I9100T bricked? Can't seem to do anything

[Ezzyy007]

I got this old phone out of the cupboard because I needed some old photos from iT, and figured I'd better backup before it died. So I turned it on, the phone crashed and started boot looping. Great. I try to enter recovery and it won't work, only thing that works is download mode.
So I do some reading and see that reflashing the stock firmware might work, so I try that in Odin and it just hangs on factoryfs for an hour. So I disconnect and try again 10 times with different computers, cables and ports. Also tried alternative firmware. Same result each time

So now I find info on installing twrp and backing up the needed user data from there.

So I install hemidall and it recognises the phone, sweet. I find an isorec boot.img and a twrp recovery image bang them in and hemidall starts. I think I'm onto a winner.

But Noooo, hemidall says beginning session, sits there for maybe 20 seconds then moves to releasing device interface.

Any idea what else I can try? I must have spent 12 hours doing this. I just need the photos I could care less about the phone.

Thanks

 

[ze7zez]

Are you sure you have a fully operational battery?
You know, sometimes the battery can be fully charged, but still cause resets.

Do you see a charging animation on the screen when connected to the charger?

 

[Ezzyy007]

Are you sure you have a fully operational battery?
You know, sometimes the battery can be fully charged, but still cause resets.

Do you see a charging animation on the screen when connected to the charger?

Hi Thanks for the reply.

The battery seems okay, but its not charging in the phone currently, when i plug it in it comes up with this weird like grey frozen charging logo. Ive been charging it externally to make sure it keeps a decent charge during all these flashes. But as i can't enter any kind of environment the only way i know the batterys charge is using a multimeter.

Also wanted to add, the phone didnt have adb enabled so thats off the table. I also dont even know what firmware version it was running. all these things seem to be working against me.

Since I tried to use odin to upgrade the firmware i dont even get a boot logo or it trying to boot anymore, i get the yelllow triangle with phone and pc logo, so im assuming the original firmware is toast. just need some way to reinstall the firmware, or install twrp and grab a backup, then this thing is going in the bin because its ruined my last 24 hours.

Thanks again

 

[ze7zez]

If you don't want to waste time, and you have the money, then turn to a local service that has a data recovery service using JTAG. Usually you pay when it is possible to recover the data. However, if the NAND memory has damage, this could be a problem.

 

[Ezzyy007]

If you don't want to waste time, and you have the money, then turn to a local service that has a data recovery service using JTAG. Usually you pay when it is possible to recover the data. However, if the NAND memory has damage, this could be a problem.

thanks. I live in a small country town in Australia. Closest place for something like that would be 4 hours away.

I'm already wasting plenty of time haha but i reallllly need this data, so i will try whatever anyone can suggest. thanks