How to flash/flex Nokia 7610?

Question

I have a Nokia 7610 mobile phone. I want to flash/flex this because its affected by virus. So,

1. Where can I download Nokia 7610 latest firmware & how to flash/flex with firmware?

2. Where can I download Nokia 7610 flash/flexing software??

I don't want to go Nokia service center. So, Please help me.

Thanks advanced.

Answer 1

You don't want to do that. Reflashing the firmware is done only if the producer (Nokia) issues an important firmware update. Don't mess with such stuff yourself, or you'll end up with a brick instead of a phone.

The best way to remove the virus is by using an anti-virus program that can recognize, identify and remove it properly. Allternatively, you can hard-reset the phone. This will kill the virus, along with everything else you have added to the phone (games, phone numbers, etc.) and will restore the factory settings. However, it will kill the virus only from the main memory of the phone. If it has also infected the MMC card, it will re-infect the phone from there during the reboot. So, make sure you remove the MMC card before the resetting and delete its contents using an MMC card reader on PC.

In order to reset (format) the phone, do the following:

1. Make sure the battery is fully charged.

2. Turn phone off and remove the MMC card.

3. Now this can be little tricky, but it's not so difficult. While the phone is complelty switched off, you must hold down three keys. These keys are the green call key, the star (*) key and the number 3def key. (If you hold phone laying in front of you on a hard surface it makes the procedure a lot less tricky.)

4. Once you have all the three keys firmly pressed, you need to reach out with your right index finger to switch the phone on. You must not release any of the 3 buttons while doing this, or the formatting will fail.

5. Keep all the three keys pressed untill the phone asks you to enter your country, then date and time. That's when you know the procedure has been succesfull and phone has been fully formatted. If you do not get prompted to enter the country and date and time, then the formatting has failed and you must try again. It's likely that you have released a button while switching the phone on. If it doesn't work on the first attempt, keep trying.

There are also two other ways to "format" the phone which are less tricky to perform but which delete less, so a virus might survive them:

1. Restore original phone settings: enter the number *#7780#

2. Soft format: enter the number *#7370#