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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] asifanwaruk:
not working?!

Hello All. I hope someone can help me cos just not getting this.

Me: Windows (7 x64) power user. New to Android but been jailbreaking my iPhones for years. Fed up with limitaitons on iPhone so thought I would jump ship and try the Droid!

Device: Samsung Galaxy Note GT-N7000. Bought on new ebay and originally was 2.3.6 KK4 (Nordic it seems?). Actually very impressed and ready to sell the iPhone4!

Following this great giude (thanks!) and hit a brick wall:

Did steps 1-8 all fine with no issues, so have a clean fresh rooted KKA ROM with factory reset.

I installed MobileODINLite and the FlashKernel easily enough and I gave ODIN SuperUser rights. Pointed to the ICS TAR which is living on my external SD card. Dunno of this matters but it never specifically says it has loaded the file (like the guide says) but does come back to it's screen happily enough with the pathname all set. I then hit Flash and it boots into a recovery mode (blue droid logo with eyepatch) and begins.

The 'flashing' bit seems to take the blue progress bar only about 10% fo the way along and then it says "cleaning up" and reboots.

Now all I get is a boot cycle. Black screen goes to the "Samsung Galaxy Note GT-N7000" text then just goes black and ges back round to it again. I never get past that bit and it never "sings" the way the phone does when powering up.

Have booted into CWM and wiped cache, data etc, but just never get out of it.

Only thing I can do, is boot into Download mode and use Windows ODIN to bring me back to 2.3.6 KKA stock again.

Any thoughts on why my ICS wont go in?

Rumors are that Samsung MAY push ICS out on 1-Mar but who really knows and now it has me frustrated! LOL!

Appreciate any help. With thanks and kind regards,

Asif
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] acidburn89:
Market, maps, gps and face unlock all work just fine. :) The dialer has a bug where, if you used the touch tone keypad to pull up a a contact, the contact name kinda stays on the screen and soesn't leave. lol. It's not too bad but irritates me sometimes. :confused:

This build, like most other ICS builds has the linux kernel 3.0. From what I've heard it is pretty full featured. So give it a try and let us know! :)

I don't know why you're having that problem. :confused: I don't think Mobile ODIN will let you flash ANYTHING. The tar needs to have the required partitions, like system, kernel, hidden, cache, etc. What's more, Mobile ODIN also verifies the md5 on the file to check for file integrity. So, i'm not sure how you landed in this soup. :confused: May be the phone ran out of juice when it was flashing it. Btw, get the Mobile ODIN from my post. It's the latest and it's free! :) As there are practically no risks of bricking, I suggest you give this another try with full battery. :D

Edit. I just realized you must have flashed the official KKA tars instead of the ICS repack. The ICS tar is called "I9220LP1-N7000-ICS-REPACK"
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] acidburn89:
Ha ha. LB1 is a gingerbread build that's why mobile ODIN has no problem injecting the rooted kernel and clockworkmod. It does not work only with ICS builds. :) So yeah, the Mobile ODIN Lite TOO could've given you Ever Root on LB1. :D

Edit. I am sorry about that misinformation. :o I thought the Lite version also worked for Ever Root. But obviously not. :D Thanks for the heads up. :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] acidburn89:
True. :) I suggest that anyone thinking of changing the lcd density should refrain from doing so. It only creates problems. :( But, yeah, if you keep you lcd density untouched everything will work just fine.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] i9000gt:
Anyone else having GPS problems with this tomorrow I'm in the uk and can't get a lock
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] asifanwaruk:
Many thanks for taking the time to look into this. As an experienced iDevice jailbreaker, I was doing this at 100% battery while plugged into the USB port, so no power issues. I used your MobileODIN apk as well as trying the Pro version. I flashed the KKA as per your guide just to get to a fresh rooted ROM and then did apply your TAR. Followed the guide! Just got nowhere. So ended up doing it using the Windows version of ODIN and the TAR went in fine!

Unfortunately, it didnt work out for me, as too many issues. My UK Navigon just kept crashing, there were no Google GPS apps (yes, I DID install your google zip!), and I had issues with Market too. I also found the mail app to be weird. I run my own Kerio mail server on my home server and so I ActiveSync into it. Mail app would sync the main inbox but would never show any of the many (important!) subfolders!

All in all I was VERY impressed with ICS but I went back to GB236 for overall stability and daily use and will await for final release.

But thank you for your efforts in helping me see what's ahead in ICS!!

Kind regards.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] choclate:
no gps lock problem watsoever n i m also in uk

tremendous battery life

its a fully functional ics rom

working awesomly thx to the author
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] acidburn89:
Are you using Google Maps? You should try and enable 'sensor aiding'. I was downtown earlier today and I always got locks in less than 30 seconds, indoor or outdoor. :) The Note has a barometer(sensor aiding) which quickly gets your altitude so you can get a satellite fix much faster. I'm not even kidding. I have tried this with GPS testing apps. I get 'cold-start' locks, indoor, in less than 15 seconds. :D Amazing device. :cool:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] acidburn89:
I think you got it all wrong, my friend. :) After flashing stock KKA comes ROOTING the stock KKA. THEN, you use Mobile ODIN to flash the ICS tar. You can, however, also do it with desktop ODIN but that will most definitely give you a triangle under you "Samsung Galaxy Note GT-N7000." That means your binary custom ROM counter just went up a notch. :) Check and let me know. Also, the included GAPPS zip does not have Maps in it. You can always download it from Market. :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] asifanwaruk:
Yes, I know you root after the KKA and I did (lets face it, MobileODIN would never have worked without it!). Like I said, I followed every step in the guide, to no avail. I did get the triangle with desktop flash, but cant really see how that is a problem. Anyway, the OS was too unstable to use and with Navigon crashing every time it is a show stopper (never mind the other issues). BTW, when I went back to my OWN KK4 (nordic) ROM, the triangle went away.

Cheers.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Dezab:
Market download over 3g

Does anybody else have problem downloading application from Android Market over 3G?

Keep getting error404. Works fine over Wifi.

Edit:

I found out that my widgets can't access the internet over 3g too.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] toofank:
this ics was very well and responsive until I restored my backed up system data with titanium ... now i get a lotta crashes specially in internet browser.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] acidburn89:
I thought you said that Mobile ODIN DIDN'T work. That's why you had to flash with desktop ODIN, right? :) Anyway, I am sorry your having these problems. :( Nobody else seems to be going through that though. BTW, that triangle means that your Note now knows that you have been trying to flash custom ROMs on it, and now you can't claim warranty for your Note. BUT the counter CAN BE RESET. On Ginger Bread, you can only remove it with the 301k samsung USB jig. OR if you are on rooted ICS:D, you can use Chainfire's TriangleAway to reset your flash counter. Anyway, you can boot into download mode and see for yourself. It will show that the custom ROM counter has went up from 0 (no warning triangle) to 'x' number of flashes (warning triangle.)

Are you using Nova Launcher? I think Nova might have some problems with letting the widgets have internet access. My youtube widget stops accessing the internet whenever I restart. :confused: Just a minor hiccup, if you ask me. :p I don't like widgets obstructing my view of the beautiful AMOLED anyways. :D

YOU CANNOT AND SHOULD NOT RESTORE FROM GINGERBREAD BACKUPS. I cannot stress this enough. DO NOT use Titanium to restore your app data. This is ICS (Android 4.0.x) and it is completely different from Gingerbread (Android 2.3.x). So, perform a wipe in clockworkmod and start over. :) You can get most of the stuff back from market. Trust me, you won't regret it. :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ngocdao:
Hi,

Silly question...

Saw some people started at step 8..

My phone is rooted, running franco kernel & criskelo rom.. should I still start at step 1 and work from scratch? or can I start at step 8 too? :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] acidburn89:
What baseband are you using? If you like your current baseband firmware, you can proceed from step 8. :D Just rate it on call quality, reception, and 3g speeds. If you'd rate it good and fully functional on your phone, go ahead with Mobile ODIN flashing. :) I'm using KKA because, among the earlier(directly rootable) stock ROMs, my phone worked the best on KK5 baseband. The KKA I have posted has the KK5 baseband which is very solid. :) At least that's what I would like to think. :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] willisnm:
Thanks so much for posting this guide. I followed it step-by-step and now have a stable, rooted ICS-running SGN, that is just awesome!

There was one minor problem that I ran into, though. On my laptop (Win7 64-bit), not-rooted-yet.bat would not (no matter how many times I re-booted the laptop, no matter how many times I re-installed the adb drivers) execute properly. It kept speeding through the process, not calling up the adb server, etc., until I was just about to pull my hair out. Then I decided to run it NOT as an administrator. And then it worked just fine.

Just my experience with it, YMMV.

But thanks again for the great work and the super-easy guide.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ngocdao:
Got it. Thank you. I will proceed through carefully hehe.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] sjhotwings:
successfully installed the ics 4.0.3 but some how gps can't not locate my location. any help ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] acidburn89:
You're welcome. :)

Make sure you have a nandroid backup from your previous build! :) Not mandatory but helps. :)

Are you coming from KKA/KK5 or did you have some other baseband before you flashed ICS? I am starting to think that people are having GPS troubles because they have migrated from a bad baseband. My GPS locks are stunningly fast. :p Try starting over from step 1. :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] mr11:
nice and clear guide...successful root my note with your guide ! nice one !
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ngocdao:
anywhere else I can obtain/download same exact ics repack.tar? FF only dl @ 100kbps and keeps disconnecting :'(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] anjath:
hey, im on LA4 now so my baseband version also LA4. i am CF rooted. why u say you are on KKA baseband? because once u upgrade to ICS (or any new ROM), baseband also will change right?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] asifanwaruk:
Got it sorted! I was on my stock KK4 Nordic ROM so at the very beginning. All I did was use the "UnlockRoot" app (unlockroot.com) and rooted my own GB system. I used MobileODIN Pro and loaded up the ICS tar, but made one BIG difference: the tar was now sitting on my INTERNAL SD storage not my external 32Gb SD card! Dunno how others are doing it, or maybe my SD card was corrupted before (I have now reformatted it just in case), but THIS time, MobileODIN *DID* give me a popup about which parts of the tar it had loaded, and those areas were now populated with text in the app (remember I said I never got that before? Seems that was a clue). *NOW* when I flashed, the blue bar went all the way up and flashing took longer and now I am in ICS!

*NOW* my device talks happily to Android Market BTW (didnt when I went via KKA). Navigon still crashing but will work on that. Cant ge a Google Maps lock (but dont think I did on GB cos my house is like a huge Farady Cage!), so will have to test that later outside.

Keen to push on and test this more as it is so gorgeous to use.

Many thanks for your help. If everyone else is using internal storage then maybe the external was messing things up and worth noting that in the guide? If others using external then never mind as was just my corrupted card!

:)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ngocdao:
omg.. flashed ics repack.tar via mobile odin and i'm getting constant boot loop.. :'(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] acidburn89:
Did you install the gapps zip and do the factory wipe before rebooting? Try wiping your phone with clockworkmod and reboot. :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] acidburn89:
Dude... you probably didn't wipe after installing ICS. Also, do not restore your Titanium backups if you have any.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] i9000gt:
I'm on baseman version LA4 how do I change this version so I can resolve my GPS issues??? Anyone?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Supergupin:
Thank you very much for this guide.

I followed it step by step and everything works good!

thank again.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ngocdao:
GOD .. COMPUTERS ARE LIKE WOMEN..

Anyways, I didn't even get that far. I loaded my memory up w. all the files and when I flashed it via mobile odin, it made me go in a loop screen.

Downloaded Odin for PC (using Parallels on my Mac LOL) and for 2hours it didnt work.. I tried all diff USB.. all sorts of crazy stuff.. anyways, reset my laptop and it worked first try.. strange. BUT.. i almost thought i bricked it lolol..

Now.. tomorrow morning: get rid of yellow triangle, for tonight, i shall tweak out on this.

I just wanted to clarify: this leak didn't include ICS GUI & Icons right? or did i screw that up too? LOL:D

Thank you for the guideline. It's awesome~!!!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] acidburn89:
I am not sure if flashing JUST the modem works very well. But CLICK HERE to try and flash the KK5 modem with cwm. It is a zip file, DO NOT unzip it. You need to boot into clockworkmod and then flash the zip like how I did in the guide. But I am not 100% sure if this will work. The best option will be to start from step 1. ;)

Np, have fun! :)

lol, no. :D You got it right. It comes with Samsung's ****ty little TWLauncher by default. :p Try NOVA Launcher. :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Dezab:
I did wipe and just as testing purpose, I reinstalled CF Rom and same problem, a lot of Apps are not found on the market.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] acidburn89:
Where are you located? Your country might not have all apps. It's a common thing in Android. :rolleyes: Try the market-enabler app that I have attached below.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] raaghav2:
very helpful threaf
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] GreedyNIN:
Hi,

Just wanted to ask if it is possible to skip step 1 to 6 an just continue with step 7.

I have

Android version:

2.3.5

Baseband version:

N7000XXKJ4

Kernel version:

2.6.35.7-N7000XXKJ4-CL641703

se.infra@SEP-42 #2

Build number:

GINGERBREAD.XXKJ4

Just quite don't follow why to flash KJ4 and use KKA. Is it possible to use mine factory reset complete stock non rooted KJ4?

Thanks for advice
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] acidburn89:
Glad I could help. :)

I suggest you flash the KKA/KK5. KJ4 is older than KK5 and possibly a lot worse. If you want a stable, hassle-free experience, start from step 1. :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ngocdao:
Awesome leak. I just hope final release doesnt eat as much RAM as this.... :O
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] universil:
Hi,

I am doomed and desperately need help.

I followed the entire procedure to get ICS.

I am new to android and so I followed the guide to the letter.

ICS worked but there was no market app so I couldnt get the english keyboard I use.

I decided to do AByss Note thing to get it back to a stock rom BUT....

After I did the Abyss it wouldnt let me move to Advanced boot recovery because it just kept going to the top of the list...then it stayed on the Samsung screen and kept vibrating but doing nothing!!!

I thought I go back to STAGE 1 and try again so did that to stage 7 and now it goes to the start up screen, (touch the android) but then errors that say,process stoped unexpecttedlyand reboots over and over.

Can anyone help me fix this???

I am desperate because I have no phone!!

Thanks in advance.

---------- Post added at 03:26 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:07 AM ----------

SORRY GUYS I think I got it working...but I guess I fluked it!!!

Thank heavens!!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] turshija:
This is what I get when I try to buy something on Market when using Market Enabler:

http://slike.milf-hosting.info/images/1330055432.jpg

Also, I couldn't find Chrome on Market, so I found .apk somewhere and installed that, now running Chrome 0.16.4130.199, and I've no idea which one is the newest one :D

---------- Post added at 04:55 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:52 AM ----------

You've probably forgot about step 10, flashing Google Aps zip :)

Anyway, I am glad you managed to fix your phone ;)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] kvsandeepreddy:
suggestion!!!!

bro this thread is....... legend.... wait-for-it.... daryyyy.... ;););)

also add about the app named appextractor in the thread so that newbies will know that they can even extract apps from nandroid... ;)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ngocdao:
Am i able to flash a kernel (like franco or speedmod) with this?

Or any compatible kernel you recommend?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] m2b999:
What about CWM? It's not there when I flashed doing from step 8?

It was successful and worked fine until I couldn't find CWM and had to flash to get CWM and then it got stuck into loops of showing "Samsung Galaxy N7000" sign and vibrating the whole time...

(I followed the sticky post of getting root + CWM. Jumped directly to "I'm root, just wants CWM"))

Any ideas???
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] acidburn89:
Actually I have noticed that it takes ~320mb after killing all apps. Believe it or not, that's how much I used to get from Ginger bread. :D Yeah, I think ICS handles RAM perfectly fine, even in beta. :D

Haha. Don't worry about it. I don't think you can brick this phone easily. :cool: Reminds me of APX on Tegra 2 devices. It's more or less a hardware link to your EEPROM to flash the ROM no matter what condition it is in. Something like a JTAG, if you will. :D

According to my up-to-date chrome beta:D, the version is 16.0.912.75. CLICK HERE for an apk.

Thank you! :) App extractor is for cwm backups, I think. You cannot restore app backups from Gingerbread to ICS. If you are restoring back to a GB ROM, you might as well restore the whole backup. But for app backups between ICS builds, I recommend Titanium Backup. :D

I don't think any previous Gingerbread kernel will work for ICS. ICS is based off the linux kernel 3.0, while GB was based off linux kernel 2.6. :) You can try flashing the stock kernels from XXLP1 (sammobile leak) or from ZCLP1 (Chinese leak) but you will most certainly lose root. So... tread carefully. :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] acidburn89:
I think you are talking about ROM Manager. :D The ROM DOES HAVE clockworkmod but not ROM Manager. ROM Manager is just an app you can download from Marketplace. You can access the cwm by holding volume UP, home and power together until cwm boots. :D Boot up cwm, perform a 'wipe data/factory reset' and you should be back up and running. :D However, I do suggest you DO NOT flash anything from ROM Manager right now. The clockworkmods offered by ROM Manager are currently NOT compatible with the Note. You can download and install it so that you can easily boot into CWM. :D I hope this helps. :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] anjath:
that's my concern. im on LA4 rooted. so can i start with this version? why go back to kka. thanks :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] m2b999:
Yah because I couldn't do anything with rom manager, so I'll try to do it again and hope for the best. I'll post a reply with what happened... Thanks! :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] gautamr9:
Great Job!!!

Didnt find it all that great!! Probably the launcher ruined it for me..

By the way.. if you do a back up of all your apps with Astro.. you can restore them..
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] android_master:
Great work.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] fuzzled:
End of Step 9

I'm at the end of step nine, just used mobile odin to select the ICS firmware and rebooted. However my phone just keeps looping.

It'll display the logo, show the blue mobile odin android, display the flashing, etc etc lines then reboot. It all happens in about 1 second and restarts. Keeps doing this constantly. Is it actually flashing or is it stuck in a boot-loop?

I've tried to workaround this and reinstall GB but this keeps popping up. I can't get past this point. :(

Edit: Fixed, gotta put the ICS files on the PHONE storage. SD storage won't work.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] dr. xp55:
I was on Romow v8, AbyssNote 4.1 initially, but unfortunately I have had to go the long route in getting back root and everything.

So now I am actually stuck on this part because either my note won't recognize that its connected to the pc, or the pc won't recognize it. I can't
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] acidburn89:
You should try Nova launcher for ICS. I think it *just* hit v 1.0. :D

Nice sig bro! :D

Good work! :) Self help is the best help. :D

What part are you stuck on?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] m2b999:
Now it works great!

I installed Nova and Trebchut launchers, but both of them display TW launcher phone, sms, interest icons, not ICS icons! Any suggestions?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] gautamr9:
Is it just me or has the volume level of the phone drastically dropped on this rom?? I can barely hear anything.. Anyone else facing the same problem??
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] kvsandeepreddy:
no bro... i have a GB nandroid but was able to extract apps from it when i was in ics using app extractor

edit:: i restored 182 apps using it :) but the only prob is while booting up... it taking 2 min to optimize the apps :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] randomletters:
Hi,

Can some one advice on RTL language support?

Do Arabic and Hebrew languages work?

Thanks for the guide!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] m2b999:
Arabic works just fine...

موقع xda للمطورين

:)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] randomletters:
Well, I hope Hebrew will work as well.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Lanarix:
Such a nice guide, with every step explained thoroughly!

Really helpful in the comments too.

I'm gonna give this a try in the evening, it's gonna be my first root and this thread helped me cross the line, thanks in advance!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] omrhsn:
I am watching the demo videos now and I can't wait to give it a try. Thanks for the detailed guide.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] m2b999:
It should be since both are considered right-to-left languages...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] m2b999:
BTW, any luck about ICS default icons?

I'm still having TW icons even aftet installing Nova and Trebchut launchers!!!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] DPMAce:
so what step do I have to start at if all I've done to my note so far is root it using Dr. Ketan's guide?

Is it step 8? (I'm still on stock rom, only rooted with CWM, and superuser)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Lanarix:
Is there any way to download the two big files from another source, because it says I've reached my limit or something. And the mirror says I have to wait for 50minutes to download something..

Thank you.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] omrhsn:
I am currently on rooted Gingerbread 2.3.6, Baseband Version N7000XXLA4, Build Number JPLA1. Can I just start with Step 8? It would be nice to have more download links like mediafire or something. Thanks
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] m2b999:
I think so. That's what I did for my KK2 build!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] acidburn89:
I think I have found an (ok) solution for now. I will make edits on the first page to reflect the info. :)

I actually think it is somewhat louder than GB builds. :D Try the equalizer and sound effects in the stock music player. I'm sure you will like em. :D