BlackBerry Forums Support Community - A Dead BB and retrieving Contacs?

Buona sera!

I wonder if anyone experienced this problem before regarding ''JVM Error 517'' on their BB 9800.

It's actually my dad's device and I usually sorts things out for him. Well this time around, I simply couldn't get it working.
His device all of a sudden went dead, asking us to reset, with no luck whatsoever.

Now since seeing that his BB is deader than dead itself, how can we at least retrieve his contacts?
I did have BlackBerry Protect for him but I do not know how to go about restoring his contact list to the BlackBerry Desktop (if that is possible)?

Please guide me with this hassle...

Grazie!
Isra