I Just installed Foxhound on my Galaxy S3 and now It wont turn on. At all.
I cant get it in recovery, or download mode.
Any help?
ZiiC said:
I Just installed Foxhound on my Galaxy S3 and now It wont turn on. At all.
I cant get it in recovery, or download mode.
Any help?
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Unfortunately if the device has absolutely no power at all, the device is considered a "hard" brick. The only ways to recover from a hard brick is using a JIG (possible solution) or a JTAG. JTAG cannot be used by an inexperienced tech and they are expensive to purchase. There are a number of sites that you can send your phone to that will complete the JTAG resurrection for you for around 80.00 USD.
I hard bricked my phone once while flashing CWM and was lucky enough it was within 30 days of purchase. I acted like I didn't know what happened when I got to the AT&T store and they gladly replaced it for me. You can try your luck but no guarantees. Sorry about your luck =(
A note going forward: I was only able to find a i9300 download for foxhound. You are currently in the i747/i747m forum... If you downloaded the i9300 version of Foxhound onto your device (which is for international phones) this is why your phone is no longer functioning.
You cannot flash i9300 ROMs onto USA device variants.
ZiiC said:
I Just installed Foxhound on my Galaxy S3 and now It wont turn on. At all.
I cant get it in recovery, or download mode.
Any help?
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have u tried to remove battery, remove SIM card and Ext SD card and press and hold your power button for at least 30 seconds to a min, before reinserting battery?
RPelham said:
You cannot flash i9300 ROMs onto USA device variants.
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^^^ This is exactly right. It is a confusing point for many too, especially coming from a GS2 where compatibility was a lot better.
Good point. I probably should have looked into fox hound before I installed it.
I'm on Bell in Canada so I run a i747m.
I guess it's my own fault in the end.
I'll see if I can take it over to the Bell store and see what I can do, otherwise I guess I'll have to send it in to get it unbricked.
Thanks for the help guys.
Let us know what happens.
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So I managed to Brick my sprint version of the galaxy s3. Like an idiot I overlooked a rom and used the i9300 version instead of my model version(nood move). Anyway I can't turn my phone on AT ALL!! I tried putting in into download and recovery and I get nothing. How do i fix this?? Anyone???
If u can't get download mode or recovery than there is no help. Maybe a jig if u have one but I'm not sure if they even work for the s3.
Sent from Galaxy SIII
musclehead84 said:
If u can't get download mode or recovery than there is no help. Maybe a jig if u have one but I'm not sure if they even work for the s3.
Sent from Galaxy SIII
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Ahhhh shyt! These new phones are harder to fix now, never had this problem before, but its like if mess up once with these new galaxy s3's thats it, whats the point of flashing roms when you chance it every time. Thanks though man looks like I'll have to call to get a new one.
jsmoof21 said:
Ahhhh shyt! These new phones are harder to fix now, never had this problem before, but its like if mess up once with these new galaxy s3's thats it, whats the point of flashing roms when you chance it every time. Thanks though man looks like I'll have to call to get a new one.
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Its not a problem as long as you flash a rom FOR YOUR PHONE.....
Did you try this?
jsmoof21 said:
So I managed to Brick my sprint version of the galaxy s3. Like an idiot I overlooked a rom and used the i9300 version instead of my model version(nood move). Anyway I can't turn my phone on AT ALL!! I tried putting in into download and recovery and I get nothing. How do i fix this?? Anyone???
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I thought I hard brick my sons phone and here is what I did: Worth a try at this point.
Take battery out and do NOT put it back in. Take SD card out. Plug phone into computer and attempt download mode. Mine booted right up with this method when it wouldn't with anything else. If it does flash the stock rom through Odin right away and you are good to go.
tyler1037 said:
I thought I hard brick my sons phone and here is what I did: Worth a try at this point.
Take battery out and do NOT put it back in. Take SD card out. Plug phone into computer and attempt download mode. Mine booted right up with this method when it wouldn't with anything else. If it does flash the stock rom through Odin right away and you are good to go.
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I just tried that and no luck. sounds like u soft bricked it. I can't get it to turn on period. The only thing that turns on is the lcd light but only for 10 seconds then shuts off. Thanks for the help though!
If your getting a light, even temporary, I'd boot a tinycore Linux and see what mode its in for that 10 seconds
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If your getting a light, even temporary, I'd boot a tinycore Linux and see what mode its in for that 10 seconds
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I gave up an ordered a new one lol that's the only solution I could come up with
galaxy s3 softbrick
jsmoof21 said:
I gave up an ordered a new one lol that's the only solution I could come up with
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hey jsmoof21 did you got you galaxy s3 back from sprint, im asking because my is softbrick and i need to know if i can bring mine to sprint and getting a replacement because my dont start up eather. thanks
bonao1851 said:
hey jsmoof21 did you got you galaxy s3 back from sprint, im asking because my is softbrick and i need to know if i can bring mine to sprint and getting a replacement because my dont start up eather. thanks
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Do you get a screen at all? You say you're softbricked but you also say it doesnt start up. If you are really just softbricked then you have a screen too, in which case you'll just look like an ass going to sprint because they will see you fuucked with it and laugh you out the store. If you are hardbricked then you would have just a black screen. If you have a screen, do some reading like you shouldve done in the first place and fix it yourself.
bonao1851 said:
hey jsmoof21 did you got you galaxy s3 back from sprint, im asking because my is softbrick and i need to know if i can bring mine to sprint and getting a replacement because my dont start up eather. thanks
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Mine was hard bricked and it couldn't be turned on period. If yours is soft brick then you should be able to get it back into download mode but you can't get it to turn on at all, then you have a hard brick. I went to sprint and got a brand new one because they couldn't fix it either. So unless they can fix it you will have to get a new one!
Also Hard Bricked.
18th.abn said:
If your getting a light, even temporary, I'd boot a tinycore Linux and see what mode its in for that 10 seconds
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On the advice for taking the battery out and trying to get into download mode, I tried and now without my battery in I get my red light but still no luck on download mode. any advice like "tinylinux". Sorry not a noob but not a pro so whereever that middle area is is where I stand. Thanks in advance.
UNBRICK
Hi please follow these steps
1 download stock firmware below
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1737859
2 download clock work mod (CWM-Recovery-LTE-SGS3-Sprint-v5.zip) below
http://www.epiccm.org/2012/06/cwm-recovery-on-all-sgs3-lte-variants.html
3 copy the CWM recovery zip to ext sd card using some card reader trough a pc and insert the sd card into your SGS3.
4 now i still presume your phone is still booting but gets stuck at samsung boot screen. reboot to ODIN mode and flash the
CWM file downloaded earlier with "AUTOREBOOT" unchecked.
5 once the cwm is flashed remove the usb cable and remove battery, hold for a sec and put the battery back again.
6 Reboot to recovery VOL UP + HOME Button + POWER, you should boot to CWM.
7 do DATA WIPE 3 times
8 do CACHE WIPE 3 times
9 under advanced do DALVIK CAHCE WIPE 3 times
10 click on reboot, as soon as you do it the vibrates, remove battery as soon as it vibrates.
11 put the battery back again and boot to odin mode again
12 flash stock firmware with F.RESET and AUTO REBOOT checked
13 your phone should reboot,
14 wait for it
please let me know if it helped.
Please do as it says without step number 3
pvinodnayak said:
Hi please follow these steps
1 download stock firmware below
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1737859
2 download clock work mod (CWM-Recovery-LTE-SGS3-Sprint-v5.zip) below
http://www.epiccm.org/2012/06/cwm-recovery-on-all-sgs3-lte-variants.html
3 copy the CWM recovery zip to ext sd card using some card reader trough a pc and insert the sd card into your SGS3.
4 now i still presume your phone is still booting but gets stuck at samsung boot screen. reboot to ODIN mode and flash the
CWM file downloaded earlier with "AUTOREBOOT" unchecked.
5 once the cwm is flashed remove the usb cable and remove battery, hold for a sec and put the battery back again.
6 Reboot to recovery VOL UP + HOME Button + POWER, you should boot to CWM.
7 do DATA WIPE 3 times
8 do CACHE WIPE 3 times
9 under advanced do DALVIK CAHCE WIPE 3 times
10 click on reboot, as soon as you do it the vibrates, remove battery as soon as it vibrates.
11 put the battery back again and boot to odin mode again
12 flash stock firmware with F.RESET and AUTO REBOOT checked
13 your phone should reboot,
14 wait for it
please let me know if it helped.
Please do as it says without step number 3
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DUDE THANK YOU SO MUCH OMG
I had same stuck at boot screen but could get odin download mode still this literally saved my phone thanks your awesome!
I Screwed Up
Hello All,
I wish my first post was not for the issue of a bricked phone but it seems like it might be.
I have the sprint samsung S3 and was installing the http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1905676 Rom and something seems to not have gone right.
I got an error and when I went to restart my phone I get nothing...
Thanks for the help and if I have no options would anyone like to by a lovely almost new GS3?
Jonathan
jonathanod said:
Hello All,
I wish my first post was not for the issue of a bricked phone but it seems like it might be.
I have the sprint samsung S3 and was installing the http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1905676 Rom and something seems to not have gone right.
I got an error and when I went to restart my phone I get nothing...
Thanks for the help and if I have no options would anyone like to by a lovely almost new GS3?
Jonathan
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I think you may have flashed your Sprint GS3 with an international GSM GS3 ROM. I think you are not going to be able to recover from that.
m20120 said:
I think you may have flashed your Sprint GS3 with an international GSM GS3 ROM. I think you are not going to be able to recover from that.
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why are people still doing this?
nicholaaaas said:
why are people still doing this?
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Some people really should get an iPhone...
Sent from my SPH-L710 using xda app-developers app
WHYDavid said:
Some people really should get an iPhone...
Sent from my SPH-L710 using xda app-developers app
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Totally agree.That or a motorola
Try YouTubeing QBKing77 on his video for bricked S3's
Good luck. There will be a way to unbrick. Just have to find the right method.
[JellyBombed S3 via XDA premium]
Right. so this is what happened. My friend rooted his s3 and.. well.. he played where he shouldnt have. he went into recovery mode and formatted everything because he thought format was a good thing -.- (that was until I told him it meant delete), so after I gave him a ROM to install, cause evidently he had erased his system.... after the installation, it said completed, then asked him to restart the phone, and when he pressed yes It just never turned back on. no bootloop or anything. just black screen.
I've tried going back into recovery mode (power+home+vol up).......no response.
I've tried going into Download Mode (power+home+vol down) ....... no response.
when I plug it into the computer or USB charger without a battery in the phone the notification light turns red for a few minutes. with battery in, nothing.
my guess is that a ROM got installed, without the bootloader being unlocked. (oops)
what I'm really here for though, is to ask if you can really blank screen brick your phone just by downloading a bad rom.
any help anyone? any advise on what I should try? anything? thanks!
Samsung Galaxy s3 SGH-i747M(bell)
(I have his phone for the weekend because he will be away and wont be able to try anything to fix it, hence why I'm here asking this.)
The Rom we accidently put on it was called Android Revolution HD SGS3 17.0 I honestly cant find on the site weather its international or not s:
need more info what rom if it was a international rom then the phone is hard bricked and needs to be jtaged
idk!
jerrycoffman45 said:
need more info what rom if it was a international rom then the phone is hard bricked and needs to be jtaged
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The ROM is called Android Revolution HD-SGS3 17.0 I looked on the site and it doesnt say if its international or not well, not that I can see
frappim said:
The ROM is called Android Revolution HD-SGS3 17.0 I looked on the site and it doesnt say if its international or not well, not that I can see
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yep thats a international rom its in the international section
international=i9300,i9305
usb jig?
jerrycoffman45 said:
yep thats a international rom its in the international section
international=i9300,i9305
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Would a usb jig work? anything work? we're only kids we cant get 80$ to pay for a phone repair -.-
I ordered usb jigs yesterday.. they better do something!
most likely no you might try taking it back to your carrier and tell them you updated to jb with kies and the phone wont turn on they will send it to samsung for a warranty repair but if samsung finds out you flashed a rom they will charge you for repair if you can get to download mode with the jig then you can oden stock rom
jerrycoffman45 said:
most likely no you might try taking it back to your carrier and tell them you updated to jb with kies and the phone wont turn on they will send it to samsung for a warranty repair but if samsung finds out you flashed a rom they will charge you for repair if you can get to download mode with the jig then you can oden stock rom
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alright, thats what I'll do. if the Jig doesnt work I'll get my friend to return it to bell and say some sort of lie XD
thanks you!
no problem just tell your friend if they find out samsung will bill him for the repair and it will be more than 80 dollars
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no problem just tell your friend if they find out samsung will bill him for the repair and it will be more than 80 dollars
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like... alot more than 80$? because if so my friend can get a new phone through his insurance for 150$ it would be useless to wait 5 weeks to repair a phone that would cost almost as much as it would getting a new one
i am not sure let me search
couldnt find anything seems like it was a couple hundred dollars but i cant find that thread so i could be wrong found one where the guy did the samething and they fixed his for free ok after more checking those whose phone would not power on was fixed by samsung for free
Thank You!!
jerrycoffman45 said:
i am not sure let me search
couldnt find anything seems like it was a couple hundred dollars but i cant find that thread so i could be wrong found one where the guy did the samething and they fixed his for free
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okay, well thanks for helping! I'll ask my friend what he wants to do and i'll reply the status, or what ever other issues we run into, thanks again for helping!
frappim said:
okay, well thanks for helping! I'll ask my friend what he wants to do and i'll reply the status, or what ever other issues we run into, thanks again for helping!
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your welcome next time do a little more reading before you flash it saves alot of trouble
Gentlemen,
I was playing with ROMs as I typically did in the past, when the phone is now stuck on the SAMSUNG logo. I reflashed the stock ROM for my i747Rogers device using ODIN. I had the PDA field with the ROM in it, and Autoreboot and F.Reset.Time checked. Hit start.
Everything went fine and it rebooted. IT's stuck........HELP?
I can get it into Download mode and ODIN will recognize. Now what??
Thanks
DSSKing
Help? I need this phone for work..... Just need to get into it with ANY rom...
If you can boot into recovery try wiping/factory reset from the boot menu. This happened to me a while back when flashing cm 10
dssking said:
Help? I need this phone for work..... Just need to get into it with ANY rom...
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Worst case scenario, get riff jtag done. I brick my galaxy s captivate a few years ago and that fixed it. Basically they plug the motherboard into a computer and push the ROM onto it. If you're in Toronto, I had it done at Ming Wireless downtown.
I took it to Pacific Mall (for those not in Toronto, It's THEE place for tech). A gentleman did a key sequence consisting of
the home, power and volume buttons..... got it to boot.
Wish I knew what he did. Moving forward, it's on 4.1.1 and rooted, so it won't take the update from Rogers. What's recomended>? What ROM to go with? I don't want to run into this again........
Suggestions?? Thanks guys.
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I took it to Pacific Mall (for those not in Toronto, It's THEE place for tech). A gentleman did a key sequence consisting of
the home, power and volume buttons..... got it to boot.
Wish I knew what he did. Moving forward, it's on 4.1.1 and rooted, so it won't take the update from Rogers. What's recomended>? What ROM to go with? I don't want to run into this again........
Suggestions?? Thanks guys.
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Yes, I also try to understand why I have a hard brick in the same day after making a jtag.
Root and flash TWRP-openrecovery-2.6.3.0-d2can trwp flash slim bean 4.2 with kernel-dkp aosp43 2013-09-20 steady hard bricked after 4.3 and also try to slim bean and still a hard brick.
Suggestions, thank you
I'm working on it now. I updated the 4.1.1 Rogers to 4.1.2 (Why, I don't know), but it wiped out my recovery. And, I'm guessing the root
too. So, starting over. I just don't want to run into what happened yesterday.
I have not been able to have a screen and I am dead brick to another jtag still do it as an idea of what to do to get back in touch bootloader mode or if I have to make a third jtag.
The only forum on xda that's being repaired, to make a sd card but no picture still works.
I never had a problem before
I forgot to tell that everything was fine and I wanted to restart and I stayed with a black screen.
hello, i followed the tutorial from this site to increase my memory on my ace 2 x, and now it bootloops and i cant get it to go into recovery or download mode... it either just turns on for a sec and reboots, or if i hold vol up it loads the "samsung gt-s7560m" screen for a sec, and thats about it... could someone please help, thanks
slickwidnick said:
hello, i followed the tutorial from this site to increase my memory on my ace 2 x, and now it bootloops and i cant get it to go into recovery or download mode... it either just turns on for a sec and reboots, or if i hold vol up it loads the "samsung gt-s7560m" screen for a sec, and thats about it... could someone please help, thanks
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swapping kills memory card brother
also try to flash stock rom through odin
also try flashing stock rom without any sd card in slot
if you are not able to do so then i think your ace 2 is bricked
slickwidnick said:
hello, i followed the tutorial from this site to increase my memory on my ace 2 x, and now it bootloops and i cant get it to go into recovery or download mode... it either just turns on for a sec and reboots, or if i hold vol up it loads the "samsung gt-s7560m" screen for a sec, and thats about it... could someone please help, thanks
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Hm, you can use download mode as long as the SBL is booting (as you can see by the boot logo)...
Maybe try factory mode (usb jig)?
Ryccardo said:
Hm, you can use download mode as long as the SBL is booting (as you can see by the boot logo)...
Maybe try factory mode (usb jig)?
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Yeah, I've ordered a USB jig, so I'll try that when it comes if I don't find a solution before..
I can't get it to boot into download mode or recovery, so I don't know how I'd be able to flash with Odin..
I have been able to get odin to recognize it once in a while by messing around with different 3 button combinations, but when I press start on Odin, it just sits at "setup connection"
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Yeah, I've ordered a USB jig, so I'll try that when it comes if I don't find a solution before..
I can't get it to boot into download mode or recovery, so I don't know how I'd be able to flash with Odin..
I have been able to get odin to recognize it once in a while by messing around with different 3 button combinations, but when I press start on Odin, it just sits at "setup connection"
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i am still waiting on these usb jigs to show up in the mail... frustruating...
the jig
slickwidnick said:
i am still waiting on these usb jigs to show up in the mail... frustruating...
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okay, so i finally got the usb jigs in the mail, and so i put a battery in the phone, plug in the jig, and all it does is light up the screen for a few seconds then shuts off and repeats endlessly. but i noticed that if i plug the jig in for a quick second, i see the samsung screen where it says the model number but then it shuts off. now if i press power agian without removing the battery, the samsung screen with the model number comes up again, but the phone still shuts off after a couple of seconds... i dont know what to make of it...
Hard bricked, send back to Samsung and play dumb or see if one of those "we unlock all phones - international sim cards - cheap accessories" places can reflash it with JTAG
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Hard bricked, send back to Samsung and play dumb or see if one of those "we unlock all phones - international sim cards - cheap accessories" places can reflash it with JTAG
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Okay, thanks a lot, I appreciate the help. Any idea how much one of those jtag systems cost, and which system I would need to get? I mess around with phones all the time and if it's not too expensive, it'd be handy to have around in case of future hard bricks...
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Okay, thanks a lot, I appreciate the help. Any idea how much one of those jtag systems cost, and which system I would need to get? I mess around with phones all the time and if it's not too expensive, it'd be handy to have around in case of future hard bricks...
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I've quicky googled them a month ago and they appear to be about 70 € IIRC, and if you're serious about them remember that having a complete dump of the exact phone you have will make it 100% unbrickable
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I've quicky googled them a month ago and they appear to be about 70 € IIRC, and if you're serious about them remember that having a complete dump of the exact phone you have will make it 100% unbrickable
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By unbrickable you mean that I'll always be able to reflash it and revive it? Or that it won't be able to be bricked again? And I noticed many different jtag systems on eBay, which one would you suggest that I get?
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By unbrickable you mean that I'll always be able to reflash it and revive it? Or that it won't be able to be bricked again? And I noticed many different jtag systems on eBay, which one would you suggest that I get?
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Oh, the first
Basically, since you can read and write all the flash through it, just create a full dump when it's working and restore it when you hardbrick or... uh, get no display in recovery and want to fix it quickly :laugh: (for anything else flashing with Odin is probably quicker)
From what I've read RIFFBox is one of the most popular ones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TTjZgQYRfw, it's probably a little overpriced for what it is but it's aimed at the "professional" market of those independent service shops...
So i recently hard bricked my phone while installing a custom rom and im about to lose it. I downloaded this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/development/m-d-4-tw-4-4-4-mody-rom-tw-4-4-2-l-n-t3005765
and previously i had cm 12.1. i dont know what to do but my phone wont turn on or go into download mode. ive tried debrick imgs but i couldnt find the right one for my phone and it didnt work. im afraid that i have to resort to jtaging which i hoped i wouldnt have to. any suggestions? silly me downloaded a rom that wasnt for my phone
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So i recently hard bricked my phone while installing a custom rom and im about to lose it. I downloaded this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/development/m-d-4-tw-4-4-4-mody-rom-tw-4-4-2-l-n-t3005765
and previously i had cm 12.1. i dont know what to do but my phone wont turn on or go into download mode. ive tried debrick imgs but i couldnt find the right one for my phone and it didnt work. im afraid that i have to resort to jtaging which i hoped i wouldnt have to. any suggestions? silly me downloaded a rom that wasnt for my phone
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Debrick image is only way besides a jtag to get it to turn on again.
Try at 16GB or 32GB memory card only! anything lower will not work.
I would suggest trying it again it took me a few tries to get the phone to boot . keep it plugged in to wall battery out , put battery in and turn on you should feel a vibration and then viola ODIN MODE.
Note: if you have a t999L the image is different from the T999 ensure you use correct one!
Good luck!
hello
HotRod11686 said:
Debrick image is only way besides a jtag to get it to turn on again.
Try at 16GB or 32GB memory card only! anything lower will not work.
I would suggest trying it again it took me a few tries to get the phone to boot . keep it plugged in to wall battery out , put battery in and turn on you should feel a vibration and then viola ODIN MODE.
Note: if you have a t999L the image is different from the T999 ensure you use correct one!
Good luck!
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I appreciate the concern but it would be very helpfull if you or someone on this forum could provide me with a samsung galaxy s3 sgh t999 debrick img file. ive been searching for days.
Flashing any ROM from the i9300 (international version of the s3) to the i747 (AT&T s3) or T999 (T-mobile s3) is pretty much guaranteed to brick a phone.
Does this link help: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2439367