The Definitive "How to recover your dead phone" thread

**BigDaddy5** · 01-15-2005, 03:54 AM

If your phone doesn't turn on, or even powers on for half a second and then keeps going through a power cycle by itself, your phone has a corrupt flash.

This CAN be fixed though. You must take the phone and put it into bootloader mode. It varies on each phone how you do it, but holding * and # and then power is the most common way. If your phone wont even power on, then it may take some time to get it to turn on. Took me 3 days once. I did find that by plugging it into the USB port while attempting bootloader helped later on speed that process up.

Now your phone is on in flash interface. You should plug it in and your phone should be attached as a Neptune Flash Interface (or whatever type of phone yours is).

You will then need to use a moster flash to recover it. A monster flash is a flash that includes both a flash file and a flex. These are fairly common. I have no links but there are some on my fserv in the irc channel in my sig.

Make sure you find an unlocked one. I don't know all of the possible locked/unlocked ones, so that's up to you.

Some people have managed to flash their phone and flex it seperatly using the flash interface and the se....f9.shx flex, but I haven't had any luck with that.

Flash using MultiFlashFlex.exe included with PST, and your good to go.

Unless I missed something, I probably wont help you recover your phone. This DOES work, I've tested it several times with several phones using several flashes to mess them up.

DS · 01-15-2005, 03:59 AM

nice work bd.. hopefully it'll help some of the noobs get off your back

**NineToez** · 01-15-2005, 04:03 AM

As always, excellent work BD5!

**BigDaddy5** · 01-15-2005, 04:04 AM

Just trying to make it so I can accept PM's again!

**glauber** · 01-15-2005, 10:04 AM

Hi...
My V600 is dead!!! And I trying to enter in a bootloader mode.. but it doesnt work!!!!!
There is some special way to enter in a bootloader mode in this phone???

Thankx!!!

**BigDaddy5** · 01-15-2005, 11:40 AM

Originally posted by glauber
Hi...
My V600 is dead!!! And I trying to enter in a bootloader mode.. but it doesnt work!!!!!
There is some special way to enter in a bootloader mode in this phone???

Thankx!!!

Originally posted by BigDaddy5
Unless I missed something, I probably wont help you recover your phone. This DOES work, I've tested it several times with several phones using several flashes to mess them up.

**glauber** · 01-15-2005, 11:55 AM

But I press # and * and power and nothing happens!!!!
I already try to take the batery... and doesnt works too!!!!

Please help me!!!!!

Thankx!!

**hakima** · 01-25-2005, 01:34 PM

Someone have another trick ???

Thanks in advance!!!

WBR

**BigDaddy5** · 01-25-2005, 04:50 PM

Originally posted by hakima
Someone have another trick ???

Thanks in advance!!!

WBR

Um, there is no other trick. This IS how you recover a dead phone.

**Someoneonthenet** · 01-25-2005, 06:08 PM

I have tried numerous times flashing with a monster pack after setting the phone into boot loader mode. It just won't work for me. I guess I screwed it up pretty bad. :sigh:

**BigDaddy5** · 01-25-2005, 06:35 PM

Originally posted by Someoneonthenet
I have tried numerous times flashing with a monster pack after setting the phone into boot loader mode. It just won't work for me. I guess I screwed it up pretty bad. :sigh:

Reading through your problem, don't worry. If you can get it into bootloader, you CAN recover it, it just may take a while.

Only panic when you can't get it into bootloader. But even then, not all is lost unless you flashed to 55R or something and it screwed up during the writing of the new bootloader.

**the9hunter** · 01-31-2005, 03:25 AM

i have a v180 and none of the v600 or v300 monster packs (or individual flashes) work. it just says "flash FAILED!!!" each time.

anyone have v180 flash files?

**herbertlee** · 02-01-2005, 10:47 AM

I do manage to get into flash mode but the phone only allow me
to use MSS to flash. And even through it said flash sucessfully
after each flashed. The phone still wont boot. And if I try using
multiflash it will give me flash failed!!! error message. Anyone
have a similar problem before or know how I can get this fix.

PS, when I flashing with MSS, it did show the screen SW is loading
so I know the phone is not completely dead, just can't seem to
flash it properly????

Originally posted by BigDaddy5
Reading through your problem, don't worry. If you can get it into bootloader, you CAN recover it, it just may take a while.

Only panic when you can't get it into bootloader. But even then, not all is lost unless you flashed to 55R or something and it screwed up during the writing of the new bootloader.

**vjero** · 02-24-2005, 09:02 AM

Originally posted by glauber
Hi...
My V600 is dead!!! And I trying to enter in a bootloader mode.. but it doesnt work!!!!!
There is some special way to enter in a bootloader mode in this phone???

Thankx!!!

v525 to v600
Here is how I managed to wake it up:
first I pressed power by holding * and #, I released power and then in device manager i get flash interface driver working. Then I used pst to load TRIPLETS_G_0B.09.58R_LP0039_JPJAVA_G_0B_TRIPLET_08 _01R_SE7400AXXXX1C9_1FF.shx
Try this... and wish you luck.

**sean_bass** · 02-26-2005, 11:45 PM

flash interface driver being? im having the same issue with my v300 got a bad flash while trying to install v600 sw, all during the flash it looks good, phone says SW upgrade in progress, but when its done i still get nothing, phone will not turn on, can only get to bootloader .
Currently trying with the monsterfile you listed