yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] XxTeXx07xX:
IT WORKS !!!!!!!!!

I hard bricked my GS3 SPH-L710. I am new to rooting and flashing. I was flashing and hard bricked my phone. I found this thread and I wanna tell all who came up with this and contributed THANK YOU! Saved my phone. I had problems following this guide alil bit. Im not familiar with linux or even with terminal windows period. I found an easier way to do this and though i would share how i went about getting this to work for those who also dont know anything about LINUX and terminal windows. I downloaded Win32Diskimager to write the debrick.img.xz file onto my 16gb sdcard. My sdcard is a SANDISK. All i did was download and install WinDiskImager and open. Put my 16gb Sandisk card into reader and selected debrick.img.xz, select correct drive (USED USB CARD READER/WRITER) and click WRITE. Only took a min or two. YES i did repeat this process about 3 different times. Reformating the sd card each time. Put battery in loaded sd card and pluged into computer and IT WORKED! Thank you again VERY VERY MUCH !!!! YOU ARE A LIFE SAVER!! I would have not been able to repair or buy a new phone what so ever. I am very poor at the moment :D
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] gsp673:
I am still unable to get this method to work for my device. One thing I noticed after reading the last post and attempting to format the SD card is that it only says it has 63.9 MB of total capacity. I think that this may be a problem but I don't know if it's common. Any assistance with this is appreciated.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] robbiejobs:
Looking for Cricket S3 ( SCH - R530C ) Owner to dump the partition, My S3 have been in a coma for almost 5 months :(

Pleaseee :(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] XxTeXx07xX:
it works!

Use SDformat for windows. Thats what I use. Let me kno if you get I will help you as much as possible. It def works. Make sure you use Win32imager to write it to ur sd. Has to be a 16gb
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] styles420:
I think that's due to the fact that flashing the recovery image includes the creation of multiple partitions, only the first of which is visible - that first partition appears to be about 64 mb
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] counterfeit187:
Could one of these be made with the 4.3 aboot? I'm having a hard time with unbricking after screwing around with the mk3 update and trying to get back to md4. I currently have a hardbricked device, that I saved once before with this sd boot
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dragonhart6505:
S960L DEBRICK B*7¢43$
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] thenexusgeneration:
Could anyone pull the debrick image from a working (rooted, obviously) SPH-L710 Sprint S III running the MK3 official OTA for me? Been hard bricked for a few days, and tried different debrick images, but I found somewhere that the KNOX bootloader has to be involved because I believe that my bootloader is corrupted. If anyone wants to be my personal savior, then go ahead and save my lovely phone :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] paywole:
After getting to the download mode can i still flash with a CUSTOM rom and not use a STOCK rom.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dravidn125:
Bricked if SD card removed. No ODIN

I was sucessfully able to revive the S3 from AT&T (I747) using the 16GB Class 10 micro SD card. Thank you.

I did not have a windows computer to use ODIN so I just heimdall. Now the problem is, once I remove the SD card, it is bricked again.

What does ODIN do as the last step to copy over the external sd card partitions to internal sd card.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] XxTeXx07xX:
have to unroot

You must return to everything stock and start over. Return to stock and boot without sdcard. Re-root
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] paywole:
i9300 image pls

pls am finding it hard to gt the image from a working i9300 pls if there anyone with it should please give me a link to get it also is it a must i flash it wit a STOCK rom or CUSTOM rom because i would like to flash it with a custom rom:cool:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dragonhart6505:
Ok I have the bootloader image for my phone (S960L) but keep getting Unsupport_dev type when trying to load it through odin. Any suggestions?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dravidn125:
No, you don't have to. I found a way to do it and it is described here. I retained my root and was able to get rid of the sdcard and did not have use ODIN.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=48059642#post48059642
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] stopeject:
My story is a bit different- I didn't brick the phone, it was working for at least 2 months after the last flash. One day it started to turn off by itself. After doing it a couple of times it shut down for good, completely dead, no charging light, no reaction to button presses. With SD card the phone started, but I can't reflash it from ODIN.

This is what I see on the phone:

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

This is what I see in ODIN:

<OSM> Leave CS..

<ID:0/003> Odin v.3 engine (ID:3)..

<ID:0/003> File analysis..

<ID:0/003> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/003> Initialzation..

<ID:0/003> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/003>

<ID:0/003>

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

<ID:0/003> Removed!!

Maybe I can't boot into the download mode correctly? The phone starts the same when I power on with just a power button or VolDown+Home+Power.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dragonhart6505:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=48140242 for S960L Unbrick. File is on the previous page. Thanks to shabbypenguin
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] tomuchrunning:
SD Card

does the card have to be speed of 10 or will 4 work?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] arabindaghosh1996:
Does't power on the mobile.

I am using samsung galaxy s7562. I also tried this way to repair boot but failed. No response from the phone. I downloaded the debrick....tar.xz but can't extra the file with 7z software. Please help me to go boot into download mode on the android mobile. Thanks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] zartarr26:
How do I downstall Cygwin Terminal?

because I downloaded Cygwin and when I type "cat proc/partitions"

after the $ sign I just get

no such file or directory..

I am so confused - plz help someone
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] wwjoshdew:
After reading page after page, and not having success... I'm starting to think my Step-Mom's S3 has a different issue...

It WILL try to start up, but then turns back off. Download mode only stays there for a brief second. I'm not sure what's going on.

http://youtu.be/yxkXYDQVc9U

[YOUTUBE]yxkXYDQVc9U[/YOUTUBE]

[MENTION=4625732]deBricker[/MENTION] [MENTION=4169204]edfunkycold[/MENTION] [MENTION=4645794]CNexus[/MENTION] [MENTION=4428718]billard412[/MENTION] [MENTION=2300635]gTan64[/MENTION] - Any ideas?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
Sorry to say, looks like SDS to me but I'll be interested in what [MENTION=4169204]edfunkycold[/MENTION] and [MENTION=4645794]CNexus[/MENTION] have to say.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] wwjoshdew:
[MENTION=4428718]billard412[/MENTION] - I'm on the verizon s3 freenote, that's what I was told to join on twitter. Several people like invisiblek, noobnl, and others are trying to help.

UPDATE - I GOT IT WORKING WITH A HAMMER... No joke! - http://instagram.com/p/iMpYgjj1Yp/
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] AWildColin:
So far, no luck

Not knowing better and being extremely exhausted, I accidentally flashed an image for a Galaxy S and bricked my S3. I already had a 16GB class 10 SD card laying around. Unfortunately, I have not had any luck getting into download mode with this method. I've written the debrick .img file to the SD card multiple times in both Linux (Arch Linux and Ubuntu) and Windows (7), using dd in Linux and Cygwin and Win32 Disk Imager on Windows.

Every time I insert the SD card, put the battery in the phone, and hold Volume Down, Home, Power, nothing happens. I know it's trying to boot because if I take out the battery and plug in the phone to a computer, the red LED light comes on. It goes off about four seconds after I've put in the battery and held the download mode key combo down. I've also been tail -f'ing /var/log/kernel.log and can see that it is not being mounted via qcserial anymore once the light goes away. Pulling the SD card resets this and it continues to be available after putting it back in.

I ordered another class 10 SD card -- this time a 32GB one. I've tried writing the image to the SD card using two different computers across three different operating systems with no visible luck. A new card will rule out that it being a card or miniSD to SD adapter issue.

In a last ditch effort, does anyone know if it is possible to use qdload.pl to access the QDL interface that qcserial is aware of and upload whatever files need to be uploaded to fix this?

I'll update this after the new card arrives (none of the stores around here had a class 10 in stock), which should be Monday.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jrunner714:
Does anyone have the firmware actually downloaded you could possibly send so I could download cause Ive been trying to download the firmwares and they keep coming up failed - download error please cause its really annoying and question when you put the SD card into your bricked phone and plugged it into the USB on your computer would the red light come on only or would the screen actually turn on? Because the couple of times doing this the red light would come on and I tried to put it into download mode and it connected to my computer and the the light turned off I repeated it again with ODIN program opened and it connected but the screen doesnt turn on is that how it works or am I doing something wrong? Please Ive been reading and trying to find more info but I couldn't find anything but thank you if you could help :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] XxTeXx07xX:
Re-write the img to ur sd again and again till it works. Formatt sd each time. Same thing kept happenin to me. I followed the instructions. You have to repeat the process a few times. Thats exactly what mine did and after a few trys it just magically booted. I kno it a pain but u have to formatt n tru again. It does work promise lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] AWildColin:
Out of curiosity, how many times did it take for it to work? I've written the image and tried booting probably two dozen times to far without any success.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] XxTeXx07xX:
questions....

Wow not tht many. You on windows? Wht are u using to write the image to ur ext sdcard? Are you formatting? 16gb sd right? I used regular scandisc
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] AWildColin:
No, 64-bit Arch Linux.

dd.

ext# is a filesystem, not a partition table so it doesn't matter what filesystem is on the SD card before writing an image to it.

Yes, I am. I keep using gparted to change the partition table from gpt to msdos before installing to my 16GB class 10 SD card. The phone is a, as far as I know, 16GB model.

I plan to try again with the 32GB SD card again next week.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] XxTeXx07xX:
I was referring to external sd. I did it with very simple tools. Its really not complicated. Win32discimager and sdformatter. Very basic and simple tools

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Dunno if it made the difference but my phone stayed connected to my computer... Tried pulling battery putting sd in and also leave battery in insert sd card... The led was lighting up both ways and after a few tried it booted by surprise. I hope u the best
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] AWildColin:
That is exactly what I used when I tried on one of my other computers running Windows 7. At least a half dozen times.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] AWildColin:
Thought I'd follow up with this. I was unable to unbrick this phone using the 32GB class 10 micro SD card either. I've tried both the 32GB and 16GB cards (both class 10) in multiple computers, written the image to them multiple times with different software and SD card adapters with no results.

Fortunately, I already have a S3 with a cracked digitzer and managed to brick the replacement I bought. I'll be able to swap the circuit board in the bricked phone into the phone with the cracked digitizer and the circuit board in the working phone into the phone with an undamaged screen.

If anyone would like the bricked phone as a project phone, please contact me.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Jadams3005:
4.3 Img

Does anyone have a 4.3 unbrick IMG? Phone got bootloader bricked when I stupidly used the unlock APK to unlock the bootloader on a 4.3 phone. I've tried the IMGs in this thread with a 16GB class 10 but no luck. Farthest I got was the charging LED back.

Any help is appreciated amigos
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] aznnluvnit:
i am also looking for a 4.3 sprint sph-l710 debick file... thanks in advance!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] deBricker:
When I first tried this method, it took me about 3-4 hours of reformatting the SD card with the debrick image.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] agapedisciple:
Will this work with a Samsung S2 Epic SPH-D710? I just picked up one that is bricked. When I go into d/l mode usb doesn't pick it up at all and it reads that the phone is a GT-9100.. :rolleyes:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] carlos1984:
hi i am trying this on my i747m ,not familier with cgywn, download install but it ask me what i want to install. I am stuck on the 2) Place " debrick_sph_l710.img " inside cygdrive directory to make sure cgwin finds it." ?I cannot find the cygdrive " could give me a tut for dummies, thank you.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
Bump for posterity
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
LOL I just saw this. NICE!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] robert93436:
i'm in some need of major help with my hard bricked phone i don't have linux though to make the image
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] joshuajones:
Win32DiskImager and SD Formatter seem to do the same thing for windows. But I still haven't been successful on Windows or Linux..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] robert93436:
i bought a usb jig and that did not seem to work at all im getting no response from my phone
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ligerblue:
I was successful using win32diskimgager, make sure you run the program as a admin and it is a 16gb or higher micro sd, does the phone show anything just connected to the pc
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] robert93436:
my phone does not show anything

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the thing i find strange is that my red led light is on without the battery in it, its plugged in to my computer btw too
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mjs1231:
sph-l710

I was running clw recovery

wicked sensation rom

saw a ota popup while I was txting

i hit install

phone has been dead ever since.

boots to samsume logo, flashes kt kernal, screen goes blank, it may do this two or 3 times before dead.

try to boot to download mode, get to screen, dissapears in 3 seconds, looks likethe phone is off.

purchased the usb micro jig, same issue with download mode as above, had no effect.

phone is hard cooked, no recovery option.

I tried linux mint on a flash drive, never got the process to work.

i do now own a fancy 16 gig class 10 sandisk sd lol.

about to shoot a 45 caliber through it and go buy a LG G2.

f it i'm sick of it.

i'm tired of these carriers forcing updates on us, just like what youtube did , force force force.

shoving this stuff down our throats like chumps. All this paranoia about security, I hate it.

gd malware, spam, ads, viruses, randsome ware, bots, I mean Christ come on.

this stuff has just gotten out of hand so badly it makes for technical nightmares.

I have ISP threatning business customers because thier automated system says a rootkit bot traffic has been detected, only way to check is with a network sniffer.

REALY ????? WTF..... SORRY TO RANT BUT THIS JUST BUSTS MY CHOPS. Love you all for being so mart and figuring all this out. but damn.....

I'm running on full on tech over saturation and a ota hard bricking my only comm device blows giant.

ok ok gunna take a pull and stfu.

I got a OTA for your OTA so you can OTA while You OTA. f off and die. right now , don't wait, do it now.

not hatin, just sayn.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mjs1231:
sph-l710 update

OMFG

issue resolved

how ?

hammer to the power button.

no joke

banged it 3 times. booted right up

pfffffffff

wow
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Always_Jonezen:
I have a Verizon s3 hard bricked would this method work for mine and what version of Linux live is needed
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] auggy:
Tried everything? DO THIS!!

OK guys, I tried the image to SD card solution and NOTHING! My GS3 (Verizon) was truly dead. Got a USB Jig and it did not work. I sent my phone to

mobiletechvideos (google it)

and in seven days had it back just like it came out of the box from Verizon. These guys are the best. They have additional services available like unlocking, rooting,and custom roms. Save yourself a lot of frustration if your device is bricked and send it to them. They are the best on the web and have a money back guarantee. I am so glad I found them! Best fifty bucks I ever spent, seriously!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ezeuba:
Thanks everyone for all the useful info here. I tried this on a sprint s3 that is hard bricked; doesn't show anything at all. After debricking with the modded sdcard thing, it can only boot to Boot Recovery Mode and also shows "flash write failed". I tried to odin back to stock from there but it's not happening; it fails. Any more ideas on this status error will be appreciated, as usual.

Thanks again.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mjs1231:
update for your update

I just sold my GS3

i'm done with it

I went with a Nexus 5

good bye.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ezeuba:
Boot Recovery Mode

Can anyone offer some advise/help with this? The card writing stuff with the debrick image goes well with cygwin but this is what I can only boot to.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks all.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] rishabjain:
Debrick S3

Were you able to find out the solution to Boot Recovery mode? I am stuck with a similar situation. I would highly appreciate your help
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] wizy321:
thank god i was taking a risk buying the class 4
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] gadgetdoc1:
You are where you want to be! :svetius: Now use Odin and apply the stock ROM. follow original instructions. :laugh:

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Not an expert, but have done enough of these stuff to know a thing or two. :cool:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ezeuba:
Done that severally. Odin always fails with an error about No Pit partition. I tried again with a 16gb Sprint pit file. It fails as well with an error about Re-partitioning Failed. I'm just tired of the whole thing and already trying to accept that the phone is a goner...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] gadgetdoc1:
I feel sorry for you buddy. After I posted my reply, I also read the other forum where you had communicated with CNexus. As CNexus thinks, this may be bad internal memory now. He recommends to change the board. You may be able to get one on Ebay - try broken screen phones for less cost.

Btw, good work extracting bootloader image for L710 4.3! I wish I had that a few days sooner! I had to have my phone JTAGed.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nvan7891:
The best method I have found to acquire replacement boards is to post an add on Craigslist for a <insert your carrier here> galaxy s3 with a broken screen.

I've gotten three replacement boards like this so far, and never paid more than 100$. My insurance deductible is only 50$, but honestly I just enjoy doing the repairs myself. That and you can only make a few claims on the insurance before they wont replace it anymore. I was even able to get a 32gb one once. My ad usually went like this:

I include the "bad esn ok" because whenever I swap a board, I always move my esn over to the new one regardless. It has never taken me more than a few days to find one, and I usually have a few to pick from. Just make sure you confirm that it is the correct carrier, and that none of the water indicators are tripped before you hand over any money.

Also, has anyone successfully done an sd boot with a 32gb? I have a 32 that had its sbl2 partition written over. I've tried countless times with a class 4 16gb card, a class 4 32gb card, and a class 10 sandisk 64gb card. I decided to order a class 10 32gb sandisk, and just received it the other day. I've tried once with it so far, and it was a no go, however, the battery I was using was low. I charged a battery to 100%, and am about to start trying the new 32gb sd again on my linux machine. Has anyone found or been able to track down a debrick image for a 32gb? Anyone with a working 32 willing to make and post one? I have a few extra operable s3's, but they are all 16gb.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] thenexusgeneration:
As far as I am aware, internal storage only matters when choosing what capacity of SD card to use to boot from/with. I may end up rooting the 32 gb model I have,which currently runs 4.1.2 stock unrooted. I may also end up taking the OTA to get to official KNOX'ed 4.3 and pull that debrick image. Also, how much of the specified partition do you think/know I should pull?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] averagejames2000:
Can't get it to work

Hey guys. Followed these steps exactly and have tried 5 or 6 times and rewrote the file twice and still can't get it to boot into Download mode. Any advice?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mrdunlop:
I have successfully gotten my s3 to boot off the sd card, and I have pulled all my stuff off. Now when I try to odin back to stock to salvage the phone, make it boot off the internal memory I am having issues. I am able to put the phone in DL mode, and when I fire up Odin, it cannot see the phone. I have installed the drivers several times using the toolkit. I can see my other gs3, but i cannot get this one. Is there something I am missing? any help would be apreciated
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] diamondcanopy:
So, is there any reason why the SD card cannot be flashed on a mac instead of windows/linux? I dont have those options available currently.