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Nokia 5230 S60v5 Trick: Changing Your Phone’s Font

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You have been seeing the same old fonts and layouts from the day you bought your phone. Switching themes won’t do a thing about the font – you always get that trademark-Symbian, thin letterings on your homescreen, in your menu, and through your messages. How about a makeover? No, I’m not talking about some 3rd-party [...]

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Nokia 5230 Tip: Cleaning Your Display

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Warning: Today’s tip is slightly off-beat – try this at your own risk. How long have you been using your Nokia 5230? Six months? Nearly a year? If your phone has endured 6 months or over in your hand, you might have noticed that your display has been gradually losing contrast. Also, if you look [...]

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Nokia 5230 S60v5 Tips: 10 Ways to Improve Your Battery-life

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Battery backup is one aspect about the phone that you can never have enough. Who wouldn’t appreciate that one extra hour of battery power you can gain out of your device? If you own an S60 device, there are quite many “dark-forces” that mysteriously drain out your battery unnecessarily – all you need is to [...]

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Nokia Codes

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Nokia Symbian smartphones have codes which retrieve important information such as phone’s firmware version, bluetooth device address, imei number,  and can also come in handy for doing soft and hard reset. In case Nokia 5230 is your first symbian smartphone you may be unaware of these secret codes. Here are a few handy ones   *#0000# – Shows software/firmware [...]

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