Nokia N95 memory card

BLUis

Hi hope someone might have some advise for me!

I have a nokia N95 with a 1gb memory card. However, for a while now, I have not been able to access the memory card and intermittently I get an error message on the screen telling me to take out the memory card and press ok. I have done this several times but the phone will still not let me use the memory card.

Has anyone else experienced this problem at all and if yes, how did you solve it? I have looked for my local Nokia service centre which is about 10 miles away, so if no one can offer any assistance, I might have to speak nicely to the OH and ask him to drive me over there this wknd!

Thanks a lot for looking and for any advice offered!

ps the phone is on an 18 month contract, not due to run out until Oct so well within the time

philnicandamy

Brother had a similar problem....turned out to be a failing memory card

BLUis

thanks philnicandamy for that but my memory card works fine in my OH's phone as he has the same one!

:j

Honolulu_Wednesday

Have you tried another memory card in your N95?

hotkee

As per other comments - try another memory card.
Or alternatively if you have a usb / pc memory card reader you could plug the card into your pc and try to get to it - if your pc doesnt see it - then its corrupted - only way out of that is to format.
If there is nothing valuable on the card - just try to format it in the phone itself.
If there is something valurable on the card - its mostly likely to be lost

jimgee

BLUis wrote: »

ps the phone is on an 18 month contract, not due to run out until Oct so well within the time

The manufacturer's warranty has nothing to do with the length of your tariff. It's worth bearing in mind that all Nokia phones are warranted for 24 months irrespective of whether you are out of contract or not. I've spent money getting phones repaired in the past because I was unaware of this and I guess others have too.

Anyway, my guess is that the first thing a Nokia care point will do is reinstall the software or update it to the latest version. With all N-series phones you can do this yourself and if you haven't already done this I'd give it a go before taking it anywhere. Good luck.

Leopard

jimgee wrote: »

The manufacturer's warranty has nothing to do with the length of your tariff. It's worth bearing in mind that all Nokia phones are warranted for 24 months irrespective of whether you are out of contract or not. I've spent money getting phones repaired in the past because I was unaware of this and I guess others have too.

Unfortunately, this is not always so.

I needed a new Nokia "communicator" smartphone in a hurry when the one I had, which was some three years old, went senile a few days before I was about to go abroad for a month in 2005.

I wanted a Nokia 9300 and my only quick option, that week, was to buy one from my local 'Phones4U :mad: shop. It came (unlocked) on a Vodafone 18 month contract at a total cost (handset and line rental) of £300, which was not (on the face of it) a bad deal at the time.

When that contract expired, late in 2006, I decided to buy a month-old Nokia 9300i - because I wanted the additional facility of WiFi - from a (very carefully chosen) private seller on eBay and pass on my 9300 to my companion: she had her own SIM to put into it.

As courtesy to her, I took the 9300 to my local Nokia Service Centre to get its firmware updated before giving it to her. By then it was 18 months old.

When the Nokia Service Centre fed its serial number into the Nokia computer, it came back with the news that the 'phone (which 'Phones4U :mad: had sold me new, in England) had been supplied to the United Arab Emirates and, as such, was covered only by Nokia's basic 12 months international warranty!

So, I was charged £20 by the Nokia Service Centre for the firmware upgrade, which had been carried out and would otherwise have been free.

The 9300i that I had bought on eBay, on the other hand, checked out fine and was covered for the full two years. The two-year warranty thing is apparently a European Union regulation.

Fortunately, neither 'phone has developed any problems. But it's come to something when it's safer to buy a 'phone from a total stranger on eBay than from a 'Phones4U :mad: shop.

I shall never buy another 'phone from 'Phones4UAE :mad: , as I call them now.