At first I was using (sgh-i747) Slim Rom 4.2.2 worked fine when I was in Canada. But currently I am in Hong Kong now but the networked was locked. So for some strange and stupid reason I decided to flash a international version for the GS3. Now the GS3 wont even boot up, cant even unbrick it using odin because when i plus my GS3 to my laptop the usb drive is not even sgh-i747..can any one plz help me unbrick it.
You can't unbrick.
If it doesn't turn in at all you have a hard brick and only way to unbrick is JTAG service.
Flashing firmware from international S3 will result in a hard brick
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TNR-KL said:
At first I was using (sgh-i747) Slim Rom 4.2.2 worked fine when I was in Canada. But currently I am in Hong Kong now but the networked was locked. So for some strange and stupid reason I decided to flash a international version for the GS3. Now the GS3 wont even boot up, cant even unbrick it using odin because when i plus my GS3 to my laptop the usb drive is not even sgh-i747..can any one plz help me unbrick it.
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The same thing happened to me months ago, I flashed an international rom and my phone bricked. Just send in you're phone to your service provider and tell them your phone bricked while doing a software update. They'll send it to Samsung to fix it for free.
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my I747M is bricked, im conecte with RIFF box for JTAG. but this box support only I747, is possible to select i747 for unbrick i747M if this is the same firmware ?
Thank you
Any Idea ?
because my I747M is bricked now and i need solution ?
Just for ur information,i just tried my old jtag i've made for my old S1 i9000 on my S3 and it's work.
Sorry, i mean Jig.
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jtag =/= jig
jig is small cut USB dongle that puts you in download mode, doesn't magically fix bricked phones.
also there are no phone specific jig , they all the same do same thing , an old jig from GS1 days will do the same thing, if you broke your bootloader jig will not help.
jtag is programming board, service centers have those, some people in repair shops got em also.
ghost77 said:
jtag =/= jig
jig is small cut USB dongle that puts you in download mode, doesn't magically fix bricked phones.
also there are no phone specific jig , they all the same do same thing , an old jig from GS1 days will do the same thing, if you broke your bootloader jig will not help.
jtag is programming board, service centers have those, some people in repair shops got em also.
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yes im speak for Jtag i have jtag in selection of my Riff box i have I747 but don't I747M, im ask if if i select I747 for unbrick my I747M is done or not ?
Thank you
If you want a JTAG service for your phone I would recommend www.mobiletechvideos.com. I have used them before (not for JTAG service, but other services) and their customer service was excellent!
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If you want a JTAG service for your phone I would recommend . I have used them before (not for JTAG service, but other services) and their customer service was excellent!
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My problem im outside the USA im from morocco.
i need just information if the I747 firmware is work for I747M ?
Thank you
Well if your phone is bricked , it cant get any worse it might work sufficiently enough for you to get to download mode and flash proper stock rom with odin.
ghost77 said:
Well if your phone is bricked , it cant get any worse it might work sufficiently enough for you to get to download mode and flash proper stock rom with odin.
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my I747M is don't access to download mode for falsh with original firmware, the last solution is unbrick my phone with JTAG.
But Riff Box is not support I747M but support I747. im select I747 in selection of riff box manager but is don't work.
if any other solution or if this model work the same with other firmware tell me?
or other solution using Riff box for fix this problem ?
Thank you
aimadlol said:
My problem im outside the USA im from morocco.
i need just information if the I747 firmware is work for I747M ?
Thank you
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Whether it will work or not can't say for sure but the FIRMWARE between the 747 and 747m is DEFINITELY DIFFERENT. its not major difference but different and biggest part is different modem or broad bands which in some cases will brick a phones IMEI# to 0's when wrong firmware is flashed. Hope this helps. In your position its probably worth a shot anyways to get back to basic boot able working order then maybe u can recover from there but as for your question yes the firmwares are different
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pchemerys said:
Whether it will work or not can't say for sure but the FIRMWARE between the 747 and 747m is DEFINITELY DIFFERENT. its not major difference but different and biggest part is different modem or broad bands which in some cases will brick a phones IMEI# to 0's when wrong firmware is flashed. Hope this helps. In your position its probably worth a shot anyways to get back to basic boot able working order then maybe u can recover from there but as for your question yes the firmwares are different
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im flash my I747M with international S3 ROM. now i need to jtag of my I747M in the Riff Box support only I747, my question is if i select I747 in Riff Box is work or not for unbrick my device ??
Thank you
aimadlol said:
im flash my I747M with international S3 ROM. now i need to jtag of my I747M in the Riff Box support only I747, my question is if i select I747 in Riff Box is work or not for unbrick my device ??
Thank you
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Like I said I can't say for sure for your exact scenario. To unbrick it I would say probably yes and at this point u have little to lose.
Do NOT use i747 to i747M
Do not jtag with RiffBox i747M using i747
EFS will be dead after - NO IMEI
will not even Boot after
Use RiffBox to read from a working one.
Full flesh is the only solution for now.
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Hello All, I bought my note 3 in ebay with bad imei (not black listed) and i got it yesterday.
Well i used the region lock app and it worked like a champ i'm in DR, and i'm in 4.3 mi7.
I want to confirm with someone who tried this that i could upgrade to kitkat through kies and get my phone still unlocked.
or any another way to upgrade to kitkat ?
thank you.
pd: I came from a note 2 verizon, i think this phone is just perfect
Well as i didn't get an answer.
I want to leave the solutions that i found: Trying it anyway.
No. "region lock away" is permanent apparently. I update from 4.3 mi7 to 4.4 ne6 and later i rooted it with towelroot (geohot method).
All working and very easy. Hope i can help with this to somebody who was lost as me ^^
re: bad imei
Steph4n said:
Hello All, I bought my note 3 in ebay with bad imei (not black listed) and i got it yesterday.
Well i used the region lock app and it worked like a champ i'm in DR, and i'm in 4.3 mi7.
I want to confirm with someone who tried this that i could upgrade to kitkat through kies and get my phone still unlocked.
or any another way to upgrade to kitkat ?
thank you.
pd: I came from a note 2 verizon, i think this phone is just perfect
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(not blacklisted yet!)
If your phone is region UNLOCKED it will always remain UNLOCKED regardless of
any firmware updates/upgrades/kies/ota and regardless which twrp/cwm compatible
stock or custom rom/kernel you might want to flash.
However I have a hunch that your Note 3 will soon be blacklisted
since it has a bad IMEI and soon you will not be able to use it for
making or receiving cellular phone calls.
If I were you I would get in touch with eBay, you are protected and they will refund
whatever you paid for it.
It is against eBay's policies and terms of service to sell a cell phone with a bad IMEI
unless the seller listed his auction as cell phone for sale "parts only".
Good luck!
Is it possible to Sim unlock 4.4.2? Maybe by flashing a 4.1.1 modem?
blu422 said:
Is it possible to Sim unlock 4.4.2? Maybe by flashing a 4.1.1 modem?
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Ive flashed over 24 gn2 and s3's through old modems and menu. There's a sticky about it.
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Is it possible to Sim unlock 4.4.2? Maybe by flashing a 4.1.1 modem?
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By Sim unlock, do you mean you want to use an AT&T phone on another carrier? If that's what you are looking for, give me a few minutes to test something.
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By Sim unlock, do you mean you want to use an AT&T phone on another carrier? If that's what you are looking for, give me a few minutes to test something.
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Isn't that what a sim unlock is? Correct me if I have it wrong.
emeianoite said:
Isn't that what a sim unlock is? Correct me if I have it wrong.
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Yes, of course.
But I am fairly new to the note 2 so I don't have much stored up information. I now see a post that indicates that flashing a certain 4.1.1 modem, MJ2 I think, gives the user a service menu where you can change the unlock setting. So now the OP's question makes sense. Only he should have been able to find the same post I did.
In a minute, as soon as my wife lets me borrow her phone, I'm going to test an unlock tool I know about to see if it works on 4.4.2 stock.
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Yes, of course.
But I am fairly new to the note 2 so I don't have much stored up information. I now see a post that indicates that flashing a certain 4.1.1 modem, MJ2 I think, gives the user a service menu where you can change the unlock setting. So now the OP's question makes sense. Only he should have been able to find the same post I did.
In a minute, as soon as my wife lets me borrow her phone, I'm going to test an unlock tool I know about to see if it works on 4.4.2 stock.
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Yes, but that's for 4.1.2 idk if it will work with 4.4.2 I just don't wanna accidentally ruin my phone. And I think you mean LJ2 not MJ2 and thanks that'd be great if you could keep me posted
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Ive flashed over 24 gn2 and s3's through old modems and menu. There's a sticky about it.
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Were any of them on 4.4.2?
blu422 said:
Were any of them on 4.4.2?
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The dialer codes that worked on 4.1.1 to unlock the phone via the hidden menu. Does not work on 4.4.2 anymore. And being you took the ota update, there's no way of downgrading you firmware...
Sorry to tell you..
Another way is to contact AT&T by email, about unlocking the phone. Can't remember what the exact name is, but goggle search it. They'll send you the SIM code, if the phone is out of contact!!! Takes about 2-3 days when I did my skyrocket to run on TMO.
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At one time, there was a free app on XDA called GalaxSim Unlock. For some reason, the developer pulled the free app download, and the only version then available was the paid version on Play. I have a copy of the free one from before it was pulled, and it works on the Captivate and the Galaxy S II, and some other galaxy phones, not sure which ones. So I tried it tonight on my wife's Note 2 which is running Stock NE5 with TWRP recovery and has the MC3 boot loader. However, the unlock failed, saying unable to read nvdata. So it's apparently a no go on this phone.
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The dialer codes that worked on 4.1.1 to unlock the phone via the hidden menu. Does not work on 4.4.2 anymore. And being you took the ota update, there's no way of downgrading you firmware...
Sorry to tell you..
Another way is to contact AT&T by email, about unlocking the phone. Can't remember what the exact name is, but goggle search it. They'll send you the SIM code, if the phone is out of contact!!! Takes about 2-3 days when I did my skyrocket to run on TMO.
Just my 2¢®™
Sent from my T889 N2/N3/S5..
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That only works if the contract the phone was in was not defaulted, and or you are the original owner of the phone.
re: sim unlock
I recently bought a soft bricked SGH-I317 (stuck on "firmware upgrade encountered and issue"). I tried flashing LJ2 firmware and got it to change to being hung on the "Samsung Note II" logo. I think this is when it changed as I was trying all sorts of flashing trying to get off the "firmware upgrade encountered an issue" screen (also Kies would not recognize that the phone was connected). Tried different recoveries and firmware without making any progress until I flashed the 4.4.2 (I317UCUCNE5) bootloader. The phone booted into Philz recovery after that. I then flashed the stock LJ2 firmware w/ LJ2 modem, sim unlocked the phone and then flashed Skynote Air 4.3 along with the 4.4.2 (NE5) modem. This is the setup that I am using on T-Mobile now with no problems except that the Knox counter is tripped. Hope this helps shed some light on the problem.
I discovered a problem with Skynote 4.3 with the 4.4.2 bootloader. If I try to charge it with the phone turned off, the phone will freeze at the empty battery symbol and requires a battery pull to get the phone to turn on. Everything else seems to work okay.
jsdad said:
I recently bought a soft bricked SGH-I317 (stuck on "firmware upgrade encountered and issue"). I tried flashing LJ2 firmware and got it to change to being hung on the "Samsung Note II" logo. I think this is when it changed as I was trying all sorts of flashing trying to get off the "firmware upgrade encountered an issue" screen (also Kies would not recognize that the phone was connected). Tried different recoveries and firmware without making any progress until I flashed the 4.4.2 (I317UCUCNE5) bootloader. The phone booted into Philz recovery after that. I then flashed the stock LJ2 firmware w/ LJ2 modem, sim unlocked the phone and then flashed Skynote Air 4.3 along with the 4.4.2 (NE5) modem. This is the setup that I am using on T-Mobile now with no problems except that the Knox counter is tripped. Hope this helps shed some light on the problem.
I discovered a problem with Skynote 4.3 with the 4.4.2 bootloader. If I try to charge it with the phone turned off, the phone will freeze at the empty battery symbol and requires a battery pull to get the phone to turn on. Everything else seems to work okay.
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My sister sell her note 2 to me because she's gonna upgrade to samsung galaxy S5. It was an att and I'm using T-mobile.
I did check the baseband ver and It was i317UCUCNE5 (4.4.2 OTA). the question is it is safe to flash base band ver i317UCALJ2 using ODIN?
Can you do the step by step process and also links of the files and software did you use please? thanks
emeianoite said:
Isn't that what a sim unlock is? Correct me if I have it wrong.
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It's a network unlock, so you are free to use any GSM carrier. You can lock your sim card -- then a pin is required for your phone to connect to your carrier. It's the old skool method to stop unauthorized use, from the days before a lock screen pin.
I bought a SGH-I317M today off someone. It was locked to Bell Canada. I did the dumb thing by letting Kies update the firmware. And as i've read I'm pretty screwed for downgrading it. I tried unlocking it but the hidden menu didn't give me the 4th option in the network lock path. So i tried bunch of things which at one point required me installing Kies for drivers and thats when I i let it slip and update. So now I'm still searching for a method to unlock my phone. I've gotten philstouch recovery on and Skynote working. I just tried flashing the rogers_j2 modem.. hoping this will work.. you think I should just pay one of those sites or a retailer for the sim unlock ccode?
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I bought a SGH-I317M today off someone. It was locked to Bell Canada. I did the dumb thing by letting Kies update the firmware. And as i've read I'm pretty screwed for downgrading it. I tried unlocking it but the hidden menu didn't give me the 4th option in the network lock path. So i tried bunch of things which at one point required me installing Kies for drivers and thats when I i let it slip and update. So now I'm still searching for a method to unlock my phone. I've gotten philstouch recovery on and Skynote working. I just tried flashing the rogers_j2 modem.. hoping this will work.. you think I should just pay one of those sites or a retailer for the sim unlock ccode?
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Please let me know if it works. mine is galaxy note 2 4.4.2 NE5 baseband and I've done some research and they said that if you upload your firmware thru OTA there is a possibility that it will soft brick you phone due to unknown security reason.
I'm just waiting for conformation from some one that it's safe to flash J2 modem on a NE5 OTA
in the US, if your phone is more than 6 months old and your contract is in good standing you can ask for the unlock code. I don't know if Canada is similar.
I was going to post the same question about unlocking I317 4.4.2, and found this post which is similar to what I'm looking for so just want to add to pump the question.
It's been a while but I have done unlocking for other At&t models (S3, S4) and learned that later versions don't with the option in hidden menu to unlock, and the work around is to downgrade. However with devices that have OTA updates, it's not possible to downgrade the bootloader.
Is this the same for Note 2 I317? If so, any other method available to unlock this device to use it on other GSM networks? (I just bought one and it's on Kitkat 4.4.2 UCUCNE5, and looking for unlock...)
It's only the modem that needs to be flashed. So whatever bootloader you're on doesn't matter.
I wanted to unlock my phone today. ATT website wouldn't let me do it until my contract was fufilled, so I did some web searching.
Started with 4.4.2 and NE5 baseband. Loaded original baseband via recovery, and used the debug menu to unlock the sim. After that, updated the baseband back to the latest. Tmobile sim seems to be working just fine.
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I wanted to unlock my phone today. ATT website wouldn't let me do it until my contract was fufilled, so I did some web searching.
Started with 4.4.2 and NE5 baseband. Loaded original baseband via recovery, and used the debug menu to unlock the sim. After that, updated the baseband back to the latest. Tmobile sim seems to be working just fine.
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What bootloader were u on?
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When I switched over to tmobile about 2 months ago I decided to keep my g3 that I had with att and also got another one with tmobile.
My question is, can I flash tmobile roms with the wifi calling onto that phone? I would like to test roms on that phone first before flashing it on my daily phone
bump.
Just got an AT&T D850. Have been trying most of the morning to move it over to a TMobile flash. However, TMobile only has the D851, which I do no believe will work ...
Has anyone successfully done this?
Be aware of that ATT hardware does not have AWS HSPA like T-Mobile hardware.
I did what this 3 weeks ago on an ATT LG G2 using LG Flash Tools and KDZ file.
After the flash, the device booted up normally with TMobile screen. Yet, nothing worked normally, no signal. I couldn't even to settings as it quit every time. The end is a soft brick phone.
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When I switched over to tmobile about 2 months ago I decided to keep my g3 that I had with att and also got another one with tmobile.
My question is, can I flash tmobile roms with the wifi calling onto that phone? I would like to test roms on that phone first before flashing it on my daily phone
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I wouldnt do that if i were you. I mistakenly flashed a D855 ROM on my D851 and now its bricked. No boot, recovery or dowbload mode. So beware.
Only D850 Roms will work for you, no matter what carrier you are on. You will hard brick your phone most likely if you try any other variant.
Hello,
I update AT&T to later version. after update my device does not start, charge or do any thing. just blank screen. i connected to computer it detects as Qualcomm. i checked here and some person have similar issues but for other models not for AT&T. They told it was bricked and i need unbrick image from AT&T working note 4. can anyone help me to get it.
Thanks
Use ODIN, use these files:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-att/general/sm-n910a-n910aucs2eqd1-t3605313