[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] machv5:
I often buy broken phones from a friend and have access to two SGH-I727R phones one is hard bricked due to my not noticing that re-partition was checked on the second attempt to flash clockworkmod recovery with ODIN. The second one boots but has multiple issues like no wifi, no Bluetooth, no SIM connection, random data loss on internal SDCARD, USB doesn't show up on computer but charges, likely due to the couple of resistors that fell off the board with the USB connector. I seem to have lost them from the box I put them in. They were specs of dust, lol. Happened when I was cleaning off the white powdery corrosion from the boards.

The corrosion resembles battery acids and aluminum oxides from the housing degrading. And also other damage from water and the elements and likely all manner of unknown liquids, it was found at the local Garbage dump's battery disposal bin.Plus the phone states that the USB cable is connected when it isn't and I have to use the 300kOHM jig to get it to stop that silliness long enough to start USB debugging mode. And last but not least the battery will only charge when it is in download mode or recovery due to warnings that the battery is "too hot and too cold"???? therefore it won't resume charging until it has sufficiently cooled and warmed up (in reverse I am assuming hahahaha) from it's erm hot cold state. Which it isn't. Oh one more thing when booting to the stock rom it had before it was brutally raped and tortured then left to die in a bucket of decomposing and leaking batteries it shuts down app by app till it causes a reboot then it goes through the same loop. I can only get severely stripped roms to boot before the loop happens but after one successful boot it does stay booted. Normal sized Roms crash before it can successfully optimize it's apps. etc...

Anyway, I thought that I would try to use the bootable board to create a hex to flash to the nonBooting QHSUSB DLOAD bricked one, but alas I cannot seem to (haven't searched on it yet been wasting time playing around with QPST without any idea of how any of the tools work or what most of their capabilities are or what 70%+ of the terminology it uses means in relation to the rest of the limited knowledge and experience I have with erm normal erm flashing thingamy bobs. I could understand just enough of it to likely make things worse had I been able to connect to the booting device. And either way while in QHSUSB DLOAD I can see the phone but it does not seem to want to connect and Windows refuses to open the help files because it doesn't want to support those types of help files anymore. So once I find out how to

***So that's the background I apologize for the length. If anyone knows how I go about connecting the booting phone to QPST so I can create a flashable HEX file to then unbrick the other one please let me know. Or where I can get a hex file that is meant for the SGH-I727R phone. Thanks. Googling Hex file etc... returns useless results that have nothing to do with what I want. I will keep trying to find the information and if and when I do I will post it here for yourselves and anyone else that may need it. Plus I will upload the HEX file to my dropbox or similar cloud storage for anyone to use that needs it. :eek: