Unbricking Samsung Galaxy S4 Verizon SCH-I545 With RIFF Box

Unbricking Samsung Galaxy S4 Verizon SCH-I545

Unbricking / Boot repair Samsung Galaxy S4 Verizon SCH-I545 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 SCH-I545 model
Set JTAG TCK Speed to RTCK
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 very small; 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: 1.37, JTAG Manager Version: 1.51
Selected Resurrector: [Samsung I545 V1.0.4990.34690]

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

Detected dead body ID: 0x2071B0E1

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: 1.37, JTAG Manager Version: 1.51
Selected Resurrector: [Samsung I545 V1.0.4990.34690]

Connecting to the dead body...OK
Detected dead body ID: 0x2071B0E1 - CORRECT!
Set I/O Voltage reads as 1.81V, TCK Frequency is RTCK
Adaptive Clocking RTCK Sampling is: [Sample at MAX]

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: 0x0011/0x0100 (016G94, 0x0003AB400000 Bytes = 14.68 GB)
Detected an Initialized FLASH2 Chip, ID: 0x0011/0x0100 (016G94, 0x000000400000 Bytes = 4.00 MB)

Selected Resurrection Data for the eMMC Chip with Capacity = 14.68GB

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, or you can using usb jig to force download mode

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