How to Restore or Unbrick Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus

Android always opens the door to various possibilities such as flashing custom ROM or kernel or APK modding etc. These feats can be achieved by providing root access to your device or simply rooting your phone.  In today’s date, rooting or customizing is no rocket science, but people perform these processes carelessly. Certain users hastily carry out the modding/rooting process without properly following instructions. It leads to bricking of the device. It can happen with any device. In this post, we will tell you how you can restore or unbrick Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus back to the previous working condition.

Samsung Galaxy S9 is a dual SIM smartphone launched in February 2018. The phone comes with a 5.80-inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 1440 pixels by 2960 pixels. It runs on a 1.7 GHz octa-core Samsung Exynos 9810 processor and 4 GB of RAM. It comes with Android 8.0 Oreo out-of-the-box. This device packs 64 GB of expandable internal storage. Galaxy S9  brings a 12-megapixel primary camera on the rear and an 8-megapixel camera on the front.

Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus is a dual SIM smartphone launched in February 2018. The phone comes with a 6.20-inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 1440 pixels by 2960 pixels. It runs on a 1.7GHz octa-core Samsung Exynos 9810 processor with a 3500mAH battery and 6 GB of RAM. It comes with Android 8.0 Oreo out-of-the-box. This device packs 64 GB of expandable internal storage. Galaxy S9 Plus brings a 12-megapixel primary camera on the rear and an 8-megapixel camera on the front.

Below we have provided a simple tutorial regarding how to restore and unbrick Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus. You can also find the firmware collection for both the latest flagships of Samsung.

How To Unbrick Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus

First, let’s know what is the term bricking signifies actually and what are the different types if bricking.

What is Bricking and Types of Bricking

Bricking is basically a phone becoming useless due to hardware and software corruption. The corruption occurs due to some erroneous modification or attempts to override and obtain superuser control. There are two types of device bricking situations.

• • • Hard brick
    • Soft brick

    Both these bricks are different from each other. When hard brick happens to your device, it won’t even boot into recovery mode. The booting key combination won’t work when your device got hard bricked. A hard brick is a result of some hardware failure caused while you are trying to root or install a custom ROM on your device.

  • Hard brick happens rarely, and the only thing that can lead is the loss of power supply during the process. When a hard brick occurs it is recommended that you get Samsung-approved technical assistance to fix the issue. Although there are ways like troubleshooting with a JTAG, this is not recommended unless you have proper core knowledge of electronics.The soft brick is quite different from the hard brick. and will let you boot your device into recovery mode. Different conditions can occur when a device is on soft brick, like frequent restarting of the device and unable to switch to the device. But in all cases, you can without any problem boot into recovery mode when your device is soft-bricked. In this case, you can easily recover and unbrick Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus.