Prepare Your Phone For Recycling - Nokia 500 User Manual

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 Settings
>
Encryption.
It may take several minutes to encrypt or decrypt your data. During the encryption
process, do not:
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Use your phone unless you have to
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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
1 Back up the content you want to keep to a compatible memory card or to a
compatible computer.
2 Close all active connections and calls.
3 Select Settings
>
Delete data and
4 If prompted, enter the security code.
5 Your phone switches off and then on again. Check carefully that all your personal
content, such as contacts, pictures, music, videos, notes, messages, mails,
presentations, games and other installed applications have been removed.
Content and information stored on the memory card or SIM card is not removed.
Phone Phone management
> >
off.
on.
and Phone
restore.
Phone management
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Security settings
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Factory settings
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