[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] VonSmitherski:
Flashing

Apologies for the long winded response but this is what I've cone up with. Additionally, I AM still trying to get this to work. Just need to step back for a bit...:silly:

SD Card: SanDisk Ultra - 16GB CDHC-I (Class 10)

Secondary phone (for SD Flashing purposes): LG P690b

Model: Optimus Net

ROM: miui v2 - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1693592

(Note: Support for this device is limited)

Android Version: 2.3.7

Baseband Version: Unknown

Kernel Version: 2.6.35roikd.v2 http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1574013

CPU Info: ARMv6 compatible processor rev 5 (v61)

Phone to be Fixed:Samsung i747m[BC]

(Info prior to brick)

Bootloader: I747MVLDMF1 (incorrectly flashed I747UCDMG2[I747 AT&T variant])

Hardware: qcom

Baseband Version / Radio: I747MVLDMF1

Board: MSM8960

Brand: samsung

Device: d2att

CPU: ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v71)

Rom: Slim Rom (Slim-d2att-4.3.build.1.4-WEEKLY-1167 (or 1046 - I forget)

Kernel Version: 3.4.60-dkp-g05dbf9f-04271-g6cf94f6 decimalman@Goliath #1 Fri Sep 20 18:14:02 EDT 2013

SELinux Status: Permissive

Memory(RAM): 1778MB

Model Number (from Phone Info): SAMSUNG-SHG-I747 (note that it wasn't the "M" variant being recognized - due to the phone being originally flashed/rooted to support d2att ROMS for...variety sake.

Processes taken:

Edit: Symptoms / Issues (i747m) can be found here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2491171

erased SD card via LG; files loaded to card: .android_secure / LOST.DIR

Re-flashed ROM / GApps - Folders added DCIM / Android

Erased SD Card (From Phone) - Android / .android_secure / LOST.DIR remain

EaseUS Info: FAT32 / Capacity: 14.84GB / Used: 22.66MB / Unused: 14.81GB / Status: Active / Type: Primary

- Note: No partitions exist

LG Drivers Installed (p690)

Phone not found in Winsnoz 8 (Problem steaming from Stock as well - The LG p690b doesn't seem to like Win8 much).

Booted to Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS desktop amd64 (USB boot - not installed. Dual-Boot & wubi is not an option. Winderp decided to completely 're-invent' the REDEDIT/MBR with Windows 8 declaring Dual-Boot almost impossible/not worth the headache to go through).

Booted into Ubuntu - found out Ubuntu doesn't like my touchpad

sudo dmesg | tail
[ 1748.273389] mmc0: new ultra high speed SDR50 SDHC card at address aaaa
[ 1748.273865] mmcblk0: mmc0:aaaa SU16G 14.8 GiB
[ 1748.275119] mmcblk0: p1

Card shows as mmcblk0p1 (good)

sudo dd if='/home/ubuntu/Downloads/debrick.img' of=/dev/mmcblk0p1
262144+0 records in
262144+0 records out
134217728 bytes (134 MB) copied, 46.8738 s, 2.9 MB/s

removed from PC (used the internal card reader)

placed in phone: attempted boot with recovery / DL / normal boot combo with and without cable; Held for 20+seconds, nothing

sudo dmesg | tail

Gparted does not show any partitions.

Warning Displays (Icon next to mmcblk0p1(partition name)):

init H: non DOS media

cannot initialize 'H:'

mlabel: cannot initialize drive

Unable to read the contents of this file system!

Because of this some operations may be unavalible

The cause might be a missing software package.

The following lis of software packaged is required for fat32

file system support: dosfstools, mtools

Lets do what Ubuntu says

sudo apt-get install dosfstools
dosfstools is already the newest version
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# sudo apt-get install mtools
mtools is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

packages already included

Formatted back to FAT32 with Gparted

root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# sudo dmesg | tail
[ 1748.273389] mmc0: new ultra high speed SDR50 SDHC card at address aaaa
[ 1748.273865] mmcblk0: mmc0:aaaa SU16G 14.8 GiB
[ 1748.275119] mmcblk0: p1

root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# sudo dd if=/home/ubuntu/Downloads/debrick.img of=/dev/mmcblk0p1
262144+0 records in
262144+0 records out
134217728 bytes (134 MB) copied, 84.3212 s, 1.6 MB/s

placed in phone: attempted boot with recovery / DL / normal boot combo with and without cable; Held for 20+seconds, nothing

fdisk info: SDcard

Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 15.9 GB, 15931539456 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1936 cylinders, total 31116288 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0447988e

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/mmcblk0p1 1 31116287 15558143+ ee GPT

Gparted now shows the file system as Unknown, Warnings indicating device is unformatted

no additional partitions to be displayed

formatted to FAT32 / deleted

placed card into LG , Erased card

ran "udevadm monitor" (root) - When LG P690 is connected, The kernel adds everything then removes it.

At this point I'm not sure what to try next - I'll keep trying Roadkil / Win32 Disk Imager

:eek: