How To: FIX Nokia S60 3rd Edition “File Corrupted” error when installing applications
Posted on February 28th, 2008 | by decoder |For the last week I have been plagued with a very frustrating problem.
EVERY time I attempted to install a new S60 3rd edition application on my Nokia N95 (sadly not an N95 8GB) I would receive a “File Corrupted” error which would prevent me from installing the application.
Now I KNEW that the problem wasn’t within the app itself as I did a test with the latest Beta 2 of the Nokia Location Tagger and it too was apparently corrupt.
After an exhaustive Google search I couldn’t find anything but people requesting help with the same problem but no solutions! ARGH!
Finally I found a forum post over at the Nokia Discussion Board which advised to do a hard reset of the handset using a key combination.
The downside to this however is that it wipes EVERYTHING from the handset and you are left with default factory settings. No contacts, No messages, No apps, Not even the correct time!
But it had to be done.
So how do you do a “Hard Reset” on your Nokia device?
From the standby screen simply type:
*#7370#
You will be asked if you REALLY want to do this and upon hitting “Yes” your handset will reset and you are back to square one.
It does however fix the problem! After performing the hard reset i was able to successfully able to successfully install the previously corrupted Nokia Location Tagger Beta 2.
Yay!
On the up side it gives me a chance to start afresh, just like a Windows Reformat!
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3 Responses to “How To: FIX Nokia S60 3rd Edition “File Corrupted” error when installing applications”
By nicole on Apr 4, 2008 | Reply
hi, i have the same problem with my N95, its stated there in time i download a themes or application “file corrupted”. thanks for your advice, its really help us to solve this problem. one thing more, why is it happened to a nokia n-series phone that such problem encountered? i thought, they already tested there product before they disposed on market, mostly sellers are wondering what happened to their handsets, is very much expensive and that will be happened…..
By John on Apr 21, 2008 | Reply
THX a Lot i needed this a week ago
By decoder on Apr 21, 2008 | Reply
No problems John! Happy to have helped.