Other carriers and variants are still a work in progress
If you have a variant of the T999 other than the original T-Mobile SGH-T999 please contribute to the community and help us recover other users
If you have updated to 4.3 via OTA or flashed 4.3 firmware you will need to make sure you get the 4.3 debrick image.
Linux and Windows instructions are now included. Video only covers Linux.
Updated debrick links with zipped image files for lower bandwidth usage
I know there are some "How to unbrick" guides out there however they do no refer to an actual brick where you are stuck in QHSUSB-DLOAD mode.
The following guide will get you back to where you should be able to odin everything back to stock.
What you need:
How to get it done:
Linux Instructions
Here's is a flashable zip to get the first 128M of the emmc which is what we use to create our debrick.img. It will create the debrick.img then compress it is a .zip format. Idea given to me from DocHoliday77 and used his original zip from here.
If you upload them I will mirror and link them to this post
PIT Files for ODIN when coming upon the error "PIT Partition does not exist"
Thanks to the following:
@gTan64 for finding the fix while repairing their friend's phone.
@CNexus for Link to original thread here where I found the answer for this
@Techlyfe again for the SGH-T999 emmc dump
@DocHoliday77 for the odin guide and software
@Matt for being Matt
@jmcoffey for the SGH-T999L dump
And My wife for letting me mess with her phone (which in turn bricked it by overwriting the apm partition)
@deBricker for their thread another walkthrough
If you have a variant of the T999 other than the original T-Mobile SGH-T999 please contribute to the community and help us recover other users
If you have updated to 4.3 via OTA or flashed 4.3 firmware you will need to make sure you get the 4.3 debrick image.
Linux and Windows instructions are now included. Video only covers Linux.
Updated debrick links with zipped image files for lower bandwidth usage
I know there are some "How to unbrick" guides out there however they do no refer to an actual brick where you are stuck in QHSUSB-DLOAD mode.
The following guide will get you back to where you should be able to odin everything back to stock.
What you need:
- Bricked SGH-T999
- 16GB or 32GB microSD card (all data will be erased from this sdcard)
- microSD card reader
- Linux Live Disc, VM with Linux with direct hardware control or native Linux OS. (Should work with OSx as well however I cannot confirm as I do not own one) Windows can be used, instructions below.
- Everything in the ODIN guide
One of the following images based on your S III Model - SGH-T999 ***NOT FOR 4.3*** Debrick Image Thanks to @Techlyfe for the emmc dump
- SGH-T999 4.3 only Debrick Image
- SGH-T999L Debrick image Thanks to @DJ_SpaRky for the new T999L dump
SGH-T999N DebrickWe still need one for this device- SGH-T999v ***NOT FOR 4.3*** Debrick Image
- SGH-T999v 4.3 only Debrick Image @cLogic for the T999v 4.3 upload
How to get it done:
Linux Instructions
- Boot your Linux OS
- Download the debrick image listed in the Item's needed list
- Open terminal on your Linux OS
- Insert your microSD card into the reader
- Plug your microSD card reader into your computer
- Run
Code:
dmesg | tail
- *
Code:
dd if=/path_to_debrick.img of=/dev/sdX
I had to do this a couple times for the image to actually take - *
Code:
parted /dev/sdX print
should show approximately 23 partitions (IIRC)
- Download win32diskimager
- Download your debrick image
- Unzip both items and run win32diskimager
- Run win32diskimager
- browse for your extracted debrick image
- Select your microSD in the dropdown box
- Click write
- remove the microSD card from the reader
- remove the battery, sim and external microSD card from your device
- insert your debrick microSD into your phone
- insert the battery and down your power button (at this point your phone might actually boot completely and you can recovery any software/data you want)
- reboot into Download mode either via adb or Volume Down + Home + Power
- Once the device is booted into bootloader remove the microSD card.
- follow the directions in the ODIN thread and make sure you UNCHECK partition!
Here's is a flashable zip to get the first 128M of the emmc which is what we use to create our debrick.img. It will create the debrick.img then compress it is a .zip format. Idea given to me from DocHoliday77 and used his original zip from here.
If you upload them I will mirror and link them to this post
PIT Files for ODIN when coming upon the error "PIT Partition does not exist"
Thanks to the following:
@gTan64 for finding the fix while repairing their friend's phone.
@CNexus for Link to original thread here where I found the answer for this
@Techlyfe again for the SGH-T999 emmc dump
@DocHoliday77 for the odin guide and software
@Matt for being Matt
@jmcoffey for the SGH-T999L dump
And My wife for letting me mess with her phone (which in turn bricked it by overwriting the apm partition)
@deBricker for their thread another walkthrough
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