N950U hardbrick...help

[Vell123]

HI, I bricked my N950u after rooting with the SamV2 method for snapdragon. I rooted it fine, then tried flashing stock firmware and supersu zip. I know snapdragon is bl locked but I thought I could possibly do something besides hard brick lol. Anyway, does a rooted n950u that they could share a partial or full sys dump with me so I can make a debrick img. Also if anyone knows how to un/debrick please let me know and share. Thanks in advance!!!!


P.s. I know it was stupid to do lol
p.p.s. if your not going to contribute to the solution and or insult my foolish decision please keep your comments to yourself, thanks

 

[me2151]

You cannot debrick. What does your phone do?
EDIT: you probably are not bricked anyway. Actually you might be bricked if you flashed stock rev1 firmware instead. That would brick you...

 

[Vell123]

You cannot debrick. What does your phone do?
EDIT: you probably are not bricked anyway. Actually you might be bricked if you flashed stock rev1 firmware instead. That would brick you...

I definitely am bricked because my pc picks the phone up as "HS-USB QDLOADER 9008" i.g. hard brick. Doesnt boot into odin, no display on the phone but vibration feedback when trying odin button combo

 

[me2151]

I definitely am bricked because my pc picks the phone up as "HS-USB QDLOADER 9008" i.g. hard brick. Doesnt boot into odin, no display on the phone but vibration feedback when trying odin button combo

Yup. Thats 100% a hardbrick. Unfortunatly the debrick img method doesnt work on this phone. Only way to fix at this moment is a carrier swap. Thats how I got mine fixed.

 

[Vell123]

Yup. Thats 100% a hardbrick. Unfortunatly the debrick img method doesnt work on this phone. Only way to fix at this moment is a carrier swap. Thats how I got mine fixed.

Carrier swap? can you explain a bit more? But I believe if I had a system dump for the note 8 I can make a un/debrick image just like previous Samsung devices. I'm willing to try but i dont have the software needed

 

[me2151]

Carrier swap? can you explain a bit more? But I believe if I had a system dump for the note 8 I can make a un/debrick image just like previous Samsung devices. I'm willing to try but i dont have the software needed

Mine died in the middle of an update and when i got it back on a computer it was in 9008. Was unable to fix it. took it to my carrier as I have insurance and they replaced it.

 

[Vell123]

Mine died in the middle of an update and when i got it back on a computer it was in 9008. Was unable to fix it. took it to my carrier as I have insurance and they replaced it.

Ahhh... definately dont have insurance. But thanks is your device rooted

 

[N10AP]

Long shot but... qfil / firehose msm8998 is the way to go with this. Can be done, the hard part is getting the firehose programmer (and maybe rawprogram0 / patch0 xmls too)

Isnt it supported by Z3x / Sigma / Infinity / Octoplus?

Doesnt that "aryk" site have a load of programmer files that could work with your device?

Failing that, JTAG / EMMC flash (pinouts should be around somewhere)

Sorry can`t be more help. I`m working on a similar issue with a Moto Z2 play atm

EDIT: I`m sure the 835 (what you have) supports booting from the SD card.

You need to ask someone with a rooted Snapdragon N8 to make a copy of the first 167(ish) MB of mmcblk0

Like this... (Brief idea... whoever does this needs to do it obviously from shell, on the device itself wether thats from TWRP shell or ADB in *nix / Win thats up to you)

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/Loader.img bs=1024 count=168960

Once some kind soul has done this for you and you have downloaded it, write the resulting image to decent SD card using Win32diskimager, place in device and try booting. See if the bootloader runs enough to get you into ODIN.
YMMV but it is a recovery method for Snapdragons. Weather you overwrite EFS / Lose IMEI I don`t know. Only just getting back into Sammy scene.

It is kind of like a failsafe incase of EMMC corruption I think.

I can`t help with this sadly as I`m Exy

 

[Vell123]

Long shot but... qfil / firehose msm8998 is the way to go with this. Can be done, the hard part is getting the firehose programmer (and maybe rawprogram0 / patch0 xmls too)

Please explain a bit more

Isnt it supported by Z3x / Sigma / Infinity / Octoplus?

I have a z3x box

Doesnt that "aryk" site have a load of programmer files that could work with your device?

Please explain more if possible or provide web links

Failing that, JTAG / EMMC flash (pinouts should be around somewhere)

Sorry can`t be more help. I`m working on a similar issue with a Moto Z2 play atm

EDIT: I`m sure the 835 (what you have) supports booting from the SD card.

Thats what I hope to do


You need to ask someone with a rooted Snapdragon N8 to make a copy of the first 167(ish) MB of mmcblk0

Like this... (Brief idea... whoever does this needs to do it obviously from shell, on the device itself wether thats from TWRP shell or ADB in *nix / Win thats up to you)

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/Loader.img bs=1024 count=168960

Once some kind soul has done this for you and you have downloaded it, write the resulting image to decent SD card using Win32diskimager, place in device and try booting. See if the bootloader runs enough to get you into ODIN.
YMMV but it is a recovery method for Snapdragons. Weather you overwrite EFS / Lose IMEI I don`t know. Only just getting back into Sammy scene.

It is kind of like a failsafe incase of EMMC corruption I think.

I can`t help with this sadly as I`m Exy

Thanks for your input its help!

 

[me2151]

Thanks for your input its help!

I AM Rooted however all of my stuff is experimental. So my files wont work for you. Good luck though.

 

[Vell123]

I AM Rooted however all of my stuff is experimental. So my files wont work for you. Good luck though.

you cant do a backup and share files please:fingers-crossed:

 

[Zionator]

you cant do a backup and share files please:fingers-crossed:

Sorry maybe u already tried it but here in UK there is a **** ton of mobile repair shop and in some of them are some heavy dutie geeks.

Maybe look around your area and see if you can find someone with big passion for problem solving.

 

[Nick216ohio]

Just got my Note 8. But I remember hard bricked phones in the past brought back to life with jtag devices. Anyone try Jtag device or gotten Jtag service done to hard bricked Note 8?

Last tax season was supposed to buy 1, but car issues. I know they're expensive. But if they can fix phones with ease. Then well worth it.

 

[ProUnlocker]

HI, I bricked my N950u after rooting with the SamV2 method for snapdragon. I rooted it fine, then tried flashing stock firmware and supersu zip. I know snapdragon is bl locked but I thought I could possibly do something besides hard brick lol. Anyway, does a rooted n950u that they could share a partial or full sys dump with me so I can make a debrick img. Also if anyone knows how to un/debrick please let me know and share. Thanks in advance!!!!


P.s. I know it was stupid to do lol
p.p.s. if your not going to contribute to the solution and or insult my foolish decision please keep your comments to yourself, thanks

did you manage to fix this? i have some unbricking files i want to test, let me know please

 

[Vell123]

did you manage to fix this? i have some unbricking files i want to test, let me know please

i sent it to samsung but i going to re root and copy img partitions

 

[BigCountry907]

I have unbrick files for flashing qdl9008 mode for bootloader rev 2.
If you are on samfail v2 or v2.5 maybe ot the normal rev 2 bootloader they should work.
Let me know if you need them.

 

[guysmiley82]

I have unbrick files for flashing qdl9008 mode for bootloader rev 2.
If you are on samfail v2 or v2.5 maybe ot the normal rev 2 bootloader they should work.
Let me know if you need them.

I definately could use them. I am in the same boat.

 

[BigCountry907]

Unbrick Files

I definately could use them. I am in the same boat.

Go to this thread.
I will post the files and instructions there in the thread i started for unbricking.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-8/how-to/note-8-n950u-qdl9008-edl-mode-unbrick-t3851345

 

[Gam3]

did you get this resolved, I am stuck only being able to go into upload mode. I can shut it off with power and vol. down but the only thing it does is go back into upload when I try button combos. bootloader 6 btw