Nokia E65 & E Series Tips Tricks and Reviews

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

How to STOP the Message Icon Flashing

If you are switching from your E65 to a newer Nokia phone, there is a chance that the message icon will be flashing when you turn on your new phone with your old SIM card in it. 


So how do you stop it flashing? 

In some new Nokia phones, you will discover some long lost SMS messages that were stored in your SIM card many eons ago. Go to your Messages, then Options, then SIM Messages. Open that up and you can copy the messages to My Folder or your inbox. Once you have done this, select MARK ALL and then press c or delete. This will stop the message icon flashing. 

Then you can go to your Inbox or whatever folder you saved the SIM messages in and get your nostalgic fix looking at messages received a long time ago. 

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27 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 10, 2009 at 12:46 PM

    Nice work, I upgraded to a new Nokia 6730 and had a persistently flashing message light that was driving me bonkers. I would never have known about the SIM messages without this post. Thanks.

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  2. AnonymousNovember 9, 2009 at 8:43 AM

    Hi,

    A friend of mine has a Nokia E65 and would like to know if it's possible to ensure that messages from a particular sender are never lost. My understanding is that if a message is saved to the SIM card rather than the phone then if the phone is lost, the messages will show up on the new SIM card when it is issued from Vodafone.

    Is this correct? And if so, how do you actually move a message from the phone memory to the SIM card memory to ensure these messages are never lost even if the phone is lost?

    Many Thanks.

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  3. AnonymousNovember 10, 2009 at 7:48 AM

    I have the E65, love it, but how can I be notified when a voice message is received? It only lets me know I missed a call, and not let me know there is a message or 5 messages.

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  4. AnonymousNovember 13, 2009 at 10:07 PM

    fantastic advice! that message flashy icon thing was driving me crazy! thanks alot!

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  5. AnonymousNovember 16, 2009 at 10:25 AM

    thanx, rely had no idea wat to do. was gona delete evryting of my fne but luky i chekd here first! Thanks once again

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  6. amandaNovember 20, 2009 at 12:47 PM

    niCe! this helped me with my new e72! =)

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  7. AnonymousDecember 3, 2009 at 11:47 AM

    Thanks! Also worked on E72.

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  8. AnonymousDecember 26, 2009 at 12:01 AM

    THANK YOU!!! WORKED ON MY E72! I LOVE IT!

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  9. AnonymousJanuary 10, 2010 at 10:14 AM

    thank u
    sakkeer

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  10. AnonymousFebruary 13, 2010 at 1:33 PM

    icon flashing thingy works! tks for all the millions of people on their behalfs who don even bother to post tks comment even as anonymous.

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  11. AnonymousMarch 7, 2010 at 10:39 AM

    thanks heaps i just did it on my E72

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  12. AbhilashApril 18, 2010 at 9:11 PM

    Thank you Adrian.. I was blinking at this icon for some time and now got this removed..

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  13. AnonymousMay 2, 2010 at 4:37 PM

    I have this silly flashing icon but dont have options in messages therefore cant get to SIM messages so can't stop the flashing icon - any other ideas anyone?????

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  14. AnonymousMay 2, 2010 at 4:46 PM

    its worked now thank you x

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  15. AnonymousMay 13, 2010 at 1:57 PM

    Thanks a ton! Your post was really a great help!

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  16. AnonymousJune 18, 2010 at 11:03 AM

    I have a Nokia E72 and I have tried what you said but still the wretched thing flashes at me :-( I went in and selected 'mark all' then selected delete but it still flashes. Does anyone know if there is something else that can be done on the E72?

    Any help would stop me going insane :-) Many thanks

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  17. AnonymousJune 19, 2010 at 5:21 PM

    Re the Nokia E72. I have been in touch with Nokia and I think anyone who has followed the advice above but still has a flashing Opti Navi key should know the following: The E72 has what they call a 'breathe' function. Basically when the key pad is locked, but the phone is switched on, the opti navi key is set to flash so that you know the phone is still on when it looks like it is switched off. This is what was driving me crazy!

    To turn off the breathe flashing light follow the following sequence:

    menu, control panel, settings, general, personalisation, notification lights, standby br.light, select off.

    Hey presto, no more flashing light! Hope that helps someone out there.

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  18. AnonymousAugust 9, 2010 at 7:38 AM

    thanks alot!

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  19. AnonymousSeptember 6, 2010 at 7:05 AM

    Thanks a lot... i gave my e75 to my wife and she keep complaining about this annoying blinking icon... tried everything but only this method solve it... thanks

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  20. AnonymousOctober 4, 2010 at 6:49 PM

    God bless you man, I was totally irritated with my E series for that constant blinkin..
    Thanks a lot!!
    Keep up the good work.

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  21. AnonymousNovember 14, 2010 at 6:23 PM

    Thanks, What an idea SIr Ji.

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  22. AnonymousJanuary 18, 2011 at 1:36 PM

    Thank you SO much!! That really worked!

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  23. UnknownApril 25, 2011 at 6:01 PM

    thnx a ton..!!!

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  24. jibinMay 17, 2011 at 12:27 PM

    Thanks for the great help

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  25. AnonymousJuly 25, 2011 at 4:58 PM

    thanks for this great advice

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  26. AnonymousFebruary 7, 2012 at 11:47 AM

    how does it work on the Nokia 701 where there is no option to delete sim messages?

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  27. AnonymousFebruary 26, 2012 at 8:07 AM

    thanks a lot it worked on my c5 also

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