[Galaxy S III Mini General] marianvr7:
I need advice, can you guys help??

Hi nice people! I have an issue with my S3 mini gt-i8200 I hope any of you guys could shed some light on. I was given the phone (I don't have any other right now) because the screen would remain lit no matter how long you would leave it alone and it drained the battery, it was given to me as a useless phone as it was just to help me throught the weeks I need to buy me one. I decided to experiment a little with it since I had nothing to lose and thought that if maybe I could flash a stock ROM I would solve the problem and save me the money of buying a new phone, since it looked more like a software issue (not that I know much about it, I'm as noob as you can imagine) and I have rooted and flashed ROMs to other devices before, I just know the basic basics. Well, first of all I rooted it with one of those one-click applications and it all went well. Then I proceeded to boot into the recovery mode but it wasn't there. Download mode was accesible as always, pressing down + power+ home and then pressing up when the warning sign showed. I have visited so many sites and read so many guides I can't tell you guys which one I exactly followed to be able to boot into recovery mode but to make the story shorter I'll say I must have flashed something wrong to my phone (I don't even know what) and now I'm left with an unresponsive brick. I mean unresponsive because even being "soft" bricked it gets on when I put the battery but gets stuck on the samsung logo forever, when I press down + power + home it gets me to the warning sign but I can't press up so I can't go into download mode so ODIN doesn't recognize the device and thus I can't flash the stock ROM I hoped to flash before I started to mess around with it, and the recovery mode still doesn't exist so I can't do nothing. I can't boot the phone in any mode and my PC doesn't recognize it. At this point and given all the info I've been gathering for the past 4 days I understand there are only 2 more methods to try and resuscitate the phone before I have to throw it away (no way I'm contacting Samsung bc of a ****ty phone I was given, I'd rather buy me one):

- Trying the debrick.img method via SDcard: I've tried this one 5 times so far but never with a debrick.img for a s3 mini gt-i8200 because that image doesn't seem to exist on the whole internet, lol (I don't need to say it didn't work with any of them, the phone acts exactly the same as if no sd card was in it, stuck on samsung logo or on warning sign before download mode unable to press up)

- JTAG method. This one is the most appealing to me but the most difficult because I live in a pretty small and isolated village where I can't find the proper resistances, I've very little economic and reaching resources so even if I buy a JTAG plugin or the components to make one on ebay or something there's no guarantee I will get it, etc. So this is my absolute last resource due to technical difficulties though I feel it might be the best.

So now I ask you experts (remember I'm a total noob and I may not be able to understand your answers if there are any): Is it true that I can debrick this particular device with a proper debrick.img? I need to know this because given the lack of attention this model got from developers and the lack of tools available out there I'm about to begin learning how to make the debrick.img I need myself, but I don't want to waste my time! Please, please tell me if it would work before I get started, thank you very much.

Aaand if I can't use the debrick.img method because it is useless at this point, do you guys think the JTAG will work or can I save those 2 last steps and directly throw the phone into the trash? I just don't want more of my life consumed over a device I get a stronger feeling every day I'm not gonna be able to resuscitate. If nothing's gonna work I need to know ASAP so I can stop wasting my time. :fingers-crossed:

Sorry for the Bible I just wrote, I wanted to make everything extra clear because I don't know much of the technical language and barely understand what you guys talk about, hehe. And thank you very much in advance in case someone replies to this! :victory: