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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] prabhu1980:
Herk : Hey When you are not able to create a partition it means that you have some corrupt sectors.

You have to try different cylinders.

You will be successful , if u understand which sector you have to avoid by several tries.

But Once when you enter parted and u say print.

I feel your partitions tables is screwed.

Worst Case : You are in US and u should be able to replace MOBO by spending some money ,( say 200$; it costs 200$ in India)??

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Herk - NOOOOOO ; Dont use it I am just debating it here with others.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
To get into recovery hold power-volumeup and home when booting. There is some video on the web that show how to do it and helpful guide at this site:

http://rootgalaxynote.com/galaxy-no...oted-galaxy-note-using-clockworkmod-recovery/.

If you cannot get into recovery and adb connected then this method will not be used.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] uggies:
Yea I know how to get into recovery mode, but it just hangs on the first screen.

Thank you so much for your help so far. I really appreciate it :) I will just have to visit Service centre tomorrow.

However, I am also sorry that I cannot test out your method :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] incisivekeith:
This situation is similar to what I am experiencing, too.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] friedje:
Try to hook up your note to the pc and test, even though it hangs on a black screen, it might still be able to communicate.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] uggies:
Holy ... THIS WORKED! It actually recognized my device !!!!!!!

Nevertheless, I am doing something wrong with adb tool cuz I get this...

It just copies my command once i enter adb shell..

Any heads up please?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
You need to be patient. Run adb shell again first. Then copy and past command line but leave out the first 2 characters becausy they just indicate ithe command is run under adb shell - already shelled in the phone. Try again and see how it go.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
And it looks like you did not hit enter after each command line? By the way connecting to adb is good sign of life for your note.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] uggies:
When I try to get into recovery mode, computer recognizes my phone. The weird thing is, the phone reboots itself every 10 sec ... Which means I cannot enter all the commands in time ...

Once it reboots, it is no longer recognized by computer but it does not reboot. Weird thing here is, the comp recognizes my phone as SAMSUNG mobile USB Composite device, but once I try adb shell command, it does not detect my device ...

Well I might just visit service centre tomorrow... :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
When I have problem with adb driver I reinstalled Kies and update it, then adb works fine again. Still if you are not familiar with adb then I would recommand not trying any further.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] uggies:
By the way, I have made a progess that I now see the CMW installation screen, but it aborts itself when it comes to installation part...

I cannot not thank you enough for your help forest. But I dont think I can proceed anymore ... :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
No worry mate. We are here to help one another and enjoy doing it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] mobile88:
Please post link to download tar format of Abyss 4.2

Thanks
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] uggies:
I dont know where I found it... but here you go

View attachment AbyssNotekernel42CWTouchOriginalLogo.tar
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] mobile88:
Thanks a lot. Will be a useful kernel if needed to use flashing thro Odin in PC
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] nitrate:
erm...

mine got ./bricked as well...

i can't do that repartitioning trick by drnull

if i try to adb shell, then i get something like an error ("/system/bin/sh not found")... am i doing something wrong? I wanna try repartitioning before sending it back to Samsung Service.

What i also found out: with CWM root Kernel by CF installed if i try "mount /system" or "mount /data", CWM tells me that it couldn't find these two partitions. What is wrong there? Will i be able to fix this somehow? I would appreciate any help on this.

Thanks in advance.

:(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] uggies:
At least you can get into recovery ... I could not even install the CWM recovery :(

Regardless of that, if you did what I did, you won't be able to restore it unless you can repartiton it. It is now hardbrick ... You will have to send it off to Samsung
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] nitrate:
I did the following in the last 1 hour:

- flashed Abyss Kernel 4.2 with CWM Touch Recovery v5.8.1.5 via PC ODIN

- booted my Galaxy Note into CWM Touch

- formatted /SYSTEM within CWM Touch successfully :-D

- mounted /SYSTEM

- successfully ADB PUSHed something (just to test) into /SYSTEM/BIN from PC :-D

I am currently unpacking original firmware and will then try to push /SYSTEM/BIN/SH back to my Note. If i can then run it from PC, i will try repartitioning via PARTED. If that is also successful, i will try reinstalling GB firmware via PC ODIN.

Stay tuned.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Good to hear of good progress :-) . If you can format system try to do restore from your gb rom if you have it backup before. Otherwise, you may find a safe gb rom to flash from cwm or

Odin and may not even need to repartition. Try those option first to see how it goes.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] friedje:
You might try to format the /data aswell. if it can do that sucesfully you might be able to flash a GB with odin
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] nitrate:
formatting /data didn't work

if i try executing ADB SHELL, i get Permission denied error 13

any suggestion on that?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Herk718:
I can't find any where in the U.S that will do it :( let alone at that price :( .....
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] prabhu1980:
Herk

You have to do it step by step

You have posted from Step 1 to Step 100 in 2 lines.

Once you fail a partition , you have to try with different cylinders.

now let us know what u get when u issue the command adb devices
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Herk718:
What do you mean by different cylinder? Like for factoryfs 9 change 281-1174 to 3322-4215??
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Hi Herk:

I hope that you can still boot back into recovery and connect adb. Just need to be patient and try a few time. check thing carefully. Sometime need to re-install driver (uninstall and re-install Kies and update it. then it should fix the abd driver).

About where is the other cuylinder to start with I have just update the guide in post 12. Please go back, read one more time and try to follow the guide and see if it works. Also make and post some screen shots also help us to see where you are in the process.

Hope it helps,

BTW: I still see you are posting from your G-note. So that makes me a bit confused. Do you have two one faulty and one still working?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] uggies:
Hi all again guys,

Even though the repartitioning thing did get my phone back to life, I decided to take it to samsung for replacement since flashing via odin does not work and stock ROMs cannot be installed.

I can get my phone replaced without any extra charge, I would just get it replaced to brand new phone.

So,,, yea ill just mess up my phone again and tell them my firmware upgrade failed.

Once again, thank you all so much for your help and I hope everyone can get their phone back to life :)

P.S. Does anyone have any idea of how to reset the upgrade count to 0?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Herk718:
Yeah sorry 4 that, that's my signature and I'm on xda on my wife's phone. And I can't even access cwm anymore so I thinks its definitely over now...... I tried reflashing recovery so many times and I'm just stuck at boot loader :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Can u elaborate more what it mean by stuck at bootloader?

If you can still boot into download mode it will be good because you then can use odin to flash CWM.

Otherwise there is no screen activity after you power on then you will need a Jig USB to boot. You can search google and can buy it online.

Also need to check battery as well.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Herk718:
I can boot into download mode and install kernel and everything but once done and I go to boot into cwm by holding volume+ home and power it just takes me to Samsungs n7000 boot loader screen and just stays there

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And I've tried CF-root kernel 5.0 no luck, I've tried abyss 3.9 and 4.2 no luck. Also tried speed mod kernel for gb no luck. I believe when I deleted 9,10,&11 partitions it messed with cwm somehow.

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I've manage to get adb to recognize my using cm9 safe kernel from the official cm9 thread but even though my device is connect the screen is black in this particular recovery idk y and when I try the push the flies manually to my sbin folder it comes back with and error that no such directory exist on my phone :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
The way to get into recovery sometime is not working. There is very good guide at the site call rootgalaxynote (search google) which show detailed guide and video which is very useful.

Still you still have download mode. That is good.

In my another device after I mess with the partition it still boot into recovery.

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Perhaps it does not have root. Try to install the kernel from Matiasg again? It has tool on it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] friedje:
when I deleted 9,10,&11 partitions.....when I try the push the flies manually to my sbin folder it comes back with and error that no such directory exist on my phone.

No wonder, you should recreate those partitions before you can push anything.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Herk718:
I can't, when I start this particular recovery screen goes black. But I'm in it because adb shows my device # when I enter adb devices. And now when I try and flash any kernel thru Odin it does the samething it does when I try and flash a stock rom , I just gets stuck :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] prabhu1980:
Hey Uggies;

1) Yellow Triangle and COunter Reset : There is a thread in General section to remove the triangle for the bricked phone without jig.

I hope doing so u will brick ur phone ...

2) Since you have decided to go to SSC (If u can try Only !!)

Umount the partition u want to scan and format.

Why dont u try clearing the bad sectors with e2fsck -F -cc /dev/mmcblkxx

or a low level format alternative dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblkxx bs=512 count=1 (Very Slow )

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Herk - You are too fast ... You have to have patience .....

You have to post some screens Step by Step so we can help.

You can get help only when the other person is able to understand ur situation the way u understand.

You have to help us in understanding you.

Way to communicate : Post step by step screens and ask for help.

Did at all do whatever forest said >> If u could not understand what forest said ; please ask.

Lucky u could still see something on ur screen; many have messed up with that too.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
I have found a new kernel that has tools with it. It is Thor kernel which also has CWM with it as well. Member hg42 has used it successfully with similar method to recovered his Note and shared his experience in another thread.

There are a tar version to install using odin but there is also a zip version to use with CWM. Try it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] uggies:
Thanks, the post worked :)

So you want me to try the commands?

Could you explain that more in details? I can try anything :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] prabhu1980:
Forest i want ur support for doing this together with uggies.

Because i m theoritical whereas ur practical.

My theory goes like this.

We dont have any physical injury on emmc.

We have corrupt ext4 fs.

Now to correct it if we use -c option it can only read bad sectors but not correct it.

Whereas -cc option mounts On a rw option.

Hence there is more scope more over -f option should force to complete the command issued.

Pls support. ...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] prabhu1980:
Uggies do you still have root
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] uggies:
I can flash rooted kernel and I would still be able to run ADB.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] prabhu1980:
Forest comments please
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
I am not sure it will work since the mechanism may be somehow similar. Member hg42 has tested and see check did not work.

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"One of my attempts to get around those bad blocks, was to create a bad blocks list which can be used by the ext4 file system, I tried this command:

e2fsck -c /dev/block/mmcblk0p9 (which is the /system partition)

This failed, because to find out which blocks are bad, e2fsck tries to read them and gets stuck by doing so.

I could have created a list manually, but because the data partition was corrupted starting at it's first block, this bad blocks list wouldn't work here anyway."

---

So I guess we need another tool, since the same tool would use the same or similar mechanism for different task option.

About low level format I was told it can cause harm to the disk so I think should not try. We sure have experts on disktools in the forum they certainly have been looking into this.

cheers
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] prabhu1980:
Yeah thats why iam asking for -cc option to be tried which will mount the partition as read write and -f will force it.

But i dont know if -cc is valid for our arm compiled tools.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Update guide-make ext4 format directly

Just revised the guide to make it shorter thanks to the code to make ext4 format directly.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Herk718:
OK forest thanks I'm going to try it now, just woke back up :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] zviki:
@Forest1971 -Here are the scripts for scandisk from Motorola's Milestone recovery if you benefit from that
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Herk718:
Hey forest this is a no go aswell :( just leaving me with a blank screen when I enter recovery... and adb nor the computer is recognizing my device.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] joe2316:
Stone-cold dead Note. Dead, no kidding.

Ok, after trying to flash the PIT file and the CWM kernel, my GNote has now died.

It is an ex-Note.

It has ceased to be.

It is no more...

The black screen of death. No Recovery, No Download mode. Nada. I tried to check if the PC could see d/l mode by Vol-Dn+Home+Power for 15secs then Vol-Up, but nothing at all.

So I posted it to Samsung Carepoint. Over the phone they said "Don't worry, we use a special tool called ODIN, that will fix it." I stayed silent...didn't want to tell them that Google released a sh!t eMMC firmware driver and it would probably need a new board.

Well, Sammy can deal with this fix...in the meantime, I am getting a HTC One X for a bit of fun :-D.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
OK,

Seems that we have just run out of weapon for some cases and for those SS service is the only friend then.

Also, I will not recommend flash PIT any more. Perhaps with some partition already faulty flash PIT just make things worse.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Herk718:
Samsung USA clearly state they will not help me being that this is a international device :( and SS centers overseas said they can't help me because of my U.S. address :'(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
I saw a programme that can still make Note to communicate with the computer and in many cases can still use tools to save it. Just cannot find it right now. Somewhere in the forum.

Hi Prabhu: can you help point Herk to that tool please.

Yes I can see that you just need to keep trying to find solution. In your case everyone want to help.

Also try to make sure battery is still ok, take it out for sometime and replace again.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Herk718:
@ Forest, thank u very much :) I really appreciate you and the rest of the guys effort ;) and I have a external dock charger with two batteries and I keep changing back and forth once fully charged. And if I can be of any assistance on finding the tool just let me know where and what I'm looking for, thank.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] prabhu1980:
Are you speaking about the jig.

Tool for communicating. . I will research.

Its good morning here in india....

Is that motorola script helping.

I could not open it in mobile. ..
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] prabhu1980:
Herk Worst case I ll get it corrected from india.

But i hope that the handling charges will be way too high. AND YES IT WILL BE TREATED AS OUT OF WARRANTY...

SORRY. ...

I SAW SOMEWEBSITED WHO SUGGEST YOU SEND THE DEVICE TO THEM TO RECOVER....
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Herk718:
And what site was that prabhu?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] A.S._id:
Tried to someone, on a reduced devices download PIT with new partition use Heimdall, and flash with a new PIT file full stock, such as 2.3.6 use Odin or Heimdall?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Herk718:
??? Can u explain more?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] A.S._id:
1. Download heimdall

2. Reboot note in download, connect to PC

3. Install driver zadig usblib (green light)

4. Run heimdall-frontend/utilites, test connect - device detect

5. Download pit: (Save As -name), download

6. flash: input PIT into pit, extract package and input into package...

7. Start...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] supercjlee:
This is not bricked device....real bricked device won't be power-on and even plug the USB cable, won't be charged.....
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] JamieD81:
case in point, my N7000 :P

all these people with softbricks are lucky LUCKY LUCKY! you have a chance still :P
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] uggies:
Please. Stop posting those.

I really do not understand how you even think of getting those real bricks back on. No power on? That needs samsung's support for sure.

I am sorry if I sound rude, but please. Enough of that. This thread is to help people get their SOFTBRICKED Gnote back to life.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] JamieD81:
i replied to HIM NOT YOU, dont like my post ignore it and wait for the next from someone else? public forum, public post, public reply. i broke zero rules, get over it.

nuff said.

ps: you open yourself up to these type of posts with misleading thread titles. first superbrick then brick. just change it to softbricked and you wouldnt have to worry anymore.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Herk718:
Like uggies said YOUR POST IS NO HELP!!! PLEASE GO!!!!!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] uggies:
you replied to him IN MY THREAD, dont like my post ignore it and wait for the next from someone else? public forum, public post, public reply. i broke zero rules, get over it.

nuff said.

I will ignore you from now on :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] prabhu1980:
Sorry guys really got stuck up today in work. Be back soon. Today no useful posts. ... Sorry. .... I didnt reply.. Gimme sometime though. ...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] JamieD81:
my post's are just as much help as the joke of a thread title, its nothing short of confusing new users.

can you revive a brick wall? no because they are BRICKS they do nothing.

unless this is a guide on how to fix a BRICKED phone, change the title of the thread to something truthful. EXAMPLE: GUIDE ON FIXING EMMC ERRORS.

common sense.

people that havent opened the thread or they searched google to fix their bricked phone and came to this thread, they are coming here to fix their bricked phones which this does nothing for.

if that doesnt get through your heads, nothing will. enjoy your not so bricked phones.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] uggies:
So Herk hows the progress?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] A.S._id:
and what do you actually get the big deal? Moved partitions, exclude bad sectors and all. The only problem is, you can not flash the stock because it was an pit with a old partitions, so you want to get the new pit with Heimdall, and try flash with him...

In the meantime, you can flash it: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1451544
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Herk718:
Still a no go, can't get back into a proper recovery to flash tools needed in parted :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] feny_lf:
trying to follow the steps of forest, cannot enter cwm - recovery mode

Dear all,

I bricked my note when upgrading to ics. I'm trying to follow the steps introduced here.

But right now I cannot enter cwm.

I tried to use odin to flash the kernel "thor-kernel-v0.4+Thor-Recovery-1.8-odin" please see my prodecure from attached email.

After it is flashed successfully, phone always restart and shows red words "E: Missing bitmap indeterminate1 (Code -1) ....Installing package .. Finding update package ..."

I also tried the steps of uggies, to unzip AbyssNotekernel42CWTouchOriginalLogo.zip and rename bzimage as bzimage.tar, and then use odin to flash it as bootload, still see the same msg .... missing bitmap....

Please help me to understand how I can enter cwm and use adb. your help will be highly highly appreciated.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] prabhu1980:
Jamie what happened to uggies and herk is a superbrick emmc write error.

Soft bricks are usually results of improper flashing there are many varieties.

Hard bricks are those that cannot be recovered by normal methods using usb. A jtag recovery is one such solution where u have seperate bootloader and your system can be reconfigured.

Worst hard bricks are those with physical injuries or circuit damage by water entry etc..

I understand your concern of users getting confused and according to this xda forum mod emmc error is a superbrick and this guide is a emmc workaround.

But i think you are unnecesarily intervening with names rather than contributing to solution including this post. But i am requesting you to watch and contribute for emmc error users.

Indeed the above post is a classical soft brick... That was the reason we named it as superbrick... But yes uggies. .. We can probably change to superbricked note (emmc error workaround) to stay more focussed on our tasks. ...

Yes we should ignore any non technical discussions and let this be the last. ..
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] prabhu1980:
Feny looks like u have to install rom and not kernels....
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] A.S._id:
Try SpeedMod

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1443385
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] feny_lf:
Sorry ... how can I install the rom...? I'm being stuck in factoryfs.img, if using odin to flash rom ....

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Thanks, As i9000, I will try this. downlaoding the speedmod, is this because the kernel package is wrong? Looks others' experience with those kernel packages are ok .... :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Hi Feny,

I am not sure how is the situation of your phone yet but if you can still get into download mode then please try to install another kernel.tar from Bodivas post 322 of this thread page 34.

see how it goes
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] feny_lf:
Great, after flashing speedmod kernel, I can enter into cwm now.

But after enteering cwm, my "adb devices" cannot find my device .....

Sorry for bringing some many questions. I'm checking it .... any hints/help will be appreciated very much :)