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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] TronMinecraft:
Well I can tell you that the probable reason you hardbricked it is because after the 4.3 update you cannot go back to an older rom of any type; not even stock. The stock would have to be 4.3 also.

Those are the exact symptoms my GS3 T999 (T-Mobile) had after I attempted to downgrade it after the 4.3 update.

As to why your SD card wouldn't work, do you have a 4.3 image for your phone? I doubt an image from another carrier would work, but it couldn't hurt to try it.

win32diskimager should work, you shouldn't have to use dd from a linux shell. Sadly with this kind of brick the USB jig won't have any effect because the bootloader (as I understand it) is incapable of loading the firmware (including download mode) that is on the phone.

I wrote up a guide to how I fixed my T999 with this problem. The T999 resources will NOT work on your phone and would only make the problem worse. But if you can find the corresponding resources for your own phone, the procedure should work to the best of my knowledge.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=49335446#post49335446

If someone can give you a 4.3 debrick image for the sprint model, I would recommend making a couple more attempts before you JTAG it. I resurrected mine without JTAG
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] gadgetdoc1:
Just realized my mistake now

Well, I did read that in the instructions somewhere that I can not downgrade. So I did look for 4.3 based ROM. I checked back after your post and yes I was right, but I made a big mistake - just realized that it was not for SPH-L710 (it was for GT-I9305) How did I miss that? http://xdaforums.com/images/smilies/crying.gif

Well, some glimpse of hope back again. May be someone would be kind enough to do so. I would look up to gTan64 again!!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] tutchthesky7:
Can you be so kind as to re-post the file else where? This doesn't seem to want to download on my PC , not sure if it's the site or my PC!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] omeadsthename:
Im sorry im not following how this will help debrick.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] gadgetdoc1:
Yet another problem - different phone

My previous post (couple of posts above) was about my personal phone. However, today, my wife tells me her Samsung Galaxy (same model - SPH-L710) is also not working. Now this phone is pure stock, with 4.3 OTA update. No root attempt has EVER been made, no modifications of any kind have been performed or even attempted. Anyway, the problem is as below.

If battery is removed and placed back, the phone acts as it is turned on - buzz and start up samsung screen followed by a flash of "Galaxy SIII", then completely black screen. Nothing I can do to make any lights/ sounds/ feels etc.

If I connect to computer with battery out, same as above without any screens coming.

Attempting to go to download mode - well it goes there but in less than a second, black screen. Same result with attempt to go in to recovery mode.

As I can not turn it on, I do not see the phone in windows file manager. Yes I see it in device manager with missing driver.

I have not attempted Odin as I though I need the phone turned on to access via Odin, but will try.

Tried USB jig, but no action.

I tried the 16G microsd, card with bootloader, nothing.

Now we have two expensive paperweights! :crying: Well, one was my own fault. But this one is spontaneous?:confused: Any suggestions? I would appreciate any help. Thank you in advance.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] TronMinecraft:
I honestly haven't any clue what would have caused your wife's phone to do this if it was never rooted or otherwise modded.

I don't have an L710 from which to create a debrick image. Can you get into recovery mode and do a factory reset on your wife's? Its not ideal, she'll lose everything but it might work. Recovery mode is VOL_UP + HOME + POWER. Release power after the samsung logo, but keep holding the volume & home buttons. From there you can choose factory reset, which will erase the cache, dalvik, and data partitions. That might fix the phone if the data is the problem.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] gadgetdoc1:
Thank you for quick response. I can not get to recovery or download mode. The phone acts like someone is pressing power button continuously. So, soon after it starts, it shuts off. Something like hung up in bootloop. Over last 3-4 months she had this bootloop problems a few times. But each time we thought it was stuck power button - probably caused by the case. Each time removing the case helped and actually got a new case that was also helpful. Now the phone is open and still doing that. -- Thinking out loud -- I wonder if that repeated bootloop issue caused software curruption in the bootloader? Or worse - hardware - flash damage? Another thought is some of the games/apps may have updated recently and that caused the problem. btw, there were no new games/apps loaded recently.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Darian71:
I believe someone was asking for a modem or bootloader. That's why I posted this
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] TronMinecraft:
I suppose any of that is possible. But software problems are far more common causes of boot loops I think.

I honestly haven't any idea how to suggest you proceed. I would be inclined to believe the SD card method should still work if it is a software problem. The phone is (as I understand it) defaulted to boot from the SD card if there is an image on it.

But to proceed with that method you really will need a 4.3 debrick image.

Is there anybody on here who can supply a stock image by running this line (from OP) on a 4.3 rooted L710? And then upload the resulting image?

busybox dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/backup.bin bs=1M count=70

I'm afraid I don't have any idea what more to suggest. If you could get your wife's phone into recovery mode, I think its likely a simple factory reset/cache clear would fix it. But without that IDK what to suggest.

Hopefully someone with an L710 will provide a 4.3 image for you.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] smallyetzon:
PR Claro company help??

i need a debrick file for a gt-9300 but the company is from Puerto Rico called Claro anyone help??
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Kansas_32:
Just scanned through this post and see if I can get my i747 fixed.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
This debrick method only works for qualcomm based S3's.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Kansas_32:
Luckily mine was. But wondering how would I know if it is qualcomm based or not?

I applied the SD card to my phone and worked perfectly.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] gadgetdoc1:
The international version - released first was Exynos quad core. US version is Qualcom dual core. Details at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S_III
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
If you bought it from a US cellphone carrier, then it's qualcomm

Otherwise you can look up the model number, the i9300 is the international/exynos S3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Kansas_32:
Just wondering. Thanks. Btw what I find out when I try to fix my HARD bricked phone:

1. You have to use a 16GB, Class 10 (I tried class 4 and failed)

2. and the steps are:

a. download the debrick.img for your phone (depending on what carrier)

b. format it using win32 disk manager

c. put your sd card into phone. Try turn it on normally, if not working, try going to download mode. I can turn it on normally and get everything I need out of the phone before doing anything else.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ezeuba:
Tried this on a dead sprint s3, but all I got was BOOT RECOVERY MODE. It cannot flash stock firmware in Odin. Just stuck at the BOOT RECOVERY MODE and it also says FLASH WRITE FAILED on the BOOT RECOVERY screen. Any help?

---------- Post added at 03:51 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:28 AM ----------

Same situation with Sprint S3. Boot Recovery Mode. Odin cannot flash stock tar. Any help? Anyone?

---------- Post added at 04:43 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:51 AM ----------

Are you certain the resulting file should be in bin format and not img? Just want to be sure before trying to pull the file you need from my stock 4.3 Sprint S3.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
change it to img. thats what everyone else did. also change count to 128. If it work, post the image, will help millions of people. well, hundereds XD
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ezeuba:
This

did not work. Changed it to this

and I got this 128mb file. I hope it helps someone out there.

Sprint S3 4.3 Debrick Image
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
did it work for you?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ezeuba:
The phone that is hard-bricked belongs to a colleague and is not on 4.3 but on 4.1.2 and all I can get to is the BOOT RECOVERY MODE. Odin fails in this mode when I try to flash a stock Sprint ROM. I am running 4.3 on my own Sprint S3 flashed to a CDMA network here so I just wanted to help anyone with a hard-brick on 4.3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
Then use a non 4.3 image XD

http://angelfirenetworks.servegame.com/XDA/S3 Debrick IMG_s/Debrick-L710.img
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ezeuba:
Done that already with the image from the link you just sent. All it got me was the BOOT RECOVERY MODE. I'm still at a loss why it couldn't boot to Odin.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
How did your buddy brick it?

This sounds like the internal storage is shot, which is very common to occur
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ezeuba:
He didn't say actually but your suggestion is what I also think is the problem because on the BOOT RECOVERY MODE menu it says "WRITE 150488 sectors FLASH WRITE FAILED". Any key combination goes straight to this BOOT RECOVERY MODE, even normal power button only, as long as the modded sdcard is inside. When I attempt to flash with Odin, it says no pit , but when I use a Sprint S3 16gb pit file it says re-partitioning failed.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
Dead Internal Storage for sure. Ur buddies gonna need either a new board, new EMMC(another ****ty Toshiba EMMC X_X) or a new phone.

Take this lesson and learn S3 Users, DO NOT USE YOUR INTERNAL STORAGE
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] BadThoughtss:
How do i repartition my 32 gb sd card to 16 gb? possible?

so i can do this method with a 32 gb sd card
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ezeuba:
I've had success with a 32gb card. Just run the script as it is and it will partition the card automatically to 16gb by itself. The problem is when you try it with a card less than 16gb.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] BadThoughtss:
okay ive done that using win32diskimger and through linux terminal. with no success, any trouble shooting tips? i bricked trying to downgrade from 4.3.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
[MENTION=2026715]ezeuba[/MENTION] you should redo the image creation. 128 mb contains your nvram data aka Sprint PCS/network provider connection information in addition to the debrick partitions.

Dump only the first 70.8 MB and you'll be good.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] BadThoughtss:
[MENTION=4645794]CNexus[/MENTION] Im guessing thats why its not working for me..

?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
No it should still work if >= the first 70.6 were dumped correctly..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] BadThoughtss:
Just to make sure, is this the only 4.3 img thats surfaced yet(for SPH-L7100), do you know any other link [MENTION=4645794]CNexus[/MENTION]It doesnt seem to work
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
This image should work

Someone tested it today working for us

http://angelfirenetworks.servegame.com/XDA/S3 Debrick IMG_s/4.3/Debrick-L710-4.3-BETA1.img
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] BadThoughtss:
not working, using win32dskimager any tips? bricked tryna downgrade.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
huh, worked for us, but we don't have more than 2 tests done. both succeeded. So you have another problem. Did you try the original image?

http://angelfirenetworks.servegame.com/XDA/S3 Debrick IMG_s/Debrick-L710.img
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] BadThoughtss:
i did try but im going to again, thanks for the help btw. i wrote the image, put sd card into my phone, put battery in. plugged it into the computer and tried download mode.didnt work. I havent trie tho other for a while. btw my sd card says its 60 mb should i fix that before i write again?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
Just write it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] BadThoughtss:
Alright, i dont understand why its not working but thanks for the help anyway everybody:p
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] theramsey3:
Not to be too much of a butt hole but if the phone goes into recovery mode it isn't hard bricked.

Hard bricked is when you get no response from the phone what so ever. No vibration no response to key input. If you remove the batter and plug the charger in you will get a red light for a little bit. When you plug it into the computer, the computer should detect qcomm_husb or something similar to that.

It is rather interesting that you can put the phone in recovery mode but not Odin/download mode. (volume down, home key then power)

It sounds like someone flashed something on the phone that didn't belong or the EMMC is bad.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
You misread. His phone didn't turn on at all. when the sd card is put in it gets to that. This is a common issue when the EMMC dies. It's not fixable unless you physically replace the EMMC or buy a new board(aka a new phone)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] theramsey3:
OK must have missed that. Many apologies.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
no worries
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jon20usa:
I bricked my phone trying to flash this: Galaxy-S-fre3-MD4FirmwareModemAIO.

I was on the latest nightly of Cyanogenmod 11.

Is there a 4.4 image? I'm not sure if I need it, but the 4.3 image and other debrick files did not work for me. I have been trying using a SanDisk Ultra 16 GiB class 10 card.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
Phone Model?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jon20usa:
Sprint SPH-L710

I've tried flashing using dd (via MobaXterm) and Win32 Disk Imager.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
http://angelfirenetworks.servegame.com/XDA/S3 Debrick IMG_s/4.3/Debrick-L710-4.3-BETA1.img

image should work
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] omeadsthename:
Im on the same boat. i was running 4.4.2 and have not been able to debrick with the 4.3 img
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jon20usa:
That's the 4.3 image I have been trying without any success. I will keep trying with that image.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] alvavaca:
sch-r530 4.3 image

Can anyone make or post a Us Cellular 4.3 debrick image please. My phone is dead and the image posted here doesnt works. Help please. ..it got me crazy...my rom was illusion 4.3 and accidentaly flash a verizon modem...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
Don't have one ready yet. please wait X_X
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] gadgetdoc1:
Fixed bricked S3 4.3

Recently I bricked my phone - for details see my post on http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2345860&page=32 . That was my fault as I flashed a wrong file. But, then my wife's S3 also malfunctioned. I posted that information on the same page a few posts below the first one. I thank all who have replied to my questions.

Now both phones are fixed. :highfive:How? Thanks to mipick22.

My phone had to be JTAG fixed. However, my wife's phone had power button shorted. He fixed that also. No data were lost in that phone. Each phone fix cost me $28 only, when the sprint store wanted to charge me $75 just to look at one phone that is not under warranty. Of course the fixing cost will be extra. Joe (mipick22) was extremely helpful, reasonable, very fast and true to his word. He answered all questions before and after my sending the phone to him very fast. I would recommend him any time. Actually, a friend is going to send a phone this week!

I hope I am not violating any rules of posting by praising this service. If I am, mods please remove the post.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
this thread is dedicated to debricking WITHOUT a JTAG. Also i'm pretty sure you just advertised here. Please don't.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] alvavaca:
I have a question....I update my phone (us cellular) to 4.3 Illusion Rom via CWM zip.. and after that I return to stock rooted 4.1.2 via restore backup in CWM. And I flash after that a verizon modem (md3) causes brick. My phone is in 4.3 firmware or in 4.1.2???? because debrick image provided here doesnt work.....
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
4.3 debrick needed
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Darian71:
I'm enjoying reading the success in this thread every since it fixed my S3! Really exciting stuff! Been almost a year now though, and I still haven't managed to nab a Pantech Flex P8010 debrick. Img. It was on 4.0.4 when I flashed the wrong Rom. Never would take the AT&T 4.1.2 update. Kept crashing. It has the snapdragon chipset and everything seems pretty much the same as our Samsung devices. With the exception of fastboot mode. Should anyone manage to extract one of around the same size we are dealing with here I would really appreciate the heads up. All I've managed to get from the Internet is around a 10MB aboot. Img. I don't think anyone trust me to borrow theirs that actually works. Lol. THANKS! :thumbup::sly::D:thumbup:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
again no one has actually tested pulling for a different phone. it's highly possible the boot is different. you'd want a new thread for it, not here. this is GS3's
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Darian71:
I do understand. The phone was nearly identical on every benchmark I tested it on as the GS3 is. Extremely responsive and better battery life. Sadly enough however, there are less than a handful of threads even mentioning it, and those that do have ceased further development as the phones ended up bricked. There's a few that have acquired the jellybean update from AT&T and managed to push CWM to The device and install the update. Or even modify the stock ICS and root it. Which is what point I had made it too when I downloaded the wrong jellybean file. Apparently AT&T's own update had The wrong signature which shut the bootloaders down thus bricking the device for a lot of folks. Anyways, enough of your thread taken up discussing my pretty paper weight. May you guy's have a blessed day!:D
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
I'll give you a last bit of advice, JTAG it. This method is failproof for recovering your phone. Either take it somewhere, buy a riffbox, or let me see if we have the firmware on our machines, as we own 2 riff boxes.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Darian71:
I had considered that option. I live in the bootheel of Missouri, so I would most likely need to send it somewhere. I've read up a little on the riff boxes but werent sure if they were worth the money. I was told Pantech does in fact have an ODIN like program but they aren't releasing it. I've got to buy a digitizer and screen for my S3 first Anyhow, after successfully unbricking it using this method, my Otterbox hadn't arrived yet and I dropped the sucker. $118 bucks and bI'll be back on it. Just now managed to save the money for that. Gonna install it myself, already acquired the necessary equipment. :thumbup: Thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
You broke it already T_T nice job...........
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Darian71:
IKR! :banghead:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jon20usa:
I bought another Sprint SPH-L710 and flashed this image: cm-11-20140120-NIGHTLY-d2spr.

This is Android 4.4.2.

I created two debrick files from this phone.

adb shell
su

I will first state that I have not yet been successful in using these images to debrick my other L710. I am posting these debrick files in the hopes that they help someone else.

The first image is 70 MiB and was created as follows:

https://www.mediafire.com/?9t5rod8eqqy0nlr

busybox dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/4.4-70.img bs=1M count=70

The second image is 128 MiB and was created as follows:

https://www.mediafire.com/?cd2mam7cpsgnfil

busybox dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/4.4-128.img bs=1M count=128
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Darian71:
Thanks! I'm collecting them. Ya never know. :thumbup:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
already had a working sprint 4.1 4.2 image. adding it anyways
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jon20usa:
I updated my above post. This is an Android 4.4.2 debrick image.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dreamwave:
Can you outline the procedure in layman's terms? I have a d2usc, or sch-r530 if you like, and I think I've found an image for mine here: ftp://sdbruington.us/d2usc/SCH-R530_ALIVE_MJA_200MB_16GB.bin . The way I bricked my phone was by flashing a (the?) miui rom that I think was meant for the i900 or something (I'll post a link if necessary) onto my r530 and had signature verification turned off in cwm, so it just installed it without asking, I got through the aroma installer and it rebooted, or rather didn't. I'm at this point wondering if it is even the bootloader, it might be the radio or some other part, but I wouldn't really know, as I had the g1 before this, so none of the bells and whistles like download mode or anything, my windows vista simply says something like "do you want to automatically search for drivers for your 'qhusb-dload'" or something, my s3 is black screen, no charging light with battery in, nothing on the spare battery, no haptic, nothing except a small flash of the flashlight when the battery is put in after a little while of no power. This is my daily driver, or was until it went black about 3 days ago, and I really need a way to fix it, if I can avoid jtag, so much the better.

EDIT: device manager is identifying it as qhsusb_dload
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
were you running 4.3 or 4.2 or lower?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] DrGit:
SD dd image for unbricking SPH-L710!

http://www.mediafire.com/download/231uhy6l80jx74n/debrick_sph_l710.img.xz

Extract this wherever, then in your Linux terminal (or using dd-like tools for Windoze) run this from the location of the file:

# WARNING: This WILL erase your drive! [B]Make sure you select the right device![/B]
sudo dd if=debrick_sph_l710.img of=/dev/sdX

Substituting X with your SD card's letter. Only tested with a 16GB microSD card, but should also work with smaller cards.

Take out the battery, insert the SD card, reinsert the battery, and power on!

This should recover a hard-bricked SPH-L710 from corrupted bootloaders.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] DrGit:
I don't know for sure, the person who gave me this phone just said they were rooting it. I suspect they flashed a bootloader for a different GS3 model. As for thanking you, I think I did hit "thanks" before I repeated myself ;)

If this needs its own thread/sticky, feel free to mirror my MediaFire link or do whatever you need to do.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
Ah, that's just my sig. Not aimed at you in particular, but XDA in general.

I just think this is great, thanks for putting in the time and effort to actually come through with this

;)

The reason I ask is that some bricks can only be fixed depending on how they were originally bricked. I'm not gonna go any more detailed than that, because unfortunately I am not as versed on that topic, but I just know that this can happen with brick fixes.

Thank you either way, I'm sure this will be incredibly useful whenever someone's finds themselves needing "HELP!!!" ;)

EDIT: You may wanna add that this will completely bomb their sdcard contents.

The Thanks button is just to avoid "THANKS" posts in threads. Nothing more. Don't defeat the purpose of why it was introduced.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] DrGit:
Yeah, I peeked at what the previous owner left on the internal storage and I saw an i9300 Omega ROM, so I'm assuming he flashed an international ROM.

Now would be a good time to create a sticky thread! I just replied to one such "help" post, and I don't imagine it'll be the last.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
You can go ahead and write one up in general, or do you want me to do it? I'm a little busy ATM unfortunately

The Thanks button is just to avoid "THANKS" posts in threads. Nothing more. Don't defeat the purpose of why it was introduced.