Give Up!!!!! The Nokia 5300 freezes just thinking ...

I have always loved my nokia phones and there was a time when I would not buy another brand, but the freeze problem has changed my opinion forever...
Right out of the box, and ever since then, starting up the music player, freezes the phone for a good 3 minutes, then selecting an album to play freezes the phone for 5 more minutes, and if I am lucky, it might play, but more than likely, the phone will restart, update the music library, and start the whole process over... all while at the same time, prohibit me from making or receiving calls, or anything else of the like... Once, I spent half an hour trying to play music, while
is it just me, or do i have a bad phone???
An additional note, we are talking about the original sw on the handset, and all of the music on my memory card works fine on my 9.95 motorola w490, which I hate, but is clearly more reliable...
This phone and the run around i have had over the past several months have turned me from Nokia, unless someone out there can clearly solve this problem simply... Loved looking and dreaming about it, truly hated owning it... :'(

If you are lazy like myself and let 2383 messages build up in your phone you may experience:
-phone on then freezing (i think when messages file is trying to load)
-phone white screening and then turning on again
Fortunately for me the phone still operates for a couple of minutes before freezing. At first only for a few seconds.
If you're patient you try and quickly get into the messages folder.
There select "delete messages" (if you don't get this far try again)
You will have to wait for the messages to laod so of course you may freeze (this happened to me at least 5 times - KEEP TRYING!)
Then the first time it started deleting messages it froze after 11.
It wouldn't work at all 4 or 5 times
then finally it started deleting all of them.
YAY!
you've gotta be very persistant i guess and hopefully get lucky.
GOOD LUCK !

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The problem below occurs both with the usb cable and the bluetooth connection.
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I spend many days trying to solve this: make sure it's not in standby mode, that it has enough memory, touching the keyboard while synchronizing, so it not get in standby.... turn off the keyguard, bluetooth, cable, etc... everytime exactly the same error.
BTW: If I synchronise the second time, such that I already have 229 contacts in my phone, I says that it is sending data and then receiving data, and then when receiving contact nr 20, it restarts again .... reallly frustrating... a brand new phone that I didn't even used yet!!
I also tried it with and without sim card and with only the phone/sim memory selected...
If I look in the last outlook contact it synced, it doesn't contain any strange things.
I searched in the faq and the discussion forums, but nothing could help me. Can you please give me some help how to solve this, as the phone is useless to me at the moment and I was planning to buy more of them for the people that work for me.
BTW: The syncrhonization works well with my very "old Nokia phone" and I am using the PC suite already for years now..
Looking forward to your reaction, Ed BrasMessage Edited by edbras on 11-Dec-2006
04:10 AM
Message Edited by orinoco on 12-Dec-2006
10:29 AM

Hmmmm... no Reply... that doesn't surprise me at all...
I solved the synchronising problem I had, and it is a BUG in the phone. So I hope some Nokia people will do something with this and send me a software update when they come up with a new software version for the phone. Why the problem, as early described occured?... I did some intensive testing and found out that the nokia 5300 hangs up (restarts) when the outlook contact contains a picture of the person. That is: just like you can add a picture of the person in your phone, that's also possible with the outlook contacts. However, the Nokia 5300 hangs him self up when it encounters a contact that has such a picture. Did you guys test this even? a the phone itself also offers this functionality (that is: add a picture to your phone contact). Regards, Ed Bras

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The problem is my memory card. I haven’t changed it, so it is the original card that came with the phone.
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Is there a way to format the memory card or is there someone with a explanation and/or a solutions to this problem? It’s really frustrating.
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Please read this fully so you don't end up suggesting something I've already tried.
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