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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Homefix:
12 straight hours doing this, It FINALLY WORKED!

after 30 attempts it payed off.

IT DOES WORK

I will write up tonight how i was able to get it to work

where i went wrong was formatting the sdcard i think but i will play around and see.

(dont format the sdcard, only create the fat32 partition let "dd" do the rest.)

:good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Farahjr:
How did you bricked your phone?????? Flashing the wrong bootloader?

I would apreciate if you post the issues that you had and if you reply how exactly you got all done.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Lordmax26:
HELP

Hi man, I have the same problem with my phone when I try to flash a ROM with a different bootloader and stay dead, this SD card with the image can help me back to download mode? Where I can get an image for my AT & T i747 ? thanks :good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dreamwave:
I think this is the image you are looking for, but if it doesn't work PM me and I'll try and find another link

http://d-h.st/iEy

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I also have a guide I set up here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2660566 that is slightly easier to follow than many of the other ones, it's more of a step by step vs a conceptual how it works, hope this helps, and good luck unbricking your paperweight ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jon20usa:
After trying to flash (20+ times) using other images, creating my own image (it was a 4.4 image so that might have been the issue), Homefix's image finally worked for me.

http://rooferdave.com/Downloads/sprintsg3.html

I did need to have my USB cable plugged in to my computer (which I may not have done in previous flash attempts).

After being able to boot my phone, I discovered I had a bad "unknown" baseband (I believe due to a bad modem flash). I believe this was causing the boot issues. I flashed this via Odin and it fixed everything: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2565972
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] edderspcs:
I've been trying the Homefix fix above. I have gotten as far as having the SD card ready and Cygwin installed. I ran Cygwin and got what I think is my SD card info. Looking at this I assume it is sdb

edders@edders-HP ~

$ cat /proc/partitions

major minor #blocks name

8 0 732574584 sda

8 1 203776 sda1

8 2 710539264 sda2

8 3 17669120 sda3

8 4 4159488 sda4

8 16 15558144 sdb

8 17 15554048 sdb1

What i am stuck at now is trying to understand how to tell Cygwin to flash the homefix file. I think I have it in the Cygwin directory and I copied the commands to run it but I am getting nowhere.

edders@edders-HP ~

$ debrick_sph_l710.img HomefixSprint_S3_L710.img kitchen

-bash: debrick_sph_l710.img: command not found

edders@edders-HP ~

$ dd if=HomefixSprint_s3_L710.img of=/dev/sdb

dd: opening `HomefixSprint_s3_L710.img': No such file or directory

I'll keep working on it to see if I can figure out and check back here too.

Thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jon20usa:
/dev/sdb looks to be your sdcard.

Where is the img file that you downloaded located?

Before running dd, you need to cd (change directory) to where the img file is located. Example if img is located here: c:\temp\HomefixSprint_S3_L710.img

cd /cygdrive/c/temp/

dd if=HomefixSprint_s3_L710.img of=/dev/sdb

Alternatively, you can specify the full cygwin path to the img file in the dd if parameter (e.g. dd if=/cygdrive/c/temp/HomefixSprint_S3_L710.img of=/dev/sdb).
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] edderspcs:
Thank you. This filled in the last piece of the puzzle.

I ended up just going through 3 debrick files and Homefix finally worked. What worked for me was to just format the 16GB SD on Windows to FAT32, load the HomefixSprint_S3_L710.img on to it via Cygwin, remove SD from pc, stick battery in S3, stick sd card in S3, Vol down+ Home then power. I had to hold from about 5-7 seconds before the magical vibrate.

Thanks to everyone,
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dreamwave:
I think i know what got screwed up on my s3, I tried to look in the /persist partition, but all of the folders were empty, and of course google has no way to specify in their search the / in front :mad:, so I get a bunch of stuff about motivation, android as a keyword only comes up with errors and adb commands, so can anyone tell me what goes in there so i can fully unbrick this thing? If they could provide links, then all the better:fingers-crossed:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Lordmax26:
little help

Hi Man nice to meet you I write from Colombia, I am following your post and I need some help on how to copy the image to the sd card, I read that you need to do it from Linux but I'm not very good with this OS, could you give me some help to mount the image on my SD card?

Thanks:good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] theramsey3:
You can put the image on the sd card with http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ this program in Windows.

Good luck

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 running S3Rx MJ2 bootloader MJB modem and it is smooth
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dreamwave:
If you have access to a windows machine with a card reader, use the disk imager that I linked to, just select the file and the SD card then click write, if it hangs then just restart the computer and try again. :fingers-crossed:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Lordmax26:
Help

hello guys i have a question, this method would work if my phone can not enter download mode or turn on?? Thanks :good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jon20usa:
I was hard-bricked and could not turn on nor enter download mode and this worked for me.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Lordmax26:
Thanks for answering, if not too much trouble could you help me telling me how you did it? my model is AT&T i747
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dreamwave:
Take the at&t image and burn it to an SD card of 16gb then put it into the phone, press power, and pray to the stars that it will work
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Lordmax26:
hi thanks for answer, one last question I read that many have copied the debrick image through ubuntu, I need or can also with win32diskimager-v0.9-binary, thanks again
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jon20usa:
You can try win32diskimager. In theory, it and dd (whether via Ubuntu or Cygwin) should do the same thing.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dreamwave:
I've used nothing other than diskimager, it's not perfect at not crashing, but it does the job well if it gets enough chances:p:fingers-crossed:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Lordmax26:
Hi guys, I tell you that I have tried several times and what I do is this:

1. Copy the image with win32diskimager-v0.9-binary to my SD card

2. Insert the SD card with the image downloaded from this link http://dh.st/iEy that was recommended for my S3 i747 AT&T

3. Put the battery in my S3 and wait to enter download mode after a few seconds with no results, the I press Vol Down + Home + Power and not enter download mode

4. Try again to copy the image to the SD card and repeat but with no result

I need some advice if I'm doing something wrong, thanks

Lordm@x :confused:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dreamwave:
how long did you hold down power/dmode buttons? I've had it take more than 15 seconds at times, just make sure that you have pushed them long enough, after that send me a screenshot of partition wizard or something showing me the layout, what you may need to do is delete all partitions on the card, create a single fat32 partition and THEN flash the image.:fingers-crossed:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jon20usa:
You may need to have a USB cable plugged into your phone/computer.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dreamwave:
possibly, but I found that a wall charger is far more reliable
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Lordmax26:
Hi Dreamwave, i take more than 15 secs holding buttons and nothing, send you a screenshot. I create a fat32 partition with Wizard then flash image with Diskimager and the program creates multiple partitions on SD card and a folder named image files 79, after that insert SD card on my device following all steps.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dreamwave:
I see you have a 16gb card, do you have the 32gb phone? if you do then you need a 32gb sd card
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Lordmax26:
No man mi phone is 16 gb card
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dreamwave:
what did you flash again? What bricked your phone?

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You may also want to look into dd and give it a shot through cygwin, as so far it really just sounds like an incorrect write.

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Hold on, is it a class 10 sd card? If it's anything below class 10 it won't work.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] theramsey3:
I have used a class 4; 16gb card successfully, on the first try the three times I bricked in the first week after 4.3 OTA. Now I am significantly more cautious about what I flash.

I know for a fact you need at least a 16gb card because you are basically mimicking the boot section of the internal SD card so it writes several partitions to the card along with the boot loaders so the phone will boot to allow you into recovery.

I found that not every hardbrick is recoverable with the sd card method. I know for a fact if you flash your phone with a different models bootloader it will need a jtag. Experimenting with things(I know this is the sprint forum(now) but it still applies none the less) ; I flashed the Rogers (I747M) bootloader on an AT&T (I747) and had to get a jtag (locally it was an hour drive and cost me $50). I did notice that in Windows the windisk32 image writer doesn't always write to the sd card on the first try.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Lordmax26:
Hi man thanks for answer, my phone bricked because I tried to flash this Wicked Sensations Rom TW4.3 based on AT&T 4.3 UCUEMJ2 Stock

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2650039

I thought it was compatible with my device, I think there was an error with the bootloader and so died.

I tried this unbrick method with SD card 16 gb class 10, writing image with windisk32 several times resulting in a partition of 64mb and a folder called "image" with 79 files, after that insert SD card on my phone and hold Vol Down + Home + Power but the device not turn into download mode.

I honestly don't know what else to do, the copy of the image with DD from linux is difficult because I do not know that OS, but if someone teaches me how to do it step by step and I will be very grateful. :confused:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] theramsey3:
Lordmax26, have you tried the 4.3 debrick image in my thread?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2549068

I am going to be updating the thread soon and try to make it easier to read and Find stuff. In the second post there is a debrick image that came off of my phone there are instructions, links to programs, basically an all in one how to for noobs, I just need to make it easier to read.

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I see you did find it but I missed that you posted in that thread. Pm me I will help you as much as I can. I know a little bit about the AT&T phone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
I apologize. I had debrick images for basically every S3 variant and every firmware basically on our webserver. During this winter storm, we lost the servers and now i still and trying to repair them. We have little funds so it'll be a while before they'll be back up.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Lordmax26:
Thank you i'm going to read your post :good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dreamwave:
if you email them to me I'll upload them to my various google drives and then post the links to the public files, that might be even more secure than most others, as it's hard to imagine google getting knocked out by a storm. ;)

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What I noticed in partition wizard is that the free space + used space equaled 200mb, but the partition size was ~60mb. Can anyone explain how I got space from literally thin air?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
The Img file makes multiple partitions. I think 10.

I can't even access my images. The server cannot startup.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dreamwave:
when you get them back from the servers try and make sure to save them locally, that would be really nice to have:D:good::fingers-crossed:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
I had em locally. In theory i still do.... But HDD failures man.... I still have yet to replace my local 500GB primary storage raid. So i can't access it until i do. Oh money, why do you mock me.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Lordmax26:
Thanks

Hi Theramsey3 I did it, finally my phone is in Download mode, one last thing, I need to know which bootloader must flash with Odin, or what else should I do to revive my phone... thanks for your valuable help, I can already see a small light at the end of the tunnel LOL :laugh:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] albannotosska:
Galaxy Note

Will this method work on galaxy note? if yes can someone post a de-brick img file for N7000???
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] theramsey3:
If you were softbricked you didn't need to use a debrick SD card. It only allows access to recovery and download mode both of which are accessible when you are soft bricked.

No you cannot flash the 4.1.2 bootloader. You will hardbrick your phone by doing so...

[MENTION=5195223]Lordmax26[/MENTION] the link to the thread about debricking. If you go there it details everything you need to do start to finish to fix your phone. The only thing you should be flashing with odin on an AT&T 747 (when debricking) is the recovery if you don't have a custom recovery yet. Then after that you will be flashing everything else from the custom recovery! As far as what to flash? Whatever you want to with the exception of bootloader you HAVE TO flash the 4.3 MJB bootloader if you were on 4.3. Try either S3Rx or enewman17's return to stock thread for things to flash, both are in the development section.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
I'm pretty sure downgrading to 4.1.2 is possible by flashing the bootloader and a rom made for it in one flash. Such as Synergy or something. Or even a stock rom, they just need to be flashed during the same download. you already have a debrick card, can't go anymore wrong than it already is :D
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dreamwave:
Google model + stock Odin image
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Lordmax26:
Hi man thanks again, just one question, if I flash 4.3 bootloaders can I go back to 4.1.2? if this is so that means I can not re-flash Roms as Avatar, Synergy, etc, only 4.3 Roms?? :confused:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
I think you should be able to downgrade, just you need to overwrite the bootloader and rom at the same time with odin. you can't brick it any farther than you have, so you run no risks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dreamwave:
If you just flash a rom that doesn't need a specific bootloader, you could flash a rom running anything as source code, hell, you could run 1.1 on that thing if someone bothered with a port, the problems arize when a rom tries to flash a bootloader lower than the one you already have.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] theramsey3:
I would like it if you could send me a link with more information on downgrading bootloaders. I don't usually play in the sprint forum.

On the AT&T and Canadian s3's if you flash via Odin or recovery any bootloader older than 4.3 you get a hard brick instantly.

On AT&T there is not a stock Odin image for 4.1.2 or 4.3 because AT&T hates it's customers. And would love to go out of business. (going to be T-Mobile, sprint, or Verizon on my next phone!)

I am curious what are the major differences that allow the sprint phone downgrade but the Canadian phones and AT&T phones both hardbrick ?

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You are on an AT&T phone correct? I know 100% for a fact you cannot downgrade your boot loader, your phone will hardbrick again... You can flash any rom you want to as long as it doesn't flash a bootloader older than 4.3 you will be OK. You might get a boot loop if so reflash, factory reset and wait. If that doesn't work flash a different rom.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
as long as you've hardbricked once and the sdcard is working for recovery, you can never truely hardbrick your phone. you've already made your "oh **** i broke it" card. So now you can experiment. The way i remember doing it was we opened the phone in odin, and flashed a stock 4.1.2 rom with a bootloader and then rebooted it, the flashed CWM over and installed a custom rom. Regardless, you can't brick it any farther than you have now. however, if it stops booting from your debrick SD card, there's a good chance you've sucessfully changed the bootloader to 4.1.2 and now you need to make the 4.1.2 debrick card and try to get a rom on it. We haven't done this in ahwile as we have ended full GS3 support due to samsung being stupid. I know we can also force the 4.1.2 bootloader onto it via JTAG, but we don't publicly offer such a service.

Also unlocking the bootloader only goes for Verizon customers as verizon locks their bootloader to stop custom roms. You are looking for the old bootloader. Each bootloader has a different startup string, which is why debrick cards are not interchangeable. Give it a shot with an old bootloader, and we'll see how it works. I've never tried it, but i see a boot update in the stock roms. Could you flash a stock rom with bootloader update checked, and revert it to 4.1.2?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] theramsey3:
This I might give a shot. I didn't try it like that I simply flashed another 4.3 bootloader after I bricked.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
Idk, i've never tried it, it's hard to get a hold of the files. Also, unlocking the bootloader is easy. Idk why there's such a reward for it, lemme go grab my odin bootchain for unlocking it.

i'm afraid i'm not that helpful. I still haven't tried this myself on any customer phones, i guess i could try it. i'd have to wait till i get one to try it on.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
That could be good. Remove the 4.3 debrick and put the old derbick on the card. if it works, you've sucessfully downgraded. Now just flash a rom.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
You don't make a debrick with a rom, you use a debrick image and win32diskimage. Search your phone model and debrick image, and find the old image for it. write it to the sdcard using win32diskimage and if all is good, your phone should turn back on. If not, then I'm confuzeled.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Lordmax26:
S3 AT&T i747 Alive...!!!

Hi guys, finally after a lot of reading and a bit disturbing and ask the real experts I could bring back to life my phone SGH-i747 with 4.3 bootloaders, flashing S3Rx AT&T from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2252932.

I just want to say THANK YOU SO MUCH [MENTION=4708506]theramsey3[/MENTION] @dreamwave that helped me patiently answering all my questions with respect to unbrick, guys you are awesome, and other people whose dedication have made good contributions to learn more about our devices @-Mr. X- [MENTION=1016795]loserskater[/MENTION] @deBricker [MENTION=2300635]gTan64[/MENTION] [MENTION=812646]dstruct2k[/MENTION] [MENTION=2972841]enewman17[/MENTION]

Lordmax26 :cool::good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
A jig won't do anything. You need the image.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] albannotosska:
Samsung Galaxy Note n7000

Hey please can someone send me a debrick file for samsung galaxy note n7000? Pleaseee
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
There isn't one. This thread is titled for Qualcomm SGS3's.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] albannotosska:
Samsung Galaxy

But at least can you tell me step by step how to extract the file from a working samsung, and will this method work with Windows OS?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
You realize it's no secret. It's been said over and over in mutiple threads, it's even the very first post, it requires a rooted device to be running, and you run this line in a terminal

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

also relaize we only know GS3's boot from SDcards, that doesn't apply to Note's as they don't use the same chipset at all.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dyeezy:
Do i have a faulty EMMC?

Hello everyone,

I have been reading this thread and it definitely relates to my problem with my Rogers i747m. I bought the phone stuck in bootloop and had no clue what version bootloader/rom it was on. I odin'ed the phone to stock 4.1.1 and used the unlock method via (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2529200) which worked, I had a signal but my imei/phone status was lost and a pop up saying "Factory Test has stopped" kept showing. I attempted to put the imei back via (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1804117) with the imei from the back of the phone.

Then suddenly the phone hard bricked and i could no longer boot into anything. The phone would not vibrate/ screen would not turn on. I searched the XDA forums and found this thread which brought my hopes up. I got my class 10 32gb microsd card, formated it and put a i747m debrick image on which brought my phone back from the dead.

My current problem is that i cannot enter download mode, but instead i am in Boot recovery mode. I am unable to flash any files via the pda button, Odin says that "There is no pit partition". Ive used different cables, all my back usb ports, even my laptop, Deleted Kies, disabled firewall, and ran as administrator. I have uploaded pictures of the process here: http://imgur.com/a/290as

What my phone shows when booted with sd card loaded with debrick img:

"boot recovery mode

check boot partitions..

copy from T-flash..

boot recovery..

write 159488 sectors..

FLASH WRITE FAILURE

ODIN MODE

product name: sgh-i747m

custom binary download: no

current binary: samsung official

system status: none

QUALCOMM SECUREBOOT: Enable

WARRANTY Bit: 0

BOOTLOADER AP SWREV: 1"

I have also tried looking for i747m pit files to flash but they would not work either. I am stuck and have no clue if my phone is fixable. Im hoping its not the emmc or some other hardware issue.. Has anyone gone through this or know what would possibly fix it? Thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
Not a hard brick, Your EMMC died, your phone is permanently dead, unless you replace your emmc. This thread won't help.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] iBowToAndroid:
Is the link for the Sprint version a 4.3 debrick, or 4.1.2? Some comments saying the file didn't work on 4.3..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] iBowToAndroid:
Actually turns out I need an ICS debrick image LOLOL. It's for my brother - apparently he threw on a custom ROM right when he bought it, which was shortly after release, and has been running stock ever since.

Looks like it's JTAG for him
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
Can anyone figure out what he just said? I'm confused.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] iBowToAndroid:
What who said? Me?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
Yeah, your sentence confused me quite a bit

Side note, love the HTC Thunderbolt pic, I still have mine around here running LIQUID
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] iBowToAndroid:
Well apparently my brother just bricked his Sprint S3. I was telling him that I know about the boot-from-SD card trick, but after discussing it with him, I found out that he bought the phone shortly after release and immediately flashed a custom ROM and has been flashing ROMs since and has never taken it back to stock, which means he's still on ICS firmware. Therefore I would need a debrick image pulled from an S3 with ICS and the chances of that happening are astronomical - what are the odds there are still live, active, rooted S3s, still with ICS floating around out there..?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
Very high actually.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] iBowToAndroid:
Well if you hear of one, do please let me know :D