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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] uggies:
I used to have that problem too.

What I did was get mobile odin on your note, extract modem.bin from any ROM then flash it via mobile odin. It solved my problem :)

Hope this works for you too
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] grandmasternz:
thanks for the confirmation. but sad. well, looks like i'll try contacting a service center and see if it's worth replacing the board :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Lance Uppercut:
Please don't quote large posts.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] kent27:
you deserve the thanks :D

Checked my storage, only 8+ gb available instead of usual 11gb, guess 3gb was damaged. but better than a bricked phone :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
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Thanks a lot for sharing good news and trouble shoot solution!:D that is very helpful!:D

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:):D

Yes, you have lost about 3gb. But if try to do the following can gain some large chuck back:

1. reduce the size of datafs. remove and recreate it with the size of 893 or 1000. this will give you more than one GB for the UMS partition.

2. If you have not flash too many time while it get stuck then perhaps on the the two former factoryfs or datafs may be still good. In that case you can try to create the factoryfs and a smaller datafs somewhere in the range of 281 3322. If both successful you can gain more than 2gb.

But for some people the loss is even more than 3gb if their UMS partition also have faulty areas.

cheers

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Thanks for sharing good news :D!

Not aware of a solution yet.

cheers,

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Thanks for sharing good news :):D!!!

cheers,

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The faulty areas is unused and will not cause any problem.

cheers,

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Herk:

Try to format internal sdcard using cwm.

If that does not solve the problem, then try to remove and recreate partition 11 (UMS) as in the guide.

Hope that will work,

Cheers
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hamann:
Thank you very much forest1971. Mine got back and working again but my storage only 8.xx gb left. Can I redo the partition again and fix in which part to get the storage back? Thanks again.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Thanks Hamann!

Try my suggestion to Kent in the post above and using other suggestions in the guide.

If you have flash many times after it get stuck there is a good chance that you have made more damage the the factoryfs and datafs partition then it may not be possible to use them. Otherwise, one of those partition should still be good and can be use to save lots of space back. Also try to reduce size of datafs.

cheers,
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Herk718:
I think its safe to say Forest1971 guide is xda portal worthy!! :D thanks again bro ;)

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Hey forest my ums is fine I thinks its something wrong with external SD card because I can't view it in root explorer/file manager its just blank, but my music that's on there still shows in my music player. And my pictures that's on my SD card stills displays in gallery. Any thoughts on this?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Look for things in the internal sdcard. Infact, there is no external sdcard.

By the way, does it shown as usb storage in PC?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] bobet96:
Settings> More> USB Utilities

Sent from my Galaxy Note
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Herk718:
Yes it does show on my PC.

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This feature is not present in CM9 :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Javier: In case flashing modem as suggested by Uggies does not work then try this also:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1264021

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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Robotu:
I tried few times to follow your guide but i think is to criptic, maybe i am doing something wrong but also the guide is wrong. When i have to guide somebody, even thrugh phone, i can imagine that the other person have zero knowledge and guide him like it was me the one wich do not knew nothing about whatever was the issue... So i thing should be that guide, something is missing, it is made for guys wich already know what cd, adb, cmd....., bla bla is. I do not know what that is, when i run cmd i simply put a comand there and enter, but eith that cd is a mess. Do not think is a big deal, only it is not made for all the people to understand. Sugestion, put X folder in Y partititon/directory (universal for all windows/linux ssystem), than the cmd comands would be the same all over earth, than run X+Y+Z command wich will be the same, and then W+Q+Z command wich will be the same and so on, and so on.

I admit i am not familiar with those commands, but also i am not dump at all, and if any of you want to help as, should really wright the guide in a universal language, from -10 to 10 step, not from 3 to 10 step.

I install and maintain remotely different versions of Windows OS, i even sometimes do hardware maintanance, but this cmd, cd, adb is to much for me. so please, can you make it comprehensiv for all the people wich can at least know to flash and configure a Android ROM or install and configure a windows OS....?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Phenome: Not sure what is causing it, but sometime having installed both drivers can cause the problem.

maybe just uninstall them all and then reinstall Kies to see how it goes. It seems you have tried before but one more time may be no harm.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] friedje:
You maintain several different windows OS and you are not familiar with the most basic command line options in windows cli ???
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Robotu:
Yes man, that is right, when i used command line i mostly copy and paste thinking is not for me to understand...., maybe i was just a bit lazy and avoided cmd understanding..., and out of topic i even do and did a lot deta recovery with different programs......

Anyway, sorry for my attitude, i was obsesed an a little bit hurry cause i do not want to spend this device some more time from my productivity days, i mean out of the weekend, and this is my only day i want to give for this device, untill next sunday, so i wanted to finish and i was keep getting stock in different steps in cmd...

Now i fully understand all the steps and i do not want to follow the guide but to keep trying from MB in MB till i can use all the space from my internal SD so all the partition will have the same size as original ones and all the continuum space that it can be used to be in one place as a internal sd.

I have 3 more questions, so i do not read again all the thread (till now i have been reading only to follow the progres for a few days...):

1) All the partitions (9, 10 and 11) should be one after another, or they can have empty space between theme wich can contain bad sectors to avoid. That will help me to stick to the guide and not try my way as mentioned above, or skip the guide and atick to my way...

2) Till now have been proved that the only partition with bad sectors are only 9, 10 and 11, or other guys have been experimented bad sectors also in other partirions then 9, 10 and 11. That will be helpful to know so the guide would be inuff, otherwise meand that i will still need some help at one moment and probably i will not finished today.

3) For an experienced one, maybe forest, does it make any sense to try all the sectors as i mentioned or there are a lot chances that none of that sectors could be usable and i will waste a lot of my time for nothing?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] mimotata:
thanks uggies for the guide

yesterday i had hard-brick but was fixed by adb shell with this guide :D:p

i deleted 4 partitons FACTORYFS,DATAFS,UMS and CACHE and i recreated them again i'm over the moon and alive again :p:D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] petersteier:
unsuperbricked++

Uff. Seems to live again.

What I did: follow post #12 literally; however, had to download sdk from http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-precedent/511581-adb-without-having-download-sdk.html, this from post #??? of this thread could not be extracted from the archive.

parted complained "Warning: Not all of the space available to /dev/block/mmcblk0 appears to be used" which I fixed. When I tried to upgrade the ext2 to ext4, there was a message about mtab not existing. I had to mount the /data and the /system partition from CWM recovery, then it warned but worked. When making UNS the device complained about a write error, therefore I made it only from the start suggested by post #12, to 10.0 GB.

Odin (1.85) did not work for me at all for the stock ROMs (GB and ICS), always stuck at "veryfying MD5" or "system.img/Write to NAND". I did not try any custom ROM. I could apparently flash the kernel from post #12 with Odin. However, there was still CWM when booting into recovery. I put the AbyssKernel on the (external) sdcard, and renamed it to update.zip, and applied this with CWM recovery. There is apparently a mixup in CWM recovery: I'm not sure, but I think it confuses internal and external sd card.

After having the Note rest over night with power off, reboot into download and recovery ended up in AbyssNote. From there I did try a restore of a backop I had made some time ago with the CWM app, after rooting stock Gingerbread, and it ran through!

Wireless works, I'm currently charging and updating apps. I did not try the SIM yet, but I expect no problem. Once the phone is fully charged, I will have a try to parted again, to get more memory in internal, and maybe flash a newer backup.

Thanks to all here! I promize to go through the post and thank all the helpful posts.

Update: The Gingerbread I flashed crashed after adding the apps and finally got stuck in a bootloop again. But I think I'm close...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] mimotata:
try any custom rom and install from recovery that is .zip

and after that flash full rom with odin pit,bootlooder,pda,modem,csc and ums

the phone will alive again

in my case it worked , i survived from hard-brick yesterday

:D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Thanks for informing of good progress, although still some more steps to fully recovered.

And thanks for reporting detailed problems so that we can continue to improve the guide.

Yes, it is nice to hear that you will give thanks:D. all the people in this forum deserve thanks:), for may useful contributions.

cheers,

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Thanks Mimotata as well. Always great to hear of good news.:D:D:D

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But remember do not use repartition option in odin or else things will mess up again.

Also I would try to limit the amount of items to flash. If just flash rom it works then it is great. I would avoid flash boatloader or modem unless it is needed to solve the problem of no signal or something. Flashing those things can sometime be dangerous (just for caution).

cheers
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] uggies:
It is forest1971 who wrote the guide and you should be thankful to him :)

Also, I am very happy to hear that your note have been unbricked ! Life is good again yay?

Forest, you have got quite a few successors today havent ya ? :)

Cheers mate
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Yes. It feels really good to share the joy when a Note is back, isn't it?

And you have thrown in quite a few essential trouble shoot comments haven't you?

cheers mate,

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Guide has been revised to make it more easier to use.

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The partitions does not need to sit next to one another. they can have unused space in between.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Robotu:
I tried and succeded, after i have read the entire thread. I sticked to the guide cause what i wanted to do would have been a huge work.... I installed Xtralite and it was giving me a lot force close that i could not even setup the rom and log in, i installed Rocket rom and tried to boot but it got stock somwhere close to finish the boot and after i pulled the battery it got stocked on first logo with Samsung, tried to restore a previous CWM GB backup but after i finished it gor stock again on Samsung logo, i again installed Xtralite and again a lot Force close....

Any ideas please...?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Not sure what the problem is yet.

Just some notes:

1. It will help if you print screen the partition table after

(parted) print

so that we can see if there is any problem with the partition table.

2. Secondly, if xtralite can boot it is a good thing (Matiasg could only install this rom at first while other rom does not work for him)

3. But Installing Xtralite is quite complicated. You need to read the instruction at the rom site very carefully and follow the exact steps in order to avoid force close. it need to be install in several cycle of reboot. Try to look for that link in the xda.

This is the link: GB rom is in second post

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1365587

To save your time of looking: this is how it is done to install xtralite:

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THIS WILL DO A FULL WIPE as per usual have a nandroid backup incase and back up your EFS folder i accept no resposibility for anything that you choose to do to your phone (o

Make sure your phone is fully charged (always good practise)

Copy the downloaded rom file to your phone

Reboot into CWM

Factory Reset

Wipe Cache

Wipe Dalvik

INSTALL the copied file

Reboot phone

Skip setup if presented get to the homescreen

REBOOT back to CWM

Start a FACTORY RESET (DO NOT INSTALL ROM YET)

Reboot phone and again skip setup and get to homescreen (vibration will now be back working so test it)

Once confirmed reboot to CWM for the last time

INSTALL rom again (DO NOT DO A FACTORY RESET)

Enjoy the new Xtra Lite version

Do not install additional apps package until you have booted into your phone

If you enter a bootloop on first install of rom DONT PANIC. Remove battery, factory reset in CWM and continue to reboot phone and follow instructions. This happened to me once actually, if it happens to you please report with which rom you came from and which site you downloaded from.

To enter recovery when in bootloop, take battery out and hold

Volume UP - Home and then the power button until cwm appears (hold all together but press power as last one of the combos)

Whole process should take about 10 minutes, i will locate where the script is failing to do something but as this is stable i dont envisage any further updates untill the new base

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Hope you can figure it out on your own,

cheers
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Robotu:
Thank you very much! Firstly cause not beeing upset on me! Right after my last post i reinstalled xtralite prior to wipe and factory reset, now everything seem to work fine, i already made a call, wi fi ok, data trafic, but i could download from market only a few apps, then suddenly stoped and can not install nothing from market, give some error 492 (even after reboot), instead i can install everything i want from both sd card or blackmart (blackmarket).

1. I will reboot in cwm and post the partition table

2. You said at first, that mean that in the end he finaly could install other roms?

3. I will. check and read on xtralite thread

Thank you again! Only you made this possible, and me, maybe i was just lazy, but i thing is just be cause this device made me loose already to much time (money), and i do not want to happen this anymore, i will try bit by bit only on sundays cause is not worth it, i already lost more money than hte replacment of the mobo would have cost me, and i thought that i can finish everything in one day... Well, my bad, i have other good few phones and i can wait, i can even renunce fixing, whatever that would mean.... But now i see a hope, thanks to this thread, and thanks to all of you that participated and those who shared their experience with adb...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Robotu:
This is my partition table! I think is something wrong with cache partition... It keeps giving me this continuum error in CWM

E: Error in /cache/recovery/last_log

(Read-only file system)

I also formatted and recreted cache partiton from the first time, and gave me some errors also in adb wich finaly i thought they dissapear...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] matiasg85:
One thing that helped me with the force closes using xtralite, was to do a full wipe from the cwm once xtralite was already installed.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Phenom2:
My GNOTE isn't recognized by my PC, even in the device manager of my win7...

Is possible that this is the brick that unable my device to be found ?

Or is this only a driver issue ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Robotu:
Thank you, but i usualy do a factory reset and all wipes before i install a rom and again after installation, that issue dissapear anyway, i still had the one with market wich do not install app... But, as forest said, i skeeped some steps that i have found on xda xtralite thread, and forest was right, they have a complex way of installing with more than one reboot and reinstall again the entire rom (!!!)...

I will try again and keep you updated...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] javier_tatshing:
It doesn't work, thanks anyway:)

I think the problem is sim card cannot be read rather than no signal.

I sent it to samsung today and hope my GN can be fixed as free:(

Thanks
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Phenom2:
Ok drivers issue fixed, with cleaning my pc

I have done the steps given by forest, and trying to flash a random rom via CMW

Crossing fingers

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Workiiiiinnnggg !!!!!!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] :
I lost 5Gb in bad sectors... and honestly that SUCKS!

I mean... i own a 16Gb Note and 11.2Gb was usable in FAT32... and now i have 7.8Gb :|

It's a lot..

So basically i will bring my Galaxy Note without the system, data and fat32 partitions!

Basically it will be bricked by me just to see if it's worth of motherboard replacing!

If there was a bad sector fix already i wouldn't even take it to Samsung but since i own a warranty for it for one year and 9 months i will bring them my Note and see if they replace it for free!

Stock kernel + cleaned binary counter + NO triangle = Hopes UP! :D

And of course i will be dumb as a door...

"i was updating thru Kies... and after the update it stayed like this! "

Should work right? LOL :cool:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] brockyneo:
Lol ya that will work how did you find out about having bad sectors I'd like to check mjne
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] :
Mate if you did the guide from forest i have to congratulate you because you don't have any bad sectors :D

Well to verify if you have bad sectors when you try to create the FACTORYFS partition you can't find any values to create it!

For example when you first do this part:

5.2. To create new partitions 9:
Code:
(parted) mkpartfs primary ext2 3322 4215
(parted) name 9 FACTORYFS

When i tried to do this i had IO errors when trying to write metadata to eMMC!

So my values are the following:

(parted) mkpartfs primary ext2 5108 6001
(parted) name 9 FACTORYFS

So the eMMC full size of 16Gb Galaxy Note has an eMMC with 15.8Gb!

The MODEM partition finishes at 281Mb... and my FACTORYFS startes on 5108Mb!

What does this mean?

It should start at 281 and finishes 891Mb later..

Mine starts at 5108Mb <- From 281Mb to 5108 are lost because i cannot create any partitions on that space!

That means: 5108 - (minus) 281 = 4827Mb in Bad sectors!

BUT mate if you can reproduce the guide of forest to the letter without changing any values on it you DON'T HAVE any bad sectors and you have your Note back on the road :D

Unfortunatly mine will have to swapped to a new motherboard because.. i use it to view movies and music mostly and not as a phone because to phone and SMS i use my SGS2!

And having less 5Gb of data is a lot..

So what does this mean? Yes i can revive my Note from the eMMC bug because i can actually enter download mode and CWM and i flashed a stock rom from PC ODin and CWM!

And i have had forest's help! He is an awesome guy because he really is very friendly and he always does really help people in their problems!

But i have entered in CWM.. and using adb shell and parted i have deleted my FACTORYFS, DATAFS and UMS partitions just to simulate to Samsung that i own a brick!

Afterwards deleted my triangle using the guide on to get rid of the triangle with jig and flashed a stock kernel afterwards!

So tomorrow it will go to Samsung and i'll wait for them to replace my MOBO!

Sorry for the long post :eek:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] brockyneo:
Wow thanks for the detailed post :D I'll take a look hope you get your note back took over 2 weeks for mine when first bricked aahhh

Lol anyway thanks again mate anfd good luck
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] shkippo:
my note is alive now :) :) yuppy :-D

after many hours reading and working on my bricked note its come back to life :)

thnx you forest1971 and thnx you guys i am really very happy :D

but now i am transfering my files from lap to my note its very slowly my transfer rate about max 1.57 mb/second

maybe my factoryfs is ext2

and i am really affraid to flash new stock rom via pc odin after many hours working to make my note alive

any suggsation guys !!!!!

thanks you very much for helping :)

P.S i am on CM9 flashed via cmw
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] oseeeo:
Hello everybody.

First : a HUGE thanks for everybody. After a day of trying various thing to make my Note works again, I finally arrived !

I've do all thing write in post 12 and read some other pages (about 40 pages lol) to found what to do. After manipulation of post 12, I've wipe data/cache and install chrack v12 Xsmall.

I've been able to install Triangle Away to reset the number of flash with odin (I arrived to 21 :X).

So, again, huge thanks for everybody.

PS : I noticed that flash a official ROM with Odin was always stop on factoryfs.

PS2 : excuse for my English (pleaseeeee :D)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] :
If PC ODin doesn't work try CWM! :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] oseeeo:
Yes, this is the only way that remains.

And Odin mobile does not work either.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] feny_lf:
for odin, after trying the workaround, we all need a new pit file to do odin flash, I think. Need experts to confirm this.

So that means, after the reviving, we cannot use odin to just flash pda(rom) file.

We will need pda (rom) and pit file(for updated partition) to do odin flash.

This is my understanding.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Phenom2:
Confirming that after unbricked my Gnote, I am unable to flash anything through Odin nor Mobile Odin.

Odin stuck at factoryfs.img flash

Mobile Odin stuck when flashing modem ( in my case :confused: )

So I re-reformated the system, data and ums partition

Someone to confirm that we CAN flash through Odin with a pit file ?

I don't want to try for the moment

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Hmm I wondering.. How can I install the latest STOCK ICS ROMS without Odin nor Mobile Odin ?

Are they any .zip flashable through Cwm ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Phenom2:
Tryied to install KK4 STOCK ROM (GB) with 16GB PIT FILE

Stuck at factoryfs.img flash.. :(

see capture in attachement

How to make Odin working ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] oseeeo:
I arrived to the same stage as you and stuck on factoryfs too.

And that, with enable or disable "Re-partition" option.