Help Hard Bricked Oddity

PhillyKing · Apr 14, 2014

Thanks for taking the time first!

I recently updated to CM10.2 but had issues that I overlooked. Those issues lead to my phone hard bricking... Completely black and no power.

After doing research, I found out about a Jig but while I was waiting for it come in the mail I found out about the SD Unbrick. I tried the SD Unbrick and the phone came back on! However, I got the following:
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BOOT RECOVERY MODE
CHECK BOOT PARTITIONS
BOOT RECOVERY
WRITE 159488 sectors
FLASH WRITE FAILURE
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME: SGH-T999
CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: NO
CURRENT BINARY: SAMSUNG OFFICIAL
SYSTEM STATUS: NONE
QUALCOMM SECUREBOOT: ENABLE
Warranty Bit: 0
BOOTLOADER RP SWREV: 1

and after trying to flash via ODIN - Odin says "there is no pit partition"

and the phone I get:
"ODIN: flash read failure" at the bottom
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I got the Jig in the mail today and tried it without the SD and the phone wouldn't boot up.
However, and this weird part, if I have the SD Debricker in the phone and then use the Jig it boots up without me even having to touch the power button. Not sure what to do at this point?

From what I've read so far, the Warranty Bit: 0 might be my problem but I'm not sure? I can't get anything to install on the phone. I have yet to get the phone into a download mode that has the android mascot either.

Thanks for any all help!

DocHoliday77 · Apr 15, 2014

You probably need the pit file. Thread in General section.

DrGit · Apr 15, 2014

DocHoliday77 said:
You probably need the pit file. Thread in General section.

Flashing a PIT file does you no good if the phone can't read from or write to the internal storage.
I'm in the same boat, and this sounds like an eMMC failure.
I have not heard about anyone who has had success fixing this kind of brick, JTAG or otherwise.
I wish I had a RIFF box to test that theory, but I can't spend much more money to fix this.

[OT]I wish there was a way to disable Qualcomm Secure Boot (bootloader signature checking),
because that would allow us to use 4.1 debrick images with a 4.3 bootloader, cross-device bootloaders,
and possibly boot Android directly from the SD card, bypassing this useless brick "download" mode.
If Android booted, we might have low-level access to the eMMC, assuming the hardware still works. But no, Catch-22...[/OT]

DocHoliday77 · Apr 15, 2014

Considering he can get it to boot with the SD card, and Odin says there is no PIT file, its at least worth a shot before writing it off.

DrGit · Apr 15, 2014

I've tried every combination I can think of: different PIT files, different debrick images, different versions of ODIN, repartition/no repartition, and I don't think any amount of fiddling with this useless "download mode" (I'm not convinced it's actually in download mode BTW) will make it flashable. I'd like to try JTAG or a low-level format, but both require eMMC hardware that isn't dead. Not being able to boot into Android like the debrick image is supposed to let you do is frustrating, because if it got as far as recovery mode I could at least poke at the eMMC.

OP, if JTAG is an option for you, don't expect it to work, but if you do try, let us know how it goes.
If this flash write failure is fixable with JTAG, I'd love to know - I'm just not prepared to pay shipping costs to send it in for JTAG repair when it's near certain that they won't be able to fix it without replacing the eMMC chip (expensive and risky) or the motherboard.

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PhillyKing said:
However, and this weird part, if I have the SD Debricker in the phone and then use the Jig it boots up without me even having to touch the power button.

Can you clarify "boot"? Is it the same screen that says "BOOT RECOVERY MODE" at the top?
If you can boot into recovery or Android from the SD card, you may be able to poke at the eMMC and reset it.

DocHoliday77 · Apr 15, 2014

If I'm not mistaken, a jig is supposed to automatically boot into download mode, and that's all. If you can boot with the sd debrick image, then inserting the jig should work normally.

When I got the sd debrick method working, I was able to fully boot system, recovery and download mode. Of course if you don't have a working system after attempting to flash over your last rom it won't boot that part, but you should be able to get to recovery.
Have you tried flashing just twrp or cwm via odin? Does it give the same message as you posted above?
If you can boot to a custom recovery, have you tried flashing another rom?

PhillyKing · Apr 16, 2014

Can you clarify "boot"? Is it the same screen that says "BOOT RECOVERY MODE" at the top?
If you can boot into recovery or Android from the SD card, you may be able to poke at the eMMC and reset it.

Yes, when it "boots" up it says "BOOT RECOVERY MODE" -- I don't have nor get the Android mascot either.

DocHoliday77 · Apr 16, 2014

PhillyKing said:
Yes, when it "boots" up it says "BOOT RECOVERY MODE" -- I don't have nor get the Android mascot either.

Have you tried any of the things I've suggested?

PhillyKing · Apr 17, 2014

DocHoliday77 said:
Have you tried any of the things I've suggested?

I'm having a hard time finding the Pit files....

DocHoliday77 · Apr 17, 2014

Just search general section for "pit" and this is the second result.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1848267

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PhillyKing · Apr 18, 2014

I found the PIT file but when I try to flash it using ODIN I get:

SECURE CHECK FAIL : PIT

DocHoliday77 · Apr 18, 2014

Oh man....I remember in the note3 forums people mentioned they needed a properly signed pit.....I hope that this isnt the case for us on 4.3! Search for a program called pit magic. I dont know if it can help or not, but its worth a try.

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PhillyKing · Apr 21, 2014

DocHoliday77 said:
Oh man....I remember in the note3 forums people mentioned they needed a properly signed pit.....I hope that this isnt the case for us on 4.3! Search for a program called pit magic. I dont know if it can help or not, but its worth a try.

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I got the app but not sure what I need to do with it.

DocHoliday77 · Apr 22, 2014

Youll have to read up on the thread. I dont know much about it, just that it may have the potential to help.
Ive never needed to use it myself, but ive directed others there and it helped some and didnt help others...

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