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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
I bet they're using RIFF BOX which I doubt has any useful files for us. Their repair involves the real method of JTAGing where I've seen guys solder points from the RIFF BOX to the phone board. But I'll definitely reach out to them to ask them a few questions. I haven't gotten any calls from them yet so I assume all is going well (or snail mail hasn't delivered the package yet)

For those wondering if they can use the N900A method, I doubt it. Reason being, it'll load the N900A bootloader. When you try to flash the N900T odin files, it'll fail. You might be able to get the N900A firmware on it, and pray that the modem works. OR...you could load the modem from the N900T into the N900A in a custom recovery. Will the rest of the N900A firmware work with the N900T modem? Don't...quite...know. Just some more hurdles to think about should the N900A recovery image work.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] noobtoob:
Any luck with the USB jig?

tweaking my note 3-alpha style
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
Some hair is probably being lost over this issue by msmercy lol. Mobiletechvideos.com contacted me today at 530am asking me exactly how I bricked the phone I sent out to then...lmao. You'd think they'd be able to see mmcblk0p3 is COMPLETELY zeroed out; then again I have no idea what they can and can't see with JTAG. As terrible as this sounds, I hope they can't fix it so I can do more work on this "JTAG" method (my boss hates my persistence sometimes).
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
Tomorrow we will see with the jig!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] noobtoob:
What took them so long? I want to "work" on this too.

tweaking my note 3-alpha style
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
WHAT!? MOBILETECHVIDEOS?!!?!!!...! :eek:

Smashed the s4 like an idiot accidentally... my only device until the note 3 is back ON.. sorry for the suspense all:laugh:

Can't believe that ecs87... but I personally LOVE YOUR PERSISTANCE! Have you seen the source thread where this method apparently first started? The sprint s3 qhusb-unbrick thread? There were posts about users successfully sd card booting, after plugging into a pc and powering on. At first they were like me going "WTF", with a perfectly written sd boot card plugged in, holding power, and still nothing. It's the last thing I was researching before I lost internet.

What caught my eye the most was the fact that one individual stated that they didn't need jtag, a jig, anyway jig, or a short - they just plugged into their netbook and powered on with the power button. Perhaps the battery or USB power from an outlet cannot power the board in this state.

And as xxneolithicspxx stated prior- something has to tell the board to read the sd. Also, as I have stated, I can rig my s4 to charge my note 3 battery to full. Imagine my surprise when I put it in the s4 at the end of the day. It is draining the heck out of a 3100 mah battery, in this qhusb download mode. BIG "?" there...

I had the link saved, for the sprint s3 thread but it's in the s4 being shipped back to asurion. It is, here on XDA however. I will post it if you don't feel like checking it out which I doubt lol.

I hope and pray they can fix it ecs87. They're supposed to be able to fix qhusb_download mode NO PROB
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
[MENTION=4404580]noobtoob[/MENTION] - in reference to your pm, I forgot to mention that theory is that the bricked note 3 be plugged into the pc, and the power button held down for success. Check the thread I mentioned, see what you think.

And I saw a good point just a few posts ago. My full note 3 battery is draining totally, just after attempts to hold down the power button, with the sd boot card inserted into the phone.

The tmobile s3 thread has a few posts asking people how long they held the power button. Should I tape the power button on, with a fully charged battery, and plugged in via usb/outlet/pc

(that's assuming outlet power will do anything - I believe it does nothing in this mode)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
there's a link for successful sd card boot only after plugging into a pc, then holding power on the hard bricked device. When I actually can find it ill post it.

Another question that comes to mind is something [MENTION=2614663]shabbypenguin[/MENTION] mentioned in the SM-N900A hard-unbrick thread. Assuming (my assumption of course) that the emmc is 32gb in this device, he believes that a 32 gb card is necessary.

Either that or its quite large, maybe 16gb, and the extra space mneeded on the sd card would be for the rest of the files.

I noticed that the samsung document photos show a 4 gb sd card being used in the sd card boot. I wonder if this 16 gb card I have is enough, or more than enough? Going to get the jig soldered now.

I cant help pointing out another thing I mentioned before. There is no battery in that photo. They're using a PBA to power up the board, right? Well I know a usb connection to a pc before I had this sd boot card, yielded some type of response from my phone, that is, recognizing it as having qhusb_download_9008 drivers Installed, and the device as BULK... I need to get this thing plugged into a pc to be certain, if this sd card alone isn't enough.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] shabbypenguin:
im not assuming, on the s3/s4 you needed at least the size of your emmc chip for the bootup to be scanned properly. every device we have done this stuff on has just been a dd dump of mmcblk0 of a certain size and rewriting it to the sdcard, from there it just works. i wanna say there has been at least 6-8 people who have done this across various devices that ive posted images for.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
Thanks [MENTION=2614663]shabbypenguin[/MENTION]! Didn't mean that you weren't stating it from experience, rather then speculation. I, am doing the speculation lol. I for one am confident that you are correct. I was glad to see that you changed your opinion about the tmobile bootloaders being bootable this way!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] noobtoob:
That makes sense. Anyone try this out on a 32 GB SD card? Mine was only 16.

I thought at one point this may have been the case, but again, I don't have a bricked device to test on, so I never bothered lurking for that factor. I did however find a ton about qhusb.

tweaking my note 3-alpha style
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] zinnium:
@msmercy42, Could you please post a link to the unbrick image you had used?

[MENTION=5553888]msmercy42[/MENTION],

Could you please post a link to the unbrick image you had used? I also like to know what SD card, Size and brand. Just so I can match it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
Its a gskill 16gb class 6 sd card. Don't go 16 gig. Read a few posts back, at the post [MENTION=2614663]shabbypenguin[/MENTION] made.

We most likely have to be at 32, preferably 64gb, at class 10 at that. Its due to the size of the emmc.

http://www.mediafire.com/?3d7o47aro5vb22y

That's the unbrick.img. Have you read this thread, I'd say from page 5 on? You're following noobtoob's method right?

Sorry about the reply, my sprint connection is not good at the moment.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] shabbypenguin:
how was this image dumped?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
With linux if I am not mistaken. [MENTION=4404580]noobtoob[/MENTION] performed it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] shabbypenguin:
im hoping to find the actual command. if you go too far with a dump you end up dumping the efs which contains the imei. that could be bad if someones efs is floating around in img format being handed off to people to unbrick. if following the guide you guys should have an unbrick image around 130mb's and will have the modem, and bootloader partitions only.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
"didn't use the JTAG boot loader from the JTAG zip, only the Odin v 3.07, and since the way the modems and boot images are different from what I am used to, I just straight flashed the entire ROM to the SD card. I do know using terminal emulator I was able to find out that the boot goes all the way to 291 mb. I was able to write the image to sdcard in linux mint and verify it visually using Unix. But after the image is written, it formats the sd card into an in recognizable format (except in Unix).*

My phone and Linux can see the card, but just says unrecognizable. All I can tell you about what is written is the phone boots up in a series of .MDT processes, of which I am still unfamiliar. So I just thought it best to flash the whole dam ROM to it. Again, we are still crossing fingers at this point, but a little hope is better than none at all..."

Thats some of what he did. He managed to dump 70mb, then 210, then 304mb.

I'll go back and get the command ecs87 gave him. It's what he used. one minute please.

[MENTION=2614663]shabbypenguin[/MENTION] Here is what he gave noobtoob I believe.

Originally Posted by*ecs87*

Hey, would anyone be willing to upload me something off of their phone? It's off of mmcblk0 so no personal information will be read (such as IMEI, phone number, etc.). You'll need to be rooted and I think you'll also have to have busybox installed. Run this in terminal emulator after escalating yourself to root (su)

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/unbrick.img bs=1024 count=71680

The unbrick.img now on your SD card is what I need. I plan on writing this to an SD card in Linux and then putting it in my hard bricked N900T to see if it'll at least get into download mode.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] shabbypenguin:
there is one of your issues, taht image is way to small for a gsm device. the modems are far larger.

if someone runs parted on their device and gets me a partition list with sizing i can give the exact command to dump a true unbrick image, write that to a proper size sdcard and you should be golden. does the note 3 only come in 32gb model?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
64 and 32 if I'm correct. Can anyone run this? [MENTION=4404580]noobtoob[/MENTION] would no problem I bet but he's offline. I'm getting excited now because there's some big developers getting involved!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] shabbypenguin:
https://mega.co.nz/#!dIoUXJxB!KlvuzjKlnY3wHrXOIXiDsmCkzU5NVdDCx-mGD0WqbIE

download and push to /data/local/tmp/parted

adb shell

su

chmod 755 /data/local/tmp/parted

/data/local/tmp/parted /dev/block/mmcblk0 print > /sdcard/partition-list-N900T.txt

pastebin.com that text file and be sure to quote/mention my name. i can look it over and give you guys the dd command to dump a good unbrick image. once we have the image people can write it to a 32gb sdcard and restore their devices. I would also suggest someone makes a bootloader tar so that peopel can flash just that and get back up and running. I tend to do it for all the devices I help with unbrick images, but downloading a 3gb tar to make a 30MB one would kind of suck :P. hopefully we can get this all sorted out and have yall enjoying yoru note 3's for xmas :P
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] noobtoob:
I ran parted on the device and the boot partition, excluding everything else, ends at 291 MB. I made the 310 MB image using terminal emulator.

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/unbrick.img bs=1024 count=325058560

For some reason parted will not run on my phone, so I used the busy box fdisk method. See the screenshot below.

As far as the note 3 only in 32 GB, the US variants yes, but there is an international one that does come in 16 GB. SM-N900 or something. Anyways, take a lok at whatever you need to and advise. I am still a noob when it comes to linux.

EDIT: Link removed
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
http://www.mediafire.com/?jkw1vv95ub8596h

[MENTION=2614663]shabbypenguin[/MENTION] what about the odin tflash method here in this pdf? noobtoob used it and achieved PASS!

Is this a factor anymore, or is it something we might not need?

Definitely will quote/mention you in the OP! THANK YOU!!

Guess we will see very soon if this works and judging from your work, I'm thinking we are about to have a must-have thread here!

Hope everyone with a bricked tmobile, or any other note 3 can use this and enjoy their note 3s for Xmas! :) [MENTION=2614663]shabbypenguin[/MENTION] Above link fixed!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] shabbypenguin:
odd taht parted wont run, i just tested it fine on my xperia z (im not cool enough for a note 3 :P) and it worked fine. not seeing any screenshot though?EDIT it just loaded :P so long as the tmobile one comes in 32gb at its lowest then doesnt matter about international folks, they can make their own image. we are here for tmo customers :P

there is an error with the file, i think you copied the url wrong. [MENTION=5553888]msmercy42[/MENTION] this image when created will be for tmobile ones only, the n900a already has theirs.

edit2:

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/unbrick.img count=163839 bs=1024

that should dump all the way to trustzone partition, which is all you need and it will be 160MBish in size. which one of you has the needed tools to recover right now? on a side note, damn... these phones ar egetting big im gunan need to increase the dump size on my unbrick image zip :/
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] noobtoob:
And here I thought I was being all bad ass trying to get recovery in as well... LOL. Anyways, the xperia z is a nice phone, almost bought that one myself, until I found out the note 3 would be coming out and I could get out of my Sprint contract. Appreciate the assist here. I don't have a bricked phone, otherwise I would be attempting this ASAP. Speaking of...

New image uploading now. [MENTION=5553888]msmercy42[/MENTION], you will have to re-write the new image onto an sdcard. You have a 32 GB card and a linux box to do so? I have the box, and the working phone and image (crossing fingers), but not the card. The link will be posted in this post in a bit, after it finishes uploading.

New image DL HERE! Yay!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] shabbypenguin:
ha just left sprint myself, saw tmo had a deal for 0 down and 10 a month, was my kind of budget phone :P. overall its nice, the best part about it is when i play a game for more than 5 mins and it starts to overheat i can run water over it to cool it down.

i told him its possible for him to use anotehr phone and dd the image onto the sdcard but havent heard back from him.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] noobtoob:
I remember seeing you around those parts. I was one of the very unhappy Sprint customers, and as a matter of fact, I was going to leave for the xperia z just so I could throw it in the pool and dive in for it. Always wanted to do that and not have to throw it is a bowl of rice for 4 days...

mercy is all the way across country from me, I shipped the original t-flashed image already on the sdcard since nothing else was working. here is hoping he finds someone nice enough to let them use their phone. I forgot he has the s4 also. Mercy, use the s4 to write the new unbrick.img to a 32 GB sdcard, and let us know how it goes. Looking forward to good news.

Added link to previous post for new unbrick.img
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
Thanks noobtoob for your hard work and the sd card. And the upload:) I'll send you your sd card back of course. And for all of the research and discussion, and help here, thank you everyone! I'm going to try the new method. do I have to be root the s4 because it is not rooted..

Personally, I am just happy to have been a help in all this!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] noobtoob:
I think you can probably just use terminal emulator without root as it is not a system image you are pulling, but just a generic image you are writing. Don't quote me though, I have never not been rooted...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
okay almost done downloading...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] noobtoob:
You would have to find the mount point in /dev in order to write to the sdcard. Most linux machines call it sdX, but the phone does not. I'll look around for you tomorrow, I got to get some sleep right now though.

In the meantime, hopefully someone else here knows what it is and can point you in the right direction. If you can't do it without root, just jump one someone's laptop and king root that b**** real quick like. I know I know, Kingo root, but I don't have time to muck around....LOL.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
lol ok I will :) What's the command I am using here?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
Ok.. what is the point of pming me this at all? this could have been, and should be posted publicly....

I pmed him back about that, and also about starting "new" thread that's already started lol. Also... if you get help from a thread, and it works for you.. isn't it proper to go to the thread that helped you, thank the person that helped you, and post how you did it in that thread so others can see it?

Or maybe its just me :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
So when does the thread that helped this member get to know how we helped him? Also it would be nice to know if possible, what hard-brick he had - qhusb_download mode, etc.. Like zero information, but apparently got his device up and running from a hard brick using this method ;)

Exciting to know this is happening, and just glad to be a part of it all! Any others have any success? Pm me or post it, but do NOT pm me with success, and NOT post a successful unbrick from a hard bricked state using this method! That is exactly what this thread, is all about!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
Link fixed, check post #164, thanks for the correction shabbypenguin!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
Msmercy, download the app called partition table. We should be able to work out the dd command from the partition list in there. In the advanced partition list you should see "mmcblk1" that's the same size as your sdcard. It MIGHT be mmcblk1. That's what we need to find out.

Looks like this has been coming along!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
Oh yes it has! Sorry about the delay, sprint 3g/1bar-of-weak-lte is debilitating sometimes. Ok will do. I'm having trouble getting my s4 rooted... no pc...:(

Dont think I can do too much without root.. My wife's s4 is rooted but the binary is outdated. That's been a bit of a problem for alot of people. I downloaded su 1.85, just not sure if I can use goo.im or rom manager to flash custom recovery on there and flash su to update accordingly.

Otherwise let me get the partition table app now.

Ok, heres the screenshot
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] shabbypenguin:
Whoa just as a quick correction to the OP, i am not the one who found this method. kasp3rd showed it to me and i have since worked on it on various devices :P. even then he isnt the original finder afaik.

anyways should be /dev/block/mmcblk1 as your sdcard. I cant say for certain if this will work or not as ive never done it from an image to an sdcard, but :

dd if=/sdcard/unbrick.img of'=/dev/block/mmcblk1

should write the unbrick image to the needed 32gb sdcard. this is of course assuming you cant do it on a computer iwth linux or winimage on windows.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
Thanks [MENTION=2614663]shabbypenguin[/MENTION]! Will update the OP of course! My mistake!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] albert_htc:
Hi

I went and had a look at a nexus 5 and found the ringing volume very low.

Is there any way to increase this so it is loud enough to hear when in a jeans pocket in a loud room?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marcusva79:
There are many kernels that will be coming out that will in fact make the N5 louder than normal. Google has said that there is a fix in the works that will help increase volume. I currently using Franco kernel and volume is better. Stay tuned.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FuMMoD:
Can you please cite the source for the google volume fix. This sounds like great news and I hope we get it soon. I have viper4android and even that isn't sufficient enough.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3alaawi:
I think this is going to need an experienced dev to answer. Its a small question and probably a small answer but I'm going to put all the information I can.

Ok, so my background is that I recently returned my phone stock, the steps I took were:

S-off, flash RUU, root, remove tampered and unlocked flags, unroot, flash stock recovery, lock the bootloader, s-on.

I then OTAed myself up to 4.3 sense 5.5.

My issue is that having returned to stock, my phone has some instabilities like:

1. it randomly restarted once,

2. I can't lock the device (but can power it off so its not the button broken),

3. and once I opened the camera and the camera bit only took a square of the screen, as in it didn't fill up the whole screen, and the camera menus were messed up (when I rotated, half of the menus were cropped out of the screen, but it went back to normal around 15 seconds later).

Anyway, reason I'm posting this is that I have a niggling feeling that, being originally a CID J15 and x.xx.415.x (middle east firmware which has no RUU available) firmware device, I flashed a 401.x (Europe I think) firmware RUU, this is giving my device some issues. Would that be possible? I got the RUU from htc1guru and it listed J15 as one of the suitable CIDs for the RUU. I also, after unrooting, relocking bootloader and s-on, flashed the RUU again, because as far as I know the RUU (something made by HTC officially) will not flash on a CID that it was not made for, and it worked just fine. So, thats not the issue then is it? I can't think of anything else, I didn't even install any apps yet, only whatsapp.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LibertyMarine:
Could you provide the following informations? Because then it's easier to determine the reason for the misbehaviour...

-Did you also have these issues with the firmware you got from the RUU, I mean did you also experience these issues without any OTAs?

-Could you post the link to the RUU you used? Because I also RUUed my phone a few days ago with the same procedure.. but actually, I am from Europe

-Did you flash the stock hboot 1.44 before flashing the RUU?

And as far my knowledge goes, the middle east HTC One doesn't have other hardware, it only has a bit different software, so this shouldn't be the cause for the issues..

Other than that:

Unlock your phone, use a custom recovery and flash a different ROM, and if it works in this case, you can exclude other firmware parts than the system...

And maybe you wanna try out one of these RUUs:

http://www.androidruu.com/index.php?developer=M7

Maybe there is one for you
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3alaawi:
Hello,

Here's the RUU I flashed:

http://www.htc1guru.com/dld/ruu_m7_...1-27_10-31-1131-05_release_310878_signed-exe/

It didn't flash first and it said on the link I just posted that I may need hboot 1.44 and so I downloaded and flashed that one and then it worked.

I couldn't tell you if I experienced this before the OTA or not because I OTAed one update after the other immediately. What I can say however is that the home and back button seemed less sensitive to touch in the initial builds, but one of the OTAs made it how it always is.

A for unlocking again and flashing a different rom, I guess I could flash a stock 401 4.3 rom and redo the unrooting process. I just found it really odd that I'm having these issues whilst being on full stock, I've only ever had these issues when flashing unreliable roms and kernels. You lost me at "excluding other firmware parts" though. My main concern is that I want zero chance for anyone to know that my devices was rooted once upon a time, so I wouldn't want to compromise that.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LibertyMarine:
Ok.. I flashed the zip.. but this really shouldn't be an issue

But with "excluding other firmware parts" I meant.. if you try another ROM and there it works, you should definitely know that the issue is caused by the system and not by hardware or bootloader etc...

Try another ROM and if it works fine, you can try another RUU.. maybe the zip.. and then you can re-unroot your HTC One and then they won't have any chance finding out what you'd done