yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] bodivas:
The same kernel for Odin-PC (flash in PDA) from this post:

View attachment 4pda_kernel.tar
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] friedje:
Google dev Mr. sumrall made that clear.

However I didn't read that something went wrong in the

wear-leveler data structure. As I understood 32Kb of 'null' gets

written to the /data partition creating bad blocks.

Now maybe Entropy has new, more detailed info on the error ??

For the rest he is right, this is just a workaround, but at least

these ppl can reuse their bricked phones, so I think he is being a bit

hard on his position, but then again that is his right ;)

And as he points out the devs will be more usefull pounding a real

solution instead of a workaround

I am just happy to see some ppl have succeeded after a community effort of several hours/days. That is what we are here for after all
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Entropy512:
Wrong. The 32kb bug is completely different.

I don't have new more detailed info - I actually bothered to read what is BOLD RED TEXT in garwynn's quotes of Mr. Sumrall's responses!

The "32kb of null" bug and our brick bug are two COMPLETELY DIFFERENT bugs. "32kb of null" is in our flash chip's firmware (fwrev 0x19) and the GNex's firmware (0x25). The wear leveler's internal data structures getting screwed up (the brick bug) is only in fwrev 0x19.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] copperdawgnc:
Don't misunderstand I am pleased that people have made progress on this issue.

I would personally of waited to see what came from Mr. sumrall as far at the tool to revive the bad partitions. maybe if we get that it can still be used.

My biggest concern is I don't under stand how we know for certain when we have a "super brick" vs a "soft brick". (we know when we have "hard super brick")

I have been stuck at factory_fs but never needed to use parted.

Again just trying to understand.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] friedje:
Fair enough, I will reread the article. I must admit that i was doing other stuff at the same time as i was reading it. :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] matiasg85:
UPDATE: Phone just died again, it was so "freezy" that it was unusable. I just left it at samsung today, will see what comes up of it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] uggies:
Thats probably what i will be having if I do the sd partitioning...

Furthermore, I can just get it replaced by Samsung since I have bought this phone recently. I dont want to use a phone that has broken parts on emmc for more than a year.

Thank you all so much for your help, but I think I am done here sorry :(

EDIT: Nevertheless, I will try and format /emmc and do the repartitioning one more time once I get home. Stay tuned. If this does not work, I will send it off to SSC
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] prabhu1980:
All the best uggies

Please remember that the effort taken by you will be remembered for a long time.

Forest1971

Can you search linux threads for alt solution.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] terius:
how do i get the CWM in my note?, i can use only ODIN, txs

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never mind find it in post 322

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ok i´m on the CMD how do i find the adb folder?

¨4. Then run cmd and cd to the adb folder of your computer ¨
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] prabhu1980:
Forest 1971

Atlast I have got some tools for you to repair / check bad sectors.

Please rewrite the script for our Galaxy Note.

Forest1971.

this problem has occured to many earlier and they have solved it.

Please dont give up !!

Atleast write to us.....

Bad sectors growing is an indication of corrupt MBR (GPT)

It can be corrected. It has been corrected earlier and I donot read any reasons why that cannot be done now.

If somebody has already tried correcting their filesystems they didnt do what we are planning to do....

Success will not knock the door, we have to reach it ...

Support please ....

anyhow taking to ssc is 200$.

Huge economic loss according to me.

Big punishment for innovators.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] uggies:
Good news. I have re-partitioned the UMS part and everything is back in working!

Currently working on CM9, WIFI is working, brower is working just fine ! :)

But one thing is, that the phone signal does not work. I think it is because of the /efs part... Any heads up?

Other than this, everything is just fine :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] prabhu1980:
Wow u keep on rocking man !!

Forest1971 Where r u ??

We need u ....

Any other devs , comments please.

Yes I saw Entropy512 comments.

Right ! Understood ! Its a workaround ....

But my only issue is people had corrupt partition and badblocks earlier too.

We just have to find our way out

A good format tool is required for checking badblocks.

Unfortunately I understood that the -c option leads to freeze ; but manual says -cc as non-destructive option. Indeed I have posted some scripts from HTC forum.

If the Google Engineer says there is a tool for wipe ; it is with us too (Search ur toolbox; busybox)

Forest has to review the script and release a fs repair tool for us.

I am also pulling a dev from HTC forum (Droidzone) to help us move forward.

He hasnt replied to my email (doesnt accept PM)

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Uggies; Have you saved the efs earlier it will help u
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] uggies:
Nope ... still stuck at recovering /efs. Cannot even mount the /efs on recovery. Nevertheless, its for sure that my phone is working perfectly.

Also tried flashing stock GB ROM via Odin, but still stuck at the factoryfs.

Flashing Rocket ROM via CWM now, i will see if it restores my /efs part.

Update: Flashing Rocket ROM was successful, but it wouldnt boot up just like last time. Decided to install Xtralite Rom and it was successful. Signal was working on first boot , but there was whole lots of force closes, so I had to reboot into recovery and flashed the ROM again. But the signal was gone ... I do not know what happend lol
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] friedje:
Hello Uggies, Since your amount of space is smaller, you need lite roms to fit.

Stock roms containing a lot of bloat probably don't fit.

If your radio isn't working try to flash another modem.

If flashing your efs fails try to extract it from a rom and then push it to your phone

with adb. try first under recovery and/or adb to mount it successfully.

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

For restoring your IMEI

cheers.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] prabhu1980:
Uggies : Please dont try this I am just asking devs if someone else has done this

why dont we use dd command in adb shell to push the factoryfs.img into the required partition ??

Forest1971 : we need ur reply on this

the command will look like

dd if=/sdcard/factoryFS.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0pxx bs=4096 conv=noerror

Forest : Where r u ??

I am trying to bring a new tool compiled for ARM arch for finding bad blocks.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] uggies:
Thanks you.

Could you please specify the directory where to push the modem to?

In my opinion, through 'parted' command, I can just remove and rewrite the efs part. If the idea look about right, could you please write the commands please?

Cheers mate

Update: I dont know how, but everything just came back, signal, IMME, and everything.. WOW Life is good again :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Hi Uggies:

I am very happy for you :). Hope that the phone will be in a stable condition.

These kind of events make the forum exciting and that is good for health! We all share happy moment and feel happier when sharing!

Please remember to back up your emei. There is an excellent an free tool from Google Play call Ktool. It is very handy to backup emei and install kernel. I love this tool. It can also help remove the triangle although it does not reset the counter.

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=ktool&c=apps

cheers,

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Hi mate:

Too busy at work today. Thanks....so much for your kindness and passion for the forum.

About fixing faulty area: I believe in technician's advice that even when the faulty area is fixed with some tool if often become vulnerable, weak spot. That is not a good idea for a phone. So right now I would stick with the walk-around way, trying to avoid those faulty areas. As for the total solution that is surely beyond me so I guess will wait for new developments.

I do have some ideas to improve the guidelines on partitioning though:

1. Have found a shorter way to create ext4 partition so need only one command.

2. I would suggest anyone who want to try this method also remove-and recreate Cache partition as well.

The system will touch all 4 partitions: factoryfs, datafs, cache, and internal sdcard (UMS) at some point when running. So if there is any faulty areas in one of these partitions, then when the system try to access it (read or write) it will fail and often become freeze.

That is why I would recommend remove and re-create all these 4 partitions to make sure they are free of faulty areas.

Will try to improve the guide when I can.

cheers.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] copperdawgnc:
can we use fsck to check for bad blocks? I am researching using dd to copy/backup system partitions to PC I believe it will fail on bad blocks. Have not used unix commands for decades :-)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] prabhu1980:
Someone use e2fsck -c option and got freezed. This is why forest1971 has given a workaround.

In case you want to try i leave it to you.

You can also use mke2fs command.

I would suggest you to look similar threads where people have failed using fsck commands. I have a feeling that odin would have also issued dd commands for the

READ MAN PAGE BEFORE YOU TRY ANYTHING.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] prabhu1980:
Also be very careful using dd.

I read that a small misuse will lead to more losses.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
The e2fsck is included in the tools though. You might give it a try. The command is below (run under adb shell, the command is for partition 10, change number for other partitions). it should work on normal blocks but probably would freeze on bad ones.

Drnull says it freeze on bad blocks when he runs it:

"

Running: e2fsck -cv /dev/block/mmcblk0p10

locks up though"
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] prabhu1980:
Forest what happens after the freeze. . Will we lose the bootloader
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
No. That is the datafs partition so no problem at all. Just need to close the it.

bootloader reside in partition 1 and 2. We should never mess with those partitions or the phone will not boot.

It is safe to play with 4 partitions: cache. factoryfs, datafs, and UMS. You can remove, recreate, resize and if they do not meet your need just do it again. The phone can still boot safely into recovery even without these partition.

Other partitions should be leave untouched.

cheers.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] uggies:
Everything is back in working and it is so nice to have my gnote back :) Currently I am running cm9 and loving it so far.

I do not even know how to thanks you all, especially forest1971. I would be lost without you.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] prabhu1980:
Forest can you skip some posts and see Post #331 and 333.

I have posted some scripts used for file system repair.

But needs to be heavily modified.

People faced problems earlier and they resolved.

Whats harm in giving a try .

Copper is ready to run fsck

Why dont u guide him.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] copperdawgnc:
Please explain what you mean by this, I assume you are writing a script or an app?

My note is working so I do not want to run any command that could be detrimental but I would like to run a "check disk" fsck to see if I have any damage.

as mentioned before I did have a "soft brick" that took several wipes and flashes to cure.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] prabhu1980:
Tool - I will let u know once I am thru ; I have contacted other forums for help....

a) the script clears the filesystem errors for HTC Sense users.

They had similar problems and solved by this script.

Yes please try fsck only and let us know what u get.

If your Note was soft bricked : Did u get stuck at factoryfs.img - Then its a superbrick acording to this community and its not solvable. If you have solved it then u are a resource for many bricked users getting stuck at factoryfs.img ....
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] copperdawgnc:
I am doubting that I suffered this I was in a panic and don't remember all I did.

Does this only happen using odin? I was trying to flash various roms with CWM and they kept hanging. (I used red pill in abyss 3.9 and was able to fix it).

This was just before we knew leaked roms were causing super bricks. (and I was under the impression that a super brick was a blank screen hard brick :-)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
There must be some good tools somewhere that can check and report if there are any faulty block somewhere in the 4 partitions so that we can try to avoid.

We need help on this issue.

cheers
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] makakikou:
My note back to life

hello

I am very happy to see my Glalaxy Note restart after a week without end.

Thanks to you I can use my phone

I'm in CM9

Now, is that I can install an official ROM?

thank you very much:D:D:D:D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] zviki:
Something like this?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Herk718:
Can't wait till forest makes the new guide to re-partition all four areas :) we all might not be as lucky as uggies when it comes to the first guide. But than again YMMV, but my theory is the more times you attempted to flash stock rom and it hung on factoryfs.img the deeper your damage will be in those areas, because those were the sole moments that the new stock rom was trying to access those 4 partitions (for read/write purposes) and hung equaling more damage on more blocks.....
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
It feel great to have another Note recovered :):D.

Yes, there should not be any problem with roms (except that dangerous SS ICS one) as long as you know where to find it and how to install it in the right way. I would suggest download the official roms from the well-known Dr.Ketan's thread.

Cheers,
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] copperdawgnc:
As far as I am aware official ICS roms still could cause a super brick please correct me if I am wrong (Again :-)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] matiasg85:
Hi there, you have to install sdk for android first, then you will have your adb folder.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Yes we need kind of disktool that can run under cwm or adb shell and can tell us if and where there is faulty block so that we can avoid.

thanks

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Yes you're right so I have edited my posts. Thanks
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] matiasg85:
One more thing, what if you create only the datafs and factoryfs, but not the UMS partition. WIll the phone work only with the external SD in that case?? I forgot to try that yesterday when i still had the phone. That way we could use a larger amount for datafs and factoryfs on the "good memory part"
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Not that way Matiasg.

The factoryfs only need enough space to hold the rom (600-800MB is quite enough)

The datafs infact only need about 1GB. I have also an ARC-S and a Kindle Fire that have only 512MB datafs partition and they run very fine. Note has 2GB which is quite generous. If you give these two partition more space it will be wasteful. The large UMS is needed for internal sdcard so that you can store music, video picture...

cheers
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Herk718:
@Uggies, is your internal storage working? Are you able to write data?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] uggies:
Yes, everything is working right now :)

I once had internal storage broken, then I re pratitoned it as forest1971 told me, and it is now working like a charm.

Guess the ICS kernel wiping not only affects datafs and factoryfs but also UMS partiton (internal storage)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Herk718:
OK thanks, so you partitioned the three things he told to in his guide correct?

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Hey forest, if you don't mind can you please update your guide with how to partition the cache? Thanks.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Just refer to the original partition table (attached in the guide) to give you guide about where the partitions are.

Cache partition is No 7.

Suggest after you have done with the three other modifiable partitions:

rm 7

then recreate 7 54.5 264 following the guide.

If it is faulty then try to choose different smaller size in the 210 MB slot of Cache partition. Cache partition are not used a lot, mainly for Google play download of apk and sometime OTA update (which can be replaced by using update through Kies). Therefore, smaller Cache should not be a problem I have tried with 128MB partition for Cache and works fine (Someone posted somewhere that Cache as small as 54MB also work).

Will try to update the guide.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Herk718:
Thanks ;) and what commands should be use to push the data partition back up to 2gb instead of 1gb in the guide? (I use a lot of data lol :)

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Instead of (parted) mkpartfs primary ext2 2100 3322 put (parted) mkpartfs primary ext2 1174 3322 ???
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
If you use lots of data then should create 2gb datafs.

rm all 9, 10 and 11 and create them with the size of your choice. Only Cache is limited in its small slot of 210 MB. The other three share almost 15 GB for your options of sizes (with the condition that there are no faulty areas, though).
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Herk718:
So it will basically ask me what size I want to use rite? Not necessarily a command just a prompt rite?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
No it will not ask you.

put begin and end of the partition you want (make some calculation about the size, base on the partition table and the example I have given in the guide.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Herk718:
So can you please give me exact number for what 2gb will be :) don't wanna mess anything up making logical guesses.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
First try with replicate the original size partitions:

create partition 9: factoryfs 281 1174

creat partition 10: datafs 1174 3322

see how it goes.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Herk718:
Thanks bro ;)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Use the commands from the guide
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Kpacc:
Need help

Hi guys!

My English is a very bad, sorry.

I don't convert filesystem ext2 to ext4 in DATAFS :confused:

Reboot phone, writing "umount /cash" all to no. See the attached screenshot

I fixed this problem. From CWM format Data, cache, system and all partition automatically convert to ext4. Its very easy :)

But my Galaxy Note still brick :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] RealPariah:
You download Android sdk (Google "download Android sdk" it's free), run GUI (under tools type./Android in Linux or run Android.exe. Have it download the tools (should be under top most folder) when that downloads you will have hidden folder under where you created Android-sdk folder named platform-tools CD to that in command (or run following I'm command once....) Just copy/paste below line with % path% included and just change c:\ part to match where you extracted downloaded sdk folder) right click in windows CMD window after copying to paste

set path=%PATH%;c:\Android-sdk\platform-tools\

Will add to path so you can just run adb from anywhere. Just adapt path to wherever you extracted sdk on your computer.

Keep in mind it is best to run CMD as admin especially if using su or you get ?????? When you run adb devices command.

Too do that from CMD (in XP and above (XP requires admin account has a set password if username is different sub it below) just copy/paste command a is and change administrator to your ambassador account name if you don't use administrator. With the %computername% it will auto change to correct info as it it's a variable (right click in windows CMD window after copying to paste)

Runas /user:%computername%\administrator CMD

Then hit enter. It will prompt for password of admin account (or the one you subbed) once you hit enter it will open new CMD window as administrator.

Then run

adb kill-server

adb devices

If you see a hexadecimal number (letters and numbers) and not all ? Your adb is good to go.

can't warn enough, if you format emmc (internal storage) you can instabrick most Android devices (unless you know what you are doing and restore data before restarting). If you just format and restart you will most likely brick yourself be very very careful formatting emmc ( aka internal storage or internal sd )

Sent from my SGH-T989 using Xparent Green Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
I would advice you restart the procedures and do it again.

If you missed something just do it again.

Also please try to avoid the area of old factoryfs and datafs (they tend to have suffered more damage). Just use the area from original internal sdcard (start from 3322MB)

You can remove and recreate these partition many times with different choices of size of you like.

Also remember to flash another kernel before start with roms.

If the reason of your bricks is because of some partitions have errors then after you fix it it will run again.

But there can be other reasons. Still, if you can still get into recovery you should be able to find a solution to revise it.

Hope it helps,

cheers
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] copperdawgnc:
Hey forest, didn't have time today to learn how to use dd. My theory is to use dd to create an image on PC then fsck that image would that work to test for bad blocks?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Hi I have not done that but would think that method would not work since if it can be done successfully then it means the partition is ok. If there are faulty areas it probably will freeze while try to make the back-up (?).
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Herk718:
After giving this wonderful method a shot, sad to say :( it doesn't work at all for me :( in fact adb can't ever print my format table anymore, keeps coming back with error :( and when I type in any command after the initial one that get me into "parted" it doesn't recognize my device :(

Note* I got my first error after I tried to create FACTORYFS partition :( it stop at 5 % and said unable to write factoryfs and give me options to retry (which I did) ignore, and cancel. After like 10 times of retrying I final cancelled and tried moving on to datsfs and ums , and that when adb started acting up and not recognizing my commands nor my device :(

Now with three important partitions gone!!! I know I'm screwed :( and I'm in the U.S with no warranty so SSC overseas won't even help me cause my address :(

FOREST1971 & UGGIES AND EVERYONE FOR SUPPORT HERE THANKS FOR EVERYTHING :) AND I WISH I COULD OF HAD SOME SUCCESS WITH THIS GUIDE BUT UNFORTUNATELY I DIDN'T :(........
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] prabhu1980:
Hey All,

This is the new way to format a partition using dd command

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblkxx bs=512 count=1

Source :

http://omapedia.org/wiki/E-MMC_boot#eMMC_boot_information_and_Format_the_Partition
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Herk718:
This can be used in adb with same method? Just different parted program??