Nokia 5800 – SIM memory full and what to do

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By Mike Browne on February 18,

2009 at 00:00,

As with any new phone, the Nokia 5800 is very much a work in progress and while most of the known bugs have been fixed courtesy of the recent 5800 firmware update, there seems to be a slight problem with the SIM card’s memory reading as full. We'd like to point out this isn't widespread but seems to be causing a minor stir among users.

This problem with the Nokia 5800 consists of a small flashing envelope in the top right-hand corner. This problem has been brought to our attention by a number of users but there is a very simple workaround.

The Nokia 5800 is a cracking little smartphone and Nokia's first full touchscreen device. If you're new to the device then you may want to check our Nokia 5800 review. However, there seems to be a slight flaw shipping with a number of Nokia 5800 devices, whereby the SIM card’s memory reads as full, even though it’s clearly not the case.

This flaw shows up as a small flashing envelope in the corner of the screen. Typically, this should mean the SIM memory is full but in some cases, empty slots are not being recognised.

It’s a very simple process to free this up. First go to into Messaging on your Nokia 5800, select Options and then SIM Messages. At this stage you need to delete all the SIM messages. This will stop the envelope from flashing and will also correct the error.

Kudos to NokNok user Ian for alerting us to the solution, great things fella!

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Muhammed

Thanks a lot for your help to get rid off the annoying flashy message.
Alison

Thanks for this. That flashing envelope was really annoying me and this sorted it!
Srihari Maneru

Thanks a lot !!!
Adzs

I tried this it said i had no messages in there any ideas?
anchal

i need help how to move text messages from phone memory to sim card or to memory card in nokia 5310 XM
Sergiy

Thanks a lot. That really works!!!
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Thanks you alot. It was really annoying.
Rawad

thx alot that was rly helpful it was annoying me!!!
Le Paul

Thanks , I was desperate by this problem , very good advice , trust its worked
nikz

thanks a zillion !!!
George

this worked perfectly, thank you very much! has been a huge help.
Dinesh

Buddy its still showing the flash light msg……….!
Pls help me out of this………………………………………!
kevin

great worked for my C7! Surprising this bug still exists, wake up nokia
emma

Thank you so much.. really been bugging me… i hate this phone at the best of times.. but now not so bad.x
Jo

OMG I was seriously about 10 minutes away from starting up smoking again I WAS SOOOO ANNOYED!!
Thank you for saving my sanity and my lungs and my marriage (I have blamed hubby for messing with my phone lol) Best go make up.
AND THANKS AGAIN!
rev

thnx alot man ….!! appreciate ur helps alot ..!!
Shiney

Pop your SIM card back in your old phone (assuming you still have it) and delete all the messages from it. then put it back in the new phone and hey presto… no more flashy envelope! Tadaaah!
joel

thanks
ALICE

Thanks a lot!
It does work!
Anas

thank you it was a wonderfull suggestion ,, it worked great :D
aafrin

Thanks a lot
Rupesh

Thank you very much ,,worked a treat ,,cant tell you how annoying that flashing envelope was on my 5800,,glad to have gotten rid of it,,cheers.
Laurie

thanks! that had been driving me mad for weeks hehe it works on other nokias btw i have the n97 mini
jezz

simple … now that you told us that is
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It works like a champ
Jake

PERFECT! cheers very much
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Thanks plenty, was going off my head.
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Thanks its really worked.lot of thanks.excellent
steve

Have a nokia 6700 with the same issue, this worked a treat
Thanks
laura

thanks! my Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro had the same problem, but it has the same interface as the Nokia 5800 so problem solved!
Mustafa C

Thanks a million. It’s worked and solved the problem.
Shelby

“not enough memory to preform operation” thats what it says when i tried. It let me delete some at first but the flashing envelope is still there! what to do?
ekwan

thanx dude..u’re a champ..!!
amir

thanks alot it helped me out
rob

Wow, that has been annoying me for years on 2 phones…… Thanks heaps
Caroline

Thanks great to stop that envelope flashing it was driving me crazy
dean

This does not seem to be working for me, I have deleted all messages completely and there are no messages in “Sim messages”. Is there something that I have not done correctly?

Thanks, Dean
http://noknok.tv/2009/02/18/nokia-5800-sim-memory-full-and-what-to-do/ venkat suren

yeah it worked
Amna

Omg!! I neraly cried when reading this, i had so many precious texts that i could not possibly delete!! I just deleted one and the annoying envelope has gone!! Thank you!!!!! xx
jalee,althaf,muneer

at last i found the solution, many thanks
Charmaine

Thank you… I have the Nokia C6… also with the annoying little envelope. All fixed now
Abhishek

Thanks…

It works.
Soumita

Thank u very much… It worked.
sophie

i have a nokia c5-03 its driving me insane! help!!
i have tried to delete my sim messages as suggested but it just keeps saying “not enough memory to perform operation. delete some data” what do i do??!
i cant send or recieve text messages and my phone keeps bleeping to tell me to delete data!!
Cjmonkey

Thanks I should have googled first. I deleted so many pictures before finding this.
Aj_sj_jj

This works for the Nokia C7 Astound for the folks in America.
Thanks. Now I have to figure out why WiFi is not working on the Astound.
ME

I tried this option listed and there was absolutely no sim messages to delete. You can also change the memory in use for the messages to your memory card by going in to MESSAGING, selecting OPTIONS, selecting SETTINGS, selecting other, and change the MEMORY IN USE to your memory card.
Vanamavarun

thanks alot i got the remedyyy……
Mir_salal72

Thank god that that Annoying Thing gone .i was also having that problem in my nokia 5530