[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Werner der Champ:
While I was in holiday, my phone died:(

After comming back from a normal TV evening, I was greeted by many Force-Closes, from system apps and user apps working in background (like What's app). In order to prevent data lossage (I got everything backupped on my home pc, but not on my laptop), i did a hard reboot (power + Volume Down)

My phone reboots and shows "????? : App 1/4". At 2/4 it started to lag, then it crashed.

I had to press power, same result, just App 1/2 this time. After finishing everything was normal, but before I could enter my Sim-PIN, I got the message "Touch Wiz-start has stopped". 3 seconds later, it crashed.

This time I booted into recovery, and wiped Cache and Dalvik (which fixed some FC back in time). Reboot, again "??????: App 1/130". It crashed at 8/130, and I couldn't power it on anymore. Download Mode, however, did still work, however it was late, so I turned my phone off.

Next evening I went to my laptop after hiking, but download mode didn't worked now. I copied a debrick.img on my SD-card (later I noticed that I did this wrong) and made Download Mode worked again (actually, this was just random luck), after a few attempts. However, when starting the download from samMobile, it said estimated time left 5h 20min. Since the wifi there turns off at midnight and it was allready 9pm, I had to quit again...

The next day I started the download at 8am, it only took ~70 minutes. But download mode didn't worked anymore. My phone vibrates rarely (last evening it was more common). It gets shown as "RELINK HS-USB QDLoader 9008" on my PC, when pressing power button for more than 10 secs it disappers, when I relase, it reappears after a few seconds.

I also tried a different cable, removed battery again and again, re-installed drivers on PC, no luck, nothing worked.

Mobile was rooted via recovery (CM), nothing else changed.

Hab schon anderes Kabel probiert, Akku schon x-mal raus, debrick.img neu auf die Karte geschrieben. Treiber am PC de- und wieder installiert, kein Erfolg, nur sehr selten vibriert es.

Two days later, when searching for users with the same issure, I noticed, that I was a idiot :laugh:

I copied the debrick.img to the SD-Card (32GB), and didn't used Win32Imager.

And yeah, when plugging it in, the following text appears:

Boot Recovery Mode

Check Boot Partitions

Copy from T-Flash

Boot Recovery

Write 139008 sectors

After ~15-20 minutes (I was distracted at tis moment) it vibrates, screen was black, however. Tried everything, nothing worked.

Removed battery and putted it back again, again the text. However, I had to quit after 35 minutes.

When returning, I putted the battery in, text appeared when plugging it it. After 1 1/2 hrs I had to quit again, since it was getting much too late.

Yesterday I returned from vacation, plugged it in, text appeared. I waited almost 5 hours (!!!) with having it plugged in. Then it was 1 am and I was soo tired, so I canceled again.

Shold this really take *that* long? And how to get into Download Mode?

Maybe you can also link me another debrick.img, I got it from a S4 mini (LTE) Thread in another forum.