[RicoElectrico]

A decade ago I managed to brick my brother's Nokia 5300 (custom firmware - PPM mods) and thankfully recovered it by "dead phone USB flashing" - the last resort method in Phoenix, Nokia internal software for service people. It's super finicky and works on n-th attempts, but has a non-zero change of success.

[edoceo]

> works on n-th attempts, but has a high change of success

60% of the time it works every time.

[RicoElectrico]

Just get lucky with the timing :) Like a QTE but without the prompt, that was the main problem. But as programming was done in parts (firmware, PPM (like Win32 resources), content (FAT32 image of storage) it depended on which part was corrupted.

Edit: some people had success on 50th attempt[1], talk about perseverance ;)

[1] http://nokiahacking.pl/naprawianie-niewlaczajacego-sie-telef...