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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] becknise:
I can't even get to recovery anymore; i get this everytime 'Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again.' PC odin keeps getting stuck at factoryfs.img
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] veasna.kelly:
Question is can you go into download mode now? Another is to see your responding to my above question.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] becknise:
I once flashed a leaked ICS rom but i only had it for 1 hour and i went back to stock GB using PC Odin. Today i flashed official ICS and i wiped and that's where the problem began. I can still boot to download mode if it helps?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] nandihno:
please change the title

to

WARNING DO NOT WIPE VIA CWM ON NEW GERMANY ICS

the stock recovery works fine..infact thats how i got it working after flashing to ICS via odin from stock GB

I needed to go to stock launcher and wipe cache and data

PLUS am sure by now most read users know NOT to do wiping and restoring operations on CWM on the new german ICS..
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] becknise:
Yes i can go into download mode.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] veasna.kelly:
search the thread on this forum and look for flashing prerooted gb lc1 rom with pit file via PC odin and make sure you are on the right pit file version bf flash.

Just read more and maybe this could help you at least back to gb when your phone still be able to boot into download mode.

Pls note that your phone on a risk now and do this at your own risk.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] rogconnect:
Delete this thread! I wipe and wipe and wipe....no problems...all depend where u coming from....so stop all this stupid warnings......or stop flashing any ROMs.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] pakalrtb:
I believe the problem is a little more complex than just wiping with CWM. And I believe OP should describe a little bit more of history before I got to that point.

I have personally just wiped data/factory reset with CF-CWM with NO problem at all.

I went from stock GB KK2 to stock ICS LPY using CF-CWM . Did not wipe anything before the update. Everything went smooth. Today I decided to wipe in order : Dalvik - Cache - and finally data/factory reset , all from the CWM recovery screen, that I started from the CWM Manager. Rebooted my SGN and everything was fine.

P_
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Kriggs:
As quoted many times, some people can wipe 1000 times until brick or even forever and it may never happen, even on leaked kernel, if you wiped 500 times still dont mean it is safe for everyone.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Firipu:
I can only speak from my experience, but I also have had no problems with LPY ICS.

I came from CM9, but I decided to flash stock GB with PC odin before flashing LPY.

Rooted GB with the zergrush exploit, then flashed LPY with CF_root kernel using mobile odin pro.

Made a backup of LPY and a factory reset wipe in CWM. No problems at all.

No idea if I just got lucky or not. Bit nervous about using it, thinking to go back to CM9, to be safe.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Entropy512:
Stock recovery does not work fine - we have at least one incident of someone experiencing eMMC damage after a wipe with stock recovery

As stated EVERYWHERE - Just because some people are able to wipe successfully doesn't mean everyone is safe. The chance of bricking is maybe 5-10%, but:

On safe kernels it's 0%

Those who have wiped before are not guaranteed to continue being OK - over in the Epic 4G Touch forums, some users experienced problems after safely wiping 10-20 times or more. Some people's devices died on the first wipe, other's continue to be fine
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] clandestino123:
Hi becknise. What was the leaked ICS rom that you flashed ? Did you flash CM9 or a variant ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] joshua:
Hmmm...

Interesting... actually in the 1st place y did u press the power button during wipe? This mayb the reason rather than Germany ICS for ur case...

If the phone got stuck, the phone wont respond even if u press the power button.. i suspect its doing wiping in the background... need to b a little patient.

I once had wipe data for abt 15 - 20 mins but i juz let it do the job till it said its completed...

Noted From My G.NOTE Using XDA Premium
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] andreww88:
I absolutely do not understand this at all. But, I guess no one does. ;)

There's GOT to be some variables that are similar with everyone that has the bricks happening. I have not bricked and I have been on about 4 or 5 leaked ROMs (and kernels). But, I decided not to take any more chances and I am on official ICS rom now, however, I did not flash CF Root kernel with the Open Germany ICS Rom. I got root by flashing CWM.zip and Busybox (per Dr.Ketan's post).
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Funkym0nkey:
Not stupid.

Same thing has happened to lot of people including me.

I didnt ever touch CM9. Went from GB safe kernel straight to LPY. And did data/factory reset from CWM and bam... Phone is bricked.

DId not touch Nandroid, Did not restore, did nothing other than wipe.

I can get into download mode and CWM recovery. Even managed to flash the redpill recovery and GB rom via CWM but phone wont boot. ODIN cannot flash and gets stuck at NAND flashing step.

Its not stupid warning. Its a valid warning.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] tbong777:
I didn't even do that. I got root using Mobile Odin Pro and injecting SuperSU from the CheckRom/Abyss 6.2 GB ROM. I cannot imagine anywhere else I may have got root. I did not use CF Root during or after the flash of LPY. I have stock recovery with fully rooted Stock LPY.

Now My question is how to flash a ZIP file of a Custom ROM without using CWR... Unless they release them in Tars as well as Zips. In which case the ROM is likely to have the CWR in the kernel anyway.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] praetorius:
Stay stock and rooted. Study what these custom roms have modified and do it yourself. Most of the time, it's eye-candy flavor that they add for those who want it the easy way. They should be aptly called "customizer" instead of "devs".

Then again, that's just me :D

Zapped through server hops to XDA forums
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] kawgirlval69:
you should edit the title of your post to add the cwm..... because you can wipe if you havent rooted... seems to cause more unnecessary panic...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] nandihno:
well the problem you had was that u use CWM

For me...my rule is this..upto you guys if you apply it.

I had LPy rooted via the CWM.zip method...but then decided to have a clean clean ICS

so ..(and this i normally would do on any other rom )

1) downgrade via ODin PC to GB (LC2) and i choose my appropriate PIT 16Gb in my case + repartition ticked ..

2) Once the phone boots before it takes me to the initial setup..(it wont because it stays in this for ever loop..so then i just go into Recovery E3 (stock) and clear data and cache

3) Reboot from recovery E3..and then start to GB

I then went to flash ICS via odin again same PIT and repartition ticked... put it into download mode.. and

4) Flash ICS allow phone to re-start (again it wont because it does this for ever loop ) so i then get into recovery E3 and clear data and cache

5) Reboot from recovery E3 and then start to ICS

Maybe is the fact that ppl do a clean BEFORE installing a rom

whereas maybe why not do a clean AFTER installing the rom again only on stock recovery E3

just my 2c
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Funkym0nkey:
Yup, and that is why I said this is not a stupid warning.

Lot of people said its safe to do factory reset in CWM as long as you dont touch nandroid on ICS. Turns out, its not true.

Lot of us learned the hard way so.

To be honest I think kernel flash via ODIN might fix this but I dont want to take chance of tripping binary counter in case that fails. So this afternoon I am taking my note to samsung.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] honf:
There are ROM devs. And then there are ROM cooks.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] thehackersz:
just a simple question from me... TOO ALL THE BRICKED NOTE OWNERS, WHERE DID YOU DOWNLOADED YOUR ICS ROOM?

MINE FROM http://fus.nanzen.se - everything works fine in here. Came from stock rooted GB and straight flashed ICS using mobile odin. Pushed zImage through mobile odin, wipe everythings using CWM and still good.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] XpLoDWilD:
Have you tried ticking "Re-partition" WITH a .PIT file?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] nandihno:
So something happens when you wipe its almost as it removes some partitioning that is needed when running odin

And so after flashing via odin and then wiping and then installing that partition is recovered

Running with a pit means that odin knows what partitions to use and where each component of the rom will live

With repartitioning check is simply that.. It generates the partitions again

So if wiping before running odin is the problem wondering if the users that do break their note go straight to download mode before going to the setup process

If that's the case then the act of running the phone pass the setup phase re generates some partitioning space needed by odin
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] EdgaBimbam:
yeh and how have you flashed that LPY? i flashed via odin pc firstly firmware from sammobile then cf root and doing every day wipes cache/dalvik and no problems, cant say about wiping data, because dont want to loose my data ;D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] thehackersz:
yup, extracted the CF LPY kernel zImage and flashed it using mobile Odin. Reboot to CWM recovery and wipe everything. Still Good...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] EdgaBimbam:
hmmmm im not developer or specialist in these things, but my opinion is: the reason why it fails wiping in cwm recovery is because they didnt make full wipe before flashing LPY, because this firmware is non wipe and maybe going from gb to ics without wipes causes these problems, there was also one guy who got bricked his phone by LPY and he also didnt make full wipe before flashing LPY firmware... any developers could comment my wonderings?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] be_vigilant:
The only stupid thing in this thread is your post. And now mine for quoting it.

How can you be so blind as to not think the new LPY\CWM has a problem.

Stop spreading bad advice :eek:

I hope karma bites you on the ass
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] thehackersz:
yeah, you probably right!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] shirley:
Do you think it is safe to do a "factory data reset" from the settings menu?

I am using LPY. Was on Checkrom GB before and flashed using Mobile Odin, kept root using "everroot" and have stock recovery not CWM.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] seltaeb:
I moved from stock GB to stock ICS LPY without wipe. Never had anything else on the phone earlier. Rooted ICS LPY with the temporary CWM method.

Anyways, for what it's worth, I have wiped once via stock recovery after installation -- did not face any issues.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] EdgaBimbam:
hmmm btw you wipe data? or only dalvik/cache?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Goldie:
Ficetos data partition also screwed by lpy kernel....

@ficeto:so… even odin can not flash the data partition ;) I have an idea of how to probably make it work, else the device is a toast

@ficeto:was able to boot back GGB using /preload as /data :) custom kernel+fstab though… so no ROM deving on that device anymore :(

As you can see from how he got gb going he knows what he's doing but his device is officially dead.

Just because people wiped/formatted ok doesn't mean it wont happen. I think we will see more and more dead notes as time goes on.

Sent from my GT-N7000
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] toxicthunder:
hmmm...peculiar thread. I can confirm that its safe, and much needed when moving from GB to ICS.

WIPING is COMPLETELY SAFE.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Goldie:
Lol...and another completely missing the point. As long as you're alright Jack. Noone said it will happen every time or to everyone. Most cases are fine but its certainly NOT completely safe... :rolleyes:

Sent from my GT-N7000
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] becknise:
Ok is this a stupid thread or not? lets see. The general overview was if you wipe on leak ICS chances are you will brick your phone. No ONE said the same would happen on official ICS. I installed official ICS on phone thinking since it is official it is safe to wipe. OK maybe i should not have pressed the power button simply bacause it's taking forever to wipe. Yeh my fault, but the thing is if one person can do it, anyone else would do it. I mean i thought official means wipe with no worries, i guess it does not. I'm just trying to warn anybody else who may be thinking the same thing that it's safe to wipe on official ICS.

To answer some question yes i was once on a leaked ICS, criskelo V2 and i went back to GB. I have not tried flashing with pit. Anyway i have requested a repair from samsumg; i will post the phone to them today.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] toxicthunder:
I do not intend to argue or oppose you on this. Just sharing a bit of confirmations from other threads where users have reported wiping to be good to go.

And the point wasn't missed. it was just overlooked for the bigger target ahead :P:P

Peace and Respect!!

Cheers!

---------- Post added at 01:54 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:52 PM ----------

"Peculiar" does not imply "stupid"

nobody is questioning your intentions here. good that you chose to express your reservations about wiping.

good luck with your repairs.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] tripleteamed:
Also stuck at Samsung Logo Screen

Hi,

I started at Checkrom HD, used mobile odin and followed non-wipe instructions to upgrade to official Germany ICS. Worked fine for a few days, but noticed that the wifi was flaky. Reinstalled via mobile odin, but this time I did factory reset. Booted up fine. Everything was working well.

Then... I decided to try lcd density modder. LCD density modder rebooted and now I'm stuck at the logo screen. I can get to CWM recover and download. Tried a nandroid of checkrom, but was told that the md5 didn't match. Went to CWM and tried wipes and reinstalled off checkrom. Still getting stuck at the logo screen.

Please help!

Thanks,

Tony

Update:

Was able to get back to usable state by using Odin and going back to LC1. Will now go back to KKA so that I can root then do this ICS dance again :-).
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] thehackersz:
lol u renamed you backup folder? try to remember back what is the original name of that folder back and rename it back. don't use software if you want to change density. root explorer can do the trick...

u can use root explorer/root browser under system/build.prop

long press, open in text editor, search for lcd density. edit both of them...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Goldie:
This with Odin should help if you are helpable....

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1618705

Sent from my GT-N7000
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] be_vigilant:
Not really related to this thread. But take out spaces or non standard characters of your nandroid backup folder. If that fails you will have to remember what you called it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] mobile88:
What a misleading thread

I wipe cache n data few times on this German build while testing several roms

Never faced any bricking issue
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] be_vigilant:
Yet again you know nothing. I would rather take the advice of a CM dev\ team hacksung...

STOP SPREADING DANGEROUS BAD ADVICE.

We need a mod in here to clean this thread...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ryn888:
I already updated mine from GB to Germany ICS. It was successful... i have no problem with this. I didn't root this. No Root...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] tripleteamed:
I didn't rename anything. Just did a nandroid a few days ago before going to ICS.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] tripleteamed:
Now you tell me :-). It worked back when on CheckRom HD. Will not try that again!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] becknise:
You want my advise? stop wiping. You may be lucky once or even 100 times. It may be that 101th time you brick your phone. And you do realise it is possible to partially damage the emmc chip. All i'm trying to do is to stop people from making the same mistake as me.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Funkym0nkey:
Dear god, half the people here still not getting what this warning is about. Only few guys have clearly understood what is happening. This is different (though it may have same underlying cause ) from people who are getting brick flashing from CM9 or during migration process.

This is my first brick after good 20 odd android devices since 2009.

Those who had brick were successfully on LPY. Root works just fine. Nothing wrong there. We had perfectly fine operational ICS.

The brick happened when I tried to do factory reset when ICS was installed in NON STOCK recovery. It was CWM touch recovery. Cache partition wipe happens just fine. Delvik cache wipe : again no issues.

Data wipe in CWM recovery : Problems.

Data wipe in Temperory CWM touch Recovery : Problems.

Phone will get stuck at formatting data and nothing will happen. Only way to close this is to pull out battery which caused the brick. I am still able to get into CWM and download mode.

The only reason I even wiped the phone in CWM was as a precursor to flashing new ROM.

First thing I tried : Flash back to the safe kernel and recovery (Abyss 4.2).

Flash successful.

But I cant flash any rom successfully through CWM. ODIN gets stuck as FACTORYFS Nand write while trying to flash back to LC1

PIT file does not help. It repartitions successfully but same problem as before.

Somehow managed to install a GB full wipe ROM via CWM, but still phone wont boot. Getting stuck at N7000 logo.

Multiple tried didnt help. most of them get stuck at flashing kernel stage.

Flashing kernel through ODIN is the only thing I didnt try as I didnt want to trip binary counter and lose warranty in case things didnt turn out well.

This is what actually happened after wipe using CWM on perfectly fine LPY install.

On my second personal note, I can still do data wipe just fine using stock recovery on LPY countless times. No issues. But I am hesitant to try anything until I get this Note fixed.

Just gave it to Samsung for motherboard replacement.

There are other people getting bricks during migration. But this is completely unique situation.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] robertberma:
Change title!

WARNING IF YOU ARE A NOOB DO NOT TOUCH ICS!!!

Pfff stupid warning threads.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Goldie:
Troll off....if you don't like it don't post here. Its the mods job to decide on titles not yours.

If you choose to ignore the risk go ahead but don't get your knickers in a twist over other people being informed about what is a very real issue. People can ignore it if they like can't they.

The number of bricks IS rising whether you like it or not. Its only right people are informed IMHO

Sent from my GT-N7000
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] robertberma:
And its you who decide if you root your phone and flash custom roms. That is a risk you decide to take. No warrenty's here mister :p
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Rocheau:
Although I did not have any problem installing ICS through KIES, and then rooting through DR KETAN, CWM temporal solution, I am glad to be aware about the problems I could get in case I decided to wipe from the stock recovey or CWM recovery. There are many people who have had problems doing like that, so thanks to this post I will be out of make any wipe until currents problems could be fixed.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Goldie:
No, I know. I also know that with GB if you flashed correct firmware in the correct way then a hard brick was impossible bar your PC exploding whilst flashing.

Now its like playing roulette with your device and people like you think folk shouldn't be warned....gimme a break

Sent from my GT-N7000
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ukicar:
finally that someone nicely explain
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] dr_derqami:
Ok
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] E90 Commie:
Touch recovery?

This is not the CWM that is included in the CF-Root LPY kernel. Is this touch recovery one that gets in through the rooting process?

For me, I have used the CF-Root LPY non-touch without any problems and that is with the ROM and kernel flashed through Mobile Odin.

If the bricks are caused by a completely stock ROM that has been flashed and then rooted and equipped with a temporary touch CWM (injected later) - that could be the problem rather than the CF-Root LPY with its included recovery.

---------- Post added at 08:51 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:42 AM ----------

Use ROM Toolbox Pro to change the DPI setting. I have the same experience, LCD Density Modder kills the ROM but with ROM Toolbox Pro, everything works great.

I am using 240 DPI on LPY and it works perfectly.

Edit: Regarding touch recovery: I guess that Touch Recovery means the version of CWM with big spacing between menus and a larger font for finger friendliness that were present in some GB kernels too. When I say non touch recovery, I certainly means the traditional small font version that is included in the CF-Root LPY etc.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] seltaeb:
Full wipe / factory reset because this was before all the warnings were posted.

Of course this is all anecdotal evidence and correct me if I am wrong here -- but from what I can make out: people (including myself) who have (a) moved from stock GB to stock ICS LPY (b) via PC Odin (c) done a full wipe after installation (d) via stock recovery do not seem to have faced any issues.

/or have they? o_O

---------- Post added at 06:34 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:32 PM ----------

Secondly, since this may be important to put on record, I have never had a custom ROM / kernel / non-standard bootloader on the device before I did the above -- except that I have now rooted the stock ICS LPY via the temp CWM method.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] lokkinho:
You're right !

But better for you to do full wipe before you switch your GB to ICS, that will be more safer.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] apprentice:
These posts are becoming tiresome

Soooo... in a nutshell, what's the point of all these (frankly scaremongering) posts when we can simply say:

You might get bricked... you might not.

The odds are probably the same as being struck twice by lightning.

Don't flash this (or any other ROM for that matter) if you want complete assurance.

If (like me) you like a challenge, a risk, tinkering with your phone, then go for it (carefully) and see what happens. I can report my upgrade seems to be perfect so I am one of those lucky ones.

I do however stay indoors during a thunderstorm.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Nemesis_00:
I have moved from Rocket 23 to LPY via PC Odin, then flashed CF-Root via PC-Odin, and afterwards cleared data/cache/dalvik via CWM. Ofcourse, before all the warnings were posted.

Now I wont change back to GB since I tripped the Binary Counter, and Triangle Away doesnt work until ChainFire modifies it to the new LPY.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] remixtech:
I think you'are cleverer than all of us...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] tbong777:
Good advice. I don't see an advantage of Deoxed unless theming is important. I can lose all the bloat using Root Explorer, A custom ROM will have to deliver more than eye candy fro me to mess with this set up at this point, Everything is running better than GB. Have not found any niglets or bugs yet.

Battery is just as good if not a little better than CheckRom/Abyss (ran that at 1.6 though) I was just leery about CWR, I rarely did a Nandroid restore so I don;t miss that. Wipes have me a little concerned though. I guess since I am on Stock I can do a factory wipe from the phone itself safely.