yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III General] Syed:
you need to replace eMMC, no need to replace motherboard,

yes you need to have appropriate skills to replace eMMC ..
[Galaxy S III General] nsantek1994:
Not only that i need to have appropriate skills but i need profesional tools. My friend have found sollution. He bought new Galaxy SIII for 400 $ here in Croatia. So what can i do with motherboard? I contacted a few services and nobady can repair it. Only one service but i need that chip.

Sorry for my bad language.
[Galaxy S III General] jsapper:
!@#$%^&*()_

And we copy files from the SD card to bricked phone how??? I thought the phone was bricked? Can't turn on at all?
[Galaxy S III General] xanderr:
please help

what is the Resistor for i9305, to shorten?
[Galaxy S III General] psytr0nic:
I9300 is not the single galaxy S3 , the rest of galaxy S3 have Jtag but I9300 hasn't . has been disable by Samsung !

---------- Post added at 12:44 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:40 PM ----------

in #Post Number 1 , OP linked [MENTION=1767826]Rebellos[/MENTION] images ( I tried without success =)
[Galaxy S III General] vedesh45:
Same here

Same here.. looks like i got an expensive paper weight now.. lol
[Galaxy S III General] psytr0nic:
:( ;( but can keep expecting because some Teams developed emmc tool .

what's allow to connect wire direct on Emmc pads and talk with it directly ..

http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f609/do-you-want-atf-improve-direct-emmc-programming-1682854/

http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/9547833-post1.html
[Galaxy S III General] vedesh45:
WOW!!

These guys never fail to amaze!!

Hopefully one day i will be able to repair my i9300 via that method..

Didnt even brick my phone, it just stopped working after i left it charging..
[Galaxy S III General] dogmatism:
This method only works in soft brick situations. ... Where download mode / boot loader is corrupt. ..(the method is an alternative to jtag... But works in fulfilling the same thing)

But in case your eMMC is broken/dead _which is the main problem in facing many of i9300 ... This latter case you need to replace the eMMC chip physically. . and rewrite your boot and other partitions. This is possible and has being offered by some online techs.
[Galaxy S III General] dogmatism:
Here you go:
[Galaxy S III General] crkraghuram:
:good:

please post the link for bootloader for SAMSUNG galaxy pocket S-5300. my phone got hard bricked due to CWM recovery. Is it possible to write bootloader without normal phone? because i dont have any other android mobile.
[Galaxy S III General] dogmatism:
No. The short-circuit method is for I9300 and Galaxy Note. You need to perform jtag resurrection. Sorry.
[Galaxy S III General] verynoob:
Has anyone managed to actually fix his phone using this leaked document ?

Does the I9300 have a jtag afterall? can you upload a photo of it if there is ? or the resistor short-circuiting is actually the jtag alternative on the I9300?
[Galaxy S III General] psytr0nic:
everything is in first page br !

another amazing things discovered recently also #Link to follow 2st and #link
[Galaxy S III General] verynoob:
there is nothing in the 1st and 2nd posts, I think this thread is useless, ok so you have your secret Samsung document, but you can do nothing with it because you don't have the Anyway jig.. so what's the point?

Has someone found a real way to recover a hard bricked I9300 and not this useless method?
[Galaxy S III General] wangdaning:
The jig it seems does nothing but provide power, but you are right on one count, you don't have one. Are you suggesting more is given by the USB port than the power in this situation?
[Galaxy S III General] crkraghuram:
how do i use this method for samsung galaxy pocket S-5300. can i write same i9300 bin file for s5300. will it work? or what is the method to fix hard bricked S-5300 without riff box. it cost more than a resale value. please help me.

:crying:
[Galaxy S III General] b-eock:
Go to your forum. We cannot help you here.
[Galaxy S III General] deihak:
worked great for me. I load the bootloders using the jig the battery and circuing the resistor and everything is ok.I didn't even had to flash a rom. Everything was already there. cheers and many thanks for the guide
[Galaxy S III General] santopayma:
Thanks for sharing
[Galaxy S III General] Nabfy:
Thanks

Thanks for sharing, I'm gonna bookmark it but I hope I won't need it :laugh:
[Galaxy S III General] edint3000:
S-Boot clip will revive most of the phones, not all , but if your memory is dead you will have another problem... No pit partion when trying to flash with Odin.

you keep it plugged for 5 mins and it does its job... you get inverted download mode :D
[Galaxy S III General] Rob2222:
Hello all...

Oh dear, what a evening... :eek: I was preparing a friend with a I9300 for custom roms and installed him philz CWM recovery to play with and backup his Sammy Rom and EFS.

After installing CWM I gave him his S3 and he booted into Sammy Rom. Then he rebooted the phone and was fiddling with the buttons and I thought "OK, he boots into recovery...".

Then he says something like "SDCARD MODE" and I thought "what?!"... and took the phone.

On the screen I read something like copied to EMMC and I didn't believed my eyes cause knowing this thread I immediately knew, that his S3 just has overwritten its own working bootloader with some scrap it found on this normal, not for emergency-boot prepared SD-Card.

I also knew that when I reboot the phone it's probably dead. However, what could I do from SDCARD MODE... So I rebooted and it was dead. No DL-Mode, no Recovery, no Screen, nothing. NICE. :eek:

So, my hope was, if we can re-initialize SDCARD Mode with a prepared SD we can realive this I9300. But I didn't wanted to open his S3 in any case, because it still had warranty.

So I took my I9300 to prepare a SD-Card. For that I had to install the write-trough-to-sd (or T-Flash capable) bootloader onto my S3. Picked the bootloader in Odin, Odin failed, and my device then hung at something like "firmware upgrade procedure failed - try kies recovery". Yeah, make that 2 killed phones.

(Later I recovered my S3 by re-flashing philz recovery. Have no idea, why flashing only the recovery already helped at this point.)

OK, then I took the 4GB SD-Image from this thread around page 20 and copied the first 50MByte to the recovery-SD-Card.

I put the recovery-SD-Card in his S3 and pressed the power button. Nothing.

VOLUP is recovery, VOLDOWN is download, so lets press both with HOME...

VOLUP+VOLDOWN+HOME+POWER and bam... SDCARD MODE. Hell yeah, his S3 was back alive.

Pulled the recovery-SD and booted into download mode.

However, flashing philz recovery wasn't enough to let his phone boot complete again. Download mode was working, but recovery and the rom itself was not.

So I flashed the complete stock I9300XXEMC2 and the phone started into the Sammy ROM and all data were there also.

Later I tried to access SDCARD Mode on my (first day purchase) I9300 with this key combination (without shortening the resistor) but it was not possible.

He has purchased his I9300 in february 2013. So, long story short:

It seems that on newer I9300 it is possible to enter SDCARD Mode by pressing the button combination mentioned above.

BUT DON'T TRY THIS AT WILL, it will copy whatever is on your SD-CARD into the bootloader partition and it WILL BRICK your device unless you didn't have a prepared SD-Card in your phone.

PS: I think this guy has accidently hit up+down+home+power, too... LINK

BR

Robert
[Galaxy S III General] kaynpayn:
I could swear i've tried so many button combos during this phone's life that at some point, for totally not related reasons, i'm sure i've done it. Don't recall anything happening though, so guess i was just lucky. That's one dangerous move right there which i cant see happening accidentally..
[Galaxy S III General] Rob2222:
Hello,

Yes. Well, let's point out again, that this only was possible on the Feb 2013 purchased I9300 of a friend. On my Jun 2012 purchased own I9300 it is not possible to get into SDCARD MODE by pressing the combination...

BR

Rob
[Galaxy S III General] isorropisths:
Well. I can confirm that this method works, it revives the phone when it's like COMPLETELY DEAD like there's no battery inside the phone.

I have an Anyway JIG but it's not useful to this process, it just powers up the device. You can use the battery instead(a bit tricky on how you're gonna hold the battery and click the power button and short the resistor), or a power supply to the battery terminals on the board. It goes in SDCARD MODE no matter if you have memory card inside the phone or not.

If your phone turns on in the first SAMSUNG GT-i9300 logo and it stays there, it goes to download mode etc, and near the "PRODUCT NAME" has nothing in download mode, (eg GT-I9300 or whatever) then your eMMC needs to be replaced. NO way of flashing it, it's damaged, corrupted. No JTAGS, no nothing. eMMC Chip replacement / Board replacement. Don't do this process, lost of time.

If your phone turns on the 2nd SAMSUNG logo where it flashes and it stays there / bootlooping and wiping / flashing doesn't work, your EFS partition is corrupted(cannot mount /efs. Invalid Argument on recovery). PIT file does not format this partition (obviously) so you have to format the partition through abd on a custom recovery and then the phone will turn on (Without IMEI, so no network) Then if you don't have an EFS Backup, phone needs IMEI re-writing. Don't do this process, lost of time.

If your phone is completely DEAD, DO IT, IT WORKS!

Oh, and by the way, we have about 1-5 "Product name lost" S3's / Note II's a day, 1-5 DEAD S3's / Note II's a day!
[Galaxy S III General] fhagur:
Yes, works.

I made it here, without an Anyway JIG.

I can confirm that I used a regular USB cable and connected to a Notebook USB port. It justs powers-up the phone's board.

My phone was damaged by a bad flash (this time). I tryed to flash a bootloader from a S3 4G in an 3G international GT-I9300 (I know, my bad, really bad guy).

I used the sdcard image in the first post (thanks, thanks, thanks) in the sdcard.

I'm used to electronics but it's really HARD to short that small resistor. I used a tweezer to do that.

I had to try TWO times. The first one it gave an error. The second one, it worked exactly as described in the PDF document.

My phone had SDS and had the board replaced in warranty. It still has the bad EMMC chip that came in the new board (bad Sammy).

This time, it wasn't bricked by the SDS but my bad flashing. I can't say if the method can repair a SDS bricked phone, sorry.

Just to complete, my phone is a Brazilian bought GT-I9300 in June 2012, unbranded, SIM factory unlocked. It was running Cyanogem 10.1 before my attempt to reflash.

After the procedure with sdcard, phone assembled and in Download Mode, I could install stock using Kyes after typing model and S/N.

Thanks and thanks again for those who achieved the Sammy PDF.

Flavio Gurgel
[Galaxy S III General] scopedial:
Continued Struggles - T699

I continue to struggle recovering my Samsung T699. I was attempting to put the latest version of CynaogenMod on it and it is

now hard bricked. On another thread a helpful old-hat was attempting to help me with a prepared recovery image but that

isn't working.

I am going to continue reviewing this thread to see where the best place to begin my work on the T699 is. The success of some of

the followers is quite cheering.

Any advice is appreciated,

Lou

Oh, previously successfully completed work on my HP Touchpad and my i827 and i927. Also completed much linux work with many

different distros.

Just discovered that this thread is for i9300s, oh well.
[Galaxy S III General] waxfuzz:
Hi , i have a full bricked S3 it doesn't turn on. Can i use this method to boot from sd card, it's needed a jig or just the sd card with the image ?

Thanks.
[Galaxy S III General] infra4800:
1st question mate : how long you had to hold all 4 buttons (vol up+down+home+power) to show the phone going in to SDcard mode?

2nd question mate : did you had battery installed and usb cable as well?
[Galaxy S III General] Rob2222:
Hello infra,

1: Normal time, like you hold the standard keys at boot. It is similar to boot into recovery / download mode, just another key combination.

2: It was done via battery, the USB cable was not connected in both "boot from SD" cases.

BTW, after thinking about this case here and there, I have found a thing, that is still not complete logical for me...

By pressing the 4-key combination with a unprepared sd-card at boot, we brought the "SD-Card Mode" with "copy to EMMC" on the screen. After reboot the phone was dead.

Now, if this key combination simply read the bootloader from sd-card, that may have not happened, cause there was no bootloader on the unprepared sd-card that time. So even if the phone tries to boot from the unprepared sd-card, simply nothing should happen, cause there is no binary on the unprepared sd-card.

However, the phone was completely dead and we managed to bring the same "SD-Card Mode" with "copy to EMMC" on the screen while pressing the 4-key combination with a prepared sd-card inserted, later.

Maybe it cas has something to do with the first/second bootloader. I don't know.

Or, the key combination tries to boot from sd-card but when there is not found a valid binary it switches to internal bootloader. Then the internal bootloader detected the 4-key-combination and this means from him simply "copy first xy bytes from sd-card to EMMC".

Well, this could be logical.

Again to mention, that on my June 2012 S3 this key combination does nothing. The S3 where it worked was purchased in Feb 2013.

BR

Rob
[Galaxy S III General] xdever:
Does anyone have an idea why the phone hangs on COPYING BINARY TO EMMC.. message? EMMC failure?
[Galaxy S III General] hafiz.saqib:
Manual Guide Problem!

In the Manual Guide of the documents there is a problem.

I can't go further step than to 6 because 6th step has failed.
[Galaxy S III General] hafiz.saqib:
Dead Boot

I am very happy after see on the screen Download mode but after 70% firmware completed then its turn of and still not working again.

Even I tried S-Boot JIG cable but result is the same as dead phone.

After all this work PCB is doing more hot.
[Galaxy S III General] heathric:
It's a fraudulent document... not really from Samsung

It's a fake. If it were really from Samsung, it would say Samsung Telecommunications America on top and the emblem is different. As a STA employee, I see REAL Samsung documents every day... they look nothing like this. This is a very poorly written fake.

Wish I could post a copy of a real doc to show everyone the difference, but I'm not going to... sorry.
[Galaxy S III General] MEHDIMYADI:
not work :(
[Galaxy S III General] akhil17kr:
My galaxy s2 i9100 is Hard Bricked when i am transferring some data to the internal SD card... during transferring it crashes and restart and stuck on samsung boot logo .. Cannot access recovery mod but can access download mod.. so installed siyah kernel v6 .. but still go stuck on boot logo so after trying again after 2 times more(OFCOURSE through ODIN).... Phone switched off and never turned ON again..

Its completely Dead... No charging animation too..

Took it to local repair center as the warranty was over and after 2 days inspection he said It is EMMC Corruption problem instead of POWER IC problem(earlier though it could be POWER IC Problem).... and it need to be replaced or motherboard replacement..

SO in any way can i use this method to save my phone ?? with S2 i9100 files instead of S3 ??
[Galaxy S III General] psytr0nic:
exclusively for I9300 and this way can't fix Corrupted emmc , it work when your emmc isn't Hardware damaged!

solution = change the emmc not other way !
[Galaxy S III General] akhil17kr:
Okay sir,, Thanks... !!
[Galaxy S III General] eliberatoro:
Hi

A simple way to make a sd is to use an hex editor and copy the sboot.bin to card from adress 200h. It is works for i9300 and N7100 too. Other not tested. From 0-200h write the header.bin - atached.
[Galaxy S III General] kurtspirit:
Hi all,

i have a bricked i9300 and my personal who's working well on stock firmware. I want to try this procedure but when i try to download the bootloader to my s3, nand write fail on Odin and i must flash entire firmware on one package type...

I try many times without success...

I'll try with a live linux but i never understand how linux work... I can have some Jig Anyway cable from an affilied repair center of Samsung but as i see, this isn't same cable...

I have a Jig from Samsung with a 'circle" between USB and µUSB, do you think it's the same result?

I can make a photo tomorrow. Thank you!
[Galaxy S III General] kurtspirit:
Hey,

i try to make the magin SD Card with a virtual workstation Ubuntu 13.01. I don't understand where i can find the path so i try to find by myself but i just want to be sure i'm on the right way..

So i try with this :

dd if=GT_I9300_unbrick_sdcard_head.bin of=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-ChipsBnk_Flash_Disk_013244704081-0:0

but i'm not sure about /dev/disk/by-id etc. I can't verify if something is correctly write on sd card. How can be sure about the good or bad result?

Thank you!
[Galaxy S III General] theandrewgordon:
How do u know which to short circuit? I have an i9300 but the motherboard looks slightly differently arranged.
[Galaxy S III General] mik.russell:
emmc brickbug happened to me when downloading an app
[Galaxy S III General] deihak:
Have you got the leaked pdf from samsung?It shows exactly which circuit to short.There is youtube video also. I have done it from 2 sgs3 and had no problem. Tell me if you need more info.
[Galaxy S III General] theandrewgordon:
I did look at the leaked pdf, the part of the board that is pictured in the pdf, location wise, seems to be the part in this picture, however that doesn't match the layout of the one on the pdf, though i may be miss understanding the pdf.
[Galaxy S III General] deihak:
it's kind of blury.I'll sed you a picture with the right side and and the circuit. Just wqait a minute :)
[Galaxy S III General] deihak:
can you see it
[Galaxy S III General] theandrewgordon:
I definitely have an i9300, however, that is not quite what my main board looks like. Maybe I will just get it JTAG'ed from someone on ebay... :/
[Galaxy S III General] deihak:
can you send me a full size photo of your motherboard both sides? HD would be even better
[Galaxy S III General] Buckycasuals:
Thanks

This method saved my ass
[Galaxy S III General] foohoa:
Hi, no luck for me..........

tested short 313 with tweezer plugin with usb charger and press power button

but no response at all

this i9300 is suddenly hang, cannot turn on nor charge

emmc broken?
[Galaxy S III General] primo1337:
This method saved my phone, too

Hi,

just wanted to tell my story on this subject.

I was preparing to root my phone and wanted to enter DL Mode. It seems, that I have acciedently pressed this 4 button combo, mentioned in this post: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=47234165&postcount=220

Exactly same text appeared on this phone, written to emmc etc..

I found this thread and decided to give it a try.

However, I was not able to trigger sdcard downloading like it is written in first post.

My setup: cable soldered to both sides of r313, selfmade 300kohm jig (pin 4+5), battery.

Tried all combinations of shorting, inserting battery, inserting jig etc...

In the end it worked like this:

short resistor, insert battery, wait, unshort resistor, plug in wall charger. Magically sdcard downloading showed up and finished.

I'm now able to enter download mode. atm downloading stock FW.

I think the jig was useless in this case.

Thanks to everybody invoked in this find. Thank you very much.
[Galaxy S III General] adfree:
Memo to me...

1.

I have no luck with Display... :eek: :crying:

Tested over 10... all damaged LCD + Touch broken...

I see nothing...

2.

My alive board is I9300X (Live Demo Unit)...

I can see nothing on Display because all Displays dead, but I can play with Odin etc... or access SD or internal Memory via Explorer...

So I know it is alive...

Few stupid tests later...

My alive board is booting proper without attached Display...

So my idea is to test my second dead board... by timing and blind without attached Display... :cyclops:

See Pic about housing...

If you have enough damaged Displays... and maybe you needed more then 1 time...

I have also short checked my JIG with 620K...

I9300 boot normal... I hear normal Sound but then some funny melody...

No idea... but this seems not Download Mode...

So I have at home enough parts to put my dead I9300 board into stable housing with Screws, Powerbutton etc... inserted battery...

And I could hit resistor with Tweezers from the other side through the hole...

So the theory... :o

Next week I will try, if I can't find f. working Display...

Maybe board is alive and I need only to press key... :D

Also funny:

GT-I9300 Galaxy S3 Test Flexkabel

I have seen on Ebay...

http://www.ebay.de/itm/original-Sam...zer_Ersatzteile_Werkzeuge&hash=item2c7d31612d

Best Regards

Edit 1.

Tested with housing and Tweezers...

Stable connection and I can find Resistor with Tweezers...

But no luck/success...

Pic is taken from here.

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Samsung-Gala...51460844840?pt=DE_Handy_s&hash=item3a8c3bfd28

So without working Display much harder...

Edit 2.

It seems SD Card type/vendor is mandatory... for compatibility.

My noname 2 GB Card is ignored by I9300 with Odins T-Flash Option...

Odin reports success, but Card is not formated in VFAT with sboot as content...

But my 4 GB SanDisk work with Odin + T-Flash...

Card is formated by I9300 and sboot can be found at 0x200... after 512 Byte MBR from VFAT...

Now I need only working Display for further tests.
[Galaxy S III General] adfree:
Different solutions for Cash... Here I can see for 9 $..

http://gsmserver.com/shop/sg_sd_boot_card_with_download_mode_jig.php

Look at Video...

GT-I9300
GT-I9308
SGH-I939
SGH-I939D
SHW-M440S
SGH-I317
SGH-T889
SHV-E210K
SHV-E210L
SHV-E210S
GT-N7100
GT-N7108
GT-N7109
GT-N7102

I have seen also more expensive solutions... :o

In my opinion there are different Bootloaders... sboot.bin...

Best Regards
[Galaxy S III General] ehsan102:
Hi all

My i9300 has got full hard break :(

I can't turn my phone on

I can't go to recovery mod

And I can't enter to the downloading mod

How to fix ???

I'm crying please somebody helps to me :(((
[Galaxy S III General] psytr0nic:
you will stay crying if don't spend time to read the first topic message !
[Galaxy S III General] izsabadianz:
Brick

EFS folder crashing without backup is much more scaring than hard bricking as it has now a solution >.<
[Galaxy S III General] sergio_f:
any one have ben suceed with the 4 keys combo??
[Galaxy S III General] izsabadianz:
4 key combo? never heard of it? does it work ?
[Galaxy S III General] sergio_f:
pag 20 i think
[Galaxy S III General] madeafan:
please help

Things I did:

followed the Rebello's step (didnt have another phone). I did perform dd if=GT_I9300_unbrick_sdcard_head.bin of=//./f: using a windows program but it show this error: Error reading file: Wrong parameter

Then i've tryed to use the .img from page ~20 and burnt it into a 16gb sd card.

The only thing i got til now is a 16gb sd card that now shows 4gb only and a bricked s3 that only show this:

SDCARD MODE

COPY BINARY FROM SDCARD

COPY BINARY TO EMMC

SDCARD DOWNLOAD FAILED

Please help me :crying::crying:
[Galaxy S III General] MD500:
First format you sdcard(low level format) using SDFormatter 4.0(to prevent issues).in option till all options and click in format.

Try using linux distro (ej:ubuntu, debian) and in terminal execute:

> blkid (to identify sdcard)

> sudo dd if=GT_I9300_unbrick_sdcard_head.bin of=/dev/<device of sdcard (ej.sdb,sdc)

And should work.

Sorry for my english

Enviado desde mi GT-I9300 mediante Tapatalk
[Galaxy S III General] madeafan:
Dit it and the dd work'd, but the phone not. Dont even show the message SDCARD DOWNLOAD FAILED.

Tryed the other file recovery_sd_4gb_dump.bin but didn`t work as well.