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So, yes - I need to know how to brick my phone beyond repair please....
"Why !?" I hear you ask....
Imagine the situation: Some b*st*rd has stolen your phone . You are never going to see it again... ever... absolutely zero chance of getting it back...
If you had the option to brick it so no one could sell or use it, would you?
Yes, of course you would!!
It's possible to remotely execute any BusyBox/Terminal Command using the application Tasker and I want to know which one would do the most damage!?
Please let me know! "How do I totally brick my phone?"
load a corrupted radio file
ohhh, sorry to hear that. I had the perfect solution if you still had the phone. But um yea I don't take out my phone near any friends. My brother got his vibrant stolen only after 2 weeks.
Didn't mean to mislead! My phone hasn't actually been stolen! But I'm working on security profiles and need to know what the final command should be to end its life....
Can you flash a radio from the Terminal Emulator?
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This is what I did and I actually got Verizon to give me a re-furb. What it does is bring you to the htc inc white screen then nothing else. Use root explorer go into systems/fonts and change the name on one of the droidsans.ttf files. I think I totally erased the files but changing them should cause the phone to be totally [email protected]#$. I hope this messes up your phone. Lol
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BIGshot87 said:
This is what I did and I actually got Verizon to give me a re-furb. What it does is bring you to the htc inc white screen then nothing else. Use root explorer go into systems/fonts and change the name on one of the droidsans.ttf files. I think I totally erased the files but changing them should cause the phone to be totally [email protected]#$. I hope this messes up your phone. Lol
skinny jeans piss me off
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Great, thank you! Shall test and hopefully be able to revert in fastboot?!
skinny jeans piss me off too...
Further to the above, does anyone know if it's possible to disable entering recovery by deleting certain system files?
brandall said:
Further to the above, does anyone know if it's possible to disable entering recovery by deleting certain system files?
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Flash a stock recovery image to disable flashable recovery. Also renaming a file doesn't make the phone broken, it just doesn't allow it to boot.
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Flash a stock recovery image to disable flashable recovery. Also renaming a file doesn't make the phone broken, it just doesn't allow it to boot.
Sent from my Hero that never dies! ;D
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Thanks - I need it to boot - just don't want someone else to be able to wipe and/or flash a custom ROM
I need to read up if there's a way to flash a recovery image from the Terminal...
hmmm...
brandall said:
Thanks - I need it to boot - just don't want someone else to be able to wipe and/or flash a custom ROM
I need to read up if there's a way to flash a recovery image from the Terminal...
hmmm...
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To flash a recovery image from TE use this if your ROM supports it: flash_image recovery /sdcard/(name of recovery)
An example for me is: flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-clockwork-2.5.0.7-heroc.img
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To flash a recovery image from TE use this if your ROM supports it: flash_image recovery /sdcard/(name of recovery)
An example for me is: flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-clockwork-2.5.0.7-heroc.img
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That's brilliant thank you. Do you know if that can be reverted by flashing the custom recovery image again? Or will I lose the ability to do that once I flash back to stock?
Sorry for the questions, this stuff confuses me...
brandall said:
That's brilliant thank you. Do you know if that can be reverted by flashing the custom recovery image again? Or will I lose the ability to do that once I flash back to stock?
Sorry for the questions, this stuff confuses me...
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As long as you're on a custom ROM that supports flash_image you can flash a recovery image through TE.
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dastin1015 said:
As long as you're on a custom ROM that supports flash_image you can flash a recovery image through TE.
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Thanks again - mine does, so sorted
Never thought of using lookout?
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makr8100 said:
Never thought of using lookout?
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Hopefully going way beyond that... see >>here<<
Do you have the information to know whether it's truly been stolen yet? I'd make sure that it's really been stolen and you, for sure, wouldn't get it back before attempting something like this. I definitely wouldn't want to brick my own phone on purpose just to find out I forgot it somewhere...
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Do you have the information to know whether it's truly been stolen yet? I'd make sure that it's really been stolen and you, for sure, wouldn't get it back before attempting something like this. I definitely wouldn't want to brick my own phone on purpose just to find out I forgot it somewhere...
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See the link above Chris. My phone hasn't actually been stolen, but these commands will be a last resort feature of Sherlock Droid.
Agreed, it would be a nightmare to brick it and then find it under the sofa!
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You shouldn't brick it quite the opposite, the thief should be able to keep using the phone as much as possible but in the mean time the gps should be secretly turned on and photos should be make so you can track the thief or if that fails publish his info and name and shame him
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You shouldn't brick it quite the opposite, the thief should be able to keep using the phone as much as possible but in the mean time the gps should be secretly turned on and photos should be make so you can track the thief or if that fails publish his info and name and shame him
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You are absolutely right godutch, that is the main aim of the profiles to keep booting into the OS at every opportunity, even using fake recovering images (as in a photo of the custom recovery screen) for the splash and boot animation that appear to be the device gathering system information - all the time it will actually be booting with the launcher, notification bar and lock screen etc disabled so not to give it away - once there the priority is to get a GPS fix
However, there will come a point when you've not heard a peep from the device in days and perhaps your insurance (if you have it) have already paid out... In which case, some users will want to execute the remote 'self destruct' command, to make sure the phone will never be usable to anyone else....
Edit: Trying to make the thief provide a valid gmail address and forwarding the new number if the SIM is changed are all in there too!
What if thief changes to SIM that has no data plan or does not enter any wifi area?
Hey everyone,
I want to downgrade my Atrix from 2.3.4 to 2.2.2 with Fruit Cakes or Pudding...
What are the chances of a hard brick flashing with Fruit Cakes/Pudding?
What are the chances of a soft brick flashing with Fruit Cakes/Pudding?
Thanks...
Always use fruit cakes, rsd lite can kill your phone
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I already know that, I killed my first phone... I wana downgrade this one... What are the chances of a brick using fruit cakes, anyone?
Alaq said:
I already know that, I killed my first phone... I wana downgrade this one... What are the chances of a brick using fruit cakes, anyone?
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You could always be the first!
Alaq said:
I already know that, I killed my first phone... I wana downgrade this one... What are the chances of a brick using fruit cakes, anyone?
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You can´t HARDbrick your phone with fruitcakes that easily - there is always the possibility to restore via NAND or flash another zip. CWM is your friend
Oh dang, that's awesome!
schwarzlichtkind said:
You can´t HARDbrick your phone with fruitcakes - there is always the possibility to restore via NAND or flash another zip. CWM is your friend
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Ignore this guy!
First thing it says in BIG RED letters in the Fruitcakes thread is:
This should be safe to flash using CWM for OTA and NORMAL users alike. Regardless, any time anyone flashes they run the risk of a soft brick or hard brick. So always remember to be cautious, and only you are responsible for your actions.
CaelanT said:
Ignore this guy!
First thing it says in BIG RED letters in the Fruitcakes thread is:
This should be safe to flash using CWM for OTA and NORMAL users alike. Regardless, any time anyone flashes they run the risk of a soft brick or hard brick. So always remember to be cautious, and only you are responsible for your actions.
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Ok but even if the flashing fails in CWM, I can easily reformat the data, cache, devlink, etc, and flash again without turning my phone off... Am I right?
Alaq said:
Ok but even if the flashing fails in CWM, I can easily reformat the data, cache, devlink, etc, and flash again without turning my phone off... Am I right?
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Can't tell you that. Only thing I can tell you is that the warning above was written by someone who knows a helluva lot more than either of us!
Any flashing can be dangerous; assume you've taken the back cover off and kind of drop the phone so that the battery falls out - mid installing what ever it is you're flashing? Radio, kernel, rom, fruitcake. Brick..
There are always risks. You just need to be careful & follow instructions. The gods of flashing will take care of the rest. ;-)
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Any flashing can be dangerous; assume you've taken the back cover off and kind of drop the phone so that the battery falls out - mid installing what ever it is you're flashing? Radio, kernel, rom, fruitcake. Brick..
There are always risks. You just need to be careful & follow instructions. The gods of flashing will take care of the rest. ;-)
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Lmao x1- my "office" is the floor, everything I do weather soldering, flashing, etc is done on my awesome wood floor... So falling phone is crossed out...
Lmao x2- My old phone turned off in the middle of an OTA to Gingerbread... Needless to say it hardbricked!
Lmao xCOMBOBREAKER- Thanks for your help guys!
My phone is stuck in the "Quietly brilliant" screen after it was submerged in water. I don't care about saving the device (though that would be cool), what I really want are the pictures on it. We took it to a cell phone repair company and they said they soaked in in some solution, but it didn't help. The pc doesn't recognize it when its plugged in. It sees something is attached, but says usb drive malfunctioned or something along those lines and no drives show up in explorer.
What are my options (hopefully I have one)?
Thank you for any help
Were you rooted? Could try holding power and volume down to get to bootloader. From there go to recovery. May or may not work
Edit: in recovery mount (not sure if internal can be mounted this way, been a while since I've done it)
southernstyle said:
Were you rooted? Could try holding power and volume down to get to bootloader. From there go to recovery. May or may not work
Edit: in recovery mount (not sure if internal can be mounted this way, been a while since I've done it)
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It has not been rooted. Will I lose anything going to the bootloader and recovery mode?
Thank you for the reply
jaybuffet said:
It has not been rooted. Will I lose anything going to the bootloader and recovery mode?
Thank you for the reply
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When you root and install a recovery you get the options to do certain things. From my understanding, there's no usable recovery otherwise? Are you trying to recover the internal sd data? It's possible you could flash the signed htc stock JB update through bootloader. The only thing that would resolve is maybe the system going corrupt, it's worth a shot. That said, it may not do anything. I don't think you can flash the recovery without booting the phone up and going through root process, someone correct me if I'm wrong.
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When you root and install a recovery you get the options to do certain things. From my understanding, there's no usable recovery otherwise? Are you trying to recover the internal sd data? It's possible you could flash the signed htc stock JB update through bootloader. The only thing that would resolve is maybe the system going corrupt, it's worth a shot. That said, it may not do anything. I don't think you can flash the recovery without booting the phone up and going through root process, someone correct me if I'm wrong.
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Yeah, I would like to recover the contents on the internal sd.
If I took it to someone good with a soldering iron, do you think the internal memory could be transplanted to a donor phone?
jaybuffet said:
If I took it to someone good with a soldering iron, do you think the internal memory could be transplanted to a donor phone?
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No.
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No.
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care to elaborate?
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micro soldering skills that only percision robots can do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJS_Jqw3Sy0
Now just imagine that video on a micro cell phone kinda scale.
mbaseball3 said:
micro soldering skills that only percision robots can do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJS_Jqw3Sy0
Now just imagine that video on a micro cell phone kinda scale.
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So its not like this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogd3KFfE0Cg
My work colleague is an idiot - Despite warnings from his S3 that phone memory was low he continued taking videos and pictures and he has no sd card in the phone. Now the phone boots up but the pattern unlock screen is unresponsive. I offered to try to help him as he said "The last 2 years photos of my life are on there" so clearly a factory reset will lose them all so that's not an option.
So I installed Kies, thinking I'll just grab them to my PC for him - but alas no. MTP USB driver installation fails every time and yes I've googled my socks off, tried all the regedit fixes, even tried installing Win 7 32 bit on a spare hard drive.
I've checked that the ribbon connector for the screen is attached, tried linux boot disks that don't see the phone and now I'm all out of ideas. Any help would be vastly appreciated :fingers-crossed:
Hello,
Welcome to XDA.
Most of the time the screen being locked wont let PC interact with the device. There are many different models of S3, give me your model number and I'll guide you to where you can find answers.
You may can flash a custom recovery or a temporary recovery(not sure because I don't know what is available for the model you're working with and what isn't), if you can get one of those recoveries then you may can use the factory reset in recovery(it wont wipe his photos) or adb to get the phone working.
Remember to create an XDA account so you can post and reply in the forums.
Droidriven said:
Hello,
Welcome to XDA.
Most of the time the screen being locked wont let PC interact with the device. There are many different models of S3, give me your model number and I'll guide you to where you can find answers.
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Hi there and many thanks for the welcome. The model number is GT-19300 :fingers-crossed:
Azarameus said:
Hi there and many thanks for the welcome. The model number is GT-19300 :fingers-crossed:
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Your issue is unusual because of how it got that way, I'm not certain exactly which subforum or thread you need but I will link you to the GT I9300 Main Forum linked below:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3
You can check through the subforums there for anything you think applies, the Q&A and the 2 development subforums are most likely where you will find help, this thread will be moved to the GT I9300 Q&A forum linked below:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/help
If you get replies you can check them and respond there, you might want to find some off topic threads to post in until you have at least 10 posts so that you can post in the development forums there if you need to, there is a 10 post minimum before you can post there. Good luck.
Droidriven said:
Your issue is unusual because of how it got that way, I'm not certain exactly which subforum or thread you need but I will link you to the GT I9300 Main Forum linked below:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3
You can check through the subforums there for anything you think applies, the Q&A and the 2 development subforums are most likely where you will find help, this thread will be moved to the GT I9300 Q&A forum linked below:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/help
If you get replies you can check them and respond there, you might want to find some off topic threads to post in until you have at least 10 posts so that you can post in the development forums there if you need to, there is a 10 post minimum before you can post there. Good luck.
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Ok thanks again. I can get it into Recovery mode but all I've tried so far is clearing the cache, as I don't want to do anything that might lose his pictures.
Azarameus said:
Ok thanks again. I can get it into Recovery mode but all I've tried so far is clearing the cache, as I don't want to do anything that might lose his pictures.
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If it is stock recovery then I believe if you can get to download mode then you can flash a custom recovery and flash the superSU zip to root the device then factory reset/wipe data, wipe cache and wipe dalvik cache, this will clear the lockscreen but won't erase his pictures, music, etc., it may let him back into his phone, he will just have to be careful because the device will be rooted and he could make things worse if he doesn't know what he's doing. If that works and he gets back in his phone but isn't comfortable with the risk of having a rooted device without understanding its usage then the device can be un rooted by going into the superSU settings and choosing the unroot and uninstall option. He'd still have custom recovery though. You might even be able to just flash the recovery to do the wipes and not have to root, I'm not sure about that though because I've never used recovery without root so I can't speak from personal experience.
I've never owned the i9300 so I'm not sure if you can do that or not safely from the state you are in so you may want to verify in this forum before you try it, but I don't see an issue with you doing it, its commonly used to root the S3 variants and doesn't wipe any important data or factory reset the device
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Droidriven said:
If it is stock recovery then I believe if you can get to download mode then you can flash a custom recovery and flash the superSU zip to root the device then factory reset/wipe data, wipe cache and wipe dalvik cache, this will clear the lockscreen but won't erase his pictures, music, etc., it may let him back into his phone, he will just have to be careful because the device will be rooted and he could make things worse if he doesn't know what he's doing. If that works and he gets back in his phone but isn't comfortable with the risk of having a rooted device without understanding its usage then the device can be un rooted by going into the superSU settings and choosing the unroot and uninstall option. He'd still have custom recovery though. You might even be able to just flash the recovery to do the wipes and not have to root, I'm not sure about that though because I've never used recovery without root so I can't speak from personal experience.
I've never owned the i9300 so I'm not sure if you can do that or not safely from the state you are in so you may want to verify in this forum before you try it, but I don't see an issue with you doing it, its commonly used to root the S3 variants and doesn't wipe any important data or factory reset the device
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Whew, most of that went right over my head lol. An idiot's guide please? Bearing in mind that my PC can't currently connect to the phone I'm guessing that I need to put the custom recovery file (where to find one?) on an SD card via a PC card reader and try it from there in download mode? I think he'll be delighted just to get his pictures and videos back even if the phone never works again, so it being rooted won't be an issue.
Azarameus said:
Whew, most of that went right over my head lol. An idiot's guide please? Bearing in mind that my PC can't currently connect to the phone I'm guessing that I need to put the custom recovery file (where to find one?) on an SD card via a PC card reader and try it from there in download mode? I think he'll be delighted just to get his pictures and videos back even if the phone never works again, so it being rooted won't be an issue.
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No, to get to download mode you need to have the phone off, then press and hold the volume down+home+power button, when you see the caution screen you press up, if you can get to this mode you may can flash a TWRP recovery through Odin from PC to phone.
But first, before we get to Odin, do you or he know what android version he had before this happened, Kit Kat? Lollipop? I need to see if there are locked bootloaders on your device builds and which ones they are and which are safe to flash TWRP, if the i9300 is like some of the other Samsung devices with certain locked bootloaders that can't be unlocked or downgraded then flashing TWRP could and probably would brick the device. I need some info so I can check for you.
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Droidriven said:
No, to get to download mode you need to have the phone off, then press and hold the volume down+home+power button, when you see the caution screen you press up, if you can get to this mode you may can flash a TWRP recovery through Odin from PC to phone.
But first, before we get to Odin, do you or he know what android version he had before this happened, Kit Kat? Lollipop? I need to see if there are locked bootloaders on your device builds and which ones they are and which are safe to flash TWRP, if the i9300 is like some of the other Samsung devices with certain locked bootloaders that can't be unlocked or downgraded then flashing TWRP could and probably would brick the device. I need some info so I can check for you.
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I honestly have no idea which android build it is running on, as I can't get into the settings page or anything else and I very much doubt if my friend knows as he is pretty much clueless on such things, hence the problem. All I know is that its a few years old and when it starts up there is a three.co.uk white screen icon before it gets to the unresponsive lockscreen. I am also almost as clueless with android devices (I'm only a PC guy) - so far my only experience has been to set up kodi with addons for TV viewing which is why I came here to ask you expert guys
Methinks I won't try to get into download mode just yet in case it makes things worse
All your help is much appreciated, thank you!
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I honestly have no idea which android build it is running on, as I can't get into the settings page or anything else and I very much doubt if my friend knows as he is pretty much clueless on such things, hence the problem. All I know is that its a few years old and when it starts up there is a three.co.uk white screen icon before it gets to the unresponsive lockscreen. I am also almost as clueless with android devices (I'm only a PC guy) - so far my only experience has been to set up kodi with addons for TV viewing which is why I came here to ask you expert guys
Methinks I won't try to get into download mode just yet in case it makes things worse
All your help is much appreciated, thank you!
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The device was never updated, it never had stock upgrades? If not then I can narrow down what was on it, when was the device bought?
If you can boot to download mode and if it is recognized in Odin then you've got a chance, at the moment your PC isn't recognizing the phone but if it successfully connects to Odin then you've got a chance, otherwise I'm not sure what success you'll have.
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The device was never updated, it never had stock upgrades? If not then I can narrow down what was on it, when was the device bought?
If you can boot to download mode and if it is recognized in Odin then you've got a chance, at the moment your PC isn't recognizing the phone but if it successfully connects to Odin then you've got a chance, otherwise I'm not sure what success you'll have.
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I would put a spare miniSD card in, flash TWRP recovery in odin, access the storage from there and copy the files to the SD card. Easy as pie.
The international version of the S3 (GT-i9300) already has an unlocked bootloader. So no problem there.
Important to note is that if the device is not rooted the TWRP recovery won't "stick" when the device is allowed to reboot automatically after the odin flash. So in odin you have to UNTICK(!) the reboot option and after flash reboot directly to recovery via holding Vol UP + Home + Power for about 7 sec.
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The device was never updated, it never had stock upgrades? If not then I can narrow down what was on it, when was the device bought?
If you can boot to download mode and if it is recognized in Odin then you've got a chance, at the moment your PC isn't recognizing the phone but if it successfully connects to Odin then you've got a chance, otherwise I'm not sure what success you'll have.
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I showed him this thread at work earlier and although he growled somewhat at being called an idiot in my OP, he had to agree he was lol. It turns out he bought his partner the same phone around the same time so I checked and it has Automatic upgrades ticked and is on build 4.3 so we can hopefully assume the problematic one is on the same version. When I mentioned the possibility of bricking to him he became unsure as to whether I should proceed with flashing. If he was to send the phone to Samsung themselves would they be able to retrieve his data safely, albeit with some cost and waiting?
Thanks again for your input
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I would put a spare miniSD card in, flash TWRP recovery in odin, access the storage from there and copy the files to the SD card. Easy as pie.
The international version of the S3 (GT-i9300) already has an unlocked bootloader. So no problem there.
Important to note is that if the device is not rooted the TWRP recovery won't "stick" when the device is allowed to reboot automatically after the odin flash. So in odin you have to UNTICK(!) the reboot option and after flash reboot directly to recovery via holding Vol UP + Home + Power for about 7 sec.
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That sounds good - all he wants is his files back safely. It certainly isn't rooted. So once that is done and I'm back in recovery mode how do I get out of there, just reboot it from there?
Thanks for the help, it is much appreciated
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That sounds good - all he wants is his files back safely. It certainly isn't rooted. So once that is done and I'm back in recovery mode how do I get out of there, just reboot it from there?
Thanks for the help, it is much appreciated
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Yes, after you copied the files via the "File Manager" in TWRP you simply choose "reboot system". Rebooting to system will automatically restore the original recovery you are used to. Or you can choose to shutdown in TWRP, remove the SDcard "safely" first and then reboot.
Even more: After you copied all the photos/videos from internal storage (which should be under /storage/sdcard0/DCIM/camera) to SDcard you could simply delete a few of those.
If them taking up too much space is the problem for the lockscreen not working, deleting a few would of course free up some space again, which would then most likely make the lockscreen work again.
But let me make one thing clear: Flashing anything always brings with it the slight(!) possibility something could go wrong, because you are writing to the EMMC of the phone. BUT I can't imagine a samsung staff member doing anything different. He/she would also need to gain access somehow...
After all it's your choice but hundreds of people (including me) have used odin and twrp on different devices for years now without any problem whatsoever. :good:
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Ah one more thing. I would definitely make a full backup (System/Data, EFS and bootloader) while I'm at it! You just choose "backup" in twrp, then the "MicroSD card" under "storage" and go from there. Pretty self explanatory. Never hurts to have a backup!
Hawaiihemd said:
Yes, after you copied the files via the "File Manager" in TWRP you simply choose "reboot system". Rebooting to system will automatically restore the original recovery you are used to. Or you can choose to shutdown in TWRP, remove the SDcard "safely" first and then reboot.
Even more: After you copied all the photos/videos from internal storage (which should be under /storage/sdcard0/DCIM/camera) to SDcard you could simply delete a few of those.
If them taking up too much space is the problem for the lockscreen not working, deleting a few would of course free up some space again, which would then most likely make the lockscreen work again.
But let me make one thing clear: Flashing anything always brings with it the slight(!) possibility something could go wrong, because you are writing to the EMMC of the phone. BUT I can't imagine a samsung staff member doing anything different. He/she would also need to gain access somehow...
After all it's your choice but hundreds of people (including me) have used odin and twrp on different devices for years now without any problem whatsoever. :good:
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Ah one more thing. I would definitely make a full backup (System/Data, EFS and bootloader) while I'm at it! You just choose "backup" in twrp, then the "MicroSD card" under "storage" and go from there. Pretty self explanatory. Never hurts to have a backup!
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Ok thanks again. I am going to attempt this tonight, will update on any progress
Azarameus said:
Ok thanks again. I am going to attempt this tonight, will update on any progress
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Well, that worked! My idiot friend is happy now. Thanks a million for the help - you guys ROCK!
Azarameus said:
Well, that worked! My idiot friend is happy now. Thanks a million for the help - you guys ROCK!
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Nice! And were you able to get the lockscreen working again?
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Nice! And were you able to get the lockscreen working again?
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Yes indeed, all is working now as it should. The village idiot actually danced off to his car when I returned his phone - he has strict orders from me to move all his stuff to the SD card and make regular backups to his PC!
Thanks again - would never have done it without you guys
I have a HTC 10 and i need to remove twrp recovery cause since i installed it i wasnt able to turn on my phone, and could you guys show me a way to recover it, thank you!
Flash the stock recovery.
Can you tell me the full command to do it please?
skywalker312 said:
Can you tell me the full command to do it please?
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Do a search. You know like the rules say. It is deferent for each oem. The commands I use will not work for you.
will it work with s-on, because i cant turn it off
skywalker312 said:
will it work with s-on, because i cant turn it off
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Ok first. This is all stuff you should have known and understood before you even messed with your device. There are very real risks that could brick your device for good and as it voids your warranty then. You are sol.
Stop what you are doing and spend about 5 hours researching things in your device forum.
If I were you, once you get things back to stock, stop messing with your device. Until you understand every aspect of it. Other wise you will end up with a brick and no warranty.