B ricked your phone don’t worry I got some tricks to Unbrick Any Android Phone But you have to work with some patience and don’t panic your phone will be back in working mode and don’t need to go to your service provider. Here is good news for You – A developer come up with a software called one-click unbrick for Samsung Android phones. This small utility uses ODIN to repair our.
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Galaxy Note 8 is one of the latest inventions by Samsung. It is true that being one of their premium smartphones, Galaxy Note 8 has been widely appreciated and accepted as an amazing device all over the world. However, it is true that Android lovers often perform experiments with all the smartphones launched by different manufacturers which often make their device useless or bricked. Well, if you have also experienced such an issue on your Galaxy Note 8, I will show you in this post how to unbrick or restore Galaxy Note 8 (N950 all variants) with all the useful information that you need to know.
In case you have transformed your Galaxy Note 8 into a bricked device, it doesn’t always mean that it’s now totally useless for you. With the information I am going to share, there are certain chances that you will restore your device. You can unbrick Galaxy Note 8 simply if you follow everything in a proper manner.
Basically rooting, installing custom ROM, as well as custom recoveries are the common factors that lead to a bricked device. It is because of no other reason than this, one must pay close attention to all the facts while doing them. We are going to attempt to restore Galaxy Note 8 but before that, I want you to keep a few important things in your mind.
We will use a firmware to restore Galaxy Note 8 owned by you back into its actual working potion. This will actually avoid all the bad partitions that could be the reason of bricking. Now I want you to understand first the two methods to unbrick Galaxy Note 8 and they are Soft Brick and Hard Brick.
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What exactly Soft-Brick and Hard-Brick is?
Smartphones show two type of behavior when we consider them in bricked mode. In case they don’t boot into recovery mode and show no response to any key combination, it is said to be Hard Brick. Generally, it is considered that you have caused some damage to the hardware while trying to have a Custom ROM, recovery or while rooting. However, the chances of hard brick are certainly less.
We can consider Hard-bricked as a dead device. Of course, it’s a daunting and worrying situation. However, you can visit the nearest repair shop authorized by Samsung. Although you have an option to try USB jig to restore Galaxy Note 8 owned by you, I will be very frank with you at this situation and would like to make it clear that the chances of success are extremely low. Thus you should look for another approach to unbrick Galaxy Note 8 owned by you.
As already mentioned, the chances of hard brick are very less and it only results when the Power-Supply of a device get interrupted while installing an update, Custom ROM or any other software that contributes to the functionality of your device. It is because of no other reason than this, you are always suggested to charge your smartphone sufficiently before installing updates or any other important applications. It can also result when you follow any guide to installing software on your Galaxy Note 8 in a careless manner.
Let us now have a quick look at the Soft Brick. In most of the cases, a brick is a soft one. In this case, the device is not totally dead and faces issues while you try to boot in. There is some software glitch that actually doesn’t let it boot properly. You can always have a working download mode in software brick.
You are now familiar with both the situations. So, let us just move one step further to restore Galaxy Note 8 which you own.
Identifying Bricked Galaxy Note 8
So far we have learned that if the device is able to boot into download mode, we will call it a software brick and in case it doesn’t, it’s probably a hard brick.
Possible causes of Soft-Brick
There are certain factors that can be the reason for this issue. Let us have a clear look at them.
What can be done against the problem?
To restore Galaxy Note 8, simply proceed by installing the firmware following all the instructions and keeping in mind what is mentioned below. There are certain chances that your Galaxy Note 8 will be in working condition once again.
Possible causes of Hard-Brick
In case you are not able to enter the Download mode, the phone is in hard-brick conditions and it is not possible to repair it yourself. The reason for this is already mentioned and i.e. interruption in power supply while installation of any software or update is going on.
One of the solutions that you can try to restore Galaxy Note 8 owned by you is to try USB jig for entering into the download mode. However, I have already made it clear that the probability of succeeding in very less. Thus JTAG is the only option left. You need to find a service provider around you who can help you in this matter and can bring your Galaxy Note 8 back into working mode. Although anyone can buy JTAG from Google and can begin troubleshooting. I don’t suggest you to go for it unless you have core knowledge of electronic devices and components.
So I am not going to unveil what exactly can be done to unbrick Galaxy Note 8 you own. Check it out below.
Warning & Disclaimer
I would like to make it very clear that your Galaxy Note 8 will no longer remain in its warranty period post following the guide mentioned in this post. We at Getdroidtips.com cannot be held responsible if anything goes wrong.
Perquisites
Download Required Files:
The links for Odin zip file and Firmware file are given below. Simply download them and transfer another location on your PC and remember the same.
For Odin Zip file click below link
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For Firmware Zip file click below link
In case you don’t know how to use Odin and install a stock firmware. Check out the below video.
I would again like to remind you to remove the SD card to save the data stored on it in case you haven’t. There might be a need for factory reset and thus doing this is recommended.
Steps to Unbrick or Restore Galaxy Note 8:
In case “Fail” message appears instead of “Pass”, or you stuck somewhere, disconnect your device from PC, close Odin and remove the battery of your Galaxy Note 8. Put it back again and repeat the procedure. This will help you to keep up the pace simply.
Good Luck!
The word 'brick', when used in reference to consumer electronics, describes an electronic device such as a mobile device, game console, or router that, due to severe physical damage, a serious misconfiguration, corrupted firmware, or a hardware problem, can no longer function; hence, it becomes as technologically useful as a brick.[1]
The term derives from the vaguely rectangular shape of many electronic devices (and their detachable power supplies) and the suggestion that the device can function only as a lifeless, square object, such as paperweight or doorstop.
This term is commonly used as a verb. For example, 'I bricked my MP3 player when I tried to modify its firmware.' It can also be used as a noun, for example, 'If it's corrupted and you apply using fastboot, your device is a brick.'
In the common usage of the term, 'bricking' suggests that the damage is so serious as to have rendered the device dead.[2]
Cause and prevention[edit]
Bricking a device is usually a result of interrupting an attempt to update the device. Many devices have an update procedure which must not be interrupted before completion; if interrupted by a power failure, user intervention, or any other reason, the existing firmware may be partially overwritten and unusable. The risk of corruption can be minimized by taking all possible precautions against interruption.
Installing firmware with errors, or for a different revision of the hardware, or installing firmware incompetently patched such as DVD firmware which only plays DVDs sold in a particular region, can also cause bricking.
Devices can also be bricked by malware (malicious software)[3] and sometimes by running software not intentionally harmful but with errors that cause damage.
Some devices include two copies of firmware, one active and the other stored in fixed ROM or writable non-volatile memory and not normally accessible to processes that could corrupt it, as well as a way to copy the stored firmware over the active version, even if corrupt, so that if the active firmware is damaged, it can be replaced by the copy and the device will not be bricked. Other devices have minimal 'bootloader' firmware, enabled usually by operating a switch or jumper, which does not enable the device to work normally but can reload the main firmware.
Types[edit]
Bricking is classified into two types, namely hard and soft, depending on the device's ability to function.[1]
Hard brick[edit]
Hard bricked devices generally show little to no signs of life. A hard bricked device does not power on or show any vendor logo; in essence, the screen remains turned off. Some of the major reasons for hard bricking are installing firmware not made for the device, severe physical damage, interrupted flashing procedure or following a flashing procedure incorrectly.
Some other reasons include flashing a root file for a different file or using wrong commands. Some kernel bugs[4] have been known that affect the /data partition in the eMMC chip, which gets corrupted during certain operations such as wiping and flashing.
Recovering from a hard brick is generally considered difficult and requires the use of a more direct programming interface to the controller; such an interface exists as there must be a way to program the initial firmware on an unprogrammed device. However, additional tools or connections may be needed.
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Apart from that, there are different stages of a bricked device. There are different steps to resolve this, such as analyzing the problem, analyzing the boot process, finding at which stage the hard bricked device is, and making changes with the help of the PC.[5]
Soft brick[edit]
A 'soft bricked' device may show signs of life, but boots unsuccessfully or may display an error screen. Soft bricked devices can usually be fixed; for example, a soft bricked iOS device may display a screen instructing the user to plug it into a computer to perform an operating system recovery using iTunes software.[6] In some cases, soft bricked devices are unable to be repaired without physical repairs being carried out; an example of this would be an iOS device locked with iCloud Activation Lock, of which the only solution is to contact the owner of the iCloud account the device is locked to, or to replace the entire motherboard with a non-locked board.[citation needed]
Unbricking[edit]
Some devices that become 'bricked' because the contents of their nonvolatile memory are incorrect can be 'unbricked' using separate hardware (a debug board) that accesses this memory directly.[7] This is similar to the procedure for loading firmware into a new device when the memory is still empty. This kind of 'bricking' and 'unbricking' occasionally happens during firmware testing and development. In other cases software and hardware procedures, often complex, have been developed that have a good chance of unbricking the device. There is no general method; each device is different. There are also user-created modifier programs to use on bricked or partially bricked devices to make them functional. Examples include the Wiibrew program BootMii used to fix semi-bricked Nintendo Wiis, the Odin program used to flash firmware on Samsung Android devices,[8] or the fastboot Android protocol which is capable of reflashing a device with no software installed.[8]
A soft bricked rootedKindle Fire can be unbricked by using unrooting tools.
A personal computer may be unbricked by using System Restore or backup.
Systems[edit]
In principle any device with rewritable firmware, or certain crucial settings stored into flash or EEPROM memory, can be bricked. Many, but not all, devices with user-updatable firmware have protection against bricking; devices intended to be updated only by official service personnel generally do not.
Amongst devices known to have bricking issues are: older PCs (more recent models often have dual BIOSes or some other form of protection), many mobile phones, handheld game consoles like the PlayStation Portable and Nintendo DS, video game consoles like the Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, many SCSI devices and some lines of hard disk drives and routers.[citation needed]
At least some older consumer market router models[which?] can become unresponsive when the user tries to define a subnet mask that does not contain one contiguous run of 1s and then 0s. If even a single bit is set so that it breaks one of the runs, the router may become bricked, unresponsive to any standard troubleshooting or resolving procedures listed in the manual. Unbricking the router may require opening the case, shorting some jumper pins on the board, then connecting the router by the USB cable to an old PC with USB 1.1 hardware, running a special DOS level program supplied by the manufacturer, and powering the router up. This procedure will flash the router to factory settings and original firmware.[citation needed]
Electric cars such as the Tesla Roadster (2008) can brick if the battery is completely discharged.[9]
Sometimes an interrupted flash upgrade of a PC motherboard will brick the board, for example, due to a power outage (or user impatience) during the upgrade process. It is sometimes possible to unbrick such a motherboard, by scavenging a similar but otherwise broken board for a BIOS chip in the hopes that the BIOS will work even halfway, far enough to boot from floppy. Then it will be possible to retry the flash process. Sometimes it is possible to boot from a floppy, then swap the old presumably dead BIOS chip in and reflash it.[10] On some Gigabyte boards, it can also be possible to reflash the bricked main BIOS using a backup BIOS.[11] Some vendors put the BIOS chip in sockets, allowing the corrupted BIOS chip to be removed and reprogrammed using an external tool, like a universal programmer or an Arduino.
Online and mobile services[edit]
Mobile phones have a fixed identification code, the IMEI; a telephone reported stolen can have its IMEI blocked by networks—preventing their ability to be used as mobile devices.[12]iOS offers a similar 'Activation Lock' feature via the 'Find My iPhone' security software, where a device can be remotely prevented from operating (even after it has been erased), protected by the owner's Apple ID.[13]
Devices that have a strong dependency on online services in order to function may be bricked after services are discontinued by the manufacturer, or some other technological factor (such as expired security certificates or other services quietly becoming unavailable) effectively prevents them from operating. This can happen if the product has been succeeded by a newer model and the manufacturer no longer wishes to maintain services for the previous version, or if a company has been acquired by another or otherwise ceases operations, and chooses not to, or is no longer able to maintain its previous products. The practice has especially been scrutinized within the Internet of things and smart home markets.[14][15][16][17] Bricking in these cases have been declared a means to enforce planned obsolescence.[18][19]
References[edit]
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