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Am I Bricked?

Ok, I rebooted into recovery last night and I got a 5 vibrates and a green blinking light.
I can get my phone to go into android if i have it pluged into usb but sd support is disabled. If i unplug at any time, it reboots into 5 vibrates. Battery pull.
I can get it ino recovery sometimes but nothing from sd card can be accessed.
I can get it into bootloader but it says s-on for some reason and nothing is flashable from bootloader including ruu's or radio upgrades etc...
The phone is not communicating with pc or pc with phone
Adb is not functional either.
Ive tried everything that i can think of to unroot etc..
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Im desperate.
Thanks,
Incubus

Your sd card may be corrupt. First, back it up, then format it to fat32 in windows. Then put the PB31IMG.zip file on the root of your sd: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9Q4CNAGX
Put the sd card back in the phone and do a battery pull. When you put the battery back in, hold the volume down key for a few seconds if the phone is plugged in. If it isn't plugged in, hold the power button and the volume down key until the bootloader comes up. It should eventually ask you if you want to update, and press volume up.
If you can't get to the bootloader, then you are most likely bricked. Talk to verizon about a replacement.
Also, before this happened, were you flashing any radios via bootloader?

Well if you got S-ON, I would just take it to VZW and say this **** is messed up get me a replacement, unless you didnt originally buy the phone from them.
I'd try a different SD card formatted to Fat 32 with the RUU on it, unless you already tried that.

but i cant even flash an ruu from my pc either. That has nothing to do with the sd does it? Also, if i put anything on my sd card to flash in bootloader. It just says its checking file and never asks me if i want to install it like it used to.
Does an sd card have to be in the phone in order to flash a ruu from the pc?

incubus26jc said:
but i cant even flash an ruu from my pc either. That has nothing to do with the sd does it? Also, if i put anything on my sd card to flash in bootloader. It just says its checking file and never asks me if i want to install it like it used to.
Does an sd card have to be in the phone in order to flash a ruu from the pc?
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Don't think so, but I think it has something to do with HBOOT or Radio version that's in the RUU, so if the one that is on the phone now is higher then the RUU, it wont update. Maybe if its the same version as well it wont update. Dont think you need the SD card to run RUU from PC.
So I assume that since you are trying to fix it, there is no way you can get a warranty replacement?

TNS201 said:
Don't think so, but I think it has something to do with HBOOT or Radio version that's in the RUU, so if the one that is on the phone now is higher then the RUU, it wont update. Maybe if its the same version as well it wont update. Dont think you need the SD card to run RUU from PC.
So I assume that since you are trying to fix it, there is no way you can get a warranty replacement?
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didnt I ruin my chances of a warranty by rooting it?

incubus26jc said:
didnt I ruin my chances of a warranty by rooting it?
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Totally, if there is any trace of root or customizing of the software in any way your warranty will be voided.
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incubus26jc said:
didnt I ruin my chances of a warranty by rooting it?
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Well if it says S-ON then you are OK. Does it have stock recovery or clockwork on it, if even accessible? If you call in, they will send you a new/refurb model, then you send it back in. They wont even bother checking. I would suggest calling over going to a store. You get better service and more convenient. All I would say that your phone does this and that and wont boot and they will probably try to tell you to do a few things, but if you can't get into the OS, I don't see your phone call being long.

AlpineM3 said:
Totally, if there is any trace of root or customizing of the software in any way your warranty will be voided.
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Only if he goes to the store. If he calls and gets it taken care of, they will send him a phone, then he sends it back. I believe all they check is that there was no water damage and cracked screen and other physical damage.

can i just say i lost it?

incubus26jc said:
can i just say i lost it?
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If you got insurance on your policy,then yes, you can say it was lost/stolen. You just pay the $90 deductible or whatever for the new phone.

But if you don't have insurance then you're screwed on that approach, also if you call for warranty replacement they just check for any physical damage, but they do try to boot it
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yeah, it looks like im going to pay the fee

incubus26jc said:
yeah, it looks like im going to pay the fee
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Oh well at least its cheaper then paying full price.

you should be ok. try flashing stock rom through hboot (pb31img file). you can find one posted in the get back to stock thread. if you can't find it let me know and i'll get it for you.
did you try flashing recovery through hboot as well? i can send you a pb31img with clockwork 2.5.0.5 if you want to try but i think you need a signed image.

incubus26jc said:
Ok, I rebooted into recovery last night and I got a 5 vibrates and a green blinking light.
I can get my phone to go into android if i have it pluged into usb but sd support is disabled. If i unplug at any time, it reboots into 5 vibrates. Battery pull.
I can get it ino recovery sometimes but nothing from sd card can be accessed.
I can get it into bootloader but it says s-on for some reason and nothing is flashable from bootloader including ruu's or radio upgrades etc...
The phone is not communicating with pc or pc with phone
Adb is not functional either.
Ive tried everything that i can think of to unroot etc..
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Im desperate.
Thanks,
Incubus
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Verizon will cover this under the one year warranty. Thankfully I thought I was the only one, this happened to me twice.

Inc,
What were you doing at the time? Did you flash an incorrect hboot? I'm really surprised it can't be recovered if you can access the bootloader. Did you try another card just to rule it out?

Desperately need help for wrong downgrade of Samsung S2 Epic Touch (Sprint) SPH-D710

I badly wanted to downgrade from ICS to Ginger bread and downloaded ODIN3 1.85 along with PDA TAR and BOOTLOADER and proceeded to downgrade following a YouTube demo. The downgrade was almost 90% through but then suddenly failed.
Now the issue is that my mobile is not even booting and gets stuck at "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again." I am able to start the phone in Download mode (power+volumeup). However the mobile is simply not getting detected by the computer although all drivers are installed. For that matter the computer is not even detecting Hardware addition if I connect the phone via cable. I have tried different computers as well.
Please help me. Please....Please....:crying:

Does Odin see your phone at all?
What do you get with PWR+Vol Down?

cpeterman said:
Does Odin see your phone at all?
What do you get with PWR+Vol UP?
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No. ODIN does not see the phone at all!!!!
Pwr+VolUp only take me to "Firware upgrade encountered.........."
Pwr+VolDn take me to Download mode. But ODIN does not even detect a hardware addition on connection of cable.
Please Please help

pranay.choudhari said:
No. ODIN does not see the phone at all!!!!
Pwr+VolUp only take me to "Firware upgrade encountered.........."
Pwr+VolDn take me to Download mode. But ODIN does not even detect a hardware addition on connection of cable.
Please Please help
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I don't know man it doesn't sound good. Maybe a USB jig will help your phone. I was able to bring my buddy's dead captivate back to life with one.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda app-developers app

Let me look, but it may be as simple as restoring from a Kies created image. I can make one if that is the case. Im gonna hit up the Googles
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Behold! The Googles!
http://androidforums.com/galaxy-s2-...ease-select-recovery-mode-kies-try-again.html
Let us know if this helps.
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Here is the link to Kies: http://org.downloadcenter.samsung.c.../20120809103126135/Kies_2.3.2.12074_13_13.exe
You can go to Tools in the menu once installed and recover. You will probably be back at ICS and have to start over though.

You flashed the bootloader from a different gs2 variant which leaves you with 1 option to repair, paying to have it jtag'd Odin won't recognize it and your PC won't recognize it, since the drivers for your device sph-d710 don't match the bootloader you incorrectly flashed. Reading carefully before flashing is an absolute must with this device as there are multiple variants of the gs2. Only thing you can flash to this device will say E4GT, ET4G, epic touch, epic 4g touch, epic touch 4g, or sph-d710. If it says gs2 it DOES NOT go to this device. At this point if your device wont boot it is essentially bricked and there's nothing you can do short of having it jtag'd or filing a claim with asurion. If it goes into download mode taking it to sprint isn't an option cuz they will know you flashed the wrong firmware and won't give you a warranty replacement like they will with a blue light of death brick. When you get it replaced/repaired I suggest you do alot more research before trying to do any more Modding to your device, and also make sure you read the instructions and file names extra carefully.
We are legion, for we are many.
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-EViL-KoNCEPTz- said:
You flashed the bootloader from a different gs2 variant which leaves you with 1 option to repair, paying to have it jtag'd Odin won't recognize it and your PC won't recognize it, since the drivers for your device sph-d710 don't match the bootloader you incorrectly flashed. Reading carefully before flashing is an absolute must with this device as there are multiple variants of the gs2. Only thing you can flash to this device will say E4GT, ET4G, epic touch, epic 4g touch, epic touch 4g, or sph-d710. If it says gs2 it DOES NOT go to this device. At this point if your device wont boot it is essentially bricked and there's nothing you can do short of having it jtag'd or filing a claim with asurion. If it goes into download mode taking it to sprint isn't an option cuz they will know you flashed the wrong firmware and won't give you a warranty replacement like they will with a blue light of death brick. When you get it replaced/repaired I suggest you do alot more research before trying to do any more Modding to your device, and also make sure you read the instructions and file names extra carefully.
We are legion, for we are many.
Sent from the DarkSide of the GalaXy with a MEK device
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I agree that I did this is haste. But a question that pops out is that the computer is not detecting addtion of any hardware device when the cable is getting connected to the mobile. Even if the USB drivers do not match, the computer should atleast 'ding' acknowledging that a hardware has been connected. Please correct me if I am wrong.

cpeterman said:
Let me look, but it may be as simple as restoring from a Kies created image. I can make one if that is the case. Im gonna hit up the Googles
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Behold! The Googles!
Let us know if this helps.
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Here is the link to Kies: You can go to Tools in the menu once installed and recover. You will probably be back at ICS and have to start over though.
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I tried your solution. Did not work because as I told you, the phone is simply not getting detected by ODIN or KIES. So its simply not making any changes to it.

The bootloader doesn't match the device the computer won't recognize it, it won't even know it's plugged in cuz the USB on the phone is dead(has no power or info going to it for the computer to pick up and recognize as an active connection) there's nothing you can do short of having it jtag'd or replaced thru asurion, or using it as a shiny paperweight, its bricked. Jtag costs around $50 and can force write the proper bootloader on it to get it back in working order that's the only option to repair it.
We are legion, for we are many.
Sent from the DarkSide of the GalaXy with a MEK device

-EViL-KoNCEPTz- said:
The bootloader doesn't match the device the computer won't recognize it, it won't even know it's plugged in cuz the USB on the phone is dead(has no power or info going to it for the computer to pick up and recognize as an active connection) there's nothing you can do short of having it jtag'd or replaced thru asurion, or using it as a shiny paperweight, its bricked. Jtag costs around $50 and can force write the proper bootloader on it to get it back in working order that's the only option to repair it.
We are legion, for we are many.
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Thanks for the input. Problem is that I live in India. So I am providing some more details about download mode. It says
Product Name: GT-i9100
Custom Binay Download: No
Current Binary: Samsung Official
It almost seems as if no changes have taken place when I tried to downgrade. So how can we come out of the issue. Please help...

I'm sure you have tried this, and this may sound incredibly stupid, but when I did that to my phone once, it wasn't recognized in download mode, but if I plugged it in on the screen where it said firmware error and opened odin up, it was recognized. I don't know if a restore will work, tho.

2momo123 said:
I'm sure you have tried this, and this may sound incredibly stupid, but when I did that to my phone once, it wasn't recognized in download mode, but if I plugged it in on the screen where it said firmware error and opened odin up, it was recognized.
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Did not seem to recognize mine....

You clearly installed the bootloader for the intl gs2/Samsung i9100, the epic touch 4g is the Samsung sph-d710. There is nothing you can do except jtag or buy a new device if you're in India. I suggest Googling a jtag service in your country. Otherwise buy a new phone and use that one for parts or something cuz its bricked and there's NOTHING you will be able to do to fix it, it requires a riff box for force the rewrite of the emmc chip to replace the bootloader with the proper one. The USB won't work because the wrong drivers were installed with the bootloader, the phone has no recovery to flash a rom, and no rom to boot and use as a phone. Its basically done for unless you have it jtag'd. If you can't find a jtag service in India you're just gonna have to eat the cost of a new device. Sorry about your luck but you really should be more careful when attempting to mod a few hundred dollars worth of electronic device.
We are legion, for we are many.
Sent from the DarkSide of the GalaXy with a MEK device

Are you sure you are in the right forums? This variant of galaxy s2 only works on sprint (boost etc) in usa.
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BluesRulez said:
Are you sure you are in the right forums? This variant of galaxy s2 only works on sprint (boost etc) in usa.
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India has cdma networks it can be flashed too as well, they are one of the few countries outside of north America with cdma networks. Japan, India, Costa Rica, and a small few European countries have cdma providers most of which are very small networks with only a few towers outside of japan who has a large cdma network
We are legion, for we are many.
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-EViL-KoNCEPTz- said:
You clearly installed the bootloader for the intl gs2/Samsung i9100, the epic touch 4g is the Samsung sph-d710. There is nothing you can do except jtag or buy a new device if you're in India. I suggest Googling a jtag service in your country. Otherwise buy a new phone and use that one for parts or something cuz its bricked and there's NOTHING you will be able to do to fix it, it requires a riff box for force the rewrite of the emmc chip to replace the bootloader with the proper one. The USB won't work because the wrong drivers were installed with the bootloader, the phone has no recovery to flash a rom, and no rom to boot and use as a phone. Its basically done for unless you have it jtag'd. If you can't find a jtag service in India you're just gonna have to eat the cost of a new device. Sorry about your luck but you really should be more careful when attempting to mod a few hundred dollars worth of electronic device.
We are legion, for we are many.
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Is there any way in which the mobile can be booted in Recovery Mode. I have tried googleing but am not able to get any reliable JTag services in India. Please help...

Your best bet would be just to get a new phone, if this one comes with ICS then look for the build of GB that you want( EL29/26, EG30, etc.) (Make sure its a .tar file. Finally flash in Odin. There's also a guide in the android development of how to root this phone. Follow it and then install the ROM of your choice ( make sure its a GB ROM)
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[Q] A few questions related to Hard Brick and QHSUSB_DLOAD

I am now owner of what may very well be a Hard Bricked Samsung Galaxy S3 with the inability to reach Download Mode and computer not recognizing my handheld. It ll happen't as I unlocked my bootloader to go in fastboot mode, it was then, all over. But of course as desperate as it may look like I've done some researches on Google and some people with different models managed to have some magic done in a situation like mine, but since I didn't own the same device the solutions were of no avail for me. So my question is, is there any sort of trickery to help me come out of this misery? Such as force installing new QHSUSB_DLOAD specifically for a Samsung Galaxy S3 or some battery related magic that could help me reach Download Mode where I could flash a stock rom back in and get back to normal? Any help would be much appreciated.

this just happened to me as well today, not to happy, my heart sank in, did u find any solutions as far as fixing this qhusb thing?

AFAIK there is no fix, same deal on all phones with the same SoC, like the one x. I could be way wrong though and I hope I am. Hope you guys get up and running soon.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1522351
these guys were able to fix the QHSUSB problem, i just need these samsung s3 files like they have for the sensation xe only thing is i dont kno where to get them. ;/

Sent it under warranty hoping for the best.

Bibiquadium said:
Sent it under warranty hoping for the best.
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Most likely they will say that you voided your warranty so you may have to take it in to a JTAG service.

Bibiquadium said:
Sent it under warranty hoping for the best.
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Any update on this? My phone did this to me last night when updating CWM. I'm about to go to Radio Shack to buy some resisters to see if I can force download mode, like on Captivates.
EDIT: Even though this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrZUrE5Nqj0) shows that the Jig works with the GS3, I was not successful in putting it into download mode. I was able to with my captivate, just to make sure I was on the correct pins.
Hopefully the AT&T store will just swap it out and leave it at that, since I pay for insurance...I don't want to have to send it away to mobiletechvideos.com for JTAG repair, but will if necessary.

Bibiquadium said:
I am now owner of what may very well be a Hard Bricked Samsung Galaxy S3 with the inability to reach Download Mode and computer not recognizing my handheld. It ll happen't as I unlocked my bootloader to go in fastboot mode, it was then, all over. But of course as desperate as it may look like I've done some researches on Google and some people with different models managed to have some magic done in a situation like mine, but since I didn't own the same device the solutions were of no avail for me. So my question is, is there any sort of trickery to help me come out of this misery? Such as force installing new QHSUSB_DLOAD specifically for a Samsung Galaxy S3 or some battery related magic that could help me reach Download Mode where I could flash a stock rom back in and get back to normal? Any help would be much appreciated.
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You can look all you want for a solution, there is NOT one for this problem, other than find a jtag service. Period!
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DjRevler said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1522351
these guys were able to fix the QHSUSB problem, i just need these samsung s3 files like they have for the sensation xe only thing is i dont kno where to get them. ;/
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Wow, this is a complete waste of time. This will not work with SG3

Talking about "waist of time" you are in the wrong forum, the att sgs3 doesn't have locked bootloader (this is the att/bell/Rogers forum) Go to the Verizon sgs3 forum...
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TRusselo said:
Talking about "waist of time" you are in the wrong forum, the att sgs3 doesn't have locked bootloader (this is the att/bell/Rogers forum) Go to the Verizon sgs3 forum...
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Regardless of where the phone came from the end result is still the same... you guys are hard bricked. The only available solutions to you atm (and trust me on this I hard bricked mine aswell) is
A - Send your phone in for warrenty/insurance, dont worry about everyone saying you cant because of voided warrenty... your bootloader is screwed and they wouldnt be able to tell anything about rooting/cwm etc.
B - if warrenty/insurance is unavailable to you then your only other options are to send it to samsung to get it repaired on your own dime. Or save yourself a bit of money and send it for jtag repair which is what I did. If you live in the states the guy can have your phone back in your hands usually within 4-5 business days.

hi there
i have an SDcard of 4GB i tried on 4 S3 i747M hard bricked phones its worked ....this card let them alive to download mode by pressing volume down key +home key + power. i want to share this image but when ever i connect this card to my PC (windows) its shows (need to format your card)
is there any software so i can make image and share...to help those who hard-bricked their phones.
regards

fallenkirmit said:
Regardless of where the phone came from the end result is still the same... you guys are hard bricked. The only available solutions to you atm (and trust me on this I hard bricked mine aswell) is
A - Send your phone in for warrenty/insurance, dont worry about everyone saying you cant because of voided warrenty... your bootloader is screwed and they wouldnt be able to tell anything about rooting/cwm etc.
B - if warrenty/insurance is unavailable to you then your only other options are to send it to samsung to get it repaired on your own dime. Or save yourself a bit of money and send it for jtag repair which is what I did. If you live in the states the guy can have your phone back in your hands usually within 4-5 business days.
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I reject your reality, and substitute my own! Ah, anyway.. any updates on this? Its been a year or so.. I have the sprint s3, but i believe it had an insecure boot image flashed to it. The emmc boot method has failed me thus far. Not sure if it's because mine is a 32gb and the debrick files for for 16gb '(which shouldn't matter), if the board for my 32gb is affected by a brick bug, or what.. The qpst tool just seems like it's the perfect tool to fix a bad bootloader on any qualcomm phone, but all the guides I've found are for other phones still. I accidentally dd'd an image of my EFS partition to the sbl2 partition. I looked up the international s3 table by mistake
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rasgula said:
hi there
i have an SDcard of 4GB i tried on 4 S3 i747M hard bricked phones its worked ....this card let them alive to download mode by pressing volume down key +home key + power. i want to share this image but when ever i connect this card to my PC (windows) its shows (need to format your card)
is there any software so i can make image and share...to help those who hard-bricked their phones.
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Yes. Download a live linux distro, like knopix or such. Any linux distribution will work, really. Then in a terminal you would do something like
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sudo dd if=/dev/sdX of=debrick-image.img
Where the "X" in "sdX" corresponds to the sdcard you want to copy. After you insert the card, in a terminal do:
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dmesg | tail
and you should be able to see that it is sdb, sdc, sdd, etc. Google the usage of "dd" if you need more info.

Thanks for info i'll try this today
Regards
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rasgula said:
Thanks for info i'll try this today
Regards
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did you ever get that image? i could really use it right now... :crying:

johneightyone said:
did you ever get that image? i could really use it right now... :crying:
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yes ....i have this image now on 3 sd cards. works fine for me...but image size is too large, about 3.7 GB.
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Buying Galaxy S 3 - need advice AT&T

I'm buying a galaxy S3 from someone for AT&T is there anything I should know or look for before making the purchase? Can I tell if its rooted or anything that can cause damage to the phone? I know with Sprint that the WIMAX keys could be lost the phone would work fine just no WIMAX. All help appreciated I am meeting him at a AT&T store.

There is no way to tell if it's rooted if he/she used triangle away restore the flash counter. I would make sure AT&T knows it was sold to me so they can't report it stolen so it will not be blacklisted on there systems and put in your AT&T sim and make a call first. You can check and make sure the IMEI is still intact via settings-about phone section other tan that it's all about luck. Make sure you get a good contact number I case something goes wrong with phone because I'm sure your warranty goes out the door with the resale.

Ok thanks I am going to meet him at the store and activate the phone make sure it works and makes call etc... before I pay the guy.

You can check if custom roms have been installed ( and your warranty is voided ) by turning it off pressing power+vol. down+ home, then press vol. up and it will take you to odin,
In there it says if its EVER been custom romed, this is how Samsung checks if your under warranty or not.
I wouldnt worry about root , when you get the phone run an emergency restore from KIES software to erase any traces of the owner's data. you could be getting key logged and other nasty stuff if you dont.
The above user suggestion is also good to check if the phone is blacklisted or not , considering its easy to swap SIMS on this device.

warlord420 said:
You can check if custom roms have been installed ( and your warranty is voided ) by turning it off pressing power+vol. down+ home, then press vol. up and it will take you to odin,
In there it says if its EVER been custom romed, this is how Samsung checks if your under warranty or not.
I wouldnt worry about root , when you get the phone run an emergency restore from KIES software to erase any traces of the owner's data. you could be getting key logged and other nasty stuff if you dont.
The above user suggestion is also good to check if the phone is blacklisted or not , considering its easy to swap SIMS on this device.
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whos this odin you speak of?

Tdiliplane said:
whos this odin you speak of?
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Odin is the software Samsung uses too flash firmware too the phone. You can do master clear through odin also i think
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I wouldn't worry if it was rooted or not. Even if he managed to mess it up somehow, Odin reflash and its back to stock.

dvazriel said:
I wouldn't worry if it was rooted or not. Even if he managed to mess it up somehow, Odin reflash and its back to stock.
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I would worry about the phone being overclocked too much.

[Q] EZ-Unlock & friend bricked my phone, help needed

My friend decided to use the EZ-Unlock app(link below) that unlocks the bootloader for the verizon galaxy s3 on my i747 and well it is now a brick, is there anything i can do to fix this without a JTAG?

omeadsthename said:
My friend decided to use the EZ-Unlock app(link below) that unlocks the bootloader for the verizon galaxy s3 on my i747 and well it is now a brick, is there anything i can do to fix this without a JTAG?
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yes, take him outside and beat the crap out of him. Then take his money and go get a new phone.
Other than that, I don't know.
Can you access download mode or recovery?

jack man said:
yes, take him outside and beat the crap out of him. Then take his money and go get a new phone.
Other than that, I don't know.
Can you access download mode or recovery?
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No I cannot, my friend(parklane79) and I actually found a method, it seems promising but i need to try it out first.
im not afforded the link rights yet but the title is "Fixing a bootloader-bricked Galaxy S3 using an SD card (Qualcomm SGS3 variants)" and a more simpler guide for n00bs(although not a complete n00b been doing this for a few years now :good: ) like myself, "[GUIDE]Unbrick a Hard Bricked SPRINT Galaxy S3 (Without JTAG)" but for the second guide you need to grab the i747 debrick.img off the first page of the first guide.

omeadsthename said:
No I cannot, my friend(parklane79) and I actually found a method, it seems promising but i need to try it out first.
im not afforded the link rights yet but the title is "Fixing a bootloader-bricked Galaxy S3 using an SD card (Qualcomm SGS3 variants)" and a more simpler guide for n00bs(although not a complete n00b been doing this for a few years now :good: ) like myself, "[GUIDE]Unbrick a Hard Bricked SPRINT Galaxy S3 (Without JTAG)" but for the second guide you need to grab the i747 debrick.img off the first page of the first guide.
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Yea tried with a class 10 16g micro sd like a million times and it wont work.and i think its because i dont have the 4.4.2 img if some one could help me out by uploading it. u et the img via busybox dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/backup.bin bs=1M count=70

So the phone won't power on at all? Can't get into download or recovery?

are you %100 certain it's the AT&T 4.3 debrick.img? did you put it on the SD card using win32diskimager?

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So the phone won't power on at all? Can't get into download or recovery?
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The phone won't even vibrate. Wish i could get to DL/Recovery mode. :/
yowski said:
are you %100 certain it's the AT&T 4.3 debrick.img? did you put it on the SD card using win32diskimager?
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im 100% sure. the issue is tho that i was on 4.4.2 and dont know it an i747(AT&T) 4.3 debrick.img has the same handshake/protocol whatever you want to call it as a 4.4.2 debrick.img I tried it out tho anyways. but in short yes im 100% sure it was a 4.3 debrick img. And yes I did use win32diskimager. I tried once on linux mint but i believe the file corrupted so i just ended up using win32DM. I mean they are supposed to do the same thing, if im not mistaken

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The phone won't even vibrate. Wish i could get to DL/Recovery mode. :/
im 100% sure. the issue is tho that i was on 4.4.2 and dont know it an i747(AT&T) 4.3 debrick.img has the same handshake/protocol whatever you want to call it as a 4.4.2 debrick.img I tried it out tho anyways. but in short yes im 100% sure it was a 4.3 debrick img. And yes I did use win32diskimager. I tried once on linux mint but i believe the file corrupted so i just ended up using win32DM. I mean they are supposed to do the same thing, if im not mistaken
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when you plug it into the computer does anything come up? also, when you plug it in with no battery do you get a red LED?

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when you plug it into the computer does anything come up? also, when you plug it in with no battery do you get a red LED?
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Yes my comp tries to install that one qualcomm driver. and when i plug in without battery a red LED comes on.

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Yes my comp tries to install that one qualcomm driver. and when i plug in without battery a red LED comes on.
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Then you should be able to use a debrick.img. are you using an sd card the same size as your phone's internal memory? if you had it on 4.4.2 then you might need a debrick.img from someone with the same phone on the same network running 4.4.2?

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Then you should be able to use a debrick.img. are you using an sd card the same size as your phone's internal memory? if you had it on 4.4.2 then you might need a debrick.img from someone with the same phone on the same network running 4.4.2?
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yes i am using same size card. and i have been asking all over for a 4.4.2 debrick img but no one has uploaded.

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yes i am using same size card. and i have been asking all over for a 4.4.2 debrick img but no one has uploaded.
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sounds like you're stuck until you get that .img file. If you know someone with the same phone you could maybe get them to install 4.4.2 and get the file from them? otherwise keep asking around or wait until 4.4.2 is released for the s3, which might take a while.

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sounds like you're stuck until you get that .img file. If you know someone with the same phone you could maybe get them to install 4.4.2 and get the file from them? otherwise keep asking around or wait until 4.4.2 is released for the s3, which might take a while.
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Unfortunately kids at my high school are afraid of rooting, so xda is basically my only bet. Im just surprised that some sr member hasnt added a debrick img to their threads. I mean its 4.4 and this is android central!

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yes i am using same size card. and i have been asking all over for a 4.4.2 debrick img but no one has uploaded.
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i would help you out but my S3 is currently hard bricked on stock 4.3 and im sending it back to the insurance company once my S4 arrives tomorrow.

yowski said:
i would help you out but my S3 is currently hard bricked on stock 4.3 and im sending it back to the insurance company once my S4 arrives tomorrow.
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Cant they find out that you are root and hard bricked? like doesnt that void warranty. and if its a 4.3 h brick cant u just use the sd method?

omeadsthename said:
yes i am using same size card. and i have been asking all over for a 4.4.2 debrick img but no one has uploaded.
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I did, it was on CM 10.2 when i had flashed improper bootloaders and bricked it. I used the sd card to install 4.3, unroot+ reset flash counter then took it out so it went back to bricked. My only fear is that they may some how get it into download mode instead of just replacing the board and see the warranty bit: 1 which isnt able to be reset as it is an e-fuse which is blown when you install firmware without knox.

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I did, it was on CM 10.2 when i had flashed improper bootloaders and bricked it. I used the sd card to install 4.3, unroot+ reset flash counter then took it out so it went back to bricked. My only fear is that they may some how get it into download mode instead of just replacing the board and see the warranty bit: 1 which isnt able to be reset as it is an e-fuse which is blown when you install firmware without knox.
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Are you using the samsung warranty of AT&T? And also if the sd card is working for u cant you just use odin to flash? Or does the sd card not fix any bootloader issues?

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Are you using the samsung warranty of AT&T? And also if the sd card is working for u cant you just use odin to flash? Or does the sd card not fix any bootloader issues?
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im sending in it through bell mobility. it was a replacement phone that i paid the $150 deductable on and has a 90 warranty. I said it was having issues/defective so they sent an s4 as free replacement on the 90 day. I prefer it to be bricked to fit the defective description as well as to decrease the chances of them finding out i had messed with it, the only real sign being "warranty bit: 1" in red on the download screen. I did use odin to flash the current 4.3 stock that it has right now, and i might be able to get it to boot without the card if i flash the bootloaders some more despite having done it twice and the card still being required. Like i said though, i prefer it hard bricked and i've erased every sign other than warranty bit: 1 that i messed with it by installing stock, unrooting, and resetting flash counter.

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im sending in it through bell mobility. it was a replacement phone that i paid the $150 deductable on and has a 90 warranty. I said it was having issues/defective so they sent an s4 as free replacement on the 90 day. I prefer it to be bricked to fit the defective description as well as to decrease the chances of them finding out i had messed with it, the only real sign being "warranty bit: 1" in red on the download screen. I did use odin to flash the current 4.3 stock that it has right now, and i might be able to get it to boot without the card if i flash the bootloaders some more despite having done it twice and the card still being required. Like i said though, i prefer it hard bricked and i've erased every sign other than warranty bit: 1 that i messed with it by installing stock, unrooting, and resetting flash counter.
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hmm i wish i could do that to my phone too. i mean, i dont even know how i would unroot without getting my phone on. but if im this hard bricked they probs cant tell anyways. im guessing?

uz unlock HARD BRICKING S3'S
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My friend decided to use the EZ-Unlock app(link below) that unlocks the bootloader for the verizon galaxy s3 on my i747 and well it is now a brick, is there anything i can do to fix this without a JTAG?
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I DID THE SAME THING ! but i used debrick (i535 vzw 4.3 ) and it pattially worked at least it will recovery and odin but i think it needs to be the 40 mbps type card the black micro would not work for me , then i flashed the wrong recovery and am starting all over but the debrick still getting me into odin thats ware you will sideload the right recovery and firmware ,rom what ever hope ( i even paid for cdma work shop and it aint did jack ) debrick then odin sideload look it up thats the best i got