How to delete themes that does not appear in your application manager of Nokia phones e.g. Nokia 5700 Xpress Music.
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The answer is simple and you have to follow some steps closely. Don’t panic, cause be sure that you are not the only one!
Step 1:
Connect your phone to your desktop in the so called ‘Mass storage’ mode or even better if you have a card reader then insert your memory card there and connect it to your desktop/laptop.
Step2:
Then your desktop recognizes your card right? So a new drive appears under ‘My Computer’? Coool! Now go ahead and open it, and venture yourself into the folder inside your memory card called — private10207114import.
Step3:
There you will see several folders and these are the folders made for your theme one by one as you installed them. Browse through each of the folders in this directory to find the theme you would like to remove. The MBM, MIF, and SKN files in each folder should each be named after the theme in their respective folder… meaning, if you want to delete a theme called “Troublesome” then simply look for “Troublesome.mbm”.
Step4:
Once you’ve found the folder containing the theme files you’d like to remove which can be tricky cause sometimes they do not name it with the theme names. In that case you have to simply open the .SKN file with Notepad or wordpad, (right mouse, open with, Scroll through and select Wordpad) and you will find the name you are looking for at the first paragraph of that file opened in Wordpad or Notepad. Done? Now just select all items of the folder, (Ctrl+A) and simply delete the contents of the folder that you selected (don’t delete the folder itself as it might not be possible).
Now if you check back the memory card inside you phone, then you will see the space difference of the theme you deleted.
Sometimes, in newer handsets you will see that theme folders/files are located in two different directories: [!:private10207114import] and [!:resourceskins]. Don’t panic, in that case simply delete the theme named (the theme you want to delete) folders from each directory to remove themes from your memory card!
Hope this helps!
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The big files are in [!:resource/skins]. I tried to open through mobile and they open, but i only see some icons, some bars, etc. Which means that I cant recognize themes! Anyone can tell me how can i identify which one is which theme???
WOW! you are a great help. it worked for nokia n 81. THANKS A LOT!
Doesn’t work on nokia 5800
this also worl on n79
Thx for your work! Nokia 5700 is cool telephone! Sorry for my English! =)
This is not a good method because you cannot install the same theme again.
hey it’s works on my E51
there is no need of pc if you have xplore installed in your phone and hacked by hellocarbide
just do this steps to remove that themes
1) caps off
2) open xplore
3) go to c:\private\10207114\import
you will find some folders here
if you want to see which theme is in that folder so just open .mbm files
if you wish to delete that theme just delete that folder
that’s it
now you can see that theme has been removed from theme selector
you can do this same with themes stored on your memorycard just find those folders in
e:\private\10207114\import
keep smiling and enjoy life……….
sir, how can i hack my Nokia E51 ? please tell me simple steps to do so
it deletes it from the themes list…………but the registries are still dere……..so plz help me out in this one……anyone