Gotten the Nokia N97 less than a month ago, during a lucky draw at the Nokia Christmas’09 Party, and its thanks to Nokia, Text100 for the lovely invite to the Pierside, One Fullerton.
The phone functioned very well, till 31st December 2009, Eve of the new year. It literally died on me, on my way to dinner. I was relying heavily on Google Maps to guide myself to Dempsey Road, when the phone froze and refused to start up after that. I’m pretty much horrified. Because I didn’t carry a spare phone with me, I have no way of contacting my friends.
Big thanks to Neo for lending me his spare phone to tie me through the ordeal (can’t think of a better word to describe this experience).
Decided to find a way to fix this White Screen of Death problem. To put it simply, White Screen of Death (WSOD) is basically having your Nokia phone having a white screen and nothing happens after that.
What I am going to share here, is a simple tip to recover your phone from WSOD. I tried it, and it worked, else I won’t be sharing it here with you 
Chanced upon the solution at Nokia’s Support Discussion Forum
So here are the steps to revive your bricked phone:
- press and hold”from the full kaypad”: the backsapce key + space + caps lock
- while holding these keys power on ur phone
- keep holding until the time zone selection is appeared
It should work, and revive your WSOD-ed phone. 
Oh yes, note that all your data and settings in the phone memory will be erased. But whatever’s saved in the Mass Memory or your external memory card, its safe. I checked it and all my photographs and downloaded apps are still safe.
Alrightey, may this tip come in handy if your Nokia Phone ever WSOD
Nicole
