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[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] shabbypenguin:
i dont have teh time to browse through teh many tmobile note 3 q&a threads, any chance of a link?

so long as the file is dumped properly and from that model. most qualcomm devices support it, just about anything from the s4 (MSM8960) and more recent with an sdcard should be able to sdcard boot.

http://shabbypenguin.com/getdownload.php?file=Tools/Unbrick-Creator.zip

have someone flash that in recovery. it dumps the first 200MB's of mmcblk0 you can then follow this guide with swapping out teh files. the zip will dump the image and then zip it up and keep it all on the sdcard, thus allowing it to be smaller. due to phone inconsistencies id suggest having a verizon person dump theirs for it, tmobiel for theirs, n9005 for theirs etc etc. the only one i dont think it will work on is the exynos based samsung devices.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] ecs87:
Hi shabbypenguin,

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2531224 is the thread that msmery42 is referring to. We're flying blind, but you guys have left quite the trail of information behind yourselves. I think we've found two methods of making the "unbrickable mod" SD Card, however I'm stone cold out of ideas on how to get the N900T into SD Card mode.

We first got a unbrick image of 70MB, decided it was too small, upped it to over 200MB, decided that was too small too, and then settled for 310MB. The command we're using to grab the unbrick.img is "dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/unbrick.img bs=1024 count=317440". I'm using a Knoppix Live CD to use the terminal to create the SD card with the command "dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=/sda2/media/unbrick.img" I think my primary hard drive was /sda2/media... I don't happen to have my laptop next to me but you get the idea. The unbrick.img was copied from the SD Card to the root of my hard drive before booting into Linux.

So, now that the card is made, insert it into the phone, power on, win, right? Well, I never was able to get into SD Card Mode. I'd just REALLY like someone to confirm that something needs to be shorted out on the board. I've tried just about every single button combination with the battery in, with the battery out but with the phone plugged into the computer. I've also tried starting it with my 3300k auto ignition cable from my NSPRO box while holding down all the buttons. Nothing will boot it into anything. The screen is dead black, no lights come on (no blue lights or red lights), but there is a COM port. The dreaded QCHSUSB port. So it does still power on, but it has nothing to boot to. I've tried inserting the SD Card, then inserting the battery, then powering it on, as is suggested in the original post here (albeit for the N900A) but nothing ever happens.

Also, the second method for creating the SD Card involves putting some kind of bootloader file in the bootloader tab of Odin, checking T Flash, inserting a SD Card into the phone, plugging up the phone, and hitting Start on Odin. NOW, this is from the i9300 leaked documentation for the "Samsung SD Card JTAG", and there is a supplied file in there to load into the bootloader tab of Odin...but I don't know if it's just the stock i9300 bootloader or if it's some modified file that triggers Odin to pull the bootloader from the phone and load it into the SD Card (OR if it overwrites the bootloader of the phone with the file AND writes it to the SD Card too?) Either way, noobtoob flashed the N900T firmware on his N900T through Odin with T Flash checked, and it definitely wrote to the SD Card. Now, did it write the correct information or not? I don't know. BTW, we just tried it this way after we couldn't get the N900T to boot into SD Card mode with the unbrick images we made in the terminals. IMO, I think the issue lies in SD Card mode, not the images or SD Cards. Just figured I'd document what T Flash might be used for in Odin for simplicity of this process (I'd still rather use the terminal...lol).
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] chrisrotolo:
[MENTION=587115]Ecs[/MENTION], have you tried putting an entire stock ROM on your EXT SD CARD?, for the heck of it? Including everything like NON-HLOS.bin, sbl1.mbn, sdi.mbn, aboot.mbn, rpm.mbn, tz.mbn, boot.img, recovery.img.

Also I thought mobiletechvideos.com is now supporting the Note 3, double check with them.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] shabbypenguin:
ive never heard of odin writing the files for people so that's cool to hear about, ill have to research more into it all. anyways, 200MB's should be more than plenty to have it, 128MB's was all that was absolutely needed on the s3/s4 I just use 200mb's as a rule of thumb because I have a lot of people dumping from a lot of devices and id much rather get a safety buffer than anything else. if you have a laptop i would imagine sda1/2 etc would be your main hard drive and sdb would be the microsd card. this sdcard booting has been found on the lg og pro, sgs3, sgs4, a handful of samsung msm8930 devices, lg motion/spirit and more. all of which have just been a matter of having the sdcard formatted properly, having teh correct size, and putting the sdcard in. when i first showed it to designgears he didnt believe me but he zero'd out the aboot on his brand new note 3 and loaded right back up using his sdcard.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2439367 this is where i learned about the sdcard booting, there is a video which should follow exactly the same for ya (minus using different files). if you still arent able to get it all working then i would definitely recommend checking out mobiletechvideos, the work they do is top notch and will get you sorted out in no time. :)
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] redalertlb:
Did this fix your issue? I am having the same problem and really dont want to send my phone back to samsung. Really hope this can fix my problem.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] DatVatoLoco:
what did i do wrong?

someone please help me my phone is hard bricked boot looping its been like that for weeks i followed the instructions but this is what it tells me after i type dmesg | tail

Unable to obtain kernel buffer: Operation not permitted

usage: sudo dmesg

...what do i do????
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] willxander3:
I just unbrick my GN3 with this method. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2559715 . I flashed all the files with ODIN, and finally got my note 3 to reboot and PASS. Hope this help others.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] DatVatoLoco:
i cant believe it it works!!! i used the above link...i finally unbricked my phone too follow the instructions carefully and make sure to download everything it tells you too dont use old files from other attempts to unbrick your phone
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] msmercy42:
Thanks for the reply, and when you get the time, check out the link ecs87 provided. It will give you a better idea of all the progress, and it's not too long. I'll let you know how it's going.

Sorry about the late reply, I've been kind of busy and totally forgot to check back here.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] ZOOPidy:
Will this work even if I am stuck in softbrick? I cant boot past Samsung boot screen?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] msmercy42:
Soft bricks are relatively simple to fix. There are how-tos here on XDA, and searching for it on google will give you various methods. This thread is for a hard brick, i.e; no charge, no led light, black screen, 3 button combo not working - etc
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mining:
thanks

thanks for your sharing, I realize it by using power data recovery
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] ecs87:
I think msmercy42 got an sdcard that has absolutely everything on it from noobtoob who used ODIN to T Flash to it.

I sent my shops n900t to mobile tech videos but I'm still VERY interested in this sdcard "JTAG" method for the N900T and plan to stick around till it gets solved then carry it over to my L900 home forum. With enough devices out there supported by this, we will all eventually have unbrickable devices.

Thanks for the response Shabby. I did some reading in that thread and it seems so simple, yet I couldn't get it working. I wish I would've had more time to mess with it, but if there's no need to short anything to get into sdcard mode we will keep trying different things over in the N900T thread. Maybe we're using the wrong sized cards.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] shabbypenguin:
you need at least as big as your emmc, so if you have a 32gb model then you need a 32gb card. :) having a larger card wont affect it poorly either.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] ecs87:
Figured as much...seeing as how Windows recognized my 8GB card as 32GB worth of partitions. It made me scratch my head and start pondering what would happen if I used a 32GB card. I did end up trying a 32GB card once; I should've tried with more of the unbrick images that noobtoob supplied for us as well as retrying the imaging of the SD card more than once if it didn't work.

On another note, hopefully mobiletechvideos is having trouble JTAGing my shop's N900T (yes, the shop owner wants it fixed...I want to play with it more to get this "SDCard JTAG" working) since they want to know exactly how I hard bricked it.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] zwaki:
heeeelp

My note 3 sm-n9005 32gb vodafone does not light, do not fit into the download mode and when I plug it into PC recognizes it as follows QHSUSB__BULK. This method can solve my problem ? if yes what are the steps to be followed, knowing that I tried your steps with a 2GB sdcard but does not work?

:crying:
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] msmercy42:
[MENTION=2614663]shabbypenguin[/MENTION] So [MENTION=4404580]noobtoob[/MENTION] did everything correctly, the sd card needs to actually be 32 gb? No wonder all its doing is draining the battery instead of booting. Is there anyway I can swap this onto another sd card?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] shabbypenguin:
if you have the 16gb model then you need a 16gb microsd or larger. 32gb model needs 32gb or higher. you should be able ot just take the unbrick image and put it on a new sdcard
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] msmercy42:
[MENTION=2614663]shabbypenguin[/MENTION] Without writing it in Linux or reformatting? That's interesting. Correct me if I am wrong by all means.

Thanks!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] shabbypenguin:
ah no, apologies. I meant by dding it or using winimage kind of program.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] nics04:
MJ5 toMI9

I have an ATT Note 3 with MJ5 firmware. Can I flash this MI9 firmaware to downgrade? Will it brick the device?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] yar_nl:
Link to other thread with Samsung instructions

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=49467769&postcount=752
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] myungsup1250:
I can't boot with Micro sd card.....

I have an SM-N900A 32GB Galaxy Note 3 that is hard-bricked.

So i folllowed all your instructions, but i can't boot with my micro sd card.

first i tried with 16gb class 4 sd card, was failed, and i borrowed 16gb class 10 sd card from my friend, was also failed.

So i bought an 32gb samsung sd card, failed, too...

[MENTION=2348906]designgears[/MENTION] said the sd card will have 29 partitions after dding, but i have only 25 partitions...

When i plug my phone in my Windows computer, it appears as 'QHSUSB_BULK'.

It's just like others,

but this phone never turn on.....

Plz help me,,,, ;(

and i made boot sd with MacOSX
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] TLTechsquad:
Unbrick

Im trying to folow this instruction, but i gusees something goes wrong... if anyone who can help contact me plz
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] faslane:
Is there a way to do this but with an ATT Note 3 N900A? I don't know where I'd get the files form if anyone has a link. I'm currently soft bricked.

Thanks

Fas
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] RIZWANN:
is this method will work for canadian note 3 n900w8 too, which is hark bricked?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] ralnraln:
Guide for Galaxy Nexus?

is there anything like this hard-unbricking for the Galaxy Nexus ??
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] jtl999:
Ther is a special TI USB driver floating around on XDA and gsmhosting.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] ryanbg:
Just a helpful tip, if you are using OS X, write to rdisk instead of disk (/dev/rdisk) as this is the raw image, /dev/disk goes through additional data processing and may not properly copy the image using DD.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Skolar72:
I wish I would had searched a little bit better when I bricked my Note 3 maybe I would had found this thread. I had to get a replacement.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] SaHiLzZ:
[MENTION=2348906]designgears[/MENTION] [MENTION=2614663]shabbypenguin[/MENTION] have you noted which SDCard did the trick for you or anyone with a success story on Note 3?

I am trying the same http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2638849 however with a Lexar Class 10 32GB, I was not able to boot a hard bricked Note 3. I verified that partitions were written to the sdcard using parted output.

Thanks!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] designgears:
I am assuming you are using the unbrick image from the OP. It was created with MI9, if you weren't running MI9 when you bricked, that one won't work. You will need to find someone with a rooted working device and and have them dump out an unbrick image for that specific version and use that to create your sdcard.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] SaHiLzZ:
[MENTION=2348906]designgears[/MENTION] thanks for responding. I am not using the img file from OP. There are img files created using Shabby's unbrick zip file from a working canadian Note 3 in the thread I linked before. I have followed your process using Linux to write the parititions, as well as using windows diskimager. I have verified partitions are written to the SDCard, however the device doesn't boot.

I am wondering if it is SDcard that is the problem. it is 32GB Lexar Class 10.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] designgears:
I had similar problems, I had an sdcard that did work, but after writing different versions to it, it would no longer work. I ended up buying some cheap kingston sdcards that worked fine, I stored them away once they were working and didn't touch them again :)

The ones I used were 4gb, seemed to work just fine. There were plenty of times the partitions would show up, but it wouldn't boot and simply writing it a couple more times would make it work.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] shabbypenguin:
brand shouldnt matter.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] SaHiLzZ:
Interesting to note. You used 4GB sdcard on a 32GB note to bring it back. Also what used to work did not work after re-writing. Almost makes it not an exact science and adds some luck into the mix, :silly:

I guess I will get a few sized sdcards and try the image. 32GB is kind of expensive still to buy a few of those

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what about class? size? As [MENTION=2348906]designgears[/MENTION] said a 4gb scard worked for note 3. which will be either 16 or 32gb
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] shabbypenguin:
The only way i know of is match emmc size to sdcard size, and usually class 10+. i havent been keeping up on everything (especially not on the note 3) so if using smaller cards is now possible its news to me
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] M1k3Carson1369:
Ok... Well I just tried doing it all the same way I did with the T-Mobile one a while back, A the start of that thread...

MY friend has a AT&T one, same situation, I've been trying to help him ith..

Anyhow, I read somewhere (I should have noted where) that if the Note3 was on the newer bootloader that the image would not work. I used the img file from this thread, and to no avail. On different brands (Kingston, Sandisk, Lexar, Toshiba, Samsung, etc)...

IDK if that image is ML9 or M19... But If anyone has a N900A, I know it's pretty easy to generate the Debrick.img, It would be awesome to get a dl link for one. If you have any other ideas, please let me know. Thanks Thus far. Ima post in that thread too...

I mean if anyone has a N900A on a newer Build, if I could get them to make an img from that...
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] M1k3Carson1369:
For those who Hard-Bricked on the newer builds...

ecs87 helped me out from inside the N900T thread (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=50907018)...

He was able to snag a UnBrick.img from an N900A on a newer build(not sure which one), because I used the one in this thread's OP and it wasn't working since it was Bricked on a newer build...

So if yo u match this description, here's the link he gave me to DL it: https://www.mediafire.com/?9p0j7zqc706lldh

And in case that one doesn't work, I'M GONNA upload it on GDrive, assuming That's abiding by proper forum ettiquit... Idk...

After I got into ODIN mode, I used this thread, to get it booting again: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2559715

Again, credit for the .img file goes to ecs87...

*EDIT I used a SanDisk 32gb Class 4 micro SDHC....
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] HomerSimpson09876:
Thanks for discovering this, it saved me from a heart attack.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] gregko1980:
I'm going to try this too, although it might not work for me, as I managed to brick Note 3 AT&T when installing the official KitKat update from AT&T, so it's even newer image when you had the problem... Downloading N900Aunbrick.img, but want to be sure where exactly to use it in the "unbrick" thread you quote ( http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2559715). Was it when using Heimdall, in Step 5, substituting N900Aunbrick.img for MI9_fix.img.ext4 they say to use? Thanks.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] M1k3Carson1369:
No, I used win32 disk imager to write the UnBrick I mage to the sdcard. Inserted SD, inserted battery, booted download mode and ODIN'd the stock firmware...

SPH-L720 (Knox-FREE)

philz_touch_6.08.9

TriForceROM_5.4
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] gregko1980:
OK, used Win32DiskImager to write the N900Aunbrick.img to a micro-SD card, put it into Note 3, booted into download mode. Could you please give step by step instructions on what to do next? Use Odin on PC or what? Would greatly appreciate a detailed help, thanks!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] gregko1980:
Figured out what and how, but it's all useless for a bricked NC2 (KitKat) ROM. When I put the micro-SD card prepared with Win32DiskImager (it has something like 18 different size partitions after Win32DiskImager prep.) into Note 3 and try to boot it, there is no change. It boots only from the internal storage, I guess, ignoring the SD. Don't know if this is yet another "security" measure they put into the latest bootloader or what. Also, in addition to Win32DiskImager, tried to re-create the partitions under Ubuntu as the message at the start of this thread suggests, but the result was identical - a fiasco to boot from SD card.

I guess the correct way to flash .img with Odin is to have the correct .pit file (I have HLTE_USA_ATT_32G.pit), select it into PIT slot of Odin, then select .img file (N900Aunbrick.img) into the CP slot. But this way I get a "SECURE CHECK FAIL: apnhlos" on the bootloader screen on my Note 3, and can't pass this.

Someone else made NC2 bootloader and other files available to me for download, but after several hours of him uploading it, then another 5 hours of me downloading, the file is damaged and useless. Oh well. Learned that I can sell bricked Note 3 AT&T for $75 to Gazelle :(
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
your only software bricked , I'll give you a $100. :laugh: uploading again ,30 minutes left
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] gregko1980:
Thank you, Carl! Have high hopes for your file. I'm probably the first idiot who managed to soft-brick this device with KitKat update installed. No doubt there will be others, so your file may come handy for them too, if it works.

Greg
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
no I was the first . :D
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] M1k3Carson1369:
I'm sorry, I Dont recall anymore, but I'm positive I linked the threads with steps I used and where I got the stock files I used with ODIN after finally booting into ODIN mode...

I'd be much more help if I weren't working Double shifts on 2hrs sleep each day, sorry. I think I'm off on Monday, so I'll try to be as much help as I can be, then. Unless the much more knowledgeable members here help you finish before then.

SPH-L720 (Knox-FREE)

philz_touch_6.08.9

TriForceROM_5.4
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] gregko1980:
Thank you - actually Carl from the messages posted above this one helped me with the custom flashing ROM files prepared from the leaked KitKat, and my device is at least alive now. More info about this in Carl's thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=51572014#post51572014

No way to upgrade it to the official OTA KitKat, but maybe with time someone will post full official KitKat for Note 3 AT&T, not the "patch update" AT&T is pushing.

Greg
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] gregko1980:
Quick question to anyone knowledgeable, only just out of curiosity. Several "unbricking" methods that were described, tell us to prepare a special SD card formatted in such a way that the phone would boot from it. When I had my Note 3 AT&T bricked with the bootloader already upgraded to the latest version released with official KitKat, none of this worked for me. My Note 3 is now restored, again a big "thank you" to Carl, but I just wonder - is this a new security thing of the new Note 3 bootloader - not allowing to boot from the SD card? Or is there some trick to it, like again holding certain buttons when booting?

I used two good and fast micro-SD cards, one of 32 GB capacity, the other with 16 GB. Followed two different methods of preparing them exactly per instructions given, one with Linux (Ubuntu 12.4), the other with image writing program under Windows 7, and none worked. My bricked (at the time) Note 3 only booted to bootloader with volume down + home + power keys pressed, and it was the new bootloader released with official KitKat update, and installed in the main phone memory.. Anything else kept it in boot loop, no matter if the SD cards were inserted or not.

Greg
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] zeeshan1401:
please help me out it is urgent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hey guyz....

i have a samsung sm900a at&t version. suddenly my phone stopped working(hard bricked). i tried everything but its not of any help. i tried to write the unbrick.img file to the sd card with win32 disk imager and road kill as well but it is of no use... i guess i was wrong in sum nor the other way... after i had rooted my phone previously i was getting a notification that the sd card is blank or has unsupported filesystems.. i guess my phn is not able to read the image file which i have written on the sd card... after i write the unbrick.img to the sd card with win 32 disk imager the sd card is not recognisable in the laptop... i havta again insert the sd card in sum other phn format it and then again repeat the process,,, and when i write the unbrick.img using roadkil i am not able to start the phone... i need the phn desperately guys... i will have no issues in donating to sumone who solves my problem... kindly help me out in detailed step by step way if you are going to help me coz i am an amateur in this.... i am wating for a reply eagerly... plz help me out.... please temme a easy way out of this... and kindly lemme know how do i charge my battery coz i really have no idea wether its being charged or not...... :good::good::good:

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plz help [MENTION=3505796]KAsp3rd[/MENTION] [MENTION=2348906]designgears[/MENTION] :(:(:(:(:(:(:(
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
the unbrick img only boots phone to download mode, and you will not see anything on it from a windows PC, if you looked at it with linux it would have about 20 partitions

can you get to download mod? and if you can what is the SW numbers
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] ecs87:
I saw some people were trying to put the unbrick.img into Odin...wtf? The unbrick image will get you nowhere in Odin. The unbrick image NEEDS to be written raw to the appropriately sized SD card. Again, putting this anywhere in Odin WILL NOT HELP YOU! You should then be able to pop the SD Card into your phone, attempt to boot into download mode and flash the

latest

firmware (do not try an older firmware for sake of complicating your results).