My phone is not happy with me.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 SGH-T999V 16gb on Wind Mobile (Canada).
I can only get it to boot to download mode. I can not reflash recovery. All attempts have failed.
I suspect I have a corrupt partition file.
I know playing with PIT files are a last resort, and I am now there.
I have just paid a local store $35 dollars, and they can't do anything with my phone. (I suspect they too are trying to track down the appropriate PIT file)
I have done a ton of searching, but have not had any luck.
Can anyone point me to the sgh-t999v 16gb pit file?
Thanks a ton!
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-- Update --
If you have a T999V and are willing to help out, please see this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1848267
It has some very easy instructions on how you can create a .pit file from your phone.
Thanks.
JCD
Hi all,
I have a Tab 2 7.0 8gb. Unfortunately I've had to write 'Unknown' for the Android version as I have no idea and no way of finding out, let me explain...
I bought this tab for £15 off someone who was convinced the battery had exploded due to the wrong charger being used. I thought it might be a fun project!
I couldn't get anything from it but I switched the battery for a new one and there was some life (when plugged in the battery icon comes up with the circle of lines but doesn't move).
I then found that although it wouldn't boot up it would go into download mode (but not recovery). So I tried to flash a stock ROM with Odin (done that quite alot on various devices) but it kept getting a write error and failing.
I went back to the guy who sold it to me for more info and he said he'd tried to flash a ROM before with odin and checked the Nand erase all box and it hadn't worked since then (he did tell me it was dead so not too annoyed!)
So I've tried various things with Odin but no luck, so I turned to Heimdall which I've used less but still have a bit of knowledge about it.
I kept getting errors during flashing there as well so I thought I'd try flashing the separate elements of the ROM using the frontend. The only problem is, whenever I unzip the ROM to a *.tar and then untar it with 7-zip the files I get aren't the ones listed in any of the guides for Heimdall. I've tried with a number of different roms and some files are similar but I don't get a file called zImage or a boot.bin file.
The files listed in the Heimdall guide are:
a. Zimage
b. FactoryFS.rfs
c. Param.lfs
d. Boot.bin
e. SBL.bin - not always included
f. cacher.rfs
g. dbdata
h. modem.bin - not always included
Here are the ones I get:
system.img
cache.img
hidden.img
recovery.img
boot.img (*.img not *.bin)
sbl.bin
param.lfs (in one ROM but not others)
Sorry if this is a simple thing and I'm being thick, but can anyone explain it to me?! Is system.img the same as zImgae or something? Also, any solutions to a brick that aren't on most of the forums would be appreciated!
Hi everyone, I want to make a thread that will host PIT Files for any device capable. I already know how to make them using Heimdall, I would just like some assistance regarding how detailed the data should be for each PIT file.
For example, i have a "Galaxy Note (ATT GSM) SGH I717 quincyatt", lets say i created a PIT of the device, could someone else benefit and use that PIT for their SGH-I717?
Also would it matter what ROM I'm running when making a PIT (I make all my PITs on stock ROMs only), but lets say I'm running stock JZO54K.I717UCMD3, I make a PIT file and someone who needs the file for what ever reason is planing on pairing this PIT file to flash while flashing another ROM in Odin would that PIT file be incompatible, or are the ROM and PIT independent?
Any other helpful info would be appreciated, I've been reading up on PIT files throughout XDA and haven't really obtained conclusive knowledge, specifically on the questions I'm asking here.
what I ultimately plan to do is have device specific detailed list with links to PIT files per device, but i just want to know how specific the info per phone needs to be. Thanks in advance!
Ohh and one more thing, I've noticed LG and Sony devices use tools, similar to Odin, are PIT Files specific to Samsung (i know what PIT stand for), or can this info be pulled from other devices too? I think I remember getting partition data from one of my Motorola Droid phones way back by doing something similar, I'm not too sure though.
JustSayTech said:
For example, i have a "Galaxy Note (ATT GSM) SGH I717 quincyatt", lets say i created a PIT of the device, could someone else benefit and use that PIT for their SGH-I717?
Also would it matter what ROM I'm running when making a PIT (I make all my PITs on stock ROMs only), but lets say I'm running stock JZO54K.I717UCMD3, I make a PIT file and someone who needs the file for what ever reason is planing on pairing this PIT file to flash while flashing another ROM in Odin would that PIT file be incompatible, or are the ROM and PIT independent?
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They are independent indeed, and pit is partitioning info which depends on device model only. So anyone with same model could use your .pit file with any ROM. And, besides, it is almost imposiible to find .pit file for i717 somewhere in internet so it would be greatly appreciated.
Hi. I am about to flash the PIT file for my particular device. I know it may brick my phone if I flash the wrong PIT file. I want to be sure. Now, I downloaded the PIT file for my model number BUT there is something given at the end of the PIT filename. It is "HIDDEN50M". What does it stand for? I have 16 GB version of the S5. Some people say even 32 GB version could brick the 16 GB device. Could someone tell me what is this "HIDDEN50M"? Thanks.
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Hello guys, i don't know if this is the place of my queston? so i flashed my device SM-A6060 128GB, everything is fine, but the problem is i got now only 32GB, is there a way to get back my old capacity, i think PIT file is corrupted or? thnx in advice