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S3 soft brick and no usb connection

Ok, so i've spent endless hours and by endless i mean 8 hrs searching for a cure on my issue. I've hit road blocks in every corner because everyone resorts to either odin or kies, which i cannot use either.
I have a refurbished att i747 that for some reason came with cwm when i bought it from att. I've had it for a couple months now and I just plugged it into my computer to charge it (because my computer or any other has never read my phone) and as soon as I plugged it in, it shut itself off.
I went to turn the phone back on and it stalls at the "Galaxy SIII" logo.
I can put it into recovery mode and download mode.
I did a full reset from cwm and also tried putting stock rom on my external storage to flash, but my phone is not reading my external either and I cannot access my internal from my computer to place the rom there.
Im hoping I'm just frustrated and am doing something wrong in this department because i'm thinking it's my only resort.
download mode is useless because my phone does not register on any computer so unfortunately, my best friend odin is out of my reach.
What can I do. I've exhausted almost every option i can think of.
help me!!!
I apologize if this is posted in the wrong forum.
Xda newbie poster, professional lurker

phones dont ship from at&t with anything other than their carrier's stock firmware and stock recovery. if it did, that should have returned immediately.
what stock ROM did you place on your sd card? is that sd card working on any other devices?
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are you sure it isnt just the stock recovery you're booting into? that would be the reason why you cant access the sd card to flash anything.

xBeerdroiDx said:
phones dont ship from at&t with anything other than their carrier's stock firmware. you're saying that you received this device from the actual at&t company??? if so, that should have returned immediately.
what stock ROM did you place on your sd card? is that sd card working on any other devices?
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Ya the sd card was from my old phone never had an issue with it before.
I've done custom work to android before and when I purchased this phone (not new) refurbished from att themselves, I assumed it would be ok to go.
I shouldve returned it when my computer wasnt reading my phone and thats my bad.
I never knew it had cwm on it till it softbricked because i've never had an issue, just the normal power off. never had to do recovery so when I went to recovery and was expecting stock recovery, I was surprised to see cwm on there.
"StockRootedGS3V6.zip" I know it's rooted, but i figured i'd try anyway
"I747UCALEM_174ATTALEM_ATT.zip"
those are the only roms I could find for cwm or was I wrong?

thats bizarre. what version is it?
did you try uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers on your pc?

xBeerdroiDx said:
thats bizarre. what version is it?
did you try uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers on your pc?
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ya, numerous time. I even installed the s3 toolkit and did it that way w/out prevail.
my brain is fried. and I need my phone for my business.
cant afford another one

RomulousV said:
ya, numerous time. I even installed the s3 toolkit and did it that way w/out prevail.
my brain is fried. and I need my phone for my business.
cant afford another one
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what version

xBeerdroiDx said:
what version
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4.1.1
sry, thought i put that.

RomulousV said:
4.1.1
sry, thought i put that.
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no, i mean what version of cwm. i'm curious. i'm also seeing if i can find anything that may help

xBeerdroiDx said:
no, i mean what version of cwm. i'm curious. i'm also seeing if i can find anything that may help
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o hahahah.. sry hence the fried brain :silly:
5.0.2.7

have you tried going into mounts and storage and mounting the external sd card?
is this sd card reading on your computer and/or other androids? if you had an S3 previously, did it work on that?

xBeerdroiDx said:
have you tried going into mounts and storage and mounting the external sd card?
is this sd card reading on your computer and/or other androids? if you had an S3 previously, did it work on that?
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I have tried, this sd read on my other androids. this is my first s3.
When i select mount external it gives me the option to unmount it, but doesnt say that it's mounted in the under bar (or whatever the area that shows it's called) so im assuming it's mounted. The problem is that I put the roms in the download file on my computer and when i put the sd card in my phone and mount it, it doesn't show up there. Am i using the right roms? I did not unzip them to the sd, just transfered.

RomulousV said:
I have tried, this sd read on my other androids. this is my first s3.
When i select mount external it gives me the option to unmount it, but doesnt say that it's mounted in the under bar (or whatever the area that shows it's called) so im assuming it's mounted. The problem is that I put the roms in the download file on my computer and when i put the sd card in my phone and mount it, it doesn't show up there. Am i using the right roms? I did not unzip them to the sd, just transfered.
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when you first boot into cwm, do you see the option to install zip from external sdcard? and yes, you dont unzip roms

xBeerdroiDx said:
when you first boot into cwm, do you see the option to install zip from external sdcard? and yes, you dont unzip roms
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I knew u didn't unzip roms, Just double checking..
I do see the option to install zip from sd.

RomulousV said:
I knew u didn't unzip roms, Just double checking..
I do see the option to install zip from sd.
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and when you select install from sd card, there should be an option to choose zip from external sdcard at the bottom. selecting that will bring up all the files on your external card. you able to see those?
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if so, dont flash anything yet. let me know. the 2 stock ROMs you have are old (4.0.4). you would be reverting your firmware

xBeerdroiDx said:
and when you select install from sd card, there should be an option to choose zip from external sdcard at the bottom. selecting that will bring up all the files on your external card. you able to see those?
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if so, dont flash anything yet. let me know. the 2 stock ROMs you have are old (4.0.4). you would be reverting your firmware
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As of right now, my phones not even turning on.. idky the battery is drained. I need to let it charge up a bit before anything. :-/
The last time i did that it brought up all the files and the roms were not on there. maybe because they were ics instead of jb?

RomulousV said:
As of right now, my phones not even turning on.. idky the battery is drained. I need to let it charge up a bit before anything. :-/
The last time i did that it brought up all the files and the roms were not on there. maybe because they were ics instead of jb?
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in the meantime (as your phone is charging), download these 2 files and place them on your micro sd card:
- cwm 6.0.3.0
- at&t 4.1.1 rooted firmware
when the battery is ready, install the micro sd card and boot into cwm. see if those 2 files are listed. keep me posted

xBeerdroiDx said:
in the meantime (as your phone is charging), download these 2 files and place them on your micro sd card:
- cwm 6.0.3.0
- at&t 4.1.1 rooted firmware
when the battery is ready, install the micro sd card and boot into cwm. see if those 2 files are listed. keep me posted
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k I'll let you know. Thank you

xBeerdroiDx said:
in the meantime (as your phone is charging), download these 2 files and place them on your micro sd card:
- cwm 6.0.3.0
- at&t 4.1.1 rooted firmware
when the battery is ready, install the micro sd card and boot into cwm. see if those 2 files are listed. keep me posted
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Nothing..... We shall now label this chapter of s3 history as romulitus..
fml
I just got off the phone with samsung and they will take the phone and repair it unless there is water or physical damage which there is not. Hopefully they get it done. I'll keep you posted.
Thank you for all your help. I know your just as baffled by this as i am.
The uncurable case of romulitus

RomulousV said:
Nothing..... We shall now label this chapter of s3 history as romulitus..
I just got off the phone with samsung and they will take the phone and repair it unless there is water or physical damage which there is not. Hopefully they get it done. I'll keep you posted.
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nothing? like those 2 new files you downloaded dont show up? but other files on it do? did you tell samsung it was rooted?

xBeerdroiDx said:
nothing? like those 2 new files you downloaded dont show up? but other files on it do? did you tell samsung it was rooted?
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its not rooted. thats why i'm confused on cwm being on it. I didn't put it on nor have i done anything custom to the phone. i think att screwed up the refurb or something.

[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] Bricked with out custon rom??

So I think my phone is hard bricked. I was on G+ ealier today, clicked on a link that opened Chrome. got through a third of the web page and my phone freezes then the screen goes black... I have tried every troubleshoot trick provided by tmobile and samsung and the phone wont respond in any way. Just a black screen. Is it possible to brick your phone with out trying to flash a custom ROM??? The only thing new I have done in the past week was install "graph ti89" and "aviate." I dont know if this has anything to do with it but tmobile has being try to get me to install the kitkat OTA for the last week and I keep ignoring it.

just update
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So I think my phone is hard bricked. I was on G+ ealier today, clicked on a link that opened Chrome. got through a third of the web page and my phone freezes then the screen goes black... I have tried every troubleshoot trick provided by tmobile and samsung and the phone wont respond in any way. Just a black screen. Is it possible to brick your phone with out trying to flash a custom ROM??? The only thing new I have done in the past week was install "graph ti89" and "aviate." I dont know if this has anything to do with it but tmobile has being try to get me to install the kitkat OTA for the last week and I keep ignoring it.
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Hi,
Do the update or factory reset your phone. You can always use KIES also.
Ms. K

Ms. K said:
Hi,
Do the update or factory reset your phone. You can always use KIES also.
Ms. K
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Thanks for your input but the phone won't turn on at all. Can'T turn it on to update. Won't go into safe mode by pressing vol. up&home&power. When I plug it into the computer it says it needs drivers for "QHSUSB_BULK." Kies doesn't see it as a connected device...

If you haven't done anything to the phone why not call Tmobile and get a replacement..
Sent from my bad ass Kryon infused Note 3

deeznutz1977 said:
If you haven't done anything to the phone why not call Tmobile and get a replacement..
Sent from my bad ass Kryon infused Note 3
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because i'd like to recover the data that is on the phone.

jcampana28 said:
because i'd like to recover the data that is on the phone.
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A few threads down you would have found this... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47555043
My recovery image is here: http://www.mediafire.com/view/?6nu61z43y51v3k4
You need a 32 GB sd card and some luck. Also reading is a requirement.
Yours may be a special case though, as you claim nothing was going on besides you clicked a link. Should have absolutely nothing to do with ota, and everyone else who had done this was messing with their phone. This definitely works for 4.3, but no one had reported working on 4.4 (you were on 4.3 anyways). Good luck.
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noobtoob said:
A few threads down you would have found this... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47555043
My recovery image is here: http://www.mediafire.com/view/?6nu61z43y51v3k4
You need a 32 GB sd card and some luck. Also reading is a requirement.
Yours may be a special case though, as you claim nothing was going on besides you clicked a link. Should have absolutely nothing to do with ota, and everyone else who had done this was messing with their phone. This definitely works for 4.3, but no one had reported working on 4.4 (you were on 4.3 anyways). Good luck.
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Mr Noobtoob, has anyone reported un-bricking a N900t running 4.4.2 (1st release, believe it ends in N94 or similar, NOT NE6)?
If so, did they do anything different?
Be well.

golfcartguy said:
Mr Noobtoob, has anyone reported un-bricking a N900t running 4.4.2 (1st release, believe it ends in N94 or similar, NOT NE6)?
If so, did they do anything different?
Be well.
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I have not seen a successful report back of the nb4 firmware. Doesn't mean it doesn't work, just don't have confirmation.
Fusionized tweaking tapatalker here...

Thanks for the quick response!
Going to try, and will report back.
To clarify, it must be a Class 10 microsd card, and must be the same size (32gb), 1st formatted to exfat, correct?
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To clarify, it must be a Class 10 microsd card, and must be the same size (32gb), 1st formatted to exfat, correct?
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Those are the magic ingredients!
Frank

Frank Westlake said:
Those are the magic ingredients!
Frank
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Got it! So, to be clear;
1st - Format class 10 card to Exfat file system or structure
2nd - Using Win32Diskmapper, just point to the file (in my case kk900tunbrick image) and write to card. *Nothing special, should I verify Md5 sum, or just leave it as default settings?
3rd, Proceed to attempt to Unbrick (Battery at 100%, Put Sd card in slot, Then Add Battery, Connect cable - some say, some say doesn't matter, to computer, then attempt to boot with button sequence to download mode, or may boot by itself?)
Also, if the 1st image I downloaded does not work, can I reformat or wipe the sd card and start again with the other file (I believe a Pit file??)

[Q] Phone is bricked, tried the tutorial

Hey guys, this is my first post so bare with me:
So a few days ago I bought a Galaxy SIII T-mobile SGH-T999 that was unlocked.
I had rooted it, modded it, and then I downloaded new bootloaders to upgrade to 10.2 CM, however it bricked. I went to the video tutorial http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2439367 and tried using the WINDOWS method. But to no avail. I am incredibly new to this, and needed some help.
To give you an idea as to what happens when I try to do the windows steps:
I get the SGH-T999 Image (Not for 4.3 debrick)
Then I get the win32diskmanager
Once I install and unzip the image and put it into my SD Card, I do as the instructions say and place the SD card in the phone (and pray) that it turns on. It does not, so I inspect the SD card. It goes from 16GB to 63MB. And I unexpectedly get just one folder titled "image", but nothing else.
Any ideas or help guys? Please and thank you!

Also, another thing.
Do I have to do the coding in linux? And if so, can't I use command prompt or something to not have to install it on my computer?

Use the linux livecd. It'll boot the Linux OS from disc, then when you take it out and reboot you be back on your Windows install. Though its been shown to work, I personally still feel the Linux method is the better method to try. Plus you can use the parted command as instructed to verify the sdcard was created correctly. Not sure right now how to tell with Windows...
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DocHoliday77 said:
Use the linux livecd. It'll boot the Linux OS from disc, then when you take it out and reboot you be back on your Windows install. Though its been shown to work, I personally still feel the Linux method is the better method to try. Plus you can use the parted command as instructed to verify the sdcard was created correctly. Not sure right now how to tell with Windows...
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Thank you for getting back to me!
Alright, I'll try that, will probably be back here in a little while to confirm. Giving my last try with the simple disk manager and boot method. If that doesn't work I'm gonna have to go with this.
Thank you again!

DocHoliday77 said:
Use the linux livecd. It'll boot the Linux OS from disc, then when you take it out and reboot you be back on your Windows install. Though its been shown to work, I personally still feel the Linux method is the better method to try. Plus you can use the parted command as instructed to verify the sdcard was created correctly. Not sure right now how to tell with Windows...
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Hey Doc,
I installed ubuntu and ran it, got up to the code dmesg | tail and it kept telling me my SD card was unmounted properly or something. I could definitely use some help :/

I'm not sure right off hand...will have to be at my computer to try and see what's going on. Its been a looong time since I had to do it so I can't really give pointers right now. And just tbh, I may not make it back onto my computer till late tomorrow. Spent the entire day in the ER and I'm not sure yet what tomorrow will bring. If I can get to this sooner though, I will.
@KAsp3rd
Do you have any ideas that might help here?
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DocHoliday77 said:
I'm not sure right off hand...will have to be at my computer to try and see what's going on. Its been a looong time since I had to do it so I can't really give pointers right now. And just tbh, I may not make it back onto my computer till late tomorrow. Spent the entire day in the ER and I'm not sure yet what tomorrow will bring. If I can get to this sooner though, I will.
@KAsp3rd
Do you have any ideas that might help here?
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I hope everything goes well! Thank you for at least getting back to me

Also, another thing, let me detail what my steps have been. I've possibly been doing it completely wrong.
For the Windows steps:
1. Installed Windows disk writer from post and debricked img onto desktop. (not 4.3)
2. Placed my 16GB SD card in the adapter and into the slot.
3. Write the img into the sd card.
4. Once finished, take it out the SD card from the adapter.
5. Take battery off of phone, as well as SIM card.
6. Inset SD card into phone, then insert battery and press the power button.
7. Nothing happens.
For the windows case, when I look to see what was written into the SD Card, it goes from 16GB to 63MB.
In the Linux terminal option:
1. Run ubuntu once
2. Install appropriate image
3. Run terminal and type sudo su
4. Insert SD card
5. Type dmesg | tail
6. Errors me to check disk (possibly damaged)
I just bought the SD card so I don't even ><

Try formatting the card using the utility from http://sdcard.off
You could also try formatting it using another android device. Is it a generlic or lesser known brand.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Try formatting the card using the utility from http://sdcard.off
You could also try formatting it using another android device. Is it a generlic or lesser known brand.
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It's SanDisk, very known, also the link is broken i believe?

Lol, damn auto correct!
Http://sdcard.org
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OK, that's weird, never had tapatalk screw up a link like that.... Just type in sdcard.org manually and it should work....
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Lol, damn auto correct!
Http://sdcard.org
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OK, that's weird, never had tapatalk screw up a link like that.... Just type in sdcard.org manually and it should work....
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Haha you're fine! No worries lol. I'll try it once Im off of work, thank you again truly!

:crying::crying::crying:
Tried the format, then I went to load it via windows, and nothing. Nothing at all. It saved the file "image' on the SD card but it does not do anything when I put it in the Cell phone.

Nevermind! SD Card is reading properly on ubuntu! Now I have another issue to deal with:
I wrote the sudo su code and dmesg | tail codes no problem. However when I get into the ls -lah debrick/ portion, it tells me that the file doesnt exist there. So I went back to the OP from 2013 and wrote the "if=/....of=/..." code with the proper location of the file and nothing. Any tips?

Alright, so I finally got ubuntu to run the codes and it wrote the 23 partitions on it.
However, when I go to turn it on, nothing. I go back to check what has been written on the sd card and its 63MB...again.
Do I need to use a USB-to-SD Card adapter or the adapter that came with my card? This is day 4 of no phone lol.

You may need to run through the whole process several tined before it finally works. This happened to a number of people, including me. Also if you have other sdcards available, try them as well. Some simply just won't work. I'm not aware of any good way to tell which ones will or won't work without trying them though. Usually, genuine brand, 16gb+, class 6 or better has the best chance. But I have seen generic class 4 cards work where others wouldn't.
One more thing, I suggest continuing this in the debrick thread. More people who are familiar with it will have a better chance at seeing it. Plus I feel its best to keep as much related info in one thread when possible. If we find a solution, it will be much easier for others to find it in the future if its posted in the thread they start with.
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DocHoliday77 said:
You may need to run through the whole process several tined before it finally works. This happened to a number of people, including me. Also if you have other sdcards available, try them as well. Some simply just won't work. I'm not aware of any good way to tell which ones will or won't work without trying them though. Usually, genuine brand, 16gb+, class 6 or better has the best chance. But I have seen generic class 4 cards work where others wouldn't.
One more thing, I suggest continuing this in the debrick thread. More people who are familiar with it will have a better chance at seeing it. Plus I feel its best to keep as much related info in one thread when possible. If we find a solution, it will be much easier for others to find it in the future if its posted in the thread they start with.
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Yeah that was my original intent however the boards won't let you post into that section until the user made 10 posts. I'll let them know. Thank you again, sir. Honestly without you I would have been in step 1.

I know. That's why I didn't suggest it till now. I'll still try to help there, but hopefully the op, KAsp3rd will have some thoughts to share. He's much more familiar with Linux than I am. He just isnt as active here as he used to be. Anyway, my best advice right now is don't give up! I know it can be frustrating, and there's still no guarantee it'll work, but if it does, you'll be glad you tried over and over and over!
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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!