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This should work on all Qualcomm Snapdragon based Samsung galaxy SIII's, if it doesn't, PM me the model and I'll try and find a solution.
WHILE THIS IS VERY LIKELY TO WORK FOR ANY BOOTLOADER/MODEM/FIRMWARE BRICKED PHONE, THERE IS NO UNCONDITIONAL GUARANTEE THAT THIS WILL WORK FOR YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION, THERE IS A POSSIBILITY THAT THERE ARE SOME BRICK STATES THAT THIS WILL NOT WORK FOR, but in my experience, almost all cases can be resolved by rewriting the sdcard with correct partitioning.
Disclaimer out of the way, let us begin.
Needed Materials and Files:
EDIT: if you have another phone or know someone else with the same phone have them run this and the output will be a debrick image you can use: busybox dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/backup.bin bs=1M count=200 if it does not work then change the last number (count=) to something larger and try it. If you create an image please upload it so I can put it into a repository I'm creating
16GB or 32GB class10 microSD card
A hard bricked Samsung galaxy S3 US Cellular
The debrick image for your device:
[[Here is the drive image for a folder containing all the debrick images that I currently have uploaded, more will be coming: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B612qYHFMILfWUlMTTEwdUstcXM&usp=sharing ]]
If you have any images that I missed, please send me a link or, better yet, upload them to drive, make them publicly shared, and share them with me at [email protected], I will put them in this folder for all to use
US Cellular R530: ftp://sdbruington.us/d2usc/SCH-R530_ALIVE_MJA_200MB_16GB.bin
Sprint L710: http://www.mediafire.com/download/23...ph_l710.img.xz
AT&T I747: http://d-h.st/iEy
T-mobile T999: http://www.mediafire.com/download/gr...k_SGH-T999.img
---I did not upload these images, I have simply collected the links over time, please thank Cnexus for his help in finding these and
---helping me to originally unbrick my S3
Your computer
A card reader that will accept the card (another phone will not work as this is an image, and it needs to repartition the SD card)
Either a partition editor (I've heard that you can use dd or something on linux, but I haven't tried) or this: View attachment win32diskimager-v0.9-binary.zip
A wall charger (computer charging isn't as reliable)
Procedure:
1. Take the sdcard and insert it into your computer
2. Download the mentioned image and the software to put it onto the sdcard
3. Use your computer to pull the data already on the card onto your computer hard drive, as the sdcard will be wiped when the image is put onto it
4. use the software that you downloaded earlier to burn the image to the sdcard
5. Remove the battery from the SGS3
6. insert the sdcard into the S3
7. Put the battery into the S3
8. The S3 may boot automatically, or you may have to manually boot it by holding down the power button for 5< seconds
9. If the update that bricked your phone also messed up /system, then you'll have to coerce Odin mode to shove a stock firmware image to your phone, though I've had more than just SOME trouble with that in the past (in other words I haven't been able to get back to stock yet...), if you simply had a radio update or something go wrong, then proceed to the next step.
10. Do a victory dance with your phone in your pocket not the repair bench, or on second thought, make sure you don't drop it, don't create another problem.
11. After that, you can just use your device normally with the sdcard in it without worry of bricking it, though it will not be able to boot if you remove the sdcard;
the only known method of getting it to boot without the sdcard is reflashing stock firmware, which completely wipes the phone and resets everything back to complete stock. Also, Odin mode has, at least for me, objected when I've tried to flash the stock image back onto it, and even if Odin mode was sure of working, backing up ~16GB of data isn't a fast process, especially with the most reliable means being ADB. If you try to flash a stock image and it fails, your device will almost definitely come up with a version of dmode when you try to turn it on with the sdcard (still bricked otherwise) that says something about Kies update failure, the only way of correcting this that I've had success with is flashing an image that won't do much, such as the same recovery that you already had, over odin mode from that special dmode, as while that won't correct the actual brick, it will at least make you able to boot from the sdcard again. I will provide links to the stock images in a little while, once someone gets that far, as I will have to find all but the one from the US Cellular version.
I am currently looking for firmware images that will only flash the bootloader/modem, if anyone knows of an odin file that could do that, please let me know as soon as possible, in the meantime, I will try and create an update.zip that will flash the necessary files; as most bricks are likely cause by an update.zip that was meant for a different device, I am very confident that it can be fixed with another .zip file.---Stay tuned!
---Don't forget, that thanks button won't bite your finger off if you push it:fingers-crossed:
If any of the links are not fully functional, PM me to let me know, and if you have the link to another debrick image for another device, send me the link so I can include it here!
Please note: While there is a similar procedure for Xynos based S3's, they apparently require a physical modification that requires an amount of soldering, so it is most likely best for them to simply take them in for Jtagging and then just not brick them after that.
EDIT: here is the link to a full youtube tutorial that I made, just for those of you who like watching a video instead of getting lost in a written guide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RTAbLBVfMI
EDIT AGAIN: I'm sorry about both of the mediafire links being down, I will try and find some more and upload them to my google drive, along with the others just to make sure they exist somewhere safe.I'm downloading the images now and uploading some that I already have, they will be available in this folder (https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B612qYHFMILfWUlMTTEwdUstcXM&usp=sharing) on google drive and will be available by email upon request
here is a sprint image that should work, sorry I haven't tested it http://www.mediafire.com/download/231uhy6l80jx74n/debrick_sph_l710.img.xz
for the t999 4.1: https://www.copy.com/s/xSAswQZbhQX8/t999_debrick.zip for the t999 4.3: https://www.copy.com/s/7ICfKXMC3ccr/T999_4.3_debrick.zip
I know this is becoming a mess of links but here is a link to an xda post that has t999 variant images http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2439367
here is a sprint 4.4 debrick image: http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23329332407591176
If you want to get your phone to operate without an sd card in there for every boot, stay tuned, I'll have a guide to return to stock soon, though a quick google search shouldn't be that hard if you're desperate
I will clean up this guide in a little bit but currently I have school and such to attend to so it may not be immediate
I know this is getting unwieldy but (big thanks to youdoofus) I have a way to completely debrick and fix it so it doesn't require even the sd to boot.
"Restoring stock bootloader
1) You were able to boot into the ROM
2) Plug your phone into a computer and use MTP mode
3) Move the debrick file onto your internal sdcard (/sdcard/debrick.bin)
4) Disconnect your phone
5) Open up a Terminal Emulator on your phone and input this code
Code:
su
dd if=/sdcard/debrick.bin of=/dev/block/mmcblk0
6) Reboot"
Of course this should be modified for the different versions and types of debrick image as some are img, some are bin, I think there might even be an ISO hanging around somewhere
EDIT: As of October 10th I'm working on a tool that will get an image directly from a stock rom/tar and put it on the SDcard. This is pretty complex so it will probably take a little while, but it should make it easier to get images if all that's required is a stock tar.
I've followed all these guides and haven't had any luck. I did use a CM 4.4 rom and some people are saying i need a debrick.img of a 4.4 to get it working again. i'm on an i-747. can you help?
derget1212 said:
I've followed all these guides and haven't had any luck. I did use a CM 4.4 rom and some people are saying i need a debrick.img of a 4.4 to get it working again. i'm on an i-747. can you help?
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You don't need a debrick.img of a 4.4 to get it working, you need a debrick.img of the correct bootloader. If you bricked your phone by flashing an older bootloader after upgrading to the 4.3 bootloader, then you need a debrick.img with the 4.3 bootloader.
polobunny said:
You don't need a debrick.img of a 4.4 to get it working, you need a debrick.img of the correct bootloader. If you bricked your phone by flashing an older bootloader after upgrading to the 4.3 bootloader, then you need a debrick.img with the 4.3 bootloader.
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how do i find out the correct bootloader? i was using this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2518998 for a couple months and randomly got hard bricked yesterday. any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks for sharing this
derget1212 said:
how do i find out the correct bootloader? i was using this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2518998 for a couple months and randomly got hard bricked yesterday. any help is greatly appreciated.
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Explain your situation. Randomly bricked is very vague. Did you flash anything? Do you remember doing anything? It's important. Phones don't go and "randomly brick" unless of a HW problem, and to either confirm or eliminate that possibility we need more details.
polobunny said:
Explain your situation. Randomly bricked is very vague. Did you flash anything? Do you remember doing anything? It's important. Phones don't go and "randomly brick" unless of a HW problem, and to either confirm or eliminate that possibility we need more details.
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Like i said, it was totally random. My phone froze and rebooted yesterday. It got to the Samsung logo so i thought everything was okay. I fell asleep and woke up to a bricked phone. After all of my attempts, I got one debrick.img to show something on my screen and it shows "BOOT RECOVERY MODE". Odin sees my phone and tries to fix the PIT and the Bootloader but it always fails. From what i gather, it seems to be a hardware issue.
derget1212 said:
Like i said, it was totally random. My phone froze and rebooted yesterday. It got to the Samsung logo so i thought everything was okay. I fell asleep and woke up to a bricked phone. After all of my attempts, I got one debrick.img to show something on my screen and it shows "BOOT RECOVERY MODE". Odin sees my phone and tries to fix the PIT and the Bootloader but it always fails. From what i gather, it seems to be a hardware issue.
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Whoa whoa there, if your phone still boots in either recovery or download mode, then you don't need to use a debrick.img.
If you have a custom recovery, you can flash your custom rom. If you don't, you can flash a stock ROM using ODIN in download mode.
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Whoa whoa there, if your phone still boots in either recovery or download mode, then you don't need to use a debrick.img.
If you have a custom recovery, you can flash your custom rom. If you don't, you can flash a stock ROM using ODIN in download mode.
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It is hard bricked. Without the sd with a debrick.img installed, I get no response at all. And I've tried all the i747 debrick.img files I could find here with no success.
I can get to boot recovery mode with one .img I could find but boot recovery os different than recovery mode. It's essentially useless and Odin doesn't like it.
derget1212 said:
Like i said, it was totally random. My phone froze and rebooted yesterday. It got to the Samsung logo so i thought everything was okay. I fell asleep and woke up to a bricked phone. After all of my attempts, I got one debrick.img to show something on my screen and it shows "BOOT RECOVERY MODE". Odin sees my phone and tries to fix the PIT and the Bootloader but it always fails. From what i gather, it seems to be a hardware issue.
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It really sounds a lot like the BRICKBUG to me, anyone know how to tell if a chip is insane without it working? And did you have the 4.3 bootloader? If you got that you should have been safe, but if you didn't then the kernel may have burned out the chips from the "bug" (it really doesn't seem too much like a "bug", more like an issue worthy of recall)
Sorry I don't know exactly what's wrong off the top of my head
derget1212 said:
It is hard bricked. Without the sd with a debrick.img installed, I get no response at all. And I've tried all the i747 debrick.img files I could find here with no success.
I can get to boot recovery mode with one .img I could find but boot recovery os different than recovery mode. It's essentially useless and Odin doesn't like it.
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If you get ANY response at all, then the debrick image is doing its job; what you need is a stock image, I'll try to find a link for you to use. Try using Kies or something, alternatively, as if you have the serial number you can apparently flash it quite cleanly, all data on the phone will be lost though, as it effectively wipes the eMMC.
polobunny said:
You don't need a debrick.img of a 4.4 to get it working, you need a debrick.img of the correct bootloader. If you bricked your phone by flashing an older bootloader after upgrading to the 4.3 bootloader, then you need a debrick.img with the 4.3 bootloader.
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Exactly
This image gets you in the clear if the ONLY thing screwed up is the boot partition, meaning modem/firmware/bootloader, it does NOT get you fixed if you got your rom F***ed up, and do not expect it to, this will get you into dmode so you can use odin or something like fastboot to flash a /system image or a FULL stock rom if you want to get your bootloader fixed without the SD card being in all the time.
dreamwave said:
If you get ANY response at all, then the debrick image is doing its job; what you need is a stock image, I'll try to find a link for you to use. Try using Kies or something, alternatively, as if you have the serial number you can apparently flash it quite cleanly, all data on the phone will be lost though, as it effectively wipes the eMMC.
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if anyone can find the correct debrick.img i need to use, i would greatly appreciate it. I have tried Kies and Odin without success. They can see the phone but seem not to be able to access it. I can't flash anything via odin or get to the CWM recovery or download mode. this is a really weird screen i haven't seen before.
derget1212 said:
if anyone can find the correct debrick.img i need to use, i would greatly appreciate it. I have tried Kies and Odin without success. They can see the phone but seem not to be able to access it. I can't flash anything via odin or get to the CWM recovery or download mode. this is a really weird screen i haven't seen before.
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Is there any way at all to get into dmode? What is windows recognizing it as?
Thanks for sharing.
EvangelineX said:
Thanks for sharing.
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no problem, I hope it helped!
derget1212 said:
I've followed all these guides and haven't had any luck. I did use a CM 4.4 rom and some people are saying i need a debrick.img of a 4.4 to get it working again. i'm on an i-747. can you help?
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If you bricked the /system partition AND the boot partition you will need a stock rom as well, just use Odin or something if possible after using a 4.3 image, a 4.4 image is more or less the same as a 4.3 as far as I know, I mean I bricked mine after using cm11 by flashing the wrong rom, it's just that the rom you tried tried to flash a 4.1 bootloader, and thus tripped the eFUSE or something in the Knox bootloader, what you need is a 4.3 unbrick image, as 4.4 didn't really change the modems/bootloader from 4.3, and the unbrick image isn't really that much more than a collection of pieces from the boot partition that are used as an autoboot by the phone when the eMMC fails to load properly.
This is pretty neat..
does it always work?
It's nice to have such a recover method whenever something like this happens to you.
halfdead1993 said:
This is pretty neat..
does it always work?
It's nice to have such a recover method whenever something like this happens to you.
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I believe it will work on basically anything, as in I haven't seen a case that can't be cured at least somewhat by this, I think it works like an alternative boot, as if the bootloader on the eMMC is corrupted, it seems to remove the boot flag, thus making it so that the phone does not detect a bootable partition, the unbrick image has a partition layout mirroring the one that is supposed to be on the phone, so it is used as the boot partition but then redirects control back to whatever is on the eMMC after the bootloader, think of it as a liveCD on windows, just one that hands control back to the system after it has gotten past booting the BIOS.
Hi guys
recently bought a s6 from ebay which was frozen on S6 logo. Basically managed to clear cache and factory reset from recovery but that didn't work, anyway I DL the O2 firmware and odin and put it into download mode I get a fail on odin when trying to install the rom
The phone has knox 1 and also has red writing SW Rev. Check Fail. Device: 3 Binary: 1.
I'm unsure what to do and if theres any chance for me to recover.
Many thanks
Mav
it failed because you flashed an incompatible Firmware.
where did it stopped flashing in odin? In sboot.bin?
If thats the case, you need to download proper firmware/country for your device.
Let me know what country is ur fone made of.
Hi thanks for your reply.
I managed to get it working by installing root and unikernel, it boots into O2 the firmwarw is 5.1.1
Only problem now is imei is 3500000000006
And it wont make calls dont know if imei is corrupt ir they sold me a stolen or lost phone?
I may install tw recovery and custom rom and see if that works.
Any suggestions?
Hi
Ive managed to sort out and get it to work infact typing on it now. Its currently rooted custom rom and twrp. I e managed also to restore original imei number so overall im quite pleased with myslef lol.
Anyway one last problem i have is ive tried all sims but none work i know ita picking up signal as the bar shows top right. Also chexk my settings.
Ive tried automatically and manually going to register networks but it says unable to connect try again later. I know uts not my area as my wifes s6 works perfectly. Sim also def works. The phone also picks up when a new sim has been inserted so i dont think its sim slot.
Any ideas guys
OK new update if anyone can help I'd really appreciate.
Installed new vador rom Imei reverted back and serial number is all zeros
Is this something to do with baseband if so how can I fix read somewhere about ariza patch but that was s3 4 etc.
Thanks
Mav
1. Your EFS is corrupted. The IMEI you see is a generic one, phone will be useless for network provider only wifi will work.
2. The one thing that caused this is by flashing an old bootloader to your phone. Thats why youve encountered Check Fail error on Download mode.
Happened to me also but got it fixed in the end.
OK thanks for the info how do I fix? I do have my wife's s6 but that's not rooted and don't want to root can I restore the efs
Many thanks
Mav
Been searching for ages can anyone please point me in the right direction for a fast download of stock o2 5.1 rom? I believe I may need this one G920F_O2U_G920FXXU2BOGC_G920FTEF2BOG1.zip at the moment rapid gator is going to take 10 hours lol.
Thanks
BTW is anyone out there on the s6 forums hardly getting any help really want to try and sort this thanks
maverick7777 said:
Been searching for ages can anyone please point me in the right direction for a fast download of stock o2 5.1 rom? I believe I may need this one G920F_O2U_G920FXXU2BOGC_G920FTEF2BOG1.zip at the moment rapid gator is going to take 10 hours lol.
Thanks
BTW is anyone out there on the s6 forums hardly getting any help really want to try and sort this thanks
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I think I know one thread that has a firmware downloader with ultra fast download speed you may try searching it.
I dont know if it will help, but you may be able to successfully flash the firmware but many of those who have problems were unable to boot the phone due to corrupted efs data.
Here's my way of fixing it (if you still have intact efs). http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=63693480&postcount=28
But if its already wiped, there's no way you can retrieve it unless bringing it to samsung or any repair shop.
Anyways, mine was fixed (IMEI) using Octopus box repair tool. Since I cant do anything to recover my generic imei.
batuzai04123 said:
I think I know one thread that has a firmware downloader with ultra fast download speed you may try searching it.
I dont know if it will help, but you may be able to successfully flash the firmware but many of those who have problems were unable to boot the phone due to corrupted efs data.
Here's my way of fixing it (if you still have intact efs). http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=63693480&postcount=28
But if its already wiped, there's no way you can retrieve it unless bringing it to samsung or any repair shop.
Anyways, mine was fixed (IMEI) using Octopus box repair tool. Since I cant do anything to recover my generic imei.
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Thanks silly question but how do I know if my efs is ok or corrupted?
at the moment the phone works perfect it is rooted, twrp recovery and vador rom but it just wont connect to networks. I know its not stolen or lost.
maverick7777 said:
Been searching for ages can anyone please point me in the right direction for a fast download of stock o2 5.1 rom? I believe I may need this one G920F_O2U_G920FXXU2BOGC_G920FTEF2BOG1.zip at the moment rapid gator is going to take 10 hours lol.
Thanks
BTW is anyone out there on the s6 forums hardly getting any help really want to try and sort this thanks
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As far as i know if your EFS partition is corrupt and you do not have a back up of the EFS partition to restore which you probably dont as you bought this as broken then sim capability is dead, im not sure of any other way to fix this unless you have the intact efs partition
Hi
How can I tell if the efs is corrupt it shows a baseband it now shows the correct ime I
It just won't connect to network it says try again.
I can post a screen print of efs folder on es Explorer if anyone knows what it should look like
Here are screen prints but I think I'm speaking to myself lol
Hi there i spent months on fixing issues like this (i now have a tool that takes care of all this) , best thing you can do is flash to a rom where the original imei came back do a backup of the efs, flash to a orginal rom ( latest rom) make sure its the right one for your device, connect to kies, install the rom again root and restore the efs failing that the imei is blocked use checkmend.com the uk version if your from the uk, message me if you need help
maverick7777 said:
Thanks silly question but how do I know if my efs is ok or corrupted?
at the moment the phone works perfect it is rooted, twrp recovery and vador rom but it just wont connect to networks. I know its not stolen or lost.
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Your rom, recovery and kernel doesnt have to do with corrupted efs.
Only way is to bring it to repair service using box tools to re enter/validate your imei so that you can connect to your network provider. There is no other way around other than retrieving your efs and installing it or thru repair service.
You may now relax yourself at finding ways to connect, I assure it wont help trying to flash and flash and flash stuff to your phone.
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Uhm can you send sms or make calls? It seems you have a valid Imei
Ok ive tried all stock roms including o2 and a uk btu one but no luck they all do the same thing get frozen on Samsung logo then I flash unikernel and it boots.
When checking my efs folder I can see no modem file I'm now wondering could that be the fault? so I downloaded modem and BL for 5.02 and 5.11 both will not flash via odin I get a fail message and on device check fail device: 3 binary: 1 messgage in red?????.
So I'm a little lost, I was wondering if I managed to root my wifes s6 which is virtually new could I back up her efs folder then copy it into mine and just amend the imei to my original would that work? also is there a way of rooting my wifes phone without triggering knox?
Any other suggestions guys I really don't know what bootloader was on it to start with or rom is there any way for me to find this out?, also another weird thing when the o2 uk roms install they install german apps?
Thanks guys
Ive repaired EFS Partitions with scripts downloaded from links at xda.
For example i trashed my EFS partition on my note 3 so it caused hard reboots after android booted up and it couldnt be fixed with anything else than the EFS partition repair scripts.
Edit: friend repaired his Note 4 also.
Thanks but where can I find these scripts as I've looked everywhere and if I did find how do I go about doing it. At the moment when I try to flash modem and bootloader it fails.
EFS brick
maverick7777 said:
Thanks but where can I find these scripts as I've looked everywhere and if I did find how do I go about doing it. At the moment when I try to flash modem and bootloader it fails.
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hi my friend,
i have exactly the same issue as u, i'm really hopeless, did you get any solution so far??????????????????????????
i hate being using my s6 as an ipad mini, holding two phones in my pockets
ketman5001 said:
hi my friend,
i have exactly the same issue as u, i'm really hopeless, did you get any solution so far??????????????????????????
i hate being using my s6 as an ipad mini, holding two phones in my pockets
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Same with me also need help
i tried to unlock the note 5 i have using nv_data.bin without making a backup of my efs. got all the way through installing twrp, custom darkstar rom, and more. When i went to finally put a working sim card in it.... NO SIGNAL/BASEBAND UNKNOWN/IMEI UNKNOWN! i tried everything, from using smart switch, to odin.... Whole firmware flashing, to just modem.bin & sboot.bin (and others individually) for a while seperately it wouldn't work with a full firmware restore (using odin or z3x it would stop at cm.bin) but eventually i got it flashed and back to stock with odin & z3x on N920TUVU4DPK6 latest firmware, even used smart switch to flash to stock, but NOTHING brings back the imei or baseband. even tried to use xposed to change imei with app when it was showing up missing. efs backup pro didnt work as it couldnt read pit for some reason but odin could read pit just fine. z3x wont reset efs, wont repair, wont repair certificate, wont unlock. even the efs backup pro apk wont fix the problem.
Im all out of options... i am very knowledgeable about technology in general, and i have been rooting/flashing/tinkering with android phones for 4-5 years now (working with computers and tech for 15 years). Im stumped on this one... anyone who has some extensive knowledge in this department willing to connect with a team viewer session and try to help me out or at least post somethings to try.
I really need help BAD and am lost without guidance... i also can't afford to buy a new phone so im hoping this can work again soon. before i did anything it was working fine, only locked to t-mobile so i dont think its a hardware issue.
anyone out there got a heart (and brain lol) to help! :crying:
tailsmedia said:
i tried to unlock the note 5 i have using nv_data.bin without making a backup of my efs. got all the way through installing twrp, custom darkstar rom, and more. When i went to finally put a working sim card in it.... NO SIGNAL/BASEBAND UNKNOWN/IMEI UNKNOWN! i tried everything, from using smart switch, to odin.... Whole firmware flashing, to just modem.bin & sboot.bin (and others individually) for a while seperately it wouldn't work with a full firmware restore (using odin or z3x it would stop at cm.bin) but eventually i got it flashed and back to stock with odin & z3x on N920TUVU4DPK6 latest firmware, even used smart switch to flash to stock, but NOTHING brings back the imei or baseband. even tried to use xposed to change imei with app when it was showing up missing. efs backup pro didnt work as it couldnt read pit for some reason but odin could read pit just fine. z3x wont reset efs, wont repair, wont repair certificate, wont unlock. even the efs backup pro apk wont fix the problem.
Im all out of options... i am very knowledgeable about technology in general, and i have been rooting/flashing/tinkering with android phones for 4-5 years now (working with computers and tech for 15 years). Im stumped on this one... anyone who has some extensive knowledge in this department willing to connect with a team viewer session and try to help me out or at least post somethings to try.
I really need help BAD and am lost without guidance... i also can't afford to buy a new phone so im hoping this can work again soon. before i did anything it was working fine, only locked to t-mobile so i dont think its a hardware issue.
anyone out there got a heart (and brain lol) to help! :crying:
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Do you have efs backup ? If you have made efs backup i can help you. If you don't have efs backup then i suggest you go to any repair center cuz odin or custom recovery not gonna do the job.
To restore efs/imei you will require a dongle box to write new cert files in efs partition.
Trex888 said:
Do you have efs backup ? If you have made efs backup i can help you. If you don't have efs backup then i suggest you go to any repair center cuz odin or custom recovery not gonna do the job.
To restore efs/imei you will require a dongle box to write new cert files in efs partition.
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i have z3x and have been trying to re-werite a cert i found online but it didnt seem to do the job, and i dont have a backup, the backup i do have was after it stopped working :/
Kies or Samsung switch
Have you tried using the restore on either Kies or Samsung
Hey happened to me with the note 4. There is a guy on ebay I used and he repaired/restored imei remotely. Cost was 60 or 70 bucks. Took all of 10 mins. And phone was even unlocked afterwards. Might be with a shot.
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i tried to unlock the note 5 i have using nv_data.bin without making a backup of my efs. got all the way through installing twrp, custom darkstar rom, and more. When i went to finally put a working sim card in it.... NO SIGNAL/BASEBAND UNKNOWN/IMEI UNKNOWN! i tried everything, from using smart switch, to odin.... Whole firmware flashing, to just modem.bin & sboot.bin (and others individually) for a while seperately it wouldn't work with a full firmware restore (using odin or z3x it would stop at cm.bin) but eventually i got it flashed and back to stock with odin & z3x on N920TUVU4DPK6 latest firmware, even used smart switch to flash to stock, but NOTHING brings back the imei or baseband. even tried to use xposed to change imei with app when it was showing up missing. efs backup pro didnt work as it couldnt read pit for some reason but odin could read pit just fine. z3x wont reset efs, wont repair, wont repair certificate, wont unlock. even the efs backup pro apk wont fix the problem.
Im all out of options... i am very knowledgeable about technology in general, and i have been rooting/flashing/tinkering with android phones for 4-5 years now (working with computers and tech for 15 years). Im stumped on this one... anyone who has some extensive knowledge in this department willing to connect with a team viewer session and try to help me out or at least post somethings to try.
I really need help BAD and am lost without guidance... i also can't afford to buy a new phone so im hoping this can work again soon. before i did anything it was working fine, only locked to t-mobile so i dont think its a hardware issue.
anyone out there got a heart (and brain lol) to help! :crying:
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I have the EXACT SAME problem that you have. I'm on the latest firmware N920TTMB4DPH2, I can't rollback to prior firmware. z3x couldn't detect my phone's modem, I've been looking for a solution too. In my case, someone told me (even z3x log said the same thing) that I have to downgrade the phone's modem, but I still couldn't find a way to do this. I think in my case, I have to wait for Samsung tool Pro to finally support the modem or find a way to downgrade the modem. (Can't even find any modem out there). I just tried Samsung tool Pro 27.4 today, still doesn't work. I think you might have seen this post? This might help?
http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f922/n920t-ph2-imei-repair-success-2132347/
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Have you tried using the restore on either Kies or Samsung
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restored with smart switch and although the phone was back at stock, still baseband and imei was null / no service...
tomcklam said:
I have the EXACT SAME problem that you have. I'm on the latest firmware N920TTMB4DPH2, I can't rollback to prior firmware. z3x couldn't detect my phone's modem, I've been looking for a solution too. In my case, someone told me (even z3x log said the same thing) that I have to downgrade the phone's modem, but I still couldn't find a way to do this. I think in my case, I have to wait for Samsung tool Pro to finally support the modem or find a way to downgrade the modem. (Can't even find any modem out there). I just tried Samsung tool Pro 27.4 today, still doesn't work. I think you might have seen this post? This might help?
http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f922/n920t-ph2-imei-repair-success-2132347/
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ive been flashing different modem.tar files with odin all to no luck, they take, and it says flash success (ok) but still null baseband
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Hey happened to me with the note 4. There is a guy on ebay I used and he repaired/restored imei remotely. Cost was 60 or 70 bucks. Took all of 10 mins. And phone was even unlocked afterwards. Might be with a shot.
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u remember what he did? cause i dont have 60-70 $$$$ that was the reason i reached out here, hopefully someone could help or link me a guide i could follow... money is scarce around here :/
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tailsmedia said:
i tried to unlock the note 5 i have using nv_data.bin without making a backup of my efs. got all the way through installing twrp, custom darkstar rom, and more. When i went to finally put a working sim card in it.... NO SIGNAL/BASEBAND UNKNOWN/IMEI UNKNOWN! i tried everything, from using smart switch, to odin.... Whole firmware flashing, to just modem.bin & sboot.bin (and others individually) for a while seperately it wouldn't work with a full firmware restore (using odin or z3x it would stop at cm.bin) but eventually i got it flashed and back to stock with odin & z3x on N920TUVU4DPK6 latest firmware, even used smart switch to flash to stock, but NOTHING brings back the imei or baseband. even tried to use xposed to change imei with app when it was showing up missing. efs backup pro didnt work as it couldnt read pit for some reason but odin could read pit just fine. z3x wont reset efs, wont repair, wont repair certificate, wont unlock. even the efs backup pro apk wont fix the problem.
Im all out of options... i am very knowledgeable about technology in general, and i have been rooting/flashing/tinkering with android phones for 4-5 years now (working with computers and tech for 15 years). Im stumped on this one... anyone who has some extensive knowledge in this department willing to connect with a team viewer session and try to help me out or at least post somethings to try.
I really need help BAD and am lost without guidance... i also can't afford to buy a new phone so im hoping this can work again soon. before i did anything it was working fine, only locked to t-mobile so i dont think its a hardware issue.
anyone out there got a heart (and brain lol) to help! :crying:
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Do you still have the nv data bin file?
tailsmedia said:
i tried to unlock the note 5 i have using nv_data.bin without making a backup of my efs. got all the way through installing twrp, custom darkstar rom, and more. When i went to finally put a working sim card in it.... NO SIGNAL/BASEBAND UNKNOWN/IMEI UNKNOWN! i tried everything, from using smart switch, to odin.... Whole firmware flashing, to just modem.bin & sboot.bin (and others individually) for a while seperately it wouldn't work with a full firmware restore (using odin or z3x it would stop at cm.bin) but eventually i got it flashed and back to stock with odin & z3x on N920TUVU4DPK6 latest firmware, even used smart switch to flash to stock, but NOTHING brings back the imei or baseband. even tried to use xposed to change imei with app when it was showing up missing. efs backup pro didnt work as it couldnt read pit for some reason but odin could read pit just fine. z3x wont reset efs, wont repair, wont repair certificate, wont unlock. even the efs backup pro apk wont fix the problem.
Im all out of options... i am very knowledgeable about technology in general, and i have been rooting/flashing/tinkering with android phones for 4-5 years now (working with computers and tech for 15 years). Im stumped on this one... anyone who has some extensive knowledge in this department willing to connect with a team viewer session and try to help me out or at least post somethings to try.
I really need help BAD and am lost without guidance... i also can't afford to buy a new phone so im hoping this can work again soon. before i did anything it was working fine, only locked to t-mobile so i dont think its a hardware issue.
anyone out there got a heart (and brain lol) to help! :crying:
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what! add me on the list, i was searching the same problem, and i found this thread. i guess no one can help in this community with no backup efs file. my device is sm-n920t note 5. i can downgrade to lollipop by, from stock nougat i will root and flash custom firmware, then on the custom firmware i flash it to any stock rom. this doesn't solve the problem.
Haha same issue here... A year later... And still no solutions... Mine is SM-N920P. I accidentally rebuilt the nv_data.bin file and my unlocked phone is showing me that my SIM card is invalid. I'm busting my nuts to find a solution.
Hello Forum,
I am in desperate need of rooting my old Galaxy Express Prime 2 (SM-J327a), because I accidentally deleted all of my images. I cannot find a .tar file to recover the device. I checked TWRP's site, and they don't have a file to support this device yet. Does anyone know another way to root this device, or where I can find a .tar file to use with Odin? I have tried virtually all root apps and programs.
Thank you,
Mosaic Owl
I would like to second this request (though I am not near as desperate). Has anyone tried using the Samsung one click root method for this phone?
Link to modded Odin to skip SHA256
Hydran said:
I would like to second this request (though I am not near as desperate). Has anyone tried using the Samsung one click root method for this phone?
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I tried loading up One Click Root on my laptop and it said it couldn't find its servers. I also tried flashing twrp for a similar Boost phone, (SM-J327p) knowing there was a risk of bricking it. My J327a was free and I plan to stick with my Moto, so I could afford to risk it, plus I've always been able to un brick anything from graphics cards to phones and game systems.
Anyway, Odin 3.12 gets a few steps into the twrp install, but before it actually begins to install, an error pops up that says "SHA256 is invalid". I searched for a couple of hours, and all I can come up with is that AT&T put an extra check in there to see where the files were coming from, and attempting to install custom recovery will cause this error. A modified Odin was released to skip this check on an older phone, but I could not find a working link to it.
That's what I came here for: a link to the modified Odin that will allow me to install TWRP without that check. If it's posted, DO NOT try flashing the wrong twrp recovery if you can't afford having it bricked for a while like I can.
I guess you would need to start with an eng bootloader that will let your phone boot then work on a tethered root... I'm still looking for binary 2 with rev 2 combination file without luck, all I need is to extract the boot and see if I can reset lock pattern. I tried google account but it does not have the option to lock-relock screen anymore. It's my nephew's phone and my daughter messed it up. I can login the google account and make it ring and locate it but can't disable the pattern. He has no backup of this phone...
Have any one make it done?
Hello,
I did something rather stupid. I downloaded stock firmware from samsung-firmware.org for this build TMB-G930TUVU2APC8_G930TTMB2APC8-20160325.
Using heimdall, I tried to flash all the partitions to my T-Mobile S7. The boot, cache, aboot, recovery, system, and a few other partitions failed during flash due to not passing the checksum. I thought it would be a good idea to remove each partition that failed and just try to flash the partitions that would flash. I believe the partitions that did not flash failed because this firmware build was not the proper baseband version for my phone. I kind of just guessed which firmware build to pick. I guessed because my phone was already softbricked from improper flashing before. I could not obtain the baseband version. That would explain why the locked partitions did not pass checksums.
My half-assed plan to flash only the partitions that would go through worked... kinda. I managed to get a bunch of partitions to flash including modem, keymaster, cmnlib, cmblib64, persist and some others. Immediately after flashing, the device just went black. It is now not responding to any inputs or turning on. I cannot boot to recovery or download. It's completely bricked.
I heard it should be near-impossible to brick due to having a locked bootloader, but this is pretty bricked to me. I have let it sit, not plugged in for half an hour now in hopes that I can get it to turn on after a few hours of discharging or something.
Any way to fix this? Can I take it in to a local repair store to get it unbricked? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Use Odin3 v3.13.1 It is a windows based program to flash Samsung phones.
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Use Odin3 v3.13.1 It is a windows based program to flash Samsung phones.
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Thank you for your reply. It doesn't matter now what tool I use.
At this point, my phone is bricked. No software can pick up the phone now.
I noticed you are trying to flash a Marshmallow OS? Why not try one of the newer roms listed in this forum. I am using Oreo.
Link: https://forum.xda-developers.com/tmobile-galaxy-s7/development/rom-g930tuvu4cri2-t3864700
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I noticed you are trying to flash a Marshmallow OS? Why not try one of the newer roms listed in this forum. I am using Oreo.
Link: https://forum.xda-developers.com/tmobile-galaxy-s7/development/rom-g930tuvu4cri2-t3864700
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Hi again. The stock S7 T-Mobile variant has a locked bootloader so I wouldn't even be able to flash anything except stock...
That's still not the point. My phone is bricked so I would not be able to flash anything at the moment. The point of this thread is to search for an answer about maybe why my phone is bricked and if there's any way to fix it without a JTAG.