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[Q] My Wonder GT-I8150 hardbrick

Guys, sorry to bother all of you. I just want to ask about my HARDBRICK Galaxy Wonder GT-I8150.
All this happen because I try to apply swap partition on my device, and hope it would give extra RAM. Used my 16Gb class 10 sdcard and give about 1Gb for linux swap partition using Minitool Partition, and then install "swapper2" to activated it just like tutorial. Test it with "terminal emulator" and nothing happen, seems my swap partition wont loaded or whatever. In swapper2 menu there is option like "apply on boot" and I choose it (hopefully it need to be restarted and apply on boot to make it work).
I turned off my phone, let it for a while........turn it on again and booyyaaahhh. Suddenly wont turn on, put it on wall charger and wont even charged..... I tried "3 button combos-one click unbrick for several times and nothing can help. Please if anyone could help me. Thanks Guys
PS : Sorry for my bad english.

kasarung21 said:
Guys, sorry to bother all of you. I just want to ask about my HARDBRICK Galaxy Wonder GT-I8150.
All this happen because I try to apply swap partition on my device, and hope it would give extra RAM. Used my 16Gb class 10 sdcard and give about 1Gb for linux swap partition using Minitool Partition, and then install "swapper2" to activated it just like tutorial. Test it with "terminal emulator" and nothing happen, seems my swap partition wont loaded or whatever. In swapper2 menu there is option like "apply on boot" and I choose it (hopefully it need to be restarted and apply on boot to make it work).
I turned off my phone, let it for a while........turn it on again and booyyaaahhh. Suddenly wont turn on, put it on wall charger and wont even charged..... I tried "3 button combos-one click unbrick for several times and nothing can help. Please if anyone could help me. Thanks Guys
PS : Sorry for my bad english.
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go to samsung services.

kasarung21 said:
Guys, sorry to bother all of you. I just want to ask about my HARDBRICK Galaxy Wonder GT-I8150.
All this happen because I try to apply swap partition on my device, and hope it would give extra RAM. Used my 16Gb class 10 sdcard and give about 1Gb for linux swap partition using Minitool Partition, and then install "swapper2" to activated it just like tutorial. Test it with "terminal emulator" and nothing happen, seems my swap partition wont loaded or whatever. In swapper2 menu there is option like "apply on boot" and I choose it (hopefully it need to be restarted and apply on boot to make it work).
I turned off my phone, let it for a while........turn it on again and booyyaaahhh. Suddenly wont turn on, put it on wall charger and wont even charged..... I tried "3 button combos-one click unbrick for several times and nothing can help. Please if anyone could help me. Thanks Guys
PS : Sorry for my bad english.
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seems like a hard-bricked case.

Qhsusb_dload
doles said:
go to samsung services.
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no offense, but I prefer to use this option at the last.
yewsiong said:
seems like a hard-bricked case.
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Yeah, it seems hard-bricked case. But lately when I used one click-unbricked I was able to install my devices as "QHSUSB_DLOAD", and now I tried to make my PC recognize my device through QPST....hopefully will detect as COM PORT and can flash it with Odin.

wow even applying swap can hard brick a device, well swap is kernel dependant, only kernel in our device whom support swap partition is cow's kernel.

Support Kernel
-storm- said:
wow even applying swap can hard brick a device, well swap is kernel dependant, only kernel in our device whom support swap partition is cow's kernel.
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Hahaha............ the funny part is, I was plan to push Cow kernel to my kedai.XXLM8 (deodexed ROM) after swap partition. **** happen, . Better use customrom just like I ever done.
Still no one could help me here I think??? Maybe this weekend I'll go to SSC (Samsung Service Center). Thx All

Same experiment. I think someone in this forum can back up xml files using QPST and upload it so we can recover. If u had any solution please note me..

hakanbilir said:
Same experiment. I think someone in this forum can back up xml files using QPST and upload it so we can recover. If u had any solution please note me..
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Can you give the link how to backup xml file using QPST? Maybe another user can uploaded to you. Sorry i can't help. Coz i'm newbie
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watch this video, how to unbrick ur phone....may help u.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdn5GoRjhn0
once activated download mode, use odin n flash stock rom.
goodluck.

kyoshiro67 said:
Can you give the link how to backup xml file using QPST? Maybe another user can uploaded to you. Sorry i can't help. Coz i'm newbie
Sent from my GT-I8150 using xda app-developers app
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Checkout this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2208289
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hakanbilir said:
Checkout this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2208289
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Thank you for your reply.
I have my phone bricked. Swapper2 wiped my system partitions. I can't effort to buy jig or jtag here. They are expensive in Turkey.
With Quallcomm Product Support Tool required partitions can be reprogrammed.
There are some projects on this issue but for other phones.
We could do the same. But i dont know enough information. I just have a dead phone.
We can create a debricking tutorial for all i8150 users. In this approach no jig cable needed. Just plug your device to computer. With quallcomm hs driver it connects to com port. Quallcomm Support Tool and Odin detects your phone. You can reprogram required partitions with some knowledge and required files.

Solved.
Fixed motherboard with memory replacement. 40$

hakanbilir said:
Solved.
Fixed motherboard with memory replacement. 40$
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where did you buy this component?

Redwraith96 said:
where did you buy this component?
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I dont know. An unoffical samsung service fixed my phone. He didnt replace the motherboard. But it works right know. The ones before tryed jtag but they couldt.

thanks for the answer

[GUIDE]Unbrick a Hard Bricked SPRINT Galaxy S3 (Without JTAG)

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!

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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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 )

deBricker said:
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

the debricker said:
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

[Q] Hard bricked S4 mini GT-I9195

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.

[Q] Galaxy GT-S7560 / Galaxy Ace 2

Default [Q] Phone won't boot, enter Recovery Mode, nor connect to PC - what do?
I followed a root-guide a couple of weeks ago and my phone worked perfectly.
I have no memory of what ROM I used, nor do I remember if I flashed a Kernel or not. I'm pretty new at this.
Now, today, my phone sent a notification that a new firmware update was available. Stupid as I am I just press "install" right away. Not much later my phone tried to reboot and suddenly was stuck at the Samsung logo screen. I tried pulling out the battery to reboot and it still wouldn't work. If I connected it to my PC it shows a battery but the spinning arrow-thingy is frozen.
After searching these forums and other places I found several guides on how to fix stuff like this, by either flashing with a new kernel - or rom or w/e I don't know - or going into recovery mode and do something funky. The problem is that I can't reach recovery mode at all, and when I enter download mode it's just frozen at "Downloading..." and I can't get it to connect to my PC at all (tried both with and without Kies). In Odin the ID:COM cells won't update when I connect my phone.
Do you guys have any idea how to resolve this? Do I have to take it to a service centre?
Edit: The phone is out of battery, suddenly, apparently, so I tried to charge it, but that doesn't work either. What the **** has happened to my phone? Please help if you can!
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zCourge
I've got the same problem as the listed above. I did root my Phone (it's an Galaxy Trend) and then after i wanted to install an custom rom... It was the kitkat 4.1 or something? But then after when i was about to reboot my phone did not start at all. The samsung logo pops-up and it is an yellow triangle on the very bottom. And i've read so many forums and threads and tried various usb modes, adb recovery tools, recovery bootloader's and so on. But none of them does work. And i can't bring my phone to service either. And for a fact i did use Odin and it did work great when i rooted but what should i do? I can boot into download mode and use odin to "transfer" an new rom/zip file but since i can't boot into recovery mode so how can i ever start my phone? I could continue only if my phone would boot into recovery mode.. and i did wipe/reset factory data too before the phone wouldn't start if that's any help for you. And i have all backup for my phone on my pc, all my system data, sd memory, apps and all data i could backup. Please help me, thanks in forward!

Is your phone the Galaxy Ace 2 or the Galaxy Trend?

a.cid said:
Is your phone the Galaxy Ace 2 or the Galaxy Trend?
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as i did write it is an Galaxy Trend....

hofling96 said:
as i did write it is an Galaxy Trend....
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So why is is still 'Galaxy Ace 2' in thread title?
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teddytsen said:
So why is is still 'Galaxy Ace 2' in thread title?
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well because galaxy ace 2 is the same phone and system as galaxy trend and to root trend you have to follow galaxy ace 2 guide to succed rooting trend. it is simply just the same phone and you dont find any solutions if you search the web for trend because it onlycome solutions for galaxy ace.

No its totally different in hardware. Ace 3 is more like trend but definitely not ace 2...
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teddytsen said:
No its totally different in hardware. Ace 3 is more like trend but definitely not ace 2...
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well please notice that it is Trend GT-S7650 and not Trend Duos or Trend Plus or something. well if im wrong i did root my trend successfully using the instructions on how to root galaxy ace 2 so how do you explain that? well anyway if i rooted it using galaxy ace 2 instructions, the solution (if there is) well probably be either of galaxy ace 2 or trend instructions? well i did just ask if anyone knows the answer and if you already did know that there is an big difference between these two phones you would the know how to continue?

hofling96 said:
well please notice that it is Trend GT-S7650 and not Trend Duos or Trend Plus or something. well if im wrong i did root my trend successfully using the instructions on how to root galaxy ace 2 so how do you explain that? well anyway if i rooted it using galaxy ace 2 instructions, the solution (if there is) well probably be either of galaxy ace 2 or trend instructions? well i did just ask if anyone knows the answer and if you already did know that there is an big difference between these two phones you would the know how to continue?
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If the phones are different, then you are risking a lot. Just because some method worked does not guarantee that all corresponding ones would. Do not complain if your phone gets bricked.

a.cid said:
If the phones are different, then you are risking a lot. Just because some method worked does not guarantee that all corresponding ones would. Do not complain if your phone gets bricked.
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Yup i did knew that and all the riskes, therefore i did save/backup all system files/data etc. and i do know to that ofc the phones are not precisley simiular but i have read that they are in some way the same too. and as i wrote in the last reply i can be wrong to about they being in any way the same, but still please don't be so sarcastic because i did ask if you/anyone could in any way solve this problem i have.. well now you know that if this is the wrong forum my questions is in can you help me either way? i know what riskes i did take and that maybe there's no so much to do but is there anything at all i can do to start my phone? without any service reparation? and i know so much that if i can start my phone i can then enter recovey mode and fix it... and if there's anything more you'll have to know to help me so ask and i'll say what steps i did take to root and so on... please just help me

Have you tried using a JIT to force boot to recovery?
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Have you tried using a JIT to force boot to recovery?
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actually not. but i've tried with adb "boot recovery mode" tool but it only works if i could start my phone. that's just my problem, i cant start it so i cant us adb boot recovery tool to boot into recovery mode. but does JIT work in same way as adb or can you force to boot into recovery mode even if phone wont start and is off ?

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hofling96 said:
Yup i did knew that and all the riskes, therefore i did save/backup all system files/data etc. and i do know to that ofc the phones are not precisley simiular but i have read that they are in some way the same too. and as i wrote in the last reply i can be wrong to about they being in any way the same, but still please don't be so sarcastic because i did ask if you/anyone could in any way solve this problem i have.. well now you know that if this is the wrong forum my questions is in can you help me either way? i know what riskes i did take and that maybe there's no so much to do but is there anything at all i can do to start my phone? without any service reparation? and i know so much that if i can start my phone i can then enter recovey mode and fix it... and if there's anything more you'll have to know to help me so ask and i'll say what steps i did take to root and so on... please just help me
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Apologies if it sounded sarcastic. It was more out of concern than out of sarcasm. I have seen newbies fumbling around and flashing files of vastly different phones and then lamenting their loss. Just wanted to make sure you knew what you were getting into.
Anyways, I do not possess this phone so I can not help you further in this matter. But it would be prudent if you edited the main post to be more clear about your situation. :good:

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Apologies if it sounded sarcastic. It was more out of concern than out of sarcasm. I have seen newbies fumbling around and flashing files of vastly different phones and then lamenting their loss. Just wanted to make sure you knew what you were getting into.
Anyways, I do not possess this phone so I can not help you further in this matter. But it would be prudent if you edited the main post to be more clear about your situation. :good:
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The Galaxy Trend GT-S7560 is the same phone with Galaxy Ace 2x S7560m i think that's where he got the rooting package he missed an x ..

My phone is bricked?

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!