Restore Factory Settings For N95

i have tried to restore the factory settings on my N95, but it keeps asking for a lock code which i do not kno, i have tried the usual '0000' but that doesn`t work. can anyone help, this is all because my text messaging sending doesn`t work, if you have any other ideas to help with that instaed of formatting the phone, it would be much appreciated, thankyou.

Hi Richcowell,
I see you have upgraded your N95 to V30.0.0.15.
I just upgraded my N95 original to the same version, and it's totally screwed my phone, which is not a problem but I am having a great deal of difficulty resetting it, because it keeps insisting I enter a lock code.
Just a little history. After I upgraded from v21 to v30, my N95 was having trouble loading. I think I had some dodgy application on my Memory card, and it was trying to install it. So I removed the memory card, but this made no difference. After a few switch offs and ons, I got the following message: "phone start-up failed. contact the retailer" :-)
It took me ages to get back into the phone. I think I took the battery out, and swapped my sim card with my work sim card.
Now that I am back in, the phone is extremely slow. I placed the memory card back into the phone, and instantly it tried loading dodgy software. So I aborted this, and went and formatted the memory card.
Now the problem is the front screen, when the phone is turned on, is blank. All I see is the two menu buttons at the bottom, No Time, No service provider, no shortcut icons (even though I have them switched on in Settings). I just want to hard reset the phone, but can't because of the lock code. I have no idea what this code is, nor have I ever set it. I've tried 00000, 0000, 1234, 12345 etc. Nothing seems to work. I also get another error, something to the extent of phone lock code locked for 5 minutes, until it's reset, although have waited 30 minutes and the same problem exists.
Any ideas how I can do this? Can I roll back a version?
Regards,
Mike
I have no idea what this is, and nothing seems to work. Is there a way I can get around this?
Take a look at what the Bowens are up to.

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