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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ryanallaire:
The only .bin file i know of is the 4.3 OTA debrick file..

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So i was able to write the 4.4.2 img file to my sd card, but when i turn the phone on it goes straight into odin mode and says 'firmware upgrade encountered an issue, use repair assistant.' I've tried the SUA_ar repair assistant but it doesn't recognize the device. Am i screwed at this point? I'm not paying for a JTAG since this is just an extra phone...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SlimSnoopOS:
We can't help you, we have a different S3 with different internals. Ask here and seek help:

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ShapesBlue:
I was going to reply to that one but I grow tired of people not paying attention to what version/thread they are in

Nexus 6 running SSHD or Cataclysm
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] faizan5293:
thanks but help needed

i have done every step perfect after reboot my s3 has struck on verizon screen what should i do now
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ryanallaire:
Unless someone else says different, this method only works with an unlocked bootloader..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ShapesBlue:
Based on the OP your right on about that.

Nexus 6 running SSHD or Cataclysm
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dawgdoc:
Well, the OP does offer a download of a DeBrick image for 4.4.2.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ShapesBlue:
That's true also. Personally I wouldn't waste anymore time on the VZW S3 especially if the bootloader is locked. That's just my 2 cents

Nexus 6 running SSHD or Cataclysm
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dawgdoc:
I tend to be in agreement. I lent out my i535 for a few months. I have no idea how it was used, just the state it was in when returned to me. I had used it for 4 months w/o a sim card; as a music player, device to learn modding, activity tracker, etc. I had rooted it, installed SafeStrap, SuperLiteROM, and Xposed.

When returned the battery was completely dead. After charging it was it will boot to the Samsung Galaxy SIII spalsh screen. I must pull the battery to restart it. It would boot into download mode but nothing else. I borrowed a Windows computer to reflash the stock ROM with Odin. It added a slight benefit, I can now also boot into stock recovery.

So, I am sure it can be fixed. I just don't know when I will spend the effort.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ShapesBlue:
Yea I just don't see anyone actually doing any further development on this device. I mean it's far from a nexus device and with the locked bootloader it's even less likely to be updated beyond this

Nexus 6 running SSHD or Cataclysm
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ryanallaire:
Same sort of situation for me, I gave it to my daughter to use. It sat dead for a while, then I try to turn it on and it goes to splash screen only. Except in my case I couldn't get anything to flash in Odin so I deemed it no good, if anyone needs a parts phone let me know..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dawgdoc:
If I do put some time in and get it running I will post back here for the benefit of anyone interested.

There is a high probability of me making my attempts with Heimdall on Linux instead of Odin on Windows.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ihadacatonce:
4.1.2 Debrick img

Long time listener, first time caller..

I just did hours and hours of research, trial and error. I finally managed to unbrick one of my i535s using the dd img from another (on a class 4 16gb SD card). Version 4.1.2. Once your phone goes from a lifeless paperweight to a softbricked bootloop, simply remove the SD and force recovery (power+home+vol up). Factory reset. bing pow boom shazaam. Everything appears functional. Give it a shot. Unzip before flashing the img to SD.

Ice Cream Sammich DD img

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wn7xuf7v89gxw2a/d2vzw412-DeBrick.zip?dl=0
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Sarfarash:
Hello all.

I tried unlocking bootloader on a verizon galaxy s3, (4.4.2) with "EZ-unlock" App on my phone. Then turned off the phone and never turned on again!!!

No recovery nor download modes! Not even recognized in odin.

Will this a fix for me?

I have a normal sgs3 running the exact same 4.4.2. Can that be a help?

I really appreciate any input.

Thanks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ShapesBlue:
Please please read before you attempt to unlock a locked bootloader. You will have to Odin back to stock

Nexus 6 via VRToxin
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Sarfarash:
Can you explain it how? How to "odin back to stock"?

Thanks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mzfr.shh:
Hello, I am having the same problem as [MENTION=7254947]Sarfarash[/MENTION]. Please help me boot my i535. It's not going into download mode and recovery mode. [MENTION=4635005]ShapesBlue[/MENTION]

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I have tried the SD card method with 16 gb class 10 card several times but no luck. It was running 4.4.2 before it was bricked.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ShapesBlue:
I'm truly unsure as to what to do. When I mentioned using odin to go back to stock all your doing is basically correcting an error and refreshing back to what works

Nexus 6 via VRToxin
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Death_Gun:
not/ If you want to install lollipop rom (cm12) to your galaxy s3 verizon android 4.4.2 . follow this :

1- back your phone from android 4.4.2 to android 4.3

2- break your bootloader "you will find that way in the google "

3- install recovery ( by apps or odine or sd card)

4- last step install the lollipop rom (cm12) by sd card or recovery .

that is only way to have lollipop ?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ShapesBlue:
You cannot install a custom rom on a locked bootloader. Please do not encourage people to brick there devices

Nexus 6 via VRToxin
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Death_Gun:
actully you can break the bootloader. but on the android 4.3 not in the android 4.4.2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ShapesBlue:
Actually you can't. It's been tried several times. I've been around here long enough to know better. Please do not spread things that are not true. Go ahead and search around the forums if you don't believe me that it's been tried.

A developer on the S3 tried it and hard bricked his device. He then moved on from the S3

Nexus 6 via VRToxin
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Death_Gun:
ok boss . I'm sorry for all this .

but I have a question : what about android 4.1 ?

I have been 6 month looking for any way . but all I found about android 4.1 !!

maybe if we change from 4.2.2 to 4.1 maybe it work!

check out here/

http://www.w0lfdroid.com/2013/04/how-to-lockunlock-bootloader-for.html?m=1

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bj3VxiE1Ack
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Sarfarash:
I tried the sd method. Didnt work.

Now the phone is on its way to Josh Groce (mobileTechVideos).

Learned my lesson the hard way!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ShapesBlue:
To unlock the bootloader you needed to be on 4.1.2 any version after 4.3 NC1 your on a locked bootloader and your stuck

Nexus 6 via VRToxin
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Death_Gun:
ok. but if I became android 4.2.1 . do you thing it will work??
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ShapesBlue:
Yes. If it was on 4.1.2 the bootloader it's unlockable

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] trgr:
Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I could have swore I was ****ed after stupidly using EZ-Brick, but the debrick image worked perfectly.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] khiero:
My phone s3 is bricked after unlock bootloader via EZ-Unlocker. How Can I Un-brick my phone.

I tried SD card method but failed.

My Phone OS was: 4.4.2

Model: SCH-i535
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Sarfarash:
Same thing happened to me!!! Ex-unlock does not work, instrad it "hard bricks" your phone if its 4.4.2

You have to do jtag.

Try to find a local repairer
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] arsh ali:
everything went perfectly fine but there is a problem when i enter the code in the emulator,if anybody can sort it out for me plz?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] khiero:
thanks can you took a look at this link

http://www.droidsavvy.com/unbrick-qualcomm-mobiles/

[IMG="qualcomm"]http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/49913820160226114105.jpg[/IMG]
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] khiero:
i have this app ToolStudio_4.6 but i have not the file to continued can any one have it ?

and this picture from this link

http://www.androidbrick.com/unbrick-all-qualcomm-snapdragons-from-qualcomm-hs-usb-qdloader-9008-if-you-have-the-right-kind-of-rom-qhsusb_dload/

[IMG="sch-i535"]http://www.androidbrick.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Qualcomm_HS-USB-_QDLoader_9008_3.jpg[/IMG]

i need this file for sch-i535 os 4.4.2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] BadUsername:
That won't work with this phone, read the text first, I've already told you where to look multiple times. Don't do anything to your phone with that tool, you could make things worse.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ossdevel:
I've tried to do exactly as explained, but not to avail.. But then ... I've made a fortunate mistake - I've used 32 Gig SD .. and it booted! But cannot make it permanent yet (((
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ossdevel:
Again, in my own case, even the stupidphone vzw s3 indicates 16Gig, it refused anything, except just regular 32Gig card. Then I just flushed it back to 4.4.2 (it was already this state when I've bought it) with Odin - works! Thanks for providing an image to write SD!!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ozee1z:
hello

I get a file corrupt warning any time I try to extract the before 4.3 OTA file. please some one help me.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] khiero:
scard of 32 gb is the answer

but i have a problem when i use terminal

/dev/block/mmcblk0 Cannot open for write: Permission denied
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] HassanMujtaba000:
Help needed for Hard Bricked S3-I535.

Hello,

I was using Samsung Galaxy S3 SCH-I535 and tried to install a custom recovery named "LOCKWORKMOD" and unfortunately I failed.

Recovery mode was not working and displaying error that rom found on device is from another soure and system can not start. (DAMAGED RECOVERY!)

Secondly, I used EZ-UNLOKER to unlock my boot-loader but thing went from worse to worst for me. After choosing unlock, the phone never turned on after turning it off. I CAME TO KNOW IT IS HARD BRICKED.

Samsung GalaXy S3 SCH-I535 VERIZON.

Android: 4.4.2 KitKat

No charging.

Not turning on.

When phone is connected to PC via USB it shows new device detected named, RELINK HS-USB QDLoader 9008 (COM1).

I want to re-flash my phone with correct files to get it back to life but for doing this I need help.

1. Flash tool and proedure.

2. Required files for flash.

Please help me regarding this issue.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] agp940104:
i need help when i install safetrap on my s3 i535 i try to install cyanogen mod 13 but, i was following the guide of cyanogen and one of the file that i have to use i had it to installit in the recovery and when i did it my phone ask my to reboot it and i press yes and automatically my phone turn of and never turn on by any way, the screemis black and it does not turn on in download mode or in the recovery, what should i need to do? please somebody help me i live in cuba and i can't aford to by a new phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] BadUsername:
You need to follow this guide and force boot from an SD card, that 4.4.2 image doesn't have the necessary boot sequence needed to fix your phone. It won't boot without it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Tiawaz:
That's just it, even when I ODIN the stock factory image which should technically create the /system and /data and /cache etc. And replace everything the way the phone was when I got it.

Here's what the phone does from after I pull the battery reinsert and power on.

Powers up.

Displays the Samsung Galaxy SIII bootlogo

Kicks over to android configuring animation like it's going to load the fresh image. 5 secs of animation.

Kicks over to dead android with exclamation triangle.

Starts to boot into recovery.

Shows the following errors in red before finally coming to rest at the recovery menu.

E: can't mount /cache

E: can't mount /data

E: can't mount /system

E: can't mount /recovery

E: can't mont /recovery/log

I'm not exactly a complete novice to the Odin restore process, I've had to flash recover my girlfriends Samsung transform ultra several times after changing to poorly built custom Roms.

This is all being done while the debrick sd card is in the phone. Without the sd the phone stays black and does nothing when it's powered on.

I just don't know enough about these newer android phones to know what to do.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] BadUsername:
Using Odin won't replace your boot image, it won't return your phone to the way you had it, you have to manually rewrite the boot image back to the internal SD card.

If you don't manually rewrite it, you must use that SD card because that's where the boot image is. Again, all of this is in the OP. It tells you how to rewrite it.

Edit: I think you're misunderstanding what you did to your phone, you caused a hard brick which Odin can't fix. Ez unlock changed your bootloader which makes it impossible to boot. Your debrick image is an alternate bootloader that bypasses the mess ez unlock created. So you have to rewrite the debrick image back to your boot chain to fix the problem.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Sparktweek:
On a note similar to the post above, how imperative is it to have a Class 10 card? I have a Class 2 16GB microSD card. The biggest difference (if not the only difference) is the read/write speed of these cards. Theoretically, if the phone is just booting from the microSD card, it should work even with a Class 2 card, correct? Or does the read speed of the Class 10 card come into play, so that the phone doesn't overlook "booting" from the card because it's not receiving data quickly? Thanks for any input!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SdRasta:
"On a note similar to the post above, how imperative is it to have a Class 10 card? I have a Class 2 16GB microSD card. The biggest difference (if not the only difference) is the read/write speed of these cards. Theoretically, if the phone is just booting from the microSD card, it should work even with a Class 2 card, correct? Or does the read speed of the Class 10 card come into play, so that the phone doesn't overlook "booting" from the card because it's not receiving data quickly? Thanks for any input!"

I've seen someone else on another forum state they didn't use class 10. Don't remember what class they did use nut why not give it a try
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Elemt:
So I did the OTA update. Tried flashing to stock 4.1.2 and it didnt work. Flashed root66 rom and now when I power on my phone it says "System software not authorized by Verizon Wireless has been found on your phone. Please turn off your phone and go to the nearest Verizon Wireless store for help." So I'm guessing this method won't help me? Is this considered a soft brick?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mind20:
When I did exactly this, I was able to ODIN the recovery.img (converted to tar.md5) from the MF1 stock rom. It worked just fine. However, the bootloader was a different story.

Thanks, btw, for this awesome workaround... which brings me to my question:

If there is already a bootloader backup for SD boot, can't someone just repackage it for use with ODIN, so that I could fix my "custom" bootloader back to 4.3 stock?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mind20:
FIXED!!!

Okay, so I took what I read from this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2345860

and simple reversed what I learned and restored my bootloader! Confirmed working now.

Here's what I did:

Once I got my phone running from the SD boot, I connected my USB data cable and copied the debrick.bin to the little space that was left on the sdcard after the reformat (using MTP mode in windows). So now, there's a copy in /sdcard/debrick.bin

Then, I simply opened up a terminal (I used the one packaged in ROM Toolbox), and simply copied those bits back to my mmc with these:

su

dd if=/sdcard/debrick.bin of=/dev/block/mmcblk0 bs=1024 count=71680

Sounds simple, but I thought I'd share a step-by-step.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ThePagel:
If you downgrade bricked your phone but can still get into download mode the fix is here :good:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] xluryan:
The word "brick" seems to not mean what it used to. I have a real bricked GS3. In fact, it's actually so messed up that it physically damages chargers that I plug into it. As in, for some reason they short circuit and heat up to the point that they burn up and don't work anymore after a couple minutes of being plugged in. Really weird...

Anyway, needless to say this fix didn't work for me...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ThePagel:
Well a brick is pretty much anything that makes your phone useless. Before I made the guide you responded to people were sending there phones in for jtag. Just a different kind of brick. Im sure the term evovled over time.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SlimSnoopOS:
Prior to 4.3, the main way to hard brick the S3 was to flash an international rom. Once that was done, the phone would not boot up at all. Anything else was soft bricked because you could boot the phone into recovery or download and flash whatever you need, again pre-TW 4.3.

With TW 4.3, you're mostly soft bricked in that one can boot into recovery or download it's just that you're stuck without this or the debrick thread to get back into working order as there's no 4.3 tar file for Odin (yet). Given that once you're on TW 4.3, you can't downgrade the bootloader to flash pre-4.3 anything. 1
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ultpokemonfan:
Well I have a hard-bricked S3. And I tried your guide a few times, and nothing seems to be working. What should I do?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ThePagel:
What did you do to hard brick it?

*I found your thread. If you can't find any way to fix it I am 99% sure jtag can do what you need.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] xluryan:
The strange thing about my situation is that I didn't flash anything for about 6 months before it turned into a brick. One day it was working, the next day it was dead.

Sad, sad day.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mind20:
Yes, but yours sounds more like hardware failure, or some kind of physical damage, possible from a surge or something to that degree. In the cases listed here, the "brick" was a result of incompatible/blocked software loading.

I wanted to add that even though there isn't an ODIN version of 4.3 to flash your phone, you could still achieve a full reload of 4.3 by using the Verizon Software Upgrade Assistant, preloaded on the Verizon phone, as outlined by the thread which ThePagel keeps trying to link from reply posts on this thread. Here's the link, in case you missed it: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2586319
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SlimSnoopOS:
There is now, check that thread again.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ultpokemonfan:
Thank you so much for this wonderful guide! I was hard-bricked because I tried flashing an insecure aboot in Casual. I tried your guide once and it didn't work. Then today, I realized I just had to charge it, how stupid of me. I followed your guide exactly on Windows PC again, and it booted! I also got Android Terminal Emulator from the play store and typed the code to restore the bootloader, and it worked!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mmuscptt:
Pre 4.3 OTA file wont load

Im trying to use the pre 4.3 OTA file Debricki535.img that is on the link provided in the first post. It wants to only burn this file to a DVD then it wont do it once I loaded a DVD into the Burner. is there different instructions for using this file type?

O.K. Figured it out....Just have to use the program to install the file on the SD card.

Still cannot get into the download mode. its stuck at the yellow triangle and " secure fail kernel ". it will not boot off of the SD either. Any other ideas? im searching all over and cannot find the answer.

I'm not on 4.3, I was at 4.1.2 and used the Casual Root. Then Goo Manager to download Liquid smooth and Gapps. When I went to load and the programs it got stuck in this error. System software not recognized by verizon.

Finally got it to recognize the phone and put into olin mode. then used this link

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1762709

to get me back on track. back to stock rom 4.0.4 but I can upgrade from there.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] droidshadow:
thank you so much!

Thank you so much for creating this thread you have saved my life!!!

Like an idiot i was using EZ-Unlock v1.2 before and when i went to redownload the EZ-UNLOCK app i saw that there was a version 1.4 so i thought maybe i could use that to unlock my 4.3 OTA update (stupid i know!) but i never remember seeing v1.4 before so i thought maybe it was an update.

After running EZ-Unlock it said the bootloader was unlocked and i tried restarting my phone and it would not power on!

So after all of that I knew i was in trouble...

So i did some research and luckily i found this thread!

I was able to get my phone to boot back up with the debricked.bin file after writing it to my class 10 16GB micro sdcard with the win32 disk image writer on windows 7.

This is a great solution but i am wondering about two major things...

Question 1: now that i can at least turn my phone back on is there any way i can use Odin to flash a stock bootloader for my Verizon SGS3 running Android 4.3?

Question 2. How can i format my sdcard so that i can use it normally and still have the debricked.bin file on my sdcard. I saw the link on the main tutorial page that said use this but i am still not sure how to proceed.

I need some expertise advice and I will be sure to let everyone know about this thread!

Thank you so much you saved my life and job!

-droidshadow
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] droidshadow:
this tutorial has saved my phone!

So today when i corrupted my phone's bootloader i thought I was really in trouble...

I was getting ready to shell out the $100 to order a new phone until I came across this tutorial...

This tutorial has saved my phone! I was able to get my phone to finally boot back up and then thanks to an XDA member -> "ThePagel" he pointed me to the second part of this tutorial on page 1 on how I could restore the stock bootloader back to my phone's internal media and not rely on my phone booting its bootloader from my sdcard.

Now i have my sdcard back as well!

For those of you who have bricked your phone don't give up there is hope! Since I had CWM recovery installed before the OTA update I no longer have a recovery manager on my phone...not a working one at least.

I think I am going to follow ThePagel's tutorial here -> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2586319&page=6

With that tutorial it covers on how you can use Odin to flash back the stock 4.3 android image back onto your verizon sgs3. I think I am going to do that just to get the stock recovery manager back on my phone unless anyone knows of possible any other way to do it?

Is there any other way to re-flash the stock recovery manager?

I am so thankful to this tutorial and XDA people like ThePagel for all the help and support they have given. This is why the open source community and the Android community are so great!

Thank you all so much again!

-droidshadow
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ThePagel:
I need to change that guide description a little because there is a better way to restore your recovery. In fact its right under the restoring stock bootloader in this guide.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] gFcG:
thanks

I cant seem to download win32diskimager..... is any body else having this issue?