I hard bricked mine by just flashing the ND8 modem and rom without being on the ND8 bootloader. Mobiletechvideos Jtag was able to get my phone booting again but everything that makes it a phone is toast. No baseband/modem and just about everything in the About/Status page is unknown. Oh, and even though the ND8 rom boots fine, no audio for me either. You can try shelling out the $50 for the service to see if they can revive it fully, up to you.
Sounds like the same issue. I may just ditch it and get the M8 or Note3 as it appears this is toast.. Not sure what to do yet.
Sorry Cnexus. not trying to thread jack.
Well the S3 is still a nice phone so it may still be worth the $60.00 (shipping to them too) just to see what happens. If yours is like mine and no sound when it comes back, that is the hard part about it, I can surf but not listen to music or anything.
I'm thinking the battery is dead. I assume it doesn't charge in this state so, that may be my issue??
I'm so sorry to hear that, TD. Sorry for further thread jacking but what are you going to get for a main phone now?
Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy SIII with M.O.A.R. v9.0, dkp kernel dated 3/20/2014 and TWRP v2.7.0.0.
How will someone be able to flash the image if they can't get into recovery?If the bootloader gets corrupted on the Galaxy SIII, you can flash the image file to an SD card and get the phone to boot from a fully bricked state (phone will not power on at all). The image file must match the current bootloader that is installed. There are other threads here for previous builds with the matching image files.
(If I got something a little wrong in terminology or concept, I'm sure someone will pop in and fix anything I got mixed up on explaining.)
The image is for the SD card, not the phone. The SIII is capable of booting from SD if the bootloader gets corrupted on the phone.
And the SD has to be imaged on a PC while it is inserted into a MicroSD card reader via USB, not through the phone.
You would have to have someone that has your specific device create the image for you.
Then it would have to be imaged to an SD card using Ubuntu or another Linux build. I've tried using Winimage or whatever the windows image utility is without success. There are guides around XDA somewhere telling how to pull the image and then how to flash to SD.
Edit: Yes! It worked. How can I use it without removing the SD card?
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Flash the 4.4 kitkat stock tar in android dev
Yup, worked (although I found out after the fact). I'm still curious about how I bricked my S3 from flashing a certain kernel.
It was likely from the international forum then. Their partitions are set up differently and do not align with ours
Ah, I see. I was running SlimKat and I flashed this kernel (CM11). That probably explains why I was getting errors when I was attempting to flash a ROM, lol.
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Hey guys. A couple of days ago I hard bricked my phone. Curiosity got the better of me and I broke the cardinal rule, I tried to flash an International rom thru Aroma installer. Anyway, I've been thru every tutorial and every guide created by man. I even installed Ubuntu as a 2nd operating system and gave myself a crash course on how to use it. All was in vain. Last night I came across this thread and I thank the android gods. I now have my phone back. I'd like to share what I did step by step:
1) I took a 16GB Class 4 HC sdcard and formatted it in another S3.
2) I downloaded @CNexus KitKat debrick image from the OP.
3) I followed this guide exactly by @billard412 exactly:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=44058516&postcount=26
4) I then safely unmounted the sdcard from my laptop.
5) I don't know if the next steps should be in any particular order but I then removed the battery from the phone, connected the phone to the wall charger and inserted the sdcard.
6) I then tried to enter odin mode in the usual way and to my elation, I was in.
7) I then opened Odin 3.07 on my laptop and installed the stock ND8 tar from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2738533
8) Everything went Ok and I now have my phone back. I'd like to thank everyone for posting their knowledge so that others like me can benefit and learn. Special thanks to @CNexus , @billard412 and @DR_CDMA.
1) I took a 16GB Class 4 HC sdcard and formatted it in another S3.
2) I downloaded @CNexus KitKat debrick image from the OP.
3) I followed this guide exactly by @billard412 exactly:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=44058516&postcount=26
4) I then safely unmounted the sdcard from my laptop.
5) I don't know if the next steps should be in any particular order but I then removed the battery from the phone, connected the phone to the wall charger and inserted the sdcard.
6) I then tried to enter odin mode in the usual way and to my elation, I was in.
7) I then opened Odin 3.07 on my laptop and installed the stock ND8 tar from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2738533
8) Everything went Ok and I now have my phone back. I'd like to thank everyone for posting their knowledge so that others like me can benefit and learn. Special thanks to @CNexus , @billard412 and @DR_CDMA.
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Excellent! That's cool you were able to revive it!
[BATTERY] Plasma Battery! ??? & wickeddecimalbarwide_colors
Charging still shot
n00b-xda-disciple's Wicked X Video review
Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy SIII on TouchWiz 4.4.2 with Conquest: Singularity v2.2, Ktoonsez' latest kernel and the latest Philz Touch Recovery.
I was beginning to think that it was hopeless. I tried all the other guides. I even went as far as installing Ubuntu on my machine because some folks were saying that was the only way. I tries other debrick images also, but @CNexus file did the trick. And it was amazingly simple with Cygwin. Now I have no fear, LolExcellent! That's cool you were able to revive it!
[BATTERY] Plasma Battery! ??? & wickeddecimalbarwide_colors
Charging still shot
n00b-xda-disciple's Wicked X Video review
Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy SIII on TouchWiz 4.4.2 with Conquest: Singularity v2.2, Ktoonsez' latest kernel and the latest Philz Touch Recovery.
mannnnnnnnnnnnnn it workedddddddd luv u dude !!!!!!
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