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Reset Nokia E71

Are you having weird problems with your Nokia E71 that you didn’t have when you first got it? Maybe it is time to reset your phone. There are two ways of resetting, a soft and a hard reset. You should always backup your phone, before resetting it.

Soft reset

A soft reset only reboots your phone, but leaves all messages, contacts, calls, applications, themes and so on. Follow the following steps to perform a soft reset:

1. Type *#7780# from the standby screen
2. Enter the security code (default 12345)
3. Confirm the soft reset

Hard reset

When performing a hard reset, your phone gets restored to its factory default settings. You will loose all your messages, contacts, calls, applications, themes and so on. Follow this steps to perform a hard reset:

1. Type *#7370# from the standby screen
2. Enter the security code (default 12345)
3. Confirm the hard reset

I hope this helps solve your weird problems with your Nokia E71. It always helps me to boost my Nokia E71…

Nokia E71, XS4ALL and SIP

My Internet provider, XS4ALL, offers me the possibility to use a free SIP account. This is especially useful when travelling abroad. I can call to the Netherlands with the SIP accounts. This saves me a lot of money compared to calling with my regular cell phone.

I often hard reset my phone, so all settings will be gone. Sometimes I forget to backup my phone first before giving it a hard reset. After resetting the phone to its factory default settings, I always struggle with configuring the SIP account again. So here is the manual……finally:

1. Go to Menu –> Tools –> Settings –> Connection –> SIP Setting;
2. Create a new account
3. Profile name: XS4ALL
4. Service Profile: IETF
5. Default Access Point: none (I choose the correct access point manually)
6. Public name: <SIP phone number>@sip.xs4all.nl
7. Use compression: No
8. Registration: When needed
9. Use security: No
10. Proxy Server

1. Registrar server

1. Next go to Menu –> Tools –> Settings –> Connection –> Internet telephone
2. Create a new profile
3. Name: XS4ALL
4. SIP profiles: XS4ALL

Now you have, besides making a voice or video call, the opportunity to make an Internet call.

Active Directory: one account, two passwords

Lately I noticed something strange. I configured an ISA server as reverse proxy for OWA. The customer demanded the ability for users to change their password through OWA. I configured the OWA listener with LDAPS authentication against the Active Directory and enabled the option to select “I want to change my password after logging on” like shown below.

I tested the environment by logging in and changing the password. Everything looks okay and the password is changed correctly. I tried some extra test. I opened another browser and tried to login with the old password, which succeeded. I could now login with the old and the new password.

Strange to me…..so I tried some more test. The customer is using an SSL portal with RADIUS authentication to the same Active Director. So I tried to log in with the old and new password. I guess you know the answer. It was possible to login with both password. Another test was login in to the network components, which also use RADIUS against the Active Directory. Again the test were positive.

The last test was login in on a workstation. With this test, I could only login in with the new password and not the old one. Strange to me…… After one hour I tried again, and this time it was only possible to login with the new password.

I guess there is some kind of period where you can use both password. Maybe someone noticed this before and knows more about it…