[FIX] [HOWTO] G530 debrick.img and guide to make your own - Galaxy Grand Prime General

***I will update this post tomorrow to clean up and add screenshots***
The image provided is for G530AZ but the howto will be for all models.
I recently hard bricked my prime trying to unlock the bootloader, overwrote aboot and sbl1. The phone was dead. no power, no sound, no nothing.
Luckily for me I had access to an identical phone and was able to create a sd card that loads all the 'hidden' partitions (aboot, sbl1, recovery, boot and whatnot)...and after a day of heartache i was able to recovered my phone.
Unzip the debrick.img
Write the image to a blank sd card with win32 diskimager
Put in the card and power on with -Vol+Home+Power, download mode will run from your sd and you can flash the full firmware with odin
Img creation method 1:
Su and busybox are required.
In your favorite terminal emulator
Type
su
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Allow su permission
busybox dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/debrick.img bs=1M count=128
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This will create a raw image of the first 128mb of your phone in the root of your phones internal memory.
Connect to your pc with usb and copy the img to your pc.
Then write your image to a blank sd with win32 diskimager
Img creation method 2:
Place your phone in downloader mode by powering the phone with on with -Vol+Home+Power pressed.
Extract the pit file from your full firmware tarball. Flash the pit and tar with odin like normal, except this time tick tflash.
It will more than likely fail writing the system partition, if it made it that far your sd should still work, as all the important partitions come before system.
Once you're thru and would like to use your sd again format with something like this free formatter
enjoy
-D

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Nice guide.

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I installed TWRP and my GRAND PRIME sm-g530bt does not turn on. It does not go into fast boot mode. Only a blue and vibrating light is blinking.
Video Link :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM_9warqENU

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DamienMc said:
***I will update this post tomorrow to clean up and add screenshots***
The image provided is for G530AZ but the howto will be for all models.
I recently hard bricked my prime trying to unlock the bootloader, overwrote aboot and sbl1. The phone was dead. no power, no sound, no nothing.
Luckily for me I had access to an identical phone and was able to create a sd card that loads all the 'hidden' partitions (aboot, sbl1, recovery, boot and whatnot)...and after a day of heartache i was able to recovered my phone.
Unzip the debrick.img
Write the image to a blank sd card with win32 diskimager
Put in the card and power on with -Vol+Home+Power, download mode will run from your sd and you can flash the full firmware with odin
Img creation method 1:
Su and busybox are required.
In your favorite terminal emulator
Type
Allow su permission
This will create a raw image of the first 128mb of your phone in the root of your phones internal memory.
Connect to your pc with usb and copy the img to your pc.
Then write your image to a blank sd with win32 diskimager
Img creation method 2:
Place your phone in downloader mode by powering the phone with on with -Vol+Home+Power pressed.
Extract the pit file from your full firmware tarball. Flash the pit and tar with odin like normal, except this time tick tflash.
It will more than likely fail writing the system partition, if it made it that far your sd should still work, as all the important partitions come before system.
Once you're thru and would like to use your sd again format with something like this free formatter
enjoy
-D
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Can you be more pacific, I have another phone as well , I can't get it to work, thank you for your patients and time

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[email protected] said:
Can you be more pacific, I have another phone as well , I can't get it to work, thank you for your patients and time
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Hard for me to be specific when you were not specific.
There's the img and two different methods of recreating it yourself, what's not working?
But I do not own this device anymore, so any advice from me is just a guess at this point.

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I downloaded the debrick image and exstracted it to my computer and then i put it on a blank sd card and then i used wins 32 disk imager and and used the write button and it put it on the sd card put in the phone nothing happened. Im sure i did it wrong.i do have a phone just like it what can i do.please help.

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[email protected] said:
I downloaded the debrick image and exstracted it to my computer and then i put it on a blank sd card and then i used wins 32 disk imager and and used the write button and it put it on the sd card put in the phone nothing happened. Im sure i did it wrong.i do have a phone just like it what can i do.please help.
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Did You Put debrick img in Your Sd Card and Chose this in Win32diskimager to Write? Or You Chose The One Which Was Downloaded at Your PC?

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I used the one that you have on here it says it's corrupted, put your file on my computer extracted it then I put a new sd card in reader pluged it into my phone, then I found the file I extracted sent it to my sd card, opened wins 32 disk imager selected write it said successfull, put it into the phone powered it up nothing, I know I must be doing somthing wrong, it says it is a blank image, is it maybe that I copyed it directly from your link on xxda? Can you tell me where I can directly download the link? What am I doing wrong? I have three of these phones, can I use the good one to fix the bad one?
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[email protected] said:
I used the one that you have on here it says it's corrupted, put your file on my computer extracted it then I put a new sd card in reader pluged it into my phone, then I found the file I extracted sent it to my sd card, opened wins 32 disk imager selected write it said successfull, put it into the phone powered it up nothing, I know I must be doing somthing wrong, it says it is a blank image, is it maybe that I copyed it directly from your link on xxda? Can you tell me where I can directly download the link? What am I doing wrong? I have three of these phones, can I use the good one to fix the bad one?
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Use The Debrick Image Which You Got Downloaded to Your PC to Write in The Win32DiskImager, and Before That Format Your Sd Card in FAT32 File System.

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Yes, I did what you said, but nothing, but I put the sd card in my other phone which is the same as my as my broken one, and it just stays on the logo, I wish I could put all my information off my good phone on to my sd card and put the sd card into the bad one to boot it up, if that would work, ?? I apologize for nagging you, I just wish I could get it to work,

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[email protected] said:
Yes, I did what you said, but nothing, but I put the sd card in my other phone which is the same as my as my broken one, and it just stays on the logo, I wish I could put all my information off my good phone on to my sd card and put the sd card into the bad one to boot it up, if that would work, ?? I apologize for nagging you, I just wish I could get it to work,
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Then Use This Method, But Be More Careful and Follow The Instructions Very Carefully, And Make Sure to Check Mark on T Flash Option in Odin
Here's The Link
https://www.scribd.com/document/272...de-Qualcomm-APQ8084-Includes-SM-N910F-Rev-3-0

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I Used The Above T Flash Method With a Working Grand Prime Phone, But This Method Also Didn't Help Me...

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DamienMc said:
***I will update this post tomorrow to clean up and add screenshots***
The image provided is for G530AZ but the howto will be for all models.
I recently hard bricked my prime trying to unlock the bootloader, overwrote aboot and sbl1. The phone was dead. no power, no sound, no nothing.
Luckily for me I had access to an identical phone and was able to create a sd card that loads all the 'hidden' partitions (aboot, sbl1, recovery, boot and whatnot)...and after a day of heartache i was able to recovered my phone.
Unzip the debrick.img
Write the image to a blank sd card with win32 diskimager
Put in the card and power on with -Vol+Home+Power, download mode will run from your sd and you can flash the full firmware with odin
Img creation method 1:
Su and busybox are required.
In your favorite terminal emulator
Type
Allow su permission
This will create a raw image of the first 128mb of your phone in the root of your phones internal memory.
Connect to your pc with usb and copy the img to your pc.
Then write your image to a blank sd with win32 diskimager
Img creation method 2:
Place your phone in downloader mode by powering the phone with on with -Vol+Home+Power pressed.
Extract the pit file from your full firmware tarball. Flash the pit and tar with odin like normal, except this time tick tflash.
It will more than likely fail writing the system partition, if it made it that far your sd should still work, as all the important partitions come before system.
Once you're thru and would like to use your sd again format with something like this free formatter
enjoy
-D
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hi .. can someone help me here and share debricked img to my G530w. or can i use the above G530AZ debricked img file into my G530W ?link to my thread https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/help/g530w-hardbricked-power-download-mode-t3747309