Flashing Dead Nokia Phones Using Phoenix (Bring it back

to life)
Posted on February 5, 2010 by ‫ مصطفی صمیم‬Mustafa Samim

Please visit the forum as the topic out there has been
updated and got some more details and pictures to help you
guys better understand the procedure.
The method I described here helped me out to bring back to life my Nokia N82 after it dead due
to flashing.

No tool, box, dongle or anything else is needed!

Therefore I hope this method help you guys out for bringing back to life your dead NoKia phone,
and don’t blame yourself anymore for what have you done, as I did myself.

This method is not a copy from any other forum or website, I used this method myself and I
don’t know if there exists any similar method, so do it at your own risk!

I assume that you have phoenix, firmware files in the correct directory, needed drivers installed
and a dead Nokia phone without spirit.

So, let’s start !

Step 1: Unplug your phone from pc and bring out its battery.

Step 2: Run Phoenix, go to File menu and select “Open Product”. From the ‘Products available’
frame box select your phone type (I selected RM-313 relative to N82) and click OK.

Step 3: Go to Flashing menu and select “Firmware update”. Wait for phoenix to response.

Step 4: From the ‘Product information’ frame box click the button next to the Product Code box
(three dots button), and from the opening window select your product code and click OK.

Step 5: At the bottom of ‘Firmware update’ window click the “Options” button, and from the
opining window, in the ‘Flashing files and their parameters’ list box select the
“core_image_erase_y_drive.XXXX” and click on  the “Delete” button and confirm it yes. The
remaining three files are needed for flashing the phone. At the end click the “OK” button to close
the ‘Firmware update advanced options’ window.

Step 6: Put the battery back into the phone and connect it to pc (via USB cable).

Step 7: Simply press the phone power button only once to power it up. You will see a very week
white light on phone screen (the light is very poor and you must be able to see it somehow), and
wait for a few seconds.

Step 8: When you got the light (poor light) on your phone screen, click the “Refurbish” button in
the ‘Firmware Update’ window, and wait until it erase and program the phone up to 100%.

Step 9: At this point, when the programming procedure reaches its final step (programming
100%), Phoenix will restart the phone for inquiring the flashing result. And it’s done.  If you
were lucky you got your phone back to life._

But some guys may encounter error at step 9, as I did. When the programming procedure reaches
its final step (programming 100%), Phoenix will restart the phone for inquiring the flashing
result, but the phone won’t start up into normal mode. It goes to some unknown mode like test
mode or some other mode (as mine started in Test mode in a poor screen light, representing the
new firmware version at top) and Phoenix is unable to recognize the phone in this strange mode
(maybe due to missing needed drivers) and it (Phoenix) starts showing messages ‘waiting for
response 25, ….24, ….23…, scrolling and counting down. But don’t worry, flashing procedure is
finished if you got “Programming 100%” in the scroll box. Just close the ‘Firmware update’
window or if you waited for ‘waiting for response’ message to count down to 1 and a new
window appeared representing a message of flashing failure result, asking you for a retry. Please
don’t do anything else at this point, just ignore the message and click on the “Cancel” button,
close the Phoenix and unplug your phone from pc, bring out the battery and put it back and
finally power up your phone. You will notice that the phone starts up into normal mode and
nothing is wrong. So it’s done.

Step 10: It’s a good idea to do a master reset by entering *#7370# in the standby mode before
doing anything else (lock code is 12345).

I confirm it again that I got 100% success using this simple method and my Nokia N82 works
like charm with its new firmware (35.0.002) after a completely dead.
The above topic description is very perspicuous therefore if you got no success, do it again step
by step. And so far as I know there is no problem flashing again and again your phone if you
don’t get success, as I did mine 6 times using JAF with no luck and 4 times using Phoenix with
no success until the 5th time which ……….

For getting support, head over this forum where I put a copy this topic.

Right now I am so dizzy that I don’t feel very well because as soon as I got success flashing my
phone after 8 hours se

arching, anxiety and (lost the gym program today) ……, I started writing this topic