{"id":10459,"date":"2011-06-15T19:46:12","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T03:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wapreview.com\/?p=10459"},"modified":"2011-06-15T19:51:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T03:51:58","slug":"symbian3-hard-reset-without-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/10459\/","title":{"rendered":"Symbian^3 Hard Reset Without Tears"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At last weekend’s Nokia Unleashed event I discovered that my N8’s battery was not lasting as long as it used to. After about 8 hours of moderate use (taking about a dozen photos, responding to a few Tweets with Gravity, a one minute phone call and maybe an hour’s worth of Web browsing) my battery was completely dead! A full charge of the N8 (which is only 8 months old) used to last at least twice as long<\/p>\n

When I got home I decided to try hard-reseting the phone, which restores it to factory default state, to see if that would help with the battery life issue.<\/p>\n

Before the PR 1.2 firmware update<\/a> in March resetting Symbian^3 devices like the N8, C7 or C6-01 was a no-no as it would delete the Ovi Store and Ovi Maps as well as the Qt run-time. For several months after the N8’s release there was no easy way to get the two apps and Qt back. \u00a0I’d heard that PR 1.2 fixed that problem and based on my experiences that’s true, although the process is still not as seamless as it could be.<\/p>\n

If you installed PR 1.2 using a PC with Ovi Suite<\/a> or the\u00a0Nokia Software Updater<\/a> (NSU) hard resetting is especially easy as the firmware that’s installed that way includes Ovi Maps. \u00a0If you installed PR 1.2 over the air with the Device Update option on the phone you will lose Maps when you reset but it’s easy to get it back.<\/p>\n

Here’s how to hard-reset a PR 1.2 or latter Symbian^3 device and reinstall \u00a0the Ovi Store and, if needed, Ovi Maps.<\/p>\n

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