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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] cowen1000:
i think i love you FOREST!LOL

im now running on chinese 4.0.3 and loving it! thanks bro coz its mainly down to you :)

ok, after redoing the rm 9,10,11 i looked into the PIT thing. hg42 thread made no sence to a noob like me so i googled and that lead me back to this thread and page 92 and i followed what vedudnur did. loaded the abbys kernel but i still needed thePIT n ROM so i googled some more and got this:

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

but that ROM is still downloading now and its been 3 hours so read all the posts on the above link n it took me to here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1659308

first i tried with the patched pit at the top and the ROM but it failed to access line 1876 so going back to my computer head i thought this was due to mounting issues, so mounted all the partitions and changed the patched pit for the standard 16gb PIT and here we are, 4.0.3 and its a massive improvement im over the moon. data storage looks fine too. system 281mb/1.97gb, usb 6.72mb/11.08gb. im just worried about rooting it now as instructed on the xda link above lol

whats ur paypal so i can make a donation please forest.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Wow, finally you made it :).

Thanks a lot for your kind intention. The pleasure of sharing good feeling of success of a joined work is already much rewarding for me. So no worries.

btw, I did provide the link from android.gs that you mentioned at the top of my guide. Perhaps the letter need to be bold to make it even easier to locate.

cheers.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] cowen1000:
btw, I did provide the link from android.gs that you mentioned at the top of my guide. Perhaps the letter need to be bold to make it even easier to locate.

cheers.[/QUOTE]

or i need glasses and to take my time reading posts :). it been a real pleasure forest, thank you very very much my friend, i have another note that im going to try this on but i need a rest first!!lol :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] mrcasmir:
or i need glasses and to take my time reading posts :). it been a real pleasure forest, thank you very very much my friend, i have another note that im going to try this on but i need a rest first!!lol :)[/QUOTE]

SO I have tried all these and sucessfully created all partitions and flashed a rom but anytime I tried to install something, my phone FREEZES and I will have to reset, it is damn annoying. Now I have decided to send it back to Samsung, what do I need to do in order to get rid of any traces that might be left on the phone.

I have done these

Reset flash counter with Triangle away

I will set it back to original partition mapping

flash a stock ROM

but my problem is whenever I go into recovery mode, I get

# MANUAL MODE #

-- Applying Multi-CSC...

Applied the CSC-code : XME

Successfully applied multi-CSC

Is anyone away of how to get rid of this because it doesnt use to appear there before. Thanks guys
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] crazyut:
Not sure if I can odin a stock rom of any sort yet but following your instructions, I was able to CWM Xtralite. Now, all I have to do is get the jig and reset the counter/triangle and it'll be like new (not now as I had previously typed). THANK YOU SO MUCH!

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As stated previously, I was able to get Xtralite (the GB one) to run successfully. Has anyone then used either ODIN or MOBILE ODIN PRO to put a stock GB or ICS rom after doing this? I stuck to the original instructions of flashing a custom GB ROM. I will check through other posts (the 940+ at work in a few hours where I have faster and more reliable internet to see about the ODIN flashing).
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Good to see you made it, and seemed like without any troubles :D!.

About the yellow triangle you can try installing a CM9 rom then use the "Triangle Away" application from Chainfire (search in the forum) to handle it in an easier way then Jig. This application does not work with GB, but will work with CM9 and other ICS roms.

About Odin: It was suggested by hg42 that if we can keep the size of the new partitions 9 and 10 the same as the original partitions then odin should work with stock rom.tar. This indeed will need testing and it will help a lot if you can do it.

cheers!

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It was suggested in some threads that random freeze, restart phone is probably dues to bad blocks still reside somewhere in the data partition. Also in some cases the damage seem to be done in larger area and larger extend that cause the phone to not function well. Those cases certainly need help from SS service.

About the messages: have you tried to flash a stock kernel from a original rom yet. I guess (yes, just guessing) it should go away if a correct kernel/recovery (original for the country that the phone is distributed) is put in place. the correct rom/kernel can be found in the Dr.kentan's thread. cheers.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] crazyut:
Yes sir, perfect instruction even accounting for all the weird errors.

As for CM9, one such as KANG at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1650413 or the one here called

Ganbarou at , http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1673975

If I prefer a stock rom, is ZSLPF (N7000_CODE_N7000ZSLPF_CL558430_REV02_user_low_ship.tar) safe to use and will it work with Triangle Away?

Or, is there a better one you can recommend?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
In term of good use I hear good feedback about Paranoid android rom. As for using triangle away any ics rom will do. Cheers.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] crazyut:
I forgot to ask or clarify if I should use ODIN to put on a ICS stock or otherwise or use Mobile Odin Pro to do it. Sorry, I got 4 hours sleep doing this but it was so worth it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
It should be ok to try it. Using mobile odin is better option. Also take good care to prevent the buggy kernel from doing damage. I would stay away from stock ics if I root and change roms often. Cheers.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] crazyut:
Thank you so much again! Your solution worked; your rom recommendation worked, and the Triangle Away worked! I wanna have your baby LOL!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] betoNL:
subscribing, just in case,:rolleyes:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] azrulnizam84:
Love my NOTE!

I revive my Note again after super-bricked it..THANKS bro..!!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Thanks for sharing good news! It's very nice :).
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] metalcerb:
Finally my note is ready. I don't know which android version samsung service install, but i need root ( is indispensable for me ). Can anyone say one way to have root and a full secure note ? Is possible use a sammy ics with root and without problemas with wipe data/factory ?

Sorry with my bad English.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] :
Use franco r6 or chainfire cf root 5.6! Both are safe from the bug :D

No bricks reported so far!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] travis82:
a note,

After im done repartitioning my card how i want it ex.. 1gb system 2gb apps 12.5gb sdcard, i dont have a bard emmc chip now i just redid the tables, after you write the tables in parted if you just flash a stock gb rom and when recovery comes up factory reset it it makes it all ext4. Just to save you guys the typing.

I redid my partitions and added the extra space to sdcard and have 12.5gb usable now.

Thanks for the guide.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] SNYD:
Hi Forest my Hero thanks your tutorial I revive my note but I have a last question I install a stock version (LQ2) but sometimes the Note freeze for any reason. I think I have again some problem with bad section in the SD Card. This a printscreen of my repartition area. Do you think I need do change the block?

Thanks !! ;-)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Thanks for sharing a new solution. This is very nice!

btw: it looks like you could flash stock using odin. Would much appreciate if you could confirm on this point, since some people feedback that using odin to flash stock rom.tar does not work for them. So it will help much for understanding this issue.

cheers.

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Yes, it seems some people have encounter this issue after recovered from brick with re-partition. I guess there can be two things:

1. It may be rom related. so should change the rom and see if it helps at all.

2. try to scan the partition (while under adb shell as described in the guide) using e2fsck for ext4 partitions and parted for fat32 partition. It seems parted does not make a thorough scan, though. Another option to scan sdcard (UMS) is to mount is to PC (mount usb storage while running android system or CWM). For example if it appear in PC as drive e: then from PC run:

cmd

and under cmd run:

chkdsk e:

it will scan the fat32 system file and report if there are errors.

btw, feel free to raise any questions. It's my pleasures indeed to help, if I can.

cheers.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] SNYD:
Thanks a lot I will try when I'll be with my laptop What can I do if the scan reveals some errors?

Thanks again for your help
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] travis82:
Yea I can flash stock or any rom for that matter. I just wanted bigger partitions and more sdcard space. I'm tryn to make it format ext2/4 on the ums and keep it like that to see if i can still read it in windows.

ps. How do you extract the new pit you made i bricked a second note (purposely) to play with the partition tables and try to isolate the bad sector area.

Or maybe one of you can make a pit based on this screenshot so far i flashed with odin it boots and go's thru no issues. going to see if windows can scan the sdcard and show if it has bad sectors or not and fill it up.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
It is an interesting approach.

If you already can flash using odin then the custom may not be PIT necessary. if you need to use them, just download the PIT file made by hg42 from his thread then unzip and choose a suitable PIT file in there (after doing scan of partition should be able to locate where the faulty blocks is roughly).

btw, it is the factoryfs and datafs and cache partition that should be checked using e2fsck tool with the commands line as in the guide. Checking sdcard partition is not so important and the tool is still not so good yet. it only scan the file that are already there in the sdcard (without scan for all blocks) so there is good chance it can still miss faulty block if it has not been used.

Another thing, if you have remove hidden partition 12 and the phone is still install and work well then we can recommend to others so that can claim more space (>500mb of space-not so much though).

cheers,
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] travis82:
hidden is not needed at all. You can remove it and reclaim the space for ums.

The pit i have created now, so far everything seems normal just more space in ums.

First brick i had this was bad here : 9 281MB 1174MB 893MB ext4 FACTORYFS

So i just wiped partitions 9-12. I ran e2fsck on them all after I re-created them how I wanted it complained to do it manually ignored it. Put the phone in odin loaded up a stock firmware flashed and it took it.

Also if that doesn't work out for you like myself you can just skip the 281-1174 range on the card and begin the system partition at 1174 and only lose a gb of space not 3gb like these pits have that hg42 made.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Yes, this is the plus of the manual partition way, which allow more control over the partitions and using tools for scanning of partitions and locating faulty areas.

btw, you mentioned "The pit i have created now" you just mean the new partition layout or you could make the custom PIT itself?

cheers,
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] travis82:
The one on the phone now. I don't know how to extract the pit file off my phone, or I would make two different pits for the people here to try out.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
I do not know how to make custom PIT files. So it would be nice if you can make some other version different from the files already produced by hg42 to be used for different cases.

Still it is good to confirm the following:

1. Partition 12 (hidden) is not necessary for normal flashing and using phone (perhaps it is used by SS to restore the phone in some conditions). So it could be removed to give more room for ums partition.

2. we could flash rom.tar using odin even with the different size of partitions factoryfs and datafs.

Please correct me if I am wrong or miss something in the above two points.

cheers,
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] travis82:
1. Yea its just for restore purposes used by Samsung. If you are flashing roms its not needed.

2. Yea you can, just don't put a pit file in there or tick repartition.

Also if you are only going to run aosp you can shrink your system partition to 512mb and apps to the same and get about a 14+gb usable ums partition for photos and music and movies.

But if you try to flash a Samsung rom through odin it will fail not enough space.

So I recommend the Partition scheme I have above so you can flash official or aosp.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Thanks for the confirmation. This is extremely helpful! I will update some notes in the Guide.

cheers,
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] travis82:
Here is the PIT file I extracted from my phone. It should match the table layout in the screenshot here.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Nice! will be useful for people who have no problem with partition and but want to get a bigger sdcard partition.

thanks,
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] apurvapatel:
Quick update... I bricked my SGN and managed to get the binary counter upto 20+. Every time I partitioned my phone and installed a ROM, it would generate more bad sectors. Finally I decided to reset my binary counter with ICSKernelTest.tar and send it to Samsung Service Center to claim warranty.

I basically removed all traces of root with SU-Uninstaller-Signed.zip and all partitions from the phone (9, 10 and 11), flashed a stock ICS kernel (to remove custom kernel logos) and gave them for repairs yesterday. With the binary count showing 0 and custom rom showing "no", they are repairing my SGN. I just got a call from them that they too cant "upgrade" the software and might have to change the board. Which will take about a week since they dont stock it. Lets see how it goes further.

I would like to add that from my experience with the SSC, they basically boot into the download mode and check the binary counter and the "Custom ROM" to see if its stock ROM or not. As long as they see "0" and "No", they would repair it under warranty.

Apurva
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] florexus:
Thanks so much for this forest1971 !

My Galaxy Note is back now. Even though it made me bought an HTC One X. Hahaha!

My advice for it to make easier and no need to convert ext2 to ext4, is to format each on recovery. It will automatically convert from ext2 to ext4. I did this because I can't manually convert it, it's giving an error.

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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That's great!!! Can you share the link for icskerneltest.tar?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] apurvapatel:
Its called the Angelom 1.2 brick kernel and it can be downloaded from here

Flash the kernel using pc odin. After the reboot, shut down and restart again and then Yellow triangle and the binary counter should be gone.

I flashed a stock kernel over it to get rid of any traces of previous custom kernels, including the ICSKernelTest.tar (boot animations and likes.)

Apurva
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] florexus:
Thanks. Will it affect a running GB rom?

Update:

Got the answer. It will break a working device. It can only be used if you loss the last bit of your patience. :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] apurvapatel:
yup, seems its only for ICS. I had read in some other thread that it can hard brick your soft bricked phone. Use ICSKernelTest.rar at your own risk.

It worked for me. :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] crazyut:
My friend followed your instructions to the letter except she did a rm 12

She recreated the 12 partition (HIDDEN) but it shows as EXT2 and when she tries the commands to convert, it gets the error as mentioned for the other other partition but the mount command does not work

I took the code for 9 partition and replaced 9 with 12 to show you what she attempted to do

Code:

(parted) quit

~ # tune2fs -j /dev/block/mmcblk0p12

~ # e2fsck -fDp /dev/block/mmcblk0p12

~ # tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index /dev/block/mmcblk0p12

~ # e2fsck -fDp /dev/block/mmcblk0p12

If e2fsck complains that it needs to be run manually, you should omit the -p flag. This happened to me the second time I ran through this process, but the first time it did not. I'm not entirely sure why. In that case, the e2fsck commands simply become:

Code:

~ # e2fsck -fD /dev/block/mmcblk0p12

Which will cause it to ask if you want to fix the group descriptors. Just answer 'Y' and let it run through.

------

Note: If you encounter an error like this:

"ext2fs_check_if_mount: Can't check if filesystem is mounted due to missing mtab

file while determining whether /dev/block/mmcblk0p12 is mounted."

then try

code:

~ # mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p12 /hidden

Then continue to run the code for conversion.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] crazyut:
Which stock kernel did you use? Could you provide the link to the stock kernel?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] SNYD:
Thank you everybody for your help but I think I will give up I try everything but the phone continue to freeze with any roms. after few minutes and installation of some apps suddenly the apps stop and the phone freeze I'm sure it is a bad block problem but I dont know how I can solve it...

I'm sad because I think my phone was alive but not because these freezes are very strange
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] incisivekeith:
Wow, NO! What did you do before that? How are you on battery?

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Thanks.

I am going to flash a stock KJ4 kernel and then, flash a stock GB KJ4 ROM. Should I flash a PIT file with any of them?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] nitrate:
i formatted /DATA, /SYSTEM, /CACHE, /EMMC, wiped Dalvik Cache and Battery Stats

all of these were working with "DONE" or "wiped". After that i took battery out and back in, restarted into Download Mode and used to flash using PIT file and GB Firmware via PC ODIN. PIT file flashing took too long, so i disconnected the phone from USB. I took battery out, turned it back in and now it doesn't turn on anymore...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] incisivekeith:
/EMMC....

Forest and Pariah both said never to wipe /emmc a few moments ago. I hope there is a solution to this.

Did you flash a stock matching kernel as Forest suggested before flashing your stock GB firmware? Do you think the PIT file could be the cause?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] uggies:
Wiping /data and /system was ok..

So I decided to have a go at GB ROMs. Installed Abyssnote 4.2 Kernel first, then tried to install Stock GB ROM and it failed.

I never got a fail like this before, but it used to hang on the edge of factoryfs. I think it is the PIT problem
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] uggies:
... I really hope there is a way out of there
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] incisivekeith:
Forest suggested to flash a stock matching kernel before flashing a stock GB ROM, and he was quite bent on not missing this step (a few posts above in response to my post).

What do you mean by the PIT problem? Do you think you should have flashed it with the ROM? I haven't flashed the KJ4 kernel and ROM yet, but wondering if I should flash a PIT file with either of those.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] RealPariah:
Once you wipe emmc (internal storage / sd)) you fried (wiped some low level boot data that us written only by OEM flash machine or riff box) it you now need riff box or file for warranty exchange.

I CAN'T SAY IT ENOUGH NEVER WIPE EMMC OR INTERNAL STORAGE EVER WITHOUT A RIFF BOX HANDY, PERIOD.

Sent from my SGH-T989 using Xparent Green Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] nitrate:
I will send my Note to Samsung Service Center tomorrow. I just hope they don't realize that there isn't the original kernel installed. But i will see if they return the device fixed or not...

Stay tuned.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] incisivekeith:
I am quite sorry to hear that. I am planning to send my device to Samsung, too, if adb or the flashing of the stock kernel and firmware do not work out.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] RealPariah:
Go through carrier, Tmobile sends me phone then I send mine back in box with new label (get phone in 2 days and they wait for defective device that way). You should be able to warranty exchange via carrier (should) still.

Sent from my SGH-T989 using Xparent Green Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] uggies:
Yea tried with PIT, now it hangs on the edge of the factoryfs as usual. The parted way is the only way for me i guess
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] nitrate:
i just had the original 2.3.6 rom installed, updated to 4.0.3 XXLPY (DBT) and figured out that the media scanner isn't working after updating to ICS. So i made a factory reset and since this point it isn't working anymore. The ROM was rooted but that was all - nothing more. I installed CWM later in hope to fix the soft-brick. But now it made everything just more worse than anything else.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] MR.change:
I thought I made it clear that the emmc can respond after a while

First you should never format system and emmc as they contain the bootloader and kernel ,I don't know how you managed to reboot after that (never reboot after formating those ,EVER) but then you took another blind shot by flashing a pit file which any dev would tell you is asking for trouble.

I told you ,once your emmc respond ,you should flash from CWM (from a safe kernel),a nandroid restore would probably have worked just fine.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] nitrate:
well, my Galaxy Note phone was a price at a Samsung competition. I didn't get it from my carrier.

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btw: would be nice if fixing using SETool 3 Box could revive my phone because i have such a box at home. But i'm currently not at home...

RIFF JTAG box is expensive
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] MR.change:
Whaaat ? How did you manage to unbrick it?

And second, whaaaaat the **** did you just do? Have some mercy on your note for crying out loud

You realise what you just did ? You just got super lucky and brought the phone back from a super brick only to send it into a hard brick (by flashing a pit file)and then somehow recover it again!

Only to send it back to a super brick a third time!!!

Why the hell did you hard reset on LPY ? Its the main cause of super bricks.

I'm just speechless at this,really
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] RealPariah:
Updating to ICS from GB without first wiping (using darkside super wipe which is cleaner than manually and does disk alignment works on s2 haven't tried others look for equivalent) as there is a difference between factory reset or doing it manually in custom recovery.

ICS and GB do not play well together if all you have is manual wipe in recovery do it 3x to data system and cache and under advanced 3 times to dalvick cache then flash ICS zip via recovery.

Use titanium backup or equivalent for user apps and their data only (no system settings or data) if you wish to preserve what you have now.

Of course this is advice and I am not to be held responsible for what you choose to do with your own personal device, ever. Always run nandroid (or other image based backup if it applies) as well as app based backups (like titanium) and be sure to always read all information before attempting anything!

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