[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] krustybaguette:
I know I'm being a PITA about this but in light of the warning....

Here is the output of the dmesg command followed by my question about /path to debrick.bin

[ 3175.760305] mmc0: new SDHC card at address aaaa

[ 3175.836911] mmcblk0: mmc0:aaaa SU16G 14.8 GiB

[ 3175.838613] mmcblk0: p1

Under #5 command is

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

Does the above path information from my dmesg | tail output translate to:

dd if=/path_to_debrick.bin of=/dev/mmcblk0: p1 or

dd if=/path_to_debrick.bin of=/dev/mmcblk0 ?

UPDATE: I went and opened a terminal session in my Desktop and entered the command

dd if=debrick.bin of=/dev/mmcblk0 after reasoning out the meaning of the string

dd input file=debrick.bin output file=/dev/mmcblk0

Boots to Samsung Galaxy S III screen and stops there. It does not boot into the ROM.

Based on the below quote I guess I have to go back to the input output file operation.

UPDATE II

Can't make any headway as I can't get my microSD card back to FAT file system. Gparted shows 21 small and large unallocated and unknown file system sections. I've tried to delete them all and format the whole card as fat32. FAT16 has a 4GB limit. I also tried ext4. The one small FAT partition is only 60MB. I wonder if that's big enough.

Took a while but got it reformatted to FAT32 using a different SD adapter which dmesg | tail saw as /sdb

Step 5 results

kenneth@kenneth-ThinkPad-X60 ~/Desktop $ sudo dd if=debrick.bin of=/dev/sdb

[sudo] password for kenneth:

163840+0 records in

163840+0 records out

83886080 bytes (84 MB) copied, 15.8074 s, 5.3 MB/s

Step 6 Results

kenneth@kenneth-ThinkPad-X60 ~/Desktop $ sudo parted /dev/mmcblk0 print

Error: The backup GPT table is corrupt, but the primary appears OK, so that will be used.

OK/Cancel? OK

Warning: Not all of the space available to /dev/mmcblk0 appears to be used, you can fix the GPT to use all of the space (an

extra 351183 blocks) or continue with the current setting?

Fix/Ignore? Ignore

Model: SD SU16G (sd/mmc)

Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 15.9GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 4194kB 67.1MB 62.9MB modem

2 67.1MB 67.2MB 131kB sbl1

3 67.2MB 67.5MB 262kB sbl2

4 67.5MB 68.0MB 524kB sbl3

5 68.0MB 70.1MB 2097kB aboot

6 70.1MB 70.6MB 524kB rpm

7 70.6MB 81.1MB 10.5MB boot

8 81.1MB 81.7MB 524kB tz

9 81.7MB 82.2MB 524kB pad

10 82.2MB 92.7MB 10.5MB param

11 92.7MB 107MB 14.3MB efs

12 107MB 110MB 3146kB modemst1

13 110MB 113MB 3146kB modemst2

14 113MB 1686MB 1573MB system

15 1686MB 14.8GB 13.1GB userdata

16 14.8GB 14.8GB 8389kB persist

17 14.8GB 15.7GB 881MB cache

18 15.7GB 15.7GB 10.5MB recovery

19 15.7GB 15.7GB 10.5MB fota

20 15.7GB 15.7GB 6291kB backup

21 15.7GB 15.7GB 3146kB fsg

22 15.7GB 15.7GB 8192B ssd

23 15.7GB 15.8GB 5243kB grow

Despite apparent success on several burns of the debrick.bin to the microSD card I'm still stuck on

the Samsung Galsxy S III bootscreen.

I love a challenge, and this has been one, but I'm ready to start shopping for a replacement phone

Any comments on used Galaxy Nexus phones? They seem to be available for pretty reasonable prices on eBay.

Maybe Gazelle?