Format Your Nokia Symbian Phones

Format Your 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.

In many time you need to format your Nokia mobile set memory but it is so hard for unknown person but it will show you it is too simple. lets go,

1)Switch Off your phone.

2)Hold down the following three keys buttons:Green(the call answer button)+* button and +3 number butt tom.

3)while holding these three buttons hold the power button for a second to switch on the phone.

4)Release when the phone shows the Nokia hands logo or shows other things of life like The language selection screen.

It will start formatting and do not open battery and Power off again. Make sure you make a backup first before doing the hard reset. All your data in phone will be lost.

For nokia symbian phones there are two type of formats.

1. Soft Format

2. Hard Format


We 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 (Including Contacts, Messages).


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 support.

5320 XpressMusic6210 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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Thanks To All.....