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Hi Everyone,
I would just like to share with you what happened to my phone Galaxy W GT-I8150 (stock rom/rooted).
I was experimenting with Swapper2 app from the Playstore, installed it and enabled the option to use the physical swap partition. My intention was to use the swap partition in my external_sdcard. However, when I rebooted the phone it never came back. No recovery, no download mode, Odin could not detect it, in short it was a HARD BRICK my friend! Totally unusable.
I didn't really know what happened, but after some research I learned that the app might have wiped the wrong partition, the bootloader partition!
So guys, if you are rooted, be very careful with this app or any app that touches your system in the partition level.
Now I'm still on the process of reviving my phone, if anyone has any idea how please post here or pm me.
I'm following a thread just in case you're interested, this guy darkspr1te found a way to resurrect a hard bricked Galaxy Note.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1914359
Thank you.
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Thanks Mod for stucking this. Just to give an update. I managed to recover my phone a week after it was bricked.
I happen to have a friend who is a cellphone technician. He used a BOX (same as Jtag) to reinstall the original SGW bootloader and OS.
You will be needing a JTAG/Jig equipment, that will trigger the Qualcomm chipset within to enter JTAG mode.
Afterwards... I'm not sure...
But I wish you good luck in reviving your Ancora...
-- Sent from a GT-I8150 running ICS perfectly well. F'U, Sams#!t --
Is the same thing happened to me too! It would be good to make this thread sticky to alert all of the possible disaster! My phone is still bricked...
wishing you good luck bro,,,
and yes,, thanks for alerting us,,
the truth is,, im planning to download that app too....
santiagoruel13 said:
wishing you good luck bro,,,
and yes,, thanks for alerting us,,
the truth is,, im planning to download that app too....
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maybe out of topic but im using the ram expander app for the swap.swapped my externl sd.but didnt know how big is the risk for bricking the phone
afif_7070 said:
maybe out of topic but im using the ram expander app for the swap.swapped my externl sd.but didnt know how big is the risk for bricking the phone
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double check compaitbility first, if you are not sure, don't do it!
klacenas said:
double check compaitbility first, if you are not sure, don't do it!
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already checked.compatible for my w. already did the swapping for 128mb.pepoluan post method of swapping using terminal in one of the post in general thread.so mayb if others want to swap memory for ram can use that method instead of using apps.
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forgot to ask.how did it go for reviving your w?
afif_7070 said:
already checked.compatible for my w. already did the swapping for 128mb.pepoluan post method of swapping using terminal in one of the post in general thread.so mayb if others want to swap memory for ram can use that method instead of using apps.
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forgot to ask.how did it go for reviving your w?
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Within days I'm going to post an automated flashable way. Stay tuned
-- Sent from a GT-I8150 running ICS perfectly well. F'U, Sams#!t --
I also had this problem.
I done the same things as you, but I send my Galaxy W to Samsung and I got a new Mainboard.
Sadly I needed to install all my apps again, but it's now working again!
GiantTreeLP said:
I also had this problem.
I done the same things as you, but I send my Galaxy W to Samsung and I got a new Mainboard.
Sadly I needed to install all my apps again, but it's now working again!
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What did you say to them? And how long you get your new MB? FYI, I've bricked my phone after installing this ****ing app.
omegahanggara said:
What did you say to them? And how long you get your new MB? FYI, I've bricked my phone after installing this ****ing app.
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I said i wanted to turn on my phone but it didn't started and i didn't see the samsung splash screen.
they said i should send them my phone.
after two weeks they said they repair my phone as a warranty case.
then i got my phone with a new motherboard.
i know that they wouldn't find anything because the partitions on my phone were broken so it couldn't boot up.
hopefully i could help you.
Hey.,,, I'd like to swap my memory card, is there any chance in CM10 for that? since this thread says that swapping is literally Dangerous, so... can anyone tell me the saver one?
azhiekurosaki said:
Hey.,,, I'd like to swap my memory card, is there any chance in CM10 for that? since this thread says that swapping is literally Dangerous, so... can anyone tell me the saver one?
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You misunderstand.
This thread is about creating a 'swap memory', not about swapping SD Cards.
Specifically, this thread is about creating a 'swap memory' using an app called Swapper2, which has been proven to be *fatally incompatible* with the W.
There are more than one way to swap SD Cards in CM10; IIRC someone shared a flashable method in the Dev subforum.
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Perhaps a solution!
User Daskspr1te from XDA AT&T Galaxy Note forum has devised a way to repair the hardbricked Sammy SVH-E160L. His method and his developed software can also repair other phones and most likely also the model i8150. It is necessary that an user with a i8150 running, with the help of Daskspr1te's tool, extract certain files from his phone necessary to repair the hardbricked i8150 phone (mainly the bootloader and so on). If the bricked i8150 can be seen by a pc thru an usb port (as Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008) I think we can repair it, what we need are some files extracted from a running i8150 and some luck!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2136738
If this system will work for our i8150 will be an extremely useful resource for us!
Mod, please make this thread to sticky, 1 people just PM me for using Swapper2 and hard bricked
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ipromeh said:
Mod, please make this thread to sticky, 1 people just PM me for using Swapper2 and hard bricked
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yeah i also Hard Bricked my phone with this..
I've temporarily stuck this thread to hopefully prevent others from being bricked. After a little while it may be unstuck though. But hopefully not as many will be bricked. Good job warning!
To swap, I formatted a swap partition on external sdcard and mounted it with
Code:
swapon /dev/block/mmcblk1p3
Much easier and safer.
TheGatorade said:
To swap, I formatted a swap partition on external sdcard and mounted it with
Code:
swapon /dev/block/mmcblk1p3
Much easier and safer.
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Is there any tutors about this..?
Might be a good idea to point to one..??
Thank you for warning us.:good:
OP EDIT: AS MANY OF YOU HAVE NOTICED, I HAVE MOVED ON TO A NEW DEVICE SINCE I POSTED THIS GUIDE. I CAN NO LONGER PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR SPRINT GS3 AS (1)I DO NOT HAVE THE DEVICE ANY LONGER AND (2)I HAVEN'T KEPT UP WITH DEVELOPMENT AND STOCK ROM RELEASES FOR THE GS3. SORRY FOR THE INCONVIENIENCE. THIS GUIDE CAN STILL BE OF HELP TO PEOPLE AS THE PROCESS HAS BEEN DRASTICALLY IMPROVED (LAST I SAW, YOU DIDN'T NEED A DUAL BOOT). PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU SEARCH THIS THREAD FIRST BEFORE SENDING ME A PM ASKING FOR HELP. THANK YOU!
Okay. So I hard bricked (yes, I know a noob mistake... we all slip up some times ) my S3 by flashing an Illusion ROM for the i9300. My device was totally unresponsive. No boot screen, no dl mode, no recovery... nothing. This is a total unbrick for those of you who have done the same as I did. There is already a thread on this by gTan64 but it seemed a little vague and it took me awhile to figure it out. So here is my version.
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT GUARANTEE THIS TO WORK. DO NOT COME TO ME IF YOUR PHONE EXPLODES OR SOME HOW GOES INTO A WORSE STATE THAN A HARD BRICK (If that's even possible)
CNexus said:
You should also add that this is for the Sprint S3 only. It was made using the aboot from my emmc dump which may or may not fail on other devices.
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What you will need:
A 16GB SD (preferably a Class 10)
A hard bricked S3
A USB cord
A Linux/Windows dual boot computer (Or go use a Linux Live CD)
Stock tar for ODIN
This was all done on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and you will need to be familiar with Terminal and its processes.
You will need this file (thanks to billard412 for pointing this out to me and gTan64 for the DL link ) [gTan64's thread ]
http://www.mediafire.com/download/231uhy6l80jx74n/debrick_sph_l710.img.xz
Okay. Let's Begin.
Assuming that you are already on a Linux machine, here's what you need to do.
1. Make sure you have no external USB/HDDs attached to your machine. Insert your SD card to a reader. You will need to identify the letter of the SD card. You can do that by opening up Terminal and enter the following
>>>Sudo su
(Enter your password here)
>>>dmesg | tail
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You only need to use the part that says "sd[your card letter]". That is the your SD card's letter. DO NOT USE THE ONE THAT HAS THE NUMBER. For example: sdc1 <<< That is a partition of the SD card, not the actual root of the SD card itself. If you use the wrong letter, YOU COULD WIPE YOUR HARD DRIVE.
Or go use GParted (Just look for it in the Applications drawer in Ubuntu) for an easier method.
2. Unzip the s3 unbrick file on to your desktop. Now go back to the Terminal. You should still have root privileges so there is no need to enter "Sudo Su" again. Enter the following.
WARNING: THIS WILL ERASE THE ENTIRE SD CARD.
>>>dd if=[drag the unzipped unbrick img onto the terminal] of=/dev/sd[your card letter]
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This should write the img file to the SD.
3. After it's done writing the img, take out your SD card and put it into your phone. With the battery in the phone, insert the SD card, plug the phone into your machine, and try to boot to DL mode via the usual method. This WILL take several tries and possibly rewriting the img file to SD card again to work.
4. If you were lucky enough to boot to DL mode, boot back to Windows and then I suggest you go and download a stock MD4 (as of 18July2013) tar file and ODIN yourself back to stock and go on from there. Btw, if you don't ODIN back to stock, your phone WILL STILL BE BRICKED. This is because the phone is using the SD card to boot to DL mode.
I suggest that you keep that SD card as your "OH SH*T, I HBRICKED" rescue card.
If you were successful, don't forget to hit up that thanks button and buy me a cheap coffee!
LINKS:
STOCK Firmwares: http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SPH-L710
STOCK(Rooted or Unrooted Exe/.gz): http://www.sxtpdevelopers.com/showthread.php?t=233
Special Thanks to:
billard412 for linking me to the thread
gTan64 for the unbrick img
CNexus for helping me edit this guide and giving me advice.
And the many others whose usernames I've forgotten that have tried to help me in my quest for a solution for a Hard Bricked S3
If you know who you are, PM me and I'll add you to the Thanks list.
You should put to the link to the original thread, you didn't come up with this.
Aaron Swartz, Rest in Pixels.
This is the Original post on this method, it appears that there have been 2 successful attempts with this method. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43305728
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edfunkycold said:
This is the Original post on this method, it appears that there have been 2 successful attempts with this method. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43305728
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Been looking for that link. I saw this method last night. I couldn't make heads or tails out of it because it was so vague. I just revamped it a lil. His method says that you don't need to plug your phone in to the computer. I guess that's the only difference. Thanks!
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This is the Original post on this method, it appears that there have been 2 successful attempts with this method. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43305728
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Edited OP to include the said thread, various links for the TARs and added a Special Thanks at the bottom.
You should also add that this is for the Sprint S3 only. It was made using the aboot from my emmc dump which may or may not fail on other devices.
Sent from my S3 on Sense 5 (you jelly?)
CNexus said:
You should also add that this is for the Sprint S3 only. It was made using the aboot from my emmc dump which may or may not fail on other devices.
Sent from my S3 on Sense 5 (you jelly?)
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I should probably add that to the title, but I can't seem to find the edit button for it (I haven't started a lot of threads)
deBricker said:
I should probably add that to the title, but I can't seem to find the edit button for it (I haven't started a lot of threads)
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Edit your post and it will be at the top (mobile). Click edit then advanced and it will take you to another screen where you can edit the title if on a computer.
Sent from my S3 on Sense 5 (you jelly?)
This should help some of the people on Sprint GS3 forums who are constantly bricking their phones. But then again, not everyone here knows how to use Linux or how to search.
CNexus said:
Edit your post and it will be at the top (mobile). Click edit then advanced and it will take you to another screen where you can edit the title if on a computer.
Sent from my S3 on Sense 5 (you jelly?)
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Got it. OP updated. Yet again. This thread has gotta be one of the most updated threads in one day. lol
joeyhdownsouth said:
This should help some of the people on Sprint GS3 forums who are constantly bricking their phones. But then again, not everyone here knows how to use Linux.:good:
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That's why I included the information on how to get the SD card letter. (It took me a while to find it myself, but Google was my friend )
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That's why I included the information on how to get the SD card letter. (It took me a while to find it myself, but Google was my friend )
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I suggest that you suggest for the user to install and use GParted to find the device block instead. People in a rush may accidentally flash this image to their hard drives and brick their computers (the irony).
Sent from my S3 on Sense 5 (you jelly?)
Thanks for sharing and more so for your service. +100000
Thanks
Thanks for this. Glad I'm not the only person who forgots to check ROMs properly before flashing.
You gave me hope that all is not lost yet.
Going to try this tonight.
And if this works I am going to push you to market this...
sell and ship a SD card to those silly brick makers.
That would not be reasonable as this is not the OP's method.
Sent from my buttered S3
Would this work for either size SGS3? either way cool guide gives me a little more hope if i ever do brick
do this work on windows
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do this work on windows
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No
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Question
Question OP, when you bricked, did phone respond at all?
Only output I get is when I plug phone in to charger without battery. Red LED
Other then that, no response. No buttons respond at all.
I created SD as stated. Verified image created on SD. Inserted SD into phone, installed battery.
I get no response when trying to power on, enter DL mode.
Any other info would be greatly appreciated.
jaymaj said:
Question OP, when you bricked, did phone respond at all?
Only output I get is when I plug phone in to charger without battery. Red LED
Other then that, no response. No buttons respond at all.
I created SD as stated. Verified image created on SD. Inserted SD into phone, installed battery.
I get no response when trying to power on, enter DL mode.
Any other info would be greatly appreciated.
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If memory serves me right, the op was in the same boat. Took a few attempts as well. Try to reformat and reflash the SD image.
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the debricker said:
do this work on windows
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I believe this can be done with cygwin too
Hi fellows S4 mini owners and the Android developers,
I just bought S4 Mini GT-I9195 LTE as present for my daughter and it came with the latest firmware XXUBMJ7 and with KNOX and I rooted it following this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2364980 and everything went well.
So, I got rooted S4 mini with CWM Recovery on stock kernel and in Knox everything was changed to Custom and Knox was showing 0x1.
I have partitioned 16 Gb SDHC class 10 micro card with MiniTool Partition Wizard Professional Edition with next partitions:
First partition: 12 Gb FAT32 (unchanged) Primary
Second partition: 2 GB Ext4 Primary
Third partition: 512 mb Swap Primary
I have installed Link2SD to try if it should work with second Ext4 partition and it wiould work for the moment and it would link all removable apps to the second partition but with next boot it would get all force closed (FC's) messages about this moved apps.
I did a factory reset from CWM Recovery and I tried all again but now I changed in Link2SD options to link apps but without automatic linking apps to second partition and it seemed to work and It only moved one part of installed apps to second partition with no more FC's after the reboot.
Now after that I wanted to get SWAP partition working and I have installed "Swapper2 for root" and I have choose in options to use Swap partition and it took third partition mmcbklp03 as Swap partition (and I think that here went wrong but I'm not sure) and I remember that there was option in Swapper2 to always format SWAP partition on the boot.and it was chacked.
I have swiched on Swapper2 and at first instance it faild to find SWAP partition, then I tried once again and it succeed to swich on swap, to format swap partition and to make swap.
I have restarted a phone several times after installing few other applications and it all went good. After few hours of installing of the new apps and testing them the battery draind out to one percent (1%) and I just wanted to leave it to charge with phone swiched off, because it's better for the battery. I didnt use the original Samsung charger but I have used USB 3.0 on my laptop and what I have noticed that it took to long to charge more then six hours to charge it to 100%. The next time when I tried to swich on the phone it was impossible. It wouldn't go to any mode, just black screen but if it is connected to the PC it gives a sound that there is a divece on that USB port.
With or without battery it just give a sound that it means that PC can see "something" but if I try with Odin it doesn't show at all on any com to be seen.
I took the phone to the friend of mine (he is a phone reseller and he has many different software to revive a lot of different phones and only Riff Box can see my phone on "com 163" ) but I didn't want to soldier it and to flash it because I still have the warrenty as the phone is only few weeks old.
My question is: What could be a reason of the hard brick ?
Was it Swapper2, maybe, because it has formated the wrong partition ? Or something else ?
And should I use the swap partition at all, next time, knowing that this phone has 1.5 Gb of working RAM ?
What is your expiriance and conclusions ?
Edit: I just plugged the phone on the other laptop with Windows 7 and it showed to install new drivers. As first it could not recognize a device, after that it has installed HID drivers and at least it didn't succeed to install QHSUSB_DLOAD drivers.
Any idea ?
Thanks in advance !
In case you end up needing a last resort, these guys are great!
http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-s4-mini-jtag-brick-repair/
(fixed my hard brick)
You can read this links also:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=49357496&postcount=38
Thanks to both of you, but I don't get it where can I get debrick.img for Samsung S4 mini and if can I use a kind of "T999_Partial_Sys_Dump_for_debrick.zip" but then for S4 mini and is there something like this at all at the moment ?
Greetz !
Boombastical said:
Thanks to both of you, but I don't get it where can I get debrick.img for Samsung S4 mini and if can I use a kind of "T999_Partial_Sys_Dump_for_debrick.zip" but then for S4 mini and is there something like this at all at the moment ?
Greetz !
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I will make it to You. The .zip file work well because it work only whit the pit.file that is on partition mmcblk0, same on both devices.
Like for Mega I9205 I rename it to "I9195_Partial_Sys_Dump_for_debrick.zip". Wait.
You have here the debrick.img.tar whit debrick.img. I hope this help You:
https://meocloud.pt/link/5c9646e0-1ff8-41a8-b785-d85a0acd7f8b/debrick.img.tar/
Good luck
ValenteL said:
You have here the debrick.img.tar whit debrick.img. I hope this help You:
https://meocloud.pt/link/5c9646e0-1ff8-41a8-b785-d85a0acd7f8b/debrick.img.tar/
Good luck
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Anyway you or anyone can can help with the i435 vzw s4mini?
I have a few .img files like boot and recovery i think system too
I need a debrick file and whatever else.. Not really sure
Stuck in qhsusb mode
www.sammobile.com/firmwares. Download you appropriate firmware. Download Odin. Click PDA on Odin . click downloaded firmware. Flash it
Done
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balarishinoob said:
www.sammobile.com/firmwares. Download you appropriate firmware. Download Odin. Click PDA on Odin . click downloaded firmware. Flash it
Done
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do you see sch-i435 there? I dont. Not trying to be all smart but i wish it were so simple.. lol pls anyone?
justlovejoy said:
do you see sch-i435 there? I dont. Not trying to be all smart but i wish it were so simple.. lol pls anyone?
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Then cyanogen will do the job. that's the only option. U have
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balarishinoob said:
Then cyanogen will do the job. that's the only option. U have
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To get UN bricked?
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justlovejoy said:
To get UN bricked?
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Any new ROM will unbrick (common sense)
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Lmao.. Common sense will say, I'm not arguing. Great idea but hard bricks aren't treated the same as soft bricks. Thank you tho
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Returned Fixed S4 mini
justlovejoy said:
Lmao.. Common sense will say, I'm not arguing. Great idea but hard bricks aren't treated the same as soft bricks. Thank you tho
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Hi to all !!!
The phone is back from the repair service and it's "fixed", acctually they changed the whole motherboard and they didn't want even to examine what the problem was, what I think is a bit sad.
It was probably just the few partitions that were messed up and they just could reflash it with a JTAG or thier other advanced hardware, but it was "easyer" to just swich a motherboard and now I get again new 4.2.2 with KNOX loader and december update...
So here we go again, I will root it again but I we'll avoid this time Swapper2, or if somone know's the right adress from where bigins the swap partition if I use 32 Gb SD micro partitioned to 26 Gb FAT 32 and 4 Gb Ext4 and 512 mb swap. Which mmcblk will be swap then ?
Or should I even use swap partition with S4 mini if we know that 1.5 Gb RAM should be enough for 4.2.2 ?
Thanks in advance !
Greetings !
Hi ValenteL,
Sorry that I wasn't here for a long time but I was busy with my study and I see that you made the .img file but I already send it to repair center and if read my last post you can see what happened.
I'm really sorry that I didn't test it before I send it to them because they where brute as always and they even didn't look what was the problem.
I mean, it's good for me but it wasn't neccesery to waste a hardware which was good but is much quicker to replce it then to flash it again...
I hope that your file can help to someone else who has a same problem as I had.
I'll take your file for the future experiments, or can you explain how can I make my own .img file if I'm not rooted yet ?
Thanks in advance.
Greetz !
Is this .img file still available?
ValenteL said:
You have here the debrick.img.tar whit debrick.img. I hope this help You:
https://meocloud.pt/link/5c9646e0-1ff8-41a8-b785-d85a0acd7f8b/debrick.img.tar/
Good luck
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Is this .img file still available? The download link above no longer works. Actually, I'm not really sure it's what I need, but I'm willing to take a chance. I'm searching for a bin dump of mmcblk0 of an I9195T (Australian model), but at this point I'd take a I9195 on the outside chance it might work. Please see my original post in the troubleshooting area: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-mini/help/i9195t-dump-200mb-replaced-emmc-t2880434.
Thanks in advance!
ValenteL said:
You have here the debrick.img.tar whit debrick.img. I hope this help You:
https://meocloud.pt/link/5c9646e0-1ff8-41a8-b785-d85a0acd7f8b/debrick.img.tar/
Good luck
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Hi, Do you happen to have a new link for the I9195 debrick.img.tar as your download link has expired?
Thanks
Can you make for me an image of sph l520 ? Thanks.
ValenteL said:
You have here the debrick.img.tar whit debrick.img. I hope this help You:
https://meocloud.pt/link/5c9646e0-1ff8-41a8-b785-d85a0acd7f8b/debrick.img.tar/
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Hello, do you have a GT-I9195 4.4.2 PIT file that i could have to fix my phone. Thanks in advance
I need debrick.img for i9195 please.
I have rooted and modded over 5 diffrent phones and 3 difrrent tablets. I have brought dead tablets that no PC repair place would or could fix. they said unfixable.. I was able to fix.. No problem. I hae had my own phones, LG Optimus L9 and F6 Both MetroPCS I have had a few tablets. I root everything withen the first 5 mins..
I just recently started using TWRP over CWM. I like TWRP most.. I never had problems with TWRP.. On my F6 when I fo a partition SDcard(External) it works wit no problem.
On my G3 Using the same commands as I did on my F6. Hardbricked my phone.. and that was with the latest TWRP using TWRP manager.. Everything worked up to that point
of Partitioning my sdcard. Only diffrents from this and my other phones is Unlocked bootloader.. I dont know if that made such a differents as to why it deleted my
internal Partitions insted of the the external.. I now have a $600.00 paper weight. (lucky for me I just got it..( So I was able to get a refund))....
When I used the partition sdcard. it seemed to work then it gave error then said failed.. after trying again. I decided I would just take my sdcard out and format it on my PC. so I used the shutdown command in the reboot area.. After getting the sdcard formated.. I stuck it back in and closed the cover. Now it wouldnt boot back up.. No power or anything. Just a black screen.. I thought it might be something with my phone, till my friend that was over with his, had the very same thing happend using the same commands as I did with the same version of TWRP as I did.. Im surprised my friend didnt want to kick my butt for that.. Not that he would of been able too. but hes getting his replaced for nothing also just gota pay shipping, Now what I want to know is this,
Has anyone here know what happend and why this happend? I searched google and couldnt find anything with the answers I need. I only used TWRP to partition my SDcard but ended up deleting my internal somehow at least it seems. but that doesnt do that on my f6 with TWRP.. so I dont get it, I used the same commands on my
other phone(f6) and even my tablet which they all have TWRP. and nothing like that has ever happend before.
I need a little expert knowledge from someone that might have some clue as too what I did wrong or what could I have done that caused this. So that I dont do this again.
I have another G3 on the way.. it seems like out of all the LG's I have had this one is easy to brick. ( I have never hardbricked a phone before this)
Try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2799647
kroukes2000 said:
Try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2799647
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Thanks, but I have tried all the flashing tools and stock rom approach.. Cant even get into Download mode.. so nothing will work.. its hardbricked..
anyhow I already sent the phone back to T-Mobile. and I already have a new one comming..
Thank you for your input though.....
What about this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g3/help/lg-g3-bricked-tried-everything-experts-t2852962
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Are you using a T-Mobile g3? You shouldn't have to format your SD card through twrp. You should do it through the PC or phone. I wonder if you accidentally deleted your partitions on your phone. Did you try pluging in your phone into your charger and turning it on that way?
I dont get it. Why are you trying to format the sd card to the computer and all that. If you already had twrp going you simply wipe than install new room and reboot...
why is this even here and not in Q&A
My advice...DO NOT ROOT ANOTHER PHONE. Reading your post it is VERY obvious you have no clue what you're doing. Also, it's within, not withen...
Cant really figure out what happened by what you described...I'll have to agree with Mikeyinid, just leave the phones alone or be prepared for your own consequences, not sending it back to t-mobile because you screwed it up. These are some of the reasons phones come locked down, development is so hard on these devices and will just get worse as time goes on.
I'm sure this will come out wrong. Why is this post in here? This is a development area right?
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Are you using a T-Mobile g3? You shouldn't have to format your SD card through twrp. You should do it through the PC or phone. I wonder if you accidentally deleted your partitions on your phone. Did you try pluging in your phone into your charger and turning it on that way?
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I should have. but like I said. I have never had that problem before. and Yes I think I deleted the phones partition when it shoudnt of let me do that With my F6 it only formates
the External Sdcard.. On here it seem to format a little more then just the external SD card.. Thank you for your input
yanowman said:
I dont get it. Why are you trying to format the sd card to the computer and all that. If you already had twrp going you simply wipe than install new room and reboot...
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EXTERNAL SDcard. was on my LG Optimus F6 with a 4 gig swap partition and a 5 gig 2nd partition for link2sd since that phone wont let you install to SDcard..
I needed to wipe that whole card so that I could reformat it with the 64 gigs that it was. instead of the 50 gigs that I had because it was split in 3 parts.
thats the only reason. I had to delete the partitions and reformat it, I didnt want the phone partitions formated.. Only the EXTERNAL sdcard....
Thank you for your input.,.
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My advice...DO NOT ROOT ANOTHER PHONE. Reading your post it is VERY obvious you have no clue what you're doing. Also, it's within, not withen...
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Just because I dont type and spell that great doesnt mean I dont know what I am doing.. I have rooted many phones in the past With no problem.. I just happend to run into a problem with this one phone. thats why I asked if anyone here has had that problem before or have heard of it before.. it seemed very strange that it would do that.
Ducter said:
Cant really figure out what happened by what you described...I'll have to agree with Mikeyinid, just leave the phones alone or be prepared for your own consequences, not sending it back to t-mobile because you screwed it up. These are some of the reasons phones come locked down, development is so hard on these devices and will just get worse as time goes on.
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I do agree that the phones are getting harder and harder to deal with.. Most of the LG's are almost hard to brick. well at leat hardbrick. this one on the other hand was pretty easy.. Yes I know you can brick anyphone on per pus. but you know what I mean..
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I'm sure this will come out wrong. Why is this post in here? This is a development area right?
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Sorry, I might be out of line by posting in here.. but this has to deal with Dev and rooting questions. not a gen. question. so alot of them people in there wouldnt have any clue as to what happend.. but I thought maybe someone over here would.. but if this is out of place.. then I am sorry.. please move it to a place that it should be..
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Just because I dont type and spell that great doesnt mean I dont know what I am doing.. I have rooted many phones in the past With no problem.. I just happend to run into a problem with this one phone. thats why I asked if anyone here has had that problem before or have heard of it before.. it seemed very strange that it would do that.
I do agree that the phones are getting harder and harder to deal with.. Most of the LG's are almost hard to brick. well at leat hardbrick. this one on the other hand was pretty easy.. Yes I know you can brick anyphone on per pus. but you know what I mean..
Sorry, I might be out of line by posting in here.. but this has to deal with Dev and rooting questions. not a gen. question. so alot of them people in there wouldnt have any clue as to what happend.. but I thought maybe someone over here would.. but if this is out of place.. then I am sorry.. please move it to a place that it should be..
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I apologize. My post came out very douchey. I honestly think there is alot you need to learn. I'm just trying to give you advice. And I shouldn't have corrected your misspelling. It isn't something I would generally do.
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I should have. but like I said. I have never had that problem before. and Yes I think I deleted the phones partition when it shoudnt of let me do that With my F6 it only formates
the External Sdcard.. On here it seem to format a little more then just the external SD card.. Thank you for your input
EXTERNAL SDcard. was on my LG Optimus F6 with a 4 gig swap partition and a 5 gig 2nd partition for link2sd since that phone wont let you install to SDcard..
I needed to wipe that whole card so that I could reformat it with the 64 gigs that it was. instead of the 50 gigs that I had because it was split in 3 parts.
thats the only reason. I had to delete the partitions and reformat it, I didnt want the phone partitions formated.. Only the EXTERNAL sdcard....
Thank you for your input.,.
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Makes sense. Its pretty hard to hardbrick the g3 though. Does your phone at least turn on and goes to the lg screen? If you do have the T-Mobile version g3 you should be able boot into recovery doing the hard button reset and flash a ROM from your SD card. As long as twrp was installed right. I don't think you can format twrp, but I could be wrong.
Did your get taken care of by Google? I'm surprised they honored the warranty with it being rooted.
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I've been posting this kind of problem for the past month. No one posted this but your motherboard malfunctioned due to no partition/boot.img that unable the phone to boot. QPST is a hit/miss most of the time but the lg recovery tool doesnt work due to lost IMEI and S/N. The only way is to get a replacement or lose all your data and repair it to LG. They're going to replace your motherboard and it takes around 2 weeks to get the phone back with same IMEI
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I've been posting this kind of problem for the past month. No one posted this but your motherboard malfunctioned due to no partition/boot.img that unable the phone to boot. QPST is a hit/miss most of the time but the lg recovery tool doesnt work due to lost IMEI and S/N. The only way is to get a replacement or lose all your data and repair it to LG. They're going to replace your motherboard and it takes around 2 weeks to get the phone back with same IMEI
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Thank you so much for a Realistic answer to my question/problem.. I cant understand why nobody else could figure out what I was talking about..
But the question still rises to how did I format my boot partition though TWRP Advanced settings / Partition SD card ? That should only format my External SD not the Internal sd..
I was wondering if it could be the fact that this one if the first LG phone that I have had that has a unlocked bootloader and that opened it up to more (be very carefull) as to my other phones used LOKI to get around the boot lock. (LG Optimus L9 and F6 both MetroPCS. ) because with both of them phones TWRP does what I wanted it to do. that is format only External SD.. even all the tabs that I have installed TWRP on.. only formated the External...
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Thank you so much for a Realistic answer to my question/problem.. I cant understand why nobody else could figure out what I was talking about..
But the question still rises to how did I format my boot partition though TWRP Advanced settings / Partition SD card ? That should only format my External SD not the Internal sd..
I was wondering if it could be the fact that this one if the first LG phone that I have had that has a unlocked bootloader and that opened it up to more (be very carefull) as to my other phones used LOKI to get around the boot lock. (LG Optimus L9 and F6 both MetroPCS. ) because with both of them phones TWRP does what I wanted it to do. that is format only External SD.. even all the tabs that I have installed TWRP on.. only formated the External...
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I know its not the main point but wanted to clear up that the L9 did not use loki. It doesnt use an aboot.img, it uses omap. That was one of the biggest pita phones ever..
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I know its not the main point but wanted to clear up that the L9 did not use loki. It doesnt use an aboot.img, it uses omap. That was one of the biggest pita phones ever..
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Your right.. But its been so long since I had that phone.. I didnt think about it.. My bad........... Most LG's are all locked up tight. Thank God this G3 has a unlocked bootloader...
xmagiicsx said:
I've been posting this kind of problem for the past month. No one posted this but your motherboard malfunctioned due to no partition/boot.img that unable the phone to boot. QPST is a hit/miss most of the time but the lg recovery tool doesnt work due to lost IMEI and S/N. The only way is to get a replacement or lose all your data and repair it to LG. They're going to replace your motherboard and it takes around 2 weeks to get the phone back with same IMEI
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Dont mean to hijack this thread but do you think you can look at this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=56391046
Im kinda in the same boat on nexus4 any insight would be great. Thanks
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Hello every one! so yesterday while doing nothing but leaving my phone on a markipilers youtube video, I see my screen go off I try to turn it back on and nothing happens. I tried power cycling and its still off, just not responding to anything, no sound no light no nothing. I tried then going to recovery mode but well... nothing happened. The only thing that actually makes any responses is when I connect it using a USB to my laptop, my laptop beeps, its not suposed to beep it is broken so is it bricked?
My device is a rooted Samsung galaxy s4 mini i19192 or so I hope it is.
I really hope that this is the right place to be redirected to assistant if not then Iam really sorry, thank you so much every one and have a fantastic day!
Edit: I forgot to mention two things.
1st: It does not seem to charge the battary, I kniw this because I have another identical one though the battary works fine in the working one
2nd: My PC reads it as (something?)_dload, Sadly I do not have acess to a computer just yet. Thanks again
Any help.. please?
Khaled125 said:
Hello every one! so yesterday while doing nothing but leaving my phone on a markipilers youtube video, I see my screen go off I try to turn it back on and nothing happens. I tried power cycling and its still off, just not responding to anything, no sound no light no nothing. I tried then going to recovery mode but well... nothing happened. The only thing that actually makes any responses is when I connect it using a USB to my laptop, my laptop beeps, its not suposed to beep it is broken so is it bricked?
My device is a rooted Samsung galaxy s4 mini i19192 or so I hope it is.
I really hope that this is the right place to be redirected to assistant if not then Iam really sorry, thank you so much every one and have a fantastic day!
Edit: I forgot to mention two things.
1st: It does not seem to charge the battary, I kniw this because I have another identical one though the battary works fine in the working one
2nd: My PC reads it as (something?)_dload, Sadly I do not have acess to a computer just yet. Thanks again
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probably QHSUSB_DLOAD, which is a hard brick, you might be able to fix with a debrick image
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its in fact qshusb_dload but iam still a bit clueless on the reason or which method to solve. I read its because the cpu is trying to boot from the sd card and has something to do with something called emmac that is terrible in the s4 so I read three methods to solve
1- Just your method
2- Cooling the emmc?
and three, this
http://cellphonetrackers.org/qhsusb_dload-fix-qualcomm-soc.html
so Iam a bit distracted on what to even do or how to do it, any help would be apriciated plus any further notices about how to even avoid the problem
and thank you so much @IronRoo for your noticable contributions to these stuff!
Khaled125 said:
its in fact qshusb_dload but iam still a bit clueless on the reason or which method to solve. I read its because the cpu is trying to boot from the sd card and has something to do with something called emmac that is terrible in the s4 so I read three methods to solve
1- Just your method
2- Cooling the emmc?
and three, this
http://cellphonetrackers.org/qhsusb_dload-fix-qualcomm-soc.html
so Iam a bit distracted on what to even do or how to do it, any help would be apriciated plus any further notices about how to even avoid the problem
and thank you so much @IronRoo for your noticable contributions to these stuff!
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Yes, the eMMC is prone to fail/corruption on our phones, at least I think. The eMMC is the internal SD memory. Hopefully yours is just corrupt.
The cooling trick is probably only good if there is a bad soldier joint on the chip and will probably only work a few minutes as the board will heat up once turned on
I would try the debrick file as that's probably the easiest. See also Valenti's post on other Samsung device, as better write up on one (Samsung Mega maybe?) as well as by the others who originally come up with the debrick idea to get a better idea of what to do.
I guess (without researching) the method in your link is the same principle as the debrick file but may work even if debrick doesn't work as not dependant on having a matching file from phone with same bootloader (???? I don't know as haven't looked into that method)
Also you can send phone away for jtag if nothing else works
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IronRoo said:
Yes, the eMMC is prone to fail/corruption on our phones, at least I think. The eMMC is the internal SD memory. Hopefully yours is just corrupt.
The cooling trick is probably only good if there is a bad soldier joint on the chip and will probably only work a few minutes as the board will heat up once turned on
I would try the debrick file as that's probably the easiest. See also Valenti's post on other Samsung device, as better write up on one (Samsung Mega maybe?) as well as by the others who originally come up with the debrick idea to get a better idea of what to do.
I guess (without researching) the method in your link is the same principle as the debrick file but may work even if debrick doesn't work as not dependant on having a matching file from phone with same bootloader (???? I don't know as haven't looked into that method)
Also you can send phone away for jtag if nothing else works
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Thats great! thank you. however can you give me a link to download that file / tutorial as iam not sure google would help me in that. second off I have no idea where Valenti's post either so that would just be fantastic if you can, Thanks again for every thing!
Khaled125 said:
Thats great! thank you. however can you give me a link to download that file / tutorial as iam not sure google would help me in that. second off I have no idea where Valenti's post either so that would just be fantastic if you can, Thanks again for every thing!
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There are some debrick files here for some of the S4 Mini models (some have broken links but some still work, or find others on internet. This is also one of the thread started by @ValenteL
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2625628&page=10
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IronRoo said:
There are some debrick files here for some of the S4 Mini models (some have broken links but some still work, or find others on internet. This is also one of the thread started by @ValenteL
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2625628&page=10
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Wanderful, Thank you! should I mark this as solved?
IronRoo said:
There are some debrick files here for some of the S4 Mini models (some have broken links but some still work, or find others on internet. This is also one of the thread started by @ValenteL
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2625628&page=10
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I have been searching for ever and still zero luck on finding either a way through the s4 mini nor the actual debrick file... all I could find was for the s3 all over, any help?
Khaled125 said:
I have been searching for ever and still zero luck on finding either a way through the s4 mini nor the actual debrick file... all I could find was for the s3 all over, any help?
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Did you try the two debrick images in my post dated the 22nd March in the thread I posted above?
Actually I also pulled one from my phone after I read you can generate one from Cyanogenmod phones that will also work, I will post that on the above thread also a bit later.
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IronRoo said:
Did you try the two debrick images in my post dated the 22nd March in the thread I posted above?
Actually I also pulled one from my phone after I read you can generate one from Cyanogenmod phones that will also work, I will post that on the above thread also a bit later.
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Just found it, Though if your link would have directed to page 8 rather than 10 that would have been fantastic! I thought You ment the main post which also helped me alot. How ever do I really have to downoad monster legands to be able to download the foking file?
oh never mind, Just a damn ad
IronRoo said:
Did you try the two debrick images in my post dated the 22nd March in the thread I posted above?
Actually I also pulled one from my phone after I read you can generate one from Cyanogenmod phones that will also work, I will post that on the above thread also a bit later.
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Oh and how do you flash that thing to recovery, How do you pull that debrick file? is really confusing me
And please pardon me if my questions are spammy or annoying, There are a whole lot of steps through it and neither google nor the forum seem to be answering it so I might just consult you for that.
From what I understand, You flash the debrick file to the sd card using this 32 bit sd flasher thing and then it just works because the booting files are on the sd card but it will not boot without it. So how can you fix the corrupted boot loader AND how can I restore my sd card back to normal, I have seen a video for it but he is using ubuntu and command lines and stuff.
Khaled125 said:
Oh and how do you flash that thing to recovery, How do you pull that debrick file? is really confusing me
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The original post by @ValenteL was a file to generate a debrick image, but you need a working phone to use that.
People with phones that are already bricked have to get a debrick file from someone else. This debrick image must be put onto an 16Gig (some report success with 32gig) SD card that is formatted (so you will lose everything else on it) and then the phone will boot with it instead of internal mmc to get your phone going (you have to keep the SD in) so you can then recover data and also hopefully flash a new rom later so you don't need to always boot from SD.
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IronRoo said:
The original post by @ValenteL was a file to generate a debrick image, but you need a working phone to use that.
People with phones that are already bricked have to get a debrick file from someone else. This debrick image must be put onto an 16Gig (some report success with 32gig) SD card that is formatted (so you will lose everything else on it) and then the phone will boot with it instead of internal mmc to get your phone going (you have to keep the SD in) so you can then recover data and also hopefully flash a new rom later so you don't need to always boot from SD.
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Yes, that was what I understood already but thank you anyway! My question was How? on both creating the debrick file and restoring both sd card (too make it work as a readable card rather than a booting device if it does not already) and fix the phones internal memory without actually reseting the whole phone and if there are no way else to fix internal memory... to back up the whole thing.
thank you!
IronRoo said:
Did you try the two debrick images in my post dated the 22nd March in the thread I posted above?
Actually I also pulled one from my phone after I read you can generate one from Cyanogenmod phones that will also work, I will post that on the above thread also a bit later.
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WANDEFUL! My phone actually viperated and showed color!
however.. it gives this on a black screen.
boot recovery
check boot partitions
copy from t flash
boot recovery
write 139008
reboot
and obviously reboots, thoughts?
My last two posts are the most important now, if you or any one else can answer that would be fantastic!
some notes: after searching the thing does not mention emmc nor odin at all like for some others with the same issue... just this plain text.
I had upgraded my android version to 4.4.2 not 4.2.2 so I assume that is important, thanks again and please answer as soon as you can as that would be great! thank you for every thing @IronRoo
Khaled125 said:
My last two posts are the most important now, if you or any one else can answer that would be fantastic!
some notes: after searching the thing does not mention emmc nor odin at all like for some others with the same issue... just this plain text.
I had upgraded my android version to 4.4.2 not 4.2.2 so I assume that is important, thanks again and please answer as soon as you can as that would be great! thank you for every thing @IronRoo
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I think the important thing is the bootloader (& pit must be the same) that if I recall was updated from the version you mention to ver 2. So you need a debrick with the ver 2 bootloader. (but I am not 100% sure about this, only read some stuff last year) My phone BL is ver 1
a guy on the below Mega thread with an I9195 did get a stop further by repeating multiple times
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2600976&page=4
But still didn't fix phone fully
read next few pages, one guy used freeze fix white partial success, might be useful if you want to get data off phone.
Also another link that may offer help
but probably your emmc is bad, is my guess
gotta go now, work calls
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IronRoo said:
I think the important thing is the bootloader, that if I recall was updated from the version you mention to ver 2. So you need a debrick with the ver 2 bootloader. (but I am not 100% sure about this, only read some stuff last year) My phone BL is ver 1
a guy on the below Mega thread with an I9195 did get a stop further by repeating multiple times
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2600976&page=4
But still didn't fix phone fully
read next few pages, one guy used freeze fix white partial success, might be useful if you want to get data off phone.
Also another link that may offer help
but probably your emmc is bad, is my guess
gotta go now, work calls
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Thats great! good luck at your work, when you are back though I need to tell you this
I have another device of the exact same model that is kikkat not rooted (kitkat will have bootloader version 2 right?) if only I knew how to get the file out and then do all the stuff again, ill keep searching since you are at work now, will keep you updated. please help about it though if you can*
so if someone say for example has android 5 on an s4 mini, he will never get his phone back to work unless some one made a debrick file for it? if the previous statments were true?
My questions are:
Extract that file from the other phone, if I managed to answer it ill tell you.
To get my SD card back to work and fix my emmc
Iam not giving up on my emmc yet though, iam sure there is a way to solve it, if not then how to fix that failed emmc?
thanks again!