If your goal is to "flash" (reinstall or update) the firmware, the following software was traditionally used:
Today, the Nokia 8470 flashing cable driver is abandonware, buried on dead RapidShare links and ancient Russian GSM forums. But its spirit lives on in every JTAG debugger, every UART boot console on a router, and every engineer who knows that real low-level hardware access will never be fully replaced by USB.
If your goal is to "flash" (reinstall or update) the firmware, the following software was traditionally used:
Today, the Nokia 8470 flashing cable driver is abandonware, buried on dead RapidShare links and ancient Russian GSM forums. But its spirit lives on in every JTAG debugger, every UART boot console on a router, and every engineer who knows that real low-level hardware access will never be fully replaced by USB.