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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dwolder:
Background:

I thought I would try to install stock 4.3 leak for i747, forgetting that I had i747M! I totally HARD bricked my phone.. not a whimper, except the familiar recognition of a new device type on windows.. but no charging, booting, or even response.

I turned to the 'Unbrick via SD Card' thread from the Sprint S3 forum:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=43305728

I managed to find a debrick.img for the i747M. With that in hand, first using the method utilizing Cygwin, I was able to boot into Download Mode. Hurray! I downloaded the Stock 4.1.2 i747M Bell Image, and fully restored the phone using ODIN.

All seemed great until I removed the debrick SD card, and rebooted. Dead again. With the SD card in, I can reboot. I have tried restoring multiple times, writing a new PIT from another i747M, reinstalling the bootloader... nothing. If the SD Card isn'tin the phone, it's bricked. I am happy my phone is up and running, but it's nasty not having my 16 Gig SD card available, and also, I really need to ensure the battery doesn't die! Can anyone suggest what might be going wrong? Shouldn't I simply need to flash the stock image, and be good!?!

Thanks!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] the.teejster:
Can you get into Download / recovery mode w/o the SD card ?

Did you try the stock image from this thread ? :

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2363882
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dwolder:
Unfortunately, no. Hard Bricked without the SD card

I hadn't tried this one. I used the one from SAMMOBILE. I'll try this one right now.

Thanks!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] the.teejster:
If you want to maintain ROOT access be sure to grab the root.zip and flash AFTER you flash the image and BEFORE you reboot.

As an FYI, the 16Gig Bell image worked great for me.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dwolder:
Tried everything.. flashing the recommended version above from internal disk won't work. Flashes of Odin compatible versions complete, and still need the SD card in. I have rooted, installed Clockwork recovery, tried to install the firmware from internal drive... it would fail. Install from ODIN (Samsung Recovery) it succeeds, but won't boot without the SD Card in. (Familar QD Loader). I just don't get it. I might have to go to ADB level, and see if I can have any success there?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] scotteb:
You my friend as you said are HardBricked, need to be flashed by jtag. I tried on a friends to use a debrick image to fix, but in the end I have to use the riff box to fix it. You may also have luck with this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2439367 but remember to replace the file/files with the proper ones for YOUR phone.

Good Luck
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Bradkirk:
I had the exact same issue, took all the same steps you did, and had all the same frustrations. The last thing I tried though was to dd the debrick img to the internal memory of the phone via a terminal session running from my sdcard booted phone. figured I had nothing left to lose. It worked. I got the phone booted to download mode without the card in and restored my phone. I will add that I am no expert so this might be the worst idea ever. but my phone has been running since the 31st.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dwolder:
How did you make the connection to the phone memory.. ADB? I brought mine to the shop. They said two groups tried to fix it and couldn't. I am going to keep trying :) (glutton for punishment).
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Bradkirk:
forgive me, I'm no expert but I'll try to list what I did.

booted the phone via SD card and restored a backup so that I was running a rooted custom 4.3 ROM. I also had the terminal emulator program installed on the phone. so everything worked great at this point except I needed the SD card in the phone to boot.

the image I used for the SD card boot is a 16GB (version not file size) Bell I747M dump of a stock phone, called debrick.img. Sorry I cant remember where I got it but it was here on XDA. To get it on the SD card to begin with I used the terminal emulator on my old i9000(m) and the dd command.

So, to reverse the process I opened the terminal emulator on my SD booted, running I747M. typed: su <enter> to give the app superuser access (allowed root access when prompted) then changed to the directory on the sd card containing the debrick.img file just to save me typing the full path in the command. the internal SD of my phone is found at /dev/block/mmcblk0 as opposed to mmcblk1 for the external SD.

so , moment of truth. I used; dd if=debrick.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0 <enter> This was the part I mentioned could be the worst idea ever because from what I think I understand, you are writing directly to the boot partition of the SD and could completely screw up all the partitions and whatnot.

after that, crossed my fingers and turned the phone off, pulled the SD card out and luckily booted right up into download mode. Used Odin to get back up and running. Hope that helps or at least doesnt make anything worse for you.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] aisakblack:
help me please

hey friend, you could climb the debricked.img of i747m to a download server or give me the link where obtubiste, I'm going through a hard brick on the terminal for the same reasons as you, please appreciate what you really so
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Bradkirk:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2345860&page=18 2nd post down has the link I used. Reading the whole thread would be a good idea.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dravidn125:
It worked for me

Your method worked for me. Very clever and thank you. I did have to do some modifications of the partitions to fit the 145MB debrick.img file. I also had to mount it as a 2nd partition from the sdcard. Once, was in dowload mode without original debrick sdcard, I flashed the clockworkmod recovery then restored one of my previous back thus retaining root.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tutchthesky7:
Mind sharing the i747m Debrick.img?

Seems like the link from the post you linkd us to is not working, clicking download does nothing :/ currently have a bricked Bell S3 and need a debrick.img :(
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] alucard95:
Same for me, I really need that link to be working:good:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musclehead84:
I was curious if anyone knows if Sprints Nexus is sim locked or not? I know it's the exact same phone as the Play Store edition but I just can't find out if it's sim locked or not. Thanks.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] someone0:
Are you paying full price?

If you are subsidize by Sprint, then maybe it's lock. But if you pay full price, then you are overpaying but it should be unlock.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tomeygun:
I asked my local sprint store while getting my sim card for the googleplay store one I just received. Guys said they have NEVER sold an unlocked phone that you could take to another carrier and he did not see why they would start now.

so... who really knows. You know how those in store sales people are, just simply not informed most of the time.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musclehead84:
I'm getting the phone for 50 bucks from Sprint. Just curious if it's sim locked.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deltawye:
How much did they charge you for a Sim? They told me $75.. Which is insane, I used my S4 Sim card. But now I still need one for the S4 so I can sell it.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tomeygun:
Wow. what a joke. They gave it to me free of charge, same as if you use the chat-with-sprint method of getting a SIM
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] STXInnovation:
Also want to know if I can pop a T-Mobile SIM into a "Sprint" Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steezc:
It shouldn't be locked. I got mine from Google play though. The Sim should be free from what I know. I got mines from the best buy store because nobody at sprint store had any clue a couple of days ago
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jj14:
HUH? Sprint wanted to charge you for the SIM??? Was it a corporate sprint store? or just a kiosk or an affiliate type of store?

Assuming you are a Sprint customer, Corporate Sprint store should not charge you for the SIM, and if they do, you can call customer care and ask them to sort it out.

I got mine shipped from Sprint Worldwide support - but it was too slow - took 5 days, and I was getting impatient, so I went to a Sprint Corporate store nearby and asked them for one - they gave me one free of charge (they kept telling me - "we don't have one for the Nexus yet" - and I reminded them that the ones for the S4 or the HTC One would work just fine)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krylon360:
just letting everyone know. The Google Play version; and the version from the Sprint store are UNLOCKED!

Went and picked one up from Sprint today.

Logged into my Sprint Account;

and I see this:

Now I just need to figure out how to get my damn MSL code. getprop ril.MSL doesnt work. and no MSL listed in getprop

MSL is needed to enable Tri-Band LTE
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] STXInnovation:
So what carrier are you using that proves that the "Sprint" version is unlocked? I want to use it with T-Mobile.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lowandbehold:
I just got the sprint version from Best Buy. I am on T-Mobile and can verify that it is 100% unlocked. Popped my sim in and good to go. Also, the phone came with a sprint sim card. If anyone is being charged for one, I WILL SEND IT TO YOU FOR FREE!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musclehead84:
Awesome that definately answers that question. Thanks again.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wildpig1234:
So what/who gave you the hint that sprint subsidized ver was unlock? I guess you just went in and ask the rep there to give you a sprint subsidized N5 or did you buy an unsubsidized sprint N5? If you bought an unsubsidized sprint N5 then it should be unlocked anyway.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrzood:
Their chat support will give you your MSL. Just ask for the 'Activation code.' If they try to avoid and just tell you to run *#*#72786#*#*, be firm but polite about getting the code.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wildpig1234:
I was able to get them to give me the msl on first try. Told them i need it to enable triband for spark. If one rep gives you problem, just back off and rechat with another one.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] P.Mobile:
what do i ask for my MSL? or activation code?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lowandbehold:
If phones are locked and you pay the full amount, you still need to get the unlock code. I popped my sim in right out of the box. The Sprint version is the exact same phone. Same model number, same build number, same kernel version, got the same 125mb update right at the power on. There is not one bit of Sprint branding or bloatware. I know my phones...this is my 8th smartphone and my 4th Nexus (S, Gnex, N4, N5) and I can assure you that it is the exact same.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edd247:
I want to try out a tmobile while I'm still activated on spring. Does anyone know if I can just swap the sim or will CDMA voice still be active?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrzood:
'Activation code' is their term for MSL. Some techs aren't familiar with 'MSL'. Or simply ask if you can get your Activation code/MSL.

T-Mobile will work just find if you swap the SIM. You may or may not have to go and put in the correct APN settings with the TMo SIM in, though mine works just fine. I've also tested with AIO Wireless.

You may also have to go in to *#*#INFO#*#* and set the radio to 'LTE/GSM auto (PRL)' mode. When going back to Sprint only you'll want to use 'LTE/CDMA auto (PRL)' mode.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaqspaere:
I bought the sprint version (unsubsidized) through Amazon. There are materials in the box that are branded with Sprint, and the Shade has Sprint at the bottom. This is after unlocking, rooting, and flashing the factory image from https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images. I haven't been able to figure out how to get rid of it yet.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dwreck420:
i think that changes to whatvever network youre connected to?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Can any of you gentlemen (or ladies) who have your purchased from Sprint 16GB phones help me out with something?

1. I need to know what your APN values are all set to (check with *#*#data#*#*->choose APN (enter MSL if prompted)

2. Are you able to send MMS over wifi with the hangouts app without issues?

3. Do you have any issues sending regular SMS at random times?

Please reply here or just PM me

TIA!

:highfive:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lowandbehold:
Yea, that is not branding, that is just the network you are connected to. When I pull down mine, it says T-mobile. When I am in my house, I am roaming on a local network, so when I pull it down, it says NEP (Northeastern PA Wireless). Yea, some of the documentation has sprint branding, and the box says Sprint, but the phone itself is completely unlocked and unbranded. Sprint has no hand in the software of the phone at all.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rytymu:
So I picked up a Nexus 5, and I like it, but being that it has a sealed battery I'm a little OCD over prolonging the life of it. After doing some digging, I have come up with the following tips to follow (and some of these are common sense with regards to a lithium battery):

Don't let your battery dip below 20% often

NEVER let it die completely (unless you have to calibrate your phones battery readings)

Charging to 100% isn't the best for it, and especially don't let it sit at 100% due to heat issues

Don't charge it in subfreezing temperatures, or especially in 100+ degree weather

Generally speaking, small charges spaced out (adding 15-30% or so at a time) is better than ~75% at a time due to heat issues

Very, very small charges done in rapid succession (adding 5-10% - A.K.A. "bump charging"), is bad

Qi supposedly heats the battery too much

OK, so that's what I've established in doing some research... Anyone disagree with this?

So generally speaking, what I should do to maintain maximum battery health is use my phone from 90% back down to 20% (and back up to 90%) regularly, correct? Obviously this is in a perfect scenario, but it's good to know.

Well I had a few side questions of my own:

If you get a quality Qi charger that runs (acceptably) cool, will it still be too hot to use day in and day out for optimum battery health?

If you do shorter charges on Qi (say 15-30% as mentioned above), would that be OK at that point?

What if I want to go use my phone heavily (lets say play a game for an hour), is it less stress on the battery to use it while on the charger (and get hot), or just let the battery cycle on it's own and charge it multiple times in the process? Basically, does using the phone while plugged in (whether charging, or trickle-charging at 100%) cause more degradation than cycling the battery multiple times?

Is letting your phone off the charger at night (cycling the battery, even if just a little bit) really better than leaving your phone plugged in at 100%?

This is an interesting topic to debate, and I want to hear what you think!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rytymu:
First off, BUMP!

Second, here are some results I've had. While idling, the battery life is RIDICULOUSLY good, however, whenever the screen is on the battery is terrible... It's like a Toyota Prius with a V10 hybrid-drive; around town it is very efficient, but get on the highway and VROOOOOOOOM!

The phone was at 42% charge after two days. Granted, there was only 37 minutes of screen usage, but I did quite a bit of Bluetooth / Spotify streaming. Wifi was on and connected almost the entire time. I do notice that my idle drain goes from .2% to .6% lost per hour on wifi, to 1.5% to 3% lost per hour while on HSPA+ / LTE.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vincent Law:
Most of those aren't really wrong, they're just massively over-exaggerated.

A. Heat only matters if you're getting the battery up to like, 50C often. Note that the phone will actually stop charging if it hits these temperatures.

B. Small charges don't really help or hurt.

C. Qi doesn't heat the battery itself that much.

Overall, you're overthinking it way too much. Just don't leave your phone on the car dash in the middle of the summer sun, don't leave it on the charger for an entire week without unplugging it, and try not to drain it completely to 0%.

Li-Polymer batteries are far more resilient than people give them credit for. Even if you used your phone absolutely perfectly, over the course of a couple years you'd be lucky to get an extra 5% of life out of it. It's not worth your time and stress at all.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 0l1v3r:
Hi, my friends i9300 has Android 4.0.4 Baseband:I9300BVLE4 , Build:IM76D.I9300BVALE4 and at settings->about device there is no "software update".How can I upgrade his phone to 4.1.2 or other official ROMs (without ROOT)?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Please read the faqs and guides all the information is posted .

Use Kies to update .

Baseband is not firmware .

Official roms do not require root to upgrade see faqs and guides .
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] heidy:
At first I thought it was the WiFi module going berserk in my Universal :cry: , because every time when I turned it on, the Universal would freeze and warranted a soft-reset. :?

I have since hard-reset the thing at least 8 times :x ; and found out that JournalBar was the culprit :evil: ! Now I have turned off Journal Bar's auto-update... I think I'm gonna have to find a replacement plugin and uninstall this thing! :idea:

Wasted the whole day wiping and reinstalling everything fresh :x :evil:
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] eappel:
I had the exact same problem.

When the device is booting there is a very short time where you can

start apps, thus slow down journalbar from loading, and then remove it from the today screen. At the saem time i disabled wifi.

Cheers
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] eappel:
Untic the Check for updates and the Sync on connect options when starting, they are on the Today Options..

Cya

Eric
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] imel:
problem with Journal Bar resolved

OmegaOne has released a new version of Journal Bar that fixes the freeze problem.

I also spend a lot of wasted time on trying to troubleshoot my Exec freezing up. Apparrently the problem was due to the weather format hanging.

You need to un-install your current one before installing the new one, then the problem goes away.

Imel
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] heidy:
Re: problem with Journal Bar resolved

Thanks for the headsup; but I am very reluctant in reinstalling JB (I have uninstalled it). It is outrageous that a simple plugin like this could freeze up the device... What if one day, the format changes again without O1 knowing, and the phone freezes again... in the middle of an important call or something?

Any recommendation for something like JB that does newsfeed and weather updates?
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] dc:
Reinstall- no way!

I too had the unfortunate problem and had to hard reset twice. I was stupid- not because I bought JB to start with, but stupid because once I hard reset, I thought I would give JB another try. It will be a long time (and be very difficult) for me to be convinced that it is safe to reinstall JB. Who out there wants to take that risk and go through all the hassle? :x

I don't mind if a program has problems- that's how we make improvements, but to force a hard reset...
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] palash_6670:
Hello,

Um new Tab user.I dont know where to find Samsung Tab 2 10.1's [g+Wifi] GENERIC FIRMWARE. Um from Bangladesh, Asia. Help me out please :)

Thanks in ADVANCE :)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Benzoman:
Samfirmware.com should have it. Have to register to download but it's simple.
[Galaxy Ace S5830i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jozerx8:
Hi I have a problem to install touchwiz v7 gives me the following error "assert failed ro.product.device == GetProp gt-s5830" I was told I had to do with the firmware that can help me understand that I have to repair :confused::confused:
[Galaxy Ace S5830i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mradermaxlol:
Do u have GT-S5830i[/red]?

Sent from my frozen Penguin's Nexus 7 with frozen CM 10.2 using frozen Tapatalk 4.FORGOTTEN Pro :P
[Galaxy Ace S5830i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DamnTarget:
You should post in the Q&A Section. Here's a link: http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2114
[Galaxy Ace S5830i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jozerx8:
Says ""AROMA INSTALLER version 2.00

(c) 2012 by amarullz xda-developers

ROM Name : AROMA INSTALLER

ROM Version : 2.00

ROM Author : <support@amarullz.com>

Device : Not Defined

Start at : Thu Nov 7 14:08:41 2013

script aborted: assert failed: getprop("ro.product.device") == "GT-S5830c" ||

getprop("ro.build.product") == "GT-S5830c" ||

getprop("ro.product.device") == "GT-S5830C" ||

getprop("ro.build.product") == "GT-S5830C" ||

getprop("ro.product.device") == "GT-S5830i" ||

getprop("ro.build.product") == "GT-S5830i" ||

getprop("ro.product.device") == "GT-S5830I" ||

getprop("ro.build.product") == "GT-S5830I" ||

getprop("ro.product.device") == "GT-S5830m" ||

getprop("ro.build.product") == "GT-S5830m" ||

getprop("ro.product.device") == "GT-S5830M" ||

getprop("ro.build.product") == "GT-S5830M" ||

getprop("ro.product.device") == "GT-S5839i" ||

getprop("ro.build.product") == "GT-S5839i"

assert failed: getprop("ro.product.device") == "GT-S5830c" ||

getprop("ro.build.product") == "GT-S5830c" ||

getprop("ro.product.device") == "GT-S5830C" ||

getprop("ro.build.product") == "GT-S5830C" ||

getprop("ro.product.device") == "GT-S5830i" ||

getprop("ro.build.product") == "GT-S5830i" ||

getprop("ro.product.device") == "GT-S5830I" ||

getprop("ro.build.product") == "GT-S5830I" ||

getprop("ro.product.device") == "GT-S5830m" ||

getprop("ro.build.product") == "GT-S5830m" ||

getprop("ro.product.device") == "GT-S5830M" ||

getprop("ro.build.product") == "GT-S5830M" ||

getprop("ro.product.device") == "GT-S5839i" ||

getprop("ro.build.product") == "GT-S5839i"

Installer Error (Status 7)

End at : Thu Nov 7 14:08:42 2013

""""
[Galaxy Ace S5830i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mradermaxlol:
God dammit! Have u got GT-S5830 or GT-S5830i/M/C/39i?

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