yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III General] MD500:
Make sure to shortening corespinding resistor correctly.

Sorry for my english.

Enviado desde mi GT-I9300 mediante Tapatalk
[Galaxy S III General] v0yt33:
Hi there guys.

Can someoen tell me what can I do more, if I'm stuck on "Copy Binary to eMMC" ?

I made a short circuit, SD Card is in slot, phone is in SD Card mode, nothing happens - even "write failed' is not showing up.

Bad eMMC?

thanks
[Galaxy S III General] crqzyvonzipper:
Kinda worked

I ran odin and flashed the GT-I9300_Boot_Recovery.tar via PDA

Then restarted the phone and after this it prompted me to connect to kies.

Did a firmware update and. phone is back in business.
[Galaxy S III General] Mustakim_456:
[HELP] guys

Hello devs

I have a s3 GT-I9300 which was rooted and was running custom rom 4.1.2 with boeffla kernel.

Someday before when my battery was low at 1% i kept my phone on charging but after that phone does not boot up not in recovery not download mode. its like totally dead.

i tried this method of unbricking the phone but when i try to flash the recovery.tar file in Odin with normally booted s3 of my friend but it fails to flash and was showing error of NAND Write Fail.

Can anyone please help me to recover my dead s3
[Galaxy S III General] Gemc666:
Hi, i have an anyway jig s102, and a hard bricked s3, i do the short and get to put the phone on sd mode, but it show up press up for download, press down for normal, doesnt copy the sd file, so, any setting i have to use on the jig? Like a funtion switch combination?
[Galaxy S III General] kashifyounus:
Shv-e470s hard bricked

Very Helpfull post, hope it will definitely work.

i need Samsung S4 Active Lte-a (SHV-E470s) unbricked files, please help !!!!
[Galaxy S III General] dimness1984:
gt-i9305 Debrick *.bin ?

gt-i9305 Debrick *.bin ?
[Galaxy S III General] yupuma:
Need help pls...

The attached picture is what my VERIZON SAMSUNG GALAXY S3 looks like,

my problem is i can't identify the RESISTOR 313 that is needed to be shorted.

PLEASE REPLY OR PM ME. THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.
[Galaxy S III General] MD500:
This fix only works in exynos devices........you phone is qualcomm device.

Enviado desde mi GT-I9300 mediante Tapatalk
[Galaxy S III General] isrmicha:
How can we do the Short resistence ? the chip is VERY SMALL

can anyone help ?
[Galaxy S III General] engelbertalv:
Help please in this forum does'nt have s7275b

Hi everybody my gaslaxy ace 3 lte s7275b is full brick only reconized by pc like qualcom anybody have an unbrick image from this model? help and thanks please, un this forum does.t have a forum by this model :eek:
[Galaxy S III General] jkamz:
hey guys, my problem is that my usb port is broken i only use it for charging(so odin wont work). i accidentally wiped recovery and system using mobile odin so am sure my device is not hard bricked its just that i cant use odin. All i need is a working recovery is there any way to install recovery from the sd card mode?

gt i9300
[Galaxy S III General] Nabi Azam:
wrong BOOT FILE

HI i recently hard brick my s3 neo i9300i and i use debrick file to turn it on but it doesnt work it uses SD CARD to use as boot ..

when i try to use your bootloader file it said on download mode that unsup dev type that means that file is for i9300 and mine is i9300i

plz make one for my plz im waiting for it badly .

other way it will work 100%
[Galaxy S III General] KFor247:
Copying the Bootloader file to an external SD Card, using a normal GT-I9300.

... do i need a second phone for this or can i also copy the files via card reader?
[Galaxy S III General] akhil7000:
Good solution

It worked for me...brilliant...thanks
[Galaxy S III General] ixgeneral:
i did exactly first i messed up the working one too then i resurrected the good one and three another peaces also.and another one coming on with weird screen state like mosaic in normal power on and with the jig coming normal download mode no key combination can bring it to download mod with jig it comes to download mod but still can`t flash. always gives an error pit partition not found if i use pit file it shows error writing partition table error.can somebody help to solve this.any its an awesome guide keep it up
[Galaxy S III General] adfree:
I have no idea, if this allready known...

But if you take normal Bootloader (sboot.bin) from here for instance:

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3/general/guide-extract-bootloader-make-flashable-t2864264

I have tested this one successfully:

XXUGNG3_Bootloader_FIXED.zip

Then I need NO tweezer

Concept is little bit different...

You see hopefully then:

SDCARD MODE
UP KEY : NORMAL BOOTING
DOWN KEY : DOWNLOAD MODE

I spent many hours, days, weeks, months... many tears... :crying: :D

Important is SD Card...

I failed with SanDisk Cards for instance...

Now I found 2 working SD cards:

8 GB from Medion
16 GB from Samsung

Best Regards
[Galaxy S III General] adfree:
Here are few Pics from my "test config"...

Nearly 2 years ago I've started without Display... not the best idea. :D :o

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=50690538&postcount=251

Few weeks ago I have upgraded this idea... with FLEX cable and attached working Display...

Like an Sandwich... :D

With my 2 hands I am able to hold this sandwich... work with tweezer...

And I am using normal battery...

And JIG for Download Mode to power on...

This method is the old one... or if you play with bootloader stuff.

Newer Version... you have 1 menu.

Key up or down...

sboot.bin is NOT copied automaticly to eMMC.

But you can start Download Mode and use Odin...

I have tried few sboot with my GT-I9300...

I can start 50 % GT-I9305 sboot... shows me the menu...

But I am unable to up or down press...

But for instance SHW-M440S ... the Korean S3 works fully.

For latest sboot.bin NO tweezer needed!

Best Regards
[Galaxy S III General] Xangelic:
Helpful

Thanks for This (y)
[Galaxy S III General] Lebron5:
Hi! I rooted my samsung s3, put a custom rom in, with twrp recovery. When this morning i try to power off and power on the phone, it goes in bootloop. I can go in download mode, and recovery. When i went in recovery, it says " Unable to mount" everything. I searched on forum, i saw various tutorial from odin, to restore stock recovery, but when i try to startin odin, he stop in "Nand Write", and then it goes to FAIL. How i can restore my phone?
[Galaxy S III General] :
It may be SDS(Sudden Death Syndrome) if you are getting errors with NAND,if this is the case you cannot restore your phone
[Galaxy S III General] moitoso:
Y have the same problem. Any solution?
[Galaxy S III General] Stfn990:
Hi guys,

I have my I9300 rooted with TWRP and installed CM11 on it. Everything goes well until I try to restore a backup (contacts, sms, etc) with MyBackup. While doing it the screen turned at some point black or showing different pixels with different colors (imagine a sky with a lot of stars :D ).

Now it would enter download mode and screen turns on when I charge it. Odin recognized it as 0:[COM8] which seems to be good to me.

I have tried samsung official firmware - failed

<ID:0/009> Odin v.3 engine (ID:9)..

<ID:0/009> File analysis..

<ID:0/009> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/009> Initialzation..

<ID:0/009> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/009>

<ID:0/009> There is no PIT partition.

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

Then I downloaded this PIT http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3/help/solved-pit-bricked-dead-problem-gt-t2535367 - failed (auto reboot, re-partition, f.reset time, nand erase all : checked)

<ID:0/009> Odin v.3 engine (ID:9)..

<ID:0/009> File analysis..

<ID:0/009> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/009> Initialzation..

<ID:0/009> Erase...

<ID:0/009>

<ID:0/009> Complete(Write) operation failed.

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

I get the same error using PIT files from post 94: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=33576601&postcount=94

What else should I do? Another PIT? Is the phone compromised (motherboard) ?

PS: Phone was bought from Romania.

Thanks!
[Galaxy S III General] Stfn990:
After reading this topic fully and a couple of other sources i concluded that my eMMC died so I replaced the motherboard.
[Galaxy S III General] bruzay:
How much did it cost you for the replacement?
[Galaxy S III General] Stfn990:
I bought one S3 with broken display, it costed ~30 Eur in Romania.
[Galaxy S III General] bruzay:
Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] thanos mihalackididis:
when i got this phone the wifi was working properly , then i installed a rom called s5 sensation v11 and my wifi is only working when i am standing by the router . After that i flashed the stock rom through the kies 3 and the wifi problem is still here , what am i supposed to do ?
[Galaxy S III General] geoweb29:
i need a 4.4.2 bootloader (my phone have knox 0x1) from an working n7100 phone to write it to sd card,i want to test this method with n7100
[Galaxy S III General] steponch:
Hi, does this procedure works when the problem appears to be with the PIT file?

In my case, I had the GT-I9300 in a drawer for like a year, then I took it to install net hunter and... I faced the white-grey lines on display issue, the phone doesn't go on either recovery or download mode. After purchasing a jig usb I can get to download mode and the product name is correctly displayed (thus I assume the problem isn't with the EMMC), but when I try to flash anything with Odin (stock firmware, custom rom, recovery) it fails saying there is no PIT file. I've tried several PIT files but it always gets stuck on "Get PIT for mapping".

I've tried to follow the guide on the 1st post but the recovery file doesn't work, when I short the resistor it says failed to download from sd card (or something like that). I got a working S3 from a colleague but I'm scared to mess up his while trying to fix mine... any suggestion?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S III General] kbuss:
Hi! anything like this for the gt-i9305, the LTE version?

i tried to google the files but no success.

but I saw a lot of ppl are still repairing these phones, there are even fairly recent vids.

so this files must be still used.

how come they arent on XDA?
[Galaxy S III General] b-eock:
After reading it, I don't even think the Samsung Anyway Jig is need the way they wrote the instructions. Just to short the right part and should be there right? I am gonna search high and low for an Anyway jig.
[Galaxy S III General] Net.silb:
I think you do need a jig just it doesn't have to be the anyway jig, it can be just a normal jig.

And so - the "three button combination" for "SD Card Mode" would be:

USB jig + Battery + Short R313 resistance
[Galaxy S III General] b-eock:
Well I have a jig, but I don't have the proper screw divers to open up my phone right now. If anyone can test this for us, I would be so grateful!!!

---------- Post added at 01:46 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:46 AM ----------

GO HERE. <--- Anyone wanna try and get in or know a user and pass? might be somethings we need or want ;)
[Galaxy S III General] Net.silb:
Potential solution: http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f716/asansam-ver-1-8-3-released-hot-update-1498237/
[Galaxy S III General] Rebellos:
Wow! WOW! This is one of the best leaks I've ever seen. It's literally UnBrickable Mod, but made by Samsung this time.

Big thumbs up, lets get it to the portal!

//edit:

I flashed modified bootloader onto my phone and created 4G unbrick SD card. Just working on on dumping it fully :)
[Galaxy S III General] Rebellos:
Here's an experimental image:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/32145655/GT_I9300_unbrick_sdcard_head.zip

1) Insert SD card (Everything from it will be wiped!)

2) Bootup some linux machine (it can be rooted android phone aswell as its also linux machine :) )

3) Unpack archive

4) Perform dd if=GT_I9300_unbrick_sdcard_head.bin of=/dev/<path to SD card device>

On most of phones its /dev/block/mmcblk1 (MAKE SURE YOU DONT OVERWRITE YOUR INTERNAL PHONE MEMORY, ITS USUALLY "/dev/block/mmcblk0")

On PCs it depends, its sometimes /dev/sdb

More info about dding sd card:

http://mikelev.in/2010/09/cloning-an-sd-card-on-linux/

You're all ready and set, try to boot it up on dead I9300 and tell me how did it go! (Follow step 14 of Samsung's guide)

Also, I don't think Anyway JIG is necessary. Probably you only need to connect it to PC so it gets powered and you can use download mode.
[Galaxy S III General] Net.silb:
Thanks for your support!

Do you mind making a detailed step by step guide on how to do this using a phone and I will post it in the first post?
[Galaxy S III General] xan:
It should be quite easy to make an img file (like Rebellos did apparently) and restore it to sdcard with some imaging tools under windows/linux not using (potentially dangerous for the end user) dd
[Galaxy S III General] Net.silb:
First post reorganized, added Rebellos's method too.
[Galaxy S III General] Net.silb:
Then can you make a step by step guide on how to do that and I will post it in the first post?

Thanks in advance!
[Galaxy S III General] mikep99:
Hi, could anyone confirm/correct my assumptions above please?

Thanks

Mike
[Galaxy S III General] Odia:
You did not need to flash the bootloader to your phone first, its only in the instructions in case the bootloader in the good GS3 does not support SDCARD write protocol.

I can confirm that using an SDCARD image to create the tweezer-tag SDCARD does work.

NOTE: Its also possible to write the entire OS to SDCARD, not just the bootloaders.
[Galaxy S III General] b-eock:
Hey Rebellos!!! I was with yiu in the SGS forums. Continually trying to see if in anyway possible i could get the Nexus S bootloaders working.

The thing with that is, will it be restored in SD card mode?
[Galaxy S III General] Dodi16:
guys my phone is bricked because i have partition problem because i f**cked it up while i was flashing.

could this help me if i will do it??
[Galaxy S III General] Net.silb:
First, try using a USB Jig, if that doesn't work, try this method.

If you need any assistance, post in this thread and we will help you.

Please post in this thread whether or not this method worked.
[Galaxy S III General] Dodi16:
i think it is also possible to do it without a jtag right? because my (bricked) phone can go in to download mode
[Galaxy S III General] Net.silb:
If it can go into download mode, just use Odin.

Make sure you flash a full firmware that includes proper PIT and Bootloader files.
[Galaxy S III General] Dodi16:
well thats the problem i haven't find a rom with a bootloader in it. I live in holland and i have a 16gb SGS3. could some one find me a good firmware please?

and another question; For the way that is said in the PDF file of samsung u need to have to s3's a bricked one and a good one. Wil something happen with the good one if i flash it with the bootloader like explaind?
[Galaxy S III General] Net.silb:
I'll look and see if I can find any.

I haven't tested it yet myself but other users have done it and there was no harm inflicted to their devices.

You shouldn't need to use this method if your device can get into download mode.

I suggest you try flashing a normal firmware (no PIT or BOOTLOADER) with Odin and tell us what happens, maybe we can help you more then.

Only if #4 doesn't work you have to find a firmware with PIT and BOOTLOADER files and try flashing it.
[Galaxy S III General] EdgaBimbam:
maybe you know can i flash old bootloader? :) and maybe you have that file to flash for old bootloader
[Galaxy S III General] Dodi16:
I have tried number 4 but i get a re-partition fail.
[Galaxy S III General] Rebellos:
Flashing new bootloader is relatively safe (as far as reflashing bootloader can be safe)

It's just same set of bootloaders but with enhanced ODIN protocol - support of writing into T-Flash. As Odia said - recently produced I9300 models might have this feature in bootloader already.

No repartition should be used for these, new bootloader should overwrite old bootloader in working I9300, and during second flash present PIT will be used.
[Galaxy S III General] Net.silb:
@Rebellos - Just wondering if you saw my post...
[Galaxy S III General] Rebellos:
It can be said I added few steps after step 11 and before step 12 of Samsung guide.

Note: System must be rooted.

11.1) Bootup phone and connect it to PC

11.2) Invoke "adb root"

11.3) Invoke "adb shell dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk1 of=/storage/sdcard0/recovery_sd_head.bin bs=1024 count=4096"

11.4) Invoke "adb pull /storage/sdcard0/recovery_sd_head.bin"

You will endup with dump of first 4 megabytes of sd card. Should be enough to contain all necessary data to re-create bootable sd card from it.

Actually boot partition is ~880KB big so I guess dump of ~900KB should be enough. But better to have abit more and be more sure it'll work. :)
[Galaxy S III General] tshoulihane:
If this method is proven, you might want to remove 'JTAG' from the first post. It kind of looks like a red flag to me because this is nothing to do with JTAG (IEEE 1149.1)
[Galaxy S III General] Net.silb:
Thanks for the correction, I just copied the wording of the Samsung document...

... Corrected!
[Galaxy S III General] Ars-Hexis:
Wowie! nice find, haha this gives me peace of mind given I flash, tweak and hack my phone so much! Thanked!
[Galaxy S III General] asc366:
Thanks, great post! Bookmarked it for (unforseeable) future (incidents) :)
[Galaxy S III General] Rebellos:
I've disassembled my I9300 yesterday and did some live tests on it.

Unfortunately I was unable to trigger EXT-SD boot, it's pretty hard to short only single resistor without shorting anything else and hanging the board or blowing something up. I'll retry it someday later when I get better tools. Maybe I triggered ext-sd boot but it didn't end up in any special screen because my device was fully alive.

Some tech background I worked out on that solution

Some good news:

If this is possible for SGS3, it's highly plausible that this such method of unbricking can be used for Exynos SGS2 models. This of course needs preparing another magic-SD card.
[Galaxy S III General] Net.silb:
We've made it to the XDA Portal! (link below)

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/fix-your-soft-bricked-galaxy-s-iii-samsungs-way/
[Galaxy S III General] Net.silb:
Great! Keep us posted!
[Galaxy S III General] Net.silb:
Added 'Significant & Useful Posts' to #2 post.
[Galaxy S III General] Rebellos:
Actually you could also quote my tech background section, for the curious. :P
[Galaxy S III General] Net.silb:
:D

Have you tried booting into SD Card mode again?
[Galaxy S III General] jdelano:
Sprint USA Variant SGS3

Excellent find; I read about this via the xda portal.

My question, do you think this would work for all S3 variants (with their proper files of course)??

Again thanks for this.
[Galaxy S III General] Rebellos:
Only for Exynos based variants. Also, resistor location will probbaly differ.
[Galaxy S III General] UrbanDesigns:
How can you actually hard brick the phone? I want to avoid it at all costs
[Galaxy S III General] Entropy512:
Don't flash anything that contains bootloaders. Touching the bootloader partitions is the easiest way to hardbrick.
[Galaxy S III General] E:V:A:
Not really, if Samsung says "JTAG" they mean JTAG. The thing is that JTAG may have been either enabled/disabled or protected by previous bootloaders, so that this one leak is doing something to the JTAG functionality. We just don't know what, unless someone is willing to spend the time to RE this sboot leak. IMHO, I think it could be mistake to flash these leaks without knowing exactly what they do, or at least know in which way they differ. For all that we know, it may patch-up things we might need later...

Nice! T-flash is the Exynos way to do the equivalent to Snapdragon EhostDL, AFAIK. Now, the question is what that resistor is connected to? Some high resolution photos and signal tracing would help... What is interesting is that this resistor is close to the eMMC (?) and could be the eMMC power or reset line. This could trigger some mechanism to enable write protection on the eMMC, something that the HTC community are desperate to understand better, as many of their devices are eMMC WP-ON, which is the key obstacle for gaining S-OFF and unlocked bootloaders...

R313 = 10K @ 5%,1/20W,TP,0603 Samsung Part No: 2007-008516
[Galaxy S III General] mossy1963:
pretty much impossible. I've still got the jig I've had since my original SGS1. Its proved a godsend and even with messed up bootloaders I've recovered my sgs using the jig, odin and fw containing bootloaders.

I'd recommend everone gets a jig....they cost £1.50 off ebay...as reassuring as travelling with your own paramedic team :)
[Galaxy S III General] b-eock:
Hard bricks dont respond to any jigs... So you werent hard bricked....
[Galaxy S III General] mossy1963:
exactly .... I never have been hard bricked and doubt many have. most people who say they have bricked their phone haven't as they can usually recover matters with the right tools and knowledge.

The point I was making is that its nigh on impossible - short of flushing it down the toilet. I was making the point that EVEN messing your bootloader is not necessarily terminal
[Galaxy S III General] daniel.hajdinjak666:
Hi guys!

I bricked my S3 yesterday-

First i lost network and imei. Then i download official XXLIB firm, flash, and then the problems started.

When i go in download mode, i can flash stock firmware, but phone stay in bootloop. (i try several times)

Then i go in to recovery, and i flash several diferent custom roms. Each flash start, but after while in recovery says "E:signature verification failed", and everithing stop.

In recovery also says (as soon as the recovery show), "E:failed to mount /efs (invalid argument)". I have efs/backup.tar file ona laptop.

Can someone please give me a link with firm+pit+bootloader, and then i inform you what hapend.

Sorry on my bad english, thanks in advance!
[Galaxy S III General] daniel.hajdinjak666:
Intresting... recovery that coming with official firmware, is little pesky??? as I wrote in the top post.

I flash 6.0.0.7 touch, and now is everything is as before, but only in recovery. Almost everything, because not recognize external sd card?

I'm going crazy!!!:eek:
[Galaxy S III General] gnzhang1:
NA GALAXY S3 UNBRICKing with copying bootloader from sd card works! You need Samsung anyway jig which is hard to find.
[Galaxy S III General] jonaz100:
Why is it hard to find, and more importantly.... Why haven't the Chinese copied it yet and flooded ebay? Somebody needs to give them a heads up :D
[Galaxy S III General] jonaz100:
Why didn't you flash the latest version? Try 6.0.1.2
[Galaxy S III General] daniel.hajdinjak666:
I coming closer. I flesh CWM 6.0.1.4 and now recognize ext.sd.card.

Now download official 4.0.4 and this is my last attempt, because I have no more idea.

Just please link for bootloader (If it'll help)?!

EDIT; on ebay, i found onley standard USB Jig, not "anyway jig", and i dont need standard, because i can get i download/recovery.
[Galaxy S III General] mean-machine:
My phone restarted itself last week and is stuck on Samsung GT-I9300 screen. I can't get to Recovery, the only things that work is entering Download Mode (Odin or Factory Mode using JIG). Unfortunately, it says nothing in Product Name field and I can't seem to make ODIN flash anything.

Do I have to send it for a JTAG repair?
[Galaxy S III General] NexusCrazy:
I seriously can't believe some of what I'm reading on here. Why would you start flashing things to your £500 smartphone when you just havn't got a clue as to what your doing or what you need to do to resolve some pretty simple problems. It's just beyond me.

People need to research and research and then research some more, then and only if you fully understand what your about to do and know how to put right anything that goes wrong start flashing a custom recovery, custom ROM' kernels etc...

And if you do have a problem it would be wise to start your own post explaining exactly what you did and what you've tried to resolve things, just jumping in half way through a thread with I bricked my phone what do I do ain't going to get you a lot of useful help.

Just my thoughts on things.