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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] friedje:
The screenshot in #12 of forest shows that the kernel does reside in it's own partition and not in the same as the android system.

I was just going to suggest that he follows your guide in post 12 from the start but you were faster then I was Forest. I hope he will be ok from now on :)

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Why did you click on it in the 1st place ??

We are trying to help ppl in here, you're post adds nothing useful so be kind and flame somewhere else ;)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Also uggies:

you should copy and paste the commands (right click mouse) to the cmd window.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] MR.change:
Yes ,all galaxy phones up till now have this weird partitions ,but the s3 is said to have a recovery Separated from kernel

Which is a good thing .

Well you could try the following ,flash a stock GB kernel via Odin if you're not on one already .

Then find a thread that says (guide to root every ICS ROM) or something similar ,I'm not on my PC so you'll have to search for it .

Then download the flashable CWM.zip from that thread and push to your SD card

After that boot to recovery and flash CWM.zip ,wait a few seconds and CWM recovery should appear without the need to flash cf root.

From there flash busy box installer .zip (also from the same thread) and follow the guide to root your phone then flash cm9 from within recovery .

Note: the guide is for ics recoveries but maybe it will work on GB
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] uggies:
... I did not know that lol

Ok i will have a go, and report back ASPA

STAY TUNED PLEASE :)

Update 1: Same thing happens.

GRRR I know that i am so close but WTH is wrong ... :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] MR.change:
Indeed it does show in a separate partition ,it seems we were both wrong!

Maybe when I flashed the nandroid restore it first flashed the kernel quickly then system ,and that's how I got fooled into believing it was on system .

I do apologize .

However ,as for the kernel and recovery being merged (weird choice from Sammy),that I'm sure about .
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Can you post picture of other commands you run before getting to the parted. That may give more useful info.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] uggies:
Since removing partition 9 does not work, what if i create a new partition first and name that factoryfs, then remove the old one?

Here are the commands

Update: My CMW recovery under mounts and storage is as below

- unmount /efs

- unmount /cache

- unmount /system

- mount /data

- mount /sdcard

- mount /emmc

is anything wrong?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
No. if you do not remove it you cannot create a new partition with same name. and there is no space to create new partition before you rm factoryfs and datafs.

Maybe turn off Kies or another proramme that may interfere. And started the process from beginning (turn off cmd, unplug device from computer (better use window eject first), and reconnect) see how it goes.

Also: try to run "adb devices" first to make sure the device is connected properly under adb.

May try to unmount "system" and "data" using CWM? But I would recommend restart the process first.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] uggies:
Will do. Do you think I should unmount everything except system on recovery?

EDIT: If I unmount /system I cannot run adb shell because /system/bin/sh

With system mounted but everything eles unmounted, rm 9 still does not work

EDIT 2: By the way, whats the 12th partition, hidden, one for? Is it okay to make it smaller and make another factoryfs?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
I guess better restart the process. Last time I did with my device I only unmount cache and then I can rm partition (it was when unmount cache other partition will just unmount at the same time).

If restart does not work then unmount everything "except emmc" after you have run adb shell.

Let try one way at a time.

cheers and take your time!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] incisivekeith:
I have already gone to the point of adb shell. When I type adb shell, I get an error saying /bin/sh...no such file or directory (2). That's what I have been struggling with for a day now. I just don't know how to get rid of that message. I have tried connecting custom recovery, reinstalling kies and being in the admin mode in adb, etc. - nothing works. I am missing something and I don't know what. Can someone help?

uggies, I am excited, too, that you have made some progress. If you can solve the issue, we will have a case for solving the factoryfs problem methodically usinf adb.:) Good luck!

A crazy idea - can we not do this over skype with remote access to the someone's system, or through TeamViewer? It would be much easier for the people with know-how to help someone. I do that with family and friends when it's needed.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] cescomanto:
Hi it's fantastic like techinc operation and i think that can work but when i put: command "rm 9" parted say me The backup GPT error and i don't know what i have to do...

Fix, ignore o cancel ?

Itried to fix it and then another fix but when the i retry to remove 9 (factoryfs) he say me that is mounted (before i wrote umount /cache).

I think it is not a problem in my case because this partition is alive (ext4) and odin wark good when it write this.

So my problem in really on /data partition infact has no table (fat, ext2, ext4 ---> nothing wroted in side).

I try to bypass in your guide remove factoryfs and i pass trough the : "rm10"

But it stopped after 5% like was writing on defect sectors on hard disk...

I post screenshot...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] incisivekeith:
Were you actually able to flash CM9 through Odin? Is ICS advised at this point?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] uggies:
Let me tell you what i did to get to the ADB shell.

First off, wipe off data and system on your recovery. Then download cm9 and install it through CMW. Then reboot into recovery mode, Install busy_box installer (attached) in CMW.

View attachment SU-Busybox-Installer.zip

Go into download mode. Using odin, flash this kernel below

View attachment AbyssNotekernel42CWTouchOriginalLogo.tar

Finally, reboot into recovery and your adb shell command should work.

I dont know how is works, but it just works =)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] friedje:
The cm9 kernel is believed to be safe..
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Hi Keith: I was guessing you have not installed custom recovery so you do not have root?. Therefore adb shell not working.

If you already install abyssnote. Maybe try to install su and busybox as from the post 3 of the Dr ketan's thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1424997.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] incisivekeith:
Thanks. You had already posted the instructions, but thanks for the files. I will give it a try.

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I thought he meant CM9 ROM. My bad.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
I suggest Keith to install abyssnote kernel through odin first, then boot into recovery. From there you can install su and busy box (using update zip file function).
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] uggies:
ARGGGG THIS RM 9 is driving me crazy !!

Is factoryfs inside /system? but once I unmount system cannot run adb shell ...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] No.01:
I flashed Paranoid Android 2+ ROM, and I found the efs folder and I did the steps, and when I do dialing *#06# the imei given like this 004999010640000, it's fake.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Yes, when your efs partition is damaged during brick and the emei was lost. Since you did not have back up of efs, then flash the efs img will help provide a generic/fake emei. That emei still allow the phone to work in most network. If you have your original emei number printed in the phone box, then there seems to be a way to restore it. I have not tried yet and can not have the link now but you certainly can find it with google. Btw, does the phone work in your network with generic number?

Sending from my phone
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] redf00t:
Hi guys, sorry if my post seems stupid but before I go and attempt ^^ i want to know if my symptoms are fixable with the above.

I rooted my phone using the method at rootgalaxynote(dot)com/nocomputerequired etc etc.

The root went fine and I installed LiquidRom which also worked fine. However, I wanted to go back to Cyanogen as id used it on my Hero/Desire/SII. I installed the CM10 via CWM6 and **stupidly** wiped data and cache using the CWM. Now i can still boot into CM10 and use all the phones features, msg/phone/email etc etc but I cannot mount the internalsdcard (emmc) from within CM10 or in CWM. I get the cannot mount emmc error in CWM and the following in adb logcat:

So I guess im looking for general advice really, is the above method going to work for me? or am i buggered and need to visit a Samsung Service centre ;)

Thanks in advance for any useful info and as this is my first post thanks for all the helpful advice/walkthroughs over the years *all*
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
First important thing is your phone does not have symptom of the emmc brick bug and it is a good thing. And you certainly do not need repartition.

About the internal sdcard not recognized. It could be a problem of cm10 rom. So better change to a rom that worked for you before. Or try to go back to GB stock rom using PC odin. See how it goes. Or read the thread on cm10 to see how people deal with it. I have seen some people complaint about similar issues with cm10 rom not recognize usbstorage in a thread in q&a.

Sending from my phone
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] No.01:
I searched in Google and didn't find restoring imei for galaxy note n7000, I found just for s s2 s3 and at&t..

I found a thread about how to restore imei for Nexus by Docomo unlock sim card in the forum, but the download links given was damaged.

Do you think restoring imei by unlocking sim card will solve the issue?

If yes, plz try to give me a way to unlock it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] dhaa07:
my gal note now hardbrick:crying::crying::crying: how to solve this?i use JTAG still no change mw gal note dead:crying::crying:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Sorry to hear of your brick.

Btw, after jtag does the phone boot into download and recovery mode? The point is: if it is an emmc brick then will need repartition. I rember Sar17 has been able to revise his hardbrick phone using combination of jtag and repartition. Jtag help the phone to boot into downloadmode (maybe also recovery) and from there use repartition. Still in the worse case if jtag does nothing , then replace motherboard is the only remained option.

Sending from my phone
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] dhaa07:
Thanks for the sympathy..

This brick purely because of incorrect i want to instal custom rom Rocket MIUI but i forget to change the kernel..i use rom manager and gal note dead when wiping system in recovery, ..my gal note now in handyman service bcause warranty runs out..they tell after use jtag flash chip can"t to write..ohh so bad:(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
last time I searched for it, I didn't find a pure software solution.

The only solution I found was with jtag equipment (this seems to be standard).

I also looked into the bytes of the partition but didn't find a way to patch the imei.

Despite I don't have this problem personally, I would be very interested in a solution, because there are many people out there stuck with a generic imei.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
if you have emmc brick jtag (alone) will not help.

Repartitioning (avoiding bricked area) does the trick, which can also be done with jtag.

But it's the same procedure:

- first find where brick starts and ends (use my scanner)

- then repartition leaving the bricked area unused
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] talepkamel:
That is splendid method to fix super-brick for Samsung Galaxy Note GT-N7000
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] rman0:
hi dear guys , my note after reviving get freeze randomly.. it makes me crazy.. in sam rom its not too much.. its when i turn the wifi on..
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
Please, please, do not quote such a big post, only to add only one sentence...

Note, that the 3 seconds you might win are lost multimultimultiple times for all the other readers.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] rman0:
guys is there any solution?? anybody knows whichpart may be caused this..data,factory,cache,system???

guys i think i got some bad sector in hidden... how can i fix this?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ribou83:
Dear Forest.

First, many many thanks, my Note was dead and now he is alive !!! :good::good:

I have a question. Do you have an idea how a program (wipe) can put bad sectors on the fs of the note ? I mean, there is no hard disk inside with head wich can dammage physically the hard disk. there is no hard disk in the Note, no ? only memory. How can memory be dammaged ?

You have an idea ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Hi, in fact we haven't got a clear cut answer to this situation which has emerged in some phones after reviving from emmc brick.

The only way is to again check partition from one to 12 using dd (or the scan tools provided by hg42) to see if there is still some damage somewhere in the internal memory chip that has not been dealt with properly by re-partition. And try to use small size custom roms such as cm9 and cm10 or JB (slimbean). Another potential solution is to try dual boot (in the thread by Chuandinh in the development section) which no one seems to have tried as a solution for emmc brick before. Other than that we do not have the clues yet.

cheers.

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Thanks for letting us know it helps. It is very nice :).

About the question: Entropy512 is the expert on emmc- the internal memory chip of smart phones, and maybe will care to give more details to the questions. Overall any memory chip can get damaged in someway. In the case we are dealing with here it is a buggy (ICS stock) kernel+ in combination with a buggy chip+ and the secured erase command issued that has causes some part of the chip damaged to the point of unusable. So we just try to repartition to leave those area unused.

cheers.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] rman0:
tnx dear forest.. in e2fsck order.. in partition 10 i got so many things come up and said fix.. and in dd order every things are fine.. are u agree to repartition.. i got 3.7 gb from 11.9...:(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] itsraining2008:
Still randomly freeze with manual method

After revive my bricked note i got randomly freeze while join wifi or open some apps which using internet:confused:. Before that I use ready made by hg42.

here my result.

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 4215MB 6363MB 2147MB ext4 DATAFS

11 6363MB 15.2GB 8854MB fat32 UMS

12 15.2GB 15.8GB 537MB ext4 HIDDEN

I also try manual method after randomly freeze. manual method still randomly freeze my note:confused:. don't know which block sector is damage. I also scan partitions 7,9,10,11 for errors. Can I re-partition all 12 partition?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Hi,

e2fsck help fix minor issues in memory and make the memory more optimal. Still, so far it does not seem to help with the freeze problem.

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We are not sure if further repartition will help, since we do not know clearly the cause of the problem yet. Still, you can try with some more partition since it is reversible.

Among the partition we have done repartition from cache upward.

I believe it is safe to also repartition from kernel partition up. Then you need to flash kernel using odin.

SBL1 and SBL2 seem to be needed for the phone to boot so we should not touch. We do not know what Param partition does, so should leave it alone too.

In the case the phone failed to boot you will need jtag. cheers.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] cowen1000:
hi guys. sorted my note before by sorting the partitions with a lot of help from forest1971. would the same technique work on s5360 young and if so can i use the same kernel as the note?

cheers in advance
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
There are few issues here:

- are you sure it is the same problem and need repartition?

- kernel should be different. Still, you only need parted. It is part of the busybox, so if you have root and busybox installed in your s5360 then you can use parted (no need those kernel for Notes). Also the location of the internal memory maybe the same or different. Nevertheless, using the procedure to print partition and scan does not harm the phone so you can try.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] prabhu1980:
Dear Forest1971 and hg42,

Look at this interesting thread ...

http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f63...amming-error-0x000000000000-solution-1508808/

Prabhu
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] amirhashim:
I've tried dual boot solution and it helps with the RANDOM FREEZING but the extrernal rom is kinda laggy! sometimes it hangs for a couple of seconds, the question is how can i speed up my ext SD!!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Thanks for sharing experience. It will be very helpful if this it could provide a way out for the random freeze issue some people encounter after revival from emmc brick.

If I understand correctly in the dual boot setup the alternate rom can be put on the internal sdcard partition. Then it should work normally in term of speed. The dual boot kernel will allow us to ignore the former system and data partition (which are damaged), just use only the internal sdcard partition for the alternate rom.

Would appreciate further trying and sharing of this solution. cheers.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] amirhashim:
thereini for

i'm gonna try that and get back to you with the results (but till now i've never had a force close with the rom installed on my EXT sd (AOKP JB M1).
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] amirhashim:
No luck! it just keep on hanging , i think the brick is just moving all over the EMMC

i'm gonna stick to my rom installed on the EXT SD. it's stable and there's no freezing
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Thanks for updating. I think you are right about extensive damage in emmc in this case. This seems to indicate that for some cases of emmc bricks, apart from the unusable damage area (that has been left unused by repartition) there is also extensive minor damage areas (still usable but not reliable anymore) affecting all major partitions of internal emmc, causing random freeze.

At least, it is good to know that the solution of using external sdcard to hold alternate rom seems to provide a stable working phone. Maybe you can try some small-size custom roms to see if it helps at all with lagging problem. Also, different kind of external card may have different speed.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] amirhashim:
actually only the light roms are working fine i.e. (AOSP,AOKP,CM) other TW roms are very slow.

i'll try to get a better SD card,perhaps some one could advise one!!

and thanks for your work. if it wasn't for your hard work my GN would have been dead till now ;)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] prabhu1980:
Resurrection using JTag is not possible at the moment but when someone posted a workaround like this, it gives a hope. People like Adam Outler shall help.

http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f63...amming-error-0x000000000000-solution-1508808/

@ AMIRHASHIM

TRY INCREASING THE SD CARD SPEED USING THIS

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1010807
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] diamondheart:
Please Help me

My bricked Note is running fine on ICS DDLR9 with hydracore standard kernel. At first it was fine for two week, later it freeze when I try to copy anything to internal storage, open task manager like that freeze a lot.

When I run your command to check the partitions 7,9,10 and 11 it don't freeze. I tried to repair bad blocks with your command, and get this

e2fsck -f -c -y /dev/block/mmcblk0p10

e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)

/dev/block/mmcblk0p10: recovering journal

/dev/block/mmcblk0p10: Updating bad block inode.

Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes

Pass 2: Checking directory structure

Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity

Pass 4: Checking reference counts

Pass 5: Checking group summary information

/dev/block/mmcblk0p10: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****

/dev/block/mmcblk0p10: 8319/131072 files (2.5% non-contiguous), 291412/524288 bl

ocks

Show same pass 1 to 5 for partition 7 and 9 so I don't describes them below for clarity

~ # e2fsck -f -c -y /dev/block/mmcblk0p7

/dev/block/mmcblk0p7: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****

/dev/block/mmcblk0p7: 15/12800 files (0.0% non-contiguous), 1869/51200 blocks

~ # e2fsck -f -c -y /dev/block/mmcblk0p9

e2fsck -f -c -y /dev/block/mmcblk0p9

/dev/block/mmcblk0p9: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****

/dev/block/mmcblk0p9: 2083/54544 files (0.4% non-contiguous), 205621/218112 bloc

ks

I don't know the blocks are fine or not. Do I need repartition ? Please help me.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
First of all from the symptom I could say it is not a case of emmc brick.

About the freeze when access internal sdcard: i cant tell what causs the problem yet. Should try to back up content and then reformat internal sdcard using android system or cwm. See if it helps. Should make sure using a safe kernel to avoid the emmc brick bug. The results of e2fsck looks ok. No need repartition yet.

Sending from my phone
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] diamondheart:
I forgot to mention my note is partitioned with a modified pit file, internal storage is 9GB. Sometimes it freeze randomly, when it happen I restart it with holding power button for 7 seconds, after it boot up, it freeze after awhile. Sometime I need to restart up to 3 times for it to function properly, then it run like normal again. And It freeze when I try to flash kernel from cwm recovery in most of the time. Please give me some advice.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] forest1971:
Ok. So this fall into the categories of the cases that has random freeze issue after reviving from emmc brick using repartition. So far we do not know the exact reason yet. People have tried to change to lightweight custom roms and sometime it seems to help. Also, try to use dd to scan all partitions again to make sure the are ok. GL.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] suvasishngn:
forest1971

thanks for ur all usefull thread. now i had serious problem with my galaxy note n7000. it was running in ics 4.0.4 N7000XXLRK_N7000XXLRK_N7000XEULP5 ROM. then to install AOKP jelly bean rom i rooted it with CWM then installed it .but it stucks on recovery screen (shows CSC error). then i flashed by odin to a gingerbread room N7000XXLA6_N7000OXXLA1_N7000XXLA4 rom. After that odin flashed it completely but it stucks on recovery shows E:error in /cache/recovery/sec_csc.zip(status 7) Installation aborted. after that i tried several times but all in vain. then from ur previous thread i enter adb shell command & try to repartition & found error in block 10.then again repartition it successfully by entering following code

Option 4:

Code:

(parted) mkpart primary 9216 10109.386752

(parted) mkpart primary 10109.386752 12256.8704

(parted) mkpartfs primary fat32 12256.8704 15200

then i double checked & found ok. I cant delete partion 12 as no instruction. after that i again flash GB room via ODIN. same result persist.i dont know what to do. Plse help me