JTAG Brick Repair Samsung Galaxy Ace II GT-I8160 With RIFF Box

Unbricking Samsung Galaxy Ace II GT-I8160

Unbricking / Boot Repair Samsung Galaxy Ace II GT-I8160 is easy and without disassembling the phone.

Symptoms : 

• Phone's dead or black screen
• Can't charging
• Can't entering download mode or recovery mode

Causes : 

• Upgrade firmware process fault
• Rooting
• Flashing with wrong firmware
• Other software process fault

Tool & Materials :

• RIFF Jtag box
• Soldering tool
• PC

Step by step :

• Connect RIFF box to PC
• Open RIFF software, select Samsung I8160 model
• Set JTAG TCK Speed to RTCK, sample at Max
• Click interface pinout
• Open sticker / label, there's JTAG pinout
• Solder JTAG cable to phone JTAG pad / pinout, GND, NRST, TDO, RTCK, TCK, TMS, TDI and TRST pin.
• Insert battery or power suply and connect USB cable to phone, in some case, you need to hold power on button while resurrection process.
• Select JTAG Read/Write tab and click Connect & Get Id to check connection, and you will get this log below if connection is ok.

Open serial port...OK
Connecting to the RIFF Box...OK
Firmware Version: 1.35, JTAG Manager Version: 1.49
Selected Resurrector: [Samsung I8160 V1.0.4705.16807]

Connecting to the dead body...OK
Set I/O Voltage reads as 1.81V, TCK Frequency is 12 MHz

Detected dead body ID: 0x4BA00477

•  Select Resurrection tab, Click Resurrection and Instruction window will appear, click "i have read this manual..........., and close window.
• Resurrection processing and wait untill done and you will get this log below if resurrection is done

Open serial port...OK
Connecting to the RIFF Box...OK
Firmware Version: 1.35, JTAG Manager Version: 1.49
Selected Resurrector: [Samsung I8160 V1.0.4705.16807]

Connecting to the dead body...OK
Detected dead body ID: 0x4BA00477 - CORRECT!
Set I/O Voltage reads as 1.81V, TCK Frequency is 12 MHz

Resurrection sequence started.
Establish communication with the phone...OK
Initializing internal hardware configuration...OK
Uploading resurrector data into memory...OK
Starting communication with resurrector...OK

Detected an Initialized FLASH1 Chip, ID: 0x0045/0x0000 (SEM04G, 0x0000EC000000 Bytes = 3.69 GB)
Detected an Initialized FLASH2 Chip, ID: 0x0045/0x0000 (SEM04G, 0x000000100000 Bytes = 1.00 MB)

Selected Resurrection Data for the eMMC Chip with Capacity = 3.69GB

Flashing the dead body...OK
Resurrection complete!

•  De-solder JTAG wires

Now phone is in bootable conditions, and still need flashing Stock ROM via Odin.  To put into download mode, press & hold Volume Down (-)  +  Home button and then power on the phone, press volume up to confirm.

Posted in: RIFF JTAG, Samsung JTAG Log