Training
0. Set unpack, better to go somewhere in the root directory, so in a way no spaces or other characters. But this is only a recommendation based on a small knowledge of Windows, I have a normal flash and the folder e: \ - = Samsung Galaxy R = - \ - = Dead Repair = - \
APX Mode
1.1 The largest shamanism - to be APX Mode. More or less reliable way, which I was able to do it - with the phone off hold down Volume Up + Home and plug the cord into the USB port. This method is reliable if the phone is alive.
If your phone firmware is broken (and it will be so if, immediately after the flash nvflash is not a normal firmware) - will have to catch this moment, because phone might try to get recovery (as it too may not be).
If you can not do it you can do: take out the battery, hold down Volume Up + Home and insert the cord into the computer. Once the phone is switched to battery mode APX return to the place, because flashing at a certain moment the phone off the USB port (just a guess, but without the flash batteries did not work).
1.2 After that, the phone went into the mode of APX, he determined on the computer as a device driver without APX. The driver is included. No problems with installation on Win 7 Pro SP1 x64 I do not have arisen. After installing the device driver is defined as NVIDIA USB Boot-recovery driver for Mobile devices. If you do so - then everything is fine.
2.1 What is necessary to have to start:
Actually set to restore the phone. He is quite self-sufficient.
Any firmware. I sewed the latest version of the Chinese I9103ZCLA1 2.3.6 firmware
Of course, Odin, the phone cord, and so you need to flash.
Be sure to make backup / efs. After nvflash IMEI, I folded to form 000004999900001 (well something like that, do not remember exactly).
If the actions are performed to reset the custom kernels - can be done at the beginning of nand backup. Yes, in general nand backup is needed in any case. Theoretically, such a scheme is possible: backup - nvflash - odin - cwm - restore. We get the phone in the same form but with zeroing counter. I am due to its krivorukost could not verify. In order not to repeat my mistakes - make a copy after the backup on your computer. It was quite unpleasant to lose all the settings over the last month (but then I blame myself, accidentally formatted the card).
2.2 Connecting the phone to APX to a PC, run GT-I9103.bat. If everything went without a problem - the script is complete without error and the phone goes into download mode. If there was a mistake - you can try again to flash.
For example when I have an error like in the image - just twitched and started the lace zanogo bat. I think if the phone was left in the mode of APX. My heart skipped a beat, but the second attempt the phone flashed fine.
Firmware
We sew a 3.1 firmware odin. Most importantly - do not forget to specify the file pit. It is a complete recovery. Bit to bit the same as there, that this firmware.
Without nutrition ask you not to succeed, because file system is a mess of half-dead sections. Sewed only some parts of the firmware. Once downloaded, the phone displays a picture of a bunch of Korean characters and English phrases like "Software update failure".
3.2 After the firmware partition / data, as I understand it, is not formed. I would suggest the following algorithm:
We go in and format the built-in recovery / cache.
Ship, and through him the android usb-format the drive. I then have to format it, just in case a recovery.
I do not know what will be if you try to install the firmware as soon as CWM, try to format all of them, and make recovery backup. I just have no backup at hand (accidentally formatted the same section of CWM / emmc and it was an external card, where to store my backups).
03.03 Well, after much room for activities. CWM and restore from backup or set up from scratch - you decide.
Conclusions:
When the curve could theoretically restore the firmware. Maybe even a bit boot-loader. I got the impression that the APX - a mode of the chip, not software. If iron is not dead - should help. In general, an hour and a half I have had the phone without a flash, probably the same at the time will resize partition to pull the cord and battery.
Resets the counter custom kernels, lost the yellow triangle. In general, if you flash the original firmware - can be easily dragged into service.
The method is not the easiest, there are many pitfalls, such as in the beginning, I forgot about the PIT, could not understand why the work is already in the phone memory is not working correctly, etc.
On the other hand, this method is not much harder than flashing the phone or through the odin cwm. Just add a few points.
Phone neubivaemy. Like my last samsung i780 (where I really made a mistake and did not start flashing in the sequence. And vykovyrivanie three parts of the firmware exe file - also had a very high risk). So much suffering in the firmware, but it is still alive. In general, I would say that acting on the instructions (or at least about following it) phone can not be killed. I love samsung for it.
