[Samsung Captivate Glide] steadfasterX:
Some? Samsung devices support a special kind of unbricking hard-bricked* phones.

This thread tries to provide that to the i927/glide..

Who wants this?

If you have hard-bricked* your device (please see the next post about difference between hard- and soft-bricked)

there is

no other reason

to use this!

Current state:

Totally untested and absolutely without any warranty.

I have no idea if the image itself is good or not - neither if the

whole process

would work for the i927!

As I do not own a hard-bricked device and I do not want to damage mine I cannot test this by myself.

The reason creating this is because a user had requested it: click here for the origin user request

Please give me feedback if you have tested it!!!

Known issues:

who knows..

Instructions

Requirements

First of all you need a micro SD card. If you have none you cannot continue (man.. buy one!).

Then you need a PC which is able to read this SD card or an external SD card reader.

Basic

Here in short the basic steps you need to take (detailed in the next section):

Download

Extract

Flash unbrick image to SD card

Insert SD card into the Glide

boot

wait

soft-unbrick

Detailed (Linux)

Some parts taken from here

Download i927_unbrick.zip

unzip -d /tmp/unbrick i927_unbrick.zip

Insert SD card into your PC

dmesg | grep dev | tail

--> you should see something like "/dev/sdc1" or "/dev/mmcfoo1" or similar which is your SD card you inserted just before. In the next parts we refer to it as "/dev/FROM-DMESG-OUTPUT"

The next commands will make your SD card UNUSABLE until you reformat it! Ensure that you do not have any data you need on it!

sudo umount /dev/FROM-DMESG-OUTPUT (do

not

use any GUI clickable eject action instead)

sudo dd if=/tmp/unbrick/unbrick.img of=/dev/FROM-DMESG-OUTPUT

pull out the SD card from the PC

remove the battery, sim and any external SD card from your device

insert your unbrick SD into your phone

insert the battery and down your power button (at this point your phone

might

actually boot completely and you can recovery any software/data you want)

reboot into Download mode either via adb or Volume Up while powering on

Once the device is booted into bootloader remove the SD card and start ODIN or heimdall to flash a STOCK firmware or use the OneClick Soft-unbrick tool

Detailed (Windows)

Some parts taken from here

Download win32diskimager

Download i927_unbrick.zip

Extract i927_unbrick.zip and win32diskimager

Insert your SD card into your PC and wait until it gets detected

Run win32diskimager

browse for your extracted unbrick image

Select your SD in the dropdown box

The next step will make your SD card UNUSABLE until you reformat it! Ensure that you do not have any data you need on it!

Click write

pull out the SD card from the PC

remove the battery, sim and any external SD card from your device

insert your unbrick SD into your phone

insert the battery and down your power button (at this point your phone

might

actually boot completely and you can recovery any software/data you want)

reboot into Download mode either via adb or Volume Up while powering on

Once the device is booted into bootloader remove the SD card and start ODIN or heimdall to flash a STOCK firmware or use the OneClick Soft-unbrick tool

Download

Please go to the Download page

Background of the unbrick.img

todo

Sources

First, Second, Third

Thanks

Please report back if it has or has

not

worked for you!

Thanks

xdajog

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XDA:DevDB Information

Unbrick/Debrick hard-bricked i927, Tool/Utility for the Samsung Captivate Glide

Contributors

xdajog, alvcross

Version Information

Status: Alpha

Created 2016-01-04

Last Updated 2016-01-12