[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] **shtrodel**:
Hi all,

I need some help.

My wife have an Samsung i747 phone which she used to store there all the pictures of our boys from the past 2 years. She never backuped the pictures.

Starting two weeks ago the phone got stuck very often, and became very hot. Last week the phone didn't power on anymore.

I could enter to download mode, but didn't succeed to go Recovery mode except of few times (I know it sounds weird, but I try a lot.. most of the times the text "Recovery Booting" for one second, and than I got the "Samsung S III" logo and the device shut down..).

So if I understood right, the was soft brick.

The few times i succeeded enter recovery mode it always print errors of something like "e: mount /system | /data | /cache failed".

I saw this thread and decide to give it a chance.

I didn't know what is the version of the bootloader (or anything else... my wife neither) so I go on the 4.3 bootloader.

I flashed the twrp 2.6.3.0 recovery and I saw there in backup section that the data is about 12giga. I couldn't make any backup of anything. I tried to reset to factory settings (without wiping the user data) and it failed(I even tried to backup the recorvery and boot partition that weights 10 mb and it failed).

I tried to flash from my sd card the:

d2att_I747UCUEMJB_bootloader

d2att_I747UCUEMJB_modem

d2att_Kernel_Stock_init.d_4.3_MJB_v1.0

AT&T_I747UCUEMJB

and everything worked but the AT&T_I747UCUEMJB.zip .

I tried flash newer twrp version, at first 2.6.3.1 and lastly 2.8.7.0. In all the same result - I can't flash the AT&T_I747UCUEMJB.zip file. the error says something about the updater (I can't read the whole error, the screen cutting the line).

Still when I open the recovery it says it couldn't load /system /cache /data partitions. I tried to change the fs type, wiping the partition, formatting - but nothing worked.

Can any one help me get the pictures out? They mean a lot to us, except the pictures from the I747 we only have a few pictures from the last 2 years.

Thanks!

p.s

I thinks that this is the log from twrp when I tried to install the AT&T_ rom:

Installing '/external_sd/AT&T_I747UCUEMJB.zip'...
Checking for MD5 file...
I:Cannot find file /external_sd/AT&T_I747UCUEMJB.zip.md5
Skipping MD5 check: no MD5 file found.
I:Zip does not contain SELinux file_contexts file in its root.
Creating filesystem with parameters:
Size: 1572864000
Block size: 4096
Blocks per group: 32768
Inodes per group: 8000
Inode size: 256
Journal blocks: 6000
Label:
Blocks: 384000
Block groups: 12
Reserved block group size: 95
Created filesystem with 11/96000 inodes and 12609/384000 blocks
error: file_write: write: I/O error
E:Error executing updater binary in zip '/external_sd/AT&T_I747UCUEMJB.zip'
Error flashing zip '/external_sd/AT&T_I747UCUEMJB.zip'
Updating partition details...
I:Can't probe device /dev/block/mmcblk0p14
E:Unable to mount '/system'
I:Actual block device: '/dev/block/mmcblk0p14', current file system: 'ext4'
I:Can't probe device /dev/block/mmcblk0p17
E:Unable to mount '/cache'
I:Actual block device: '/dev/block/mmcblk0p17', current file system: 'ext4'
I:Set page: 'flash_done'
I:Set page: 'confirm_action'
I:Set page: 'action_page'
I:Can't probe device /dev/block/mmcblk0p17
E:Unable to mount '/cache'
I:Actual block device: '/dev/block/mmcblk0p17', current file system: 'ext4'
Updating partition details...
I:Can't probe device /dev/block/mmcblk0p14
E:Unable to mount '/system'
I:Actual block device: '/dev/block/mmcblk0p14', current file system: 'ext4'
I:Can't probe device /dev/block/mmcblk0p17
E:Unable to mount '/cache'
I:Actual block device: '/dev/block/mmcblk0p17', current file system: 'ext4'
I:Set page: 'action_complete'
Updating partition details...
I:Can't probe device /dev/block/mmcblk0p14
E:Unable to mount '/system'
I:Actual block device: '/dev/block/mmcblk0p14', current file system: 'ext4'
I:Can't probe device /dev/block/mmcblk0p17
E:Unable to mount '/cache'
I:Actual block device: '/dev/block/mmcblk0p17', current file system: 'ext4'
I:Set page: 'clear_vars'
I:Set page: 'flash_done'
I:Set page: 'rebootcheck'
I:Set page: 'confirm_action'
I:Set page: 'clear_vars'
I:Set page: 'main2'
I:Set page: 'wipe'
I:Set page: 'advancedwipe'
I:Set page: 'wipe'
I:Set page: 'main'
I:Set page: 'clear_vars'
I:Set page: 'main2'
I:Set page: 'install'
I:Set page: 'flash_confirm'
I:Set page: 'flash_zip'
I:Set page: 'flash_zip'