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[Galaxy S III Mini General] astrit1:
[KERNEL][I8200N][JB] IllyrianKernel v1[21.01.2017]

https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3-mini/development/kernel-illyriankernel-v1-t3542654
[Galaxy S III Mini General] Donaldrum:
Location dev/bloc for boot.img

Hi, I need to know what dev / block is dedicated to boot, to finish my updater script installed by recovery. I tried using adb commands and files manager from the phone, finding all blocks, system, modem,kernel etc., but does not boot. What is the right dev / block?

I just finished a new rom for I8200 with firmware ITV based and also modified the original kernel , I miss just that. I found a script where mmcblk0p5 block was used but it seems not to work. Thanks in advance if you can help me.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
Not sure what you did there, and I think this will not work, but anyway, here are the blocks:

major minor #blocks namemajorminor#blocksnameMB
7 0 8348 loop0708348loop08,15234375
7 1 4190 loop1714190loop14,091796875
179 0 7634944 mmcblk017907634944mmcblk07456
179 1 2048 mmcblk0p117912048mmcblk0p12MRD
179 2 2048 mmcblk0p217922048mmcblk0p22MRD1
179 3 2048 mmcblk0p317932048mmcblk0p32MEP2
179 4 20480 mmcblk0p4179420480mmcblk0p420/efs
179 5 14336 mmcblk0p5179514336mmcblk0p514RESERVED/dtim
179 6 1536 mmcblk0p617961536mmcblk0p61,5LOKE
179 7 1536 mmcblk0p717971536mmcblk0p71,5?
179 8 16384 mmcblk0p8179816384mmcblk0p816PARAM
179 9 16384 mmcblk0p9179916384mmcblk0p916/Recovery
179 10 16384 mmcblk0p101791016384mmcblk0p1016kernel
179 11 24576 mmcblk0p111791124576mmcblk0p1124radio
179 12 16384 mmcblk0p121791216384mmcblk0p1216/NVM
179 13 204800 mmcblk0p1317913204800mmcblk0p13200preload
179 14 352256 mmcblk0p1417914352256mmcblk0p14344/cache
179 15 1557504 mmcblk0p15179151557504mmcblk0p151521/system
179 16 5380096 mmcblk0p16179165380096mmcblk0p165254/data
179 48 2048 mmcblk0boot1179482048mmcblk0boot12
179 24 2048 mmcblk0boot0179242048mmcblk0boot02
253 0 307200 zram02530307200zram0300
179 72 15558144 mmcblk11797215558144mmcblk115193,5
179 73 15554048 mmcblk1p11797315554048mmcblk1p115189,5/extSdCard
254 0 8347 dm-025408347dm-08,151367188
254 1 4189 dm-125414189dm-14,090820313

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[Galaxy S III Mini General] Donaldrum:
Maybe I was not clear and certainly my English is poor. I'm sure of what I've done, I've already found all the blocks but do not see the boot block. Maybe you can not install this phone boot.img to recovery? I tried with a zImage but nothing does not go the same. The block mmcblk0p5 I got it from a script made for a rom i8200 with theme s6 partial but wrong.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
Mmcblk0p10 is the kernel (Boot.IMG) you used the reserved partition ... But take care, zimage is not enough, you have to combine it with the initramfs!

And don't flash the boot.IMG to the recovery partition, this can only made problems ;) but you can flash the boot.IMG with the recovery (use the twrp one mentioned in this thread) but you have to take care that your script is written in a right way...

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[Galaxy S III Mini General] Donaldrum:
I had already tried the block 10 but with recovery PhilzTouch and wrong. Now I tried with TWRP and should not be the same. The recovery of the indicated link no longer works. I took the TWRP from here:

https://beadev.wordpress.com/downloads/

My script is....

package_extract_file("boot.img", "/tmp/boot.img");

write_raw_image("/tmp/boot.img", "dev/block/mmcblk0p10");

delete("/tmp/boot.img");
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
Gosh! Don't use that twrp!!!! Its for a other device !!!

Use that: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=40362

There is also my kernel with flashable zip. This you can use if you exchange your boot.img in the zip file....

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[Galaxy S III Mini General] Donaldrum:
Thanks for the help and advice while. Then, the problem is not individually flash the boot.img, can I do a .tar, I can install it from adb, as md5 etc. The problem I have is to flash the boot.img with the whole Rom and all updater script. I need the right script if it does not work what I shared. The rest of the script is running, I flashed my rom, boot.img except that you do not install.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
Hmm... Want can I say. If you think you can flash a tar or a md5 file with adb, then I think you are not completely clear what you do. Tar and md5 are Odin flashable files, and has nothing to do with adb...

Nevertheless, as I don't know what you try, and what you did with the ROM you may developed/changed/modded or what ever, and what the source was, I think the only way is that you learn the script of google for recovery flashing. You can chose some of existing others, and change it to your needs. Be aware, that the flashing process is different between 4.2/4.4/5.x and up...

If you only want to know how a boot.IMG has to be flashed, check the script of my baroni kernel which I send you one post before...

Good luck...

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[Galaxy S III Mini General] Donaldrum:
I do not know if it is the translator or am I what I mean bad :rolleyes:. I know how you install the boot.img separately, were only examples of how to flash, I did not mean absolutely flashing these files with recovery, I know you do with Odin, from the adb install the image files but always individually. My problem is to install the boot.img with my rom through Uptader script and zip through the recovery. This is possible or not on this phone?

I tried your recovery but it's always the same, with the updater script that I created can flash rom, root and addons, but not the boot.img from the zip. Please can help me? Sorry for my bad english :(

What's wrong in my script? I flash with zip from recovery Twrp..

package_extract_file("boot.img", "/tmp/boot.img");

write_raw_image("/tmp/boot.img", "dev/block/mmcblk0p10");

delete("/tmp/boot.img");
[Galaxy S III Mini General] Donaldrum:
I solved it by himself as usual !!! :)

The right script is ..

package_extract_file("boot.img", "/dev/block/platform/sdhci-pxav3.2/by-name/KERNEL");
[Galaxy S III Mini General] mohamed_252:
i press on clean to install a new rom in PhilzTouch recovery and when i install zip

install from sdcard complete press and key to continue

E : Unable to create brightness sys file !

how to slove this problem

sorry for my bad english
[Galaxy S III Mini General] Gabrius99:
Nothing of strange, it's only a bug in the brightness manager ;)
[Galaxy S III Mini General] xEmre66:
Can somebody give me the device tree,kernel and vendor tree for building something for it? I want to give cm11 a shot.

Regards,

xEmre66

PS: I don't own the device so somebody must test it when I successfully build it.

BTW what's the codename for this device?
[Galaxy S III Mini General] Gabrius99:
Hi, there isn't still a device tree for this device. Anyway you can find kernel sources on my github https://github.com/Gabrius99/kernel_goldenvess3g .

If you need I can upload vendor from my phone.

Device name should be goldenve3g or goldenvess3g :D
[Galaxy S III Mini General] xEmre66:
I could try to get a device tree (make a device tree) for it. Thanks for kernel source and I need vendor as well, so can you pls upload vendor from your phone. Which model do you have?

Regards,

xEmre66
[Galaxy S III Mini General] Gabrius99:
I have GT-I8200, 3g variant. Since this device still hasn't a tree, should I upload bin, etc and lib contents?
[Galaxy S III Mini General] xEmre66:
Yes, please. This will be so helpful.

Regards,

xEmre66
[Galaxy S III Mini General] Gabrius99:
https://github.com/Gabrius99/proprietary_vendor_samsung_goldenvess3g

I uploaded vendor. They are still a mess, since there are needed and useless file. Anyway if there are news or you need an help, please contact me :D

(I'm remembering now where i saw you :D You worked for galaxy mini and maybe for galaxy young, devices that I still own :'D)
[Galaxy S III Mini General] xEmre66:
I'll try to build with this vendor tree, but I have to extract device specific tree for this device.

Regards,

xEmre66
[Galaxy S III Mini General] tuth:
hello, there is a lineageos build for s3 mini but idk if its for 8200 anyone who knows?
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
Where is this lineage os build? not on the official web, so we need the link to check...

In standart: mostlikely if someone talk about a SIIImini he meant the old one...
[Galaxy S III Mini General] tuth:
sadly i noticed its unofficial :(

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=126317&sort_by=date&sort_dir=DESC

http://www.theandroidsoul.com/download-lineage-os/
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
Golden could mean that this is for our device. But I'm stumbling a little bit on the files which are provided there... Unfortunately I can not check the files deeper ATM but without a check it is possible to brick the device....

Also wondering that nobody messaged his build experience here in XDA which brings me to the result that it is maybe dangerous...

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[Galaxy S III Mini General] Koloses:
golden is i8190

goldenve is i8200

This ROM is not for your device.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] hanschke:
is there any 13/14 for the ve available?
[Galaxy S III Mini General] [S]hadoW:
There is nothing for this device and i think it won't
[Galaxy S III Mini General] @anonymous94:
Sell this device and buy a redmi
[Galaxy S III Mini General] Lord_of_Death:
Not really much worth it, u can only sell it for a very cheap price and u wont really profit much. But everyone should move on from this device, its pretty old now.....mine has been in dust for 2 yrs since i got another phone, and now im going to get another phone pretty soon.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] [S]hadoW:
I can't because I'm a student :(
[Galaxy S III Mini General] Azimoth:
I get that there is no newer Android version than 4.2.2 available for this device right now.

But where's the actual problem?

This is not supposed to belittle the problem, on the contrary: I know so little about it, I don't even understand it.

From what I found on this forum there's the official firmware available (and hence any binary blob, that is needed to run the device).

Mr. SolarPlexus was even able to come up with a potentially KitKat compatible kernel and TWRP recovery. To me this feels like we're "half way there".

What is actually missing? Why is the Marvell PXA986 such a nasty cpu to port lineageOS to?

I tried to find a guide to get the general concept behind how lineageOS is ported to new devices, but all I found was either VERY general or "if you have to ask, you won't succeed, this isn't script magic, this is hard work".

Can anyone here enlighten me?
[Galaxy S III Mini General] Koloses:
Well there's not problem, but nobody wants or knows how to do that. This device is old enough and it never had too much of support. I was about to adapt T210-dev (Galaxy Tab 3, same soc) device trees for kitkat to I8200 but never got around doing that since I haven't got time and switched phones later on. I doubt there will be anything done here anytime.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
Friendly spoken: lack of time. I think also I not so far away to compile a slimkat7 ROM, but to debug the start is pretty a mess, and I have not much time ATM...

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[Galaxy S III Mini General] PaulRichter:
Hi guys I broke my GT-I8200N.

In a very ridiculous way.

I wanted to clean the display and somehow water managed to go inside.

Now its actually working perfectly but sometimes it turns screen on and off automatically and after 5 minutes it turns off itself and is stuck in bootloop only device screen no bootanimation.

After that I have to take out battery and use it after 5 hours again and same thing happens again.

I tried to flash stock rom but even in download mode it gets bootloop after 5 minutes.

So flashing happened unsuccessfull / no complete system partition.

I think its over now, 2 nice years with you guys :svetius:

Wish you all best.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] CVAngelo:
Sounds like a hardware rather than a software problem. You may have damaged the digitizer and/or the LCD. That often causes a reboot or a refusal to boot. Just change them and your phone should be like new again.

Other desperate measure you can take is to remove the battery and put the phone in the freezer. This will cause any remaining moisture inside to turn to ice. Then, put it in the sun. Any ice inside will evaporate as the device warms to normal temperatures. So the device will be 100% dry especially on the motherboard where any moisture can cause havoc. Then replace the battery and attempt to boot the device. I've done this with a couple phones that were water damaged and miraculously they booted. Some people swear by putting the device in a bag of rice but that won't completely eliminate the moisture.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] PaulRichter:
No bro.

I already have a s4 which has a broken lcd so either I will replace it or buy a new phone I think its worth more.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] CVAngelo:
??? too funny!

So try the freezer trick then. You ain't got nothin to lose! Hahaha
[Galaxy S III Mini General] PaulRichter:
Why?

Didnt work.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] PaulRichter:
Glad I finally got rid of this device.

I got an A5 15 with CM12.1.

Goodbye everyone!
[Galaxy S III Mini General] @anonymous94:
Happy flashing..!!
[Galaxy S III Mini General] PaulRichter:
Thx
[Galaxy S III Mini General] ForkeKun:
Help me unbrick I8200 , please

Screen black, no Samsung logo or anything. It won't load in to download or recovery mode.

when I connect in to pc it identify it as EMEI without driver.

I saw somewhere that I can revive it via sp flash tool but I need scatter file.

And unbrick stuff is an option too but I didn't find one for my phone

Have any idea how to unbrick it ?

Please. No jtag , I doesn't have one
[Galaxy S III Mini General] BIg hero:
help!!!!

I flashed the ROM but it is booting to recovery.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
Nothing possible to say, because nobody knows which ROM you tried to flash...
[Galaxy S III Mini General] Alamin4736:
How could i know my gt-8200 is l/n/q???????

Please ans me.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] Amirk365:
About phone
[Galaxy S III Mini General] BIg hero:
Also themed ROM
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
Please, give the clear name of the ROM and/or link to the place where you downloaded it... Themed ROM is not helpful as a description...

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[Galaxy S III Mini General] BIg hero:
Aosp themed ROM which is provided in this thread for GT I 8200
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
OK, you used the Philz-recovery, which has still the bug, that will not refresh the "boot to recovery setting in kernel", if you used one time not the three button method but used a menu-option of odin or a tool to say: boot to recovery.

Flash twrp-Recovery, boot one time into recovery, after that, it should boot to the rom (that fix the setting).

Or

Flash stock recovery via odin, boot twice, and it should fix also, but then the root will be gone...

good luck.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] adithyadevv:
S3 mini gt-i8200 got hard bricked??

Accidently i flashed the phone with a custom bootloader... now the phone is not turning on..is it hard bricked will usb jig work for me...

when i connected to pc.. it says some thing is connected to your system.but no device name is shown as before.. what can i do now
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
This is, for sure, the badest thing you can ever do, because the bootloader is the only thing which you NEVER change by mistake, because its the ONLY possible entry to the phone...

Not sure if there is a possibillity... But try that:

Download a stock-rom for you right phone-Version.

Download Odin in the right version mentioned in the opening Post here.

pull the battery of the phone, wait 5 minutes, and put it back.

Try to start the phone with the Download-button-method (volume down + Home-Button + power)

May you did not see a reaction on the screen of the phone, because the bootloader has not the right display-drivers avalible.

Connect the phone via usb to the pc, where the odin is still running, and check if the Odin tolds you that a connection is made. If this happend, then you can flash the Stock rom (wich also contains the right Bootloader and so on).

If no reaction happens, then I fear you are lost, and have a nice Brick... Could try to send it to Samsung for repair it, but I fear this will also not help...
[Galaxy S III Mini General] adithyadevv:
will usb jig work in my device.. I have seen a video in youtube for s3 ..it says you can unbrick a hardbrick device by writing unbrick file in sd card and rebooting...will that work?

Where did i get that unbrick file for gt-i8200
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
The Flash file are avalible on that site: https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/

But please use only the KIES-Marked versions, as there is surely the complete firmware included.

The Jig does only the same as the tree button method, nothing more, and is made for things if the tree button method did not work (like button-failure for example).

A jig is not expensive, so you can give it a try, but I would set not too much hope in that.

I never seen a unbrick-method, where it is enough to store a unbrick-file on the sdcard. The Problem is: If the bootloader did not start (which is the really first layer of everything on the phone) then nothing additional will work. There are rare cases, where an emergency-mode could be startet, to rebreath a hard-bricked device, but those needs normaly a hard-backup from the device itself, and the producer must give provide a hard-flashing tool for this... To my knowledge this was not the case for the i8200...

As you will nothing lose, try what I described. if this did not work, you can try to use a jig...
[Galaxy S III Mini General] Alamin4736:
PLease is there any support team to help me??????????????

How can i understand that my device is samsung gt-i8200 L/N/Q??????

And stock rom download link please...
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
Hi,

at first just try to get back into the downloadmode:

pull the battery of the phone, wait 5 minutes, and put it back.

Try to start the phone with the Download-button-method (volume down + Home-Button + power)

If you could comne to that mode, then everything is possible. If not, then you can giv a Jig a try. Unfortunatly there is absolute no Repair mode image file avalible for the I8200...

If you reach the Downloadmode, you can go ahead whith this steps:

Download a stock-rom for your right phone-Version (https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/), please use one which is marked as a official Kies version, because all files are safly contained.

Download Odin in the right version mentioned in the opening Post here.

pull the battery of the phone, wait 5 minutes, and put it back.

Try to start the phone with the Download-button-method (volume down + Home-Button + power)

Connect the phone via usb to the pc, where the odin is still running, and check if the Odin tolds you that a connection is made. If this happend, then you can flash the Stock rom (wich also contains the right Bootloader and so on).

Good luck!
[Galaxy S III Mini General] marianvr7:
Thanks!

First of all thanks for the awesomely fast answer, I didn't expect that! Thank you SolarPlexus.

So if I can't get into the download mode the only possibility left is the Jig, right? I have absolutely no way to go into download mode, I do the 3 buttons method and it pops up the warning sign saying you're about to enter the download mode if you press up... *but I can't press up*. It's frustrating me so much. I was able to press up and enter the download mode before the mess up but now I simply can't. I press and press and nothing happens. I've been trying this for 4 straight days, extracting the battery for 5, 10, 30, 60min, even an entire 8h night. Nothing changes, still stuck there :( .

I have the USB cable, the proper version of ODIN and my stock ROM from sammobile ready but I'm afraid I'm not gonna use any them by the looks of it, hehe.

Well, at least I know I can stop looking for a debrick.img now, maybe I'll give the jig a try if I can get my hands on one but if there's nothing else I can do with my computer and the stuff I already have I'm very much afraid I'm gonna end up throwing it away... unless someone in here wants it for developing/researching matters! lol. Let me know if anything else occurs to you that I might try instead of a jig, or if you need a trashy phone to mess with :good:

Thank you very much!!
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
This is not really normal... It could be, that your volume-up is maybe defect? So you could try to open the phone, and have a look on the contacts there...

Otherwise you may did something what was not a great idea - for example flash something from the other SIIImini-model...

Nevertheless, you can also build a jig by yourself. its just a micro-USB connector whith a restistor. ( https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s2/help/guide-how-to-make-usb-jig-reset-binary-t1604707 )

But anyhow, you can buy a jig easily via amazon, also if you are in a deep jungle, they will ship it to you - trust me ;)
[Galaxy S III Mini General] marianvr7:
I really don't think that's the problem because I can get into the "previous" stage of entering the download mode, I mean, I can do the 3 buttons method but then, when it is in this warning screen, is when pressing up seems to not work. But if it wasn't working at all I couldn't do the 3 buttons method at all, could I? Honestly, I think I messed up bad with firmware of other s3 mini version and the phone just "blew up", haha.

If I can get some of those resistors I have a spare USB cable that I can use to make a jig device so maybe I'll give it a try, wish me luck! hehe. And thanks for the kind replies :)
[Galaxy S III Mini General] wileyfoxx:
hi,

there is no custom ROM yet? when it will be avail one?

thanks.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] fuelbeck:
Bom dia!!!!

Esta sabendo de algum rom personalizada para o aparelho ..já procurei em varios lugares e não encontro...

S3 mini ( GT - I8200L )..
[Galaxy S III Mini General] :
Lmao nobody's working for a custom rom for i8200?

Alright.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
What can we say.... Its not that easy to do it. And a lack of time indeed...but you can try it also ;)

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[Galaxy S III Mini General] :
The fact that i wanted to.port miui 8 for this device too, i need AOSP 6.0 for this device + support + the device itself.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] sadiqeen3210:
i messed up bootloader on gt-i8200. I need debrick.img /unbrick.img

Please share if some one can make it
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
The question is, are you able to start the Downloadmode? If not, then anything is finished,and nothing cold be done. If yes, then you could download a stock.image and flash with Odin.

There is absolutely no debrick/unbrick image available , and if there is one, it will not help, as if really your bootloader is corrupt then the phone will not be able to start a kernel or to access the sdcard....

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[Galaxy S III Mini General] sadiqeen3210:
No, the phone does not even go to download. But there is a way to fix it using unbrick.img / debrick.img. Please see this tutorial. https://youtu.be/tWnHesLPikQ
[Galaxy S III Mini General] SolarPlexus:
I'll try to produce that image for you, but needssome time. my old i8200 is completley empty ;)

Nevertheless, I'm not pretty sure that this file will help very much. So if it helps, please then made a step by step howto, to help also others (because there was also other hard bricked phones here mentioned ;-P)
[Galaxy S III Mini General] sadiqeen3210:
Thanks man, i am desperately waiting for debrick.img.

And as you said, i'll make a thread to help others.