Nokia 5230 support

You can unplug the charger when the battery indicator shows that the battery is full. For the first and consecutive charges, charging the battery can take up to 2 hours. It is not recommended to keep the charger connected longer. The first charge is not different from the other charges.

Note: When charging through a USB port, the charging might take longer than 2 hours.

Select Menu > Settings > Phone > Phone mgmt. > Factory settings.

You can reset some of the settings to their original values. To do this, you need the lock code, which is 12345 by default unless you have changed it before.

After resetting, the device may take a longer time to power on. Documents and files are unaffected.

Refresh or update the music library. Open Music player (or Media player or My music), select Options > Refresh library (or Update library or Update libr.).

SMS message may get converted to MMS message in the following situations:

1) When sending a long SMS message

In some devices the message type gets converted from SMS text message to MMS multimedia message if the message length exceeds the device-specific setting which is typically 5 - 10 SMS submessages (around 760-1520 characters). If the message is longer, it is converted to MMS to avoid potential issues in handling long text messages in the recipient device. The cost of a SMS message consisting of several concatenated submessages may also be higher than the cost of a single MMS message.

The conversion from SMS text message to MMS multimedia message occurs when the automatic message type is selected in the message options. This is the default mode where the device tries to automatically select the best mode for the message.

The conversion from SMS to MMS can be avoided by selecting Options > Sending options > Message type > Text when in the Text message window writing the message. The message is then always sent as SMS text message and no conversion to MMS occurs.

The maximum number of concatenated SMS submessages can be up to 10 (around 1520 characters). In multimedia mode the message length can be longer.

2) No phone number defined in user contact information

If sending SMS to one or more recipients and one of the potential recipients has only email address and no phone number, the SMS will be converted to MMS. This is independent of the number of the potential recipients.

In order to avoid the conversion to MMS, remove from the recipient list the contacts which don't have a phone number defined.

If the packet data indicator on the device display becomes active even though there is no application connecting to internet, the device may be trying to retrieve a multimedia message from the multimedia message centre. To stop the device from making a data connection, select Menu > Messaging > Options > Settings > Multimedia message > Multimedia retrieval. Select Manual to have the multimedia messaging centre save messages to be retrieved later, or Off to ignore all incoming multimedia messages. If you select Manual, you receive a notification when you have a new message in the multimedia message centre. If you select Off, the device does not make any network connections related to multimedia messaging.

If the packet data indicator is constantly active, check if the packet data connection is configured to be constantly on. To set the device to activate a packet data connection only if you start an application or action that needs it,select Menu > Settings > Connectivity > Admin.settings > Packet data > Packet data connection > When needed. If you select When available and you are in a network that supports packet data, the device registers to the packet data network always when the network is available. Starting an active packet data connection (for example, to send and receive e-mail) is then quicker than if the device establishes a packet data connection when needed.

If the above settings don't help, switch the device off and then on again.

Note that there can also be an application in your device that automatically connects to internet, e.g. the home screen widgets or email client. If you don't want the connection to be automatically established, change the connection settings in the applications (e.g. disable automatic synchronisation in email client and select Options > Widgets to offline mode in home screen).

The screen is calibrated at the factory. If it is necessary to re-calibrate the screen, select  Menu > Settings > Phone > Touch input > Touch screen calibration. Follow the instructions on the screen.

Start-up tone (welcome tone played when starting up the device) is on by default, to turn it off, open Profiles, select a profile and Options > Personalise > Warning tones > Off.

Applies for Nokia S60 and Symbian^3 devices.

First check that your device date, time and time zone are correct.

Check that your device has a latest software installed via Nokia Suite (or SW Update).

If your device has newest software and time is correct and the phone still gives the same error Certificate expired, the certificate of the application that you are trying to install might have already been expired. 

The default code is 12345.

To change the code, select Menu > Tools > Settings > General > Security > Phone and SIM card > Lock code.  (Or in some devices, Menu > Settings > Phone > Phone mgmt. > Security settings > Phone and SIM card > Lock code.)

 

Select Menu > Messaging > Options > SIM messages.

Text messages may be stored on your SIM card. Before you can view SIM messages, you must copy the messages to a folder in the device. After copying the messages to a folder, you can view them in the folder or delete them from the SIM card.

1. Select Options > Mark/Unmark > Mark or Mark all to mark every message.

2. Select Options > Copy.

3. Select a folder and OK to begin copying.

To view SIM card messages, open the folder where you copied the messages, and open a message.

To delete a  message from the SIM card, select the message, and press the clear (or backspace) key.