yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
You aren't doing it right... You need to flash a stock rom with a pit file to fix the bootloader once the phone is booting into download mode, if you are ending up in boot recovery, well you did it wrong.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ErickRoman:
Does anyone have a SCH-S960L image? Will gladly provide payment
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Veseli:
Thanks a milionnnnnnnn!!!!

It really works!!!!

Att gs3...

and it worked only when I used 16gb micro sd! All previous attempts with 8GB were unsuccessful!!!!

THANK YOU
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Darian71:
Ok guys, I have the AT&T i747 variant.Downloaded the unbrick.img for it, in root on Ubuntu 12.04 i typed: dd if={dragged my debrick.img onto ternminal} of/dev/sdb -(which was my 7,90GB sd card). it took about 1.9s most of the time to supposedly write anwhere from the first time i did it at 79MB to the last attempt out of several at 18MB, But the only result im getting is a blank sd card. Its erasing the entire sd card but writing nothing to it. I have to put the sd card back into a useable phone(my cappy) just to format it so it can even be used again. I tried the same with the SPRINT debrick.img just for the heck of it and same result.Any ideas why i am not getting the debrick.img to write to the sd?:confused:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
It makes almost 10 partitions, only one is readable by the OS if i'm not mistaken. You are Imaging it correctly, but to be sure, enter fdisk and wipe all partitions prior to flashing

also 1.9s? should take longer than that to write, make sure using dmesg | tail that you are imaging the right drive
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] MistaKiula:
Hello everyone,

I just got Ubuntu installed on my laptop which I'm using to partition my SD card. Using dmesg|tail, I don't see a drive letter following the letters "sd". What I do see is "mmcblk0" of that variant. Is this the correct command to partition my SD card (for i747)?

dd if='/home/Me/Desktop/debrick.img' of=/dev/mmcblk0
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Darian71:
Ok,. Thanks. I also just read the post above this one where the 8GB card was unsucessful, so guess i better go out and buy a 16 just to be sure.:good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] MistaKiula:
Instead of using the Linux terminal, I repartitioned my SD card on windows using EaseUS and used win32diskimager to put the image file into the SD card. However, it's still not working. Can someone confirm that the SD card looks like the following after the Write process?

[SD CARD ROOT]

- image

- - dsps.b00

- - dsps.b01

- - dsps.b02, ... etc
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
Lol, thought you woulda noticed the other posts. You HAVE TO use one with the same size as internal storage, preferably class 10
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Darian71:
WOO HOO! 16GB CLASS 10 SD CARD DID THE TRICK! I had to write tue debrick.img 2x but with battery installed , I inserted my SD card., held down home/volume down/ power and there was my option screen to volume up into download mode or volume down to reboot normally. Well, since my laptop decided it suddenly wanted to upgrade 143 items , I got impatient and just volume down and my phone rebooted to the kernel splash screen that bricked my phone in the first place. (KTi747 Dominator) was the kernel i flashed incase anyone wants to know. But to my surprise it booted right up normally and is running just as sweet as ever! Thank you guy's sooooo much! I have a pantech flex I am going to try and do the samething with. Hardbricked it by flashing a ROM called Flex for a tablet. Lol. Will definitely be donating to your cause for fixing my phone asap! God Bless all involved !:):):)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] VonSmitherski:
Still tryin...Still...Tryin....

Well,

Here's my 'Brick' story :laugh:

I had been flashing ROM's to and from 4.0 - 4.3 (Androd version) without a problem.

Liquid put out their 4.3 ROM and, well - that's when things got interesting. I was running into the status 7 error.

To my dismay, the bootloader I had was an older version which needed to be updated (i747m). Found the OP for the Bootloader updates and got

CWM ready.

Which one did I download? - Which one did I end up flashing? - the i747 DMG2 bootloader. :eek:

Flashed fine, nothing seemed to be wrong, CWM didn't throw a tantrum. Phone did though.

Got the QHSUSB_DLOAD (...9008) Ol' thing going on. I've been trying this method for about a week now; Linux and Winsnoz (using RoadKil's Image Flasher) and the i747m image found here - no luch yet but I'm kinda thinking this method probably won;'t work for me now. LOL
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Darian71:
[MENTION=5455554]VonSmitherski[/MENTION]...can you put your 16GB class 10 in another phone and open it to see what's on it? I used Ubuntu 12.04 installed alongside my windows 7 with wubi.exe. following The directions in this forum I sudo su,to gain root access,dmesg|tail,and made sure my SD was labeled SDB or SDC,then after typing dd of=, I left clicked my debrick.img onto The terminal window I was using then typed of=/dev/sdb.(which was The letter assigned to my 16GB card,which actually read 15.xxx and sit back and waited. Took like a whole 5-20 seconds depending on PC speed. Unplugged the phone I was using to store Tue SD card in and safely removed it. Inserted it into my GS3 ,plugged my power cord in,pushed the combination home ,volume,power buttons and wah lah! Just thought ID briefly describe my version of success. Any questions just give me a holler.:)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] VonSmitherski:
Flashing
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Darian71:
Yes sir I will. Wish I had read your reply about an hour ago. Because I've been trying to duplicate the debricking for my Pantech flex. But everytime I write the recovery. IMG to the SD card using an old LG phone, it doesn't allow anymore writing even when I format it using Ubuntu. So I end up putting the SD card into an old Captivate and when it says "blank SD card" I click format and it makes the SD card use able again. Then I place it back into the LG(because the charging port on the Captivate quit) and pull up the 16GB card on Ubuntu, open it, and send to trash all the empty file folders written on it. Then I simply run the write from the debricking.img for my S3 and after around 30s this last time it copied. But I'll have to reproduce the results and sent you the results later. Can't remember exactly what it said
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] VonSmitherski:
Flashing

What I noticed this morning when I attempted to re-flash this morning using Mint is that the LG (I'm using a P690b for this, rooted and flashed to the Jelly Cream ROM) shows up but the releated HW doesn't show (i.e in this instance - the SD card) - even using the dmesg | tail line - Though again, this could be something with Mint itself not having the specifc 'lib' files which Ubuntu has. When I ran into the 'Blank SD' issue on linux (Mint) when flashing the SD, even the 'sudo fdisk' line wouldn't recognize the card - said that it it wasn't found and the 'sudo dmesg | tail' line said it wasn't supported (or of the sort). Eventually booted back into windows and formatted the card again - I will note as well that when I did that, EaseUS didn't display any partitions or a 'GPT' partition type - just 'unformatted'

The SD card, I will mention, comes up as mmcblk0p1 in the dmesg log - I'm curious to see if Ubuntu will give same results - though using the card on mmcblk0p1 doesn't seem to affect using the 'fdisk' and 'dd' commands (when used with an adapter and the internal card reader) - though flashing from this, as I mentioned in the previous posts, doesn't seem to do much, at least on Mint anyways (I'm almost tempted to whip out my Backtrack and try that too hahahaha)

More results to come in the morning though.:)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Darian71:
Man, everything looks very similar to what my results were after writing. Mine actually created 14 partitions of sdb. According to the dmesg|tail output. They were labeled sdb1-sdb14. I'm sort of a newbie, especially to the Linux/Ubuntu command lines so hopefully someone else in this thread can spot something I don't see. But it looks like you had a successful write to me. I will add though, when I plugged my phone into the Pc after inserting my written SD card, the moment I hit power the charging battery display lit up and the phone vibrated letting me know she was alive before I ever pushed the other keys.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] MistaKiula:
[MENTION=5455554]VonSmitherski[/MENTION], for your i747 attempts, what if you try to write to mmcblk0 instead of mmcblk0p1? Not too familiar with SD card partitions, but I'm assuming that is the root of the SD card, which I've read somewhere is where you want to write to.

EIther way, what you're doing to the i747 is what I've been doing with my phone (both writing to mmcblk0p1 and mmcblk0) and I've yet to be successful with it. Perhaps in your attempt with the suggestion above you'll get it to work.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] krameynb:
Awesome! Any chance you could post the image you used? I tried the i747m one posted earlier and the link was broken. I have a Rogers i747m paperweight right now after flashing the i747 boot image for the leaked 4.3 rom!

Thanks in advance!

Nevermind, I flipped back a few pages and found it. Never been so happy to download a file before. Only problem I ran into was Roadkil's utility kept throwing error #5 sector 8192. After a bit of digging I found a little proggie called lock dismount, which did the trick and let the image rip through to a 16GB class 4 that I had laying around. Stuck it in and like Lazarus, back from the dead and into doownload mode. Odin is putting stock, root injected back on as I write this. Now just have to find a better ROM until stock 4.3 comes out. You guys are Gods amongst men! Thanks a million for all the input that allowed my third s3 to have a new life! Love droids, and the community!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] chris734:
how to build img boot for other product ?

Sorry for my verry bad English, i have a newman N2 (freelander/xtreamer joyz is other name product). This mobil is one copy of samsung S3 (exynos 4412).

I have breaking my bootloader, and i think that is possible to recovery with your img boot. But how build my boot img ?

Please, help me. :crying:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
I'd Love to help, But if yours is a Exynos Copy, This doesn't apply to your phone, This is for Qualcomm variants(Snappy's) Not the ARM Exynos's. Sorry.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] VonSmitherski:
I've attempted dd'ing the image to what, logically, is the root 'mmcblk0' but It doesn't seem to want to take - even as root user / sudo.

It says that there's no device - which is complete bollocks. I'll have to try it again just to be sure I'm not missing something though

Again, That you ALL for everything!

(No JTAG yet boys n' girls, no JTAG yet)

:highfive:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Webb1023:
i have a i747m that got hard -bricked , due to me installing an app that was for some asus Eee pad transformer bull sh**..i didnt realize this until my phone got hard bricked.. I went to install a kernel and it asked for SuperSu access , I remember it saying something about "app not in manifest or something like that..I granted it access and BOOM !! my phone got bricked...God am stupid.( smh)

I read the post and writed the debrick.img for i747m that was given earlier on a 8gb sd card using linux (ubuntu 12.XXX),but to no success.

I dont live in the US to get JTAG service ,so am asking for you guys to help me out.

I'm also willing to pay through paypal to get my phone back.

This is my first android device and i love it and want to get it back..

Please help if you can...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] VonSmitherski:
I'm not certain of the results from these guys but they've numerous videos with in-depth JTAG tutorials - http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/ - They may even feature your device for repairs - Other than that I would scour eBay.

I believe this thread was started in attempts to bypass JTAG'ing.

Cheers mate

Edit: Depending on your location, assuming your in Canada (i747m), there's also a few services in Ontario who might be ableto help - Hop onto kijiji.ca and search away
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Webb1023:
Am in the caribbean..and thats why i cant get jtag service.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] chris734:
thank you for your response
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] VonSmitherski:
I think I may have found our problem with the i747m image. Attempting to clone
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
does the i747m have 8gb internal storage? or 16, if it's 16, you have to use a 16gb sdcard. :P
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] VonSmitherski:
Attached is what is coming up after cloning the i747m image.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Webb1023:
The phone is a 16GB Model, the MicroSd card is a 8gb..does the sd card has to be a class 10??

And what do you guys use to write the debrick image?? I've been seeing something called

gpart

, what is this?? and can i use roadkill to write the image?

Thanks in advance...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
Hi, Write the image with this tool

http://angelfirenetworks.servegame.com/XDA/Tool/DiskImageRev2.exe

also I have only tested a Class 10 micro sd, if you have a 16gb model, you HAVE TO use a 16gb microSD, not an 8
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] VonSmitherski:
Flashing

Gparted is a Ubuntu (linux) tool. It will allow you to preform the same functions as fdisk (Linux) in respect to managing partitions, in this case the SD card.

In order to write to the SD card using linux, however - you need to use the "sudo dd if=/media/download/debrick.img" and "of=/ " command on the root of the SD card (in my experience this would be mmcblk0 - partitions are generally labeled as p1,p2,p3, etc)

for the dd command - after "sudo dd if=" woul would be able to drag and drop the .img file onto the terminal - be sure to delete the comma's that are at the beginning and end though. - The "of=/" line would be your SD card (remember to check "sudo dmesg | tail" to find this - and be careful not to overwrite your HDD)

RoadKil is amoung the many of Image Flashers for Windows, yes you can use this. In my experience it throws an error at the end of the write though

For Windows (Image Writing) I would recommend win32imagewriter found here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/

for partition tools there are two I would recommend - EaseUS and PartitionGURU - I prefer PartitionGURU as this allows full read-outs of the device's partitions up to and including cluster size. (you can find this using torrents - I advise you use the portable edition) and it also lets you add files to any parititon as well. Excellent program all around.

You need to make sure that your SD card IS the size of your internal memory and a class 10 - this allows for better compression rates and support for the EXT 3/4 and FAT 16 partition types ( at least that's what I understand it as)

So, in your case, it's recommended you get yourself a 16GB Class 10 SD card - 8GB's at Class 6 doesn't have much success, plus with the partitions after write - there's a HUGH 'User Data" chunk that's 12GB ( refer to the screenshot in my previous post) - kinda gives you a little more discription of what's actually being written to your card in the process.:eek:

Cheers!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Webb1023:
Thank you both for the information @ VonSmitherski and @ GeTex, will try to get a 16gb class 10..One last question..whats the purpose of the partion tools you outlined (EaseUS and PartitionGURU ) [MENTION=5217870]vonsmith[/MENTION]erski ?? i thought you just write the image to the sd card and thats it?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] VonSmitherski:
I usually use the partition tools just to make sure the image is formatted correctly. In the case of the i747m .img found in this thread and all the other, they're set up to the specifics of the boot sequence of the MSM8960.

It boots from 1 - 23; In the picture above, Partition (0) would be the 'modem' (supposed to be (1) in the sequence) and 22 (is technically 23) would be 'grow'

It's just to double check your work as you go along

Edit: PartitionGURU is also able to open an .img file so that you can view it and add files as well- See attached picture for reference - For more about the inner-workings of the MSM8960 chipset and related SoC's - I'd head over to this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1856327 and just bury yourself in it for a day or so, that's what I did and I'm piecing thing's together as I go along.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
Damn Von, you really are diggin in there
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Webb1023:
:laugh:lol, for real...thanks alot though..I'll update you guys if I got it to work...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
I'll continue to host files and help
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] rotativo08:
Thanks guys, I fixed my fully bricked (dead) AT&T S3

After flashing a Galaxy S4 ROM by mistake... the phone was fully dead and after trying these step is back working.. Thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Balthasar85:
how do I create a debrick image for Samsung Relay?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hardbrickedgalaxys3:
Help

My galaxy s3 is hardricked and I need a step-by-step guide of how to unbrick it WITHOUT JTAG SERVICIES.

What I have :

-Samsung Galaxy S® III (AT&T), Marble White (SGH-I747RWBATT) ~hardbricked~

-SanDisk Ultra 16 GB microSDHC Class 10 UHS-1 Memory Card

-Sandisk MicroSD adapter

-Windows 8 PC

-USB Cabel
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Shels:
Hey I've been trying to follow what you've been saying, it's going over my head lol. I tried just flashing the img onto the card using your recommended program. I still can't get it to work and the card is now showing as a 66mb sd instead of the 16gb. I just downloaded partionguru free and am gonna try using that to format the sd card. Would you be able to tell me where I'm going wrong? I've got a 16gb i1747m and a 16gb micro sd class 10. Both win32diskmanger and partionGuru and the debrick.img file that was on here a few pages back.Your help would be greatly appreaciated.

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Hopefully you'll be willing to help me as well, I'm in the same boat as I've outlined my situation above, any and all help would be greatly appreciated.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] envoys:
That's right...you will only see the 1 partition on the SD card thats accessible.

On a side note, I am in the same boat as you....i have a Fido i747m, accidentally ran ezunlock for bootloader unlock as i didn't realize I was using my Fido phone instead of the Verizon one of a friend...was in a rush, now nothing comes on, created SD card, can't get it to boot to download mode but dmesg under linux everytime when trying to get into download mode shows "qualcomm usb modem converter detected...qualcomm usb modem converter now attached...qualcomm usb modem converter disconnected." this is while holding the 3 buttons down, if i just leave it, it stays connected...

any help would be appreciated...anyone have a fido i747m that can make a debrick image?

EDIT:

OK Very weird, i bought a brand new 16gb class 10 card that i was using before...wouldn't work.

I had a spare 64gb class 10 kicking around and for ****s and giggles flashed the i747m debrick file a few pages back and the damn thing booted up into download mode...so even though the phone is 16gb, a 64gb card worked fine...currently flashing with ODIN so we'll see what happens.

EDIT AGAIN:

Back in business! Thanks for all the hard word everyone has done with this!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
hmmm, Mind posting the EXACT card you used? It's possible larger cards may work as long as the image is perfectly replicated
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Shels:
Hey congrats, could you tell me exactly what you did or the process? I must be missing something, PM me or something at least lol but we all could use the help. I have a 32gb class 4 that I don't mind formatting for the cause. Please tell me exactly what to do lol.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] envoys:
It was a 64gb class 10 kingston card, mfg part # SDCX10/64GB.

All i did was the process explained before.

I used Ubuntu to dd the debrick.img file to the sd card.

I believe just sudo dd if=debrick.img of=/dev/mmcblck0

the debrick.img i used was from the i747m that was posted a few pages back.

Once DD was done, I put the card in the phone and put the battery in with phone connected to the PC and did the normal way of getting to download mode, it booted right away, no need to try again. Simply HOME VOL DOWN POWER for about 3 seconds.

Hope this can be of assistance.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] matrixzone:
Just came across this post, will be handy if I did something foolish
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] coolarun1980:
Hard bricket my at&t sky rocket.. plz help

Hi

I hard bricked my sky rocket after putting micro sd card with ext4 format. There is no sign of life in phone. Can you please

Can you please help me by providing a step-by-step guide of how to unbrick it WITHOUT JTAG SERVICIES.

What I have :

-Samsung Galaxy S® II (AT&T), - Sky rocket SGH-I727 ~hardbricked~

-SanDisk Ultra 16 GB microSDHC Class 10 UHS-1 Memory Card or 32 gb class 10 card, or 4gb or 8 gb card

-Sandisk MicroSD adapter

-Windows 7/xp PC

-USB Cabel
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] joyeuxmort:
SGH-I747 4.3 img debrick

Sooooo, I bricked my phone trying to switch back from the official Samsung 4.3 update to Cyanogenmod 10.2 M1. I've been searching the net and fourms trying to find out what to do and stumbled upon this method of unbricking. But after doing some more research it appears that I need an debrick img file from a I-747 phone that is also running 4.3. Anyone willing to post one for me? Or lead me in the right direction to find one? I'd be very very thankful.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] SuperFilapo:
I'm in the same boat, have you had any luck?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] joyeuxmort:
No, I just ended up going to the local AT&T service center and getting it replaced. It was out of warranty by like two or three weeks, but with some puppy eyes and nice manners I was able to get them to replace it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] SuperFilapo:
Looks like I'll have to do the same...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] frohyu:
Thanks bro, this totally works on Windows 7, awesome method, saved a few bucks

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Watch this Youtube video "Unbrick Hard Bricked Samsung Galaxy S 3 on Verizon - PART 2", just remeber to try to enter download mode without the phone being plugged to the PC. Works on Windows 7 also!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dave74x:
I need a debrick image from a Sprint GS3 running android 4.3 as I bricked mine tring to downgrade. Anyone please?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] iMackshun:
AT&T 4.3 OTA Debrick File :DD

Here is that file you requested. It is the debrick file from a healthy i747 running the latest OTA update. I used it to successfully boot into download mode. :D Good luck.(I almost lost hope when I somehow hard bricked my phone. xD)

Send me a PM for the link, as I am a new user.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] theramsey3:
Please delete
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] unh1nged:
Mine was hard bricked. Black screen. No download mode. Nothing.

I used a 32gb sdcard. Everything worked perfect so as to allow Download mode, allowing Odin to flash. I successfully flashed the new MJB firmware using Odin.

The problem now is that unless I have the rescue sdcard in, it reverts back to bricked state. If I remove the battery and pop it back in, it allows download mode, and I can even boot the phone and use it. I can remove the sd after booting, and pop another one in. However it won't allow me to complete Odin flashes without putting the debrick sdcard back in prior to selecting "Start". If I don't, the flash FAILs.

It seems that the bootloader is still corrupted/damaged, and the debrick sdcard subs in as the functioning bootloader.

I've tried using boatloader zips in twrp recovery, and it says "Successful". But it doesn't fix it.

Is there a way to force a rebuild/restore of the bootloader using adb maybe?