Fix an unflashable or soft bricked I9100G

IF YOU ONLY HAVE A BOOTLOOP

Wipe data/factory reset and wipe cache. IF THAT DOESN'T WORK, MOVE ON WITH THE GUIDE 


Let's start with the basic files, downloads and requirements

1) You have to know the basics of ODIN and flashing 

2) Just to be safe, please uninstall Samsung KIES. It usually interferes when flashing with ODIN. You must have the USB drivers from your phone, so don't uninstall them. Only uninstall the program KIES. 
Just in case you don't have them, here are the Samsung USB drivers

3) Download ODIN, the tool that we'll use to flash all the things into our beloved Galaxy S II 

4) Download the necessary ROM (they are Gingerbread 2.3.6) : Africa (Iraq), Asia (Malaysia), Europe (Open Austria), Middle East (Saudi Arabia). (password is samfirmware.com)

5) You must have WinRAR to unRAR the Recovery Package and to unzip ODIN. 
You can also use 7zip



And that is it! Let's get down to business 

If your GSII has the folowing symptoms : 

• Bootloop
• Stuck on GSII logo, but already removed the battery to try to fix it
• Enters Download mode and Recovery mode

It means that you are soft bricked and is easy to solve. 

But if your symptoms are the mentioned above, PLUS the symptoms below 

• Enters Download mode but does NOT enter recovery mode (usually means a NAND rw corruption)
• Doesn't flash
• Bad flash in odin (FAIL after flashing, or the flashing suddenly stops)

Then it means that you have a bigger issue, such as the aforementioned NAND rw corruption. 

It's time to open up ODIN and start reviving your phone! 

First of all, let's just have a quick glance of how ODIN looks like, and where we should put the files : 



As the picture clearly shows, the green rectangle is where you can tick. Those 2 which are ticked must remain that way. And the red one is well... Where you SHOULDN'T touch 

But where are the files going, you say? 

.tar -> PDA 

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Recovering a soft bricked phone

1) Grab the Recovery Package, and put the file in its place.

2) Turn off your phone. Enter Download mode by presing Vol. Up + Home + Power button. 

3) Plug in your phone. It will show you, in a yellow box in ODIN, ID:COMx (x being the number displayed, sometimes displays 7, sometimes displays 9, or other numbers)

4) Once ready and done all your prayers, press Start. Wait patiently. It usually takes 5 minutes to flash. 

Have you done everything correctly until now? Then... 

Congratulations on recovering your phone!