Reset your Nokia 5230

There are two way to reset your phone:

  1. Soft reset
  2. Hard reset

Soft reset
*#7780# Soft Reset Code, It restores the factory setting without affecting your contacts, messages, files etc.
It’ll ask for the lock code.
The dafult lock code is 12345.

Hard reset
*#7370# Hard Reset Code, on entering this code it’ll show you the same message “Restore all original phone settings”
but this time it’ll erase all the data stored in the phone memory.
So, use it only when some serious software problem occurs such as virus attack.
Take phone memory data backup on memory card or PC before doing hard format.

if you can not digit the code you can press the following buttons:

Green Button+Red Button+ Camera Button + Power button

How to disactive Windows Live Messenger on Nokia 5230

  • Open File Management
  • Search the imclient directory
  • rename the imclient to old_imclient
  • restart the nokia 5230 phone

Now the Windows Live Messenger don't start when you run the phone and the icon
on Phonebook program disappeared.