¿How to Unbrick Samsung Galaxy A14 5G?
¿How to Unbrick Samsung Galaxy A14 5G?
17-06-2023, 02:19 AM
Hi everyone. I own a Samsung Galaxy A14 5G (SM-A146U). It was a gift from a relative in the USA. But it's network locked and right now I'm broke, so i had to research on how to unlock it by myself.
Besides to find tons of paid softwares, and boxes, I found some free utilities, but messing around with them, so i ended bricking it. It's on black screen, no aparent response, it just is recognized as mtk device when connected to pc. Its processor as internet says, is MT6833 (dimensity 700). I've read on how to turn samsung stock firmware, into scatter MTK firmware, with Android utility; i made it, but strangenly, the output scatter is for a MT6853. Well that's just some fixes to the scatter and could be ok to use it; but it really isn't so easy, mainly because i guess it lacks of partitions (are not listed partitions as the pit partition)... any way... I think is because at this right moment is unavailable any SM-A146U scatter firmware to download and everything else is just experimentation, but; ¿Is really the sp flash tool method successful to unbrick an mtk phone, no matter if it's a Samsung? and ¿Is there available for download (for free) any SM-A146U scatter rom? or ¿is it any other free way to unbrick it?
Thanks in advance for your collaboration.
17-06-2023, 02:19 AM
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26-06-2023, 04:43 PM
(17-06-2023, 02:19 AM)Camilo Gil Hi everyone. I own a Samsung Galaxy A14 5G (SM-A146U). It was a gift from a relative in the USA. But it's network locked and right now I'm broke, so i had to research on how to unlock it by myself.
Besides to find tons of paid softwares, and boxes, I found some free utilities, but messing around with them, so i ended bricking it. It's on black screen, no aparent response, it just is recognized as mtk device when connected to pc. Its processor as internet says, is MT6833 (dimensity 700). I've read on how to turn samsung stock firmware, into scatter MTK firmware, with Android utility; i made it, but strangenly, the output scatter is for a MT6853. Well that's just some fixes to the scatter and could be ok to use it; but it really isn't so easy, mainly because i guess it lacks of partitions (are not listed partitions as the pit partition)... any way... I think is because at this right moment is unavailable any SM-A146U scatter firmware to download and everything else is just experimentation, but; ¿Is really the sp flash tool method successful to unbrick an mtk phone, no matter if it's a Samsung? and ¿Is there available for download (for free) any SM-A146U scatter rom? or ¿is it any other free way to unbrick it?
Thanks in advance for your collaboration.
Do you know the Bit version of the phone before it got bricked?
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28-06-2023, 02:14 AM
(26-06-2023, 04:43 PM)maxpayne(17-06-2023, 02:19 AM)Camilo Gil Hi everyone. I own a Samsung Galaxy A14 5G (SM-A146U). It was a gift from a relative in the USA. But it's network locked and right now I'm broke, so i had to research on how to unlock it by myself.
Besides to find tons of paid softwares, and boxes, I found some free utilities, but messing around with them, so i ended bricking it. It's on black screen, no aparent response, it just is recognized as mtk device when connected to pc. Its processor as internet says, is MT6833 (dimensity 700). I've read on how to turn samsung stock firmware, into scatter MTK firmware, with Android utility; i made it, but strangenly, the output scatter is for a MT6853. Well that's just some fixes to the scatter and could be ok to use it; but it really isn't so easy, mainly because i guess it lacks of partitions (are not listed partitions as the pit partition)... any way... I think is because at this right moment is unavailable any SM-A146U scatter firmware to download and everything else is just experimentation, but; ¿Is really the sp flash tool method successful to unbrick an mtk phone, no matter if it's a Samsung? and ¿Is there available for download (for free) any SM-A146U scatter rom? or ¿is it any other free way to unbrick it?
Thanks in advance for your collaboration.
Do you know the Bit version of the phone before it got bricked?
Hi. Updating you, I already unbricked it, by using a scatter rom for that phone, that someone shared; this served at least to recover download mode, and then I could flash it with Odin. All were almost all ok, but the brick left the consequence of leaving the phone without imei and its serial changed. So now i need help to repair my imei. I've read that some fixes need an unlocked bootloader, but it seems this phone's bootloader is non unlockable. Other tools need access to meta mode, and as far as I know, this phone doesn't have that mode. Another methods require root access, but without an unlocked bootloader, I can't root also. So I don't know how to fix the imei (for free, without box or something else).
21-07-2023, 02:24 PM
(28-06-2023, 02:14 AM)Camilo Gil Hi. Updating you, I already unbricked it, by using a scatter rom for that phone, that someone shared; this served at least to recover download mode, and then I could flash it with Odin. All were almost all ok, but the brick left the consequence of leaving the phone without imei and its serial changed. So now i need help to repair my imei. I've read that some fixes need an unlocked bootloader, but it seems this phone's bootloader is non unlockable. Other tools need access to meta mode, and as far as I know, this phone doesn't have that mode. Another methods require root access, but without an unlocked bootloader, I can't root also. So I don't know how to fix the imei (for free, without box or something else).
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10-08-2023, 05:36 AM
(17-06-2023, 02:19 AM)Camilo Gil Hi everyone. I own a Samsung Galaxy A14 5G (SM-A146U). It was a gift from a relative in the USA. But it's network locked and right now I'm broke, so i had to research on how to unlock it by myself.
Besides to find tons of paid softwares, and boxes, I found some free utilities, but messing around with them, so i ended bricking it. It's on black screen, no aparent response, it just is recognized as mtk device when connected to pc. Its processor as internet says, is MT6833 (dimensity 700). I've read on how to turn samsung stock firmware, into scatter MTK firmware, with Android utility; i made it, but strangenly, the output scatter is for a MT6853. Well that's just some fixes to the scatter and could be ok to use it; but it really isn't so easy, mainly because i guess it lacks of partitions (are not listed partitions as the pit partition)... any way... I think is because at this right moment is unavailable any SM-A146U scatter firmware to download and everything else is just experimentation, but; ¿Is really the sp flash tool method successful to unbrick an mtk phone, no matter if it's a Samsung? and ¿Is there available for download (for free) any SM-A146U scatter rom? or ¿is it any other free way to unbrick it?
Thanks in advance for your collaboration.
I am literally facing the exact same problem as the one you had mentioned. Coincidentally I too was trying to perform a network unlock with my A14 5G using a free MTK Flash/Unlock Tool and I did something to make it not boot up. At first I was still able to get into Download mode to flash using Odin, but since the current firmware on my phone was newer than the firmware I could find online "for free" I was unable to flash. I tried using multiple flash tools to force flash the firmware that I have and needless to say, thats when I got into trouble. Any way, I was wondering if it might be possible for you to share the scatter file you used to get back the download mode on your phone with me please? As im sure you already know, it has been one big nightmare for me trying to figure this out, and any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
29-08-2023, 02:33 AM
https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/how-t...u.4599899/
29-08-2023, 01:28 PM
(10-08-2023, 05:36 AM)Davidwj227(17-06-2023, 02:19 AM)Camilo Gil Hi everyone. I own a Samsung Galaxy A14 5G (SM-A146U). It was a gift from a relative in the USA. But it's network locked and right now I'm broke, so i had to research on how to unlock it by myself.
Besides to find tons of paid softwares, and boxes, I found some free utilities, but messing around with them, so i ended bricking it. It's on black screen, no aparent response, it just is recognized as mtk device when connected to pc. Its processor as internet says, is MT6833 (dimensity 700). I've read on how to turn samsung stock firmware, into scatter MTK firmware, with Android utility; i made it, but strangenly, the output scatter is for a MT6853. Well that's just some fixes to the scatter and could be ok to use it; but it really isn't so easy, mainly because i guess it lacks of partitions (are not listed partitions as the pit partition)... any way... I think is because at this right moment is unavailable any SM-A146U scatter firmware to download and everything else is just experimentation, but; ¿Is really the sp flash tool method successful to unbrick an mtk phone, no matter if it's a Samsung? and ¿Is there available for download (for free) any SM-A146U scatter rom? or ¿is it any other free way to unbrick it?
Thanks in advance for your collaboration.
I am literally facing the exact same problem as the one you had mentioned. Coincidentally I too was trying to perform a network unlock with my A14 5G using a free MTK Flash/Unlock Tool and I did something to make it not boot up. At first I was still able to get into Download mode to flash using Odin, but since the current firmware on my phone was newer than the firmware I could find online "for free" I was unable to flash. I tried using multiple flash tools to force flash the firmware that I have and needless to say, thats when I got into trouble. Any way, I was wondering if it might be possible for you to share the scatter file you used to get back the download mode on your phone with me please? As im sure you already know, it has been one big nightmare for me trying to figure this out, and any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
Here is what I've come across in search of a repair for a soft bricked Samsung a14 5g
https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/how-t...u.4599899/
08-05-2024, 04:41 PM
24-06-2024, 07:54 AM
(28-06-2023, 02:14 AM)Camilo Gil(26-06-2023, 04:43 PM)maxpayne(17-06-2023, 02:19 AM)Camilo Gil Hi everyone. I own a Samsung Galaxy A14 5G (SM-A146U). It was a gift from a relative in the USA. But it's network locked and right now I'm broke, so i had to research on how to unlock it by myself.
Besides to find tons of paid softwares, and boxes, I found some free utilities, but messing around with them, so i ended bricking it. It's on black screen, no aparent response, it just is recognized as mtk device when connected to pc. Its processor as internet says, is MT6833 (dimensity 700). I've read on how to turn samsung stock firmware, into scatter MTK firmware, with Android utility; i made it, but strangenly, the output scatter is for a MT6853. Well that's just some fixes to the scatter and could be ok to use it; but it really isn't so easy, mainly because i guess it lacks of partitions (are not listed partitions as the pit partition)... any way... I think is because at this right moment is unavailable any SM-A146U scatter firmware to download and everything else is just experimentation, but; ¿Is really the sp flash tool method successful to unbrick an mtk phone, no matter if it's a Samsung? and ¿Is there available for download (for free) any SM-A146U scatter rom? or ¿is it any other free way to unbrick it?
Thanks in advance for your collaboration.
Do you know the Bit version of the phone before it got bricked?
Hi. Updating you, I already unbricked it, by using a scatter rom for that phone, that someone shared; this served at least to recover download mode, and then I could flash it with Odin. All were almost all ok, but the brick left the consequence of leaving the phone without imei and its serial changed. So now i need help to repair my imei. I've read that some fixes need an unlocked bootloader, but it seems this phone's bootloader is non unlockable. Other tools need access to meta mode, and as far as I know, this phone doesn't have that mode. Another methods require root access, but without an unlocked bootloader, I can't root also. So I don't know how to fix the imei (for free, without box or something else).
I have the exact same phone with the exact same problem. Will you please share the scatter file and rom that someone shared with you so I can unbrick mine.
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