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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] globalm:
The conclusion that MMC_CAP_ERASE flag is the root cause of eMMC bricks is a result of clear reasoning, expert code inspection, liaison with Samsung and careful experiment.

The above conclusion is not!

See other post above for reason for 'brick'.

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Entropy's code is diagnostic not curative!

If you run this code and say what happens it will show the presence of corrupt blocks in /system (or not).
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] REVERSiN:
repost with info.... as far as we understand you flashed CM9 over ICS ?

first of all CM9 must be flashed only from GB systems in no way you should use ICS (is written in bold in the thread chinese or official it's still ICS) 2.X.X -> to -> 4.0 is a big step you know.

anyway another thought would be flashing the kernel for CM9 and NO you can't and you shouldn't use the kernel with CM9 at all costs... franco doesn't support AOSP or AOKP roms he wrote it and many asked for it but he said not for now so better read and search the forum for answers mate try reading before suicide :D anyway sorry for your brick wish you it's a soft brick so its fixable though if not there are some steps in the forum that you can try anyway now look for it ;)

Good Luck.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] sahil4u:
phone doesnt boot neither in recovery

hello. i was on stock ics lpy rooted, flashed your kernel after which my screen went unresponsive while receiving calls, also battery drain was high and games were slow. then i decided to flash speedmod kernel through mobile odin which showed successfully flashed but for some reasons my phone now wont boot after samsung logo nor would boot into recovery. then ii went into download mode to reflash the rom. but pc odin failed to flash. now on second try it also failed but my phone now shows message that firmware upgrade has encountered a problem please connect to kies for recovery. what went wrong and how to solve it. please help i m in a mess:(

Edit; forget it, solved the issue using dr. Ketans guide :-) bye bye custom kernels
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] marc.tulley:
This fixed me!

The only number that varied from what was already in the boxes was the gateway.

Franco, any idea if you can fix this mate?

I dont want to have the same problem every time I try to connect to another wifi
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] life.eq.null:
ext4 is already built into the kernel (the internal partitions are ext4), ntfs-3g depends on the fuse module, which is already built in, so the trick is just finding ntfs-3g for android.

Supported filesystems in r5 :

root@android:/ # cat /proc/filesystems
nodev sysfs
nodev rootfs
nodev bdev
nodev proc
nodev cgroup
nodev tmpfs
nodev binfmt_misc
nodev debugfs
nodev sockfs
nodev usbfs
nodev pipefs
nodev anon_inodefs
nodev devpts
ext3
ext2
ext4
nodev ramfs
vfat
msdos
nodev ecryptfs
nodev fuse
fuseblk
nodev fusectl

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I have 2 annoying bugs to report on r5, using KingDroid v2.0.

1. the phone locks up and the only way to get it back is to hold the power button to reboot it, this happened twice in 10 mins once then took ~18 hours to happen again, sometimes while using whatsapp, sometimes just by trying to unlock the phone.

2. 3G connects but sometimes it refuses to send/receive data for few minutes.

So I'm back to r4 for now, otherwise awesome kernel.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] szakal87:
when set cpu to 1600 and run antutu benchmark i have about 2800 cpu and ram score,when use 1400 i have 4300..(try 3 times)what is going on, overclocking does not work fine for me! maybe is the problem that 1600Mhz uses the same voltages as 1400Mhz and performance automatically reduces? franciscofranco could you fix this problem?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] EdgaBimbam:
hmmm maybe you arent using franco kernel? because with 1.6ghz i reach 8000 score antutu ^^
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] elk2210:
Im not a Unix-freak, but as I understand dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p9 should overwrite /dev/block/mmcblk0p9 with zeros, also known as low-level-formating. That can't be "diagnostic".

Or am I wrong?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] ricardowec:
Rboots r5

Just installed r5 on RRV3 and get reboots when charging with SetCpu profile at 1400 and performance governor.

Went back to r4 and no problem in same situation.

Jbroid ran before install in both cases.

EDIT: Reflashed with Mobile Odin as suggested by Eybee and seems that the problem (except for one freeze ) is gone.

EDIT: Nop, MY setup is very unstable, freezes, reboots, running hot, V4 runs without a glitch.

Cheers
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] life.eq.null:
That is correct, I believe he mixed it up, it should have been

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p9 of=/dev/null bs=4096

to test if you can read the partition or not.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] darylchin:
Well, i don't know whats unix code is all about but I'm using r5 on LP9 and now LPQ without issues;)

Edit : sorry it's LQ2

Sent from my GT-N7000
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] globalm:
I believe it WAS intended to be diagnostic.

If the process runs to completion, you have written zeros to the entire /system partition and the partition is therefore WRITEABLE. If you have a problem the process will stop before completion.

That was how I read it!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] iarapilot:
I have a Q concerning GB and ICS along this subject.

I was on Criskelos GB ROM with Francos kernel. I installed Criskelos ICS ROM and Francos r5 kernel. All is working fine.

If I tried to restore a backup of my Criskello GB ROM thru CWR, would it brick the phone? If so, would I first have to flash a GB ROM, then do a restore?

Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] kimitza:
True...r5 is a mess for me...after flashing it with mobile odin,the phone become unusable...random freezes made me return to r4..

Using kingdroid v2.0...no other mods installed...no oc or uv...now i'm on stock lpq with r4 and its wow...

@iarapilot...i made restore from ics to gb without any problem on franco r3 and r4...Before you do the restore i recommend format /system from mounts and storage...but there is no risc
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] shaolin95:
I have been running Cassies Xtraliterom v2.8 beta that has Franco 5 and not a problem so far.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] MeZmeriZe_:
Just to give the other side of the coin.. I have kingdroid2 +s3 and R5 and I love it.. Phone has been set to 1600/ondemand I've run multiple benchmarks. (with great results) and not had a single crash. Wifi has been perfect too. Oh, and battery usage seems good also.

Interestingly, my Note was one of the first ones out the door.. I paid cash and had it shipped straight to Australia more than 6 months ago.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] Denkov:
Im on AlBa XXLQ2 with v.5 franco kernel default settings.

12 hours working without single problem and battery is still on 75%.

I was on previous Alba rom with CF kernel and I just went to CWM, clear cache and Dalvik cache, then flashed LQ2 rom and without reboot I flashed this kernel. Maybe that's the reason I have no problems till now!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] soloilmeglio:
me too! simply great!

Inviato dal mio GT-N7000 con Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] olympicchicken:
Same for me on Goa Rom (based on LPY). Stable, fast and cool at 1600 (OCed just for the sake of testing). Many thanks.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] pandey18:
switching to the conservative governor fixed the lag during scrolling for me for some odd reason o.O now i am as happy as i was on speedmod with hopefully better battery life. using kingdroid v2.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] LOulOo:
Hi Chasmodo,

i have done this, and after i was unabled to flash a cf-root kernel... :(

see here
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] nathsgames:
Am getting lots and lots of random stuff... reboots, freezes, battery pulls, pixel salad...

It's a shame but I have to say bye bye.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] The Stranger:
Me too francisco, this kernel - R5 is not working well for me...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] mpoweru:
Possible, but it seems most likely the nandroid backup will fail at the end. You need to install Abyss 3.9 or 4.2 - then reboot to recovery after installing (important). At this point you can do a nandroid backup. This is very dangerous at the moment. I believe the safe route still is pc odin a stock rooted GB Rom. I just returned from bricking my NOTE last night. I received the factoryfs.img and couldnt flash anything. Fortunately I still had download mode. I have since recovered.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] mrmrmrmr:
So ? Anyone to help ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] alejandromsa:
I'm on Goatrip v2.1 + Francokernel r5, its running lightning fast, no issues whatsoever.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] tefloncoated:
Kernel sends packets - firewall blocked

Hi

Any idea why the kernel is sending packets to:

8.254.54.254 - company called "Level 3 Communications"

66.220.151.88 - Facebook,when there is no Facebook app installed

It was also sending them to Twitter, i didnt log the IP...

Thanks!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] HTF:
It is not a soft brick as I don't even get the samsung splash screen and I can't go in to download mode or recovery. It is well and truly borked.

A bit of clarification, I was not running a stock ICS rom I was running a rom I made myself based on the SGS3 official rom mixed with some stock ICS but not much, I was just using this kernel as I thought it was superbrick free and it has some lovely features.

I was flashing CM9 from recovery, not installing the kernel on CM9. I also don't see any reason if the emmc erase bug is fixed or worked around in the kernel why there would be an issue flashing cm9 as all it is replacing is the kernel and system partition. I was clearly wrong about this as something has caused the superbrick.

It is kind of annoying as I usually do my flashing from the GB touch recovery due to the cwm recovery included in this kernel lacking working usb mass storage. Serves me right for skipping a step. Going to post it to samsung for a mobo replacement on monday.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] szakal87:
Im use franco kernel v5. On antutu cpu and ram score is about 4300(disable 2d,3d,sdcard test etc), but with 1600Mhz i have 2800... I dont understand this.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] mpoweru:
As I understand it, the issue is with how the new code erases data. It calls the function which inevitably leads to blocks being corrupted. Thats the short version, I believe.

I imagine we are going a little to off topic here in franco's thread.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] globalm:
In case anyone hasn't seen it, this post

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=26893617&postcount=425

Has some good info on why AOSP/CM9 can be a particlar problem.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] DrADP:
Very happy! Using LPY with Franco #5, CPU set to 200-1600 on demand.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] dereknas:
Very happy! Using LPY with Franco #5, CPU set to 200-1600 on demand.

Are your temps manageable?

Btw, I've managed to get my wifi working again. Just re-flash ROM and then R5 kernel.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] jeanmichel6:
Are your temps manageable?

Btw, I've managed to get my wifi working again. Just re-flash ROM and then R5 kernel.[/QUOTE]

And if im on stock lpy how i can fix the wifi? Am another one with that bug... Flashes r5 for the first time.. And bam! Wifi broken.. Then i tried r4 and bam! Wifi still broken... Should i need to flash again the stock lpy rom?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] dereknas:
And if im on stock lpy how i can fix the wifi? Am another one with that bug... Flashes r5 for the first time.. And bam! Wifi broken.. Then i tried r4 and bam! Wifi still broken... Should i need to flash again the stock lpy rom?

Did you try to reflash your original ROM? It should restore back your Wifi. If possible, extract out the zimage and include in the ROM package to replace kernel, then re-flash your ROM. That way the whole installation will be done on one single step instead of flashing 2 times. Something could have broken in-between flashes.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] DrADP:
No probs
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] DrADP:
Are your temps manageable?

Btw, I've managed to get my wifi working again. Just re-flash ROM and then R5 kernel.[/QUOTE]

No probs
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] jeanmichel6:
Did you try to reflash your original ROM? It should restore back your Wifi. If possible, extract out the zimage and include in the ROM package to replace kernel, then re-flash your ROM. That way the whole installation will be done on one single step instead of flashing 2 times. Something could have broken in-between flashes.[/QUOTE]

Thanks for the heads up.. But if i reflash again i will loose al my programs rigth? So i have to use titanium backup? It isnt another workaround?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] dereknas:
Thanks for the heads up.. But if i reflash again i will loose al my programs rigth? So i have to use titanium backup? It isnt another workaround?

My situation was different. I was on custom ROM, TMT. So I just reflash using CWM without data wipe (just cache and dalvik) and once booted up, everything was fine.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] eiril_77:
Its mine....:thumbup:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] yellowpad:
franco...r5 got problem with heating issue. talked about 20mins, got over heated and the phone turned itself off.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] REVERSiN:
Well devs warnned about cm9 and the ics

roms its correct might be a brick though did you try flashing a stock kernel using pc odin?

I dunno about official sgs3 but still looks to me like cm9 was your issue this isn't. A superbrick like other reports a hard one isn't what these kernels and roms do.....
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] shaolin95:
To inject this kernel on another ROM that is using R4 before flashing, just extract the ZIMAGE file and put into the ROM rar file to replace the existing one, right?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] chasmodo:
Yep, done it so many times.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] shaolin95:
Basically I am running Cassie's XtraLiteRom ICS Version 2.9 LQ2 but I wanted to get Franco 5 again so flashed the zip and now pretty much all programs FC on me so I guess I need to flash Abyss , then format all and reinstall fresh :\

What you think?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] ycneosg:
No issue here.

I think you can flash jbroid kernel cleaning script to clean up all script installed by previous kernel first then follow by reflashing franco r5 in cwm recovery.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] EdgaBimbam:
hmmm yesterday franco kernel was working without issues, today got two times this issue: " screen colors changed and it stuck, could only reboot by holding power on button for a long" going back to speedmod :/
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] yellowpad:
which one? binary or script? flash it using CWR?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] shaolin95:
I just flash this
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] yellowpad:
better..........
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] wildestpixel:
Shall I be the LQ2 guinea pig ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] SergioBigred:
I was in a situation similar to you with a Galaxy S, messing up with an upgrade from GB to ICS whilst wrongly mixing kernels.

No splash logo, only black screen. Connected to a PC I only was only seeing the USB chipset, no phone.

I tried the USB jig dongle but no joy.

Then I used the Unbrickable Ressurector

http://code.google.com/p/hummingbird-hibl/

And now I have my Galaxy S back.

I don't know if it is working with the GNote (I didn't found any info with a quick google search) but you can give it a go.

Hope it helps.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] Kikouyou:
I am on rocket v3 and r5 for a couple of days.

No issue whatsoever except overheating when device is in use even at 1400 max

No deep sleep problems, no sod, no random reboots, no wifi problems, all good beside temp that can go up to 51 degree...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] Narada2XK:
I'm on stock ROM with r5 (r4 previously), used the kernel cleaning script before each flash in CWM. The only problems I'm having are occasional freezes where the screen would not be responsive for about a minute the most, sometimes, when it has recovered, the radios (data/wifi and phone signal) go completely off and then on again like I just came from airplane mode, the wifi would stay off if I'm using it but the data comes back ok along with the phone signal.

My ROM is clean, came from CM9, went back to KK9 with PC Odin, full wipes, then KPY MO.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] TempusFudgeIt:
Have you got the most recent version of Antutu? I had similar readings until got the latest version (Sorry if someone else has already replied - I'm doing my daily catchup on reading 25+ pages!!)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] rilpromen:
reporting my problems with franco's kernel

Hello guys im here to report my problems with franco's kernel. Franco thanks for your work and hours you put into this kernel i hope i can use it someday.

My setup:

ROM: KingDriod v2.0

Modem: XLR1

So i flashed franco's r4 and r5 kernels (first i flashed with cwm then i saw on forums that someone sed to flash it with mobile odin) on my Galaxy Note ===> Everything works, except the wifi.

So i kept it like this for 2-3 days, was hopeing the kernel will adjust or something and the wifi will eventually work. That was a no go.

So after 2-3 days i flashed (jBroid Cleaning Script) then i went and flashed SpeedMod's kernel K3-3. After that the wifi works like a charm.

Hope i will be able to use this kernel in the future with wifi.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] DrADP:
Does anyone know why when I set CPU to 200-1600 ondemand it takes a long time (if at all) to ramp up to 1600 (or even 1400) and feels quite slow but when I reset it back to 200-1400, it ramps up very quickly and feels very snappy?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] xuggs:
So to fix the damn wifi issue, I've replaced the zImage with francos R5 one in the stock ROM and flashing via Odin is stuck at Kernel for eternity.. am I doomed now?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] TempusFudgeIt:
I've only ever used CWM to flash (relative noob only been flashing for 6 months) and avoided the Odin/MO options as it has always worked for me (lucky so far!)

However have had the wi-fi "problem" - if you mean that the notification sticks on "Acquiring IP address" then this is what I have had since using RR3 and Franco 4. Flashing to Franco 5 did not resolve it. However, I did find that setting the IP address manually provides a workaround (this has also been reported on a previous page). In other words, the modem and wi-fi works - but not 100% as it cannot get an IP address automatically.

So, Franco, thank you so much for your wonderful work, and for eybee too! If you get a chance and do decide to make Franco 6 can you please see what is causing wi-fi to not get an IP address via DHCP? Hopefully it is a quick fix.

Great work and have been using your Kernel since GB 2!! :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] ngocdao:
Phone shut off earlier whenever it seemed to try to grant root. Cwm freezes. After few try it seems to be OK now..for now .. root works .. idk
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] Denkov:
DHCP works like a charm! There is no problem with the kernel! My rom is Alba Q2.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] chasmodo:
Check your root status: try to paste a file into /system folder using any explorer with root permissions. If it fails, you have just a partial root.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] EdgaBimbam:
anyone had same problem? o.O
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] cwkean:
awesome battery life!

the battery life is awesome..with mild use i can easily get up to 3days..thx developer..thumbs up up..
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] TempusFudgeIt:
I am on RR3 and Franco 5....

Haven't had exactly same issue but did have screen go entirely green when doing Antutu test (instead of showing the buzzing droids during the 2D test) I think this happened before upgrading to latest version of Antutu

Also had a few lockups (more than 20 second wait) - especially when switching data on and off so I suspect it has to do with my modem. Am waiting for instructions on how to change modem to earlier one to see if that fixes the lockups. Maybe same for you - do you get a lag when you use QuickPanel (15 toggle) to turn data on and off?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] aussiebum:
I just encountered the same problem twice within the space of 1 hour. Are you using the latest Tegrak alongside franco r5 by any chance? Did you have wifi on?

Not sure if those factors might be the cause but worth investigating.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] EdgaBimbam:
i dont have quick panel ;D using stock lpy firmware

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never used tegrak, wifi was on. However yesterday all day long was surfing the net with wifi and no problems. Today got two times in 30 mins. Scared and flashed speedmod :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] and2:
the same over here on Kingdroid 2.0 :confused:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] EdgaBimbam:
have you overclocked? because i was using 200-1.6ghz ondemand, maybe it is because of overclock?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] aussiebum:
Hmm ok, so not Tegrak causing issues then. Yeah I was fine too since flased r5 on the 1st Jun too... until today.

Wonder if it's increased solar activity or some other weirdness caused by the upcoming transit of Venus in front of the Sun!? :p
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] and2:
no, just wifi on
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] aussiebum:
I'm not overclocked. I'm slightly undervolted but was using the same settings in r4 no probs.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] EdgaBimbam:
hmmm something related with wifi. But damn strange, was using r5 from first release date and was everything perfect but today was a bit confused when two times got that issue.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] aussiebum:
Well if it happens one more time I'm reverting to r4. This screen freeze is causing data corruption for the app that is open at the time the freeze happens for me (for xda premium app I had to clear data to get the app to load properly again)

Sent from my Galaxy Note
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] TempusFudgeIt:
Hmmm.... seems like the common pattern is that it happens when wi-fi or data is being used (which I suppose is only natural since most of us are connected to the Net somehow most of the time)

Waiting to hear back from not-i in Rocket Rom thread to see what modem he has changed back to, and will try it to see if my Next G speed comes back and the "acquiring IP address" issue I had is resolved. Will post back once done.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] aussiebum:
Think the trigger is long Wifi usage / connection specifically. Wasn't connected to wifi for long periods until today, and was using 3g data fairly frequently since 1st flashed r5 on 1st Jun.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] EdgaBimbam:
sorry wrong thread
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] pandey18:
I am on kingdroid v2 and r5 and have no wifi issues. everything works fine for me. there was a bit of scrolling lag which is gone since i switched to conservative governor o.O (still confused about that)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] rilpromen:
uhm

How did you flash the rom?