Unbricking Samsung Galaxy S GT-I9000 With RIFF JTAG Box

Unbricking Samsung Galaxy S II GT-I9100 With RIFF JTAG Box

Unbricking / Boot repair Samsung Galaxy S GT-I9000 is easy, but you should 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
• Disassembly tool
• Soldering tool
• PC 

Step by step :

• Connect RIFF box to PC
• Open RIFF software, select Samsung I9000 model
• Set JTAG TCK Speed to TCK 8 Mhz
• Click interface pinout
• Dismantle the phone
• Solder JTAG cable to phone JTAG pad / pinout, GND, NRST, TDO, RTCK, TCK, TMS, TDI and TRST pin. JTAG pinout are covered and need to be exfoliated with cutter, professional experience in soldering is required to connect wires to the JTAG interface.
• 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 I9000 V1.00]

Connecting to the dead body...OK
Set I/O Voltage reads as 2.79V, TCK Frequency is 8 MHz

Detected dead body ID: 0x1BA00477

•  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 I9000 V1.00]

Connecting to the dead body...OK
Detected dead body ID: 0x1BA00477 - CORRECT!
Set I/O Voltage reads as 2.79V, TCK Frequency is 8 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: 0x00EC/0x0050 (512MB)
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.

Posted in: RIFF JTAG, Samsung JTAG Log