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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] deBricker:
Hey, this works for a Bricked Sprint S3 that is unable to boot to recovery/dl mode? Just managed to hard brick my phone trying flash Illusions -___- IDK how it happened.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] monac66:
Does it absolutely have to use a Linux system? Is there any way to do this on Windows?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] lvpre:
You can burn a Linux os that will boot from your cd drive. Just burn it, restart, and select that option when you reboot. Just make sure your bios is set to boot cd first. Also,a Windows program called cygwin may work too. Probably just easier to burn the Linux boot cd though. It ain't mess with partitions or boot sequences
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ragnar:
This method works, debricker wrote a more detailed guide and several people have had much success in restoring their S3 without the use of Jtag [MENTION=2300635]gTan64[/MENTION] you did great work with this.

You can find the other guide here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=43724690 for anyone needing it.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jaymaj:
SUCCESS

A very special thank you to gTan64 (and DeBricker) for these guides. The process worked on a Hard Bricked S3.

I have been playing around with my bricked S3 for about a week, bricked due to the stupidity of flashing an international rom.

Few things I noticed:

A 2G and 8G Sd card were no good. The Boot image creates a partion table that must mirror the internal memory.

When I finally flashed the image on a 16G Class 10 card the process worked perfectly.

(Please note DeBricker does suggest that in her OP)

After inserting card, I noticed that the power button needed to be held down to restart phone.

The phone will boot into recovery when started. It will actually let you flash a ROM if its in Internal Memory. Please note that this will work, except the boot table is still on the SD card. Again, as stated, you need to reflash a STOCK ROM via ODIN. Basically start fresh. If you do not, the phone will not work without the BRICK-FIX SD.

But the process works to get you into a soft brick state, without JTAG or replacing your phone.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nlz242:
How did you make this image? I'd like to unbrick my SGH-i747m, so i'd follow the same procedure to get the aboot from a 747m image...

Thanks id advance :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] DrGit:
Run this as root from a working SGH-i747m:

busybox dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/debrick.img bs=1M count=128

Write this file to a microSD card of the same size as your internal storage, plug the card into a computer, and check that the partitions contain the right data. The first 128MB should contain the various bootloader stages, firmware, download mode, recovery and boot images, but if not, you can always copy the relevant files from an ODIN package to the right partition on the card.

Note: 128MB is arbitrary. On my Sprint GS3 I only needed 70MB, but I had to fix up the image because it was incomplete. Check your partition table/descriptions for a better idea of what goes where.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nlz242:
Thanks for the informations.

I guess i'll need to pickup a 16gb SD Card as mine is 64gb (but the phone is a 16gb model) and ill have to see if i can find a i747m owner that would send me his a copy of his mmcblk0 :eek:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nlz242:
Not having much luck aquiring such an .img file... however, i do have full backups on my harddrive and i also have stock images for my Rogers's i747m (which i have used to update my bootloader in the past). However, they are not in .img format that i could use... Do you think i could somehow flash my Odin files (tar files) on the SDCard ?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
Odin tar files are just packaged img files
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nlz242:
Well... img files yes, but also a packaged .bin that contains modem files and others and a bunch of .mbn...

No idea how i can write all that, properly, to an sdcard.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
Using dd you flash the img file to your sdcard that was dumped using dd to begin with.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nlz242:
Which brings me back to not being able to aquire one and trying to make one out of Odin files...

I appreciate that you are a veteran on these boards and i'm a mere newbie, but it seems you didn't quite understand the problem i'm having right now and thus your advices/tips while valid aren't exactly helping me.

Perhaps my wording of these issues isn't clear. English is a second language for me.

So my issue is, i didnt make a dd copy of my boot/modem (i didnt know i was gonna do something stupid and flash the wrong bootloader). I can't find such an .img (i posted over at the d2att forums asking for one, still no answer). So i'm trying to see if i can come up with a valid .img file that i could write (using dd) to my sdcard, by assembling it from other files (my full backup from Clockwork Recovery / TWRP, or a stock image i found online that is in tar.md5 (containing a bunch of files, .mbn, a couple .img and a bin)).
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Techlyfe:
[MENTION=2300635]gTan64[/MENTION] Dude, You are a ****ing De-bricking god! And i don't normally curse... I bricked my T-mo S3 just this morning trying to mod my wife's S3 like mine, with the latest S3RX. Well i went to install the latest twrp, but I flashed the an unamed twrp that was meant for my SGN8.... well, i was ****ting bricks all day realizing when it wouldnt do anything, that it was hard bricked, Tried to figure out if i could make a JTag or if i could express buy a RIFF Box... Then my google foo kicked in , and happened upon this thread. So I would like to confirm that after bad flashing the wrong twrp and suffering from a Hard Brick. I was able to use your code above to create an image from my working t-mo S3 sgh-t999 and i actually backed it up to a 32gb class 10 samsung card, so the myth of only 16 gb is busted, dont know about lower but higher worked for me! I put the card in, put the battery in and it actually booted straight to the old twrp that i had been trying to flash over. Right now i am sitting in download mode about to Crack open Odin! Thanks so gosh darn much man...

Oh btw, i feel the need to buy you a few beers, never have i been so relieved! You saved me over 50 bucks for jtag service and 5+ days of being without my phone and tether. Just as soon as i depo some cash of course, No bull****!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
Not bad.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dreamwave:
I had a cyangenmod 11 nightly running very nicely before I flashed the wrong rom

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so 4.4, but I came to that after the official touchwiz non-rooted 4.3 update
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
doesn't matter, you will need a 4.3/4.4 debrick image, which i don't have for the US Cellular.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dreamwave:
will it work though? And does it require shorting the resistor or whatever?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
shorting resistor? thats only for i9300's
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dreamwave:
so if I got a debrick image onto a 1gb sd card I'd be able to unbrick it by just putting in the card? or is there more to it than that?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
No, 16gb Class 10

you have to image it using dd or win32 disk imager
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dreamwave:
could it be a 32 gb, GeTex ?

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and does it have to be a class 10?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
Yes, we don't say it for our health. 16gb is ideal. 32 might work.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] un1ocked:
request for debrick image, uscell s3, sch-r530u,

software version: LI4 (android 4.0.4)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dreamwave:
I have no words to describe how thankful I am right now, you jsut saved me from about $150 for a new jtag, and now I have a recovery card. I saved an image I found somewhere else to a 32gb ccard and it worked! The reason it was failing before was because I was trying to use a 1gb class 4, you saved my skin and my wallet, thank you to the fullest extent of the word!:laugh::victory::D:highfive:

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is there a way for me to make it so that I don't need to keep the same sdcard in there all the time and so I can actually use it for storage?:confused:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
You are most welcome, I'm glad to help out. I provide images and the tool as well on my private webserver(it's down for net maintenance today and possibly the rest of the week) but if you feel like it, donate or hit that thanks button. idc, but it gives us both the warm fuzzy feeling

you reinstall the stock rom, the fixes the bootloader

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I have an image, but you'd have to give me a short bit to pull it from my webserver, as it's offline, PM me your email and i'll send it to you, otherwise, PM me and I'll just give you a mediafire linky
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] un1ocked:
also. mine did not get any signal, i did accidentally delete some portion of my EFS

EDIT:

debricking was a success, but it still need the SD card for every booting

i need a dump of this partition (for sch-r530u): efs, modemst1, modemst2, fsg
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Cerisan:
Can you pass me you SD image for the i747m plz :)

i have an i747m hardbricked, i just want to try out this method but i cant get the img of the SD card so i can setup a SD card with Win32 Disk Imager and see if this work for me, i would appreciate if you can upload one or send me one plz ;) chees and gl unbriking your i747m
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Darian71:
I have a rather odd scenario. Not sure if I'm half bricked or what, and not even sure if I need to be posting the issue here. But after many hours of searching, and trying the debrick.img for my i747U(d2att) I am in deep dark doo doo. Long story short, after dropping my device I replaced the digitizer last week, nearly 2 months after the fact. Tried a few rooted stock versions and decided I liked CM11 best. Downloaded and installed the 2/14(Valentines Day special) from Cyanogenmod, flashed, and worked wonderfully! Woke up this morning to see the 2/15 updated nightly available so I use the cm updater to download and install the update. Bad idea. It rebooted to recovery, and failed the check. Then rebooted itself back to my 2/14 nightly just fine. So I decided to manually flash it in recovery. But when I 3 button combo to recovery, it skipped my recovery home screen and went straight to what the cm updater does, only this time it appeared to install the update successfully. Then rebooted and has been stuck at spinning Cm logo with pulsating light, which appears normal. But never leaves the boot loop. Definitely hung. I am able to boot into download mode via 3 button combo, but my computer does not recognize the device whatsoever. It's like I never plugged I it up. No driver installation, no QHUSB_DLOAD Mode, nothing. I have changed cords, changed ports, changed PC's, and even cleaned the port on the S3,but to no avail. I'm at my wits end. I have never before seen a device that once in DL mode, that would be recognized by heimdall or zadig. But not this one. If anyone has a possible answer to my dilemma, I'd be ever so grateful. Otherwise I have revived my broken GS3 2x now, for a paperweight. And if I need to delete this I will. I just didn't know where else to ask. Thanks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dreamwave:
No recovery mode?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Darian71:
If you are referring to my long post, no sir. 3 button combo takes me to my recovery, but the updater takes over immediately and begins installing "A" ROM, with only the progress bar moving. No written words or anything. Then will reboot the phone like normal. Resulting in bootloop.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dreamwave:
It was at&t, right?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Darian71:
Yes. I747U d2att. I read somewhere later it was advised not to use the auto updater. But never had the updater cause this.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dreamwave:
You might try plugging it into the wall and see if it opens the battery charging indicator screen, if it doesn't then that does mean your in deep doodoo, as that probably means corrupt recovery, though that is quite fixable as long as it can connect in dmode, you said you couldn't at all

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From what im reading in your long post your phone is acting like some sort of zombie, really wierd, and the thing with dmode is absolutely wacky...I really don't know the full cause as of yet, I'll need to get some time and more info, and maybe a bit more sleep after 11:00pm ??:P
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Darian71:
Yes, it is quite unique indeed. And yes. It will light the battery up on charge. As well as the red charging indicator. Battery is at 100% now from all the times I tried getting the pc to recognize it in Download Mode.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dreamwave:
Try interrupting ones of the updates after a few seconds by taking out the battery
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Darian71:
Did that a few times. Good suggestion though. I kinda figured that might do it myself. But same results
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dreamwave:
Booting into recovery from battery charge mode?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Darian71:
You mean while I have it plugged in and charging? If so then no, I don't believe so. It will however boot to download mode while plugged in. Going to double check tho

EDIT: yes, it will boot to recovery, or at least what recover I have, while plugged in using 3 button combo. Updater immediately kicks in and is installing again.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dreamwave:
Or maybe a flag gets tripped when it had trouble booting, try booting directly into recovery after it 'finishes' the update
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Darian71:
Ok

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Rebooted immediately into recovery after update finished and right back to the updater trying to install. I did discover I cannot reboot to recovery while the Cyangenmod logo is spinning. Have to pull the battery
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dreamwave:
It was worth a shot :/

You might be well served to create a new thread for that, it won't attract much attention here.

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What about volume up/down at the splash screen after selecting recovery? You might be able to cancel by making another selection
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Darian71:
Agreed. I'm gonna dig around a little. But without any drivers, I'm pretty much had I think. But it's worth a shot. If the debrick. img has CWM in it, I may be able to boot from my sd. But have tried it once already and no luck. I was hoping actually that the img would have a working driver to allow me to Odin the phone with a new recovery. But not certain that will even work

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It never gives me the option to move up or down. Simply a blank screen with the Android and his spinning gear in front installing the update and the progress bar moving until completion.

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If you happen to think of anything or hear for someone with a similiar issue, I can be found in [MENTION=5273865]xenon92[/MENTION]'s I9082 Resurrection Remix thread CM11. Love his work on this mid range device. I appreciate any info at all, and I thank you very much sir for taking the time to try and help. I try to do the same myself. Get some rest brother. And thanks again!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dreamwave:
It would be a long shot, but if you could manage to corrupt your bootloader you could get Odin working and Odin a replacement recovery on, as the current one is pretty much toast, and dmode is having a fit but the phone isn't doing anything about it because it isn't failing to boot into dmode, dmode isn't corrupted enough for the phone to notice.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Darian71:
Lol. I have also entertained that idea as well, just not sure how to corrupt it if I can't get anything to detect it. Thought about trying the sph debrick img for the sprint in my SD slot. Just really not sure
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dreamwave:
Try the SD image, and you might want to see if it will crash if you leave cm spinning for long enough
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Darian71:
The longest I've let it spin we probably about 20 minutes. Got plenty of battery so might go for thirty. But afterwards I believe I'll do the wrong image and see if I can finish it off. What have I got to lose?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dreamwave:
There have been a few times when I've left it going for around 20min until it crashed, then it just rebooted like nothing happened

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Who'd have thought that the best thing to to is actually go for the brick instead of avoid it? That's epic irony from how I see it :P
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Darian71:
Hey, that's hope. I may not have left it that long. It just pains me to see her sufferrimg like that. Lol. Spinning away sir! Will definitely report back. :thumbup:

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Epic indeed! It'll be my first. Lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dreamwave:
If you actually decide to use the wrong image, I think I know the trouble spot, if it's giving some trouble with recovery, cm isn't booting, and dmode can't communicate then it's probably a corrupt modem file that got write protected at just the wrong moment
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Darian71:
Yeah, it's like the cm updater is in a loop itself. And all it knows to do is run it again and again. I read through the changelog pretty well and I remember the Valentine's Day update mentioned a lot merges including the updater. I had to upgrade to 4.2.2 in order to run any Cm 11 ROM. And I believe the debrick.img is for the 4.1.2 if I'm correct. But the last time I hardbricked it, I was running the No Knox 4.3 leaked update so after writing the img to my class 10 16GB card, when it booted I actually had the up volume button pressed instead of the down and it booted right into my cwm recovery screen. From there I flashed the right kernel and was good to go. But don't you think I should Odin a fresh recovery tar file first? Provided I do have success.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dreamwave:
Yeah, it looks a little bit corrupted right now, good idea to flash it if possible
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Darian71:
Will do. Thanks a lot. I'll let you guy's know.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Darian71:
Can't seem to corupt the device with the wrong img. Left device on until the battery died. No luck there either. I'm currently on the Cyangenmod forums website asking around. Hopefully someone can help me corrupt the brain dead device. Lol. Thanks! :D:thumbup:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ObeyTheNoob:
I got my GS3 2 days ago and its bricked...

I bricked it by flashing Galaxy-S-fre3-MD4FirmwareModemAIO

Im trying to download the last few images I've seen but the website seems to be down or something and I already tried the img in the OP

My phone turns on a red light when I connect it to my pc without the battery

Also when I connect it with the battery my pc makes a few sounds

I have the GS3 from Sprint L710

I purchased this on ebay

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Fix-USB...er_Cell_Phone_Accessories&hash=item3f2afcde32

Will it work ?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dreamwave:
Probably not, that's just a shortcut to dmode mode, the debrick image will be a lot more effective
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ObeyTheNoob:
I have tried that with no result...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] theramsey3:
Can you link me to the rom you bricked your phone with? This is the AT&T and all Canada/Mexico Galaxy s3 forum. I am not familiar with the sprint stuff much.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ObeyTheNoob:
Pretty much every rom i tried it soft bricked my phone. But when i flashed the modem it was when my phone completely died.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] theramsey3:
Well truth be told you will receive the best support in the sprint galaxy s3 section they're more familiar with what you're going through.

Aside from them helping you I can only suggest that you get the phone jtag'ed?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ObeyTheNoob:
I thought this was the Sprint Gs3 section? But ima try a local flashing shop if they cant do it will i still have warranty for it ?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] theramsey3:
Nope sorry this is the Canada, Mexico and AT&T galaxy S3 section. I cannot answer that question without knowing if you took the 4.3 OTA update or bootloader.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ObeyTheNoob:
Yes i was on 4.3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] kimber45:
This is what tapatalk shows for this thread.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ObeyTheNoob:
Ik im on the xda app and it says Sprint Galaxy lll
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] kimber45:
I was referring to this post, should of quoted it in my first post.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] theramsey3:
Nope you guys are right I'm retarded somehow subscribed to this and all I ever play in is the AT&T section??? I must apologize many times.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] kimber45:
Its all good just didn't want anyone thinking they were in the wrong thread.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] theramsey3:
Asbolutely understand that. The only person in the wrong thread is this guy (me) ...

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 running S3Rx MJ2 bootloader MJB modem and it is smooth
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] alvavaca:
Us Cellular 4.3 debrick image

This is the image for Us Cellular 4.3 firmware: https://app.box.com/SCH-R530U

Please thanks to me, i am junior member since 2009 jeje... ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dreamwave:
But how do I use it in Odin mode, alvavaca?

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I've got it in dmode, now which option do I choose in odin, bootloader, pda, csc or whatever, or phone?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] alvavaca:
It depends in what you want to do: flash a modem, a firmware or a kernel....but if your phone enter in BL I believe you must flash a stock 4.3 rom to repair all damaged files in firmware...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dreamwave:
so there isn't just a way that I can flash the firmware and not the rom/internal sd?

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and what is bl?

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if you mean dmode, I am currently using an unbrick image that works from my sdcard, but it doesn't work w/o the external sd
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] alvavaca:
I am a bit lost....what is your problem exactly???? Do you have a Us cellular phone????
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dreamwave:
I flashed the wrong rom (some miui rom for the i9300, I think it might be THE miui rom) and it went through the aroma installer, and then tried to reboot, but it never came back on, just black screen, nothing else, I was convinced I had a full hard brick, but I was able to use an image that I put onto my 32gb sdcard and that got it to boot, but now I can't boot without the sdcard, and the image partitions the sdcard so I have ~150mb left of space, hardly enough to use it as an actual external card, and it's not like I want to have to hot swap cards at every boot, I have full access to the full system now, and simply want to know hot to fix it for good without fully wiping the entire internal storage