yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] cheesemp:
I was thinking the same but it looks like the roll out is starting -Its just been launched for Taiwan - http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=3&t=1&o=1&m=GT-N7000&r=2#regiona

Hopefully UK not far behind!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Peter Galbavy:
Did I simply not notice before or has 5Ghz Wifi been enabled by the ICS update? While I am not at home for while, I don't recall seeing my 5Gz AP which I have named differently from my 2.4GHz one but now there is a selection under WiFi -> Advanced to select bands...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] tsk1979:
wow!

So Taiwan is on :)

I suspect within a week India will also be on radar. Samsung may update worldwide by End May.

Hopefully, the kinks will get ironed out.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] bigstarrynight:
Good to see another country updating to ICS. I think it will be drip fed for the next week or so. Happy days. :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Goldie:
And happy bricks too :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] chasmodo:
Keep shtum, you.:p
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] MrIT:
@ sam sung :android 4.0.4 coming to xperia device with newest UI from sony UPX !!why we note havent 4.0.4 and newer touchwiz ?because s3 ?sam sung !!!fuc.k u.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] bigstarrynight:
Personally, if I were Samsung, I would have rolled out the first updates in Greece, but then again, I'm probably sick. :p
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] mmp7:
I'll kick them out of the EU then give them ICS ;)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Narrow Face:
If you alll want ICS so badly then why not.just flash the official ROM? You don't even need to root.

But personally I wouldn't Bother waiting for stock ICS, it's far from anything special. Install TheMidTeam's 1.2 ICS ROM and Nova Launcher for a true worthwile ICS expierence.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] bigstarrynight:
Personally, I would do that AND make them all have a 386 pc running widows 3.1 Not even a virus would run on that!! :p

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Interesting. In computer terms, any op sys ver that jumps from v2.x.x to something like 4.x.x usually means that you want the new features, but don't have the hardware to run it any-more. After 6 months its usually landfill and the local PC sales dude makes sure you only get a machine specd up for the latest operating system and no more. That's why I was running dual CPUs before Intel even figured out what a casio was. Is this not true of smartphones? In computing terms I'm an old-timer/fart. In smartphone terms I'm a noob. Please handle with care. ;)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hackerboi:
Is the Samsung India Facebook page worth trusting?

They say "They are going to release ICS update soon"
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] bigstarrynight:
Samsung could put that on any of their farcebook pages and get away with it. The word 'SOON' has no definition or real meaning in the context used. Tomorrow, next week, next month?? all could be 'SOON', its a nothing post by samsung.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Markuzy:
Please Google up Valve Time.

Sent from my GT-N7000 using Xparent ICS Blue Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] gavinfabl:
For what it's worth I had stock GB 2.36 UK non rooted Rom. Using pc odin I flashed lpy stock Rom and kept it unrooted. perfect. Battery sucked however using method in battery thread it now is amazing. 7.5 hours and at 86% . Used internet , YouTube , email and more.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] nessqn:
Which battery thread...please?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] lexreis:
I've seen a few bugs in this Official ICS ROM.

The Note just freeze for no reason;

A Friend AT&T's Note cant connect to any WiFI Network;

Did someone see these bugs?

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I would like to Know wich Method is this! :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] gavinfabl:
This is the thread.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1649041&page=17
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] chintamanijaipuri:
Please read public announcement by entropy here.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1633938
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] lexreis:
So, Official ICS ROM is safe?:confused:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] friedje:
No it is NOT !
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] chasmodo:
The only safe ICS Roms at the moment are:

1. CM9

2. Asylum

3. ParanoidAndroid

4. MIUI
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] emuX:
Isn't recovery baked into the kernel? (I'm asking, I don't know for sure, but that is what it seems to suggest in this post: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=26272583.)

If it is then you'd expect the problem to occur on any ICS ROM that uses an affected kernel.

Also, I may have been lucky or may be not but I've only wiped from a stock GB ROM and then done the ICS flash afterwards.

When I flashed Stunner ICS, I wiped in GB first so I didn't need to in ICS (actually, I flashed Stunner without a wipe, got stuck in boot loop, flashed back to GB, wiped and then flashed Stunner again.) When I reverted to stock GB again (due to usability issues) I flashed GB first and then wiped afterwards. When I flashed the German stock ICS, I wiped in stock GB and then flashed ICS. No problems to date.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] senectus:
From what I've read that's not quite true.

The stock ROM is safe if you don't use CWM recovery or come from a dodgy leaked ROM.

Please, do correct me if I'm wrong...

I came from stock ROM with speedmod kernel GB and am now running Stock ICS. No bricking issues here, but I might be lucky.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] chasmodo:
Yes, you should be OK on stock ICS if you do not do any wipes. The emphasis being on "should", though.

However, the 4 Roms mentioned above have safe CM9 kernel and fully functional CWMR: you can do anything you wish from it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] runaway64:
You could already use 5Ghz networks in gingerbread, but now you can even tell the phone to use only one of the bands (2.4ghz or 5ghz) or both, like it was until now.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] BuddyJoe83:
Running stock LPY rom since it was released, flashed through Odin..kept entire Note stock and haven't come across any problems.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] nandihno:
OK so when I updated to the Taiwanese version I was on cm9 and to go to this ics version I reverted to gb via pc odin no wipes I then went into stock recovery in gb and did a full cache and data wipe and loaded gb

I then flash via pc odin this ics

Once pc odin finished I went to stock recovery and did clear cache and clear data and chose to reboot phone ok

It rebooted fine and went to sign into google

Note this is the same thing I did with the German release

So does anyone else do the same?

Why does this type of wiping works? At least for me

From what I read most bricks happen when ppl go to any recovery and do a wipe but then go straight to odin

Where as what I do is go straight to the Google setup

So anyone have any comments on this?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] chasmodo:
Odin has absolutely nothing to do with Superbricks. Wiping does.

There are a couple of threads with people posting that Odin got stuck at NAND WRITE, or factoryfs.

That's because Odin is trying to write on an already corrupted partition - and it can't, obviously.

In other words, Odin just delivers the diagnosis: the damage has already been done when wiping.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] emuX:
This is what I'd done too (and mentioned a few posts back.) I've used PC and Mobile Odin, but always flashed back to GB before doing any wipes or flashing a new ROM.

I wouldn't like to say it's a fool proof method though, just that it's worked for me to date.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Tinderbox (UK):
Hi.

Has ICS been released for sim-free Note`s in the UK yet!!!

120 pages is a lot to go though, and post 1 has not been updated.

Thanks

John.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] gdourado:
Hello.

I am not in the UK, but I have an unlocked UK note.

Still nothing... Kies and OTA... No update.

Cheers
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hackerboi:
If there is a new firmware for the Note, trust me it will be all over the forum. Currently only Firmwares from Germany and Taiwan are out.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] jazztrucker:
Read the stickies everyone, there are no SAFE roms, repeat NO safe roms, safe means no or very little risk at minimum, yes there are roms that for most of us work, but they are in no way SAFE. be warned.

Commwnts like "it worked for me and is safe" should be taken with a pinch of salt, by all means flash away!! but don't moan you wasn't warned.

READ THE STICKIES.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Entropy512:
This is correct. Odin just writes to a partition - it won't trigger the bug. Otherwise, we would've seen bricks from Odin on a regular basis going all the way back to a year ago when the I9100 first came out.

Failing to flash in Odin is a symptom that the damage is already done by wiping with an affected kernel - not that Odin did any damage itself.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Entropy512:
That's wrong. Anything that is Gingerbread or running a kernel based on the I9100 update4 source base (such as CM9 or Asylum) is safe.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Entropy512:
You got lucky, simple as that. Wiping in recovery is not guaranteed to damage your eMMC - it is just highly likely to. Your next wipe using XXLPY or ZSLPF might be your last.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Entropy512:
To be clear:

CM9 - Only xplodwild's builds and nightlies are safe. Imilka's builds and cyanofree use an affected kernel.

Asylum, PA, and MIUI use a kernel based on the I9100 update4 source which is safe, just like the CM9 nightlies and xplod's old builds.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] MTAlmeida:
That is it...

Entropy and Chasmodo have said it all !!

The defective firmware came with our devices, on the controller of the eMMC, not with the ICS rom, but the ICS kernel has some unique feature that can trigger the problem on the chip, which dosen't happen on the GB kernel or I9100 rev 4!

So, unless Samsung release a fix to wipe the chip and reinstall every thing again (which I doubt, and if it happens probably will have to be done on Samsung's autorized support centers)

we will always have a defective chip

, because of the firmware in it.

People who have bricked using Odin is because they wipe just before enter download mode to flash with Odin.

If someone are on ICS and not bricked is because the eMMC controller is not afected by the kernel yet, but when he (or she) wipe before going to dowload, that wipe bricks the fone. So, even if this person dosen't go to download mode with Odin, the fone will not reboot, because it is already bricked. The wipe did the brick, not Odin.

It doesn't happen 100% of the times, but has high chances to happen !
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] nandihno:
i understand what you are saying but i have some problem with that last statement. and i understand most devs in here do same the same thing..

my day job is as a software developer, no i don't do android apps, but do java at work. and to me if theres a bug theres always a set of circumstances that will trigger a bug, and that set is finite, and that set is true in so much as that it will always trigger a bug i.e. is not ambiguous.

So when i hear ppl here saying...if u wipe u may get lucky...or unlucky that doesn't flow with how software works.

Now I am making the assumption that the problem is software related and not hardware. if it were hardware of coarse erasing any HDD by x amount of time will deteriorate the disks heads and segments...but if the problem is software, in principle you are dealing with 1 and 0s ..so it can either be 1 OR 0 but it can't be one day 1 or one day 0.

so if i wipe on stock recovery after flashing a new ics rom..and then boot up to google setup.. then it means that somehow i am not triggering the bug and that my set of circumstances assuming all remains equal will never trigger that bug.

so AFAIK it is important what circumstances allow for that bug to be triggered and that to me i don't think we really understand yet.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] senectus:
This is horrendous!

I'm running a stock ICS (LPY) that was shipped by the originating telco of the device, and what I'm reading is that this bug might brick my device just by being under heavy load.

I dont even have to be customizing it?!?

right now I'm very tempted to jump to the apparent safety of CM9... but i'm not sure I can even do that safely... :-(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] MTAlmeida:
I agree, the problem is software, more exactly the firmware on the chip.

And yes I agree again, the most impostante is to find out which "unique feature" on the ICS roms triggers the bug, unfortunatly, besides Google, no one here managed to do that yet !

...

P.S: I'm not a developer, I just have a good understanding of how some programming languages works ! :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] M3TALLICA:
I noticed that the latest LPF is not available on Kies or OTA.

Check FUS Downloader does not show it either.

Does it mean Samsung purposefully leaked it for us to test it for them ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] gavinfabl:
I am certain we are beta testing for Samsung. We all.make great candidates.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] aftnoon2:
Maybe you're not so far of truth, unfortunately...:D

On the other hand, that should be a suicidal consumer politics for Samsung, don't you think?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] M3TALLICA:
Thanks.

Some people would argue that 'No one is asking you to be the beta tester'.

But my point is why the !@#$ you release beta **** when kernel sources would probably fix the superbrick? We have better devs than Samsh!t !

PS

I should have created a new thread in the general section. We need more views on this.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] gavinfabl:
Well in reality we are only a small section of people buying the phone. But we are willing to stress test the Note. I really believe Samsung read the forums and probably post as a user.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Sine.:
The AT&T Note SGH-I717 got an "official" ICS leak, a 4.0.4 one, which also include a bootloader (build date : 8 May) : SGH-I717UCLE2 "Official" Leak

Some posts with screenshots :

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=26348063&postcount=60

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=26348519&postcount=70
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] musashiro:
how about LP9? still have the bug?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] chasmodo:
Flash it , do a couple of resets and you'll find out.;)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] senectus:
helpful.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] musashiro:
tried it in my dreams.. it bricked my dog... lols...

will be waiting till entropy and the gang makes an observation..:)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] rtz619:
Just now my kies notified me an update.

Its LC1. Is it another GB update?

Or its Ics?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ask77:
It is a GB 2.3.6
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] rtz619:
Did u upgrade?

Isnt it ridiculous to push an GB update in ICS age?

or its just some kinda prerequisite for ics?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] bigstarrynight:
That is a good question. It could well be a prerequisite, but, as usual samsung, or any other maker come to that, never actually say. But, its better to assume that if you go along with the upgrade path set by samsung via kies, it will be a safer route, and with a warranty maybe if all goes wrong. ;)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] DamBadz:
ics from thailand out now!N7000DXLP9_N7000OLBLP6_THL ^^
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] prophet_in:
did u update should i update?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] tsk1979:
I bought a note in April. I am already on 2.3.6

you may have an older note.

that said the GB stock update is safe
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] programatix:
Oh my God, can't believe my eyes when I saw it at Sammobile the Malaysia release. Weird that no ICS rom released for SGS2 here.

Now I can flash and wipe without worries. If it brick, I just go for a warranty claim.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] musashiro:
i know you cant confirm the wipe bug since it can show after a couple of wipes, but it would be a "bit" helpful if you report how many time/s you wiped on malaysia rom...

malaysia GB rom is the one i use so, it would be of great help...:D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] MrIT:
Gnote will be update 4.0.0?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] rellim:
ICS Update Available Now

Samsung downloaded the ICS update this morning on my international Note running on AT&T. I live in Md. Of course the update wipes out my screen layouts but the update downloaded without a problem.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] programatix:
Actually since coming from DXLC2 > ZSLPF > XXLPY > DXLP9, I never once wiped since everything works fine.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] jhicks991:
Finally got the official ICS update for my Korean Note.

The performance has improved a lot which is awesome... BUT...

on my drop down notifications pulldown there is now a giant honkin Settings icon that takes up a lot of screen real estate. My other notifications go below this. How do I make this go away? I haven't found the option to do so yet :confused:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ask77:
No I didn't update. i am already on ICS LPY German open and don't want to go back to GB . But you can upgrade since it's official Indian GB update. They have not yet updated sgs2 to official Indian ICS yet so don't know when ICS will come officially to India.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] senectus:
That my friend is standard ICS.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Slashed12345:
India Update

N7000DDLP8/N7000ODDLP5/N7000DDLP4/N7000DDLP8

Just got ota update. Did not do it. Now not getting again. Downloading using check FUS
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] jhicks991:
Thanks. I wish there was an option to remove it. It seems to waste a lot of real estate to the right of the icon as well. Were people having problems accessing the settings before? To me it would be like if Ford stuck a giant lever to pop open the hood on the middle of the dashboard even though there's already one tucked away nicely by the drivers side door...

On another note (har har) my battery life today has been brilliant since getting ICS. I've been off the charger for 10 hours today of moderate use (played a few scramble games, watched a 30 min 720p video, about 10 minutes of calls, kept track of a baseball game over MLB At Bat every so often and 35-40 messages or so over kakao messenger) and I'm sitting at 64%. 6 hours were spent in a deep sleep. Typically I'd be around 40% at this point in the day and swapping in my spare battery before heading out for the night. I did most of this on wifi but I'll try again tomorrow with the LTE radio on to see how it compares. Hopefully it's just not calibrated incorrectly and really is getting these fantastic results.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] rtz619:
Finally ICS for India. OTA and Kies as well.

N7000DDLP8 – 4.0.3 – 2012 May – N7000ODDLP5 – India
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] motoroller:
Has ICS for O2 UK come out yet?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] tfragkos:
What's happening with United Kingdom? Are we getting the update last?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] DL84:
I dont think so, the update isnt available here in switzerland too till now
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] tfragkos:
I don't understand why they don't announce specific release dates for all the countries...

Is the ICS update supposed to be a national secret or something?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] herolover:
he he he :D seems to be :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] bigstarrynight:
I guess so, in the fullness of time. :-(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ethos84:
Agreed, especially as they are actively advertising the Note on TV at the moment.

Oh well, I'm sure we'll get it at some point this year :o
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] osnola ivax:
Has anyone experienced the bug when going to the home screen using the hardware button, the screen goes completely blank, leaving just the status bar. It comes back after a few seconds.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] bigstarrynight:
It does seem puzzling that the roll out is not publicised, given that ICS is a major selling point. Also, depending on what reports you read, Samsung is aiming for sales of the GTN7k to hit 10m by the year end. I would have thought the marketing guys would have wanted to promote ICS and Samsungs dedication to make sure customers have the latest updates. Demonstrating this by a well publicised rollout for existing customers. Clearly, an assumption that I got completely wrong. :mad:

I understand the reason for a stepped rollout, but not the secrecy.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] M3TALLICA:
That's launcher redraw, if I'm not mistaken.

Use build.prop tweaks to keep home launcher in memory.

Or use V6 SuperCharger, and bulletproof the home launcher.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] omac_ranger:
Samsung released ICS Source code? Let the games begin!

AndroidCentral
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] rtz619:
Im getting getting this blank screen with only status bar randomly (using apex launcher). .
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] osnola ivax:
Yes I'm also using apex. Can I ask you, do you find it a little laggy also for a launcher.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] crizolli:
I'm also getting this, a lot.

Apex here is notably slower than TouchWiz, but still looks better.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] tfragkos:
For all of you with apex performance problems, are you on stock/official ICS or modded roms?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] osnola ivax:
I'm on stock man.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] rtz619:
Stock one
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] mactruck:
Just got my N7000 note today. Had problems getting it on ATT network until we figured out it needed an APN setting. Phone is perfect but did not see the ICS update when I tried. I thought it rolled out already. What am I missing?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Peter Galbavy:
There is/was talk on the Apex Launcher thread about this exact problem on the Note. It starts about post 3,000 on the following thread. Seems that not just the build.prop (I am not rooted so I can't anyway) but the "keep in memory" option of Apex is required - the "problem" appears to be ICS process management related but I may have misread all that in the rush through.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1452663
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Oblix:
Now that samsung has released the ICS source code, does this mean that updates rolling out will slow down? Or maybe stop? Do we now have to wait for the devs here to bring us a working and flawless rom?

Someone please tell me the truth.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] aharmsworth:
No - HK update out now - downloading. Kies won't install, I am rooted, will try unrooting and try Kies again.

I think the opposite, they think they have put a few out slowly, now that there are no issues they will accelerate the update
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] senectus:
I wonder if Samsung have an ulterior motive... for the most part, bricking on these ROMS happens mostly when trying to do something like load a custom kernel.

I wouldnt be surprised if they "officially" dont care too much about the bug because it mostly effects only Custom ROMmers...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] tfragkos:
I guess they are too busy with the s3 launch now.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] olivespin:
Flash websites work on official ICS ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] senectus:
point me to a flash website and I'll tell you :-) (but I do still have flash on my phone... so it must do)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] bigstarrynight:
Why do you think they would do that?? I think you will find samsung have released source code for all other android versions. Its open source, that's what they do.

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Why would they want to worry about something they didn't build?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] LemonPowerForce:
yes, ICS has had flash support for quite a few months now.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] nandihno:
On stock and is butter smooth running LPF