[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] G0bble:
SOS: Bricked my GT-N7000 - help me please!

Greetings folks,

I was a happy user of CM 10.1 on my Samsung note for a few weeks.

I first rooted using PhilZ-cwm6–signed.zip described on droidviews and was thrilled when I finally got CM 10.1 working. The last few weeks felt like I had a new phone. I was happy like I found a new girl in my life...

Today I was multitasking heavily - watching T.V, sipping beer and tapping around my phone absent mindedly... landed in the "about phone" menu, decided to check if a stable release of CM 10.1 was found .. no luck, was pleasantly high on beer, unthinkingly found the latest nightly build, forgot the elaborate steps to update ROM and used the update method from the about phone settings menu. The phone refused to boot ... or booted once in 3 attempts when connected to a power source, (samsung logo then blank) and refused to go into recovery mode <panic> removed battery and restarted <whew!> it booted to CM 10.2 android 4.3. Then panicked again as the phone app was not working. What use a phone that does not dial.. tried installing CWM from google store, it no longer not recognized wifi or 3g.. browser worked... downloaded alternate store app, installed CWM. Doesnt load.. crashes. Found another ROM manager, (cant recall the name now - the one with 12000 5 stars on droid forums etc), the free version is useless - it does not allow me to flash after selecting the older CM 10.1 via file manager. cleared dalvik and data cache rebooted, phone was now working,replaced dock phone app with phone app from applications and everything was fine. But my discomfort with the nightly 10.2 release was now too much. I wanted to downgrade to the 10.1 nightly from Aug 13th which ran nice for a few weeks.

Now I decided I had to try the heimdall method - ran "sudo heimdall flash --kernel PhilZ-cwm6-DDLSC-ODD-4.93.6-signed.zip --no-reboot". Successful transfer. Reboot hangs with Samsung Logo and Yellow Triangle. Spent hours googling about yellow triangle and discovered its my flash count. But the various Internet posts tell me I should be able to boot with yellow triangle and install the YT app from google app store and reset the flash counter. It appears to be a seperate isue from the boot freeze.

I tried a stock GB ROM N7000XXLPY_N7000OXALPY_DBT.zip as well as SGN_XX_OXA_KJ1_FACTORYFS.zip no luck... the flash counter is now up to 11 now after repeat attempts at heimdall.

Guys - what to do? If I take it to Samsung store can they fix with an official image re-install? The phone is 2+ years old and out of warranty. Once they fix I can root again and get back to CM10.1 nightly that worked. But will they do it? How much do they charge typically?

Or is there hope with some method with usb download flashing of some custom ROM? I beleive I read about a kernel that resets the counter, but its 3:30am here and many frustrating hours and I am too sleepy to read 100+ pages of this thread.

Can somebody who is an old hand on this thread help me summarize what I can try so I can wake up and attempt it first thing in the morning a few hours from now? I am so sad... the phone is too expensive to lose ... :(

Please help guys...

G0bble