My GS3 has been hard-bricked by my failed attempt at flashing a rom. I admit, I made a very amateur mistake that someone who has been flashing for 4 years really shouldn't have made but the problem still remains...
My phone will not boot up at all. Not recovery, not Odin, nothing, nada, zip.
Is there anything I can do? At the moment I plan on picking up some resisters at the store tomorrow and creating a home-made jig. But is there anything I can do right now to solve this issue?
Nope. From what everyone told me nothing can fix unless you and away. Time for new phone. Just happened to me 4 days ago.
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Josh8550 said:
My GS3 has been hard-bricked by my failed attempt at flashing a rom. I admit, I made a very amateur mistake that someone who has been flashing for 4 years really shouldn't have made but the problem still remains...
My phone will not boot up at all. Not recovery, not Odin, nothing, nada, zip.
Is there anything I can do? At the moment I plan on picking up some resisters at the store tomorrow and creating a home-made jig. But is there anything I can do right now to solve this issue?
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Does the LED light still lit up/ samsung splash screen?
markdapimp said:
Does the LED light still lit up/ samsung splash screen?
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The red LED lights up for a few seconds when I plug it in but other than that, nothing else is functional. Not the splash screen, nothing.
Josh8550 said:
The red LED lights up for a few seconds when I plug it in but other than that, nothing else is functional. Not the splash screen, nothing.
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Looks like its time to move on dude.
Try that USB Jig though
Try the jig, or try pulling the battery, plug up to a pc, hold button combo for download mode and pop the battery in. Hopefully itll give you an active com port in odin (obviously have odin up on pc when trying this). If that doesn't work www.mobiletechvideos.com can do a JTAG repair for $50. I highly recommend their service.
I'm waiting for Android Milky Way
It can be fixed, without jtag or jig (although a jig is great to have on hand for emergencies). You will need a class 10 micro sd card that is the same size as your phone's internal memory. It has to be class 10. Follow the instructions in this video EXACTLY and it can be done..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU5H8NJ7vTM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
That has links to all the files you need as well as the original xda thread. Just be patient and do exactly what it says. Also, if you find that 80g debrick file throttled for download, I have it saved on my Google drive, I can link you to it.
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Correction, that huge file I have is the VZW-I535VRBMF1......zip. the stock image. The debrick file is not that big.
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I followed instructions on that video as well. My sd card was not class 10 though, still worked for me!!
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So I tried the SD card method with my SD card (class 4) and failed so I decided that before I went into Verizon and got a replacement under warranty I'd run down to Walmart and see what they had. I came across the Sandisk Class 10 16GB SD card that the guy in the video used and went ahead and bought it. I then flashed the debrick image onto it and popped it into my Galaxy S3. Voila. It booted into Odin and I am now flashing it back to stock.
Gotta love the Android community.
That's awesome, glad it worked for you.
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congrats man it is always nice to know that this method may help us when we need it.. thanks for the confirmation.
Josh8550 said:
So I tried the SD card method with my SD card (class 4) and failed so I decided that before I went into Verizon and got a replacement under warranty I'd run down to Walmart and see what they had. I came across the Sandisk Class 10 16GB SD card that the guy in the video used and went ahead and bought it. I then flashed the debrick image onto it and popped it into my Galaxy S3. Voila. It booted into Odin and I am now flashing it back to stock.
Gotta love the Android community.
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Again, glad it worked for you...maybe mark the post "solved"... I see a lot of these types of posts and maybe this will help others.
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kidhudi said:
congrats man it is always nice to know that this method may help us when we need it.. thanks for the confirmation.
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No problem, man. That's the reason I posted again to confirm it working because I found myself having trouble finding a set-in-stone cheap, easy way to fix my hard-bricked S3. I really hope others come across this post.
Oh and note: Class 10 is not always required but it is the only SD card that will work 100% of the time to my knowledge.
Nice.. I was going to try that but was to lazy to go get one from Walmart ha
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Nice! Fixing stuff like that is so satisfying
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Nice.. I was going to try that but was to lazy to go get one from Walmart ha
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Yeah, I feel ya there. I really didn't want to but I have one 5 minutes away so I figured why not. Damn thing cost me 22 bucks including tax.
Needless to say, now that my phone is fixed I'll be returning the SD card and getting my money back.
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So I'm a dumbass. I was flashing a new rom and failed to pay attention to what forum I was in. I flashed the Revolution Rom HD which is for the international version of the Galaxy S3. The installation failed and when my phone tried to reboot nothing happened. NOTHING!! It's almost like my phone has no power at all. Plugging it in does nothing. I tried to boot into recovery mode, download mode, or anything else and I get nothing. I've been browsing around for a couple of hours to no avail. If anybody know how I can fix this or where I can find the fix please help me out. I need my phone for work. And please spare me the lectures. I already know I screwed up.
Battery pull?
Android 4 Life
Droopydroors said:
Battery pull?
Android 4 Life
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If only it were that easy. I've done battery pulls, plugged the phone in. Pretty much everything you could think to do.
Try this I guess
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It was coming up urry for me so I'll post close ups of it good luck
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When you plug it into a computer do you get qhl dload or something like that listed in device manager? Honestly it sounds like a hard brick. If you can get into download mode though you can fix it.
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/cdma-tp2-development/127988-how-recover-flashing-wrong-rom.html
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You must likely need to pay for a jtag service. The partition structure of the international gs3 results in essential partitions being overwritten on USA phones. (I believe either the primary or secondary boot loader)
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So, I flashed CM10 nightly. Now I cannot get it to mount the external sd card. Ti backup will not recognize it, nor can I pull up any of the photos or music that are stored there. Any ideas?
Does it show up in a file explorer
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Does it show up in a file explorer
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no, es says it is not mounted or present. But when I go into storage in settings, it sees the sd card with the storage it takes up...
Also, its not recognized when I plug the usb cable in to the pc.;
Did you try removing it and putting it back in.
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Did you try removing it and putting it back in.
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yeah, I tried. What are my mount settings supposed to be in cwm?
I can't even restore to today's previous setting it cwm, I get the Md5 mismatch message.
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no, es says it is not mounted or present. But when I go into storage in settings, it sees the sd card with the storage it takes up...
Also, its not recognized when I plug the usb cable in to the pc.;
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Mine is getting recognized on the PC as internal storage and SD card
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I'm pretty sure that anything you flash, now at least, will set those up for you. Could be a bad flash or download
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2vivid said:
I'm pretty sure that anything you flash, now at least, will set those up for you. Could be a bad flash or download
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now it won't boot....
gonna try and take the sd card out and copy some files with my reader.
guess I odin back to stock? not sure. I can't seem to even get it to boot into recovery...
Bradlees said:
now it won't boot....
gonna try and take the sd card out and copy some files with my reader.
guess I odin back to stock? not sure. I can't seem to even get it to boot into recovery...
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Wow no boot? Odin to stock and see if it recognizes the SD card if it does reflash the ROM hopefully that fixes it
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2vivid said:
Wow no boot? Odin to stock and see if it recognizes the SD card if it does reflash the ROM hopefully that fixes it
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Odin'ing back right now. This is stresses me out...
PC recognizes the sd card when its in the reader no problem. How can I avoid this md5 sum mismatch when attempting a restore? the stuff I read is out of my league
Bradlees said:
So, I flashed CM10 nightly. Now I cannot get it to mount the external sd card. Ti backup will not recognize it, nor can I pull up any of the photos or music that are stored there. Any ideas?
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Are you sure you are pulling from the right place? Look in /external sd not /sdcard/external sd.
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2vivid said:
Wow no boot? Odin to stock and see if it recognizes the SD card if it does reflash the ROM hopefully that fixes it
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Now I'm getting a little worried. Odined back to stock the way I had previously and I'm stuck in a bootloop. Shows the Samsung logo, then just goes back to android and never loads...
any advice?
Bradlees said:
Now I'm getting a little worried. Odined back to stock the way I had previously and I'm stuck in a bootloop. Shows the Samsung logo, then just goes back to android and never loads...
any advice?
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just reflash cwm though odin
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Now I'm getting a little worried. Odined back to stock the way I had previously and I'm stuck in a bootloop. Shows the Samsung logo, then just goes back to android and never loads...
any advice?
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woodzx67 said:
just reflash cwm though odin
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Do what he said. If you can boot recovery you're still good
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jparnell8839 said:
Do what he said. If you can boot recovery you're still good
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just tried to flash recovery. Still no dice...
Stays in the same screens... will not boot into recovery.
what now?
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Now I'm getting a little worried. Odined back to stock the way I had previously and I'm stuck in a bootloop. Shows the Samsung logo, then just goes back to android and never loads...
any advice?
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Factory reset/wipe data through factory recovery.
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Bradlees said:
just tried to flash recovery. Still no dice...
Stays in the same screens... will not boot into recovery.
what now?
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Flash cwm Odin. Make sure to pull battery first to get download mode. If Odin cwm flash fails try downloading cwm tar and pit files again.
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Do what he said. If you can boot recovery you're still good
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I think in my panic I accidentally left repartition checked off....
am I completely screwed here?
I've been searching for a solution, just started, but I need to leave my pc for a while.
Any help would be tremendous...
Bradlees said:
I think in my panic I accidentally left repartition checked off....
am I completely screwed here?
I've been searching for a solution, just started, but I need to leave my pc for a while.
Any help would be tremendous...
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Take a look at this thread, hopefully it helps you http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1834059
flyers00 said:
Take a look at this thread, hopefully it helps you http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1834059
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Thanks again. Just slowing down and following the directions is usually an easier way to a solution...
but back to the original problem. I still can't get the sd card to read. If I go to the gallery like I want to look at the pictures stored on it, I can see them greyed out in the background, but I get an error message. In settings, storage, it detects the card and tells its volume, but won't let me look at it.? At a loss. Gonna redownload the cm nightly and reflash and see, but I don't get it.
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Thanks again. Just slowing down and following the directions is usually an easier way to a solution...
but back to the original problem. I still can't get the sd card to read. If I go to the gallery like I want to look at the pictures stored on it, I can see them greyed out in the background, but I get an error message. In settings, storage, it detects the card and tells its volume, but won't let me look at it.? At a loss. Gonna redownload the cm nightly and reflash and see, but I don't get it.
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I know you might not want to hear this, but it might be your SD card...
Those things don't last forever and errors on them can sometimes be tricky to diagnose because bad sectors can sometimes still be read even if they are bad.
My suggestion, if your PC can still read the card then you should start by backing everything up. Then, try using another SD card in the phone. If the phone can read that, then there might be something wrong with the first card. You can also try using the phone to reformat the problem card.
Try to debug in a way that determines if maybe the card is the problem. Just the other day I had a 32 gig card go bad on me. It happened when my phone fell and came out of it's case. After that the card didn't work anymore. I remembered seeing "shock proof" on sandisk's descriptions, but I always thought it was a marketting thing. Maybe it wasn't. There's also a possibility that my card simply failed before I dropped the phone, and the reboot caused the system to remount the card and finally see the problem.
Either way, it went bad and I lost my stuff. A cautionary tale.
i was trying to flash to a different rom and it being really late i installed a custom CWM on TWRP after flashing a rom that borked on me and i pulled the battery while the bootloader was going on. now i cant flash anything and for some d**n reason my phone will not go into download mode for me to use odin. ive tried downloading the newest stock firmware(4.1.2) and installijng it thru cwm but i keep getting a installation aborted text. im so lost and i never do this sorta thing...but being sleep deprived and now even more so im afraid of the worst. can anyone lend me some help please???
First off you have a recovery so its not that bad. Pull the battery and get some sleep try to chill out.
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mtdew said:
First off you have a recovery so its not that bad. Pull the battery and get some sleep try to chill out.
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yea, i know having the recovery is a good thing but..my phone is my lifeline and im confused as hell on why i cant flash anything. i went ahead and ordered a usb jig bc i seen where i might need it anyways.
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yea, i know having the recovery is a good thing but..my phone is my lifeline and im confused as hell on why i cant flash anything. i went ahead and ordered a usb jig bc i seen where i might need it anyways.
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Jig does nothing for our phone you're worthless tired you don't think properly nobody does but anyway grab a cwm flashable twrp then just flash a ROM you probably have some old version of cwm that newer Roms don't like
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you stated that u dl stock 4.1.2 and used cwm to install, cant do that w/cwm unless its a cwm/twrp flashable zip file
u r tired, rest, read the stickies on installing cwm/twrp and/or restoring to stock
usb jig was a waste of money
there are flashable zip files for cwm and twrp in the 1stop sticky, flash either one then flash a rom
yes i tried flashing a stock 4.1.2 rom that was converted into a flashable zip file. and ok ill try said instructions and see if it works but so far nothing has been able to been flashed.
I'm vaguely recalling a time when I was trying to flash a ROM and it was giving me an insufficient memory error. You may have to do some spring cleaning if that's your issue.
its not really giving me an error besides the installation aborted one...but now its not showing any zips on my sd card at all...smh in confusion and misery.
jrodbrown58 said:
its not really giving me an error besides the installation aborted one...but now its not showing any zips on my sd card at all...smh in confusion and misery.
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Sounds like the card is corrupted.
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But it works fine on my computer and in other devices...
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Update!!!
I used a different SD card and so far so good. My only thing is now i have an expensive sd card that may or may not be bad...Ive heard stories where the individual called up sandisk and they replaced the card...i hope i can be so lucky...if not i guess i can fork out some money and get another one although i really dont want to.
thanks everyone!!!!
It's just an sd card, be thankful it's not the phone.
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Update!!!
I used a different SD card and so far so good. My only thing is now i have an expensive sd card that may or may not be bad...Ive heard stories where the individual called up sandisk and they replaced the card...i hope i can be so lucky...if not i guess i can fork out some money and get another one although i really dont want to.
thanks everyone!!!!
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Did you try to run chkdsk -f on the card on a computer? This will check for and fix any file system errors.
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rushi.1986 said:
Did you try to run chkdsk -f on the card on a computer? This will check for and fix any file system errors.
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I tried this and it said that there were no errors. Now I don't know what to do bc my phone is getting to the point where its not recognizing the sdcard but works just fine with other cards.
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mtdew said:
Jig does nothing for our phone you're worthless tired you don't think properly nobody does but anyway grab a cwm flashable twrp then just flash a ROM you probably have some old version of cwm that newer Roms don't like
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Just got the jig in the mail today and tried it out and it does work...so I dunno what to tell you. But I'm glad it works
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jrodbrown58 said:
Just got the jig in the mail today and tried it out and it does work...so I dunno what to tell you. But I'm glad it works
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Then that means you had access to DL mode all along and never needed the jig in the first place.
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How come I couldn't get to the downloading screen? all my phone would do when I done the process was show my battery for half a second and then start vibrating.
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How come I couldn't get to the downloading screen? all my phone would do when I done the process was show my battery for half a second and then start vibrating.
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User error you probably did something incorrectly but those button combos are hard coded they don't change if you can get to it with a jig then its something you did wrong.
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How come I couldn't get to the downloading screen? all my phone would do when I done the process was show my battery for half a second and then start vibrating.
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Could be the usb ports. I have a problem with my pc recognizing my device. Laptop works fine but pc doesn't. Who knows but jig doesn't do anything special for the i727.
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i just used that stupid ez unlock app. my phone needed to be rebooted so I rebooted it. I tried turning it on but theres nothing. I take the battery out and the red light turns on for like a minute then turns back off. I put the battery in and connect it to my laptop and it recongnizes it but I don't know if I can put it in download mode. can someone please help????:crying:
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i just used that stupid ez unlock app. my phone needed to be rebooted so I rebooted it. I tried turning it on but theres nothing. I take the battery out and the red light turns on for like a minute then turns back off. I put the battery in and connect it to my laptop and it recongnizes it but I don't know if I can put it in download mode. can someone please help????:crying:
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That sound like a hard brick but it cant hurt to try to put it in download mode and see if odin sees it. Just keep trying until it works or you get sick of doing it.
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Never mind I didn't read your post good enough. That's weird but i stand by my try statement. Never hurts to try try again especially when you cant see if you pushed the buttons at the right time or not.
If the led lights up red there is still hope. You need a class 10 SD card the exact same size as your internal memory and Google debrick.IMG for the S3. I cannot remember the link at the monument but it is possible to bring it back from the dead at this state.
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foton92 said:
i just used that stupid ez unlock app. my phone needed to be rebooted so I rebooted it. I tried turning it on but theres nothing. I take the battery out and the red light turns on for like a minute then turns back off. I put the battery in and connect it to my laptop and it recongnizes it but I don't know if I can put it in download mode. can someone please help????:crying:
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I'm not even sure a debrick image will fix it. If you were on stock 4.3 and used ez-unlock you basically screwed up your bootchain by flashing an incompatible bootloader.
You flashed an insecure aboot image that won't work with the 4.3 bootchain. Using the debrick image probably won't work in this instance. You can try to send it in for a jtag, but that might not work either.
Apparently a jtag should theoretically work because there shouldn't be a qfuse on the s3. If this happened on an s4 for instance, there's probably no way to recover from this situation. If a jtag can rewrite your base commands, you should be able to get it working again. However, it's very possible that a jtag won't work either.
Anyone reading this who has 4.3, please read everything over and over again before you root the device or do anything with it.
1. Once on 4.3 you are unable to revert back to an earlier version.
2. You are unable to use custom roms because our previous bootloader unlock involved using an old aboot image to bypass the kernel check, 4.3 needs the entire boot chain to function and modifying it in any way will cause an instant hard brick.
3. Do not use ez-unlock!! The entire purpose of it is to flash the modified aboot file to allow custom roms and kernels to boot, this will cause an instant brick by breaking the 4.3 bootloader.
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Eodmule said:
If the led lights up red there is still hope. You need a class 10 SD card the exact same size as your internal memory and Google debrick.IMG for the S3. I cannot remember the link at the monument but it is possible to bring it back from the dead at this state.
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I just ended up sending my phone to samsung and luckily I didn't get charged. Know what NOT to do. Anyway thanks guys
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I just ended up sending my phone to samsung and luckily I didn't get charged. Know what NOT to do. Anyway thanks guys
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So you couldn't man up and pay for your mistake? Insurance fraud is wrong. This is why VZW lock our bootloaders
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So you couldn't man up and pay for your mistake? Insurance fraud is wrong. This is why VZW lock our bootloaders
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It was not really insurance fraud. I told them my phone won't turn on and I sent it in. They said my phone was still under warranty so they fixed it for free and they ended up changing the logic board instead of replacing the whole phone. If they were going to charge me. I would pay for it just so I could get my phone back. But I just got lucky on this one and they said it was free
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So you couldn't man up and pay for your mistake? Insurance fraud is wrong. This is why VZW lock our bootloaders
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I just got the feeling that next time I do this. Samsung will catch my ass and charge me for what I've done to the phone. So for now this was a lesson learned. Don't use unheard of apps that need root access to your device
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Hey guys.....sorry if im posting to the wrong area, im brand new to the site. I rooted my phone successfully..... but then i tried to mess with the bootloader. thats where my mistake begins and ends. I spent alot of time researching stuff. however, missed that the 4.3 android firmware was pretty much locked up tighter than fort knox. now i am hard bricked.....pretty sure from the bootloader. i have read everything from jig to jtag to a class 10 16 gb micro sd card..... im just wondering which of these things are verified to work.... obviously jtagging from what i have read says its the best or only....
anyways, phone i believe is hardbricked. (and yes i saw other hardbricked threads, but as a noob to the site would like my own thread specific to my own situation) phone will not power on in any mode. red light only while plugged into computer with battery out. i have not tried jigs. i have not tried jtag. i have only tried a debrick image with class 10 16 gb micro sd. plus odin and plus win32 diskimager..... i may not have a 4.3 debrick image but cannot find a definitive 4.3 image.....
any help is appreciated and as always, i have read nothing but amazing articles on this site......i have read alot, but never needed to post my own thread because everything has always helped me before.
hope you guys can give me a clear view on my problem and help me with my situation,
thank you to all with feedback, good or bad.....atleast ill know the path to take.
CJ.
cjthompson said:
Hey guys.....sorry if im posting to the wrong area, im brand new to the site. I rooted my phone successfully..... but then i tried to mess with the bootloader. thats where my mistake begins and ends. I spent alot of time researching stuff. however, missed that the 4.3 android firmware was pretty much locked up tighter than fort knox. now i am hard bricked.....pretty sure from the bootloader. i have read everything from jig to jtag to a class 10 16 gb micro sd card..... im just wondering which of these things are verified to work.... obviously jtagging from what i have read says its the best or only....
anyways, phone i believe is hardbricked. (and yes i saw other hardbricked threads, but as a noob to the site would like my own thread specific to my own situation) phone will not power on in any mode. red light only while plugged into computer with battery out. i have not tried jigs. i have not tried jtag. i have only tried a debrick image with class 10 16 gb micro sd. plus odin and plus win32 diskimager..... i may not have a 4.3 debrick image but cannot find a definitive 4.3 image.....
any help is appreciated and as always, i have read nothing but amazing articles on this site......i have read alot, but never needed to post my own thread because everything has always helped me before.
hope you guys can give me a clear view on my problem and help me with my situation,
thank you to all with feedback, good or bad.....atleast ill know the path to take.
CJ.
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Sd card trick works for a lot of people. So if that doesn't work JTAG will most certainly work.
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Sd card trick works for a lot of people. So if that doesn't work JTAG will most certainly work.
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ok, can you plz help me with this. i have a debricked image, appropriate sd card, and stock rom, as well as win32diskimager and odin. is there something else i need or are there steps i am missing?
use win 32 to load debrick image. .........thats where i get stuck
cjthompson said:
ok, can you plz help me with this. i have a debricked image, appropriate sd card, and stock rom, as well as win32diskimager and odin. is there something else i need or are there steps i am missing?
use win 32 to load debrick image. .........thats where i get stuck
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After you flash the sd with the debrick image you should be able to pop it in and boot right up. I never had to do it so I'm the wrong person to ask.
Has anyone made a new images for 4.3 (with the new boot loader)? I'm assuming the old one would fail, else you could just use it to get around the new locks.
I didn't update, so I can't help.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU5H8NJ7vTM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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youtube hardbrick.....not working
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I have actually watched that on youtube as well as part two of his post.
Thats actually one of the sources i used to try to debrick my phone.
unfortunatly, this did not work.
I appreciate everyones responses and suggestions so far. thank you for atleast trying to help and offering advice!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2581166
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guessing since i cant even power the device on in any mode that this will not work?
i have also seen this post. but i can not get my phone to do anything...... the most i can get out of my phone is a red light with the battery out and only when connected to my computer......
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2581166
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+1 this is the link you need. Sorry I didn't post it in one of my first comments. For some reason after I read the op I thought you already seen it.
my phone wont boot no matter what? i cant get to recovery download. will this still work.....am i missing something here???
sorry if there is something simple that im missing, ive been doing nothing but research on this......my brain is gooping out of my ears at this point......
Some people say you need to flash the Derrick bin multiple times before it works properly.
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You need to take the SD card out of your phone and connect it to a computer with a adapter.
ok, i will try charging it overnight.....even if the battery isnt in it and the red light comes on you think that might work? let me just make sure i have said this correctly before.....the ONLY time i see a red light is when the battery is NOT in the phone and the phone is connected to the COMPUTER.
(new users have to wait 5 minutes between posts.....good idea, but man that slows things down......)
cjthompson said:
ok, i will try charging it overnight.....even if the battery isnt in it and the red light comes on you think that might work? let me just make sure i have said this correctly before.....the ONLY time i see a red light is when the battery is NOT in the phone and the phone is connected to the COMPUTER.
(new users have to wait 5 minutes between posts.....good idea, but man that slows things down......)
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Darn you saw that before I deleted it. A full charge on top of the flashed SD card is a good idea. Just in case you are confused with how to flash look at my last post. Good night and good luck.
i have a class 10 16 gb micro sd ..... idk if i need to keep trying.
Im using a debrick image and win32diskimager. i have written the image to the sd six or so times.......
g'nite to you too and thank you
cjthompson said:
i have a class 10 16 gb micro sd ..... idk if i need to keep trying.
Im using a debrick image and win32diskimager. i have written the image to the sd six or so times.......
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Make sure you're using the 4.3 debrick image, and keep trying to burn it into the SD card. It may help to format it before you try, then you're starting on a clean slate.
It should work eventually.
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Make sure you're using the 4.3 debrick image, and keep trying to burn it into the SD card. It may help to format it before you try, then you're starting on a clean slate.
It should work eventually.
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im PRETTY sure i have 4.3 debrick image. but im having trouble finding one thats 4.3 for sure. and im actually kinda confused about debrick.bin.....the tut's i have previously read havnt said anything about extracting certain files like that....just to doenload the debrick image to the sd...... so am i missing a step right there????
cjthompson said:
im PRETTY sure i have 4.3 debrick image. but im having trouble finding one thats 4.3 for sure. and im actually kinda confused about debrick.bin.....the tut's i have previously read havnt said anything about extracting certain files like that....just to doenload the debrick image to the sd...... so am i missing a step right there????
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No, the debrick.bin file contains an alternate bootloader. It tricks your phone into booting from that by making it think it's the internal card.
The thread I linked to you has links for both debrick images. Just make sure you re-download the correct one, the one after you already had 4.3
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No, the debrick.bin file contains an alternate bootloader. It tricks your phone into booting from that by making it think it's the internal card.
The thread I linked to you has links for both debrick images. Just make sure you re-download the correct one, the one after you already had 4.3
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HOLY CRAP. i feel retarded right now..... so the link your talking about is the one to the debrick your galaxy s3....... i cannot find the 4.3 debrick image link on there anywhere........