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FonePaw - Solution - Bricked - Unbrick Samsung Phone/Tablet

Just root your Samsung phone or tablet and then find that it won't turn on properly? It could be that the Samsung device:

  • Is unable to turn on;

  • Gets stuck at boot loop;

  • Freezes at the Samsung logo;

  • Boots straight into recovery mode/bootloader ...

If this sounds like the situation that you are dealing with, your Samsung device is bricked, or more specifically, is soft bricked. Here are tips to unbrick your Samsung phone or tablet.

Method 1. Unbrick Samsung Device That Keeps Rebooting

If your Samsung S7/6/5/4, Note 5/4/3 or Samsung Tab keeps rebooting when you are flashing a new ROM, it is probably because that you forgot to wipe all data of the previous ROM. Now you need to wipe all data in recovery mode to unbrick the device.

  1. Press and hold Volume Up button + Power button + Home button to boot the bricked Samsung device in recovery mode;

  2. Press Volume Down button to highlight Advanced. Press Power button to confirm your choice;

  3. Choose 'wipe dalvik cache' and return to main menu;

  4. Select 'wipe cache partition';

  5. Choose 'wipe data/factory reset';

  6. Finally, reboot your Samsung phone.

If the problem continues, try the next method.

Method 2. Unbrick Samsung by Using Odin to Flash Recovery File

Whether your Samsung phone or tablet doesn't turn on or gets stuck at recovery mode, the method can bring it back to normal. It has been proved effective by many users.

  1. Download Odin on your PC and Download suitable recovery.tar file.

  2. Run Odin as an administrator.

  3. Switch off your Samsung device and boot the device into download mode.

  4. Connect your device to PC and Odin will soon detect the connected device.

  5. Click PDA/AP to add recovery.tar file. Click Start and the flashing process will begin.

  6. Wait until the flashing is completed and your Samsung phone will reboot automatically.

Learn specific steps on How to Flash Samsung Stock/Official ROM via Odin.

Method 3. Use Tool to One Click Unbrick Samsung Phone/Tablet

If the above methods fail or you find it too troublesome to follow the above steps, you can turn to Android one-click unbrick tool like Broken Android Data Extraction. Don't get confused by its name. The program can actually extract data from screen-broken device as well as fixing bricked device in one click. It supports Samsung device including:

  • Samsung Note 3/4/5;

  • Samsung Galaxy S4/S5/S6;

  • Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1.

Here is how Broken Android Data Extraction unbricks Samsung in one click.

Step 1. Download and install the program on your PC. After opening the program, choose Broken Android Phone Data Extraction.

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Step 2. Use USB cable to connect your device to PC and choose Fix Device.

Step 3. You'll be provided with the following five options. Choose the one that fits your problem and click Next.

Step 4. If you have selected 'Stuck in the Startup screen'/'Black screen'/'Other', choose your device name and model and click 'Confirm'. Then follow the instruction of the program to put the device in download mode and click Start.

The program will begin to unbrick your Samsung device by downloading matching recovery package. Your device will reboot when the repair is completed.

Step 5. If you selected 'Stuck in the Download mode' and click Next, the program will automatically bring your device out of Download mode. Your device will restart.

Conclusion:

Method 1 is effective for bricked device that is stuck at boot loop, but may not fix bricked device with other symptoms. Method 2 can unbrick devices with different symptoms, however, you may find it too complicated. Method 3 is effective and straight-forward but you should make sure that your Samsung device is supported by Broken Android Data Extraction.

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What is it?

This tool is designed to unbrick devices with Qualcomm chips MSM8960/8930 and APQ8064.It only works with devices that are stuck in QDLOAD (05c6:9008) / SDBOOT (05c6:9025) mode.

How do I use it?

  1. Connect device to a USB port on a Linux PC.
  2. Run sudo ./unbrick.sh in a terminal. Make sure it is executable (chmod +x ./unbrick.sh).
  3. Follow on screen instructions.

What does it do?

This tool will detect devices in QDLOAD mode, switch to DMSS protocol and upload a hex (converted to bin for this purpose).

The hex is then executed and the device switches to Streaming Protocol, at this point we write a .mbn file to the internaleMMC chip, at the end of the emmc write process the device then reboots.

After the reboot re-running unbrick.sh with detect the device in the second stage for repair,the device's eMMC is accessible as an SD card, we then write back the damaged parts of the bootchain.

You must write a new partition table or the device will always boot in SD card mode.

WARNING: Failure to write the rest of the boot chain could leave your device in a dead statewith only a black screen, no USB mode. The only way around that is through JTAG, or finding the boot resistorwhich switches the device back to QDLOAD mode, or emergency boot.

Go to this XDA thread for further details.

This tool doesn't work at all. What's the deal?

This happens a lot, actually. The truth is, the hex/mbn files for each chip usually differs for each phone; although the phones in question do have the same chip. This is why you should really be backing up these files before your device goes kaput.

Refer to the next section.

My chip isn't listed. How do I get the files needed?

Unfortunately these files are only available through leaks, and as such are hard to come upon. If you do have the MPRGxxxx.hex file for your device and you only need the xxxx_msimage.mbn, this guide is worth a try. (You'll need Windows and the QPST software suite for this, though.)

Another option would be to point a friend with the exact same device as yours to the guide above and have him/her give you the backed up files.

If you really don't have files available, I regret having to say this but your only hope is, most probably, a JTAG box.

Additional Tools (for developers)

  • scripts/getpartbin.py - Python script for backing up the primary partition & extended partition tables and combines them into awritable parition0.bin file
  • scripts/qdload.pl - Perl script for talking in the HDLC framed DMSS & Streaming Protocols used by Qualcomm
  • scripts/get-part.sh - UNFINISHED script by darkspr1te for creating partition tables in sfdisk format and .csv format(to be used in the future to create partition0.bin plus more automated collection)
  • scripts/get-partitions.sh - Script for pulling the partition table from a working device
  • scripts/backup.sh - Script for pulling needed partitions from a working device
  • binaries/ - Folder containing armv5 (armv7 compatible) tools for partition manipulation and data collection
  • binaries/hex2bin - convert your xxxxMPRG.hex file to bin for use with qdload
  • qpst-drivers/ - Windows drivers (only included for convenience)

Credits

  • darkspr1te for the original MSM8660 tool (brixfix)
  • E:V:A
  • SLS
  • JCSullins (RootzWiki)
  • Adam Outler