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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Sianspheric:
Hi Guys,

So my S3 bit the dust last week and I have gotten an Nexus 5 as a replacement.

My S3 has three major issues and I am trying to decide what if anything to do with it, or what the possible value of it is.

This is a 32gb model locked to my local carrier (Rogers)

1. The glass has a crack, it fell while out of my Otterbox and the glass got a spider crack on it, the LCD panel and digitizer were still working perfectly fine last time I used it a week ago. The screen protector is on top of the glass.

2. the OS is screwed up, I was having issues with the modem and connecting to my carrier and SIM and flashed a .zip file with a baseband and it caused my phone to instantly hardbrick.

3. I thought a JTAG servicing would revive the device back to stock OS so I brought it into a local shop for the JTAG (and then likely the glass replacement if they could get the S3 unbricked) they told me that the IC power chip in the device is broken. How that happened I have no idea, last thing I did with the phone was flash a .zip file to it via ClockworkMod Recovery, no idea how doing THAT broke an actual chip in the board of the phone.

So now I have a device that is screwed on three levels.

Any idea what I should do with it now. Anyone had experience with a broken IC chip? Is it worth anything on the ebay market for parts?

I see people selling the IC chip online but I am not even going to attempt soldering things to the main board.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Sianspheric:
nobody?

bueller?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Michael503:
you can get a replacement glass for less than 20 USD

Jtag... anybody's guess

bad chip? possibly damaged when it fell (cracked traces, etc)

I'd try to fix the first 2, but that 3rd one is a nail in the coffin. For what its worth, these things are second rate in less than a year and obsolete in 3.

It might be time to move on.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] cavsoldier19d:
I would post an ad to see if anybody would like to buy it for spare parts. If you get no responses after a while, I would toss it in the trash.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] westcb28:
Hello to all,

I begin in the field of the ROMs and I would have some questions.

- Is this new ROM in Frenchwoman?

- Later upgrade of the ROM, I may restore an ancient(former) protection since Active Sync ?

Thank you in advance...
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Gleno:
Hi,

I tried to install the new Cyanogem mod 11 in my razr and it didn't proceed well. I hadn't checked if my phone was unlocked before doing it and turned out it was locked.

Now it's like I don't have a system and the phone shows a black screen when I try to turn it on. I can access the recovery mod and the flashtboot mod so I tried restoring the original room by recovery mod and it didn't work. I would try by flashboot now via RSD lite but I got a bigger problem: the battery is low.

I connected my phone to the charger but I think it is not charging... Can someone here help me?

Hope my english is ok
[Motorola Droid RAZR] DumbleCore:
Had the same problem, but I booted in fastboot mode and let it in wallcharger about an hour, then rsd worked for me, give it a try, otherwise u have to buy or build ur own factory adapter, tutorials are given here somewhere

Tapped from my RazR
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] holyking:
hi, i am using my note 3 on att. I am wonder any ways to remove the non-verizon sim card error on the top? Thank you very much.:victory:
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PapaDocta:
disable or turn off setupwizard.apk
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JoeMK:
Verizon apk

Cannot disable setupwizard.apk ! all I can do is force it stop, but it will come back once I turn my phone on again. Any way I can turn it off or uninstall it for good ?

---------- Post added at 10:31 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:23 AM ----------

The Verizon apk won't let me disable it. I can only force it
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PapaDocta:
You need root to disable it using Titanium backup or manually rename the apk file in the system/apps
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] HoustonsBirdman:
I think I've confused myself and need some clarification.. You have Internal storage on your phone and a ext SD card... Well when I have the SD mounted I can open Astro file manager and see "emulated", 0, Legacy, sdcard1 (which says empty) and then sdcard2... I'm trying to clear/clean/organize my storage but not sure which is which and what I can and can't delete/move.. Any help would be appreciated :confused:
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] HoustonsBirdman:
Figured it out and cleared everything out. Thanks to the 70 people who read this thread! Couldn't have done it without ya :p
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrAndroid12:
I just saved enough for an S4 as a high school student but I am stuck with a choice of either a white or black version.

The Blue version seems to have a stitching like texture on the screen bezel whereas white is plain white.

I haven't being able to get a hold of the black one.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hazerm:
The white S4 has a pattern on the bezels as well as on the back cover.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asbanoglou:
Hi mate as an Galaxy s4 Arctic Black owner i would suggest you deffinitely the black one.The patterns on the bezels and on backplate are really awesome :) Really good looking Vs the white one
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gmguk:
Well, I have the white one as I prefer the white surround on the face . . . but I have put a black SView case on it as I prefer the black back! ;)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asbanoglou:
I did the same thing but with white s-view case :P
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dyl421421:
I have a SCH-I535 and rooted it back before jelly bean was released for it. Therefore, I still have the ICS bootloader and radio. I am currently running a gummy nightly on 4.4.2. I read that if I flashed a newer radio, I would lose root and relock the bootloader. I want to flash a new radio because I get terrible signal compared to the same phone with a newer radio.

Is it safe to flash a newer radio?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] 0331:
See this thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=29134924

Sent from my Last Ever Samsung Device.
[Samsung Galaxy Core.] Omkar$:
Hey core userz letz seee whose Core is the fastest

Use antutu from playstore for benchmark

And upload a screendhot as a prooff

Also post which rom u were using

Top 10 rankerz will be listed here

1] zrox

2] Saiola

3] omkar$

4] syedzakki

5] neil56

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8]

9]

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[Samsung Galaxy Core.] Omkar$:
Herez mine

Using Monster Rom Build2
[Samsung Galaxy Core.] syedzakki:
Stock rom. Unrooted device...
[Samsung Galaxy Core.] Geddd:
stock deodexed.
[Samsung Galaxy Core.] zrox:
deodexed

send from my powerful core
[Samsung Galaxy Core.] syedzakki:
Updated rating. Unrooted, stock rom.
[Samsung Galaxy Core.] SaiOla:
Here's mine. Deodexed. Using Monster Rom Build 2. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Core.] pratik_vartak:
Here is mine. Stock.
[Samsung Galaxy Core.] neil56:
Here's mine with stock.
[Samsung Galaxy Core.] waseer.asif:
Stock l
[Samsung Galaxy Core.] BebeVanze:
Stockrom with bloatware disabled
[Samsung Galaxy Core.] Keeganab:
Stock 4.1.2 ;)

View attachment 2519246

Wyskrobane z mojego Google Nexus 5 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[Samsung Galaxy Core.] Arun!:
here is my

Stock rom
[Samsung Galaxy Core.] vvaibhavv:
Here is mine [MENTION=5170347]Omkar$[/MENTION] . On galaxperia rom (coming soon )
[Samsung Galaxy Core.] Mach5:
Stock UNrooted
[Samsung Galaxy Core.] Sukhman Bajwa:
Here is mine

GT I8262

Monster Rom build 3
[Samsung Galaxy Core.] sethukrishnan:
Monster rom b3
[Samsung Galaxy Core.] Sukhman Bajwa:
Change the rating please
[Samsung Galaxy Core.] F@HIM:
Bro [MENTION=5170347]Omkar$[/MENTION] plss change the leaderboard.....

Deodexed rom using Filth kernel...
[Samsung Galaxy Core.] Sukhman Bajwa:
Waiting for GalaXperia Rom
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SpyroDazee:
Debrick your bricked Galaxy s3!​

Note: This will only work if you have hardbricked your phone (tried downgrading bootloader) and it doesn't turn on AT ALL. No Odin mode, no recovery, etc.

If you can still get into recovery or download mode, but not the ROM itself, try HERE.

​

A few prerequisites,

1) This may or may not work, there's no guarantees.

2) If this does not work, you will need a JTAG.

3) If it does work, you will be forced to keep 4.3, there's no downgrades.

4) If you CAN boot into the ROM or Recovery, either one, more instructions in the second post.

5) None of this is my personal work, as I said, I'm just a crash test dummy.

6) I'm just moving most of what's on the other threads to this one, so you don't have to search for this info.

7) ???

8) Profit!

What you will need:

-A hardbricked verizon galaxy s3

-A microSD Card

-Windows or Linux computer

-Debrick file

First, back up your SD.

-_-_-_-_-File you'll need:-_-_-_-_-

-Debrick file if you took the 4.3 OTA​

-Debrick file if you bricked before the 4.3 OTA

-Debrick for 4.4.2​

Windows

1) Download win32diskimager

2) Download the debrick file for your OS version

3) Unzip the debrick.zip and extract debrick.bin/debrick.img

4) Run win32diskimager

5) Connect your SD to your computer

6) In win32diskimager, browse for the extracted debrick file

7) Select your microSD in the dropdown box

8) Write!

*more instructions below Linux

Linux

1) Download the debrick file for your OS version

2) Open terminal in Linux

3) Connect the micoSD card

4) Then run the following code

dmesg | tail

*This will show where your card is mounted /sdX/, Mine was /sdb/. Yours may be /sda/.

**Make sure you know the correct path, you could erase your system if wrong.

5) Then this code, once you're sure of the path

dd if=/path_to_debrick.file of=/dev/sdX

*You may need to do a couple of times for it to go through

6) Then finally,

parted /dev/sdX print

7) Error about corrupted GPT table? Type "OK"

8) Do you want to fix, or ignore? Type "Ignore"

*more instructions below

Last instructions,

1) Remove the microSD card from computer

2) Remove the battery from your device

3) Insert your debrick microSD into your phone

4) Insert battery into phone

5) Turn on device, if you're lucky, it'll boot all the way.

*It may take a few burns to your SD for it to work.

Keep trying!

6) ???

7) Profit!

Notice:

If this does not work,

you will more than likely need a JTAG

How it works?

Your phone acts like a computer would. If it doesn't boot from one source (internal SD), it'll try booting from another (external SD).

It'll go down the list from boot#1, boot#2, boot#3 till it can either fully boot off something, or completely fail.

In this case, we're booting off our SD card.

For the time being, you'll need to keep your SD in your phone,

it'll boot though,

so you got that going for you,

which is nice.​

Your card probably shows "23 mbs out of 60 free"

You're probably thinking "WTF?! It's 16GBS!!!"

Want to return your card a reusable state?

Use this
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SpyroDazee:
Restoring stock bootloader

1) You were able to boot into the ROM

2) Use a file explorer to move the debrick file from the externalSD onto your internal sdcard (/sdcard/debrick.bin)

5) Download and open up a Terminal Emulator onto your phone and input this code

su
dd if=/sdcard/debrick.file of=/dev/block/mmcblk0

6) Reboot

Congratulations, your bootloader is restored.

Restoring stock recovery

1) You were able to boot into the ROM

2) Plug your phone into a computer and use MTP mode

3) Move this recovery.img onto your internal sdcard (/sdcard/recovery.img)

4) Disconnect your phone

5) Open up a Terminal Emulator on your phone and input this code

su
dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18

6) Reboot

Congratulations, your recovery is restored.​

Once your stock bootloader and recovery have been restored using a terminal on your phone,

you should remove the SD and reboot your phone. It should turn on.

If not, try again.​
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SpyroDazee:
Absolutely

NO CREDIT

goes to me,

please take the time to thank my sources.

-theramsey3

-KAsp3rd

-deBricker

-gTan64

-[MENTION=4435935]0331[/MENTION] for the debrick file

-[MENTION=5936056]Tortuyen[/MENTION] for 4.4.2 debrick.img
​
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] 0331:
First?! :P thank you for showing me how to obtain the debrick file, and another thank you for compiling these sources together for the d2vzw. Good work!

Sent from my Last Ever Samsung Device.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ThePagel:
If this works your my hero! When do you think your guide will be posted? If tonight I might just stay up!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SpyroDazee:
UP :cool:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ThePagel:
Ok I understand what this is. My bootloader is just fine so this wont fix my problem or most every one else. I need to flash 4.3 somehow. Even if I bricked my bootloader this wouldn't help since my phone is currently on 4.0.4 and this is the 4.3 bootloader on a sd card. nice work though! Hope I'm wrong and this helps most bricks out there. But you really should change your title to bricked bootloader.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] XNO:
I will be home soon and will report back hopefully with good news and a working S3.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SpyroDazee:
What exactly did you do to your phone? Does it power on?

Edit: I'll upload a debrick from before 4.3, same process though. Won't hurt to try.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] 0331:
I've apparently erased my stock recovery. I was able to flash an older version of stock recovery with ez recovery app, but failed on two different operations. Where might I find an up to date 4. 3 stock android recovery? Thanks.

Sent from my Last Ever Samsung Device.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SpyroDazee:
I was gonna ask you to run another code to pull a dump of the recovery! damn. I don't have a stock recovery either "Unnauthorized software blah blah blah"

All we can do now is wait. :l
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ThePagel:
went from ota 4.3 to 4.0.4 root66 via odin didn't change my bootloader or even mark my custom or warranty. Just kind of in limbo until 4.3 tar comes out.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SpyroDazee:
Does your phone still boot or...?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ThePagel:
To the bootloader or recovery yes but since my bootloader is the 4.3 one it wont let me use any firmware other than 4.3.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SpyroDazee:
Have you tried flashing the update.zip through the stock recovery since you can get in? O.o
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] XNO:
Sadly no luck with this. So is JTAG the only fix?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SpyroDazee:
Your phone is soft bricked. The only way out is a 4.3 Odin package or JTAG if you choose to do so. Either one will wipe your memory entirely and fresh start from 4.3.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ThePagel:
Yes but it requires me to be at a higher update in the chain and the other updates zips spit out sideloader errors and other odin packages just dont work.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] marcfred737:
I rooted on 4.3, and then (stupidly) tried to flash a custom recovery. Now my phone is soft bricked. Would this fix work, or am I out of luck?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ultpokemonfan:
So I have a question. I'm sorry if this is kind of stupid...

Anyway, I have a hard bricked 16gb Verizon S3. I found a micro SD card at Amazon.

My only concern is that as well as class 10, it also says UHS-1. Does that matter for this process?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sleeper24:
Seks

I can assure the dd command exist for mac. If you look at this simple google article link below, you will find the Mac OS X version detailing it.

http://www.embeddedarm.com/support/faqs.php?item=10
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] stinkyweed:
Help Meh :(

I messed up somehow. Let me explain. I rooted my phone today using Towelroot.I have a Verizon sch1535 kit kat 4.4.2 . after rooted i installed root check to make sure my phone was rooted which it was. i restarted the phone and it gave me the verizon message "you have software on this phone that doesnt belong go to the verizon store" so i took this advice on this site

galaxys3root.com/galaxy-s3-tutorials/how-to-re-install-stock-recovery-and-update-ota-on-galaxy-s3

And put my phone in download mode and used odin using just PDA and the file named

GalaxyS3/SGH-I535/stockrecovery/Verizon-SCH-I535-StockRecovery.tar - it shows file uploaded aug 2012 :(

i downloaded from the same site. The phone booted up fine. So i went to search on how to unlock the bootloader because it seemed that was what is giving me the error. So i found this program called. VZW GS3 Ez-unlock and used it. Once i did , i restarted the phone and it bricked. I have no power at all and if i plug it up to the pc without the battery i get a red light on. The problem is when i used odin like the website i posted said it had me download a recovery file from 2012. Is this my problem? i have tried the use 4.4.2 fix and burn to sd card and try to boot that way to no avail. Please help and so sorry this information is so scattered.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] krustybaguette:
You don't mention if your phone had previously taken the OTA update to 4.3. If it did then your bootloader was already locked. I, like many others, learned this the hard way. In any case, I suspect that running EZ Unlock on the phone may have done yours in (temporarily)

Flashing the stock recovery tar without first getting a PIT file may also have contributed to your problems. As I understand it, the PIT file determines the partitioning scheme of your phone so it can properly install the data in the tar.

Once you get back to running you will still be able to root the phone using Towelroot, but DO NOT ATTEMPT to unlock the bootloader. There is a method (I'd call it a hack) using safestrap that would allow you to use "custom ROMs" that are based on the stock ROM but for my 2 cents worth, you'd be better off just rooting and using TIBU to "freeze" your unwanted applications. That's where I am right now. I was going to delete them altogether (to save space) but since those Samsung and Verizon junk apps are loaded in prescribed locations it wouldn't give you any "extra" space in /media.

kb
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] stinkyweed:
Any Ideas of how i get the phone back to running? And yes i took 4.3 over the air too. I have had this phone for almost two years and all updates have been taken OTA.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] 0xDFA:
Hello, first post.

I have a SCH-i535, was using cm11 but i couldn't send/receive MMS, and another Galaxy S3 (dont remember which carrier) had the same problem.

I decided to install a stock ROM to backup APN (which is pointless in android 4+ apparently) and noticed there was official releases for 4.4.2 so i decided to try it out.

Then i tried ez-unlock without reading anything, and hard bricked device.

After grabbing a 16GB class 10 microSD card, i managed to debrick the phone within 1 day.

the locked bootloader makes it feel like its still hard bricked.

TL : DL >> This **** worked
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] afaneh92:
OK let me say Im totally bricked.

All debrick files fail to run my device.

Yes Iam on 4.4.2 but the generated debrick file I made and debrick my device early did not work any more. Yes tryed the file in post #153.

Tryed it all, any idea!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ThePagel:
try this one out

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=53959695&postcount=153
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] afaneh92:
thanks but it didnot work, tryed it before.

I had generate my own one before and debricked my device more than three times but now not working.

I think mmcblk0p5 totaly ereased (and maybe the partions behind) so device not defined on 4.4.2 bootloader.

so Im searching for the r313 on s3 verizon board look (12-38) GT-I9300 JTAG Guide_rev1.0.pdf
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] astonmartin214:
wow so I just odin my phone & when it booted up everything was still there didn't wipe a single thing off
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Collateral5:
I can't thank you you enough!!!! EZ bricked my phone. I tried the microsd method with a 4gb class 10 card but it wouldn't work. I headed to walmart and picked up a 16gb class 10 ultra sandisk microsd card and got it to finally boot! I couldn't use your debrick.bin boot to get it going but was able to get it up and going with a file I found somewhere named "T999_4.3_debrick" . That did the trick.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] afaneh92:
can some one make a 500MB KITKAT 4.4.2 debrick.img by flashing the attachment zip in safestrap recovery

or by run this in Terminal

$ su
$ dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/debrick.img bs=1M count=[COLOR="Red"]500[/COLOR]

500 is size in megabyte

the generated file will be in internel sdcard

and if some one can see what the generated file by run this

$ su
$ dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p5 of=/sdcard/aboot.img bs=1 seek=33796*

thanks in advance

Edit: thanks to [MENTION=5973569]0xDFA[/MENTION] and [MENTION=4999212]larrycjr[/MENTION] for the debrick.img's
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] miguel_kaka:
Is there any way to install this umbrick a micro sd class 4, the truth is that I find it impossible to get a class 6 or class 10. :(
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] yassirazi:
How did you unlock your i535 S3 Bootloader (4.4.2)

So finally, How did you unlock your i535 S3 Bootloader (4.4.2) ?? I have the same issue and it bricks everytime can't use EZ-Unlock
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] landshark68:
He didn't unlock his bootloader on 4.4.2, he just recovered his phone back to a working condition. You can't unlock the bootloader on 4.4.2. Read his post again. Nowhere in that post does he say he successfully unlocked his bootloader on 4.4.2.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] yassirazi:
Yeah I know. But I was assuming from back then he should have found a way to do it. this is a method I found: http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1pcfrp/guide_how_to_root_unlock_the_bootloader_reset_the/
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] landshark68:
That is from 10 months ago when the Verizon S3 was still on 4.1.2 and you could unlock the bootloader. Ever since the 4.3 ML1 update, anyone with that bootloader or higher is not able to unlock their bootloader. Unless you send it off to mobiletechvideos and pay them $50 for their service where they say they can get you back to 4.1.2.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Tortuyen:
You can not unlock bootloader after you take update from the first room 4.0 as far as

You can not unlock bootloader after you take update from the first room 4.0 as far as I know.

I have the boot loader loked but the phone working in stock room 4.4.2, after a really hard braked phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] yassirazi:
Thank you guys for the response. However, There are maaany custom Roms designed to fit the 4.4.2 Verizon Galaxy S3. By the way many nighties within CM11 for example. I still believe that's done for the purpose that there are 4.4.2zz of d2vzw which could boot custom roms and as a matter of fact had the bootloader unlocked