[Arcanine]

Hey folks i have a small problem and i hope you can help me
my telephone is Nokia N97 but it is chinese made and my brother gave me that and it mostly works but my question is that i wanna format it
any idea how to do that?

[jawfin]

www.google.com/search?q=format+Nokia+N97

Your friendly Google spokesman has spoken (Google: its an Internet thing)

[Arcanine]

thats odd..i tried three of them but none of them worked

[jawfin]

Its possible the language is locked into it. As far as I can tell its not a true "smart phone" - in that you couldn't install another operating system into it - which also indicates it was released with the language hardcoded. No amount of resetting will make it change its language, its part of the phone itself.

[Pyra]

Isn't Nokia from Finland? O_o The Transformers movie even parodied that fact by saying Nokia knew the way of the samurai. =P

Have you tried their support discussions forums? I'm sure you're not the first one to ask.
http://discussions.europe.nokia.com/

[Arcanine]

yea i think so as well, i mean i tried to see some forums but neither of them has worked and i will lead pyra's link thnx i will inform u guys about that

[Arcanine]

Its possible the language is locked into it. As far as I can tell its not a true "smart phone" - in that you couldn't install another operating system into it - which also indicates it was released with the language hardcoded. No amount of resetting will make it change its language, its part of the phone itself.

sorry for late reply now jawfy and right now(actually those days) i am entering my mobile internet so i thought i did write that but obviously i didnt anyway that is true i mean i am thinking like that as well since mine is chinese made its possible that i cant do it any alternative to break it?

[jawfin]

I cannot answer what I do not know. Did you get any responses from asking these questions in any Nokia or Mobile Phone forums?

[Arcanine]

yea i did and it seems that its working now thank you jawfy and pyra for ur helps
it worked that way first i be on here with my mobile phone to deplete my charge and after that i did a hard reset which are shift space and backward and power and it worked
\amhug jaw and pyra

[Pyra]

Aww, no biggie, Pala. ^^ Glad it helped.

[Arcanine]

Aww, no biggie, Pala. ^^ Glad it helped.

tbh it does pyra i mean i was doing everything and i tried everyway including jaw's link but it didnt work for me but thnx to u i solved
ahem jaw if u want u may lock this one,the work is done and ty for ur boths help