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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] redmantitu:
i did not backed up the efs. but....i have a bigger problem now.after i installed the stock GB rom,it booted but remained in a bootloop at samsung logo,so i pulled the battery to go back in download mode and try to put a cwm recovery and flash a custom rom. but after the battery pool my phone is dead. it does not start. not even in download.. nothing. simply dead :( i've talked with few services and they told me that the phone has to be started using JTAG, so next week i will go with it in a service if there is no other option. thanks for your help man..really appreciate it. if the phone starts with the jtag, i will follow your instructions again.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] adyolcian:
Have you tried to turn on your phone with another battery? Maybe is just you battery dead.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] redmantitu:
i don't have another battery unfortunately
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] adyolcian:
Go in a service and ask them to charge your baterry and then try again.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] eriskendaj:
thanks a lot!! this method worked even on galaxy s2 i-9100p!!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] wardy01:
i would just like to say a massive thank you to the man in the know,

story goes.

friend has the note n7000 runs a Chinese rom and bad flash

loses root and completely mucks up.

phone wont boot

wont charge

no download mode

no recovery

he asked if I can look at it, now I have never looked into bricked devices nor have any expeireience ...

so I have spent 2 weeks doing this and wow..

I have gone through 2 batterys many cables and a usb jig

so I looked long and hard and nearly sent to be jtagged.

I perservered and hey presto all complete/

I installed the custom pit file and ran phils cwm

I then got the battery charging but nothing would install.. hung in cwm

I then found this thread and began.

I followed toi the t and partitioned the blocks 9 10 11 and then I downloaded the gb rom for uk cpw

installed through odin and after 2 reboots and 1 clear cache ive done it.

now for rescuring my mates note he is giving me his razr I go nicely with my nexus 4 lol.

any way big thank you for all replies and creator.

regards
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Congratulation! It's lovely to hear of success :), cheers!

Sending from my phone
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] wardy01:
I really appreciate your guide forest. Massive help to myself and any 1 eles...

Only 2 concerning points.

The note now says 8gb storage ..... Was a 16gb is this because of the partitions I did...

I tried to root I followed guides and ran the bat.exe and all worked fine. I then installed philz mod through cwm and it worked but now when I either clear cache or install a ROM it hangs so I have to reflash the GB ROM via Odin again.... I want to put the ultimate ROM on the phone but doesn't want to play ball Lol.

Message that comes up is file system read only in philz cwm. And a error message about cache recovery log.

Cheers
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
The original usb storage is more than 11gb so you lost about 3 gb.

About installing custom rom you should try another kernel apart from Philz. Cheers.

Sending from my phone
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] zardozsan:
tank you, very good post.

everything we need to ressurect a dead note :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] elhazguy:
This thread is just amazing. Congrats for all you guys who just want to help the others.

:)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] wardy01:
So after it looking all well . I now face reboot issues. Freezing issues. When phone reboots it says android is upgrading and freezes on say 20 out of52 or 3 out of 11....

I just did a new check on emmc run in recovery and it stops at 1023 MiB 1073 mb... What's this issue arising now.

I can Odin in GB and ICS. I have managed to root ICS and run speed mod kernel

I then tryed to install philz cwm which installed and then comes up recovery dev log cache issues.

The try install job ultimate ROM and gets halfway and freezes .

Phone is now ragging me and any help would be great please.

Just want it running even if it just has ICS on it. ..

Cheers
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Hi:

1. should slow down and do not let the phone to rule.

2. "it stops at 1023 MiB 1073 mb... What's this issue arising now": Is this the results of the find brick start? Have you tried both find brick start and end yet? Should use both then report results.

3. And should always go back to flash a GB rom first to get run running ok, then you can upgrade to other roms later on.

cheers,
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] wardy01:
Sorry.

OK so I did a brick start and it stopped at 1023mib. And 1073mb

Brick end stopped at

2048 MiB and 2148 mb.

What would my next step be to rectify this issue...

Regards
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Good. Could you post a screen shots or text of the current partition table so that we can see if it is already re-partition past the damaged area yet?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] wardy01:
I'm assuming I'll run adb and into shell and then follow your guide.

Then I will hit print so it loads my contents ? In adb...

Cheers.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Yes, follow the guide then you can do (parted) print to get the current partition table.

If you already under a custom kernel then no need to flash the attached kernel, since all custom kernel should have parted already.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] wardy01:
OK just had to Odin the stock ROM as it just got stuff at the

Samsung galaxy note n7000 boot up screen. And wouldn't go into recovery.

Will get it up in the next 10 mins. Thank you for your help .

Do you have PayPal for a donation Lol.

Cheers
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
In this case should flash the custom pit from the guide in point 2.0. Flash it together with a stock GB rom. Then get into recovery and format data and usbstorage. That custom pit should work for your case.

And thanks so much for very kind intention. I will considered already received. cheers.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] wardy01:
Do I leave re partition ticked ?

As I have and its just hung on set partition . do not turn off target. ...

Edit. Unchecked repartition and its now working on Odin 3/4 through factoryfs..

Let's hope it all works. Should this solve the bad blocks .... Cheers
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
It just a workaround to leave bad area unused. Actually should tick repartition. Still it looks like you have ticked it the first time. Let see if the flash goes through.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] wardy01:
I ran it through administrator mode also (odin)

used usb port that works fine nearest motherboard.used proper cable.

no still no joy, left it ticked and it just hung,

restarted and left unticked and its completed. the phone now boots up (took a while and a few reboots on its own)

it wont go past the android man (welcome to gt-7000) force close framework/and all other process come up force close. )

gone into to recovery and this message has come up

e failed to mount /efs (no such file or directory)

e failed to mount /efs (invalid argument

e failed to mount /efs (invalid argument)

e check_selective_file cant mount efs

manual mode

multi csc failed to mount /efs

are you uk based, can I post this dam phone to you and pay you to fix it haha,

im still feeling positive though,

cheers.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
I can see it it quite frustrating to recover a brick Note! I mess with my phone before and sometime felt really bad too.

Now should try to format or wipe cache, data and usbstorage. For that efs may need to deal with it later on.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] wardy01:
im in haha, phone now boots up and runs gb ok so far. I wiped/factory reset in standard recovery.

now how can I see if my partitions are ok or whats the next thing to do I would to have ics on it just running smotthly with no reboots or freezing lol. and ill leave it stock .

thank you again so much. can I please donate to you...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
OK. Good progress. Should flash the 4_pda kernel attached to the guide, then run adb and use parted print to see if the partitions are correctly formated adn can use dd to check them again. I guess you will have to format usbstorage as well. Flash this kernel via odin will root the phone and leave a yellow triangle, but that can be removed later on.

It is not sure if your phone will work well. For many it works very well after repartition but for some it freezes from time to time. Let try to play with it step by step and see how it goes. If you feel really happy with the revived phone and if it works well then may consider to donate to Lyriquidperfection who made and shared his very useful Pit Magic.

cheers,

---------- Post added at 07:15 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:12 PM ----------

As for ICS: you can flash stock ICS or custom ICS. still, stock ICS kernel is unsafe so I would recommend custom ICS for safety and more smooth running. You can find links for custom ICS roms from my signature.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] wardy01:
ok now I have managed to finally get it all working and now in the adb shell this is what I have been faced with

C:\Users\Guest\Desktop\RootGalaxyNote10.1\GalaxyNoteRoot>adb devices

List of devices attached

304D19FECF3C591F recovery

C:\Users\Guest\Desktop\RootGalaxyNote10.1\GalaxyNoteRoot>adb shell

~ # umount /cache

umount /cache

~ # umount /system

umount /system

~ # umount /data

umount /data

umount: can't umount /data: Invalid argument

~ # parted /dev/block/mmcblk0

parted /dev/block/mmcblk0

GNU Parted 1.8.8.1.179-aef3

Using /dev/block/mmcblk0

Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.

(parted) print

print

print

Error: The backup GPT table is not at the end of the disk, as it should be.

This might mean that another operating system believes the disk is smaller.

Fix, by moving the backup to the end (and removing the old backup)?

Fix/Ignore/Cancel? Fix

Fix

Fix

Warning: Not all of the space available to /dev/block/mmcblk0 appears to be

used, you can fix the GPT to use all of the space (an extra 2048 blocks) or

continue with the current setting?

Fix/Ignore? Fix

Fix

Fix

Model: MMC VYL00M (sd/mmc)

Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 15.8GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 4194kB 25.2MB 21.0MB EFS

2 25.2MB 26.5MB 1311kB SBL1

3 27.3MB 28.6MB 1311kB SBL2

4 29.4MB 37.7MB 8389kB PARAM

5 37.7MB 46.1MB 8389kB KERNEL

6 46.1MB 54.5MB 8389kB RECOVERY

7 54.5MB 264MB 210MB ext4 CACHE

8 264MB 281MB 16.8MB MODEM

9 3328MB 4221MB 893MB ext4 FACTORYFS

10 4221MB 6369MB 2147MB ext4 DATAFS

11 6369MB 15.2GB 8848MB fat32 UMS

12 15.2GB 15.8GB 537MB ext4 HIDDEN

(parted)

where do I go from here to fix,

I currently have cpw ics 4.0.4 on with speedmod kernel and then I installed the pda zip that is in the guide so I can get the right adb shell commands.

cheers
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
You did the right things to choose yes fix those minor things. It looks just fine. Should go back to speed mode so that it can run well with the rom. See how it goes. Cheers.

Sending from my phone
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Should flash back speedmode and see if rom works well. That is most important.

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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] wardy01:
so if I go into cwm now and install the speedmod kernel all should be ok ? no freezing or rebooting ? or is there anything eles I need to do. as I must still have bad blocks form the brick start and end I posted earlier ?

cheers
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
It should. Let try.

Sending from my phone
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] wardy01:
so far so good, it has booted back up and then said device is encrypted please reset the phone and wipe data , I have done that and now it has booted up on ics with speedmod kernel.

lets hope its all good, anything further I can do to help anything ?

although I do not have any service from the sim card lol...

regards
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
That is probably the issue with efs we talked about ealier. Should try take out and replace back sim card. If not work then need to go back to flash gb rom and check "Phone Efs Clear" in odin. See how it goes.

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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] wardy01:
ok many thanks, so would you say the bad blocks are gone and done with now and should run ok ?

will the efs cause any issues ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
The damaged area have now left unused so that you can install rom. Hope fully it will run without freeze.

The efs problem will cause the phone not recognize sim card. If you do not have back up of efs then probably will have to settle with a generic emei.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] wardy01:
Awesome . when I install ROM through Odin ICS and clear efs it will need rooting and so forth again won't it.

Also I have a efs file on my sd card its called efs.dat

I backed it up from phillz cwm ....

To install so the ultimate ROM do I install phills cmw first or just install the ROM and wipe before. ..

Ah awesome cheers for the support its been smashing.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
I have not used philz so do not know how it back up efs. I have only used HC-Ktool from market which back up efs to a image file.

I guess will need to restore efs to get back the emei and get sim card to work.

Otherwise we have rom that will give only generic emei. This should be used only if your efs back up cannot be restored.

So

1. first should try to restore your back up efs (I do not know how with the one back up using Philz)

2. If not then try to flash a stock rom via odin with option "phone efs clear" checked. Someone did it before and it seems to help in that case.

3. IF also not work, then will flash a rom that has efs with it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ghamdia:
Thanks

Thanks alot man...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] eriskendaj:
galaxy s2 freezes after reviving

Again thanks a lot for this useful guide! I was able to revive my galaxy s2 thanks to this post.

Anyway a problem came up after reviving.

First let me explain what i did:

1. i used adb.exe to check for corrupted blocks, but i checked only cache, datafs, factoryfs and ums. It turned out datafs was corrupted.

2. i repartitioned datafs and ums and everything worked fine

3. i wiped data, cache, dalvik, formatted everything

4. i flashed stock rom ics 4.0.3 via odin and it was successful

now the rom worked fine, except when i tried to download or install big files (bigger than 7-8 mb). the phone would freeze and i had to force reboot it by pressing the power button long enough.

i flashed the same stock rom again, but still no change.

flashed another stock rom ics 4.0.3, again the same problem

flashed the first stock rom ics 4.0.3 again and updated to 4.0.4 (big mistake because now i have the emmc bug)

the problem didnt go away and its weird because it only freezes when downloading or installing files, it doesnt freeze when playing 3d games, or opening many apps at once. it doesnt matter what type of connection i use, wifi or data connection, and from where i download the apps, from the browser or from the play store, it still freezes.

just to make clearify again, i didn't check all the partitions with adb, i checked only datafs, factoryfs, cache and ums. i don't know if any other partition is corrupted and may cause this problem.

if u have any idea what is it and what can i do please help!! i am limited to small apps only.

i would like to thank you again for sharing your time and experience with us. i don't know what i would have done without you guys!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] wardy01:
The note I fixed did this. I have now installed an aokp rom and all is fab. No freeze or reboots . bit I have no imei or signal my eds folder was empty and tryed all guides on here . so I have sold the phone on now. ....

It could be a bad block eleswere.. Plus when they get fixed the phone won't run the same again well very few do.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
You were adviced to flash a rom with efs folder to get a generic emei, have done that?

Sending from my phone

---------- Post added at 08:24 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:19 AM ----------

This issue involve cache and efs partition. Should scan all partitions using dd. Also change to a cm9 rom some time helps. Should backup your efs folder using hc-ktool from gplay in case it gets lost somehow when phone bricks.

Sending from my phone
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] diamondheart:
Plesse give some advice

My Note is running Cassies Xtralite LRQ V8 ROM. I think I can install app and games to certain amount like 350 Mb after that amount, if I install something, my Note freeze, when I restarted, sometimes setup wizard appear, after finishing setup-wizard, the latest installed app disappear. It's really annoying me. My previous Rom is Paranoid Android 1.6 it is same in that ROM too I can't install apps a lot. I used Rocket MIUI before that same freezing after installed apps reached certain amount. There's not bad block check using dd in all partitions. Should I repartition datafs ? Please give me some advice.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] wardy01:
Yes I did do that numerous time but. Now its just annoying that it keeps freezing and rebooting. And los of signal Lol.

Great help and support throughout tho.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
OK. Freeze and sim card not recognized are two different issues.

simcard not recognized is often caused by corrupted efs. should flash the efs image file from link below:

http://www.mediafire.com/?uafc086sfh2a3td

it should go with kl8 gb rom which can be downloaded from Dr Ketan rom thread. you can try just flash the efs to your current rom and if still not work then should flash gb kl8 rom then flash the efs above. These should give the phone a generic emei and then simcard should work for making phone call. cheers.

---------- Post added at 06:56 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:51 PM ----------

This is a complicated issue. Should post the partition table so we can see if it looks right.

I suspect that for some cases the emmc is damaged to the point that is still works but not perfectly as it should and causes freeze from time to time. Repartition datafs again (to leave another chunk of memory unused) is a good strategy. Also I would try with e2fsck and different custom rom as well. This need trials and experiments and hopefully can find a solution. cheers.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] diamondheart:
My Partition Table

This is my partition table

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 4194kB 25.2MB 21.0MB ext4 EFS

2 25.2MB 26.5MB 1311kB SBL1

3 27.3MB 28.6MB 1311kB SBL2

4 29.4MB 37.7MB 8389kB PARAM

5 37.7MB 46.1MB 8389kB KERNEL

6 46.1MB 54.5MB 8389kB RECOVERY

7 54.5MB 264MB 210MB ext4 CACHE

8 264MB 281MB 16.8MB MODEM

9 2429MB 3322MB 893MB ext4 FACTORYFS

10 3322MB 5469MB 2147MB ext4 DATAFS

11 5469MB 15.2GB 9748MB fat32 UMS

12 15.2GB 15.8GB 537MB ext4 HIDDEN
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
The partition table looks fine.

I would try the followings:

1. check efs and other partitions using dd first to see if there is some problem somewhere.

2. use e2fsck to scan ext4 partitions to fix minor corruptions, if there are.

3. re-partition again to move datafs up and leave one more chunk of memory unused.

4. try some different roms.

cheers,
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] suvasishngn:
To @ forest,

please could you send me custom pit which will correspond to option 2 of the point 8
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
That pit is in I.2.2, in the beginning part of the guide. Cheers.

Sending from my phone
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] eriskendaj:
i did scan all the partitions again because lately the phone was becoming unresponsive more and more till the point it would stuck just after boot without me doing nothing.

the scan showed no corrupted bricks

i backed up my efs just like you told me and i changed to cm9 which seems to have improved the situation a little but still it's no good as a phone.

i really wished to find some corrupted blocks because then i would know what to do, but this situation is hopeless :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
I would try steps 2 and 3 from my post above, begining of this page.

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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] eriskendaj:
i tried step 2 and 3 but still no result.

actually a weird thing came up.

first i checked the data partition with dd and it showed no corruption

then i checked it with e2fsck and it wouldnt stop fixing things.

so i thought it might have bad blocks so i repartitioned it again leaving another chunk unused like you said.

i formatted it in cwm and without flashing anything i scanned it with e2fsck.

Again the same thing! e2fsck wouldnt stop fixing blocks.

to be sure i repartitioned it again further and still the same thing.

it seems like the whole ums partition its damaged but dd can't detect it, even the emmc scanner showed no corruption.

e2fsck detects something that these two others can't

i'm wondering if theres any way to format the ums, or some way to repair this if you understand what im saying
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
When e2fsck scans and fixes things lets it does it job until finish, then see if it helps at all.

No way now to repair damaged parts, but to replace emmc or motherboard.

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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] eriskendaj:
I did let it finish many times, it would still find errors. Anyway thanks a lot for your help, at least now i know i cant do anything about it. I will keep as less aplications as i can on cm10, which seems to run flowless without installing. Again thanks
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] AchmadDj:
Well done!

Many thanks for superb method, now my galaxy note works again!:laugh: :good:

It was stuck on Samsung logo when rebooting.

The problem after recovery brick as follow:

1. Can not recognize by Kies

2. Can not upgrade to ICS

It was ICS and can be recognized by Kies.

Anyone can help me?

Once again many thanks...!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
It is best not to use Kies. I heard most people in this forum say Kies is useless. I would try to use custom ics or custom jb. Cheers.

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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] zhjackss:
i got an unused emmc chip

can it be replaced

if can we can even upgrade or revive it right
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
There is one member reported having replaced it himself.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=31414373&postcount=580

That is surely a very difficult task and cannot be done by average users. And so far there seem to be no other cases of success reported.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ThaiDai:
And later in the thread they discussed about the chances that this was true - result: "sealed"

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=31538644&postcount=621

After that he wrote a reply promising a video - that was his last post in the N7000 forums. After that only one post for a HTC.

For my part: I do not believe he did this.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] thelonite:
Greetings

Im one of the people who got their Note up and running with forests help

im currently on a JB Leak ROM and wanting to go back to pure stock ICS

everytime i try to go back to ICS using Odin i get stuck on FactoryFS

but then when i flash via CWM back to JB Leak everything is fine.

how do i go about this?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Flash the stock rom with one of the custom pit files provided in the beginning of the guide. Cheers.

Sent from my Nexus 7 3G
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] emulation:
Recovering my s2

I tried to follow this tutorial to unbrick my galaxy s2 I get problems with my Partition10 so I follow the instructions to repartition and to format...

the problem happened when I tried to format the partition... does not work correctly... so I can not flash again my cell phone :(

do you know what i need to do? maybe I need to use an special script to format that partition?