Been with me since it was brand new, and enabled developer mode sometime around the end of February, 2012, if memory serves me right. I made a factory reset a month or two ago, and loaded my backup. And while Nokia still was maintaining the software it was updated to PR1.3 (40.2012.21-3.339.2_PR_339)
It has been shipped back and fourth to Nokia for services for my first year of owning it, for everything from battery issues, and the camera dying, to rattling buttons after service. But after that it's been pretty well behaved.
I do not have any paid for software from the Nokia store, and the stuff i have installed seams to have survived the reset / loading of my backup.
Or, that may just be the issue. I have no idea.

I could very well do a factory reset it again, but i don't want to lose the messages and contacts, so i suppose i still have to load the backup after doing so. Or they are retained through a reset?

Thank you so much for your efforts.
B!