{"id":2687,"date":"2013-02-26T11:45:56","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T11:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=2687"},"modified":"2024-03-12T16:02:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T16:02:43","slug":"how-to-reset-a-nokia-to-factory-settings-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/how-to-reset-a-nokia-to-factory-settings-video\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Reset A Nokia To Factory Settings (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb10\">With the recent announcement at the Mobile Word Congress (MWC) this year, of four new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/brands\/nokia\/\">Nokia<\/a> phones we thought it would be good timing to bring you a quick video guide on how you can go about resetting your Nokia phone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb10\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2688\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/menu-nokia.jpg\" alt=\"Nokia Reset Guide\" width=\"250\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/c9ac71a8282e1fecd95e-f07dbcddcacf0d4c572ea7178ee6902d.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/menu-nokia.jpg 250w, https:\/\/c9ac71a8282e1fecd95e-f07dbcddcacf0d4c572ea7178ee6902d.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/menu-nokia-163x300.jpg 163w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2688 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20250%20458%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Nokia Reset Guide\" width=\"250\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20250%20458%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/c9ac71a8282e1fecd95e-f07dbcddcacf0d4c572ea7178ee6902d.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/menu-nokia.jpg 250w, https:\/\/c9ac71a8282e1fecd95e-f07dbcddcacf0d4c572ea7178ee6902d.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/menu-nokia-163x300.jpg 163w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/menu-nokia.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb10\">The video shows us restoring a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/phones\/nokia-n8\/\">Nokia N8<\/a> Smartphone but you should be able to follow this for most types of Nokia handsets that are running on the old Symbian OS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb10\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Why Do I Need To Do This?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb10\">By performing a data reset it helps give you that peace of mind when you come to sell your phone, that you have successfully wiped all information and left the phone in a &#8220;factory condition&#8221; to then sell on, or recycle here at SellCell.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb10\">This is one of the biggest problems in the industry to date, people generally delete a few things manually but forget to use the phone&#8217;s features to perform a hard reset. Therefore many phones still contain private and confidential data by the time it gets to the recyclers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb10\">All of our recyclers use systems to wipe this data, however if you sell the phone elsewhere then you could end up a victim of identity theft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb10\">So without any further ado, here is the video:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb10\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rbupuo4U2ns?list=PL-AENKvbhV3C4GSlXi6yHuQvBomEurYzg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the recent announcement at the Mobile Word Congress (MWC) this year, of four new Nokia phones we thought it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1821],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin 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