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HELP!!!!!!

Ok so i wanted to wipe everything from my hox before installing a new rom... I did so but i never backed anything up so now in twrp i cannot restore or anything.... It says no android os installed..... How to get a rom to boot on there???? The sd card is not showing up on my computer????

ealvinito said:
Ok so i wanted to wipe everything from my hox before installing a new rom... I did so but i never backed anything up so now in twrp i cannot restore or anything.... It says no android os installed..... How to get a rom to boot on there???? The sd card is not showing up on my computer????
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did you mount USB storage in TWRP?
do that then put a ROM on it.
I've had this happen to me too.

gunnyman said:
did you mount USB storage in TWRP?
do that then put a ROM on it.
I've had this happen to me too.
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So your saying mount USB storage with TWRP then that will allow me to drag a rom to the SD card from my computer??

Yes it should. However when I tried to do it my computer couldn't read the SD

gunnyman said:
did you mount USB storage in TWRP?
do that then put a ROM on it.
I've had this happen to me too.
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gunnyman said:
Yes it should. However when I tried to do it my computer couldn't read the SD
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Holy crap... I think I got it...Phewww

I'm now keeping my nandroids and titanium back ups on my drop box. Tell HOX sd does not like recovery mode.

gunnyman said:
I'm now keeping my nandroids and titanium back ups on my drop box. Tell HOX sd does not like recovery mode.
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Me too.
This is easier since they doubled all paid storage last night. Not sure what I'm supposed to do with 275GB.

iElvis said:
Me too.
This is easier since they doubled all paid storage last night. Not sure what I'm supposed to do with 275GB.
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To hide all the pr0nz.
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i9103 doesn't turn on, display black

Hi guys,
I need some help from you. I have a problem with my galaxy r since today. At night it works perfectly, the last time, i used it, was at midnight, but at the morning, the display doesn't turn on. I plugged out the battery and after 1 minute, i plugged it in and tried to turn on the phone, but the phone does nothing. No Display, no vibration, nothing. Then i tried to plugin in the charger with battery - still the same problem.
If I put in the usb cable to the pc, the pc search a driver for "apx".
What can i do, to rescue my galaxy R ?
Software at the phone: Stock GB Austria "3" firmware
Kernel: Stock
CWM: 6 touch
root: yes
Hope, that somebody can help me
Sorry for my bad english - I'm from Austria

Dont worry I had the same problem with my phone ... check out this thread ...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1706572

Hi shad24, thank you for your answer. I know this thread, but i haven't backuped my "efs" folder and so i brought it to my local shop and they sended it to repair station, because i'm still having warranty.
Hope there is no problem, because i have cwm and many more things on my phone. But i think, they didn't know them, because the phone completely didn't work. If they change the mainboard, do they know, which data is in the "internal sd card" ? Or is it only a flash chip in the phone and not a real sd card?
Best regards

Hey,
See if they repair your phone by changing the chip or flashing the memory ... what ever you have saved on your internal memory i.e. phone memory will be deleted ...I am sorry there is no way to recover it...

shad24 said:
Hey,
See if they repair your phone by changing the chip or flashing the memory ... what ever you have saved on your internal memory i.e. phone memory will be deleted ...I am sorry there is no way to recover it...
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But, i meant the internal sd card, not the internal phone memory. I know, that the flash of the phone memory will be deleted, if they flash a new software. But whats with the internal SD Card?. Is this only a flash chip on the mainboard, or is it a real sd card?.
The problem is this:
If they found a cwm or something like that on my phone, i didn't have warranty and so i have to pay for the repair. But if it is unpossible to find something like that, i have warranty and didn't have any problems.

rostiges_Handy said:
But, i meant the internal sd card, not the internal phone memory. I know, that the flash of the phone memory will be deleted, if they flash a new software. But whats with the internal SD Card?. Is this only a flash chip on the mainboard, or is it a real sd card?.
The problem is this:
If they found a cwm or something like that on my phone, i didn't have warranty and so i have to pay for the repair. But if it is unpossible to find something like that, i have warranty and didn't have any problems.
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Do you know about Brickbug...?? It just brick your emmc. & what is emmc..?? I think its your Internal SDcard of 8GB which partitioned into 2 ways. So if they will change your motherboard then your data in Internal Sdcard will be deleted.

rostiges_Handy said:
The problem is this:
If they found a cwm or something like that on my phone, i didn't have warranty and so i have to pay for the repair. But if it is unpossible to find something like that, i have warranty and didn't have any problems.
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No dont worry I do not think they will be able to find your CWM recovery because if the device is stuck in APX mode ... Nothing is recoverable from the chip...

shad24 said:
No dont worry I do not think they will be able to find your CWM recovery because if the device is stuck in APX mode ... Nothing is recoverable from the chip...
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Ok, so the "internal sd card" isn't a real sd card, but a flash chip on the motherboard?
Yes I know about the EMMC Brickbug, but i tested it bevor with the emmc brickbug app and it said, that my phone isn't affected.

rostiges_Handy said:
Ok, so the "internal sd card" isn't a real sd card, but a flash chip on the motherboard?
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Yes it is a part of motherboard... So no need to worry...

rostiges_Handy said:
Ok, so the "internal sd card" isn't a real sd card, but a flash chip on the motherboard?
Yes I know about the EMMC Brickbug, but i tested it bevor with the emmc brickbug app and it said, that my phone isn't affected.
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That app is not fully functional with our device buddy... Its faulty
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@shad24
Thanks for the Info. Now, i didn't have a bad feeling
@ashish.kmc08
Ok, i didn't know this. But what i read, this emmc bug is only a problem with ics?
But i still had GB on my device.
BTW: The Samsung Galaxy R is supportet with eMMC Brickbug Check App

rostiges_Handy said:
@shad24
Thanks for the Info. Now, i didn't have a bad feeling
@ashish.kmc08
Ok, i didn't know this. But what i read, this emmc bug is only a problem with ics?
But i still had GB on my device.
BTW: The Samsung Galaxy R is supportet with eMMC Brickbug Check App
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Its not fully supported buddy.
Sent from my GT-I9103 using xda premium

rostiges_Handy said:
@shad24
Thanks for the Info. Now, i didn't have a bad feeling
@ashish.kmc08
Ok, i didn't know this. But what i read, this emmc bug is only a problem with ics?
But i still had GB on my device.
BTW: The Samsung Galaxy R is supportet with eMMC Brickbug Check App
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I know it shows its compatible... But it always shows sane chip....so its nt accurate for our phone
N yes even i heard that this problem is in 4.04 only... So its strange
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Hi buddy'sm
at Monday i got my phone back from my local dealer and i didn't had to pay anything for the repair All is fine now.
Thanks for your info's again

rostiges_Handy said:
Hi buddy'sm
at Monday i got my phone back from my local dealer and i didn't had to pay anything for the repair All is fine now.
Thanks for your info's again
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Great buddy..now you can feel the magic of galaxy r.

Hello i think i have the same kind of problem somehow (Running Cynagonmod Nightly build 10.1 not sure about which excat version i think 01.05.2013), but I'm not certain. Last night i forgot my Galaxy R in the car with about 19% battery left. In the Morning it was not on anymore. I didn't bother much about it and went to my office and put in my USB cable to the computer to get a little bit of battery. I left it there like 3 hours. Then i tried to turn it on and at first all got was the battery symbol with a loading circle. After that I tried again and i got the boot-screen of Cynagonmod the it turned on, but after awhile it turned of again and ever since the it is stuck in the boot-screen and runs a little bit hot. I tried to remove battery and everything many times but neither did work. Can somebody verify if i have the same problem?:crying: Because after flashing 10.1 the phone got so much better. Thank you guys:good:
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Hey guys it somehow reverted i got it running after taking out battery again and then turning it on without connecting it to a wallplug. Then I put the charger again and now it seems to be happily loading.

DemonKy0 said:
Hello i think i have the same kind of problem somehow (Running Cynagonmod Nightly build 10.1 not sure about which excat version i think 01.05.2013), but I'm not certain. Last night i forgot my Galaxy R in the car with about 19% battery left. In the Morning it was not on anymore. I didn't bother much about it and went to my office and put in my USB cable to the computer to get a little bit of battery. I left it there like 3 hours. Then i tried to turn it on and at first all got was the battery symbol with a loading circle. After that I tried again and i got the boot-screen of Cynagonmod the it turned on, but after awhile it turned of again and ever since the it is stuck in the boot-screen and runs a little bit hot. I tried to remove battery and everything many times but neither did work. Can somebody verify if i have the same problem?:crying: Because after flashing 10.1 the phone got so much better. Thank you guys:good:
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Hey guys it somehow reverted i got it running after taking out battery again and then turning it on without connecting it to a wallplug. Then I put the charger again and now it seems to be happily loading.
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Welcome to Galaxy R forum.
Switch off your mobile & go to recoevery, wipe dalvik & cache. Switch off for next 15 min. Then On it. Its known bug buddy.

Fixing a Hardbricked SCH-i535 / SCH-S968C Running Marshmallow 6.0.1

I have a Galaxy S3 model SCH-i535 (Verizon) running Marshmallow 6.0.1 which is now currently hard bricked as far as I can tell (can't turn on, no recovery mode, etc.).
I've been in a similar situation before while it was still running stock everything (the model was originally listed as SCH-S968C as I guess it's the same exact thing and was running 4.1.2 but changed once I updated), but I managed to save it by writing a debrick image onto the external SD which allowed the phone to boot. Cut forward to now and I'm unsure what to do.
The problem started when my phone wouldn't recognize my SIM card and I tried re-flashing nightly cyanogenmod builds with TWRP, but it didn't work. Eventually I was told to install a new modem and eventually found a ZIP file that I had to install through the recovery. Once I installed it (same way I installed any random ROM), I rebooted and at that point it wouldn't turn back on.
I've tried using the same image as before, but it didn't work and I haven't been able to find another image that's for Marshmallow and I don't believe you can somehow revert it to stock by booting it through the SD or something so I could use the old debrick image.
I'm not sure what else to do as Google so far hasn't turned up anything.

use 32 gb sdcard
what is your os befor hard brick

khiero said:
use 32 gb sdcard
what is your os befor hard brick
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What do you mean by use a 32gb sdcard exactly?
Also it was running marshmallow 6.0.1 via Cyanogenmod, but if you mean before that it was 4.1.2 lollipop I think? Either way it was 4.1.2 something.

PastyBran said:
What do you mean by use a 32gb sdcard exactly?
Also it was running marshmallow 6.0.1 via Cyanogenmod, but if you mean before that it was 4.1.2 lollipop I think? Either way it was 4.1.2 something.
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What exactly did you flash?

BadUsername said:
What exactly did you flash?
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I believe it was the nightly build labeled "cm-13.0-20160510-NIGHTLY-d2vzw.zip" on the Cyanogen site (can't post links since I don't have enough posts I guess, but you should be able to find it easy).

You can't boot into download or recovery mode? Don't see a reason it should've been hard bricked.

BadUsername said:
You can't boot into download or recovery mode? Don't see a reason it should've been hard bricked.
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What I think I did was replace the modem file directly (ie deleting the current modem and dragging and dropping the new one in to replace it).
I'm not sure why I did that but I did.

PastyBran said:
What I think I did was replace the modem file directly (ie deleting the current modem and dragging and dropping the new one in to replace it).
I'm not sure why I did that but I did.
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Missed this somehow.
You're going to have to pull a debrick image from a 4.1 stock rom (whichever baseband you were on, not the actual rom you were using), write it to an sd card until it boots from that.
Once your phone boots, you can then move the debrick image to your internal storage and fix the modem, the hard brick repair guide should work for you.

BadUsername said:
Missed this somehow.
You're going to have to pull a debrick image from a 4.1 stock rom (whichever baseband you were on, not the actual rom you were using), write it to an sd card until it boots from that.
Once your phone boots, you can then move the debrick image to your internal storage and fix the modem, the hard brick repair guide should work for you.
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How would I go about pulling a debrick image?
I downloaded the rom from here, but I'm not sure how to make a debrick image out of it.

PastyBran said:
How would I go about pulling a debrick image?
I downloaded the rom from here, but I'm not sure how to make a debrick image out of it.
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I think that's too old, and if you look at the hardbrick repair guide it's posted in there.
I think the debrick image is a boot image, don't quote me on that though. I'm not really sure what it is because I never needed it.

BadUsername said:
I think that's too old, and if you look at the hardbrick repair guide it's posted in there.
I think the debrick image is a boot image, don't quote me on that though. I'm not really sure what it is because I never needed it.
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Which one do you mean exactly?
One of the files in the OP or was it posted somewhere else in the thread? I saw this file here, but I wasn't sure which one you meant.

PastyBran said:
Which one do you mean exactly?
One of the files in the OP or was it posted somewhere else in the thread? I saw this file here, but I wasn't sure which one you meant.
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The guide is stickied at the top :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2581166&page=38
Follow those directions with the appropriate bootloader you have. I think you have 4.1.

BadUsername said:
The guide is stickied at the top :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2581166&page=38
Follow those directions with the appropriate bootloader you have. I think you have 4.1.
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You mean the one labeled "Debrick file if you bricked before the 4.3 OTA" correct?
Sorry if I seem a bit dense, I'm just trying to extra-cautious.
EDIT: Also one more question. Does it matter if you use use a USB micro SD reader (something that looks like a thumb drive, but you put a micro SD in a slot on the top), or is there a higher success rate using a SD card adapter and putting it into a SD card reader?
I heard that somewhere while looking up stuff, so I was curious if there was any merit to it.

PastyBran said:
You mean the one labeled "Debrick file if you bricked before the 4.3 OTA" correct?
Sorry if I seem a bit dense, I'm just trying to extra-cautious.
EDIT: Also one more question. Does it matter if you use use a USB micro SD reader (something that looks like a thumb drive, but you put a micro SD in a slot on the top), or is there a higher success rate using a SD card adapter and putting it into a SD card reader?
I heard that somewhere while looking up stuff, so I was curious if there was any merit to it.
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Your phone has a microsd slot, put it in that.
Also if you use the wrong image nothing would happen, not really a risk to your phone.
Not sure why you'd need an adapter

BadUsername said:
Your phone has a microsd slot, put it in that.
Also if you use the wrong image nothing would happen, not really a risk to your phone.
Not sure why you'd need an adapter
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Sorry, I meant as in an adapter to connect it to my PC in order to write the image onto the micro SD card.

PastyBran said:
Sorry, I meant as in an adapter to connect it to my PC in order to write the image onto the micro SD card.
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O I see, ya you're going to need some way to get the file onto the sd card. That adapter should work.

BadUsername said:
O I see, ya you're going to need some way to get the file onto the sd card. That adapter should work.
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I tried a few times over a couple days writing the debrick file from the guide to the card (specifically the labeled "Debrick file if you bricked before the 4.3 OTA"), following everything to the letter but to no avail.
I also noticed the light turns red when I plug it into my PC without the battery if that means anything.

I figure I should give a small update. I sent it into a local repair shop to get it JTAG'd and it's working fine now, so I don't need help anymore (for now at least).
Thanks to everyone whose helped me, and good luck to the guy reading this from a Google search like a year or two from now.

I Think I Hard-Bricked My Phone, Really Need Help on How To Fix

Hello, So it all started when I looked up online that I can increase my internal storage on my rooted Galaxy Grand Prime by making a second partition on my SD card. So I did some research on it and discovered I needed a SD card adapter so I can put my SD card into my computer and use some software to make the second partition on the SD card. I didn't have a SD card adapter at the moment and did some more digging on how to do this without a SD card adapter. Then I discovered a app called "Aparted" and downloaded it and tried to make the second partition when it failed. They said I had to disable it, and confused on what that meant I went to my settings and just unmounted it and shutdown my phone to see if that worked. I was an idiot. When I tried to turn on my phone again nothing happened, put it on the charger nothing, plugged it into my computer nothing, boot into safe mode, absolutely nothing happened. So I did some research on what the heck I done and came under the conclusion that my phone is hard-bricked and don't have the slightest idea on how to fix this... If anyone can help me it would be GREATLY appreciated. Because I have no idea on how to fix this.. Just in case here is my phone type again:
Galaxy Grand Prime SM-G530 and my carrier is Cricket

Seriously? Can someone help me?

why did u do it in the first place lmao.

Why don't you try flashing your original firmware using Odin?

He cant
dedq said:
Why don't you try flashing your original firmware using Odin?
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cause its hard-bricked. He cant go to odin nor recovery

Hard-bricked = cant do anything about it anymore

SoIomon said:
Hard-bricked = cant do anything about it anymore
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I don't know what the solution could be basically because I've never encountered that kind of case in my life. It could be hardware and maybe trying changing your motherboard could be the solution.

dedq said:
I don't know what the solution could be basically because I've never encountered that kind of case in my life. It could be hardware and maybe trying changing your motherboard could be the solution
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To be honest, thats the only way. Software-wise you cant do nothin

SoIomon said:
To be honest, thats the only way. Software-wise you cant do nothin
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I would really like to help he cannot even access the screen so hardly something is possible.

No sim detection

Hey..
I think i messed something up. Really.
After trying omin, i switched back to oos 10 because under omni my sim card wasn´t detected.
Buuut...i installed, formated everything from step one. Still no sim card detection. Does anybody know, what i can do now? :crying:

SIM card is safe
Are you sure your SIM card is safe?

mrrobot110 said:
Are you sure your SIM card is safe?
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I was hoping that this is the reason but my simcard is intact. Checked it with another phone.
Or...what do you mean with "safe"?

Trinaaa said:
I was hoping that this is the reason but my simcard is intact. Checked it with another phone.
Or...what do you mean with "safe"?
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Oh my... I tried the msm download tool and it´s working again! Damn...