yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] HellHammer83:
Yes, this worked fine on my device. The only problem that I have encountered is that the device is not recognized by Kies, but I always flash with Odin, is not a problem for me. If you still have a logo loop after flash, try flash CWM recovery 5 or + and update ICS for i9003 (before put the .zip file into external storage) flash

from recovery using " install .zip from sd card". Good luck!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] zakiyy:
Great i got it the firmware was the problem.. Now am thinking maybe it was always the problem of FIRMWARE>>> NO needed to remove the CHIPS. HIHI !! Anyways work like a charm !! I cant believe How crazy It is !!!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Mrinal_gupta:
help

dude after removing the flash memory now the phone is not booting up...i m posting a pic of the motherboard.when the flash memory was there on the motherboard the phone was booting but after removing it's not.

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dude i m also having the same prblm have u found any solution for it...
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] HellHammer83:
Try removing the battery and putting it back, enters download mode (Vol- + Home + Power Button for at least 10 seconds) and connect it to the computer with Odin running to see if it recognizes the port.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] shivachamp:
phone doesnt start

phone does not start after removing internal memory,,,,

someone help please

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same problem for me also friends if found any solution please share
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] HellHammer83:
Don't see any signal of life? Any ligth, vibration or sound? Something?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Mrinal_gupta:
nah dude..no solution.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Mrinal_gupta:
will usb jig solve the problem?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] HellHammer83:
It's a possibility. If you put the device connected to de charger don't show the charging battery image?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Mrinal_gupta:
no after connecting the phone with the charger nothing is been showed on the phone screen...the screen is just black no charging battery icon no nothing..
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] HellHammer83:
Hi chriz. I've flsahed CM9 with CWM and runs like hell. No need to mod the vold.fstab again, it save the vold moded on Ginger.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] jokkergsm:
Great solution!

Camera and memory access are working fine, but my WiFi is not working.

It says error in WiFi settings and the widget power button is "almost" green...

L.E. i flashed another version and it's all good !
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Mrinal_gupta:
http://postimage.org/image/52u0b41o9
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] jokkergsm:
by the look of that board, i wouldn't expect too much :(
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Mrinal_gupta:
so, is there anything left which could help me in any way?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] HellHammer83:
I don't think you could solve this. The mainboard is too damaged.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] jokkergsm:
after 2 days of normal use my imei number and signal are gone :(

i tried to use this instructions (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1264021&page=4)...but the efs folder is empty...

the first firmware that worked for 2 days was "I9003XXKPU_I9003XXKPU_I9003SERKPU_HOME.tar.md5" 2.3.6 and in the efs folder was just one folder "smc-storage"

after that i wrote "I9003_XXKB1" 2.2.1 and in the efs folder is just one folder ".files" wich contains 3 empty folders(".dm33", ".dx1", ".mp301")

any sugestions ?
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[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] hen1235:
It might be a silly question, but I was wondering, why isn't it possible just to swap the memory without actually extracting the internal memory?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] msri3here:
It is possible to do that...

just look here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=30195720

and here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1241574

on how to do it...

please note that mmcblk0 and mmcblk1 are interchangeable..

see what you find on your phone and work according to that
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] ednorton:
Someone can upload a picture of a job well done?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Jordanyme:
Since we are able to remove the internal memory then why we are not able to replace it with new one ?!!!

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I found this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt9XNnjAcBc

and wonder where is the internal memory to remove :confused: ?!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] ghassir:
salem,

if i replace the memory by one new, its works? without swapping?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] shivachamp:
flop plan

dint work for me,,,

Replaced new motherboard with samsung ,,,

now its like brand new phone,,,;);)
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] dreampillow:
wow!!! thanks sir.. it really worked!!! many many thanks with this thread.. :good::good::good::good:
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] lahoot:
i done my phone with this process but.......

i have done this job set was working fine but

unluckily memory card gone corrupted, replaced new one

and Repeat same process but after full flashed set still restart

what should i do now ???
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Jordanyme:
Which ROM have you flashed ?!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] vikassoni:
i have all process done

but after flash same problem when i get SAMSUNG LOGO when restart

removed sandisk internal memory & insert 8 GB memory card

flash with India rom

I9003DDLF2_ODDLF2_INU_India_Android_2.3.6

please help me how to resolve it

please help

please help
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Jordanyme:
Flash KPQ (5 files) first
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] lahoot:
I9003XXKPQ_I9003XXKPQ_I9003SERKPQ_HOME.tar.md5
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Jordanyme:
This is single file ?! You need the firmware with multiple files (5 files)
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] lahoot:
Need Firmware

Dear i have download firmware from following link 2 time when i unzip only 1 file extracted

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=19428268

even posted this

I9003XXKPQ:

PDA: I9003XXKPQ

Phone: I9003XXKPQ

CSC: I9003SERKPQ
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Jordanyme:
From here www.mediafire.com/?ka3krtzka2oho88
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] vikassoni:
Finally all my process has been Done

but i have one Question inserted 8GB card but show 4 GB Space and can i inserted 16GB/32GB memory card

but insert 16/32 GB card so all process again will have to done (sorry for bad English)
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] haszen:
Hi i did everything like you dscribe here with one difference which is when we transform sd card to internal memory after rooting the phone i am installing swap zip file via cwm recovery and phone is working properly every other function works also good but when i try to *2767*3855# phone blinking and restarts.

The swap file that i used is given as attachment.

What can i do to fix it?

İs the problem occurs via installing swap file from cwm recovery or what?

Thanks for advance
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] dredremon:
I buy my SL and its only 1.5gb is this default internal memory for SL?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] kishankpadiyar:
Its actually 4gb.. But it gets divided within the system n ultimately user available is around 1.5gb..

Sent from my fingers to your face..!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] joviedagalea:
thank you so mouch!!!

I used a tiny screwdriver and digged under the chip to, i follow all ur instruction . .

its work 101% thank you you so mouch . . . your a genius men . .
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Blackrown:
Hey everyone! I have a problem with this tutorial. I have opened the mobile and I found the chip but I can't remove it. Can someone give me the instructions to quit it from the board?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] joviedagalea:
removing internal memory galaxy SL i9003

use a flat skrew driver and dig in to crack d chip just a little damage will make it not readable. Do not use heat air because it may damage other chip, that cause not to power up anymore.... thats what i did to my unit and now its working well . .

hope this will help you . .:o
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Blackrown:
Thank you joviedagalea for your help! I did all the steps until flashing with XXKPQ and now I can't access to boot menu... Please help!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] joviedagalea:
this what i did . . .

flash latona_20110114.pit . .

click on PIT button and select latona_20110114.pit and check the Repartition below the ID:COM as displayed in above screen and click on Start button. It will show a blank screen once it’s flashed, now disconnect the phone from computer and remove your mobile battery and put it back,

Now again bring your phone back in download mode and connect to pc. reset the odin.

in Odin, ID:Com will light up again once phone got connected to Computer, then uncheck the repartition box (it will be unchecked automatically sometimes)

-	Now click on BOOT LOADER and select the APBOOT_I9003XXKPE_CL409735_REV08_user_low_ship.tar.md5 file.

-	Click on PDA and select the CODE_I9003XXKPE_CL409735_REV08_user_low_ship.tar.md5.

-	Click on PHONE and select the MODEM_I9003XXKPE_REV_00_CL1041909.tar.md5.

-	Click on CSC and select the GT-I9003-CSC-MULTI-OXAKPE.tar.md.

- Now click on Start....

.	Wait for process to complete and do not detach phone from PC until it finishes successfully

.	Now, the XXKPE flashing process is complete, your firmware now would be 2.3.4 XXKPE

upter that you can now flash the single file i9003xxkpq_i9003xxkpq_i9003serkpq home.tar.md5

go to download mode again

in odin click PDA select the XXKPQ file and start . . .

. Now, the XXKPQ flashing process is complete, your firmware now would be 2.3.6 XXKPQ
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] rampraven:
I have the save issue and now its working fine by following your steps... Thanks....

Now my question is whether I can update my device to jellybean 4.1.1 code name 3.5.0
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Blackrown:
Thank you again joviedagalea! Now the problem is that before doing all the steps the phone boots and gets stuck in the model logo (not samsung logo) as you can see in the image. I only can access to download mode but anything I do has the same effect. Please help me!!!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] joviedagalea:
i think you need to dig again the internal memory make sure that your internal memory is totally dead or unreadable . .

:o:o
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] boodyxda:
hello can u explain did u use this method without removing the ic ? or with ?

explain how ?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] vikassoni:
Again Thanks a lot, because i have done Second phone

SAMSUNG i9003

Completed 2 Phones

follow me :-

@vikasmeenu
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] quannv_vp:
firstly, thank you for you solution, that work on my phone now.

But i could you edit vold.fstab that work with ics and jb, i try but it bootloop.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] ryogamy:
Thank you

Great thank you, i had follow the step and success to restat my i9003, and because my internal hd is no readable, so i didn't remove it, i just direct flash the pit and pda, hope it work with no problem, thank you!!!!!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] oz42:
see 1st post here, there is a link for CF-Root-ext4-v1.3u1-Addon.apk.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] npzero:
i do all step but i flash latona and then flash xxkpe finish my phone still show samsung logo do not go to home plz help thx sir
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] pavapizza:
dude, thank you so much i can finally fix my friend's phone, although i dont know why i cant flash the xxkpq, i use the ddfl2, n i use a different vold.fstab from another thread to make it work, but your guide is the pioneer that make me able to fix the phone. love u dude :p
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] sam4july00:
Thanks

yes that good i solve my problem...i am official riff box owner....hehehe..and i have All jtag box....hehehe but this step help me out thanks,,
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] ALoGeNo:
[MENTION=4640280]real_shadi[/MENTION] Thank you very much for the solution, I did the same as ryogamy with a I9003 from a friend, I didnt removed the chip and all work like a charm, but I did root and installed [KERNEL][ROM] qwerty - CyanogenMod 10 that lets you do the swap bettwen internal/external, also I was add a folder in the BAD SDCARD like "DONT USE THIS SDCARD" and RENAMED the device like "DONT_USE" to have the things clear when you connect the phone to the PC.

Cheers!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] ryogamy:
hi, may i know how you root and install cyanogenMod 10? it is icecream? thank you
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] ALoGeNo:
[MENTION=3645234]ryogamy[/MENTION] hello, CM10 is Jelly Bean, CM9 is icecream, anyway, to install CM10 YOU MUST TO BE CAREFULL BECAUSE YOU CAN BRICK/BREACK YOUR PHONE then:

1- Update your phone to this ROM DDLF2 Full (PIT,BOOTLOADER,PDA,PHONE,CSC) Orignal Firmware.

2- Root your phone you have here a how-to and the necesary file CF-Root for most I9003 firmwares. look for DDLF2_CFROOT-05-07-2012.tar

3- Now you must have Clockworkmod recovery, and you can install CM10, you can choose some ROM that you like here Galaxy SL i9003 Android Development

Rememeber that you can danmage your phone READ/SEARCH all that you can before do nothing.

Regards and good luck ;).
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] vhd99:
Where is internet memory on board and how to remove it ?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] ASMI1:
I think the internal memory storage card and the externel sdcard are used the same way by phone.

system files are in the ext partition in the internal phone memory(not the internal memory card)....or am i wrong?

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If this is possible, the sdcard should be hight class sdcard (class 6 or 10) or you will face low read/wright speed problems (I mean lags)
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Skander1998:
By Internal memory do you mean RAM? if so nope.

Internal memory is the memory card soldered to the motherboard, which has everything, RAM is a special memory that stores stuff you use dynamically to make the phone faster as you use the resources.

The External SD card (memory card) is nowhere near the quality of the internal one, higher class is faster but they can all die way quicker because of constant reads/writes when using this mod.

Soooo, no, it will eventually die rendering this fix useless, the internal sd needs to be fixed for a 'permanent' solution.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] ASMI1:
No, I mean that the phone has two internal memory + RAM (also called physical memory)

the first internal memory card of the phone is the rom memory (about 2 g bytes) and it's ext filesystem memory and it's mounted to / (some users converted it to ext4 because it support journaling in order to improve performance) and this memory contains the installed apps and the apps data and the system files ....(the task manager show you that you have about 1.7 g bytes available internal memory + about 70 m bytes personal memory) and the second internal memory is a hight class sdcard similar to your external sdcard but it's integrated to the motherboard (i don't know whether it is removable or not)

suppose that the SL has only one internal card with many partitions....what's happen if you removed this card and replaced it with another card?...where will be the whole rom?

After all I am a noob so I can't confirm that this is 100% true:laugh:

sorry for my bad english!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Skander1998:
This is incorrect, the Internal SD card holds the 2~gb partition for the system, it's just a formatted block for it, it's still the same chip/card.

You have ONE internal SD card (that has several formatted blocks for the system/bootloader etc) + RAM + any additional external card.

To answer your question, this mod in question completely ignores the internal SD and moves everything to the external one and fools the system to use it as the internal.

You cannot remove the internal SD card (unless you really know how to remove it and solder another one - gl with that).

What Samsung Service Centers do is just replace the whole motherboard and the new SD card in that board is already pre formatted or is formatted to have the bootloader/modem etc and the ROM.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] ASMI1:
Ok, sorry if I said something wrong....so the truth is that the whole internal memory is physically one memory card that has several formatted blocks for the system /bootloader...and the Fat partition which is mounted to /sdcard ....

and that make it too risky to replace the internal memory card (physically) with another one and it's better to just swap the too fat partitions (internal and external sdcards) using the swapsd app or editing the vold.fstab file.

thank you Skander1998 for correcting my knowledge:o
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] tarun shukla:
Urgent help required

Hi Guys,

I am facing the same problem of internal sd card unexpectedly removed and not able to find any solution to it.

The steps mentioned in this post are not clear to me as it is an unexplored area for me.

Please guide me in simple steps of how can i fix this.

Need urgent help!!

Regards,

Tarun Shukla
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] joguan:
Gracias. Thank you very much. La mejor solución. The best solution and later Swap SD(Internal to external) is the solution.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] moar55:
So this might work without removing internal memory? Because if it can it would be awesome!:D
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] moar55:
hey great solution man! But i didn't understand much how can i choose the swap sd card feature and the phone doesn't start up? ,
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] karanth:
need urgent help please

dear all i9003 had emmc prob and i followed this thread and now set is live but problem is imei null and product code unknown,

please guide me how to write both using z3x

i am getting this error

Selected model: I9003

Selected port:

Selected port speed: 115200

Searching Samsung modem... detected COM68

Reading phone info...

Software version: I9003XXKPQ/I9003SERKPQ//I9003XXKPQ

IMEI:

Product code: XXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Done with Samsung Tool v.15.3

Selected model: I9003

Selected port:

Selected port speed: 115200

Reading phone info...

Model: GT-I9003

Android version: 2.3.6

Product code: Unknown

Phone version: Unknown

PDA version: I9003XXKPQ

CSC version: I9003SERKPQ

IMEI: Unknown

Checking Super user right... true

Writing EFS to phone... OK

Rebooting phone... OK

Searching Samsung modem... detected COM68

Waiting while modem will be ready...

No answer from phone

Done with Samsung Tool v.15.3

if i am posting this in wrong thread please all should forgive me and kindly help.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Alex Moslad:
please help

Many thanks for help in reanemation i9003!

I did all following instrucktion and it work al right for me but as I had not 8gb sd I had to use 4gb one.

After one day all worked perfect until i got a message "Low storage space. There is not enough storage space available to complete this action."

I restarted my phone and it was loop rebooting -no way to go to home screen.

I erased sd (in recovery) so I had lost all my data.

After a day this message appeared again.

both internal and external sd 00b/00b in task manager (I made screen shot)

After restarting the phone all was fine (although I expected reboot).

internal sd 779mb/1.59gb

Any suggestions?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] miang4321:
thanks for the solution!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] lipeh:
Thank you Bro :D :D :D :D That helped me :good: :good: :good:
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] musis:
hi my friends...so glad i found this posting yesterday...'n this is my first time join with xda...Amazing Forum !! :good:

I bought my GaSL a few days ago from my friends...but there is brick already.

I was trying follow the tutorial at the first page this thread....bravo...success!!! Thanx so much :D

- remove emmc from the board

- using 2.3.6 - I9003XXKPQ

- rooted & using Root Explorer

- swap already ( Micro SD 8Gb & using fstab.fold in the first page)

but i still have a problem :

1. camera (error report : turn off usb storage before using camera)

2. can not save data download

3. can not open My Files

3. internal sd card is empty

Pls my friends...need help for my problem

sorry for my english ;)
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] allxx:
Hi everybody.

Worked like a charm, but removing the internal sd is a bit tricky...
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] xglspyxgl:
Hey guys. My problem is about my imei and baseband. Both are unknown service center said they dont change any chips they offered me to change the mainboard which was so expensive are there any ways to fix this problem without spending a lot 'cuz i don't want to spend so much for a 2 year old phone..
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] djdavid:
Hi, thx for the guide! It worked but a bit different for me.

Here is what i did:

- open the phone and i dig with a flat screw on the chip

- I insert 8gb microsd class10

- I flash DDLF2 and the phone now starts but without camera support

- I root the phone

- I tryed to edit vold.fstab with Solid Explorer but it didnt work. I use X-plore (freeware) and it worked (you have to set root permission before)

- Restart phone and all worked 100%.

Bye
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Basheermobiles:
Samsung Galaxy SL i9003 Unknown IMEI & Phone

Q1: Where to insert ( I insert 8gb microsd class10),

Q2: did u damage the chip (open the phone and i dig with a flat screw on the chip)

kindly answer ASAP.....
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] huedrant:
I'd like to know this, too. This is the part of the tutorial that is not covered sufficiently. If you destroyed it, how did you do it and how did you know you were done?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] djdavid:
Where to insert???

If you have the phone you know where to insert the microsd.

How did i do? With a flat screw! I took a pic too of the damage chip, with a BIG red arrow...
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] rboy28:
Mine looks like this.

Is it enough?

Gesendet von meinem GT-I9001 mit Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] djdavid:
Yes, I think so.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] huedrant:
great, that helps, thanks!

I'll try to scratch it with my screwdriver until it looks like this, or use a dremel. will post my results afterwards. :cowboy:

what is the fstab file used for? if the phone boots up correctly, why is another fstab needed? and do I need to save EFS beforehand? how do I preserve my IMEI if the main chip is destroyed? :confused:
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] rboy28:
Good. But you have to scratch it a little bit more than the picture shows. Look at the new attached file in the middle :) You will know when it's enough (it'll rough and sparkle).

The fstab is needed to make your external storage (storage1) to internal storage (storage0). This is important for camera and downloads. But it works on gingerbread, not on kitkat).
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] DevBlackHat:
thanks

thanks... it works
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] chunky.chugh96:
samsung i9003

after take out the memory chip from i9003 board, when i starts the phone it gets hang on SAMSUNG GALAXY i9003 logo......I also flash it with 2 different firmwares and also inserted 8gb mmc and phone goes on downloding mode but not goes on recory mode PLEASE HELP,,,,