NOKIA 7610 PHONE UNABLE TO SWITCH ON

MY NOKIA 7610IS NOT SWITCHING ON. PLEASE HELP ME TO FIND A SOLUTION.

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*GPS
*WIFI
*Accelerometer
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*Barometer*
*Signal Amplifier*/Better internal antenna design
*All the frequencies we can fit on
*Small Camera, nothing fancy
*8/16 Gig of Memory for user content files and games images / videos
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*OLED 320*200, enough to see a map on would be ok, a little larger than the Nokia 6110
*Bluetooth *heart rate device
*Docking Station (maybe compatable for future releases?)
Able to squeeze as much power out of it as possible with say a 1amp/h battery
All radio devices off mode except anything you select on the list to help conserver
battery life or survival mode.
AND
Docking Station which connects at the bottom of the phone and then clips onto the phone, there
will be 5 (or more) little metal pins that protrude out of the plastic phone which is slightly hidden out
of the view due to the gel like case..
[Nokia's]
[Gorilla]
[_Phone_]
{ I I I }
[ ] (this is the docking station which just clips in and accesses the ports from the PC)
DPV
So basically once you cliped it on the 5 little pins (as soldered blobs protude gold coated
to prevent wearing away
(Sea water might be an issue, might stick a warning in saying not suitable for sea water due to errorison
which will be down to you other than that the phone should work fine.... maybe a cost underwarrents to
just replace those pins meaning a component could be designed to simply pull out with realitive ease making
it cost efficient to both the user and nokia...)
Other than being able to make actual phone calls maybe if that went under a thin peace of plastic that can be
easily heard so that the case does not get in front of sound quality. and likewise near the bottom or some sort
of attachment for a waterproof speaker. The electronics with the exception of the connectivity modual to make it
easy to exchange the rusted component pop it out and replace)
Battery / Sim Card.
Pull off the battery case, some kind of switch to lock the battery cover into place to prevent it coming out
even if you try yourself, the inner side of the phone should have a waterproof gasket to prevent any kind
of water coming through under the battery.
Outside of the phone we appear to have 0 inputs but infact we actually have it with this simple docking
station, the docking station is connected to the PC via usb so this way your phone simply clips on
no fuss no looking around for a spare usb port, or plugging in the cable, the docking station makes it much
more easier.
---- +
---- Data
---- Data
---- Whatever.
The data can then be grabbed off the phone on the computer, the docking station, while docked it will charge
the phone, it will supply USB 2.0 and transfer files between phone and computer, optional for later advances
could be given on the docking station also USB/WIFI file transfer if not using the docking station
Gorrila Phone Charge In(0) Such as, External Chager
USB Out (which connects to PC)
TV out (TV OUT)
Headphone out (unplug the computer's USB)
- etc
Virtual Drive or Real Drive via Micro SD.
Virtual would be for example this gorilla phone were the 8 gig internal is the memory card on E:\
once connected to the docking station, you then have the unquie ability to put in an 8 gig memory
SD card into the dockingstation and backup or use (from windows explorer) and be able to
copy either from internal memory or external memory of a memory card you've inserterd, in terms
this is a way of cloning your memory card as a backup, this could all be done with the docking station
and a simple button of "Backup Memory Content" simply have a little Green LED and Red Led come up when
you press copy, Green for writing/Reading, Red for Error, or maybe Orange for finished succesfully...
you could then back up your phone to another memory card anywhere anytime... how useful's that! or even
have the ability to use that dockingstation's memory with the mobile device itself and as long as it's connected
you can even install programs on it.... 2 Drives, the posibilites are endless.
So all the outputs we're all so a custom all now live on the docking station, so now what, the protection
of the phone comes first, all the circuits have to be covered in a gel/rubber/glue expoy type substance
and injected protecting the delecate components, it has to be essential to protect ribbin cables
and other little pins and cables that have to stay firmly in place, also doing this will increase
the circuity's protection against g-force and shock.. once all the gaps have been filled and all made
sure to be very very watertight against dust and all else that is thrown at it...
Now then the Gorrila Phone's key aspects
*Survival of any keen trecker or explorer will need and want.
*Tough for the toughest jobs, Construction Worker, Police, Law Enforcement, Road Workers.
*can be dropped from X amount of feet (based on calculations done)
*Survies water and dirt
*Can be submerged underwater up to 30 Feet for 30 minutes or so? etc, give it an IP rating of IP-6
Now then why does an explorer or hiker need this?..
*Electronic compass will always point you north, combine this with GPS and you'll have
yourself a way of locating your position and which direction you're pointing.
*Barometer, small symbian application to interpret the pressure in milli bars, you could
then have your phone warn you if the pressure's increase (high pressure, good conditions) or
if the pressure starts to drop rapidly which could indicate bad weather (storms etc)
*Altimeter could be used, however the GPS is far more precise, maybe something in the future could be done, this would
be uptodate information, other phones could even send into a server, how much processing power and number crunching would
take place if every mobile phone could send a FREE SMS to a server every few hours with your GPS location
and altitude, world wide, i'm sure we'd be able to improve weather predicting with so much data coming in
from the people who say yes to submitting data to a weather server, providing the altmeter is calibrated.
GPS data, this phone will go all out to get a signal, then you have a series of options like sms my current
location to another phone or a request for help including how high up (altimeter/gps) his/hers cords from
the GPS
with the OPTIONAL bluetooth heartrate monitor.
*the phone could connect to a bluetooth heartrate monitor and then it displays the BPS of the indvididual
and a small sensor to measure temprature from the person as well.
*Maybe a Resuce Mode
*Safety mode / tacker
If the person who's in danger is able to get a signal even from 2g or the phone
will automatically try if it's in rescue mode, in rescue mode it could get your body
temprature, BPS, get your GPS location and direction heading from compass, even the barometer
so it could report things like weather info to help, for example is it safe to use a helicopter?
Why yes, the last 8 sms text messages the barometer has been increasing, but could easily be looked
up anyway.
If the person collapses, the SMS messages until someone arrives will be the only info, since we
are able to monitor heart rate and location, the emergency services will arrive.
Now if the heart beat drops below X BPS, it could automatically SMS the wife, brother, girlfriend
or even multiple people, reporting back the person could be in a lot of danger, there would be nothing
like this on the planet.
If not in danger, there will be software to monitor vital conditions, tempraterue of you, it can
also see where you've been by tracking your data and storing it automatically on memory, all data
stored could be used as a 'black box' once recovered, in other uses..
In other uses, it could detect that your heart beat has just shot up from 80 up to 120 and higher
it was an instant change, this could then SMS the parent, or the phone could make a high pitched alarm
sound either as to prevent an attacker and drawing attention to you or the high pitched alarm could be
an alert to others to say something is wrong with you and seek help, it could even detect low heart beats
and also do a similar warning of sms or both.
the Gorrila Nokia Phone can survive up to say -30c because it's well insulated and well protected
from the outside elements if there's a way of making a watertight seal with a slide, use that
if not the keypad can be put below as traditional phones go for example the new nokia 2960 style.
internally protected by epxoy too, So for a good rough phone that withstands abuse and yet be
absolutely packed tight of features nobody could say no.....
With the broadsprectrum of frequencies the phone has to offer, 2G, 3G 3.5G etc etc you stand more
chance of getting a signal with the better antenna or included signal amplifier/booster to pickup
that signal that might just save your life and then your phone becomes your only chance of hope....
Without the gorrila docking station, you wont be able to charge the phone without one although
you could use bluetooth/wifi in the short term for data transfer...
*Accelerometer / Barometer/ GPS...
Each one could be used for this but if all 3 were combined an accurate result would be optained
and better to accurately determine to warn or not, for example if the heart beat drops or increases
significantly an automatic SMS text message can be delivered to friends and family instantly before
the person even realizes themselves...
The person might be climbing the side of a hill and all of a sudden he trips and ends up sliding down
the hill, the Gorilla Phone might be a few feet away now even outside the range of the bluetooth heart
/temp monitor, ok, the phone is montioring the altitude via either altimeter or GPS or both, the acceleromter
detected the sudden movement and jerk and strong G-Force at the very millisecond he falls.
the alitmeter suddenly declines in only a couple of seconds, and now the heart rate monitor is out of range
based on that data.....
The person has just fell 3ft from X,Y GPS cords, and the phone landed X,Y GPS cords, it then gets as much
data as possible such as altitude, temprature from phone (or heart rate monitor) and if the phone is not picked
up within 10 seconds, the Nokia Gorilla Phone kicks into action sending out an SMS with your location on it can send up
to 10 people or so of importance along with contact info directly to you when it happens.
by now, the SMS message will provide emergency services precisely to the location of
where the person has fallen or rough position, as the person may lay 3 or more meter away from where
the phone had landed, this could very easily save a persons life, imagine if this happening at night
in a wooded area, if the phone is simply dropped most people would pick it up within 10 seconds, even then
a drop from roughly were you're holding the phone to where your feet are would indicate a dropped phone......
The heart rate monitor could sit on you as every day normal life and if you have a heart attack, your
phone will know (providing you're linked via bluetooth 10/100m range?) there's a serious medical problem
and again could easily get the message out to save your life, even possibly having an option where the phone
smses AND turns on the loud speaker so you can talk to emergency services, maybe a simple voice to speech or
if you can't speech and can't move, there's not going to be that much of conversation but could be added.
SMS Return: Location: GPS Cords X,Y; Altitude: 844m; HeartRate: 50; Pressure: ?milibars
time spent getting to you to save your life,
rather than time spent trying to find out where you are.
Another option would be to text the phone and then get a text message back automatically
providing access was granted on the phone.
The Ultimate Survival Tool... Nokia's Gorrial Range of phones.
They can save your life, they're tough take them anywhere you want, show it smashed down
hard onto the table with an iphone (lookalike) that just smashes into pieces with the phone
saying pick me up (since it will detect the smash as a drop of phone onto say concrete)
if it detects a fall, if it does not get pickedup within 10 seconds, people are alterted
to this fall or collapse,
Difference in this case between fall and collapse is simple, what's your heart rate at if
there's a problem there, it does not presume it was dropped and that you're in serious medical trouble
take it swimming with you in the swimming pool, get your GPS cords and display them on a map
geotag photos, get info about the weather, using the barometer high and low bands if a low pressure
wave comes in and the barometer is dropping 998, 983 over a period of time will indicate what's likely
to happen, if it increases better weather, if it decreases the weather coming in is bad, the phone
will then direct you to start looking for shelter or find a nice lookout sunshine on the way...
So all is well? the bluetooth monitor could even be attached to you sleeping so if your body
temp and heart rate drop badly, it looks like you're freezing to death, the phone will then alarm
a danger sound to try and wake the person sleeping up as well as contacting friends and family
who will ring you, or give the message out with the GPS info out to the emergency services.
The nokia gorilla's not just another phone, it's your buddy who looks out for you and will follow you
into any conditions you go into, you work on the construction site, you wear a hard hat for protection
when you see a nice new iphone (lookalike) all pretty has to wear a yellow hat, what a disgrace... while
the Gorllia slilently laughs...
The toughman phone with the ultimate survival tools, the Nokia Gorilla Phone, kicked, sat on, used
to prop up your monitor, very tough and very strong handles whatever is thrown at it... but with GPS
Barometer, WIFI, Compass you'll have everything you'll ever need handle what mother nature can throw
at you..
Maybe a couple of LED's to make the casing light up at night incase you drop it, which a sensor can detect
if it's dark or not after it's been dropped (fed by data by the accelerometer, drop found, any light? no switch on lights)
Oh yes and relax by playing with the internet browser over wifi, enjoy the better reception you get from better
antenna or boosed up (amplified) radio signal.. enjoy the fact you can depend on this phone, it's your buddy
not just a phone.
So anyway guys what you think?

The Nokia 3720 classic is a IP54 level water,
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The phone i describe has no external ports just 4-5 little pins which can't let water in or out of the device, the docking station will connect via these 4 - 5 pins for data transfer and recharging...., IPX8 standard, all the electronics are epxoyed with a glue to stop real bad shocks from drops and bangs, along with a silicon case and all the other preventative meausres means this little phone is going to outlive you.
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The person gets their phone back and carries on about his day, it drops out of your pocket, how many times you ran over it because you happened to leave it behind the back tire. oh no i ran over my phone, the tough casing and the epoxy keeping it nice and safe, except for superficial damage cosmetic, the screen and phone should be working still able to make that call or send out GPS info....
Sorry nothing comes close by any company (except Sonim) in terms of what they can do... maybe even a portable charger turn it to recharge like on LED dynamos. nah maybe not.

Problem with Nokia 7610 supernova

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I bought my Nokia 7610 supernova recently. I am in China. It has the same problem- restoration of original settings- & that too in Chinese. So as per the solution given on one of the forums I downloaded Nokia PC suite & then I tried to update the software. Everything went well till I started the software update. It said fatal error because minimum memory required is 256 MB.And so update cannot take place. I tried to do it again but got the same result. I have at least 350 MB of free space in my phone at the moment. Can u help me with this? I have no idea how to solve this.
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when i check the internal memory it will shows only 1.3mb only
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Nokia Pirated Phones

I contacted Nokia early this year with an idea that since most countries had more than one network, it should consider a dual sim-card phone model. The response was negative. I was at the time using a Chinese nameless dual sim card phone with very elementary software and poor functionality. That phone was stolen a week ago and I was surprised to find a dual sim-card Nokia N95 phone. Touch screen, T-flash, MT 6225 Modem but, wait, it is not a NOKIA it is a NOKLA (with L in small letter). The manual is atrocious. The descriptions of the functions haphazard, the English is terrible; the manual is a disaster.
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In all, Nokia has concentrated on bringing a number of previously high end phone facilities to the basic phone. Cameras to as low as 6230 series, radio, internet surfing (with the help of service providers) and has thus afforded people who live on as little as 20 dollars a day to own a modern phone. While, a number of USD 2,000 a month earners are looking for better phones (black berry level) which Nokia has provided in the N series and above; there are several managers (sales, technical and executives) who do not want to carry two, three or four hand sets at a time. In some of these countries, networks are confined to towns and very small regions or highways. One town has network A and the next network B and so on.
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In any event, they are using Nokia's image to promote their own products, thus making money out of the situation and bringing the real Nokia's name into disrepute in the process. In most countries this is illegal and called "trademark infringement". China doesn't care about that and allows its criminals to operate with impunity.
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There's no Nokia or similar logo visible... though it is so eerily identical to the real thing that I wonder if these people grabbed a photo of an actual N5800 and digitally erased the Nokia brand name... and are actually selling a far worse-looking phone.
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After a lot of Googling and on-Nokia-site searches, I was unable to find any page that let me report this probable IP infringement, which I found surprising. Doesn't Nokia care about its IP being infringed by rip-offs like this being sold in a HUGE market like India? Anyway, I'm venting my ire by making this post :-) If Nokia cares about defending its trademarks and IP against rip-offs in a huge market like India... they should jump into action!
Hmm... some more:
Looks like the Nokia 5800 is a very popular phone! :-P
Cheers
Ed.
We have edited your post linking to non-Nokia product which requires user to purchase, this is not permitted for discussion on an official Nokia forum.

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