yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
You should be able to do this in Odin on Windows. I know that Heimdall is supposed to be a significantly more powerful tool...but any kind of soft brick should be able to be recovered by odin. With that said...the N900T being the most recent model might require the most recent version of Odin.

http://www.mediafire.com/?6ko46ts9zvuc38q download this. It's Odin 3.09. You might need the .ini file with it http://www.mediafire.com/?2yq7mww6jlc6ug8. Load the LATEST N900T firmware in AP. Reboot, let it do its thang. It should reboot on its own. Pull the battery after the vibration. Put the battery back in while holding power+vol up+home. Wipe data and cache. Win.

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] hustleanything:
i get this error everytime in odin.

<ID:0/003> Added!!

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> N900TUVUBMI7_N900TTMBBMI7_N900TUVUBMI7_HOME.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<OSM> Leave CS..

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

<ID:0/003> File analysis..

<ID:0/003> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/003> Initialzation..

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

<ID:0/003> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/003> SingleDownload.

<ID:0/003> sbl1.mbn

<ID:0/003> NAND Write Start!!

<ID:0/003> FAIL!

<ID:0/003>

<ID:0/003> Complete(Write) operation failed.

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] BACARDILIMON:
You put that file in pda

TWEAKED 2.0 NOTE 3
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] hustleanything:
Yup. Now Im trying the emergency firmware recovery in kies. Lets see what happens there. I doubt it'll work
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
Are you sure you grabbed a N900T image to write to the SD card? IF you by chance grabbed another variant (such as the N900 or N900A) it will NOT allow you the flash a N900T firmware in Odin

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] hustleanything:
I downloaded twice from this thread. Made sure it was a n900t because the first one i downloaded was the n900a. Like i said before its weird how every prgram is throwing some error. I know this phone has life in it somewhere. not good at cpr lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] hustleanything:
well thanks for your help ran kies emergency recovery in download mode via sd boot 16gb. phone works now.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] MasterSe7en:
Dunno if i missed it somewhere or if it was Edited,.... but how did you brick your device? and what did you use to write the unbrick.img?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
Odd. Do you mind posting the file name of the MD5 you were trying in heimdall and Odin? Also do you mind posting the build number from the settings? I'm just floored why it wouldn't take the firmware through heimdall or Odin.

[MENTION=2578219]master a[/MENTION]FAIK a hard brick involves writing to the bootloader(s). You can mess up the modem, system, and efs partitions (amongst a few others) and the phone will still boot. Granted you may bootloop, your phone will still boot and it'll DEFINITELY have download mode. If you mess up the bootloader, bye bye DL mode, hello QCHSUSB mode and a blank screen.

There are a couple of ways to write to the SD card but the easiest I've found is to use terminal emulator on your phone and using the dd commands mentioned in this thread. Now...doing this on a working phone CAN HARD BRICK IT IF YOU WRITE TO THE WRONG BLOCK!!!! IE: on my phone the sdcard is mmcblk1. If I accidentally put mmcblk0, now I might have two hard bricked phones. For this exact reason I HIGHLY SUGGEST to make a Linux live cd and use a terminal through that to write to the SD card. Yes it's an extra step but much more forgiving for this type of activity.

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] SaHiLzZ:
[MENTION=4959296]ecs87[/MENTION] [MENTION=5553888]msmercy42[/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.

Thanks
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
That'd be a good thing to document. Some guys have used a 64GB card. Maybe the 32 isn't enough to have all of the needed partitions?

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] noobtoob:
From what we discovered... It has to be as big or bigger than the internal storage. In the s4 forums they were able to use 16 GB, but my 16 gb I sent out to mercy didn't work on the Notre 3, yet the 32 did. Same image and everything.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Crash:
hi guys

I try to search on the post but can find an img for the N900

I have a friend that i try to help

hugs
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
If you can find someone with a working N900, [MENTION=2614663]shabbypenguin[/MENTION] has a tool out there that'll make the image from it so that you can write it to an sd card. Or if you want to do it manually, there's dd if commands throughout this thread that you can use in a terminal on the working device to create the image.

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
[MENTION=1602851]connexion2005[/MENTION] It's been a while and I haven't received anything yet. By any chance do you have a tracking number on that?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] M1k3Carson1369:
Hey, my friend hard-bricked his sm-n900a, and is having trouble undoing it... said hes tried a 32gb sd, and had the files and all that...

Im not sure which files hes used, etc. But if anyone has the debrick.img for the n900a could I get a dl link pls? Im gonna try to go fix it for him...

Thanks in advance.

SGT3 [SM-T217S]

Goodness T3 [4.2.2]

CWM Recovery
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
The N900A was one of the first posts I came across while figuring out this whole procedure. I think I searched for N900A sd card unbrick on google. It should bring you to (I think it was) Shabby's thread where he has all of the instructions and files.

If it's still not working I'd try another SD card. IIRC some people had to go through a few sd cards before it booted

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] M1k3Carson1369:
Okay, I'll see what I can find... Gotta read through these forums, he says there are some ppl that got it to work with 2/4gb sd cards, and he's gone through a couple 2gb, cards, a 4gb, a 8gb, a 16gb, and a 32gb, lmao...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
We figured out that you moat likely need to use an SD card with a similar size to the internal storage of the device. I meant different brand SD Cards. I know one of the SD Cards I have at work will NOT apply .zip firmware updates for HTC phones through the bootloader but my other SD card will. Same exact file. Same method of transferring to the card. One just doesn't "fully" work whereas the other one does.

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] M1k3Carson1369:
Ok... Well I just tried doing it all the same way I did with the T-Mobile one a while back, at the begining of all this thread... (BTW, REALLY glad this method was expanded to work with almost aall the other galaxy devices, effin' amazing...)

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 the thread in AT&T NOTE3 Thread (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2476353) 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...

*EDIT

I mean if anyone has a N900A on a newer Build, if I could get them to make an img from that...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
Oh...damn. I completely forgot about that. Newer hard bricked phone on an older image might not work. I'll ask my boss to bring in a N900A tomorrow and I'll grab it for you if no one else has.

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] M1k3Carson1369:
Awesome, that'd be so great, thanks thanks so much! Let me know. MCarson1369@gmail.com thanks!

SPH-L720 (Knox-FREE)

philz_touch_6.08.9

TriForceROM_5.4
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
Boss forgot it at home. I'll try to remind him tomorrow.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] M1k3Carson1369:
Shoot. Lol.

Alright, thanks again.

SPH-L720 (Knox-FREE)

philz_touch_6.08.9

TriForceROM_5.4
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
Lucked out. Someone just walked in with a N900A. I was able to grab it. https://www.mediafire.com/?9p0j7zqc706lldh
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] M1k3Carson1369:
OMG, thank you so much! I;'m gonna dl and try it now! I'll let you know!

Edit* Any chance you remember what build it was on?

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HAHAHAHA!!!! GOT IT! Thanks ecs87! Im gonna upload the file to Drive, and post a link in the N900A thread, (courtesy of you), if that's ok.

*edit or should I just post the link you gave me? Idk if you wanted alot of traffic on it... Let me know, =]

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@ecs87

My friend says thanks a ton, he owes you homie-head...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
I'm pretty sure it was on a 4.3 build. I forgot to note the exact build number. It definitely wasn't on 4.4.2 though. And feel free to post it wherever or upload it to your own space and post the URL from there. I don't mind either way.

You're welcome. Glad it worked out. I'm ok on the homie head but a simple thanks button hit will suffice!

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] M1k3Carson1369:
Lmao. Well I posted YOUR url in the at&t note 3 thread. Gonna UL to Drive and post that too.

I got it into ODIN and flashed the 4.3 .pit, bl, ap, & cp, files and it took fine so it was likely on 4.3. Thanks again.

SPH-L720 (Knox-FREE)

philz_touch_6.08.9

TriForceROM_5.4
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] msmercy42:
Sorry about the long delay.. i was in a disastrous spot ever since 12/27/13..

anyway, i can confirm i unbricked using this method, with a sandisk ultra 32 gig uhc-1 sd card! Confirmed successful boot into odin mode (download mode normally), flashed stock firmware, and back on, using the note 3 now, hurray for all!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] bogddy87:
hello ppl,

one friend of mine have a "small" problem.i don t know how but he was able cu hardbrick his device.it is an n900l, korean version.it s there any unbrick img for his version? i ve readed a few pages here but didn t find what i need to help him.

10x in advance guys.any help will be appreciated :D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] CrashTestDroid:
[MENTION=4959296]ecs87[/MENTION] [MENTION=4404580]noobtoob[/MENTION] [MENTION=2614663]shabbypenguin[/MENTION] Is there a chance of N900T on 4.4 bootloader too? I just bricked my N900T during update with Heimdall (don't flash SBL1 if you value your N3) and hard bricked it looks like, no lights, no anything when power is pressed.

I think the N900T file in OP doesn't work bc it's for 4.3 bootloader, mine is/should be 4.4 bootloader now.

All help is appreciated!!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] noobtoob:
I am on my way to work. I will get an image posted later today, unless someone else beats me to it. They did a ton of stuff to the new boatload, so not sure if it will work, but worth a shot.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] CrashTestDroid:
Thank you. I was upgrading to get the 4.4 bootloader (don't care about knox 0x1) to test a new kernel + rom. V excited now to get back to the N3!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] noobtoob:
Sorry it took so long. Here is your new image. Let me know if it works. No one has tried this yet that I know of on the KK bootloader, and with the restricted features they have put in it, I can only hope it boots. Good Luck!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] CrashTestDroid:
THANKS!!! Testing and hoping it works now...

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...and it failed. Nothing, no lights, no anything. I even installed Kies on a Windows machine and it doesn't do anything, nor does "Device Manager" see anything happening when it's plugged in.

I feel like smashing the everloving crap out of it with a sledgehammer right now.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] noobtoob:
FML! First they ruin the ability to use heimdall once on the 4.4 boot loader, now this! And you did use an SD card that was 32 GB? I am not a happy camper right now and this may be my last Samsung phone. Any one want to buy a note 3?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] toastido:
We don't know this was because of kk. He could have a phone that just can't be recovered at all. Calm down. ?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] noobtoob:
LOL. Yeah. A bit over the top I agree. That's what working 14 hour days the past 3 months does to you, then you come home and do homework...

But, I wouldn't put it past them. Crashtestdroid has been around for quite some time. So I assumed he followed directions quite well, and since updating to the restrictive bootloader has been a nightmare for me and heimdall, I am jumping to conclusions.

Let's hope it is some random failure, and is recoverable. Either way, even though I don't care much about tripping Knox, these new "security" features carriers and manufacturers are getting quite a bit annoying.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] toastido:
Lol I know all about that kinda stress! Don't let it get to ya, man. (I know, easier said than done)

Agree with all of your other remarks, though. My knox is 0x1 and I don't care either. It sounds like his device wasn't even registering in device manager so I'm inclined to think it's beyond gone. Unfortunately, the only way to know for sure is another bootloader bricked kk gn3 to come along... which I hope doesn't happen to anyone. ?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] CrashTestDroid:
Yes I tried two 32GB cards, Kingston and Sandisk, neither did the trick. I was updating partly bc of this thread and thought my phone nearly unbrickable :o Oops. Definitely not buying another one cuz they're all 4.4 bootloader now! Reminds me of the old Galaxy S days when Samsung wouldn't let ppl have ANY recovery.

If I can't get it working soon I'll post video of this N900T vs whatever Tim the Toolman-worthy power tools are laying around the garage. Thx again for the help noob
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] noobtoob:
Agreed. This method does need to be tested with the kk boot loader, but I also prefer people do not brick their service and need it.

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Sad. What about warranty? So you also just flashed the boot loader with nothing else? [MENTION=4443870]soloilmeglio[/MENTION] in the international thread tried just the boot loader and the same thing happened. This method did not recover his phone either. Might want to find out how his was fixed. Hoping it wasn't an expensive one...

Edit: read through his thread and turns out was replaced under warranty. You might want to go that route. It is technically a software failure.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] CrashTestDroid:
Looking into warranty now, I was planning to do a US vacation soon anyway. Fingers crossed! :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] noobtoob:
Nice. Whereabouts?

On another note...I put my phone in an incipio case today and it death gripped my phone. It took both my buddy and I to pull it out and it ripped both my power button and volume buttons out. Called incipio care and of course they don't answer their phones. Called Samsung telling them they should stand behind their build quality, and was then told $216 for them to replace.

Now, I know this is hard to believe, but I still have never dropped my phone anywhere it would ever be damaged. I have thrown it on the bed, it's slipped out of my pocket in the car, and had hit the carpet in my house a few times from about 3 feet up, but never a scuff.

I posted on here a little bit back about how I "pressed" the power button too hard and the "metal" frame came apart. Didn't bother me all that much as the phone stopped randomly rebooting due to it making the power button stick, but today took the cake.

I had to take apart my phone, put the power button and volume buttons back in, and they work, but half a**d at best. And if course this is "user damage" and not covered by warranty.

Long story even longer, I am contemplating posting these pics all over incipio and Samsung Facebook pages until someone actually pretends to give a damn. At least that is what my buddy said I should do since people actually pay attention there. I hate Facebook, but looks like here I come ?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] gregko1980:
Any chance the N900Aunbrick.img could work also on a bricked Note 3 AT&T most probably upgraded to the official KitKat? Yes, I managed to brick it with KitKat, long story, don't ask me how. Or maybe you could snag another unbrick image when someone with N900A upgraded to KitKat walks in? Thanks!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
Try to connect it to your computer and turn it "on". Even though the screen is still black you should get a QCHSUSB port in Device Manager. If you don't...I don't think this method will work...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] christiansfreeman:
please is there a fix for kit kat?

my kk note 3 is hard bricked plz help.......
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
Advice to future posters...posts like these do nothing to help us troubleshoot your phone. You didn't mention the carrier, you didn't mention a build number, you didn't tell us exactly how you bricked it, and you didn't let us know if you still have a QCHSUSB port when connected to a PC. Without any of this information we have zero chance of helping.

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] DaOldMan:
You should also know that my fiend [MENTION=4443870]soloilmeglio[/MENTION] made a "small" mistake and flashed just one part of the bootloader... There are about 5 files you need to flash for the whole bootloader to work. That's why it bricked his Note which was fortunately replaced in warranty :)

Thomas
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
I know this doesn't relate to being hard bricked but it was a semi bricked state a N900A I was experimenting on was in. I tested some N900T Nv items on a N900A. After manually resetting the EFS. Bad idea. It tried to boot into the system but hung at the AT&T logo and restarted by itself. All I had was stock recovery (which doesn't provide a ADB connection...) and download mode. Odining the current build didn't work. Upgrading to 4.4.2 didn't solve it either. After multiple data/cache wipes I thought I was doomed to this bootlooped phone caused by bad nv items that Odin never touches...until now.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/i1mngzra7hwclv2/N900Xradiounbrick.tar

I was able to create two files relating to mmcblk0p12 and 13 in order to force the phone to restore a default EFS. They're zeroed out so you WILL end up with an IMEI of "/00" but at least the phone will be recovered. I then packaged them into a tarball and tested the flash in Odin 3.09. Loaded it into the CP tab and within a few minutes I had the N900A back (without an IMEI...but that problem is for another day). This should work for both N900A and N900T based off of the partition tables. I have only confirmed it working on the N900A though.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] noobtoob:
Nice work!

That is some awesome work my friend! With just this file, there is a ton of potential... Can't say much as I will get all the "IMEI this and that" speeches going on, and I've seen/read enough of those.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
Thanks man.

I thought I seriously bricked another Note 3 at the shop...lol. I didn't even want to tell the shop owner. I thought it was impossible to write to the EFS/NV in Odin. Thankfully enough searching and a brief glance through the partition map let me know that I could size a hex file properly and name it properly so that the phone knew where to inject it in Odin.

I'm not too sure how much potential this file holds, considering it knocks you off of the network and you have no IMEI...but the phone boots into the system at least. I'm wondering though what else is needed to inject the original IMEI back into the phone if there's no backups of mmcblk0p12, 13, or 18. I know the SPT team found a way through UART (kind of a halfass way). I tried using DFS and writing the original IMEI, no go lol. Apparently there's still something locking the IMEI despite it being "/00". I assume it's looking for it to be (null)/(null) or 0/00 to change the read-only status of NV Item 550. Oh well. It'll be "fixed" soon enough ;)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] noobtoob:
I will be looking into this file extensively and let you know what I can determine, if anything...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Lorettaa:
This trick has good feedback's and reviews. Gonna check and see this too.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] intuition34:
1)I'm u

Sent from my SM-N900T
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] juan5600:
Please somebody help me :)

i'am sorry if anything but, i been trying a couple of days with a N900T tmobile, when I say days I say 24 hours searching and searching, and nothing, first at all, i have a note 3 I was trying something with a z3x box, well, I hard bricked the phone doesnt show any light or download mode nothing, just when I plug to the usb on my win7 says Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008, BULK something like that, i search for drivers and odin 1.85 reads nut doesnt do nothing, exactly like this

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=47597026&postcount=10

but I dont know if msmercy42 fix it or not i am very confused, i was doing something on a live ubuntu cd but nothing, please somebody help me..

i was followin this

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2476353

with the n900t unbrick image didnnt work

then this

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=48400022&postcount=54

didnt work

please help
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ecs87:
There really isn't much to look into..I created the file from scratch lol. I had to figure out how to name them to get odin to properly accept them too. Other than that they're just two 3MB zeroed out files rolled into a tarball for ease of use. It's basically the same thing as injecting a zeroed out file into mmcblk0p12 and mmcblk0p13 through ADB (with root)...except I had to use Odin because...I didn't have access to ADB.

If anyone wants/needs to take this information down I understand..it's getting a little too close to IMEI "repairing" at this point.

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] noobtoob:
This is all over the place. You just need to download the recovery image. Write that image to a 32gb class 10 SD card formatted as exfat. Pop it in your phone, boot up into download mode (power+home+vol. down). Then restore factory image. This was for people on 4.3. If you have upgraded to 4.4 you will need the latest image in one of my posts a few pages back. No one has confirmed this works on kit Kat yet. Try it, and let us know.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] juan5600:
I got you! but.. the problem is.. that the phone doesnt boot on download mode! its complete black, even if I try the buttons,, still black, doesnt do nothing, but the computer recognizes like a usb, the BULK.. :( any advice?