HDD GURU FORUMS

Hi, my nokia e51 just hang on startup did't boot, the solution is to flash the firmware/software, but i will loose all of my contacts, is there any way to recover phonebook ?

thanks

sounds like corrupt firmware boot up on your phone

try the following

Hold down the green call key, the star key and the 3 key with fingers of one hand, then switch the phone on and keep those buttongs pressed at least until the handshake, this hard-resets the phone.

or if not try this


while phone is switched off, press * and 3 and green button, keep pressed, switch on the phone an wait for the PIN to enter

it will not effect the phonebook ?

not sure it should not as the phone book might be stored on the phone itself
did you check the sim card ????????


its a reset for the phone

I am doing a recovery of the contacts for a client in a Nokia e71.

Afther the client took the phone to the operator.

try this program you might get lucky

worth the money allso will work with the nokia e71



http://download.cnet.com/Data-Doctor-Re ... 74914.html

It looks a nice program, i did not test it, but can this recovery numbers that are in a SD card.

I have to made a script to search for the header and get all the numbers.

i used it and not failed once

but not total sure on sd cards

you can try the below information this has allso helped me in the recovery of some nokia files



The backup is found as \Backup\Backup.arc on the SD card.
allso try and mount the phone in linux
as sometime with some nokia phones it does not like windows os

but as the phone has been back to the phone company

they more likely reflashed the phone and replace the sd card

unless the client did not send back the sd card with the phone
if you see the backup.arc file

then the information is still there.

try this other then that i ran out of ideas

you can contacts,text messages, MMS, email etc out of the backup.arc file on the MMC or SD card


http://www.nokisoft.com/

craig6928 thanks for the suggession, it worked but also affect the data.. the phone is now ok.. any ways thanks for help