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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Morality:
All right, a little follow up to this:

The most recent method attempted was to remake 7, 9, 10 and 11, after which I flashed Abyssnote through the 4pda_kernel, and Thor kernel (as suggested by hg42 in his thread, http://forum.tegraowners.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=509) via the abyssnote. From thor, I flashed Asylum v08 w/ gapps and had some progress:

Random crashing still occurs, it occurred in normal usage once, but the phone survived the forced reboot, booting back to system. I was overjoyed :D

However, after letting the phone do its thing through the night (trying to let the kernel settle in) and attempting the GTA -download in the morning, it indeed did crash again. But the damn thing survived another reboot.

Also: I don't know if it was the forced reboot this morning or the fact that the phone booted with USB attached, but after the GTA -download crash reboot, the phone force closed android.acore twice and gapps one, before I manually rebooted via power menu, which helped. Did not re-occur after attaching usb after the reboot.

I am trying hard to investigate this further: any suggestions what I should do? Is there a log file that I could study that could help regarding this issue?

UPDATE: Right after typing this post, I tried to move the SD -files from GTA to the internal sdcard, which failed right away with the message: "Cannot copy files

The device has either stopped responding or has been disconnected"

But actual "disconnection" never happens.

UPDATE2: Allright so.. I've made hueg progress. This is what happened:

I remembered reading something similar about not being able to copy big files to internal sdcard so: Because the "mass usb storage" -option was greyed out, I went into the recovery menu to mount the internal sdcard as mass storage. There I went and formatted the internal sdcard via windows and, well what do you know:

From MTP, I am indeed able to copy the com.rockstar.gta3, and now the GTA3 download from the phone has gone way past the halfway point.

Now, only time will tell if the random crashing is also fixed :) I will damn sure report back if this indeed fixed my problems completely.

UPDATE3: Damn it, the download did freeze after all, within the last seconds :( don't know If its better or worse though, usually it froze within the first minute or two..
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] serpent2005:
(parted) print
print
print
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 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
10 1174MB 3322MB 2147MB DATAFS
11 3322MB 15.2GB 11.9GB fat32 UMS
12 15.2GB 15.8GB 537MB ext4 HIDDEN

(parted) mkpartfs primary ext2 3322 4215
mkpartfs primary ext2 3322 4215
mkpartfs primary ext2 3322 4215
Warning: You requested a partition from 3322MB to 4215MB.
The closest location we can manage is 15.8GB to 15.8GB.
Is this still acceptable to you?
Yes/No?

I was able to delete partition 9, but now I'm getting this error message. Any ideas? It looks like no more room to create partitions. Am I completely hosed?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] smack_t:
You have to delete parts 10 and 11 also before creating 9, 10 , 11. You have to delete post parts and recreate them in sequence.

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serpent2005

do the following

__________________

rm 10

rm 11

mkpartfs primary ext2 3322 4215

mkpartfs primary ext2 4215 6362

mkpartfs primary fat32 6362 15200

_______________________________

Then follow the rest of the steps for each of the 3 partitions...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] serpent2005:
Got it. Deleted partitions 10 and 11 and followed the rest of the instructions. Everything seemed to worked as expected. Once done I tried flashing stock ICS using Odin and it hung with "starting nand write". So I tried flashing Criskelo ICS rom via CWM and it too seemed to hang. Now I'm flashing GB Litening ROM via CWM and it seems to be hung at "backing up efs...". Do I need to redo the process?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] smack_t:
Did you get any errors when creating the partitions (specifically converting to ext4) ?

If you did, then thats the problem, and means that more memory is corrupt. You will need to do it again, using different ranges until you find ranges that create and convert without issue.

Do you have a printout of what you did with responses from adb etc?

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Another thing. Once you have partitions done, first install the stock GB rom.

Once it uncompressed and loads properly then try a different ROM. too many people trying non stock roms after un-bricking right away.

The stock rom will provide more information when un compressing on boot up after flashing if there is something still wrong. Not sure if other roms do the same 'verbose'
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] serpent2005:
Tried flashing Litening ROM a second time and this time it was successful, but now phone keeps looping on the Samsung logo.

EDIT: rebooted manually and it booted successfully :D:D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] smack_t:
Good news! Enjoy...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] serpent2005:
Is it possible to go back to ICS? :p
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] smack_t:
It should be, but no one replied to my initial question if the part sizes are the same for ICS ROMS. I heard somewhere they are not.

So ill leave this one to someone else to answer, as i am not sure.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Hi: good to see you got success to revive your Note. :).

And also nice to see people joining to support one anther.

Many people have reported successfully install CM9 ICS. Just find an ICS custom rom.zip (should be safe one) and install via CWM and it should work.

cheers!

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Partition size does not matter between GB and ICS. cheers.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Gaugerer:
I'm glad you got it working again. I understand you were using a stock ROM but used an unofficial application to do the wipe rather than just do a factory reset which is why you had the problem. Has anyone bricked their Note using official ROM and official software?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] serpent2005:
After having risen from the dead is my note no longer able to flash (through Odin mobile/desktop) stock Samsung ROMs (*.md5)?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
It seems flash kernel via odin is fine but the whole rom does not seem to work. Don't know why yet. You can try to use custome PIT file from hg42. It should allow to flash via odin. Still to use odin you should have a good usb cable since sometime poor cable can cause problem.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] smack_t:
I had this problem. Where custom roms would flash but not stock after the first unbrick attempt. I reparted again, and offset everything by 1 more gig starting from part 9, and then it worked. But that might not be nessecary.

I think you need to check the parts again. When converting to ext4 its easy to miss errors that may showup. Maybe you still have some Issues.

Also, is the custom rom you flashed include modem kernel csc factory data etc? Official Stocks include all these so maybe there is an issue with one of those parts.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Hi Smack: did you mean have been able to flash rom via odin? and can do that from the second time after recovered from brick? That would be good if yes.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] smack_t:
Yes. Thats what i mean.

I noticed the same thing after first unbrick that only customs roms would flash and not any stock. I then checked each part starting with modem and noticed more issues so i parted the entire thing again offsetting by 1gig. tried stock using odin right after, stock LC1, and magic - it worked and unpacked without issue.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] smack_t:
Btw i used odin to flash stock ics this morning too, after you said it should work, and it did.

On stock ICS now :) ill refrain from a custom rom for a bit (maybe 1 day lol )
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Wow this is great news. thanks.

In your case so you have flask all the item at the same time as well?

I had an idea that perhaps stock rom should be unpacked and item should be flashed separately one by one (untick auto-reboot). What do you think?

About modem partition it does not have any format. Just need to create a partition without format. did you recreate it as well?

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But did you use custom PIT from hg42 or do re-partition manually using adb? Using custom PIT should work but I have seen reports of odin not working after manual re-partition, at least for the first time.

btw, it is not so clear "offset by 1gb" maybe if you can post partition table then it will be easier to imagine. tks.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] smack_t:
Hi

Yes i re created modem. Not sure i needed to.

The first time i used the hg42 pit since when i got my gnote back from samsung it kept giving me an error when i ran parted. After custom pit i could run parted: print, But it didnt still let me flash properly. It was stuck on nand write start. So then i manually reccreated 9 thru 11. That didnt work still. So i recreated 8 to 11.

Again, im not sure i had to, but i was up to do anything to get it to work. And was just doing stuff out of depression :)

Out and about right now but when i get home ill post my table to show what it looks like. Lost quite some space

EDIT: I GUESS I LIED!!. It seems modem is untouched - dont ask my why/how. i swear i thought i re-created it.

Anyway - as promised, here is my 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 3322MB 4215MB 893MB ext4 FACTORYFS

10 6362MB 8509MB 2147MB ext2 DATAFS

11 8509MB 15.2GB 4691MB fat32 UMS msftres

12 15.2GB 15.8GB 537MB ext4 HIDDEN
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] speterlau:
What is the command to scan the partitions if it is fine. I do that because I may overlook the error message and somehow the partitions was created successfully.

Thanks!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] smack_t:
i think you might have to just remove it and re-create it. Not sure how else to know.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
No it's all good that we share experience to learn from one another. These numbers we can easily mistake them.

Yeah, you lost quite some space of UMS and partition 10 is still ext2. It should still work work but maybe better to convert it back to ext4 again. (or this is the table before you converted).

Indeed in your case the PIT file from hg42 will not work since you also have some bad blocks inside the former UMS/sdcard. It needs manual re-partition.

Your sharing has been very helpful. cheers.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] smack_t:
oh.. good catch.. it is still ext2. Ill convert and see if it works.

EDIT: I guess it was a copy before i converted to ext4. Just checked DATAFS, it is ext4. I was making copies of the table every step to make sure i did everything correctly. I guess i forgot to make a copy at the very end. UMS is fat32 - i think ill leave it as it is, dont wanna change anything, since its all working and i dont want to go back to using my xperia arc if i mess something up :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] shumi93:
easy fix bricked G-NOTE

By hoping that it helps someone, for me that worked without probleme.

Link : http://www.android.gs/easily-fix-bricked-samsung-galaxy-note-n7000/

Enjoy :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
If you like to check if a partition has bad block or not you can use the tools that already come with the kernel. Use the code below.

If you like to check partition 7, which is cache, for example then run:

code:

~ # e2fsck -c /dev/block/mmcblk0p7

You can do the same with 9, 10.

(Note: e2fsck should be run after umount /cache and umount /system and umount /data)

For partition 11 you can check using parted (since e2fsck cannot handle fat32)

code:

(parted) check 11

if it does not return any error the partition 11 is probably fine.

I will update the guide with these.

cheers.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] serpent2005:
Did you use the patched pit?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] xiaojian24:
hi, does anyone knows how to update /etc/fstab/ back to the note after reviving, i got a lot of problems with tt, i think it causes a lot of fc on my phone, thanks
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] serpent2005:
I was also able to flash stock GB ROM but the phone has endless loop at samsung logo. Did you have this issue?

EDIT: When the phone reboots (after flashing stock ROM via Odin) it goes into Android recovery and begins to install some packages. It fails with this error: E:Error in /cache/recovery/sec_csc.zip (Status 7)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] metalcerb:
I don't know what happens in my note, i am running ICS Kingdroid v2.1 and i try to flash 2.3.6 Checkrom V6, but the flashing process freeze. Know i am not able to flash (always have freezes), but i have acess to cwm and download mode. Now i try to flash the oficial 2.3.6 THP Portugal by odin but process freeze again. Can someone help me ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] smack_t:
Did you flash a custom kernel before flashing V6?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] metalcerb:
No, i only copy he checkrom file to sdcard, reboot to cwm, do a full wipe and flash zip from sd card.

After that, i am not able to flash anithing, i always have freeze.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] smack_t:
Sorry to hear that man.

Try to follow the procedure on this post (page 2). Except just create the partition as it is now. Just see if you have any corruption issues.

However, dont stress too much, the fact you can get into download mode means its not over yet :)

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Can you try going into recovery and mounting cache and see if you have any errors ? If you cannot mount it, there maybe something wrong with cache. See page 2 on how to re-part it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] metalcerb:
I know, but after the brick i was so happy when saw the download mode working and cmw.. But now i'm not so happy, i can´t flash nothing in cwm neither download mode with odin, i try flash last 2.3.6 THP Portugal but have no sucess.

Now if i want go to cmw i have this message :

Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in kies & try again..

Nothing work now, but samsung repair service cannot see nothing wrong :) cwm don´t appear and binary count download is NO.. Tomorrow in the mornig i go to samsung service.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] smack_t:
Yes - Samsung Service is the best option! - Cheers.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] metalcerb:
Donwload mode continues to working, but fail when i try to flash GB oficial thp portugal but fail to.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] apurvapatel:
sending to SSC to claim warrenty

Update...

Since my UMS partition was continuesly throwing up bad sectors everytime I tried to install any ROM or tried to re-partition, I have decided to send the phone to the Samsung Service Center.

To prepare the phone to send it to the SSC, I did the following steps

flashed the 4pda_kernel.tar to get adb

got in adb shell and removed partition 9,10 and 11

flashed ICSKernelTest.tar to remove the yellow triangle and the counts

flashed stock_kernel_N7000DDLB2.tar to remove the custom kernel's recovery

and finally I flashed DDLB2 rom via odin. It freezes at the factoryfs write.

Now my Note says "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again"

Phone gets into the download mode, doesnt get in recovery.

Hopefully this has removed all the traces of rooting, custom recovery, custom roms and since there are no partitions at all, it should also remove traces of re-partitioning. :D

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I suggest you flash a stock kernel on your phone, just in case. It would remove traces of custom recovery, if there are any.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] metalcerb:
I need to find one stock kernel to flash..

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I flash with sucess this file - N7000-XEO-N7000XXLC1 Kernel

Now i try again flash by odin last GB oficial Portugal, but i have same error in odin ( ID:0/003> factoryfs.img ).
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] serpent2005:
This thread has been especially useful for helping me to recover from superbrick. Just want to personally thank forest1971, smack_t, and Shumi93 for their assistance.

I had a lot of kernels on my sd card and I mistakenly wiped with an unsafe ICS kernel. Found this thread and followed the instructions posted in the link in the OP to forest1971's tutorial on repartitioning. Those instructions allowed my Note to successfully load (via CWM) and run a custom GB ROM. But I was not completely happy because I wanted to run stock ICS and I couldn't flash any stock GB or ICS using Odin (desktop and mobile). Then I ran across Shumi93's post (link) which linked to an article about unbricking from superbrick using a PIT file. Followed the instructions in that post and used the provided pit named Q1_20110914_16GB-patched.pit along with stock GB ROM N7000DXKL1 and it worked!! After this I was able to use Odin to flash stock ICS ROM N7000XXLQ2 and now my phone is back to the way it was before the superbrick :D. I've restored all of my applications using TitaniumBackup and everything is behaving well.

I spent a few hours partitioning and repartitioning my phone before trying the PIT method so I have no idea if it was the combination of partitioning and the PIT method that caused this goodness.

My phone did go from having about 12GB of useable space to about 8GB of useable space. Not a big deal for me because I put most of my stuff on the external SD card.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] smack_t:
Good stuff man. Glad you are up an running. This thread and all its contributors were extremely helpful in getting my gnote unbricked too! Awesome stuff
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] shumi93:
Yep i used patched pit for my 16Gb G-NOTE.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] serpent2005:
Thanks. I downloaded the ZIP file expecting to find 2 PIT files in there (1 for 16-GB and 1 for 32 GB). Found out there are a boatload of them with no explanation as to what the files are for. I ended up trying the "unpatched" 16-GB PIT file first. When that didn't work I tried the patched 16-GB PIT file and that worked.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] grandmasternz:
It was in state where it was stuck on the samsung logo glowing. I wrote - After upgrading to Android 4.0 the phone is frozen on boot - Motherboard replaced without questions asked.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] do-shaq:
Yeah it works!!!!

I can confirm that this works thank!!! I'm so happy i can cry right now :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] wanzer:
Guys please help me!!!! I'm new to the Note scene.

I was on ICS Stunner and had a backup of TheMidTeam1.4.2, then I decided to return on the Sammy based rom. Flashed Abyss but started the restore (damned me) before restarting the recovery; it freezed, so I restarted the phone and I was on the Abyss recovery. I restored TMT1.4.2, but when I reboot it hangs on the white "Samsung Galaxy Note" on the black background, and the yellow triangle.

What should I do now? I don't know what is ADB, I just know how to use the recovery and Odin, no more! Please help me, i'm crying!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] vorny92:
After i try to install another custom Firmware my Note Bricked for the second time:(:(

But know i can´t reach the Downloadmodus or recovery always black screen.

The Akku has 4Volt so it should be full.

i try it with usb jig but nothing happened in Odin.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] serpent2005:
Sorry to hear that -- I know the feeling. The instructions linked to in the OP partially worked for me (allowing me to restore custom GB ROMs), but it does require you to issue Linux commands (might be scary to some). My earlier post (here) links to Shumi93's post which links to an alternate method that exclusively uses Odin.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] smack_t:
Hmm. You might be in too far now. Might need to send it to samsung or to mobiletec or others that have jtag to fix it. Search forums for tgis service. Its not too expensive.

However, try pulling out battery for 20 secs atleast and put back in and try download mode. If that doesnt work. Try download mode while holding vol down power and home but keep holding and plug in usb.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] fatdogcat:
The simple way to fix my bricked Gnote

Hi guys, i was about to go to samsung service center (because i was really tired to read these technical things).... luckily i found this helpful page which fixes my gnote EASILY.

http://www.android.gs/easily-fix-bricked-samsung-galaxy-note-n7000/

especially thanks to serpent2005 and shumi93 who brought me to the page!!

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=27041448&postcount=877

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=27010600&postcount=863

this method might be posted somewhere in this thread, but i think most ppl don't have time to finish all pages here, so i hope this can help someone again...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Thanks for sharing the good news. I can feel your excitement to get Note back working and feel good too :). cheers.

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custom PIT method:

http://www.android.gs/easily-fix-bricked-samsung-galaxy-note-n7000/

[/QUOTE]

The custom PIT files are very useful, especially for those who cannot handle adb things.

In fact: the best way is to combine both manual and custom PIT method. Using manual ways to diagnose which partition is faulty then choose the most suitable PIT file for that scenario (or you will know you need to do manual way if you identify there is fault block inside the internal sdcard).

I have updated the guide providing links to PIT files method threads and also partition diagnostic tools.

cheers
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] layoneful:
That works

the method works 100% thank you guys :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Thanks for sharing good news to make us happy in the forum :).

cheers,
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] DrLeoB:
Worked for me

Stuck at factoryfs.img load in Odin while trying to re-flash XEU LQ2 released ROM after trying the LR1 modem .... nothing worked until I tried the PIT method outlined above ... worked and I am back in business .... Thanks to All who worked on this problem.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] metalcerb:
My note is in samsung service at this time. With the pit method you don't lose any memory ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] serpent2005:
Yes you would lose memory. My limited understanding of the PIT file is it maps the partitions to a good area of memory leaving a chunk of your memory unuseable (hopefully, only the damaged part).
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] fatdogcat:
Yes, after using the patched PIT to restore my note, my note has only 8.24GB total USB storage space.

Actually I don't really mind the space, intsead I found my note (with official GB rom) reboot itself intermittently.... I am not a technical person at all but I understand that currently my note has some bad sectors inside. So can anyone tells me how can I fix it now? (of course I prefer a non-technical way to do this... Post #12 is too heavy for me ;) ....)

In addition, is it safe for me to upgrade my note to official ics now? With Odin?

Thanks in advance!