Many people worry when their cell phone showed abnormal functions. For a light damage, it is not necessary to take your phone to the repair shop, you may fix by press codes on keypad, so it will re-set to the factory setting (back to first setting). This problems may fix by codes :
- show full memory message but actually the capacity has not full.
- show “Camera Not Ready†message when taking the picture.
- At Nokia Symbian series show blink 4 times.
- Hang or cell phone slowly operation.
- The phone often to turn off automatically on minutes or hours.
- Often restart automatically.
- No ring when activate the switch off menu and do not know how to turn on.
- When write SMS, just show the numeric, letter not appear
- Cannot make SMS, because the folder is gone.
- One of icon is can not operate.
- Often appear the Phone Startup Contact retailer message.
- Often show System error message
- Often show Application Closed message
- Often show Phone Lock.
- Menu display in disorder
- Virus infected.
Many important things to remember before make a repairing:
- Back up important data to other media or external memory, before back to the first setting (factory setting), to avoid loosing the picture data, phonebook, ringtone, and application.
- To memorize language location, so you will back to the known language after reset.
- At Communicator serial, delete Office file, then re-install after finish the repairing.
Reset the cell phone may different every series and types, here describes for Nokia series :
a. Nokia Communicator (9500,9210 & 9300)
- turn off cell phone
- release battery and external memory
- wait for 10 seconds, then set again the battery.
- open cell phone to see the inside screen, after screen active and before hand mark show up, press CTRL+SHIFT+F simultaneously.
- press OK when notification message appear that asking for phone formatting.
This step to overcome hang, restart or slowly phone operation.
b. Nokia 7710 & 770
- turn off your cell phone
- release battery and external memory
- wait for 10 seconds, then set again battery
- when the Nokia word display on screen, soon press and hold left key above menu key + menu key + second key from up right of cell phone.
- when the format confirmation of phone message show, press Proceed
- wait until process finished.
This step to overcome hang and menu not function.
c. Nokia serial 60
- make sure that battery is full, minimal ½ full, to avoid failure when rebooting process.
- release memory card, or card would be unreadable after rebooting.
- reset process can be done when phone active and use SIM card.
- type code #7780#, press OK
- enter standard code 12345 then cell phone will automatically restart
- enter code #7370#, then do similar with soft reset.
At 60 serial, may happen:
- phone is off and use battery (full or ½ )
- release memory card
- press On
- After cell phone is on, press Call + * + 3 button simultaneously.
- Wait a moment after format message shows on screen.
This step to overcome Phone Startup Contact Retailer and 4x blink
d. Nokia serial 40
- when cell phone is on and there is SIM Card inside, type code #7780#, then OK
- Enter standard code 12345 then cell phone will automatically restart
This step to overcome restart and auto off.
For some types of CDMA Nokia, procedures are:
- into main menu
- choose setting
- choose restore factory setting
- when you asked for the code, type 12345
- press OK


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