[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Purpleandgold:
HELP HARD BRICKED MY GALAXY S3 GT-19300 4.1.1 PLEASE HELP

I hard bricked my galaxy S III while trying to recover accidentally deleted photos from the gallery. I should have forgotten about the pictures and move on. I am hoping some of you geniuses here can help me figure out how to get my phone back. Galaxy is not under warranty. I want to say upfront that I am way out of my league and will probably say stupid stuff, please forgive me.

On day 1: I used skipsoft toolkit to root my phone. Before the root I did try to back up my phone. I chose #2 backup/restore your device. I do find some files; however, windows is unable to open them. After that, I chose #3 root options. Then, option #2 Flash recovery, root and busy box. Then, option #3 TWRP Touch recovery 2.7.1.0. Then, option #2 SuperSU 2.46 by chainfire. Then, option #2 sideload root file via custom recovery. I must say that I have no idea what all this means. Everything was fine and phone worked well.

Day 2: I followed this wonderful video at YouTube called

How to recover deleted Pictures and files off your INTERNAL memory on Samsung Galaxy Phones. Can put link because don't have 10 post yet. Sorry. However, I skipped the part about rooting and busy box because I use skipsoft to do those procedures. I performed all the procedures as directed, however when I got to Cygwin I couldn't get this program to work. I'm running windows XP. When I typed in util-Linux I only got 2 categories; however he got about 5. Stupidly, I continued with the process. I connected my phone in adb mode. I typed Adb then I typed adb start-server and pressed enter. Then I closed it out as he instructed. As I said earlier I could never get Cygwin to run. I installed it and uninstalled it several times, but had no luck. I disconnected my phone from the USB cable. Everything was working fine. When I went to bed the phone was fully charged, so I did not charge it. Upon awakening, the phone was DOA (dead on awakening) (normally dead on arrival).

The galaxy S III will not go into recovery or download load. It will not do anything, does not vibrate or have lights when charging. I tried all of the button combinations: Power, Home, volume down; power, home, volume up; Power, Home, volume down and volume up. Removed the battery, then tried all these combinations again. Remove the battery, sd card and SIM card and tried button combinations again. Removed battery, SIM card, and SD card and held the power button down. Plug the phone in via USB and tried all button combinations. None of these things worked. Tried a friend's Galaxy S III battery in my phone, dead. Tried my battery in their phone, and their phone dead. Tried friend's battery with all combination of buttons still no signs of life. Computer does not find phone.

I suppose that I hard bricked my phone or did something else happen? What about the backed up information on my computer, is there a way to retrieve it? Can someone please give me specific directions on unbricking my phone? I read somewhere on this forum that you could copy a bootloader from another phone to an SD card and copy that to your phone. However, I cannot take the chance of bricking someone else's phone. So if someone has some suggestions of how I can unbrick my galaxy S III I without JTAG or a jig, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you!!!