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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] anilisanil:
No one was dumb enough. If there is anyone dumb here it is Samsung. Calling people who bricked their phones because they flashed a kernel with a bug is uncalled for.

The brick condition was download mode and recovery accessible but /factoryfs damaged so ROM could not be written to. Think about it!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] JamieD81:
we dont have n7000 in canada, i already talked to samsung canada they wont touch it, i have to send it back to india for repairs.

and its a hardbrick, nothing works :P believe me i tried everything and gave up long ago :P

you know how many times ive been called stupid and dumb for hardbricking a samsung phone? lol if thats offensive you probably need to see someone about that...

what was i doing when i bricked my phone? doing work for you people to enjoy. was it worth it? sure as hell doesnt seem like it :P
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Robotu:
Please tell me, how was your phone behaving, you coud not acces nor download mode nor CWM, no light no nothing, i would like to know!!!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] anilisanil:
Yeah I was following your posts.

My only point was to make it clear that this is not just another soft brick caused by improper root or user data conflicts.

You're more knowledgeable anyway and no offense meant!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] JamieD81:
whole thing

LP6 kernel - wipe data *stalled out on me right away* and ive wiped on lp1-6 over 100 times before this happened.

reboot back into recovery

flash my cna rom - stuck

hold power to reboot

dead.

no lights, no download, no cwm, no boot, no adb, no fastboot, no nothing :P

HARDBRICK
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] anilisanil:
It is not offensive, but thinking that one could brick their phone only if they are dumb is inappropriate in general logical premises, you may have a different premise, but that's just you.

I truly appreciate your work and meant no offense, my replies to you are just limited to this particular issue. I guess it is too emotional of you to think that developing for people is not worth it just because one guy starts questioning.

this is going way off topic, I leave it here. Once again no offense meant.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Robotu:
Sorry man, really sorry! I know how this is, cause with mine still can access all thi things and flash any kernel i want, and yet was tragic... Maybe with tha help of this thread i can revive it..
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] JamieD81:
i think nothing short of a motherboard replacement will fix this one :P

its being sent off this week to india so we will see what comes of it.

but again glad to see some bricks fixed atleast!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] uggies:
Update on my status;

Turns out that I can only stay on lockscreen on cm9. Unlock or disabling gps through status bar freezes my devices.

It now seems that sdcard and emmc are both fine .

Still trying to flash dark rom...

Update: flashing and everything was successful, but it would not boot up. Stuck at the first screen. ;(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] M3TALLICA:
Superbrick ! = Hardbrick.

Hardbrick = Dead phone no sound and light

Softbrick != Superbrick

Data write failure = Superbrick

Some people will always spam.

Keep up the good work Prabhu and Forest.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Robotu:
Keep going man, i have posted links on the profys threads, maybe we can gain there attention and one more skilled will not ignore this method anymore. Ive been trying to gain there attention few days ago with this method but they ignored me like "We are smarter and know better..." bla bla bla. I am not that skilled with linux comands, and we have to shut there mouth and prove theme that this worked, and now you and forest did that...

By my homble and not knoeledge opinion what you did is not finished, you proved enough and you should stop right there cause you might brick the phone, and wait for a skillful devs to try and improve and automate this solution. It is only a guess, but i will feel sorry if you will brick your phone after all... Advise is to wait for this to be improved!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] anilisanil:
Try Factory reset again and check.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Hi Uggies:

Maybe try the rocket rom. I like the version 22 better and it is more stable.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1380284

The Normal procedure to change to a new rom under CWM is:

Download and load the rom (zip file) to sdcard

reboot to CWM: then

1. wipe cache

2. wipe davik cache

3. factory reset

4. install zip file

5. reboot sytem.

Let try abyssnote and rocket rom this time see how it goes.

cheers
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] copperdawgnc:
This was not a SUPER BRICK

Any one who can still see something on their screen has hope and not a super brick.

Many of us have been stuck at the Boot screen.

Glad you got it fixed.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] uggies:
Tried, but still no luck :(

Thank you. Downloading now and report back later.

Thread title fixed .
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] prabhu1980:
Oops Copper Again u got it wrong ! But Let the MODS decide this now.

We need more people for testing more commands. People who are bricked and going to SSC has to also try this before they go.

Uggies Post your updates.

We really need to understand ur problem.

Where r u stuck now ??

Request Devs to make a new thread.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] uggies:
I was downloading Rocket ROM ... Damm that download was slow.

Just finished downloading it and will report back

Update: Its still the same. Stuck at boot screen... :(

I think I need to get that /efs fixed.. Any help please?

Update 2: It is the emmc that has the problem.. I think I have to wipe whole emmc and do the repartitioning again.

Internal storage mount to computer does work, but the storage freezes after a while.. which is why my cm9 froze.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] anilisanil:
How did you brick your phone. What is its current condition?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] prabhu1980:
Uggies.!!

So you are starting from Step 0 again.

Forest1971 - Should we go for formatting the system step by step using other tools.

He has an issue with the partition again.

We have to find and solve the MBR.

Any ideas how to do that ??

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Anyone who cannot see his screen = Hard Brick

Anyone stuck with damaged partition = Super Brick

Hope u understand now.

UGGIES : Lets wait till some devs look into this thread.

I have doubts on the MBR. Looks like the bad sectors are growing - This happens due to poor MBR.

Wait let us get Mr Forest1971 to guide you ....
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] copperdawgnc:
I was a flashaholic not sure what rom did it but I was stuck at the boot screen I managed to flash a nandroid backup from red pill (version in abyss 3.9) then flashed a tar with pc odin.

My phone is working great experimenting with paranoid atm
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] uggies:
Yes but now I know what to do this time so it wouldnt be that hard.

But just having a second thought...

Wiping emmc might not be the solution. I have nothing running from the broken part since I re-partitioned the broken parts into blank. Nevertheless it freezes.

Also, even if I wipe the whole emmc, the broken data cannot be wiped since it is not reachable at all ...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] prabhu1980:
Uggies : I have a strong feeling that the partition used now would have also got some corruption if the MBR is an issue.

Please wait for Forest to comment on this issue...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] copperdawgnc:
I stand corrected.

I think I have seen written "Super hard brick" = black screen

Anyway if you can boot and see something on you screen there is hope.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=26272569&postcount=4
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Looking back at the time when Uggies try to create partition in the space that used to be the factoryfs and datafs it looks like there are more than one faulty point in there so that make it difficult to get the slots that the the tools accept to create partitions in. Therefore, I only have one more suggestion that is to try to use some space in the sdcard (UMS partition) for factoryfs and datafs. (Drnull had to do that too). It could be that the faulty write mechanism may have damaged mostly both of the system (factoryfs) and data partitions (datafs). The Sdcards partition may have a better chance of survive, if the phone got brick before lots of writing is done with sdcard, using that suspected ics kernel.

I also hope that there are others who are also trying to revise the partition of their Note and they can share experiences, be it success or fails. Then we can have a better idea about the problem and if it can be fixed.

Further than that I do not have any other idea.

cheers
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] copperdawgnc:
what in you opinion is the best "safe" way to check the partitions on our notes?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] uggies:
Ok that sounds like a great idea. but how do you partition SDcard and how do you convert that into datafs and factoryfs? I thought only emmc can do the job
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Robotu:
I am not sure how, but wichever will be the solutin you will choose, first you have to know exactly where the bad blocks start and where it ends that corrupted section so you could eliminate by non formating, so the controler would not ever read that section, otherwise even if you do everyrhing else right, you will still have some freeze, bugs, non responsive device. If only one bad sector is included in one or other partition you will not have a functional device, and may very well be the case right now, you can boot but you can not use the OS in a proper way...

Sent from my SGS2 HD LTE SHV-E120L
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
It is fairly simple. sdcard here I mean the ums partion which is No 11.

So you just need to rm 9, 10 and 11.

then create 9: 3322 4100

then create 10: 4100-5100

the way you already know.

For 11:

the code is:

(parted) mkpartfs UMS fat32 5100MB 15.2GB

For 11 no need any conversion.

also remember to name the partition using CAPITAL LETTER to make them look exectly the same as original.

Let me know how it goes.

cheers
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] matiasg85:
Please let me know what you did at the end? Did you end up using blocks from the internal sd card? What were your partition 9 and 10 configurations? DId you flash from cmw or odin?

THanks!!!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] prabhu1980:
Wow amazing

Guys we need more people to participate.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Welcome back Matiasg.

Uggies successfully created new partition using the old space of factoryfs and datafs. The phone allow install and boot into system but then it is not stable and freeze again.

So I just suggest Uggies now to use some area of UMS partition for factoryfs and datafs.

Hope you can tried the same and see how things go. It would be a nice workgroup?

cheers
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] matiasg85:
Yes, i'm trying that now. If it doesn't work, then i will took it to samsung.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] jackkarthickg:
Good Forem for all those bricked their precious Gnote..
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] matiasg85:
Ok, i used the internal sd card blocks, and same thing, got stuck while trying to flash a new rom.

I think i will have to take it to samsung.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] vivek2701:
i think i have bricked my device today!! i wiped several times and became so confident that i wiped data n stuff today while installing midnote 1.3.. it got stck on the installation screen. now i am stuck on samasung galaxy note GT N7000 screen, i can enter in cwm recovery . is it possible to unbrick it?? plz help.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Maybe try to flash it using different method. odin and cwm?

also could you post some screen shots so that we can see if your partition table looks right after re-partition.

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We believe that some Notes have faulty partitions because of a faulty ICS kernel. So if you thing that is the problem with your Note then can try to read instruction in post 12.

Those have probem with partition seems to get stuck at:

factoryfs.img while using odin to flash rom.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] matiasg85:
It's working!!!!!!! I did use abyssKernel39 and an xtra lite GB rom, and i did boot up!!!!!!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] vivek2701:
We believe that some Notes have faulty partitions because of a faulty ICS kernel. So if you thing that is the problem with your Note then can try to read instruction in post 12.

Those have probem with partition seems to get stuck at:

factoryfs.img while using odin to flash rom.[/QUOTE]

should i try pc odin to flash stock rom onto it? i havent tried anything fearing i may damage it further.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Sound good. How's it now?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] matiasg85:
Still fine, will do some further testing. One more thing, can anyone give me a link for the googleapps.zip?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
should i try pc odin to flash stock rom onto it? i havent tried anything fearing i may damage it further.[/QUOTE]

If you have been using leaked or official ICS then it may have dangerous kernel. Try to read some sticky posts in the general thread. if you have it then better flash a safe gb kernel first like abyssnote 3.9 kernel then do other things later.

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I love to hear that :).

Maybe try some other things first like make a phone call...before install gapps.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] matiasg85:
If you have been using leaked or official ICS then it may have dangerous kernel. Try to read some sticky posts in the general thread. if you have it then better flash a safe gb kernel first like abyssnote 3.9 kernel then do other things later.

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I love to hear that :).

Maybe try some other things first like make a phone call...before install gapps.[/QUOTE]

I'm trying to install the stock rom via odin right now, but having no luck so far, it seems it's not that right after all.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Did you install using cwm or odin?

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I'm trying to install the stock rom via odin right now, but having no luck so far, it seems it's not that right after all.[/QUOTE]

Do you really need to install stock? As long as some rom works then you can stick with it?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] matiasg85:
Do you really need to install stock? As long as some rom works then you can stick with it?[/QUOTE]

I will stay with the xtra lite rom, until We have sotck for samsung galaxy notes in Argentina. Then i will brick it again, and take it for a replacement.

I will keep you updated on go it goes.

I did flash the xtra lite rom via cwm.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
I will stay with the xtra lite rom, until We have sotck for samsung galaxy notes in Argentina. Then i will brick it again, and take it for a replacement.

I will keep you updated on go it goes.

I did flash the xtra lite rom via cwm.[/QUOTE]

It is very good to hear that at least that rom works for you for now. This is very good news for other who are try to get their phone back.

Could you go into adb and give some screen shots so that we know how your partition looks. That will be very good for others to follow your ways to get out.

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It is very good to hear that at least that rom works for you for now. This is very good news for other who are try to get their phone back.

Could you go into adb and give some screen shots so that we know how your partition looks. That will be very good for others to follow your ways to get out.[/QUOTE]

You are the second persons to report things work so it is very encouraging for us. Thanks (I run out of thanks today so just say thanks by word for now :))
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] matiasg85:
It is very good to hear that at least that rom works for you for now. This is very good news for other who are try to get their phone back.

Could you go into adb and give some screen shots so that we know how your partition looks. That will be very good for others to follow your ways to get out.

---------- Post added at 10:20 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:18 PM ----------

It is very good to hear that at least that rom works for you for now. This is very good news for other who are try to get their phone back.

Could you go into adb and give some screen shots so that we know how your partition looks. That will be very good for others to follow your ways to get out.[/QUOTE]

You are the second persons to report things work so it is very encouraging for us. Thanks (I run out of thanks today so just say thanks by word for now :))[/QUOTE]

This is how my partition were looking right before flashing the xtra lite rom.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] jackblack777:
13

you normal man?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
You are the second persons to report things work so it is very encouraging for us. Thanks (I run out of thanks today so just say thanks by word for now :))[/QUOTE]

This is how my partition were looking right before flashing the xtra lite rom.[/QUOTE]

Yeah. It looks nice to have it set up that way. You still have more than 9 GB to hold files that is great. If my phone can work with some rom in this condition I will be very happy :). :):D

You are the first, no to be more correct the second person to have done this trick (after Drnull) I mean to use internal sdcard partition for system partition. Awsome. And I am happy too to see that it can be done and works (at least for now).

Can you give some more infor about how it run please? can you make phone call, take pictures, play games?...

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Hi do you mean to use thump up or thump down?

I guess should give him a thump up?

cheers
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] matiasg85:
This is how my partition were looking right before flashing the xtra lite rom.[/QUOTE]

Yeah. It looks nice to have it set up that way. You still have more than 9 GB to hold files that is great. If my phone can work with some rom in this condition I will be very happy :). :):D

You are the first, no to be more correct the second person to have done this trick (after Drnull) I mean to use internal sdcard partition for system partition. Awsome. And I am happy too to see that it can be done and works (at least for now).

Can you give some more infor about how it run please? can you make phone call, take pictures, play games?...[/QUOTE]

Camera works fine, even if a set it to use the phone internal memory. It will record on 1080p just fine as well.

Phone calls are great.

I will be installing some more apps, including some games and i will report back.

All the thanks must go to YOU man!:D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Yeah. It looks nice to have it set up that way. You still have more than 9 GB to hold files that is great. If my phone can work with some rom in this condition I will be very happy :). :):D

You are the first, no to be more correct the second person to have done this trick (after Drnull) I mean to use internal sdcard partition for system partition. Awsome. And I am happy too to see that it can be done and works (at least for now).

Can you give some more infor about how it run please? can you make phone call, take pictures, play games?...[/QUOTE]

Camera works fine, even if a set it to use the phone internal memory. It will record on 1080p just fine as well.

Phone calls are great.

I will be installing some more apps, including some games and i will report back.

All the thanks must go to YOU man!:D[/QUOTE]

Wow sound like you have got it fully functioning now. You are the first to get it done this far, and you are very quick. I am really very happy :D. Let see if Uggies can get there as well to join the Party!

I will also now recommend Uggies to use abyssnote 3.9 and GB xtra lite rom. Since it seems to work for you now.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] prabhu1980:
Congrats everyone.

Now we need more bricked users to try.

DEVS AND MODS GOTTA LOOK AT THIS PLEASE

WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR MODS AND DEVS.

Forest1971 Thanks again.

Forest pls let me know where the mbr is stored.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Hi Prabhu:

look at the partition table we can see it is similar to the Mac computer. It uses GPT partition format and EFS. So we have EFS but not MBR like in window system. I think on that point we need some experts to help. cheers.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] matiasg85:
Games working fine as well. WIll try to install some more apps, and the gps.

I'll report back.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
BTW,

Thanks again for giving us the kernel with the tools. Otherwise, we still get stuck with the abd things. Great job!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] letters_to_cleo:
well, I applaud to all the guys who have exerted all the efforts and time in reviving their bricked Notes'.

Kudos to everyone...

I guess the old adage still applies here...

"If there's a will, there's a way...."
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] prabhu1980:
Yes not just bricked but superbricked.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] matiasg85:
I'm trying to copy some stuff to the internal sd card now, and i'm having some i/o problems. So, it seems there are some parts on that memory that are broken too.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
That sounds like bad news. It is explained that if the suspected kernel has done a large amount of data wiping or writing in some areas such as datafs, factoryfs or also internal sdcard it will cause damage in those areas. So in your case it may be it has already affected the sdcard part. But did you still manage to copy some materials before it show problem or at first time?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] matiasg85:
I will try to make a smaller sdcard partition
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Maybe also try to mount sdcard under recovery to see if it works in there.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] matiasg85:
With a 6GB sdcard partition seems to be working fine. Although the phone kind of freeze from once in a while, for a few seconds. Now i'm trying to restore my apps using TB.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Good luck with the remaining storage.

Hope to talk with you tomorrow.

cheers,
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] matiasg85:
Thanks man. You can give me your gmail by pm if you want, i'm online on talk almost 24/7.

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web browser it's almost unsuable, phone freezes every 4 seconds.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] prabhu1980:
Try downloading new browser or.move the browser to external sd
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Entropy512:
Because this isn't reviving or fixing the note... It's just a band-aid workaround. There's a good chance that as the device gets used, the damage done to the wear leveler's data structures will cause more weird stuff to happen in the future.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] friedje:
You are the second persons to report things work so it is very encouraging for us. Thanks (I run out of thanks today so just say thanks by word for now :))[/QUOTE]

This is how my partition were looking right before flashing the xtra lite rom.[/QUOTE]

Just got home and see that some have been successfull, that is great.

Now just one remark. You ommit 3gb of potential memory.

For as far as we can understand from the google android dev, only 32Kb

should be faulty. You might try to reorder and resize your partition layout

using parted and recover some more. Ofcourse this would be trial and error, and

9Gb left over is very usefull.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] copperdawgnc:
Have I missed something? How do we know for sure we have bad blocks causing the problem vs a soft brick?