yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] noobtoob:
Yes, exactly. Thinking of just a sticky with ask the links to the recovery threads in them, and with all files for download. Not stealing the threads glory, cause that is where all the magic takes place, but at least easy to find.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
Could not agree more. So let's make that happen! I'd like to be on XDA for a long time, and any others like this too! Been browsing here for three years, snagging roms and root like a fiend, about time I became a member LOL
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
I'm sending your sd back asap. Just can't wait to use my note 3 again, ive used the note 1 since launch on at&t, then the note 2 for t mobile with straight talk, and the same thing with the 3!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] aiti1980:
Hello!

I have hard bricked sm-n9005 and worked sm-n9005.

Pease, write me in pm for answered on ask for procedures create unbrick image on sd card
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
You guys have been rolling on this. If zinnium really did have a true hard brick and this recovered it, I don't mind putting together a current information write up. I still have the documentation that we used throughout this whole process. The only thing to add in is that we need a 32GB SD card and it's highly recommended to use class 10. I also didn't exFAT format the SD Card. I thought that it didn't matter as we were completely overwriting everything on the SD card with the dd if command?

Seems mobiletechvideos is having trouble JTAG'ing my device. I pointed them to this thread along with giving them the documentation to recovery my device. I EXPECT a refund from them should they get it working with this procedure. Either that or i'll tell them to re-brick it and ship it back to me lol.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
Here you go... make sure to follow the steps down to a "T". Then you should be good as GOLD :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2476353
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] aiti1980:
Yes, no i read this post many time. I want to understand how create unbrick.img for my model SM-N9005.

How you determined the size of the image? I may him create on phone use terminal emulated or must use Linux terminal console?

Thanks!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
The exact instructions on what to do with it, and in linux or image writing tools for windows are here, and there also. If you read it carefully then you'd see what I am telling you. Follow the steps on that thread, and here if you need to. The command to dd to your sdcard using terminal emulator is here, also. Of course, you cant use the tmobile image. Just to be sure that no one else thinks that if they have a similar problem.

Also you will need a working sm-n9005 which I believe you said you have - to dump the image. There's also a page in this thread, a few pages back, that has a command to dump the image you need. It contains all of the partitions needed.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] noobtoob:
I agree about the exFat, as the card gets overwritten, but I think that recommendation came from someone who couldn't write the image using Windows and cygwin. For those using Linux, Unix, or terminal emulator, should work fine.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
Isn't that something, they can't jtag it but we can fix it with a few simple commands, an sd card, some files, and a usb cable :) ecs87 I thought you knew it had to be formatted to exfat32! You most likely did it right, and that's the only thing that prevented boot! Needless to say of course:)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] aiti1980:
How dump img from terminal emulator on the phone?

I use command

su

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

and on the sd card writteng very big unbrick.img (>>8 GB). How may limit size?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
try using the app "parted" from the play store. the same page you got that command from has noobtoob using it to create a reasonable size image at 291mb.

Edit : how did it go? let me know
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] aiti1980:
"Aparted" in the google play i see, no how create .img?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
[MENTION=4404580]noobtoob[/MENTION], did you run the same dump command in parted?

Until we figure this out, and he confirms let me take a look.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] noobtoob:
You just ran the dump for the entire mmcblk0, which is 8 gigs if used space, it left the free space unwritten.

bs= bite size

There are 1024 bits in a kilobyte

To make a decent size image, you would write

su

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/unbrick.img bs=1024 count=168960

That is 165 MB (168960/1024), enough to get the aboot partition of mmcblk0.

Parted is a Linux command that runs in terminal, so you can see what partitions exist and how big they are...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] aiti1980:
ooo! Thanks!!!

I use adb driver

into cmd win 7 i run:

ADB SHell

su

and you command and get unbrick.img

waiting for result...

I writting *.img on adata Microsd card from win 32 Disk Image

Update: WOW!!! My hard bricked phone power up!

Many thanks from RussiaЖ)))

Where me put unbrick.img: dropbox, or another service?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
Congrats!! Don't forget to click that thanks button for noobtoob!

If you want upload it to mega and start a hard-unbrick thread for the SM-N9005 Note 3 - there are ALOT of people with that device and hard brick! Then post the method, and links to the files there!

...By george....I think he is the FIRST SM-N9005 hard-unbrick success here on XDA BRAVO:) MERRY CHRISTMAS!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
BRAVO! :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
[MENTION=5626378]aiti1980[/MENTION] - were you hard-bricked in qhusb_download mode? How did you hard-brick?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] aiti1980:
MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Note_3_SM-N9005_Unbrick[1].img 165.0 MB

https://mega.co.nz/#!UtNhgAja!XLL6Xy7qxW0L9t4ZgXgowHFNlSsLuz5RIQ-fQc5Ctxk

You best!!!

---------- Post added at 12:39 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:31 AM ----------

I use terminal for repair micro sd (she bad) and hard bricked sm_n9005. No power, no service and download mode, PC see phone how qhsusb_bulk

Now I restore phone from odin 3.09 with service four-file firmware. Yes! I did it:)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
Thanks, NO YOU'RE THE BEST!! LOL:)

Really, just glad to help. Thanks for that link too, I'll put it in the op! [MENTION=4404580]noobtoob[/MENTION] - got our answer - he WAS in qhusb_download mode!

I can't wait to get a 32gig sd card and unbrick mine!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] aiti1980:
msmercy42

And i am a very glad!

I wish to you as quickly as possible and got a Micro SD and revived phone:)

I confess that at first I didn`t believe that you have to get something. No you did it!!!

:good:

...Sleep...

Update: Please edit url for unbrick - i bad copy him. Right - https://mega.co.nz/#!UtNhgAja!XLL6Xy7qxW0L9t4ZgXgowHFNlSsLuz5RIQ-fQc5Ctxk
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
Hey no problem! Believe in me brother! I'm hard-bricked too! Thanks I hope so too... I've been helping people out and I'm more bricked than koopa here! I'll fix that link!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] zinnium:
the solution with links of how i did it.

i post the solution with links on a new thread.... So its at the TOP of the thread and to keep everyone from digging for it.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2583603

Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:laugh:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
Thanks! Still dont see why it would be that much to look through a thread with everything to fix your phone in it..... I had to talk to quite a few people on the net, look at hundreds of links, and spend many hours to get this thread where it is.... THAT - was digging.

Like I said on the thread you *ahem* started - When you pmed me asking me what to do I had no idea you already knew how to do it:)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] zinnium:
I honestly thought u had done it. You even said your NOTE 3 was back on... So, i dug through the thread read what you said and followed it.. Worked for me.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
I not one time said in this thread that my device is back on...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] zinnium:
you said it right there: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=48653772#post48653772
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
Msmercy had a s4 that was (temporarily?) being used.

I'm really stoked this works guys. Glad to be apart of the "team" lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
Exactly.. Maybe if he actually read the posts he would see I never said my note 3 is unbricked. I own an s4 also... thanks for the explanation. And - glad you are too!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] noobtoob:
While I am at wishing the rest of my family, might as well as the xda family.

Merry Christmas!

This was the most fun I have had in a long time. I am happy this thread took off and accomplished what it did.

As though you guys all didn't hear this before, a special shout out goes to everyone involved.

msnercy42, ecs86, DocHoliday77, shabbypenguin.

Thanks to zinnium for testing out the theory and proving it works.

Now, on to the next project...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
Merry Christmas noobtoob, and to all! BIG thanks for EVERYTHING you did particularly. Thank you everyone for all of your time and efforts!

It was fun, I agree totally:) Guess we will cross paths here again one day? And if not - it won't be forgotten! We had an adventure, and that is one of the best parts of life!

I always get choked up during times like this..sniff..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] M1k3Carson1369:
YES, we CAN

YUP! I mentioned in the "Summarized" Version of this thread, that while booting from sdcard into ODIN mode, you can choose instead to press Vol- and restart the system... boots exactly how it was prior to bricking it. No power source needed, can even swap sdcards, etc...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
This really was the most fun I've had with phones and it was great seeing everyone come together. I never delved this deep into the phones partition system but I'm sure we all have a much deeper understanding of it now. Even if we don't understand everything completely...

I doubt any of us will forget this thread. Hopefully it becomes a sticky, because it for damn sure deserves it!

I'll be looking forward to the next challenge ;)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
Ecs87 - Who'd have though we'd do it? I admit it looked bleak but we didn't give up and now the challenges ahead most likely will NOT involve not being able to get into download or recovery mode, or power on a samsung device... LOL
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Killberty:
[MENTION=5553888]msmercy42[/MENTION]

hi i red your post and the one from designgears about the n900a and i am impressed by this method.

how can i make an unbrick.img myself (dont wanna use one from another phone tbh...)

how to make this for any other other compatible phone ( i mean which Partition must be in, how do i see them, and how to adapt the commands to the needed filesize then) ?

thanks for your time in advance
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] noobtoob:
The commands are all throughout the thread. Just look around here. But basically, you need to write the first portion if the emmc block 0 to include the aboot and a little after there.

On the other hand, I know knowledge is key... But using one from another phone doesn't hurt in the least. There isn't a single lick if information in the unbrick.IMG that isn't already in yours. It is all samsung files the way they were meant to be.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
You said that SO nicely lol. I saw his post and thought "asshole rip incoming for not searching"

Sent from my SPH-L900. Please hit the thanks button if I helped you out!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] noobtoob:
Ha ha. I totally thought all about it. Seriously though, it says "I read the thread, but can you tell me how to..." It's almost on every page after page 3.

I can't rip all that much. As much as I would like to, my complete job is walking people through the most mundane activities, and sometimes working on the VoIP system we have. I just got used to being "friendly".

Sent from any phone that isn't made by Apple.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Killberty:
Haha :D

Sorry guys but i have great respect of these terminal commans, and there are many different, so haw many bytes will REALLY work...

And i myself hate ppl who dont search, but just wanted to be 100% sure

Have a nice day
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] noobtoob:
I hear you on that one. I don't know terminal commands all that week myself, but you really catch on quickly.

Pages 5-7 are very good for reading, and page 17 has a lot if good info. I use a bit calculator myself for the bite size. They can be found online.

Good luck.

Sent from any phone that isn't made by Apple.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Killberty:
Thanks for answering me even if i ask dumb questions.

At first id like to display all partitions, but

Su

Busybox fdisk -ul

Wont work... how to do so?

And what partitions have to be inculded?

Also, if im calculating right, the unbrick images contain EFS data of the ppl, who made them... am i right? Isnt this bad actually?

hit 'thanks' if i helped you

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] noobtoob:
Sorry, you are incorrect. The untuck images do not contain efs. As I mentioned previously, you just have to make am image a little bit past the aboot. Look at the picture in this post

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=48685811

The efs partition is well below what we are writing.

Also on this page (link above), there are directions for another way to get the partition table written to a text file.

Sent from any phone that isn't made by Apple.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
Issue resolved.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] noobtoob:
Damn! That is some bull. I myself still haven't seen a jtag solution anywhere around. You should get the $350 insurance.

Sent from any phone that isn't made by Apple.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] krelvinaz:
[MENTION=4959296]ecs87[/MENTION] would have been cheaper to pay the $175 insurance copay and get a new phone.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
The thing is, the KNOX counter is definitely tripped and it had a bad IMEI anyway. The shop I work at bought it for R&D purposes. I ended up hard bricking it, and that's when I ended up in this thread.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] noobtoob:
I thought that if they couldn't fix it, you don't pay. Hell, they had that thing for like a month.

Sent from any phone that isn't made by Apple.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
See below. Issue resolved.

Sent from my SPH-L900. Please hit the thanks button if I helped you out!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
Thanks for reaching out to me Josh. I'm definitely going to take you up on the repair/replacement of the chip to at least get me back into QCHSUSB mode. I don't even need it all the way un-bricked. I just want it back to how it was when we first sent it out, that's it :)

Thanks again
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] connexion2005:
No problem at all. I have a board on order for you. I'll send it to you when it arrives to me and you just send me the one in your unit back. This way, you won't even worry about having to hope the unbrick method works. Just install the perfect working logic board and send me the dead one! At no additional charge as promised! The only thing I would ask is for you to perhaps amend the original posts you made and direct them to these more recent ones after everything is resolved. At the time of the post I certainly understood the initial frustrations. :)

-Josh
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
Willdo and done.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] connexion2005:
Fantastic. The board is being sourced from a trusted contact I use working out of California. He estimates he will have it for quality assurance checks mid to late next week. From there it will be 2 day priority sent to me for a quick check. Then 2 day priority to you for installation! Then when you have time, just send me the dead logic board back (would love to get it back as perhaps I can salvage it for parts and repair down the road). At a minimum it will have a 32GB eMMC I can use for other devices... ;)

-Josh
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] connexion2005:
[MENTION=4959296]ecs87[/MENTION] The board has arrived. I'll be testing with it for around 2 business days and get it sent out to you. Please let me know if you will be able to send the unit back to me (the dead board) as requested.

Thanks!

-Josh
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
As soon as the working board arrives at the shop and is verified working, the dead one will be sent out that day if not the next day.

Thanks
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] D4rk_nVidia:
How I can flash the IMG?

My adb dosent work
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
You don't flash the image. You download it to your computer and write the image to an appropriately sized SD card. I did this in Linux by using the dd if commands specified in this thread. If you try doing this in terminal emulator be careful. You can easily overwrite a critical partition (such as the bootloader partition) and you'll have a bricked rescue phone...

Sent from my SPH-L900. Please hit the thanks button if I helped you out!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] noobtoob:
Ha ha... I thought you were going to say read the thread.

Sent from the phablet of the year!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
Young grasshopper still learns lol. One too many bottles of wine and PDFs of Samsung's new EFSV2 will make ANYONE tame. Well...minus the security fanatics in charge of the iPhone division :D

Sent from my SPH-L900. Please hit the thanks button if I helped you out!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] noobtoob:
I totally need to know where you work if you've been reading that all day... Lol. I've been building network racks and what I call " technician sitting".

I had time to wipe my work sgs4, install 4.3 on it (it was being blocked by airwatch because our airwatch admin is lazy). Then, read up on how to root it (here on xda of course). Rooted it, de-bloated, unrooted it, and set up airwatch. Went back to the shop, and everyone was asking why my phone was much faster than theirs. All I could do was smile.

I'm telling you, even in the IT industry, there are some really stupid people. Oh yeah, I also finished writing a 3 page paper for my class.

Wow, way of topic. Back on it, found a new no Knox tripping root method by reading up here. Supposedly works also on the note 3, but no one has posted it up. My Knox is already tripped, so I didn't care, but worked on my sgs4 like a charm.

Sent from the phablet of the year!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
Haha. One of my jobs is at a ****hole phone shop, all documentation is provided to me...by me lol. I'll PM you the efs v2 "document". I didn't understand a lot of it, but hopefully after reading it enough times I can make sense of it while "technician sitting".

Sent from my SPH-L900. Please hit the thanks button if I helped you out!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] noobtoob:
Send em. The only way to learn is to read up on it. Which is why there are still a ton of people out there who can't seem to do that.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] _alexndr:
Thanks to this thread I was able to unbrick my friend's Note 3 :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] turilo:
I will try and provide a n900w8 debrick.img. no sensitive data is taken when performing this is there?

EDIT: I have created the N900W8 debrick.img
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] bftb0:
Hi folks.

I'm trying to assist someone with a bricked SM-N900V. (Yes, I know that is a different forum.) Mine is not bricked (well, not yet LOL).

Quick question for those that successfully went through the debricking process: did anyone notice any observable artifacts/differences on-screen (or LEDs, or time delays, or maybe USB device ID appearances on the PC) in the cases where the method works, relative to the way that a not-bricked phone behaves during a <VolDown>+<Home>+<Power> start sequence?

Strange question, I know - but what I'm getting at is if you think there is a way for someone with a NOT bricked device to detect that they have properly constructed a debrick SD card?

Maybe the logic of the early boot process makes this impossible - for instance if the SD card is checked only after an (early) boot failure of some sort has already occurred. On the other hand, if the SD card is checked *first* in a <VolDown>+<Home>+<Power> start sequence, maybe there is some way to detect that download mode has been bootstrapped from the SD card (instead of from the phone).

It would allow devs (trying to hack the early boot process) with working devices to:

(A) feel comfortable that they have a working rescue method in their pocket before they start hacking

(B) allow owners with working devices to assist in nailing down various configuration issues, e.g.

- is a high speed card necessary? (should be a *read* operation, not write)

- what is the minimum debrick image size? (i.e., what are the minimum partitions that need to be present?)

- is the SD card "cleanliness" a factor? (The method as it exists now doesn't seem to need the secondary GPT table to have been reconstructed from the primary, e.g. with 'parted'... what happens if there is garbage data on the SD card at the location of the secondary?)

Well, anyway - if you are reading this and you have a known-working debrick SD card (and a now-rescued device), consider seeing if you can detect any differences in <VolDown>+<Home>+<Power> startup with and without that debrick SD in place... even if it is something subtle like a time delay. I think it would be very helpful - it might encourage more folks to start poking at the early boot gearing if they were more confident in their ability to recover from a "hard-ish" brick.

bftb0
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] turilo:
here is N900W8 Mj4 debrick img https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx0cWHq6jupFcUZMNnh3b2JkQjA/edit?usp=sharing :good::good:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] hustleanything:
hardbricked and bootable through sd

Guys i've been searching and searching read this whole thread twice. i have a n900t. unbrick.img insd via win32diskimager. phone boots when sd inserted to download mode(no need to press buttons). try flashing n900t firmware via odin 309.i get a fail right away. i've read that i need a .pit but cannot find one in the firmware i downloaded. Im sure its something simple but i've been at this for 2 days straight. cant boot into anything else but download mode( which it does buy its self with sd card). Using a 64gb sd. All i can flash in odin is the modem.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
I haven't been keeping up with the latest firmware builds for the N900T as I have a L900 but make sure you're using the LATEST firmware build. With the secured bootloader it will not allow you to flash a older firmware over a newer firmware. It might take some digging for the latest one but that sounds like your issue. I could be wrong though

Sent from my SPH-L900. Please hit the thanks button if I helped you out!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] hustleanything:
thanks for the info. i've downloaded the latest firm from sam. switched to ubuntu to try heimdall thats throwing failed to confirm end of file transfer. I tried heidall on windows 7 and it and its giving the .dll error, so i downloaded necesary windows visaul still not working. Over all i do have secure boot enabled and write protection enabled. I havent tried calling tmobile, dont really want to I want to recover this phone.