FORMATING A NOKIA MOBILE (restore factory settings)

To soft format a mobile phone

you need to do the following things :

1.back-up the contents of the mobile phone

2.then type *7370# on the standby screen

3.it prompts to enter the security code ,i.e: the security code for nokia is 12345 (or) 1234

4.then the phone will restart ,but it will take longer than usual so don't need to panic

and make sure that the phone has enough charge if not then connect a charger for safety

5.now your phone will become good as new

p.s this format does not work for symbian s40 v5 phones

AND SOFT FORMAT is used to restore the default settings and the phone memory and not the data inside memory card