Reset the Nokia e61

Something is wrong when you take your phone out of your pocket to be greeted with a “Kernel Error”. Rebooting the phone seemed to get it stuck in an endless boot cycle and when removing the memory card and battery didn’t fix the problem, I feared the worst.

Anyway the following two key combinations solved the problem. Be warned though that you will loose all your data.

• Switch off the phone then press and hold Green, * and 3 whilst turning the phone on
• *#7370# (*#RES0#)

I’m not sure which one solved the problem, but after trying both, the phone is now back up and running again.

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