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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Andre4stack:
Hi guys. I have a Galaxy s3 unlocked. This morning after copying some video files from my laptop into the phone, it freezed completely . I removed the battery which was 85% charged, but when I put the battery back in, the phone refused to turn on, it couldn't go into download mode either, it seem completely dead. It couldn't charge, I changed the battery, I plugged it to my laptop as well, but still nothing. Did the phone hard bricked or what, I need help please.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] manager77:
no fastboot mode...l guess no hope for me..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] iFLASHPHONES:
bricked sprint l710 4.3

Here is what happened.....

this s3 was ota updated to 4.3

i rooted it and flashed recovery.

i accidentally flashed a 4.3 modem/bootloader. after i hit reboot system in recovery i never seen life after that.

i have a class 6 samsung 16gb sd.

i have tried multiple unbrick images for 4.3. even the l710.img.xz.

Im using win32 diskimager.

tried over 20 times writing/formating and rewriting.

nothing has worked.

everytime i try to use cygwin it says no such file or directory.

any advice helps thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nvan7891:
All you were doing was copying files? That's strange. Remove the battery, and then plug the phone into the computer. Does the led on the front light up red when you do? If you are on windows, go into the device manager and see if it's being recognised as anything like "Qualcomm modem" or similar, should appear under "Ports." If you're on linux, plug it in and type "dmesg | tail" into a console, and again, look for "Qualcomm." If not, then it might be some sort of hardware fault/power issue.

So are you saying you updated to 4.3 and then tried to downgrade? That causes a brick now, apparently. Or are you saying you flashed a 4.3 bootloader, and that bricked the phone? Is it a 32gb or a 16gb? Don't bother with cygwin, if you want to try it on linux, just download any live ISO, burn it to a disc/write it to a usb drive, and boot off of that.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] iFLASHPHONES:
The sprint s3 was OTA updated to 4.3 with the knox bootloader.

then i rooted it.

i Accidentally flashed a MD4 modem/bootloader. i think it was a modem.

i was getting status 7 when installing certain roms. ( somebody say flash this file and it should work) me being dumb i did.

then i never saw any life from it after that.

im going to try ubuntu live 13.10

it is a standard 16gb sprint l710
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Andre4stack:
The Led light does not come on even when plugged to my computer without the battery. Yes, all I did was copy files from my computer, granted my phone storage was considerably low, but it should still have about 600mb free space after adding the files from my computer.. I suspect this might be the "Sudden death" stuff.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] iFLASHPHONES:
well this motherboard is offically effed. I tired multiple times under linux and still not a sign of life.

this MOBO was working great and now its trash

if anyone thinks they can use this pm me and ill send it to your for cost of shipping

otherwise its going in the garbage.

im done loosing sleep over this

moving onto the sprint lg g2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Andre4stack:
Has anyone here tried "Micro USB Jig" does it work on a hard bricked device?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Notorious:
No it doesn't. It only works on soft bricks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Andre4stack:
Thanks. So what are my options when it comes to fixing my Hard bricked s3?
[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.)

[Edit]: I have caught my breath now. weeugh.....
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] richiemarini:
I have been going at it for 5 hours! Would you mind sharing your knowledge? I keep formatting and re-imaging, nothing. Would Sprint replace it under TEP?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Clouter:
TMO

Is there a protocol for Tmobile? I'm using a Videotron (Québec Canada) cell phone, so I need a TMobile protocol. My cell phone is totally hard bricked. Can't boot, screen is always dark night. If I remove the battery, and plug my phone to my computer, I have a red light lightning on my phone, but my computer can't recognize my cell phone. Do you know can I fix my bricked phone?!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] thenexusgeneration:
I don't understand how getting the image to write takes so long for most people. When I saved my S III, it took the first try, and then booted up fine and dandy like before the brick.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] albannotosska:
Hey please can you tell my what img file it is?? And can you send me an IMG file for Samsung Galaxy Note N7000?? Please I need your help!!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] albannotosska:
What about Galaxy Note n7000 will this procedure work? if yes can somebody send me the unbrick img file please
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Äptiva:
So like an idiot I hard bricked my wife's S3 in a similar fashion to what you guys are describing. I used the dd command a while ago and dumped my partitions individually instead of together. How would I use these individual files to create a package to do this on my variant (R530C)?

I was in the process of flashing 4.3 with Heimdall and on reboot, it hard bricked.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] robbiejobs:
I have R530C too, seems there's no one uploaded the IMG files for this variant. My S3 has been in a coma for almost 10 months now, let me know if you have the IMG please :(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] joeybrownn:
Help

Could somebody FaceTime or Skype me please to help me unbrick my galaxy s3 using this method. I don't know that much about terminal and it keeps not working because I am not putting the words in correctly, my skype is joeybrown60 and FaceTime or iMessage is joeybrown600@gmail.com
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] M.Ahtasham:
Samsung s3 gt i9300

seems my screen isnt working...like i turn on the phone and i dont get a boot animation or anything just a black screen..nothing ever shows up..also the touch screen was working when i first restarted the phone because i heard the phone unlock with the water drop sound on the lock screen...but since i restored the phone in odin (with the black screen) even when i boot into recovery and download mode its still a black screen

i have never dropped my phone nor has it ever been water damaged

so i have no idea why this happened...i was using the Facebook app and the screen just went black on me

And few hours later my phone was not getting turned on even. i dont know what happend. :(

so anyone got an idea whats wrong or how to fix it?? please help me.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ThaDoctor72:
I think you people are confused, HARD bricked means the thing doesn't power on at all, with ANY key combination. No recovery mode, no download mode, no cold boot, no NOTHING.

"Hard bricked" refers to the Sudden Death syndrome, which is what my I747 has. (Yes, North American model)

This process requires that your phone at least send an attention signal when plugged into a computer's USB, which HARD bricked phones do not.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] aceflamez:
How to do this on mac ?

Since mac and linux uses similiar terminal commands work, but idk how to identify where my sd card is?? Using terminal on mac. Also how would i carry on from there
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] deBricker:
I would suggest that you use a live CD. It can boot up on a Mac too :) just hold down the option key during the boot process and the drive options should pop up and just click on the Linux live CD.

I know UNIX and Linux are almost the same but, I don't know what would happen on Mac terminal.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] chris_sperez:
So i have the sphl 710 sprint s3 hard bricked.. phone is completely dead. I've tried this method but it doesn't seem to work can someone help me out plz and thanks tried writing the image using win 32 disk imager
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] deBricker:
What was the last boot loader did you have on it? I haven't had the Sprint S3 since I switched last year, but I'm sure if you upgraded your boot loader to the latest one and then boot loader bricked (like my s3 was) your device, you're going to need the same IMG version as your boot loader to use this method. Don't quote me on this though.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] chris_sperez:
i was running jelly bomb and then flashed imperium and thats when it bricked....bootloader a rom?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] deBricker:
[QU OTE=chris_sperez;51599969]i was running jelly bomb and then flashed imperium and thats when it bricked....bootloader a rom?[/QUOTE]

Were you on 4.3 or 4.1 before you rooted?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] chris_sperez:
4.3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] deBricker:
I was on 4.1 when I made the guide.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] chris_sperez:
so i need the 4.3 files any idea if someone has them?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] deBricker:
Google is you're friend here.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] spree43:
I also got the FLASH WRITE FAILURE message on my phone. Is it really recoverable from JTAG? I was told from a JTAG service person over email that it means the emmc flash chip has failed, and JTAG can't fix it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] chris_sperez:
:mad:

Ive tried this method same phone doesnt work im using a SAMSUNG 16gb a sd card, tried multiple times and no luck....i took it to the shop lets see if they can fix it and if not ill keep trying but do you need to conect it to the computer to work??
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] andrman1:
is this will work on i9100[s2]?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Branford:
It's been a while..

Sorry for the likely simple question, but what do I do once getting into download mode? I wrote the image to the SD and plugged into the computer, and now the screen reads

BOOT RECOVERY MODE

CHECK BOOT PARTITIONS

COPY FROM T-FLASH

BOOT RECOVERY

WRITE 159488 SECTORS

FLASH WRITE FAILURE

ODIN MODE

PRODUCT NAME: SPH-L710

CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: No

CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official

SYSTEM STATUS: NONE

QUALCOMM SECUREBOOT: ENABLE

-edit-

After reading through the thread some more it seems that this is actually download mode, but that I have no PIT partition. Doesn't look too good for my s3 as when I try to flash the 16gb pit and tar file it fails immediately due to lack of PIT
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] deBricker:
Are you flashing the appropriate TAR file for your phone via ODIN? IF you're already in DL mode, then you should be able to flash a stock ROM via ODIN.

But then again. What I had was a bootloader brick too.

Sent from the NCC-1701 E via Transwarp Comms :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Toyotech353:
This worked like a charm! Thank you!

I used a standard 16 gb micro sd card and not a class 10. I used a windows disk imager tool. I formated with fat32 and wrote the debricking image to the card with win32diskimager. it booted up on the first try. odin back to stock.

the phone was hard bricked before this. No signs of life at all. would kill the battery if left in for some reason.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] deBricker:
I have not a clue. I don't have an S2. I do have an N3 though. Lol

Sent from the NCC-1701 E via Transwarp Comms :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] pm709:
It worked..

:good::fingers-crossed::p:silly:;):highfive::laugh: It worked!! your 32gb sd image on my 16gb S3 Sprint worked; means: the size of the sd card matching the size of the internal memory is not true.. The need for a class10 sd card is not true either, (at least with this image)..Thank you..I spent 5 days with its nights and tried all of the above, I am tired..Thank you..I had to do absolutely nothing; just plug it in the computer and the whole thing came up as you said..:victory: Thanks again. I'll post step by step later just in case.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bob_ross:
I had this exact problem! All signs pointed to some sort of soft/hard brick but it was just a power button issue! After not being able to get the flashing to work this solved my problem! Banging it on the table!

Was wondering why nobody was having the same issue I was in this thread! Lucky I didn't EFFF things up further by trying to recover from an SD card. Although I did waste a huge amount of time doing all the required steps in Ubuntu only to find out my 64GB Micro SD card would not have even worked!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nvan7891:
Nice. Yeah, I'm not sure why the previous 4.3 images wouldn't work. I made mine by directly reading the addresses off the emmc with a Riff box, so maybe that had something to do with it. I have since gotten an s5, I should probably hook that sucker up eventually and make one for it.

The whole Knox thing has been a real pain. Now with the s5 and onward, it comes on there out of the box so you can't avoid it by not taking an ota. Personally, I couldn't care less about the warranty bit; with insurance, riff, and a hot air station, the most it would ever cost me to fix anything would be a 50$ insurance claim. It's just how with every update, it seems like they go out of their way to make doing even non-warranty voiding things as convoluted and frustrating as possible. Knox was just the middle finger on top of the suck-sundae. The worst by far is the new "hard brick if you try and downgrade" feature.

At least we have sprint... My roommate recently got an s4 on at&t, and had already taken the update. That thing is a freaking nightmare. From what I could tell, if you took the latest update, you are confined to only stock-based roms, and a weird "safestrap" psuedo-recovery. I haven't messed with it recently, but it was an absolute mess when I did.

Sent from your mom's flip-phone using the XDA Economy qqVGA app.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] SniperDroid:
Does anyone know if the battery will charge during a hard brick? I'm thinking it won't. I have been trying this process over and over for days. But...if the battery is dead that may explain why it's not working. I don't have any other way to charge the battery if it doesn't and, I don't have another phone to use to charge it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] deBricker:
The phone should *shoouuulldd* pull the power from the computer if its bricked.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] SniperDroid:
I think I am just S.O.L. I tried a battery from another phone with no luck. My battery powered the other phone on with 19% charge. Unfortunately, it was from a regular customers phone at work, so I was only able to try it with the image that was already on the SD card. I may just have to admit defeat and give up hope on this. :mad:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] SaveMyL710:
I have the story with you. need help.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] SaveMyL710:
After i have create the tf card with dd , i get this:

and this is the properties of the card:

is this right one?

Why the tf only show 63Mb, only used 40+M, the full img is 80MB?

I got a screen from GParted, how can i fix it to make the card like the internal card?

I am sorry for so many photots:(

Mike
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Dgsaxhitman84:
I am wondering if this will work on VirtualBox or if it needs to be booted to linux?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] wyllem:
Query

Can someone please post their terminal syntax of a device that this procedure worked

I have the right card now 16g class 10 galaxy S3 16g and depending on what operating system i use be mac linux windows or software i must be doing something wrong or if pictures to follow thru

Thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] aoldenburg83:
I have been searching for a while, but can't seem to find the right image file for 4.3. Does anyone know where this is?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] devilance:
No luck

Hello!

So I'm having no luck getting my hard bricked phone fixed after reading 60+pages.

I've tried using Cygwin and Win32DiskImager with either the OP's .img or another one a user posted.

I have a Sprint Galaxy S3 16gb. I have a 16GB Class 10 micosd.

When I plug my phone in without the battery to my PC, I just get a low/hard "dun dun" noise.

If I take out the battery I get no sounds but the Red LED is lit on the phone. If I try to insert the SD card with the img on it and press the Down Volume+Home+Power, I get the low 'dun dun' sound a few times and the LED turns off. (I've tried all combinations with or without the battery in ,sd ,cable ,etc)

I retried loading the .img multiple times but im getting no where so it seems.

This hard bricked started when I tried to unlock my bootloader or loading Hyperdrive RLS16 S3, I don't remember.

Anyone have some input on what I might be doing wrong? Thanks in advance!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dochummer:
Sprint S3 with KitKat 4.4.4 (CRom v7.1)

I had my S3 rooted with C-Rom v7 KitKat 4.4.4. I tried installing a different kernel at lunch today and it bricked my phone. No power, only LED when plugged in without battery. Is it possible to use the 4.3 bootloader as a fix? Or do I need a 4.4.x? If I need a 4.4.x, does it have to be 4.4.4? My wife has the GS3 also, not rooted, running 4.4.2, is there a way to pull the boot information off to make the image that I would need to try to recovery my phone? I've searched for 4.4.x boot images, but haven't found anything, so that's why I'm asking now. If there is an answer that I missed, feel free to point me in the right direction. Thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] roirraW "edor" ehT:
As far as my understanding of this process, which is limited and I haven't had to try it, you use the version that matches whatever most recent official TouchWiz bootloader you already have on your phone, which is separate from the version of Android. Do you know what version you had?

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dochummer:
Hmmm... I can't find the answer to that. I tried posting in the C-Rom forum, but it won't let me because I'm new to the forums... Anybody know?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] roirraW "edor" ehT:
No one would be able to tell you. It isn't flashed with a ROM. What's the last stock TouchWiz version you took an OTA or Odined to?

MK3/4.3, MD4/4.1.2, etc.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dochummer:
I originally odined with this "L710VPUCND8_L710SPRCND8_L710VPUCND8_HOME.tar.md5" file. Which is the stock 4.4.2 rom, then rooted with philz_touch_6.41.6-d2lte.tar.md5. After that, I flashed C-RoM-KK-v7.1-20140622-d2lte.

So, it would be the stock touchwiz 4.4.2? Because C-Rom shouldn't touch 4.4.2? Sorry, I'm in new territory here... I was happy with M.O.A.R. until I noticed everyone who had upgraded to ND8 was getting better signal quality in my area....or so I thought...

Looking at what I did earlier.. Looks like I was an idiot and tried installing a i9300 bootloader on my sprint GS3... That's what I get for trying to rush through things.... didn't think to double check what I was doing... arghh...

I found a ND8/KitKat Debrick image and tried that... but no luck.. Still won't boot up...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] roirraW "edor" ehT:
It may be bricked beyond this method, then.

Have you tried taking and leaving the battery out for a good hour or overnight? I don't have too much hope for it but this has helped sometimes. Then try to go direct into Download mode.

If it goes, re-Odin the stock ND8 tar that you mentioned in your first sentence. Do not try Odining anything else. If that succeeds, then re-Odin Philz and either re-root it with Philz or restore your backup.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dochummer:
Thanks for your help. I just tried leaving the battery out for an hour with no luck... I guess I'll start looking for a used replacement.. :(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] roirraW "edor" ehT:
You can try sending to, I think it is MobileTechVideos.COM to see if they can fix it.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dochummer:
I ended up getting a replacement through Sprint. Phone still doesn't work...:(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] roirraW "edor" ehT:
Thanks for the update. You could sell it on eBay for parts.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] devintraining67:
I have a Samsung galaxy rush running 4.1.2 jelly bean. It has been soft bricked it is stuck in a boot loop and will only show the. Samsung logo and a yellow triangle. I've tried restoring it through Odin and CWM but nothing has changed. So some help please? I've done all I know to and gotten no where.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Benjiyk:
i dont understand the code

What is terminal? Is it something like cmd on Windows? How should I begin with the code..

I need help
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] deBricker:
Um... Pretty sure I said that I did this on Ubuntu... Gotta read.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Benjiyk:
can u help me with the code command on windows 7 pls
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] deBricker:
...uhhh I don't know how to do this on Win7. I don't mess with Win7 unless I have to for games.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Saqib Mushtaq 74:
i747 m 4.4.2 debrick help

it would be good if u upload a 4.4.2 stock debrick file for i747m rogers thanks in advance
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] deBricker:
I wish I could, but I can't. I only put this up specifically for the Sprint SGS3, I don't know anything but about the Rogers i747 because I don't have that device and it's also a GSM phone. I don't have the SGS3 anymore and I really can't keep up with XDA anymore since I'm working 0500 to 1800 5 to 6 days a week, Sorry.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] TheKryptonite:
If you're using Windows 7, all you need to do is write the debrick image to your SD card via Win32 Disk Imager, plug it into your SD card, and turn your phone on.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] !Led*Eyes!:
Method + JIG = SUCCESS (finally)

I found out after a successful Unbricking earlier that it doesnt matter which debrick.img you use. After trying many different combo's of 1st the battery then the SD now the USB cable..... 1st the SD, Now the battery then the USB etc...I was actually in the process of downloading the ND8 .img when I decided to run the script one more time with the original Debrick.img file from the OP and SUCCESS!! I am on ND8 and it brought me back from the dead with vigor! The method I used was only slightly different in that after writing to the SD card ( in Ubuntu 14) I actually put the SD card in first then I put in my USB jig (I was getting nowhere with the cable). with the jig and SD in place, I popped in the battery and voila. I realize most people prob don't have a jig handy but it makes things so so so much easier without all the button pressing and being wired into the computer... Hope this helped somebody