Numbers on My Nokia N70 Stopped Working, But Now They Work Again

Yesterday evening, my Nokia N70 stopped working properly. That is, the numbers 1, 5, and 6 didn't respond. After a day of adding phone numbers to my Powerbook's address book and using iSync to add them to my contacts list, and trying straight rebooting the phone (turning it off then on again), and worrying that I would have to get another phone (which would have been my 4th this year, beginning with Siemens S55, then Nokia 7610, and then now with my N70, not including the Nokia N80 I had for a while), it works again. I couldn't hard reset the phone—7370# or, star seven three seven zero star number-sign—because I wasn't able to type in the code it asked for (12345) since, well, the 1 and 5 weren't working. What made it work again was the following: open the phone, take out the battery and SIM card, blow around a little bit, then replace the SIM card and battery and turn it on. Voodoo, I know, and probably not a permanent fix. But here's hoping it is, because I paid my right arm for it.

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The durability of cell phones these days is getting pretty pathetic. I've had my Nokia 6015i for a year and it looks like it's gone through the Iraq war. Not only that but the battery life is cut in half. They should bring back the brick-cellular phone style. The ones so big that you couldn't put them in your pocket. At least the nickel-cadmium batteries on those things were heavy enough that you could club somebody on the head with them and do serious damage, so the phones were not only durable but they could be used in self-defence if attacked.

Hi, I brought it to a Nokia service point and they cleaned it (I had the same problem with the '2' key , the multimedia/provider key and some arrows). They said there was some minor oxydation (if I spell it right), but I'm sure it did not get wet (at most only a drip). I suggest to do the same if it happens again.

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