Prepare Your Phone For Recycling - Nokia 500 User Manual

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104 Phone management
Send the lock message
To lock the phone remotely, write the predefined text, and send it to your phone as a
text message.
To unlock your phone, you need the lock code.
Encrypt your data
Want to protect your data against unauthorised use? You can encrypt data on your
phone using an encryption key.
Select
Menu
Settings
>
Encryption.
It may take several minutes to encrypt or decrypt your data. During the encryption
process, do not:
Use your phone unless you have to
Switch your phone off
Remove the battery
If you haven't set your phone to lock itself automatically when not in use, you are
prompted to do so when you encrypt your data for the first time.
Encrypt the phone memory
Select
Encryption
Decrypt the phone memory
Select
Encryption

Prepare your phone for recycling

If you buy a new phone, or otherwise want to dispose of your phone, Nokia recommends
that you recycle your phone. Beforehand, remove all personal information and content
from your phone.
Remove all content and restore settings to the default values
1
Back up the content you want to keep to a compatible memory card (if available)
or to a compatible computer.
2
Close all active connections and calls.
3
Select
Menu
Delete data and
4
If prompted, enter the lock code.
Phone
>
off.
on.
Settings
and
Phone
>
restore.
Phone management
>
Phone management
>
Security settings
>
Factory settings
>
>
>

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