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How to Format to Default Nokia N8 Complete Step?

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Nokia N8 is symbian smartphone with full touch screen to navigate everything. Nokia N8 have the specification bellow:

LCD 3.5 inchi with AMOLED display
Processor 680 MHz ARM 11
Memory Internal 16 GB storage, 512 MB ROM with 256MB RAM
Camera 5 MP, autofocus, LED flash
Camera 12 MP, 4000×3000 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, Xenon flash
Operating System Symbian OS can be upgradable to Nokia Belle Refresh

 

 

Troubleshooting Nokia N8

How to Hard Reset and Format Nokia N8 to Factory Default?

If you think some problem happen at our Nokia N8, better to try doing factory reset. To do thins make sure everything already backup such as contact and other data. There are several way to Factory Reset Nokia N8:

# Option One, Reset Nokia N8  using default menu

Nokia N8 have already have the factory default facility at main menu, try to do it when we still can operate Nokia N8 before reset:

Menu > Settings > Phone > Phone mgmt > Factory Setting > Delete Data and Restore

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# Option two, Reset Nokia N8 using Dial Pad Key

  1. Turn On the Nokia N8
  2. Ready at dial or phone position
  3. Input the keypad with *#7370# then choose YES
  4. If Nokia N8 ask for phone lock, use default 12345

 

# Option three, Reset Nokia N8 Using hardware key (this is dangerous, read carefully before do this)

If you can not open any menu or Nokia N8 stuck and can not start anything, the last change that you can do is reset it using hardware key, but this step will erase everything and all data will empty such as Ovi application. So consider carefully before doing option three (hardware reset)

  1. Turn off the Nokia N8
  2. Press and Hold together “VOLUME DOWN + CAMERA BUTTON + MENU BUTTON + POWER BUTTON
  3. do not release the button at step 2 until Nokia N8 vibrate and the screen will appear again
  4. Finish to reset to factory default Nokia N8

 

What Should  I  do if the Security Code is not working or if I forget the Nokia Security Code? Well better to go to nearest Nokia Service Center to ask for help.

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    • Hi, try to use 12345 as default security lock code. If you still can not open the security code, you have to do hard reset with hardware button like step at option 3 above.

    • Hi, doing hard reset will make the default firmware will be reinstall at Nokia N8. Any problem or installation or setting will be restore to default like using New Nokia N8 again. Any problem still can be happen again if you do anything wrong with the new firmware, but at least after format all setting will be clean and back to factory default, you can ready to use this phone again like new.

      • i've made hardware reset , the main screen and the main menu dissapeard , what should i do now , please help me .

        • Hi, maybe for some reasons or other causes, hard reset or master format will not solve your Nokia N8 problem. You can try it several time, but if you still get problem, better to bring your Nokia N8 to nearest service center.

    • Hi, the default security code for Nokia N8 is 12345, please try to use that code, if you can not access it or you have already changed it before, then you need to go to Nokia service center for unlock help.

    • Hi, basically if you would like to do hard reset or master format, then you should backup important all data, because it might deleted or erase all data at your Nokia N8.

    • Hi, you can try to do hard reset with hardware button key, but all data will be erase from your phone, and you should setup again from beginning.

  • hi when i select delete data and restore ,then it is demanding for security code . i have already try to 12345 code but it is not working, plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz help me i don't know what is security code of my phone. help dude

    • Hi, if you can not continue the security code with 12345, maybe you or someone ever change that code. Please try to bring your Nokia N8 to nearest official Nokia service center to get help.

    • hi when i select delete data and restore ,then it is demanding for security code . i have already try to 12345 code but it is not working, plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz help me i don’t know what is security code of my phone. help dude

      • Hi, maybe you or someone else ever change the default security code at Nokia N8. Please bring your phone to Nokia authorize service center to unlock your forgotten security code.

      • Hi, the factory default security code is 12345 for Nokia N8, but if you can not access that code, then you have to ask Nokia authorize service center to unlock that code.

          • Hi, sorry reply in English, please try to use default security code for Nokia N8 12345. If still can not work, then you have to bring your Nokia to Nokia authorized service center.

    • Hi, unfortunately when you forgot the security password at your Nokia N8, then you have to try using default 12345. If it can not work, then you have to bring your Nokia N8 to Nokia authorize service center for unlock it.

    • Hi, please try 12345 for default security code, if can not work, then you have to bring to Nokia authorize service center

  • i m trying to reset my N8, but even the default 12345 code is not working. when i enter 12345, i says {code error}..... What should i do now?

    • Hi, it seems that you or someone else ever change the security code for Nokia N8, that is why you can not access the right security code. The only steps you can do easily now is go to Nokia service center for ask help open or unlock the forgotten security code.

        • Hi, as long as your Nokia N8 still can boot properly, then you can use setting menu to hard reset your Nokia N8, but if that phone already can not boot, then you need to bring your phone to Nokia authorize service center.

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