I need to unbrick my S 3!!! HELP!!! - AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III

So, yea, i bricked my S3... it happened when I was installing a custom ROM HOLD UPP!! It was a ROM that was for my device, and it wasn't caused by flashing the ROM. I formatted /system by accident (yea, I was using TWRP), but the strange thing was, it allowed me to boot once. before I actually went into the 'bricked' state. When I realized I formatted the /sdcard directory, where the custom ROM was stored (yea, call me an idiot), I rebooted so I can reboot to use the browser to download the ROM, but it stayed at this screen, except it didn't say "I9300"
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Then I realized that TWRP had an MTP feature so I can transfer the ROM from my computer. So I transferred the ROM, flashed it, and yes, I did a full NANDroid backup, and stored it on my PC. After I clicked reboot, it got into the bricked state. the only signs of life, is when the LED turned red when I plug it in, but that only happens when I take the battery out first, and the phone gets warm when I plug it in.
So I need to know how to unbrick, without a 16 GB SD card. i only have a 2 GB SD. Is there a method to debrick using SD cards less than 16 GB? Is there a way to transfer the boot files to the phone? The phone, when I plug it in to the computer, the computer actually recognizes it, but as qhsusb_dload. what does that mean?
Yea I tried to be as specific as possible, but if you need any more info, ask.

Do you have an i9300? I ask because this forum is for the i747/i747m.

audit13 said:
Do you have an i9300? I ask because this forum is for the i747/i747m.
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no its a I747M rogers.

It sounds like you found the debrick thread so I won't go into that. To answer your questions though, aside from that debrick method, the only other option is a jtag repair. There may be a shop near you that can do this, but if not you'll have to send it somewhere.
As for the size of the SD card for the debrick.img, I think I remember hearing once or twice that an 8gb card worked, but I still question if that was true. The idea behind it is the SD card is supposed to be the same size as the devices internal storage, so nothing less than 16gb will work. Can't hurt it to try of course, but don't get your hopes up is all.
QHSUSB_DLOAD = Qualcomm Hi Speed USB Download
It's a definite indicator that a device is hard bricked.
For future reference, I recommend NEVER wiping /system. When you flash a rom that's the first thing that happens anyway, so doing so manually has zero benefit, but all the risk of ending up with a device that has no O/S to boot into.
Sorry to hear that happened. Good luck with it though!
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MhikeiMPC12 said:
So I need to know how to unbrick, without a 16 GB SD card. i only have a 2 GB SD. Is there a method to debrick using SD cards less than 16 GB?
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Debricked mine just yesterday.
The procedure recommends to use a class 10 16GB micro-SD card only, but I managed with a class 4. I really think you ought to try with your 2GB card, as the debrick image is only 80MB. The worst that could happen is that it simply won't boot off the SD card.
In all my browsing on XDA I couldn't make sure to find a certified I747M debrick image, so I made one from my wife's rooted S3 (I747MVLUFNE6) following instructions from this post, and used it to boot mine (I747MVLUFNK2). I used Win32DiskImager (link to it is in the post) to get the image on my SD card. After I got it to boot, I downloaded the stock firmware for my device and used Odin to flash it. It worked just as they said.
I recommend you use Win32DiskImager to backup your SD before writing the debrick image : this will save you 1) copying the files manually and 2) looking for some tool (e.g. SD Formatter) to restore it to its former size (after writing the image, Windows will think the capacity of the SD card is 80MB!).
If you need a I747MVLUFNE6 or I747MVLUFNK2 debrick image, PM me.
Best of luck :good:

Hello,
First you will need to download correct ATT ROM, and when you install that ROM, you will need to select correct option in ODIN.
To me its look like, you get stuck in boot...
Are you ATT customer?
Let me know, I will post link for Original ATT ROM.

placroix74 said:
Debricked mine just yesterday.
The procedure recommends to use a class 10 16GB micro-SD card only, but I managed with a class 4. I really think you ought to try with your 2GB card, as the debrick image is only 80MB. The worst that could happen is that it simply won't boot off the SD card.
In all my browsing on XDA I couldn't make sure to find a certified I747M debrick image, so I made one from my wife's rooted S3 (I747MVLUFNE6) following instructions from this post, and used it to boot mine (I747MVLUFNK2). I used Win32DiskImager (link to it is in the post) to get the image on my SD card. After I got it to boot, I downloaded the stock firmware for my device and used Odin to flash it. It worked just as they said.
I recommend you use Win32DiskImager to backup your SD before writing the debrick image : this will save you 1) copying the files manually and 2) looking for some tool (e.g. SD Formatter) to restore it to its former size (after writing the image, Windows will think the capacity of the SD card is 80MB!).
If you need a I747MVLUFNE6 or I747MVLUFNK2 debrick image, PM me.
Best of luck :good:
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I flashed the image through my firends phone instead of a sd card reader
so my friend has a kyrocera rise, so i inserted my sd inside, and it showed up the sd card in my pc, and flashed the img, but it didnt work. yea i think the theory about the sd card having to be the same size as the internal storage is true. im going to try writing the img using the reader instead. yea i already backed up the few files i had so that wasnt an issue!

andoridone said:
Hello,
First you will need to download correct ATT ROM, and when you install that ROM, you will need to select correct option in ODIN.
To me its look like, you get stuck in boot...
Are you ATT customer?
Let me know, I will post link for Original ATT ROM.
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Not to be rude or anything, but i know what to do about soft bricks. I'm not in that situation. and i have a i747M. that means its Canadian. i also stated earlier it is from rogers. what does having to be a at&t customer have to do with anything, if this is a 2012 phone? The warranty is gone already.

DocHoliday77 said:
It sounds like you found the debrick thread so I won't go into that. To answer your questions though, aside from that debrick method, the only other option is a jtag repair. There may be a shop near you that can do this, but if not you'll have to send it somewhere.
As for the size of the SD card for the debrick.img, I think I remember hearing once or twice that an 8gb card worked, but I still question if that was true. The idea behind it is the SD card is supposed to be the same size as the devices internal storage, so nothing less than 16gb will work. Can't hurt it to try of course, but don't get your hopes up is all.
QHSUSB_DLOAD = Qualcomm Hi Speed USB Download
It's a definite indicator that a device is hard bricked.
For future reference, I recommend NEVER wiping /system. When you flash a rom that's the first thing that happens anyway, so doing so manually has zero benefit, but all the risk of ending up with a device that has no O/S to boot into.
Sorry to hear that happened. Good luck with it though!
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Yea i wiped /system by accident. but, it allowed me to reboot AFTER i wiped /system, which was weird, and i thought you were supposed to wipe /system. I wonder why the option to wipe /system is there anyway? Also, i flashed the rom already, so wouldnt the /system be written to the parition already? i thought there was a /boot partition..

I can get my hands on a 16 gb sd cad by sunday, but i was just looking for a unbrick method for a 2 gb sd card. Even if it means i have to keep the (2gb)sd in my pone in order for it to boot, i was looking for a temporary method to unbrick my phone.

MhikeiMPC12 said:
Yea i wiped /system by accident. but, it allowed me to reboot AFTER i wiped /system, which was weird, and i thought you were supposed to wipe /system. I wonder why the option to wipe /system is there anyway? Also, i flashed the rom already, so wouldnt the /system be written to the parition already? i thought there was a /boot partition..
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It's a very common mistake. I see it happen way too often. I don't know where or why it got started, but some folks always recommend wiping /system. (Maybe it was required on a specific older device and they carried over to others).
tbh, I can't think of any situation where it's beneficial, so I don't know why is still included in recovery options.
Not sure why it would've booted that one time. I've seen that happen before, but only when flashing the firmware, not just a rom.
If the flash was successful after transferring the new rom via twrp, then you are correct that that the /system partition wouldn't be empty anymore. Maybe the rom was corrupted during the download or transfer?
The boot partition is actually where the kernel is located.
MhikeiMPC12 said:
I can get my hands on a 16 gb sd cad by sunday, but i was just looking for a unbrick method for a 2 gb sd card. Even if it means i have to keep the (2gb)sd in my pone in order for it to boot, i was looking for a temporary method to unbrick my phone.
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Like I mentioned before, don't get your hopes up using the 2gb card. But by all means give it a shot! Can't hurt anything to try.
Someone mentioned the class of the SD is important. It is recommended to use a class 10, brand name card, but it's not required. I've seen class 4 cards work where class 10 cards failed. I believe it has to do with the transfer speed if the individual SD card. Some class 4/6 cards can actually read/write much faster. Just like some class 10 cards just don't perform as advertised.
Still, the most successful ones have been class 10's, which is why I think many consider it a requirement. Many lower class ones do often fail, but not all. Just something to keep in mind...
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ok thanks. Did anyone report success using a 2 gb card?

Not that I've ever heard. But I doubt many have even tried. I've only seen a couple of reports that it worked with an 8gb card, but as I think I mentioned before, I'm not quite convinced that it was even true.
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MhikeiMPC12 said:
Even if it means i have to keep the (2gb)sd in my pone in order for it to boot, i was looking for a temporary method to unbrick my phone.
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Flashing stock firmware to my phone after booting off the SD card into download mode restored the phone's bootloader, but I knew that it was the bootloader I'd messed up.
The posts I've read about debricking this way seemed to mention that the phone would use the bootloader from the SD card, but would finish the booting process from the phone's storage.
If it's really /system you wiped, I wonder what your phone could finish booting from.

placroix74 said:
Flashing stock firmware to my phone after booting off the SD card into download mode restored the phone's bootloader, but I knew that it was the bootloader I'd messed up.
The posts I've read about debricking this way seemed to mention that the phone would use the bootloader from the SD card, but would finish the booting process from the phone's storage.
If it's really /system you wiped, I wonder what your phone could finish booting from.
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i think it was because it was given a direct command to be booted into recovery, instead of being booted into system. :silly:

Im worried when i use the 16gb sd card, THAT wont debrick my phone! All i did was formal /system by accident, and it booted again AFTER i deleted system.

Also. I'm a noob at Ubuntu and all the "of=/dev/block/mmblk1". I thought it was as simple as
1. insert 16gb SD card and open Win32DiskImager
2. select the debrick.img and flash it
3. insert the SD in the phone and attempt to start it in download mode
BTW i heard that the CPU varient (exynos, quallcom) matters when u debrick the device. i have a SGH-I747M rogers so what CPU variant do i have?

MhikeiMPC12 said:
Also. I'm a noob at Ubuntu and all the "of=/dev/block/mmblk1". I thought it was as simple as
1. insert 16gb SD card and open Win32DiskImager
2. select the debrick.img and flash it
3. insert the SD in the phone and attempt to start it in download mode
BTW i heard that the CPU varient (exynos, quallcom) matters when u debrick the device. i have a SGH-I747M rogers so what CPU variant do i have?
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You have a dual core Qualcomm processor. As long as you are using the correct debrick image, or correct bootloader, modem, or ROM when flashing the processor worries take care of themselves.
You could use either method to flash the img to the sdcard. Win32diskImager could be used on Windows PCs. dd is a command line tool used in Linux to do the same. Brasero would be a GUI tool used in Linux if using the command line concerns you. Using the GUI tools you need to be sure you are 'burning' the image to the media instead of copying the image file. The same would apply to making a bootable usb thumb drive to create a live Linux drive.

MhikeiMPC12 said:
Im worried when i use the 16gb sd card, THAT wont debrick my phone! All i did was formal /system by accident, and it booted again AFTER i deleted system.
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Unfortunately, it sometimes does not work. More unfortunate, there is no way to know if it will without trying it.
Earlier though, you described a classic hard brick. Red light, QHSUSB_DLOAD.... this method has fixed bricks just like yours plenty of times. More have succeeded than failed. But as I said, it doesn't always work. I think it's definitely worth trying though.
I am convinced that 90% of the failures were due to two things: the sdcard and/or user error. (Mostly the SD though.)
When you do try this method, keep in mind that many people don't get it to work the first few tries. So if it doesn't work, don't give up right away. Try at least 3 or 4 times. This actually happened to me twice! I did everything exactly the same way but it failed until my 3rd or 4th try! No idea why, but I have experienced this firsthand.
Let us know if you have any other questions!
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MhikeiMPC12 said:
Im worried when i use the 16gb sd card, THAT wont debrick my phone! All i did was formal /system by accident, and it booted again AFTER i deleted system.
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The SD card won't debrick your phone on its own : it will only allow you to boot into download mode. Successfully flashing stock firmware (which contains a bootloader) from download mode will.
DocHoliday77 said:
When you do try this method, keep in mind that many people don't get it to work the first few tries. So if it doesn't work, don't give up right away. Try at least 3 or 4 times. This actually happened to me twice! I did everything exactly the same way but it failed until my 3rd or 4th try! No idea why, but I have experienced this firsthand.
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Yeah, I saw those warnings, too. Maybe I was just lucky it worked on the 1st try...
BTW, where did you find a I747M debrick image to flash on your 2GB SD? The only ones I could find were for I747 (US)...

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need help flashing rom please

Im sorry, i know this topic has come up a thousand timed but i still have found no solid answer. I am on Wicked rom right now. I went into recovery to flash the new rom but team recovery wont show the zip files on my sd card. After trying some other things and different sd cards in many different sizes and classes,( formated in every ay by phone and computer) now i have noticed nothing including root explorer wont see zip files. sometimes it will show pictures or music but not usually. usually the phone wont even see the card at all. I have heard everything from reformat to the springs that hold the card are worn and need to be bent back to class 10 (which is what I used since i got it) wont work with the s3 to 64 gigs wont work.I should also mention that TWRP wont let me so anything at all. It wont back up rom weather its on internal or external and usually it wont even let me go to external when i try to change it. I don't have enough room on the phone to back up with titanium and TWRP wont t me do a back up either, I am basically stuck on he rom in on with no sd card capabilities. My phone is starting to act up and I really need a new rom ( not that I dont love the Wicked rom) and also get rid of the bugs i'm starting to get. I know this sounds confusing and Im not sure how well I did explaining it but I could really use some help. I have no problem if it would be easier to explain in person if you think you know whats going on or how to fix it you can IM me and I will give you my phone number so we can talk in person. I would really appreciate any help and I will be sure to hit "thanks"
Have you tried a factory reset and see if then the phone can read the sd card?
Try to Odin back to stock rom see if that helps. you should be cable to connect phone to pc using your internal. have you tried using Kies air to see if you can see your card, internal and external
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gypsy214 said:
Have you tried a factory reset and see if then the phone can read the sd card?
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I went into TWRP and did a factory wipe, wipe caches and ll the usual things you do to flash a rom but when it came time to choose zip fie it said there was no sd card, thank you for rsponding
daxecutioner24 said:
Try to Odin back to stock rom see if that helps. you should be cable to connect phone to pc using your internal. have you tried using Kies air to see if you can see your card, internal and external
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I can hook up the cable and see the phones sd card but since the phone wont see the external it doesnt show under "my computer or auto play" I will give Kies a try and if I have to I guess Odin is going to have to be the way, Thanks for your help
HMMM try another sd card if you can. I had a similar issue and thought that my phone screwed up but it wasnt my phone it was my sd card. if you dont have another sd card try the one that wont work in the computer and see if your computer reads it.
gypsy214 said:
HMMM try another sd card if you can. I had a similar issue and thought that my phone screwed up but it wasnt my phone it was my sd card. if you dont have another sd card try the one that wont work in the computer and see if your computer reads it.
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I have tried a 2 gig 4, 8, 26, 32, and 64, brand new ones, ones I have used to phone to try to reformat, also tried windows 7 to reformat and also Ubuntu partition editor. it seems no matter what I do it just wont see an sd card. every great once and a while it will let me see the pics and music but that it, no Titanium, no recoveries, and especially no zip files with roms. it wont even let me create a nandroid and the ones I have it wont let me get to, I feel like im stuck on this rom with no external mem.
OK seems like you may need a warranty exchange if you have insurance. OK On this phone I noticed that new cwm recovery do nandroid backups on the internal memory. So if you can still mount that to the PC. Put your SD card with an attachment to your PC. Move the backup you made from clockworkmod folder to the clockworkmod in internal memory. If you don't have that folder on internal memory. Moved it all. Newest cwm u can restore a back from internal memory. And there you have it. But if it still can't seem to read the SD card. You may need to have another phone or repair that one.
gypsy214 said:
OK seems like you may need a warranty exchange if you have insurance. OK On this phone I noticed that new cwm recovery do nandroid backups on the internal memory. So if you can still mount that to the PC. Put your SD card with an attachment to your PC. Move the backup you made from clockworkmod folder to the clockworkmod in internal memory. If you don't have that folder on internal memory. Moved it all. Newest cwm u can restore a back from internal memory. And there you have it. But if it still can't seem to read the SD card. You may need to have another phone or repair that one.
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I use TWRP but with them too you can use either the internal or external. The problem is when I try to put a backup on either on it fails every time. Im gonna to have to just use my warranty and get a new one t looks like. Whats going to happen when they see the phone is rooted, Maybe I should just say I lost it because I would still like to keep the phone in case one day I get really bored and tear it apart (im an electronics tech) and see if I can fix it. IDK, if anyone has any advise I appreciate it. And thanks Gypsy
Thats a lot of money for a lost fee. It would be a lot better if you can brick it. They wouldn't know lol I had done warranty exchanged before with a htc phone with s-off and they never said a thing
gypsy214 said:
Thats a lot of money for a lost fee. It would be a lot better if you can brick it. They wouldn't know lol I had done warranty exchanged before with a htc phone with s-off and they never said a thing
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can you tell me the easiest way to brick it? Please Thanks

Need help ASAP

A little while back I posted a thread asking the following.
"Just recently rooted my friend's GN2, I transfered the files to the SD card and went into CWM recovery. I'm having 2 issues.
1: The phone says there's not enough room to make a backup when there clearly is. I have about 2 gigs on the internal, but but it either says I have 3mb of free space or 0.
2: I click 'install from SD' and the only file it sees is "-clockworkmod/ ".
What am I doing wrong? I personally have an S2 and it's very similar but these two things are preventing me from flashing any rom"
The only person to respond recommended I format the sd card so I did so. However the phone still did not recognize any files in the sd card so I couldn't flash any rom. Upon startup it began boot looping and the phone is no longer activated? It can't make calls or send texts and reboots every minute upon ' failed activation'. The phone currently is useless. I'm not new to flashing roms I've been doing it for years but this is the first time I'm stumped thanks to some bad advice (not blaming that person) and it's not even my phone. Luckily I just got an htc one and I could give my friend the my s2 until the problem is fixed...any ideas how to fix it? Or unroot at least to bring in for repair?
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Any replies would be appreciated.. I'd like to get his phone functioning as soon as I can
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Try using twrp instead. Sorry I couldny be more help. But I have never used cwm on this phone since I got it. Only twrp. You can find it in original dev section.
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Yes use twrp. Find the latest version and flash it in clockwork. I havent used cwm since my og evo lol.
Maybe I'm old school but I'm a long time flasher and I've always just been more comfortable with cwm. But I'm not so sure it's a kernel issue?
Edit: and the issue is that I can't flash anything because I can't store anything on the sd card. I'm thinking of odining to a stock build?
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The only thing I can suggest is doing a quick format on the SD card to FAT32, especially if the card is a 64 GB card. Also, some Sandisk 64 GB cards were bad from the factory, so check that too. Finally, if all else fails, try breaking the phone even more to the point it won't even boot and get a replacement.
smmiller506 said:
The only thing I can suggest is doing a quick format on the SD card to FAT32, especially if the card is a 64 GB card. Also, some Sandisk 64 GB cards were bad from the factory, so check that too. Finally, if all else fails, try breaking the phone even more to the point it won't even boot and get a replacement.
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What would be my excuse for the phone not booting?
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MultiLockOn said:
What would be my excuse for the phone not booting?
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Don't come up with one. Just take it in and show them. Before you take it in, if you can, try to reset the flash counter. If they can check that and see it isn't correct, you're in trouble. If it's reset or it can't be checked, then take it in.
MultiLockOn said:
Maybe I'm old school but I'm a long time flasher and I've always just been more comfortable with cwm. But I'm not so sure it's a kernel issue?
Edit: and the issue is that I can't flash anything because I can't store anything on the sd card. I'm thinking of odining to a stock build?
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i was too, but i got over it. twrp rules, really, it does.
smmiller506 said:
The only thing I can suggest is doing a quick format on the SD card to FAT32, especially if the card is a 64 GB card. Also, some Sandisk 64 GB cards were bad from the factory, so check that too. Finally, if all else fails, try breaking the phone even more to the point it won't even boot and get a replacement.
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smmiller506 said:
Don't come up with one. Just take it in and show them. Before you take it in, if you can, try to reset the flash counter. If they can check that and see it isn't correct, you're in trouble. If it's reset or it can't be checked, then take it in.
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this crap? only last resort. (man, you must have one pissed off friend.)
seriously, ODIN something. stock it.
if you're not really familiar with samsung stuff, do a bit of reading. perhaps a pit file might be needed. garwynn and sextape have some good threads on this.
Thanks guys. I'll try some things today and check back
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MultiLockOn said:
A little while back I posted a thread asking the following.
"Just recently rooted my friend's GN2, I transfered the files to the SD card and went into CWM recovery. I'm having 2 issues.
1: The phone says there's not enough room to make a backup when there clearly is. I have about 2 gigs on the internal, but but it either says I have 3mb of free space or 0.
2: I click 'install from SD' and the only file it sees is "-clockworkmod/ ".
What am I doing wrong? I personally have an S2 and it's very similar but these two things are preventing me from flashing any rom"
The only person to respond recommended I format the sd card so I did so. However the phone still did not recognize any files in the sd card so I couldn't flash any rom. Upon startup it began boot looping and the phone is no longer activated? It can't make calls or send texts and reboots every minute upon ' failed activation'. The phone currently is useless. I'm not new to flashing roms I've been doing it for years but this is the first time I'm stumped thanks to some bad advice (not blaming that person) and it's not even my phone. Luckily I just got an htc one and I could give my friend the my s2 until the problem is fixed...any ideas how to fix it? Or unroot at least to bring in for repair?
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Ok...what files did you transfer to the sd card? Was it the internal or external? Even 2 gigs on the internal for a backup may not be enough. I have a backup that is just over 3 gigs. As far as formatting your external sd what did you do ? Fat32? Personally TWRP is the way to go. Try to format fat 32, download a stock rooted TW rom and put on external sd, also dl TWRP recovery to external sd. Boot into cwm recovery and try to flash twrp. If that works out pull battery put back in volume up+home+power. Hopefully that gets you to twrp, if so go to wipe then factory reset. If you click on advanced it will let you wipe system which couldn't hurt. After that, back arrow on bottom of screen to twrp home screen. Click install...choose external then locate where rom is...hopefully on root of external and see if that helps.
Oh and was the phone activated prior to flashing?
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Please do the following:
01). Format the SD card to FAT32 (NOT EXFAT OR NTFS) on ANOTHER computer and do NOT use the built in windows format options. Use a third party tool like guiformat.exe and do NOT USE QUICK FORMAT. (With my current sd card, windows format failed, guiformat.exe partially failed(and by failed I mean formatted fine but caused problems being seen) but I installed and used eausus partition master to regular format it to fat32 and followed the next few steps and its been working fine ever since.
02). Immediately after formatting the SD card slow format to fat32 in easus partition master create a text file on the sd card in its root directory (I've had an issue before where my SD card would not be seen or writable by certain devices if the root directory was 100% empty), before you copy any further files insert the SD card into the phone and use your recovery kernel(CWM/TWRP) to navigate to the root directory of the sd card and insure that you can in fact see the text file you created, POWER OFF THE PHONE(or alternatively unmount it in android terminal if possible) before removing or inserting the SD card(also always eject from the PC before removing, do not just rip it out off the usb slot/card reader), insert the SD card back into your PC/card reader and copy TWRP to the sd card.
03). Boot back into your current recovery and Install TWRP(if it's not already) you may prefer CWM but TWRP just causes people a lot less bugs in general.
04). Verify in the backup section of TRWP that you have explicitly selected external storage as the backup location and given the backup a name, as internal storage is selected by default, and you very well may not have enough free internal storage for the backup, regardless of whatever reasons you think you should.
05). Its probably a good idea to turn off md5 verification of the backup, I do this every time, the one time I did try to verify a backup with an md5 checksum it failed, I unchecked this option backed up restored to it and all was fine(and still is), also a good idea to uncheck md5 when installing roms/kernels/apk's as most don't have md5.
05). If the above does not work you probably have a bad SD card, try another and post back here.
ianmb said:
Ok...what files did you transfer to the sd card? Was it the internal or external? Even 2 gigs on the internal for a backup may not be enough. I have a backup that is just over 3 gigs. As far as formatting your external sd what did you do ? Fat32? Personally TWRP is the way to go. Try to format fat 32, download a stock rooted TW rom and put on external sd, also dl TWRP recovery to external sd. Boot into cwm recovery and try to flash twrp. If that works out pull battery put back in volume up+home+power. Hopefully that gets you to twrp, if so go to wipe then factory reset. If you click on advanced it will let you wipe system which couldn't hurt. After that, back arrow on bottom of screen to twrp home screen. Click install...choose external then locate where rom is...hopefully on root of external and see if that helps.
Oh and was the phone activated prior to flashing?
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There is
no external sd card in the phone. Just a 16g internal, and I've wiped pretty much everything so there shouldn't be a problem with room. I'll go out and buy an external and attempt to flash something.
garymaurizi said:
Please do the following:
01). Format the SD card to FAT32 (NOT EXFAT OR NTFS) on ANOTHER computer and do NOT use the built in windows format options. Use a third party tool like guiformat.exe and do NOT USE QUICK FORMAT. (With my current sd card, windows format failed, guiformat.exe partially failed(and by failed I mean formatted fine but caused problems being seen) but I installed and used eausus partition master to regular format it to fat32 and followed the next few steps and its been working fine ever since.
02). Immediately after formatting the SD card slow format to fat32 in easus partition master create a text file on the sd card in its root directory (I've had an issue before where my SD card would not be seen or writable by certain devices if the root directory was 100% empty), before you copy any further files insert the SD card into the phone and use your recovery kernel(CWM/TWRP) to navigate to the root directory of the sd card and insure that you can in fact see the text file you created, POWER OFF THE PHONE(or alternatively unmount it in android terminal if possible) before removing or inserting the SD card(also always eject from the PC before removing, do not just rip it out off the usb slot/card reader), insert the SD card back into your PC/card reader and copy TWRP to the sd card.
03). Boot back into your current recovery and Install TWRP(if it's not already) you may prefer CWM but TWRP just causes people a lot less bugs in general.
04). Verify in the backup section of TRWP that you have explicitly selected external storage as the backup location and given the backup a name, as internal storage is selected by default, and you very well may not have enough free internal storage for the backup, regardless of whatever reasons you think you should.
05). Its probably a good idea to turn off md5 verification of the backup, I do this every time, the one time I did try to verify a backup with an md5 checksum it failed, I unchecked this option backed up restored to it and all was fine(and still is), also a good idea to uncheck md5 when installing roms/kernels/apk's as most don't have md5.
05). If the above does not work you probably have a bad SD card, try another and post back here.
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Can't thank you enough for the post, I appreciate it. Parts if it are a little over my head (most of it actually) but I'll try and manage aha. I'm a little confused on step 1 in particular, how do I format the sd card to a computer? Is there a separate program I need that manages the phones memory temporarily through an external hard drive or...
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I think I might have misunderstood your original question I apologize. Those instructions relate to an external SD card
Il if you are treating the phone plugged into a computer via USB the same way you would treat an external microsd card you are making a huge mistske/misconcepyipn ..
I am at work right now so I can't help further but at this point you need to.find and follow the instructions to restore the phone back.to its stock state and start from.fresh. I will post back tonight with instructions to do that and the best way to root and custom recovery currently when I get home
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I think I might have misunderstood your original question I apologize. Those instructions relate to an external SD card
Il if you are treating the phone plugged into a computer via USB the same way you would treat an external microsd card you are making a huge mistske/misconcepyipn ..
I am at work right now so I can't help further but at this point you need to.find and follow the instructions to restore the phone back.to its stock state and start from.fresh. I will post back tonight with instructions to do that and the best way to root and custom recovery currently when I get home
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Thanks. The problem is that the phone boot loops so fast that I can't stick anything on the internal. And the one time it was on long enough to, the phone still reads that there's no files there. It's why I'm in this mess in the first place, I don't know why it's not recognizing any files
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Thanks. The problem is that the phone boot loops so fast that I can't stick anything on the internal. And the one time it was on long enough to, the phone still reads that there's no files there. It's why I'm in this mess in the first place, I don't know why it's not recognizing any files
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If you wiped everything then you might have wiped the partitions by accident. Get an ext sd card put flashable rom on that then boot into your custom recovery and try flashing the ROM through that
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If you wiped everything then you might have wiped the partitions by accident. Get an ext sd card put flashable rom on that then boot into your custom recovery and try flashing the ROM through that
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That seems like the best thing...won't the phone still rely on the internal sd card though and keep bootlooping?
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Odining back to stock is prooobably your best bet. No need to go through repair fees or restocking fees etc. When you can fix it in house.
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It should not rely on the internal. Download mode is deep down in the bootloader. If you borked that then jtag or sending it to samsung/asurion is the only option.
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MultiLockOn said:
That seems like the best thing...won't the phone still rely on the internal sd card though and keep bootlooping?
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Try a stock rooted rom and see if it works. Because it should at least give you the boot.img in the rom so you might be able to get past the boot screen. Hopefully it will re partition your phone. Im not for sure but its worth a shot.
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[Q] [Help] Unbrick i747M via SD Card Problem

Background:
I thought I would try to install stock 4.3 leak for i747, forgetting that I had i747M! I totally HARD bricked my phone.. not a whimper, except the familiar recognition of a new device type on windows.. but no charging, booting, or even response.
I turned to the 'Unbrick via SD Card' thread from the Sprint S3 forum:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43305728
I managed to find a debrick.img for the i747M. With that in hand, first using the method utilizing Cygwin, I was able to boot into Download Mode. Hurray! I downloaded the Stock 4.1.2 i747M Bell Image, and fully restored the phone using ODIN.
All seemed great until I removed the debrick SD card, and rebooted. Dead again. With the SD card in, I can reboot. I have tried restoring multiple times, writing a new PIT from another i747M, reinstalling the bootloader... nothing. If the SD Card isn'tin the phone, it's bricked. I am happy my phone is up and running, but it's nasty not having my 16 Gig SD card available, and also, I really need to ensure the battery doesn't die! Can anyone suggest what might be going wrong? Shouldn't I simply need to flash the stock image, and be good!?!
Thanks!
Can you get into Download / recovery mode w/o the SD card ?
Did you try the stock image from this thread ? :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2363882
dwolder said:
Background:
I thought I would try to install stock 4.3 leak for i747, forgetting that I had i747M! I totally HARD bricked my phone.. not a whimper, except the familiar recognition of a new device type on windows.. but no charging, booting, or even response.
I turned to the 'Unbrick via SD Card' thread from the Sprint S3 forum:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43305728
I managed to find a debrick.img for the i747M. With that in hand, first using the method utilizing Cygwin, I was able to boot into Download Mode. Hurray! I downloaded the Stock 4.1.2 i747M Bell Image, and fully restored the phone using ODIN.
All seemed great until I removed the debrick SD card, and rebooted. Dead again. With the SD card in, I can reboot. I have tried restoring multiple times, writing a new PIT from another i747M, reinstalling the bootloader... nothing. If the SD Card isn'tin the phone, it's bricked. I am happy my phone is up and running, but it's nasty not having my 16 Gig SD card available, and also, I really need to ensure the battery doesn't die! Can anyone suggest what might be going wrong? Shouldn't I simply need to flash the stock image, and be good!?!
Thanks!
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the.teejster said:
Can you get into Download / recovery mode w/o the SD card ?
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Unfortunately, no. Hard Bricked without the SD card
the.teejster said:
Did you try the stock image from this thread ? :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2363882
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I hadn't tried this one. I used the one from SAMMOBILE. I'll try this one right now.
Thanks!
dwolder said:
Unfortunately, no. Hard Bricked without the SD card
I hadn't tried this one. I used the one from SAMMOBILE. I'll try this one right now.
Thanks!
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If you want to maintain ROOT access be sure to grab the root.zip and flash AFTER you flash the image and BEFORE you reboot.
As an FYI, the 16Gig Bell image worked great for me.
the.teejster said:
If you want to maintain ROOT access be sure to grab the root.zip and flash AFTER you flash the image and BEFORE you reboot.
As an FYI, the 16Gig Bell image worked great for me.
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Tried everything.. flashing the recommended version above from internal disk won't work. Flashes of Odin compatible versions complete, and still need the SD card in. I have rooted, installed Clockwork recovery, tried to install the firmware from internal drive... it would fail. Install from ODIN (Samsung Recovery) it succeeds, but won't boot without the SD Card in. (Familar QD Loader). I just don't get it. I might have to go to ADB level, and see if I can have any success there?
dwolder said:
Tried everything.. flashing the recommended version above from internal disk won't work. Flashes of Odin compatible versions complete, and still need the SD card in. I have rooted, installed Clockwork recovery, tried to install the firmware from internal drive... it would fail. Install from ODIN (Samsung Recovery) it succeeds, but won't boot without the SD Card in. (Familar QD Loader). I just don't get it. I might have to go to ADB level, and see if I can have any success there?
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You my friend as you said are HardBricked, need to be flashed by jtag. I tried on a friends to use a debrick image to fix, but in the end I have to use the riff box to fix it. You may also have luck with this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2439367 but remember to replace the file/files with the proper ones for YOUR phone.
Good Luck
dwolder said:
Background:
I thought I would try to install stock 4.3 leak for i747, forgetting that I had i747M! I totally HARD bricked my phone.. not a whimper, except the familiar recognition of a new device type on windows.. but no charging, booting, or even response.
I turned to the 'Unbrick via SD Card' thread from the Sprint S3 forum:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43305728
I managed to find a debrick.img for the i747M. With that in hand, first using the method utilizing Cygwin, I was able to boot into Download Mode. Hurray! I downloaded the Stock 4.1.2 i747M Bell Image, and fully restored the phone using ODIN.
All seemed great until I removed the debrick SD card, and rebooted. Dead again. With the SD card in, I can reboot. I have tried restoring multiple times, writing a new PIT from another i747M, reinstalling the bootloader... nothing. If the SD Card isn'tin the phone, it's bricked. I am happy my phone is up and running, but it's nasty not having my 16 Gig SD card available, and also, I really need to ensure the battery doesn't die! Can anyone suggest what might be going wrong? Shouldn't I simply need to flash the stock image, and be good!?!
Thanks!
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I had the exact same issue, took all the same steps you did, and had all the same frustrations. The last thing I tried though was to dd the debrick img to the internal memory of the phone via a terminal session running from my sdcard booted phone. figured I had nothing left to lose. It worked. I got the phone booted to download mode without the card in and restored my phone. I will add that I am no expert so this might be the worst idea ever. but my phone has been running since the 31st.
Bradkirk said:
I had the exact same issue, took all the same steps you did, and had all the same frustrations. The last thing I tried though was to dd the debrick img to the internal memory of the phone via a terminal session running from my sdcard booted phone. figured I had nothing left to lose. It worked. I got the phone booted to download mode without the card in and restored my phone. I will add that I am no expert so this might be the worst idea ever. but my phone has been running since the 31st.
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How did you make the connection to the phone memory.. ADB? I brought mine to the shop. They said two groups tried to fix it and couldn't. I am going to keep trying (glutton for punishment).
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How did you make the connection to the phone memory.. ADB? I brought mine to the shop. They said two groups tried to fix it and couldn't. I am going to keep trying (glutton for punishment).
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forgive me, I'm no expert but I'll try to list what I did.
booted the phone via SD card and restored a backup so that I was running a rooted custom 4.3 ROM. I also had the terminal emulator program installed on the phone. so everything worked great at this point except I needed the SD card in the phone to boot.
the image I used for the SD card boot is a 16GB (version not file size) Bell I747M dump of a stock phone, called debrick.img. Sorry I cant remember where I got it but it was here on XDA. To get it on the SD card to begin with I used the terminal emulator on my old i9000(m) and the dd command.
So, to reverse the process I opened the terminal emulator on my SD booted, running I747M. typed: su <enter> to give the app superuser access (allowed root access when prompted) then changed to the directory on the sd card containing the debrick.img file just to save me typing the full path in the command. the internal SD of my phone is found at /dev/block/mmcblk0 as opposed to mmcblk1 for the external SD.
so , moment of truth. I used; dd if=debrick.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0 <enter> This was the part I mentioned could be the worst idea ever because from what I think I understand, you are writing directly to the boot partition of the SD and could completely screw up all the partitions and whatnot.
after that, crossed my fingers and turned the phone off, pulled the SD card out and luckily booted right up into download mode. Used Odin to get back up and running. Hope that helps or at least doesnt make anything worse for you.
help me please
hey friend, you could climb the debricked.img of i747m to a download server or give me the link where obtubiste, I'm going through a hard brick on the terminal for the same reasons as you, please appreciate what you really so
aisakblack said:
hey friend, you could climb the debricked.img of i747m to a download server or give me the link where obtubiste, I'm going through a hard brick on the terminal for the same reasons as you, please appreciate what you really so
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2345860&page=18 2nd post down has the link I used. Reading the whole thread would be a good idea.
It worked for me
Bradkirk said:
forgive me, I'm no expert but I'll try to list what I did.
booted the phone via SD card and restored a backup so that I was running a rooted custom 4.3 ROM. I also had the terminal emulator program installed on the phone. so everything worked great at this point except I needed the SD card in the phone to boot.
the image I used for the SD card boot is a 16GB (version not file size) Bell I747M dump of a stock phone, called debrick.img. Sorry I cant remember where I got it but it was here on XDA. To get it on the SD card to begin with I used the terminal emulator on my old i9000(m) and the dd command.
So, to reverse the process I opened the terminal emulator on my SD booted, running I747M. typed: su <enter> to give the app superuser access (allowed root access when prompted) then changed to the directory on the sd card containing the debrick.img file just to save me typing the full path in the command. the internal SD of my phone is found at /dev/block/mmcblk0 as opposed to mmcblk1 for the external SD.
so , moment of truth. I used; dd if=debrick.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0 <enter> This was the part I mentioned could be the worst idea ever because from what I think I understand, you are writing directly to the boot partition of the SD and could completely screw up all the partitions and whatnot.
after that, crossed my fingers and turned the phone off, pulled the SD card out and luckily booted right up into download mode. Used Odin to get back up and running. Hope that helps or at least doesnt make anything worse for you.
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Your method worked for me. Very clever and thank you. I did have to do some modifications of the partitions to fit the 145MB debrick.img file. I also had to mount it as a 2nd partition from the sdcard. Once, was in dowload mode without original debrick sdcard, I flashed the clockworkmod recovery then restored one of my previous back thus retaining root.
Mind sharing the i747m Debrick.img?
Seems like the link from the post you linkd us to is not working, clicking download does nothing :/ currently have a bricked Bell S3 and need a debrick.img
Bradkirk said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2345860&page=18 2nd post down has the link I used. Reading the whole thread would be a good idea.
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Same for me, I really need that link to be working:good:

Hard Bricked Galaxy S3 i747 AT&T PLEASE HELP?

So I never got the 4.3 OTA BUT I did install the UCUEMJB Bootloader, but not the modem to use the 4.3 Dandroid Rom, about all month before that I was happily on CM11, and loved it. I try Dandroid because I hate Touchwiz so much, but thought this might cure my want to switch ROMs all the time.
I tried to port the Moto X 4.2.2 Rom, and decided to flash it. The phone came on once with the Samsung logo, Went off, and usually it would vibrate and vibrate meaning something is wrong, this time it just went off and didn't vibrate at all.
It is hard bricked from my understanding, but I have no way of getting a JTAG Done, and I'm waiting on a JIG I ordered, but this is becoming too long without a phone. I bought 3 100K Ohm resistors, and tried the method here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=889128 and I can't seem to get it to work.
I tried the USB Debrick img for the JB Bootloader, but that didn't work neither. The battery is good, and works and everything, Just trying to rule out everything so many you can help me a little better.
Does anyone have any idea what to do? I can't afford a Riff box neither.. if I can get it fixed I'll just stick with one Rom this time, lol.
is there any way to JTAG without the Riff Box, or anything I can do? I'm willing to try anything at my power.
Thanks in Advance.
lemonboi5 said:
So I never got the 4.3 OTA BUT I did install the UCUEMJB Bootloader, but not the modem to use the 4.3 Dandroid Rom, about all month before that I was happily on CM11, and loved it. I try Dandroid because I hate Touchwiz so much, but thought this might cure my want to switch ROMs all the time.
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You should try http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2549068 you were on 4.3 these files are for 4.3
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theramsey3 said:
You should try http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2549068 you were on 4.3 these files are for 4.3
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Thanks for the reply!
I have been looking at that all morning, so even if I flashed the Moto X Rom that was ported, I shouldn't need JTAG?
Also, let me get this straight.. I use WinDiskImager to put the img file on the SD card, via my SD card reader, and then Pull the battery, put in the SD card, put in the battery, and turn on the phone? because I've tried that and it doesn't work at all for me.. unless I'm missing something here, I'd love to know!
You are using a 16GB or larger card right?
You aren't trying to get the phone to power on just yet. Only trying to get to recovery mode so you can flash stock 4.3 stuff and get going again.
With that said...
It appears it is only about 70 percent successful. I have had reports from folks that said they had to write the .Img file several times in a row in their SD card slot in the computer to get it to work.
You may have to get a debrick file from someone running the same rom you were trying to flash.
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When you plug your phone into your PC, do you get a box that pops up and reads something like "can't load drivers QHSUSB DLOAD"?? If so, this is what I did. I followed the instructions in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2581166
I used the AT&T image from this thread (I was on Paranoid Android 4.3, FYI):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2345860
Worked just fine.
Now, the link in the post above me mentions Odin'ing back to 4.1 so you don't have to boot from your SD card anymore. I didn't do that. When mine booted, it booted into Recovery and I flashed my Paranoid Android 4.3 ROM and GApps. That worked fine and all my data was intact, but yeah, it meant That I'd have to boot from SD card every time. To get past that, I plugged my phone in, copied the AT&T .img file from my PC (note, I copied...I didn't image it. When you image it, it pulls files from the .img file and writes a partition containing them. You don't want to do that in this case) to a random internal SD card file folder on my phone. I had to do it that way cause that AT&T .img was too big to fit on my SD card imaged with the debrick boot files. I then I opened my file manager app on my phone and moved the .img file to the /SDCARD folder. From there I used the terminal emulator and followed the instructions from the link I posted first, typing
su
dd if=/sdcard/debrick.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0
Took my SD card out. Restarted. It booted into recovery again, I flashed my PA 4.3 ROM and at that point I was able to boot without the SD card and didn't have to Odin back to an older version. Finally, I used the SD formatter here:
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/
And formatted my SD card back to allow full usage. Copied all my old files and pics back on it and I was straight!
theramsey3 said:
You are using a 16GB or larger card right?
You aren't trying to get the phone to power on just yet. Only trying to get to recovery mode so you can flash stock 4.3 stuff and get going again.
With that said...
It appears it is only about 70 percent successful. I have had reports from folks that said they had to write the .Img file several times in a row in their SD card slot in the computer to get it to work.
You may have to get a debrick file from someone running the same rom you were trying to flash.
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Its an 8GB Sandisk D: Is there a difference in the way it performs? I'm flat broke atm, but if someone can point me in direction of a cheap 16GB or bigger card, I'll go after it for sure.
Charles: said:
When you plug your phone into your PC, do you get a box that pops up and reads something like "can't load drivers QHSUSB DLOAD"?? If so, this is what I did. I followed the instructions in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2581166
I used the AT&T image from this thread (I was on Paranoid Android 4.3, FYI):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2345860
Worked just fine.
Now, the link in the post above me mentions Odin'ing back to 4.1 so you don't have to boot from your SD card anymore. I didn't do that. When mine booted, it booted into Recovery and I flashed my Paranoid Android 4.3 ROM and GApps. That worked fine and all my data was intact, but yeah, it meant That I'd have to boot from SD card every time. To get past that, I plugged my phone in, copied the AT&T .img file from my PC (note, I copied...I didn't image it. When you image it, it pulls files from the .img file and writes a partition containing them. You don't want to do that in this case) to a random internal SD card file folder on my phone. I had to do it that way cause that AT&T .img was too big to fit on my SD card imaged with the debrick boot files. I then I opened my file manager app on my phone and moved the .img file to the /SDCARD folder. From there I used the terminal emulator and followed the instructions from the link I posted first, typing
su
dd if=/sdcard/debrick.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0
Took my SD card out. Restarted. It booted into recovery again, I flashed my PA 4.3 ROM and at that point I was able to boot without the SD card and didn't have to Odin back to an older version. Finally, I used the SD formatter here:
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/
And formatted my SD card back to allow full usage. Copied all my old files and pics back on it and I was straight!
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is your SD card bigger than 8GB? That's what I have, and I'll try all of this and report back
My phone doesn't turn on at all, So You mean to copy the IMG file to the SD Card? or the files from the IMG File to the SD card? I am not able to get into any file managers and ADB can't read my phone at all :/
First off, you need a card larger than 8gb. It has to be at least 16gb. Mine was 32gb.
Second, to get it to turn on at all, you need to use the disk imager listed in the thread I posted. WinDiskManager or whatever it's called. Grab the AT&T .img file from the second link (that's the one that worked for me...not sure it will for you) and save it somewhere on your PC. Open the disk imager and choose the AT&T .img file, then use the drop down and select your SD card (whatever letter your PC assigned it) and finally, click "write". That will image the files contained in the .img file to your SD card and partition it as bootable. Put the SD card in your phone, turn it on, and it should turn on to recovery at least. Once we get there, we can tackle moving the .img file to where it needs to be on your phone so you don't have to boot from the SD card anymore.
Yes exactly it is mandatory that your card MUST be 16 gb or bigger. What we are doing is mimicking the internal storage on the phone and tricking the phone into booting into recovery to fix what we messed up. Walmart has fairly cheap SD cards. They're cheaper than $50 to get a jtag and faster too.
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Oh okay I get it now. Thanks for the explanation. I'll be on the look out for a 16GB.
Oh okay I get it now. Thanks for the explanation. I'll be on the look out for a 16GB. I found some cheap on Ebay for $10 when I get paid I'll get one! (Living check to check... lol) I also went ahead and bought a jig for $1.89, I'm asking around if any of my friends have an extra 16GB SD, most likely not though. Thanks for the replies!
BTW, My phone is like. Dead. Doesnt even power on or anything, but I do get the QHSUSB DLOAD thing, and if I plug it in without a battery I get a Red LED indicator, is that how you guys have explained previous phone states?
I never had it plugged in without the battery, but yes, when I plugged it into my PC, I got what you're getting. We should be able to get you back in business. Hurry up and get an SD card. Hell, go buy one, use it, then return it.
Charles: said:
I never had it plugged in without the battery, but yes, when I plugged it into my PC, I got what you're getting. We should be able to get you back in business. Hurry up and get an SD card. Hell, go buy one, use it, then return it.
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Holy crap sir, I like the way you think.
Edit:
So I was able to get my sister to loan me the money to get one and return it lol.
So now I flash it with the AT&T Debrick Img...
pull the battery, insert SD, insert battery, try to turn it on?
Or am I missing something? lol
Going to pick it up now, just wanted to retrieve the "What now" steps ahead of time! Thanks everyone!
Charles: said:
I never had it plugged in without the battery, but yes, when I plugged it into my PC, I got what you're getting. We should be able to get you back in business. Hurry up and get an SD card. Hell, go buy one, use it, then return it.
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I got an SD card, I tried the img's and it still wont turn on D:
Its a Class 10 Samsung 16GB Micro SD card, Currently keep trying to write the Debrick-SGH-i747U-CUEMJB3.img, and trying it out, still not working. Is that the OTA Bootloader? JB3? Or just JB? Or maybe its the J2 Bootloader I have with a JB3 Modem... forgive me lol.
Dead phone still.. I think I wanna cry lol
Edit:
In addition this is what I'm getting..
qualcomm hs-usb qdloader 9008 (COM4)
No idea what that means, but it shows up in Device Manager.
I've been trying and trying to flash this img and get it to come on, still not working
Did you image the SD card with this program?:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
After you image it, check your SD card in Windows Explorer and verify there are files on it. There should be quite a few.
If you did and the image you tried to flash didn't work, did you try the AT&T image that I linked to in my first post? This one?
http://d-h.st/iEy
Charles: said:
Did you image the SD card with this program?:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
After you image it, check your SD card in Windows Explorer and verify there are files on it. There should be quite a few.
If you did and the image you tried to flash didn't work, did you try the AT&T image that I linked to in my first post? This one?
http://d-h.st/iEy
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The files are on the SD card in a folder called "image".. that doesn't sound good. I browsed for the .img and wrote it to the sd and everything D: I've done this a lot, any idea?
lemonboi5 said:
The files are on the SD card in a folder called "image".. that doesn't sound good. I browsed for the .img and wrote it to the sd and everything D: I've done this a lot, any idea?
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Yes...that's correct. My SD card had numerous files in a folder named "Image", so it seems you're doing that portion correctly.
Did you try the AT&T image that I linked to? That one was named different from the one you referred to in your previous post.
Just to cover your bases, try both AT&T images that were linked to in this thread. If it's still not working...don't know what to tell you.
Charles: said:
Yes...that's correct. My SD card had numerous files in a folder named "Image", so it seems you're doing that portion correctly.
Did you try the AT&T image that I linked to? That one was named different from the one you referred to in your previous post.
Just to cover your bases, try both AT&T images that were linked to in this thread. If it's still not working...don't know what to tell you.
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Yes, I've tried that one, and the one that theramseys uploaded, I just don't know if I'm doing something wrong here.
I stick in the sd card, and try to turn it on? it doesn't power on still.
So stuck here I've done the 3 button combo, and everything. it just wont turn on :/ Any more ideas? Should I just try it with linux? but then again how bad can Windiskimgr actually be?
I miss my phone so much! lol
I dunno, man. I flashed the image I posted, put the SD card in and it turned on. Just pressed the power button.
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I dunno, man. I flashed the image I posted, put the SD card in and it turned on. Just pressed the power button.
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No tricks to it? I even tried using dd in linux, still nothing. If all fails I hope the jig works that I ordered. I was porting that Moto X rom from a Cyanogenmod 10.1.3 Base, but had swapped out mostly permissions and framework, I didn't touch the boot.img or anything like that.. I did kind of touch up on the updater-script, but still I don't see how that'd brick it, usually it'd give me a status7 or something if it didnt work, or even vibrate, turn on, then vibrate twice and restart, till I'd put it back into recovery, but with that 4.3 Rom I was throwing root issues, and every time I re-flashed it, I had to re isntall CWM
Yeah, just uncovered a new chapter of the story.. lol Hopefully we can work with this at all.
I tried to downgrade to a 4.2.2 Version from 4.3, and had a 4.3 Bootloader,
before all of this I was happily on the CM11 Rom, and should have stuck with it.. Curiosity killed the kitkat.

EFI System Partition [mmcblk1p1] mounts as SD card

Huston, we have a problem. Since day 1.
(& please refrain from mentioning warranty, not an option)
I never had access to my microSd card.
I thought it was a stock Rom problem, so I waited until root, maybe with another rom, the problem would disappear.
Sadly, no.
The thing is, a 200 MB partition always mounts as my SD card.
I don't have a clue on how to solve it.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance! :fingers-crossed:
The bastard partition is the one mentioned below, and below that one, the untitled, is my 64GB micro Sd card.
I used Diskinfo app to get the data.
* SD card (EFI System Partition) [mmcblk1p1] (/mnt/media_rw/sdcard1, /storage/sdcard1) [vfat]
Used: 3.1 MB, Free: 196 MB, Total space: 200 MB
* Untitled [mmcblk1p2] Not mounted
If interested, the attached pdf has the full list of the internal storage (MMC) partitions
XLR8_2K said:
Huston, we have a problem. Since day 1.
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hi,
what device do you have?
before you answer elephone p8000, i mean which version as in which 4g bands does it have access to? normal or version b?
is the phone working operation?
what current rom are you on?
is your phone ever recognised by the computer when you switch it on while connected to the usb and pc as an mtk preloader device?
my suggestion would be to re use an official rom update with a scatter file method. this should repartition your device properly.
this is why its super imoprtant to know which version you are on.
I'm quite positive it's normal version, I live in Portugal, Europe.
Besides from the mentioned problem, the phone is working properly, is that what you mean with "is the phone working operation?"
Right now I'm on Eragon 9.5, before today, stock unrooted original rom.
Regarding usb cable connection:
I'm a Mac user, and the phone is recognized and i can use Android file transfer app on my mac while on android sys.
If I'm on recovery mode, i can't mount the "sd card" to my computer.
Hope this helps
El_Nino9 said:
hi,
what device do you have?
before you answer elephone p8000, i mean which version as in which 4g bands does it have access to? normal or version b?
is the phone working operation?
what current rom are you on?
is your phone ever recognised by the computer when you switch it on while connected to the usb and pc as an mtk preloader device?
my suggestion would be to re use an official rom update with a scatter file method. this should repartition your device properly.
this is why its super imoprtant to know which version you are on.
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XLR8_2K said:
Huston, we have a problem. Since day 1.
(& please refrain from mentioning warranty, not an option)
I never had access to my microSd card.
I thought it was a stock Rom problem, so I waited until root, maybe with another rom, the problem would disappear.
Sadly, no.
The thing is, a 200 MB partition always mounts as my SD card.
I don't have a clue on how to solve it.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance! :fingers-crossed:
The bastard partition is the one mentioned below, and below that one, the untitled, is my 64GB micro Sd card.
I used Diskinfo app to get the data.
* SD card (EFI System Partition) [mmcblk1p1] (/mnt/media_rw/sdcard1, /storage/sdcard1) [vfat]
Used: 3.1 MB, Free: 196 MB, Total space: 200 MB
* Untitled [mmcblk1p2] Not mounted
If interested, the attached pdf has the full list of the internal storage (MMC) partitions
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why don't you just format the sd card ? put the sd card in your pc and use MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition and delete every partition on the sd cad. and then create a new, FAT32 and if you want to have files biger then 4GB then exFAT, but then you need to flash this zip, to get it working right on phone (you need to use a custom rom, eragon or mine nexus, because of init.d)
The multiple partitions are on the MMC, not the SD. You misunderstood. The mmcblk1p1 mounts as the SD card. But it's a partition from the MMC. Mounts with or without a physical SD in the slot.
I think I'll try and investigate the scatter method. Don't have a clue, yet.
Seems like a fluked MMC partitioning somewhere in time.
With the original stock OTA
XLR8_2K said:
I think I'll try and investigate the scatter method. Don't have a clue, yet.
Seems like a fluked MMC partitioning somewhere in time.
With the original stock OTA
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you said you have a mac? i'm not sure you can use the flash tool for mediatek devices on that.
i only know the windows method and i know that works. i did it yesterday again.
can you get hold of a windows machine?
are you okay with flashing the december firmware on the device or do you need some guidance?
hopefully you get the device sorted
XLR8_2K said:
I think I'll try and investigate the scatter method. Don't have a clue, yet.
Seems like a fluked MMC partitioning somewhere in time.
With the original stock OTA
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oh sorry, i misunderstood you. ok then you need to backup NVRAM. you can do it for example with TWRP. after that, just look here and copy the official rom files. this could solve your problem
Thanks for the help and suggestions guys
Yesterday I used a web downloaded version of aparted app, and deleted the infamous partition. And after the reboot, my 64GB sd card finally appeared!
For now I think I won't go into the scatter process. Will keep the info for future research thou, thanks!
XLR8_2K said:
Thanks for the help and suggestions guys
Yesterday I used a web downloaded version of aparted app, and deleted the infamous partition. And after the reboot, my 64GB sd card finally appeared!
For now I think I won't go into the scatter process. Will keep the info for future research thou, thanks!
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firstly, you are very brave for deleting a partition you saw and didn't know what it did. what if it was the bootloader and you kill it? was very risky.
secondly, you don't know how this efi partition appeared on your device, it just wouldn't let you use your sd card? sometimes on SD cards they have a partition from the factory for some bs software but you say yours was the internal storage.
this brings me onto the fact that your seller has flashed your phone with something that enabled this? you openly trust the seller that they haven't modified the device to collect personal information or anything? i mean i would be worried and would have flashed the scatter file method. again this is why i also say you are brave.
dr root has provided you with a method for non pc version which i didn't know existed.
it's your device at the end of the day and you can do whatever you want.
good luck and enjoy your device

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