Restore Nokia C5 to factory state

Nokia C5 belongs to the s60 family of Nokia symbian phones. A friend came lamenting to me about the phone. It should be the C5-00 variant. The phone could not do anything because it has run completely out of memory. Not even calls could be made with the phone. The popular reset code *#7370# could not resolve the problem.

After battling with the annoying screen error alerts for several minutes, I succeeded in restoring the phone to it's factory state. However, we lost all data, including contacts. How did I do it? See the steps below.

1. Shut down your phone and remove the sim card and memory card.
2. Locate the the following keys on your phone keypad: green key (send key), key 3, * key and power key.
3. Push the first three keys listed above simultaneously and then the power button. Hold down the four buttons and do not release them until the phone starts booting and displays the home screen. If you followed this as described, your phone is fully restored to default, clearing all data in the process.

The phone I reset did not display any other information while resetting. It simply booted to the home screen with everything anew.

Hope this helps.

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