How to Easily Master Format NOKIA LUMIA 1520 with Safety Hard Reset?

Tips and tricks for NOKIA LUMIA 1520 problems. The user of smartphone usually need a good fantastic camera for make personal documentation and also for share their moment at social media like Facebook or Instagram or something like that. NOKIA LUMIA 1520 is a phablet 6 inches LCD screen equip with good main camera as big as 20 megapixel with good lens from Carl Zeiss optics also have image stabilization for reduce handshake while taking pictures. NOKIA LUMIA 1520 processor is fast using quad-core processor at 2.2Ghz clock speed. This phone also known as code name RM-937, RM-938, RM-939, RM-940.

 

Main Advantage NOKIA LUMIA 1520 Specifications:

GSM 3G HSDPA Broadband with 4G LTE
LCD 6 inches with 1080 x 1920 pixels resolution
Internal Memory 16 GB or 32 GB storage
RAM 2 GB
Main Camera 20 MP, 4992 х 3744 pixels, autofocus, dual-LED flash
Camera feature Carl Zeiss optics, optical image stabilization
Processor Quad-core 2.2 GHz Krait 400
GPU Adreno 330
Operating system Microsoft Windows Phone 8 Black
Battery Li-Ion 3400 mAh

 

How to Fix or Problem Solving for Recovery NOKIA LUMIA 1520 hang or not responding or malfunctions or stuck or freezing or bricked ?

The NOKIA LUMIA 1520 have fast processor for Nokia Windows Phone 8 family. This phone also have big LCD screen as big as 6 inches. Because the specifications is good, we can download and install many recommended applications from Windows Phone Store. But maybe something can make trouble at our NOKIA LUMIA 1520 which could make the phone become hang or stuck or bricks or broken or LCD touch screen not responding. In this case we need to make sure first what is the causes of this problem. When our phone stuck or hang or bricks, we need to force soft reset or force reboot NOKIA LUMIA 1520. If the problem still happen, then we should do hard reset or master format.

 

How to Force Soft Reset or Force Reboot or Restart NOKIA LUMIA 1520 with hardware button?

The hang problem can make NOKIA LUMIA 1520 stuck or frozen with LCD not responding. What should we do? We should do force soft reset or force reboot NOKIA LUMIA 1520 with hardware key bellow :

1. Prepare your NOKIA LUMIA 1520 battery is not empty
2. Press and Hold together Volume Down Button + Power Button about 15 seconds
3. The NOKIA LUMIA 1520 will restart and you should release the the button and wait until it finish.

We can do this steps to force soft reset when our phone get trouble and hang or stuck or frozen. But we also can do soft reset or reboot or restart anytime we want by pressing power button several second until the LCD screen show ‘slide down to power of’. Slide the LCD down, then NOKIA LUMIA 1520 will turn off. This soft reset procedure is safe because all important data will not removed.

 

#Option 1, Hard Reset NOKIA LUMIA 1520 with software menu:

1. Turn on the NOKIA LUMIA 1520
2. Go to Menu Setting > Setting
3. Choose About and choose Reset your phone

 

#Option 2, Hard Reset NOKIA LUMIA 1520 with Hardware Key Button:

1. Turn off NOKIA LUMIA 1520
2. Press and hold together Volume Down Button + Power Button until LCD show exclamation mark icon
3. Now release number 2 button.
4. Press one by one continuously:
   1. Press and Release Volume Up Button
   2. Press and Release Volume Down Button
   3. Press and Release Power Button
   4. Press and Release Volume Down Down
5. If the step finish, the NOKIA LUMIA 1520 will do the hard reset or factory format by itself.
6. Wait until it finish to format, then we will need to setup like new again.

 

How to Restore and Reinstall Clean Operating system / firmware at NOKIA LUMIA 1520 ?

NOKIA LUMIA 1520 use Microsoft Windows Phone 8 Black as default operating system. Maybe after use several time and after we install and setup many applications at this phone suddenly the operating system damage or broken or not work properly. In this case maybe we should do reinstall or restore the clean factory default operating system of NOKIA LUMIA 1520. First we need to know that the file source of factory default and clean Microsoft Windows Phone 8 Black already saved inside NOKIA LUMIA 1520 ROM. Therefore we do not need to copy from other source or Internet or also we do not need to connect anything to NOKIA LUMIA 1520 to restore or reinstall the operating system. The steps are easy, follow the hard reset steps above either by software menu or hardware button key, then the clean factory default operating system will be reinstall automatically for several minutes. After reinstall, we should resetting again the NOKIA LUMIA 1520 from beginning. Please becareful before doing reinstall or hard reset, because all important data will be removed or wipe from this phone. So, please do backup first.

 

How to Unlock or Fix or Solutions for NOKIA LUMIA 1520 forgot security password or pin code?

Please keep carefully the security password or pin code after activate it at our NOKIA LUMIA 1520, because we can not bypass or unlock the forgotten security code unless doing hard reset or master format.  If we still can not access the security protection, then we have to do hard reset with step option #2 above.

 

How to improve NOKIA LUMIA 1520 perform and run faster?

The NOKIA LUMIA 1520 is fast Windows Phone smartphone because it have quad core processor with 2.2Ghz processor speed, this phone also have 2GB RAM to run more multitasking applications together. But we need to know, some applications that we installed from Microsoft Marketplace will automatically run in the background to wait some operation command. All running application either at background or foreground process will need some amount of RAM and use processor resources. If there are many application run together, then the phone will become more slowly and hard work. So, we should reduce this running applications when we feel our NOKIA LUMIA 1520 become slowly. Uninstall some not use applications will help make the speed better. If we want to make the NOKIA LUMIA 1520 performance run faster again like new, then we should consider to do hard reset or master format, of course after we finish backup all important data from NOKIA LUMIA 1520.

 

Can I Upgrade NOKIA LUMIA 1520 to latest update of Windows Phone 8 Black or Windows Phone 8.1 ?

Yes, we can upgrade the factory default OS Microsoft Windows Phone 8 Black to newer version Microsoft Windows Phone 8.1. So far NOKIA LUMIA 1520 already have update to Microsoft Windows Phone 8.1 without problems.  We can try to find the upgrade version from Setting Menu upgrade.

 

What is the secret code for NOKIA LUMIA 1520 ?

NOKIA LUMIA 1520 using Microsoft Windows Phone 8 default operating system which we know that it does not have secret code to tweak it. Until today, we do not have information about any secret code for NOKIA LUMIA 1520.

 

How to Install Antivirus at NOKIA LUMIA 1520 ?

We can find some antivirus applications from Windows Phone Store free, but please choose the applications with high rating and read carefully the review if available. The most important thing is to avoid the risk, by not install many applications especially not known developer.

 

How to Upgrade NOKIA LUMIA 1520 to WINDOWS 10 Official Firmware OS ?

NOKIA LUMIA 1520 can be upgrade to latest version of official Windows 10 operating system. Please use Upgrade Advisor app to upgrade this phone firmware.

1. Turn On NOKIA LUMIA 1520
2. Go to Apps Store from Start > All apps list > Store
3. Find Upgrade Advisor app from Store then install it at your NOKIA LUMIA 1520
4. After finish install, try to run Upgrade Advisor app and find the information that NOKIA LUMIA 1520 ready to upgrade to Windows 10. Please choose Enable Windows 10 upgrade
5. Wait until NOKIA LUMIA 1520 finish upgrade to Windows 10 official firmware