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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] helikvar:
T989D brick.img

Ok I have managed to pull a debrick.img file from a working T989D and have also gotten Brixfix v2.1 . I understand this must be done using linux so I will attempt it on my linux mint17 which I have coinstalled on my laptop. I understand I will also need the correct pit file .Does anyone have that ?.In the mean time I will try and get my own. soon as I find out how.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jbroyles:
brixfix again

Did you ever find a solution to the "Invalid openMulti response" on a T989 using your distribution of brixfix-2-1 (modified)?

I have a ubuntu pc that runs the with the same messages from brixfix.sh as the other post in this thread up to the "Invalid openMulti response", so it is not attempting to load the 8660_msimage.mbn

I try running brixfix,sh again as if the 1st run had been successful, and I get

requesting software version...

Invalid Response: 0e 49 6e 76 61 6c 68 64 20 43 6f 6d 6d 61 6e 64 0a

Failed to get software version

I get this same result if I unplug/replug the USB without removing the bettery

If I remove the battery and USB then replace both, the cycle restarts at the top

(I've attempted this approx 20 times)

t989 had been reflashed with a new recovery and new rom and was working for around a week when it appeared bricked unprovoked.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] true_lies:
Thanks for this.

Hard bricked my phone, stayed in my drawer for a long time. Was about to throw it away when i came across this fix. Worked great.

But apparently now my phone thinks its a T989 (T-Mobile) instead of a T989D (Telus). Flashing the Telus stock ROM via Odin gave an error, T-Mobile stock ROM flashed fine. Still, flashed LOS 14 and its working good. Thanks again.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] droiduzr2:
I am stuck here also.

I hope someone sees this and can help me unbrick this tablet.

Thanks

update:

I installed Linux Mint on usb key, booted up with it.

Ran the tools there and it worked. Do not use virtual machines.

Problem now is I can't flash any roms. I have stock rom and pit file but it keeps failing to write pit info .

I tried in ODIN and Heimdall same results.

How do I recover this thing?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] cricketz66:
Would it be possible to post how to set up my comp to run this. I am a noob with some experience.

Followed by detailed instructions in one post.

I keep getting lost going from post to post.

Thank you so much, I really miss my S2. Was what I was using to learn about android and such.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rn0rdin:
2018 and this Fix helped me Thank You for providing such Helpful tool.

just to help back others i stumbled on this error

MSG: Qfprom Fuse List: Blowing FAILED
MSG: Failed Fuse addr:
MSG: 0x00000000
MSG: Error Status:
MSG: 0x00000000
Sending secureMode...
Sending openMulti ...
MSG: Open multi failed, unknown error
ERROR: Open multi failed, unknown error
Invalid openMulti response.

and or this one

i couldn't find anything about it except it's a lost cause or just keep trying until device accept. will if you face this problem make sure you have a good cable and do the flashing without Battery that's how i got my phone back from the graveyard ^.^

hope it'll help someone else cause it's common error across lot of devices not just the T989

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just download a Live Gnu/Linux Distro i use Fedora 28 in my case and it work but in general it should work since all GNU/Linux operating systems have the needed drivers + shell/bash and python pre-installed :cowboy:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Trozzul:
my bad dude i thought this was a lost cause and xda does not show my own threads in the "PARTICIPATED". so sweet! we are getting somewhere, so we just need to wait and find another T989D user? is there anything you need me todo?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Lord Zog:
I need you to read post 18 and follow those steps. We still need a non-modified SBL1-3, aboot, etc and partition info to fix the recovery.img from being written in the wrong spot, and to get a proper flash and not modified files. ODIN and such read these partitions by only name, not sector, and the bootloader on the T989 and T989D are different to access ODIN and recovery. Using modified files, I don't have the source of them, so, there can be one of 2 reasons I can't enter recovery. Bad partition and writing it wrong, or the bootloader can't figure out the proper keys to enter recovery, so, it won't allow it.

So, I need one with a T989 and one with a T989D to use the backup method in post 18 and post that info here to make a proper debrick.img, or at least a working script to reflash the proper partitions when we switch from QHSUBD_DLOAD (9025) to HS-SD (9008) state, or even HS-SD Diag (9006) state. Or to just make a debrick.img to work in 9025 DLOAD mode. I couldn't get it to work with the debrick.img files yet, I had to do it in 9008 and 9006 state. But it works and all, just no recovery, and no modem file on a T989D rom. but T989 UVLE1 flashes fine, and T989 UVMC6 does too. But then no recovery... Just ODIN. :(
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Trozzul:
wait i dont see a python-2.7.3. also shouldnt i just delete the files that are not for my phone so that i dont brick my phone on ax? lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Lord Zog:
Sorry, use http://www.sendspace.com/file/1s0g60. Also, the other files in that archive won't do anything. We're just doing a backup. The other files aren't used. I'll make a package to use after I see these files the backup makes.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Trozzul:
My bad once again xD keep forgetting about this, ill try to get you it by Saturday or monday.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Lord Zog:
Any luck?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Suraido:
I Also started a thread for help on methods to unbrick the t989d, and so far had no answers but after fiddling relentlessly i'm starting to get somewhere using QPST and have gotten most of the MBN files needed to unbrick this phone extracted from the original stock rom, made a partition MBN out a PIT file i was lucky enough to get my hands on, though i'm not 100% it's ok but QPST doesnt give errors so far. The only problem i have right now is getting my hands on the real mprg8260 hex file. The mprg8660 included in brixfix does seem to want to do the job and QPST uploads most files correctly without error but so far it stays stuck when sending reset packets, phone won't respond. So either my partiton.mbn is off, or the mprg8660.hex isn't completely 100% compatible with the MSM8260 qualcomm chipset. So if anyone can get their hands on the REAL 8260 hex file and/or a real partition.mbn off a t989d it would help me alot to troubleshoot this and get this phone working again. If you guys need i will gladly zip and upload all my MBN files and everything i have so far. Just send me a PM or reply and i'll upload anything you need. All i ask in return is that if anyone is able to unbrick before me, send me info and files so i can unbrick this one also. :) Cheers!! and don't give up guys! we're getting there!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Trozzul:
my bad once again, i havent been able to do much in the past two weeks, im really sorry for this, im still a little sketchy on using this program if it was ment for the galaxy note instead, i dont like all the files for the note and i cant brick this phone as well, i think ill do something wrong :(
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Suraido:
Well actually brixfix was made for any phone with a qualcomm chipset, it's just the image files and hex files given with the tool that are for the note. Although, the 8660 hex file does seem to work to some point with our t989d. I've used it with QPST to get it to respond and accept MBN files i extracted out the the stock rom, but i'm still missing a few files, and not 100% sure my partition.mbn file is good. If your t989d is not bricked for now, then maybe we can extract a working partition file and with luck maybe get a real msm8260 hex file. Although, i'm not an expert yet either in any of the ADB stuff, brixfix, and QPST, but i'm getting there. If you could try to get a backup with brixfix out of your t989d i might be able to get some more files i need to try and find a solution to the QHSUSB_DLOAD mode thing. But i don't want you to do anything you don't feel comfortable with. So if you can scrounge up info on how to do that urself and feel safe with it, i'd apreciate it. And if i can do anything to help you out, feel free to ask.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Trozzul:
you know i own 3 T989s, right? not the T989D.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Suraido:
Nope i didn't know that, but now i do :P so in your case the partition data will probably not fit either in mine, but at least the chipset is still the same and maybe we can still get the mprg8260.hex at least. But anyhow, if you can still get the backup thing in brixfix to work to extract your needed files, i can help you out to unbrick which ever t989 you have that's bricked, and maybe some files in there might still be of use to me too. :) Anywayz, if you feel ok with it, just run the backup utility with brixfix and upload me the files you get somewhere on the net so i can download them and try to get a working package to unbrick yours, and i'll check if i can use some of those to help myself also. :P
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Trozzul:
alright ill try to do that, Lord Zog there has a T989D. and ill try to do what i can, im just afraid im going to use the brixfix wrong. could we talk in a IRC and help me through it to get the files for what we both need?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Suraido:
Well using the backup feature from brixfix wont harm anything at all since it doesn't write anything onto the phone in any way, but i do believe your phone has to be rooted for it to work though, so if you don't have one that's rooted yet, back it up with TWRP or CWM recovery just in case. Other than rooting ur phone, brixfix in backup mode won't harm anything on ur phone. As for the rest of the debrick afterwards, i'll guide you step by step if needed, but rest assured that if your already to the point I'm at with my friend's t989d, which is the qualcomm dload mode with nothing else getting detected or doing anything, it can't get worse than that :P The download mode is stored on a secure, unerasable chip in the phone, so only way to scrap it even more is to physically damage the phone, software wise ur safe. Also i've tried about a zillion things and files and tests with QPST and the phone still isn't working, but it's not bricked any further. It will always return to dload mode if you pull out the battery and USB cable.

Of course if you absolutely want to be on IRC so i can help in realtime, i'll download mIRC or something like that to chat with u, but we'll need to check our schedules cause too i'm in EST and i work usually 12-16 hours a day, 7 days a week and i have no idea in which time zone u are :P
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Trozzul:
so i downloaded brickfix 2.1 and it ended up being a file called brickfix2.1.zip.exe? kinda werid to me and my antivirus ended up removing it before i could do anything. the brickfix 2.2 i downloaded in the previous link was a zip file? wrong link maybe?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Suraido:
Probably, i downloaded 2-1 from official link in thread here on XDA and was in zip file too. Dunno if it will work ok with just a copy and paste, but here is the link i used to download it which is supposed to be the official link given by darkspr1te himself.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/1s0g60

Try this one out and keep me posted, if all else fails i'll upload it to dropbox or something else like that. :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Trozzul:
tired downloading it, chrome blocked and deleted it. i imagine my antivirus (norton) will block it too. any help?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] katamon:
Tell me plz, can I use 4gb MicroSd to write Debrick.image.

thks.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] NEPAT989:
Successful Debrick.img?

I have been following these threads with such high hopes? Has someone been able to create a successful .img for the T989?

Thanks
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] katamon:
I think that it is worth a try. I hope will not be worse.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Trozzul:
i cant imagine why it wont work, try it out. if something goes wrong with your sdcard, put it into a different working phone it will say it probably has errors and you should wipe it on there. then plug it into your computer and format it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Lord Zog:
I got mine back up and running, but partition table is just bad, and used modded bootloaders from a mixture of pieces for T989. I still need a working backup from brickfix package on a non-bricked T989 and a T989D as the partition tables are different. The backup won't do anything but read files from your phone to your HDD. Nothing can go wrong.. :) The backup.bat file doesn't use the .hex included. you can even delete it as it doesn't apply. We can use 8060 or 8260, but that is for later, and only when flashing to tell the phone to go to SD-Card boot. I can't continue to work on this without a proper backup done. :( It is safe. If you look at it in a text editor, it just runs a python script to make the partition info and .pit file, then using adb to extract partitions to a backup folder. Its perfectly harmless.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Suraido:
If only brixfix backup and ADB would've worked on my comp i would have a working backup from a t989d, since my frien lent me his a few weeks back since he owed me for de-softbricking it for free in the first place :P But i've spent already like 4 hours trying to get anything from brixfix or ADB to work, both in windows 7 x64 and Ubuntu (tried both x64 and x86 versions of ubuntu) but for some strange reason, neither one of the methods worked and spent alot of time trying to debug this and make it work, redo the files and all, and in ubuntu i can get ADB running but it can't detect any devices in any way for some reason, even with the right codes for the device and all. And my friend needed his phone so had to give it back after a few hours and never did get much out of it... only thing i was able to get was a NV backup with QPST... So guess i'll try to see if i can get it working with my own LG optimus G to test out and once i get it up and running i'll try to ask my friend to lend me his phone one last time :P

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Speaking of the 8060 or 8260 hex file, did u ever get ur hands on any of those?? i've found 8250 and 8660 and just any other one close to it in numbers but not the real ones we need (original one on the phone being the 8260 according to what info i was able to get out of my friend's working t989d).
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Lord Zog:
if your in Linux, when you hook up the borrowed phone, if you do a dmesg | tail, what does it detect it as? That's odd adb won't work in Linux if you have debug mode on your phone and adb enabled on the device..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gohaun:
Alright so I have a t989 that is running 4.0.4 uvl4

I will have to check if it has CWM and is rooted.

What post should I follow to get the correct stuff so we can get this ready for other t989 users?

Brian L
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Trozzul:
upload what you get from this. if its rooted be sure to make a backup, it shouldn't do anything but just to make sure.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gohaun:
Alright, I will check over my weekend (sunday and monday) Ill post that file if i can pry the phone from my wifes hand for a few hours.

Also its Build number: imm76d.uvli4

will that still be alright?

ITs not rooted, so i can still do this file?

It says its 4.0.4 which I dont understand, but ill mess with it later regardless.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Trozzul:
im not sure about the build number, i went back to cyanogenmod. and it needs to be rooted.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gohaun:
Alright, then ill make sure its rooted and then run that from post #18 and get back in a few hours.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Suraido:
It should be ok up to a certain point, having it be uvli4 just means the radio and some parts are different, so you will probably need to restore factory rom using odin to make it work 100%, but in theory, the image should be as good as any to get a hardbrick booted back to softbrick at least. Oh and little update even if it's not much: my friend who owns the t989d that is hardbricked here just found another identical one and bought it off the guy or gal who had it, so now he has another t989d in working order. We just got it unlocked today so he could use it with his provider. Of course he needed it ASAP so i wasnt able to get backups of it yet, but i did get brixfix backup running on my win 7 comp today, and he will bring it back to me sometime this week, so should be able to root it and get the needed backups, although since its windows it might be limited, but we'll see. As of getting ADB running correctly in linux, no luck yet, but once i at least get the backups done in windows, i'll try the linux side again to see if i can get full backups going. I'll keep you posted on those, and if needed, send requests in and i'll do em as fast as i can, as i'm sure he'll be able to lend it to me a couple times to get what need to be done, since he wants his other s2x t989d to be revived and sold ASAP :P So i'll have more news later on on my side, and like i said, send requests my way ASAP so i can do them once he ships it over this week. :) Cheers!! :)

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Last time i tried, no, on linux side nothing worked as far as getting the phone recognized in ADB, but linux still saw it and all, but i was limited on time too though, so i didn't get much time to try and debug much. Although now having another t989d available, i'll have more resources and time to try and debug it on linux side, but for now at least, got brixfix running and adb being recognized as a viable command on win 7 x64, so it will be better than nothing at least if linux side really fails, and this phone seems to be less picky and shifty than my other friend's t989d which i had borrowed a month or 2 ago, so with luck it'll go smoother this time. :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gohaun:
followed post #18, when i checked the backup folder nothing was in it.

made sure it was rooted

followed this video, "How to Root ICS/Jelly Bean on T-Mobile Galaxy S2 SGH-T989" by Zedomax

verified that it was rooted with titanium backup (granted permission)

ran backup.bat again

backup folder shows up

nothing in the backup folder still.

Any ideas on what im doing wrong?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Suraido:
Ok so if you're following post #18 i'll assume you're using windows to run brixfix, in which case, just downloading it and running backup.bat won't work. You also need to download the ADB sdk for windows, install it, and manually setup the paths for windows to recognise ADB as a valid command. My guess is you're just clicking backup.bat so you don't really see the error messages it gives you in the command prompt before closing it. Which should be ADB is not a recognized command.

So download the SDK here : https://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html?hl=sk

Once it is installed, open a command prompt using CMD command and run it as administrator to be sure. Once it's open you need to type in 3 lines of command to setup paths.

set ANDROID_PLATFORM_TOOLS="C:\(input where you unpacked/installed sdk on ur drive here)\sdk\platform-tools"

set ANDROID_TOOLS="C:\(input where you unpacked/installed sdk on ur drive here)\sdk\tools"

set path=%path%;%ANDROID_PLATFORM_TOOLS%;%ANDROID_TOOLS%

If you installed it on another drive than C: just replace the letter with the correct drive letter for your install. Now the backup.bat should work normally for you if you did everything correctly. So just let me know if you're having more problems :)

Oh and don't forget to turn USB debug mode on on your phone, or else ADB won't detect it correctly.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gohaun:
Yes I am using windows, but I thought I installed that already.

Ill updated this post when I have finished it.

** UPDATED **

Went through and unzipped it

went through so windows will show me the path that it was installed under.

right clicked command prompt to run as admin

right clicked and pasted them into command prompt

turned on debug mode on the phone

ran it again

got a screen shot and still says 'adb is not a recognized as an internal or external command"

*update 1*

i found what i was doing wrong

fixed that

but got a partition0.bin isnt found

I did get a folder with 8 files in it.

Here it is...

Also attached a pic of what i see for the partition0.bin
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Suraido:
So far so good, using windows for this program makes it more limited so the partition0.bin not found can be normal. Best way to get everything through backup using brixfix is using it on linux, but setting everything up and making it work is even more hell than on windows, so unless you have ALOT of time to waste and don't have a headache yet, don't bother trying to make it work on linux. I will retry that myself a bit later on. As for now, at least you gave us working files for bootloader and such which is already very good! And i thank you for that! :) I'm downloading them now as we speak to check out what we have and what we can do with those for now. Will keep everyone posted if i make any progress on this, and again, thanx alot for you time and patience in helping us get our hands on working files for these phones :) Cheers!! :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gohaun:
Well its my weekend, so what is the easy linux distro to get this to work on so we can try and get the partition.bin

Hope this works so that I can get my wife's S2 up and running and take the one shes using now for myself. Still running with that vibrant.

Brian L
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] paranoxxx:
Hi,

some new update?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] spirodave:
Image

If they get this image ready do you think it could fix my T989. I was doing a system pull and had a power outage during it and since then my soft keys do not work sometimes they light up but then you have to reboot to get them to turn off. any insight would be helpful. I have tried flashing back to stock using odin amonst flashing many other roms
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Trozzul:
any help at all? im unable to download the program since chrome and my antivirus thinks its a virus.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] astonmartin214:
SO this will unbrick the s2 t989 mine is hard bricked so this will turn it back on?

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you can turn the chrome antivirus off and download the files

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would love to know if this will work can someone make a step by step process

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How did u get yours 2 boot up need my s2 back
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] astonmartin214:
how do you do this?