry Support Community.

The following article may help regarding the issue you are experiencing with the trackpad on your BlackBerry® smartphone:

Trackpad, trackball, or keyboard not working on a BlackBerry Smartphone - http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB29640

If this process fails to address the issue you could back up the device and restore the data to another BlackBerry smartphone as shown here:

How to back up and restore data to a new BlackBerry smartphone - http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB10339

We hope this helps.

Thank you.