yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android General] YasharF:
I was able to fix my bricked phone using the SD method. It took many hours because of two issues:

1. I had to find and download a debrick image that was for the ROM I had. - This wasn't as hard though, someone had posted one in one of the forums.

2. Find the right SD. - In addition to the size of the SD, it turns out that the process is really sensitive to the brand and model of the SD card. I thought a Samsung 16G SD would work since it was made by Samsung, but NO the Samsung's own SD cards are NOT COMPATIBLE with the process, even though they work fine as a SD. One of the Sandisk 16G SDs that I had got worked though, but it took me some hours to figure out that was the problem.

Good luck
[Android General] xExcel:
Still bricked. Samsung Galaxy S3 Tmobile. Bricked in the middle of CyanogenMod's installer. So I might need the latest CyanogenMod S3 Tmobile debrick image because the 4.3 one doesn't work.

The 4.3 image caused the phone to vibrate, which means that it got a response out of the S3, but I guess it wasn't the right image.

Can anyone who's using the S3 Cyanogenmod 11 4.4 for TMobile please upload a debrick image?
[Android General] hsalehi313:
hardbricked

Hi

I have a similar issue my galaxy s3 i747m was on cm11 working fine,then the google camera stoped working so i decided to flash a gs5 rom but i think i had the wrong rom for my device as it hardbricked my phone can someone please give a debrick img for my phone or any solution to fix it

Please help

This is the rom

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3/development/rom-glamours5-s3-touch-s5-version-7-0-t2258723

---------- Post added at 03:26 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:20 PM ----------

Which img is it i have a similar issue except my phone was bricked after flashing a gs5 rom for my i747m

This is the rom that is installed

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3/development/rom-glamours5-s3-touch-s5-version-7-0-t2258723
[Android General] Emily yang:
Help please! hard bricked phone?

Hi

i am new here and i was looking for help with my sprint Gs3 L710, i never did anything to the phone i just use the phone for calling and surfing the internet. I had to make a phone call early in the morning as i was calling my phone turned off and it showed the Samsung logo and never turn back on. I tried everything from the system re boot ( three button trick / down and home button) to replacing the batteries some people told me to buy a jig but i read that jig will not help the phone. I am completely lost and don't know what to do please help . :crying:
[Android General] dreamwave:
Tell Samsung you have a brickbug phone, they should be able to replace it. Not sure if you can repair it with the method I mentioned, as I think it's a problem with an emmc chip
[Android General] sameer666:
I have manage to boot from SD card into download mode, but if i remove the SD card it is not booting and i get a blank screen ( i am not sure if the rom is broken too or it is just the boot loader). What i have see from the OP post is that i need to flash stock rom and then dd the debrick.img. My phone is T999, can some one please validate my understanding.
[Android General] dreamwave:
So currently you have a boot loader or radio or something that the phone doesn't see as something that can be trusted, or is something that is so corrupt it can't even load into ram properly and boot a gui. When you put the SD in, and the phone sees that whatever is in internal memory can't be booted completely, it goes on to try and boot from the SD. The SD with a working debrick image contains the first bit of the contents of the nand memory, just enough to load a functioning bootloader. You need to take the SD, and have the phone copy what is on the card and make it part of it's nand contents so it can boot from internal memory.
[Android General] sameer666:
Thanks for replying, i manage to install twrp without a problem but the phone is still working only with SD card, so I am guessing the bootloader is broken and i dont have working ROM to dd the debrick.img. The other thing is, I cannot flash stock rom on it. After I start flashing Stock rom, boot.img gets flashed but then cache.img nand write fails and after this phone have an error say " firmware upgrade error" and i have to reflash TWRP( that works after flashing). On the phone it say "unsupported dev_type". Any suggestions?

By the way, I dont know which stock rom to use, therefore I am using UK ROm. In odin mode it say T999, so i am guessing it should be ok to flash it. Will flashing a wrong region Stock rom can cause an issue ?
[Android General] dreamwave:
Can you adb sideload a rom? You just need the SD card contents to do the dd
[Android General] sameer666:
I dont how to adb sideload a rom, If you can list the steps will be big help. I will also try to google it

---------- Post added 18th November 2014 at 12:25 AM ---------- Previous post was 17th November 2014 at 11:31 PM ----------

I dont how to adb sideload a rom, If you can list the steps will be big help. I will also try to google it

Got cynogenmod through adb sideload. now need to dd bootloader files. many many thanks
[Android General] sameer666:
Now I am stuck with "imei 0" problem :crying: any suggestions. Though in recovery mode i can mount /efs
[Android General] Gr33k420:
IT WORKED!!!

OK...First and foremost - THANK YOU VERY MUCH for posting this information in a simplified post.

I'm pretty sure I stupidly downgraded the bootloader via Clockwork MOD (BE WARNED when using CWM to 'upgrade' recovery).

Thus I was a hard brick no light, charge indicator, nothing. Dead as could be.

I can verify that you should NOT bother trying this without a 16 or 32GB SD Card as the OP clearly states. I tested with a 8GB Card and it just simply wouldn't work (regardless of formatting, utility to flash image, etc).

So I used the T-Mobile 4.3 unbrick img on windows 8.1 x64 with that win32image utility posted. Exactly as the instructions stated is how it happened.

The phone seemed to be in a boot loop still, but ANYTHING is better than nothing. I simply pressed the power, vol down, and home buttons to put the phone in download mode for ODIN.

I then flashed the latest 4.3 MD5 stock rom via ODIN. It seemed to succeed but stuck at the boot logo AFTER ODIN reported "Success".

I just pulled the SDCard out and the battery. I then put the battery in WITHOUT the SDCard (nor SIM for that matter...I don't have one for this phone right now)...powered up -

TADA! Just like new!

Love you guys! I ordered a USB JIG and cancelled it as I got it working with my 32GB SDCard.

For the record - My T-Mobile Galaxy S3 is a 16GB version. The 32GB stick worked just fine. I believe it has to do with the phone supporting both 16 and 32 GB versions internally?

NOW to re-root...and try this all over ;)
[Android General] DJFEARLESS20:
ha anyone got the i747m rogers 4.4.2 debrick img as yet........i really need it :(
[Android General] dreamwave:
Did you flash... What exactly? If you flash the stock image I think there are ways of modding the imei, but not quite sure. I think if you flash a stock Rom it should resolve
[Android General] sameer666:
[MENTION=5315165]dreamwave[/MENTION], many many thanks, got my phone working. Yes i injected the imei. For any one else who might be in the same situation i did the following.

1) Boot from SD card with debrick image for my phone.

2) Flash the stock rom.

a) for me odin didn't work, so i had to use sideload to load cyangenmod but the actual problem was that, I was using flash wrong version of stock rom.

3) inject original imei into my phone.

4) Flash cyanogenmod again
[Android General] holistone:
newly hard bricked 16GB Sprint Galaxy S3 L710

I now have a newly hard bricked 16GB Sprint Galaxy S3 L710 after an install of S5 Sensation Rom via philz_touch_6.48.4 over a previous rooted slimkat 4.4.4. There were no hardware problems with the phone prior to the ROM install. I've tried the sdcard tricks described here multiple times with the sprint-debrick_sph_l710.img (referenced here) using both 16GB and 32GB class 10 sdcards. Never any response. The battery was above 97% at the install. Should I be using a different image? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Problem Solved. I was using an incorrect debrick image. Although I am unable to post the link, the correct file was DEBRICK_KK_L710.img. With it, the 16GB SD card restored download mode.
[Android General] brickman7713:
How can I install stock rom after I debrick?
[Android General] faille13:
Is there a way someone can post an i747 at&t 4.4.2 debrick image?

Thanks
[Android General] dreamwave:
CM doesn't integrate any of the proprietary kitkat blobs from 4.4, so find out whatever the last version of absolutely stock touchwiz you had and use the debrick image for that.
[Android General] vitjojo:
i9300

hello

there is an image to galaxy s3 i9300 GT ??

My phone is a victim of sudden death

thank you
[Android General] dreamwave:
If it was sudden death can't do a thing as that's a problem with it reading right but finding just a replication of some reduced part of emmc, as well as there is no image for exynos based devices. Call Samsung and tell them you have a brickbug phone and ask for a replacement board or for them to replace it. Pretty sure they still do.
[Android General] vitjojo:
thank you

Merci pour cette réponse

Thank you for that answer

Best Regards
[Android General] Gal tales:
Need debrick image

Hello, I am looking for someone who can upload a debrick image for I747mvlufnh2 4.4.2 for the 16gb I have searched everywhere without any luck. I had it working with the 4.3 debrick image I went to update with stock firmware I747mvlufnh2 however I forgot to remove the sd card before flashing with Odin and when I restarted it didn't work.
[Android General] Youdoofus:
have you stumbled upon this page yet?

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=15759
[Android General] airfishey:
This guide helped me boot my US Cellular R530U GS3 to the d2lte M10 Cyanogenmod image that I messed up. I'm working on flashing it back to a working condition now. Thanks for this guide! It is very appreciated.
[Android General] if3chi:
Worked Perfectly!!!

Thanks a lot. Followed your instructions and was able to get my hard bricked SGH-T999 to boot into download mode and then installed stock ROM via ODIN. Fortunately, I can boot the phone without the SD Card. Thanks again. Cheers :D
[Android General] bodyjoao:
without IMEI after update

Good come hereby ask for help,

after breaking the glass of my s3 was to repair a colleague of mine, and he took and made apdate to 4.3, and from that apdate my s3 has run imei, and without resistar on the network, making everything else, I have done all the restore options views on youtube and xda ... but without any success ... will that can help me ... this phone came from belgium ... and at this point does not make phone ..

I need your help or I'll have to take you to a certro repair ... now my thanks to this our great Community have ....

João ramos
[Android General] kenkit:
Samsung Galaxy S Duos S7562

Does this method work for my Samsung Galaxy S Duos S7562
[Android General] canodroid15:
I doubt it. However, if you had or made a de-brick img for your phone it may, tho I haven't heard of one for the duos. Google it. That's your best chance to find anything, have u tried Odin? Are you hard bricked (meaning the phone does nothing) or soft bricked (able to get into download mode)?
[Android General] kenkit:
Actually here is what happened, my phone usb port does not work atm, but I rooted the phone, so I tried installing recovery using dd but flashed it to the wrong partition possibly, this is after looking on the net for the possible recovery partition which I never really found :laugh: :laugh: well since I was bored of this power draining stock rom, I ended up flashing recovery to a partition mmcblk0p6 which I haven't figured what it is yet, but am thinking of doing writing a bootloader from my brothers phone to an memory card which is also not a class 10 card , not sure if it will work.
[Android General] kenkit:
Here is the partition layout for the phone I acquired from another similar phone.

major minor #blocks name

253 0 122880 zram0
179 0 3817472 mmcblk0
179 1 20 mmcblk0p1
179 2 150 mmcblk0p2
179 3 20480 mmcblk0p3
179 4 1 mmcblk0p4
179 5 1000 mmcblk0p5
179 6 1000 mmcblk0p6
179 7 2000 mmcblk0p7
179 8 12288 mmcblk0p8
179 9 3072 mmcblk0p9
179 10 3072 mmcblk0p10
179 11 8192 mmcblk0p11
179 12 12288 mmcblk0p12
179 13 4096 mmcblk0p13
179 14 4096 mmcblk0p14
179 15 512 mmcblk0p15
179 16 1228800 mmcblk0p16
179 17 512000 mmcblk0p17
179 18 2048 mmcblk0p18
179 19 12288 mmcblk0p19
179 20 24576 mmcblk0p20
179 21 4096 mmcblk0p21
179 22 51200 mmcblk0p22
179 23 1000 mmcblk0p23
179 24 4096 mmcblk0p24
179 25 1901176 mmcblk0p25
179 32 15630336 mmcblk1
179 33 15619116 mmcblk1p1

Anybody know what I messed up by flashing recovery onto mmcblk0p6, obviously it overlapped onto mmcblk0p7 and a small section of mmcblk0p8 since it's a 4mb image, unfortunately I was far from a computer at the time I bricked it.

---------- Post added at 08:28 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:21 AM ----------

Also can somebody please explain how a 200 byte file would be used on a memory card to boot into bootloader mode which I figured is empty, I decided to go for :

A 200 byte file

A 700 byte file

The who mmcblk0

The entire mmcblk0 is 3.8Gb

Using dd is quite slow I managed to read 1.8Gb of my brothers phone emmc which ran for more than 9 hours, but it hasn't completed yet. The phone becomes slow at this time possibly using more power and I'll obviously have to start over again.

Do you guys think I'll have luck burning the entire emmc image on the memory card.

Attached are the 200 byte readout and a 700 byte readout the larger piece will be available later.
[Android General] uagha:
How do I restore my sd card back to normal?

Now I have a 16gb sd card with way too many partitions, How can I get it back to normal? :confused:

Thanks, this thread is a life saver
[Android General] frapollo:
please anyone i need the debrick.img for s3 neo 9301 hARDBRICK
[Android General] canodroid15:
The s3 neo is a newer phone than the s3 it has totally different hardware so I doubt you're gonna find it here, look in the threads for your phone & see if someone there can help you. By hardbrick yo mean I won't do anything right, it won't power on, you can't get into download mode or recovery mode?
[Android General] frapollo:
the phone is dead no download mode e no recovery i m dispered :(
[Android General] canodroid15:
Yep its hard bricked then, you'll have to send it it for a JTAG repair its usually around $50 but I have seen it higher Google it it your only hope unless someone in the s3neo thread has a better idea
[Android General] ndanielz:
sgh-t999l bricked

i tried the methods and instructions to de-brick my phone but still hasnt worked.

i had cwm installed and got bricked when i installed a custom, rom flashingdroid ended up as hard brick
[Android General] shawnsingh:
Hey guys i am a person trying to unbrick a XT907 Droid Razr M

I was wondering what type of files did you use to generate the debrick image.

And if you guys know any other methods to make this work.......
[Android General] kenkit:
you need to know how to use dd, and programs like win32diskimager.
[Android General] shawnsingh:
How do we dd also don't I need a working RAZR my to repair them or no
[Android General] kenkit:
dd is a linux binary that has raw access to disks and partitions (most android phones have it), use it on a working device and read out the main partitition (phone should be similar to yours), the generated binary file should be burned to an sdcard, thats where win32diskimager comes in, although you can still use dd.

Please use google to find out more about those tools.

Be the first to thank me, i‘ll give a detailed tutorial later coz am currently on phone.
[Android General] Krecheth:
can't debrick my SGH-t999v (Wind)

Hello guys! Need your help with debricking my S3 SGH-T999V (Canadian, Wind Mobile). History: rooted, flashed with SlimKat, later Carbon ROM. Everything worked fine, there were some issues with high gain when using a mic in some apps, and I decided to flask the phone with new kernel. For some reasons I chose Boeffla-Kernel (Omnirom NG latest stable version), and the phone has bricked right after that.

No LED when charger is connected, no signs of life when trying to power it on, no way to get into neither recovery nor download modes. When connected to a PC, seen as a device QHSUSB_DLOAD with no driver installed.

I tried to debrick the phone by using a SD card with different images from KAsp3rd's thread to no avail. The phone stays dark, no vibration, no LED, nothing. Am I missing something or is it just my phone has truly died?

I would appreciate any help!
[Android General] rgxHost:
Greetings;

Q: Can you load under Download mode?

If yes:

Then Flash Stock Rom and let us know how it went.
[Android General] Krecheth:
No, the phone doesn't react at all.

My phone doesn't boot automatically, neither I can boot it by holding the power button.

So I'd like to know if there is anything I should try? and what debrick image should I use for SGH-t999v?
[Android General] rgxHost:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2996865
[Android General] xahmad.mu:
Hello

i want to fix my hard brick s4 mini " GT-I9190"

but i want the Debrick Image

can anyone help me and give me the download link to "Gt-I9190" Debrick.img

thank for your efforts ​
[Android General] kenkit:
Sorry bro, your only way-out is JTAG.
[Android General] dreamwave:
Can you send me a copy of the zip you used so I can see what else it may have flashed?
[Android General] dreamwave:
Wait... Which phone? I know it works with I747 but have no clue what you put on the end. Also just reflash the previous file and put the SD in before the battery. Good luck!

You are absolutely welcome kind sir!

Ditto the previous ?... My phone sucks for typing long messages...which I now seem to be doing...?

Hi there... What? Wait... Is this thing even bricked? What's the problem with it?

Short answer: almost definitely no

Long answer: still almost definitely no as this is really only a feature on a couple specific Qualcomm Samsung flagship handsets...not even the note has it I don't think. Not really worth the trouble of trying to make one the chance of it working is so low.

Which partition do you think you flashed it to? How close to the beginning?

It's 200/700 megabytes, which is about 10^100000 more space (yes that was just a way of saying 1000000 but I was getting bored and my calculator has this unique problem of displaying absolutely everything in scientific notation when it comes to standard numbers and I've started to get used to thinking like it... Oh fudge let's just say I'm REALLY bored right now ??????
[Android General] kenkit:
I think it's somehow possible, after I get the usb port working.

I might try QPST some more info is on this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1914359

It appears that this phone isn't that far from MSM8660 on the production line, and we have to force it to boot the external sdcard possibly through jumpers or if the device can get into QLOAD mode through QPST then we can obviously use the same procedure.

I am also looking for some files to get some better view of the boot process, which I don't think is as secure as MSM8660.

The files am looking for are :

MSM7227_Boot-Loader_Translated_Eng_EU.zip < -----------Finnally I have english version

msm7227 boot_流程.pdf <--------I downloaded this one only it's in chinese.

MSM7x27_eSD_eMMC_Boot.pdf <--------Can't see it anywhere.

And lastly the S7562 SCHEMATICS <- Not the service manual.

I am also going to try and contact Antagonist42 to share some files he posted here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=24100141#post24100141

If all goes well I should possibly unbrick this device without JTAG :D.
[Android General] kenkit:
I found some interesting info inside MSM7227_Boot-Loader_Translated_Eng_EU.doc

Does this mean external sdcard or internal emmc ?

int boot_linux_from_flash (void)
{
struct boot_img_hdr * hdr = (void *) buf;
an unsigned n-;
struct ptentry * p tn;
struct ptable * ptable;
unsigned offset = 0;
const char * cmdline;

/ / Determine whether the start from the sd card
if (target_is_emmc_boot ()) {
hdr = (struct boot_img_hdr *) EMMC_BOOT_IMG_HEADER_ADDR;
if (memcmp (hdr-> magic, BOOT_MAGIC, BOOT_MAGIC_SIZE)) {
dprintf (CRITICAL, "ER ROR: Invalid boot image header \ n");
return -1;
}
goto continue_boot;
}

ptable = flash_get_ptable ();
if (ptable == NULL) {
dprintf (CRITICAL, "ERROR: Partition table not found \ n");
return -1;
}

if (! boot_into_recovery)
{
/ / Find the kernel where the partition
ptn = ptable_find (ptable, "boot");
if (ptn is == NULL) {
dprintf (CRITICAL, "ERROR: No boot partition found \ n");
return -1;
}
}
else
{
ptn = ptable_find (ptable, "recovery");
if (ptn is == NULL) {
dprintf (CRITICAL, "ERROR: No recovery partition found \ n");
return -1;
}
}
/ / Get the boot partition information
if (flash_read (ptn, offset, buf, page_size)) {
dprintf (CRITICAL, "ERROR: Cannot read boot image header \ n");
return -1;
}
offset + = page_size;
[Android General] The Kaushal:
Nice
[Android General] kenkit:
More info on MSM7227A Unbrick :D.

http://www.modaco.com/topic/366030-dfu-tool-for-bricked-zte-blade-3-not-working-on-windows-8/
[Android General] Antagonist42:
If you're trying to flashing files whilst you are in QCOM_DOWNLOAD QCHSUSB_DOWNLOAD or it's variations you'll need to research probably into your version number, this for example M76XX-TSNCJOLYM-6050/TSNCJOLY-6050, the files contained in the zip/img are unpacked by QPST and flashed to the device, unless they're available (and you now have access to Qualcomm's site) through QPST it's nigh-on impossible to find them for some devices.

If your device is bootable to boot, recovery, sdcard update, the same file can be used to flash that same image and possibly restore using normal sdcard update...however ...If your partition information is corrupt at certain points (this is where only parts of certain code is used, security verified, hash checked) OTA/sdcard flashing isn't possible, hence the QCOM/HSUSB DOWNLOAD mode.

To flash that image through sdcard update simply take an update zip, add in the chip version .zip/.bin/.omg to the update zip, power up and let it flash the files.

I know this works as I recovered from soft brick with no available Rom or program access except to sdcard update (was nothing available at that time so I was searching any & every number I found lol )

The file MUST be your devices version, all others are likely to corrupt.
[Android General] kenkit:
Nice info, I'll try looking for the pattern :-

If I fail unbricking this device, I guess I'll have to be the only guy who has an RIFF JTAG BOX in my area :D
[Android General] Antagonist42:
Good luck with your hunt ;)
[Android General] Krecheth:
Sure. Here's the file: View attachment boeffla-kernel-2.5-Omnirom-NG-i9300.CWM.zip
[Android General] dreamwave:
That seems to have flashed a complete boot image. Did you try both images for your phone from that site?
[Android General] kenkit:
Something for those who are investigating pitfiles, and those who need to know their devices partition info.

I made windows binaries from the pit2xml sources.
[Android General] arezenyt:
help!!

I can not relive my SGH-T999 brick, and try all .img but not enter download mode or turn on my bricked sgh-T999 died when an old modem (T999_UVDMD5_firmware_v4) was installed. and try the usb jig and nothing, not enenciende not recognized by the pc, had a stock rom cyanogendmod 11 (modem T999UVUENC2)
[Android General] kenkit:
I guess that‘s just bad luck , same thing happened to me.

Modem contains appboot, and the phones bootloader.

The only solution is JTAG.
[Android General] Pippinkid:
I second this, I'm not sure if this post was answered. I flashed the same exact rom on my Sprint L710, though my flash was over CM12. Is there a 4.4 debrick image for the sprint variant that would possibly help us out? Any help here would be immensely appreciated! :) Sorry if my noobishness boiled over a little here. :silly: