Tips and tricks To Format Nokia Symbian Phones

Nokia smart phones are mostly built on symbian platform.If your nokia phone is giving you a lot of trouble like hanging over and again,restarting or  a virus which is making your phone to do some crazy stuff. The best solution to get rid of all these problems is to format your
phone.For nokia symbian phones there are two type of formats.


1.Soft Format

2.Hard Format

W recommend you to first go for a soft format and if your problem is not solved then go for a hard format.

Precautions Before You Go For Any Format

1.Back up all of your data and contacts.You can use nokia PC suite to do so.

2.Make sure that your phone battery is full.

3.Do not switch of your phone while phone is performing a format.

Now here is a step by step complete tutorial with all the tips and tricks on how to format symbian mobile phones

Soft Format:This will erase all the data in the internal drive.


1.To perform you have to close any background application if running.

2.Enter *#7370# in as you enter any phone number

3.Now your phone will be formatted.All your internal data is lost.

Hard Format:Well! this might make your phone unusable if your battery get empty during this format.So first Charge your phone or put a charger because it drains a lot of battery.You might  require help of one person to

1.Switch of your nokia symbian phone.

2.Then hold down these tree keys simultaneously.Green (call key),* key and 3 button.

3.Now Switch on your phone while holding these keys.And format will be started.

4.When the message “Formatting” appears on the screen then release these keys.

5.Wait till the format is complete. It may take a while.

Here is a complete list of nokia phones that it might support5320 XpressMusic

6210 Navigator

6220 classic

6650

N78

N96

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** S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1 **

(OS v9.2)

5700 XpressMusic

6110 Navigator

6120 classic

6121 classic

6124 classic

6290

E71 (320×240)

E66

E51

E90 Communicator (800×352)

N76

N81

N81 8GB

N82

N95

N95 8GB

N95-3 NAM

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** S60 3rd Edition (initial release) **

(OS v9.1)

3250 (176×208)

5500 Sport (208×208)

E61 (320×240)

E61i (320×240)

E62 (320×240)

E50

E65

N71

N73

N77

N91 8GB (176×208)

N92

N93

N93i

E60 (352×416)

E70 (352×416)

N80 (352×416)

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** S60 3rd Edition **

(OS v9.1)

N75

N91 (176×208)

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[*[*[*[ S60 2nd Edition ]*]*]*]

176×208 resolution

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** S60 2nd Edition, Feature Pack 3 **

(OS v8.1a)

N70

N72

N90 (352×416)

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** S60 2nd Edition, Feature Pack 2 **

(OS v8.0a)

6630

6680

6681

6682

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** S60 2nd Edition, Feature Pack 1 **

(OS v7.0s)

3230

6260

6620

6670

7610

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** S60 2nd Edition (initial release) **

(OS v7.0s)

6600

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[*[*[*[ S60 1st Edition ]*]*]*]

176×208 resolution

(OS v6.1)

3600

3650

3660

3620

7650

N-Gage

N-Gage QD

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[* [* [* [ S80 Devices ] *] *] *]

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[*[*[*[ S80 2nd Edition ]*]*]*]

(OS v7.0s)

9300i (640×200)

9300 (640×200)

9500 (640×200)

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Other Series

sometimes call S90 (in fact no S90 of Developer Platform)

(OS v7.0s)

7710 (640×320)

(OS v6.0)

9210c Communicator (640×220)

9210i Communicator (640×220)

9290 Communicator (640×220)

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