What Sony Ericsson service said would take one week, total data wipe out and Rs. 12K to replace the entire board and resurrect my K790i was done by a vendor in a 2.5ft wd shop in Richie Street in 1hr and the phone was restored back to the exact same state before it went dead/dormant for a year.

http://shekharkapur.com/blog/2010/07/a-blackberry-addict-discovers-grassroots...