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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] shoey63:
Thanks mate - good to know:good: Must have done things right (warranty wise) coz grey retailer Kogan has advised me phone is already on its way back to me:) Sent it only 6 days ago! :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] petr_1:
Thanks!

Thank you, hg42, a lot!!! My i9100 is now back to life!!!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] kenninaz:
Thanks! I managed to revive my Note, albeit with 3GB of space lost.

Details:

1. ODIN flashed N7000_16GB_Q1_20110914-patched-standard.pit

2. ODIN flashed official stock ROM DXLP9 (took a tad bit longer to run factoryfs.img but worked in the end)

Everything is back to stock, however GPS is no longer working. Takes forever and doesn't lock on! :( Any idea why?

Also, what do i do next if I want to regain the lost space?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] shoey63:
The "lost space" contains irrecoverable damaged sectors caused by brickbug, That's why partitions have been re-sized and moved in front of it. Only new MoBo can give all space back. You could try "regain" PIT files to reduce lost space, but why go thru the hassle? Just get new Mobo under warranty (after removing flashing and rooting evidence - if u have warranty) or get huge external SD card to compensate.

Only my opinion tho - hg42 will no doubt correct me if I'm wrong;)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
Isn't that an unsafe kernel (stock ics)?

Don't get a brick again!

should be independent of brick
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Demetris:
Please can you do a pit for Samsung Vibrant T959, thanks

http://files.androidspin.com/downlo...in/samsung/vibrant/&file=s1_odin_20100512.rar

http://sourceforge.net/projects/stockodinjfd/files/s1_odin_20100512.pit/download

Vibrant comes standard with 16Gb MMC.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
I can only create PITs, if you send me your stock PIT and say which partitions is bricked in your phone (first block is enough, use emmc check app from Play Store) and if you know which partitions are usually bricked.

I also need to know which PIT variants exist for this phone model (e.g. the Galaxy Note PITs exists in 16GB and 32GB).

I would prefer posting these PIT and information here.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Demetris:
Its same as I9000,Captivate,Vibrant. We all have /data 2gb 1.87GB left and /emmc 14gb 13.03gb left emmc bricked from ics defect erase bug
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
ok,

do I read this right, you have the exact same stock PIT for all these?

then please attach this stock PIT.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Demetris:
I already did 3 threads above :)

Can i ask, we dont have any access to dev/block/emmcblk0 and we can't use parted or e2fsck.

Is this fixable with this?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] kenninaz:
Yea definitely sending it in for warranty claim, minus all evidence of rooting and flashing of course! My Note is running again now as stock and unrooted. Flashing can only be checked through the yellow triangle or the "Custom Binary Download", right? Mine is stated as a "No".

---------- Post added at 06:07 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:04 PM ----------

You mean to say this official stock ROM is unstable?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
I don't know especially about this ROM (my variant is XXLPY etc.).

But if you think, you are safe with stock ics kernels, your thinking the wrong way.

Stock ics was the cause of the emmc brick, the custom kernels were the first to workaround this firmware bug in the flash chip.

I heard Samsung now starts delivering some safe kernels (ROMs) but I didn't check myself lately.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
ok, did you edit your post? My xda app didn't show the links, when I read your post first.

what exactly is "no access"?

The emmc brick normally freezes the flash chip if you access any of the bad blocks.

parted, e2fsck access some parts, so they can indeed freeze. It depends on which operations freeze.

E.g. if your first partition isn't bricked, you should be able to access it:

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 of=/dev/null

My time is very limited...I hope I can create these PITs this evening or perhaps tomorrow.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] itsraining2008:
FTW!

You Rock \m/ hg42

You thread save me from brick :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Demetris:
No /dev/block/emmcblk0 means no emmcblkp01 or emmcblkp02 that are /data and /emmc respectively.

Emmc reports busy and nothing is mounted.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
what about the second link? no PIT there?

Anyways, I have currently three different pits:

s1_odin_20100512.pit

s1_odin_20100513.pit

s1_odin_20100803.pit

which are a bit different.

Then assuming the same size for a block like for the N7000, I get sizes of around 750 kB for factoryfs and around 370 kB for dbdatafs, which looks strange to me. Either the block size is different or the table is very curious.

Also don't you have an UMS partition (internal sd), where you can store user data?

What is the size of your internal flash memory?

I need to relate the sizes of the PIT table to the real sizes.

If possible, can you give me a log of

parted /dev/block/mmcblk0 print

please? If not possible to get from your own phone then perhaps from another phone of the same model or some listing retrieved from www.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Demetris:
This is the pit file you must mod.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/stockodinjfd/files/s1_odin_20100512.pit/download

C:\adb>adb shell

~ # parted /dev/block/mmcblk0 print

parted /dev/block/mmcblk0 print

Model: MMC MAG8DE (sd/mmc)

Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 16.0GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags

1 32.8kB 14.0GB 14.0GB primary fat32 lba

2 14.0GB 16.0GB 2013MB primary ext4 lba

~ #

This is what you have asked from a working phone, but with CM7 on it :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
what about the others? are they still used? in which cases?

but looks like this doesn't matter any more...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] speterlau:
I have successfully revived my phone, thanks! one question, When one day i want to make some changes, do i need to check the re-partition option and place a pit file again to flash kernel or rom via odin?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
the phone behaves like any other...

Mainly two things are different:

1. you have a smaller internal sd

2. you cannot flash a stock pit

A new stock pit will probably only become necessary if some rom is too big for current partition sizes.

The partition sizes of the sgn seem to be big enough, though.

If a new PIT would be needed, we would have to patch this one again.

Btw. I make changes to my phone all the time, meaning flashing roms, installing kernels etc. that's all working perfectly sibce reviving my sgn.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] adeewijaya32:
mr hg42, why my note keep on freezing when downloading (be it apps from market, or downloading email attachment? is it rom related, or else sir?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Oscar_david:
I've had similar issues and wondered whether it's related to having revived my phone through this method as well. Mine mostly freezes while downloading from Amazon App Market. I posted the issue on the forum for the ROM I use (AOKP), the replies I got suggest no one else is experiencing these issues.

I'm glad to have use of my phone due to this thread. But I am Curious if the download issue might be related.

cheers.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Bezeq:
Hi everyone, I am having issue, with i9000. Each time i try to flash any kind of ROM via ODIN and getting errors, the ODIN part always successul but when phone starting to extract files, he says "cant mount E: \data (invalid argument)

Via CWM i can mount the internal SDCARD and i can see folders and files, but doesnt metter what i will do, format or delete or copy new files, after CWM restart all files remains, like i never touched them, if i scan memory with HDTUNE it gives me alot of bad blocks. Is there any way to install rom in to external sd card?, ive tryed to remove partitions with adb shell. but its just remain same x_x
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
Reading or writing a damaged block will freeze the phone.

This may imply, you still have bad blocks in your partitions.

Downloading should go to internal sd, or sometimes it may write to the cache partition.

It is indeed possible that parts of internal sd were bricked, too.

If you are able to use adb, you should try

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p11 of=/dev/null

to check, if you have bricked blocks inside ums partition.

If this freezes (wait 60 min for it), you should use ums-bricked pits.

From all I know, a correctly revived phone shouldn't freeze, because damaged blocks are not used any more.

Apart from that, there are other reasons for freezing, not belonging to emmc brick. This is why I say, you should better use a known good rom first, to be sure the rom works well itself.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
I don't really understand the odin sentence. Do you get this error in odin?

I think, you can use

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 of=/dev/null

to check the ums partition, and

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 of=/dev/null

to check the data partition.

If both finish with a message about read bytes (to be sure give the first 60 min, the second 30 min), the partitions don't have a brick inside and you will have another problem, like corrupted partition structure. But not being able to format a partition may indeed imply bricked blocks inside.

Did you remove partitions in adb and recreate them at a different place? Simply removing and recreating at the same place doesn't help.

You have to create the partitions outside of bad block areas.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] omen-am:
Hi

My system memory is showing 1.97 and USB memory 11.08 on a 16GB version. Do you think guys this is normal?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
please read thread starter before asking...

In short: yes, 11 GB is stock.

Also, a brick wouldn't change these values.

But the 11GB size would be reduced when repartitioning with the brick work around by this pit method or manual method.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] adeewijaya32:
sorry mr hg42, how can i proceed to ums partitioning? isi it

-i need to flash the standard pit

-then use ums pit, start from lowest?

-i dont quite understand on ur part to check factoryfs doesnt fail

what i did;

-i flashed the ums pit, and total internal storage went missing

-flashed cm9, still freeze when downloading

where am i doing wrong? T_T
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
read section pit files for bricked ums partition in first post...

I described in detail what to do. It's an iterative process. Because you don't know what is your last bricked block, you have to find out by trying.

I don't understand this sentence, can you say it in another way?

please be more exact: what do you mean by "missing"?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] adeewijaya32:
Thank you for ur reply sir, I do read ur guide in the pinned post, n noted the iterative process, but don't quite understand on how to firm the successive pit flashed, do I need to flash a from using Odin to write the factoryfs?

I manage to load the cm9 paranoid android, n found no internal storage available/detected

Thank u for ur attention sir
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
* flash PIT
* flash any FACTORYFS via Odin
* if that hangs in Odin
...
* else (if FACTORFS flashed ok)

"(if FACTORFS flashed ok)" is simply a comment for the "else" case, which means Odin finished flashing of factoryfs without hanging

if Odin hangs on flashing factoryfs, the partition still contains bricked blocks, otherwise the partition should be brick free.

That's because flashing an image accesses every block in the partition (more exactly: the accessed blocks match the size of the image, which is normally identical to the partition size).
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
what do you mean with internal storage? data or ums partition?

looks like you skipped these steps:

* else (if FACTORFS flashed ok)
* goto recovery mode
* wipe data
* format internal sd

you need a file system on these partitions because repartitioning makes the file systems on these partitions invalid (the partitions borders are moved, but not their contents).

Wipe and format should normally create a new file system.

Hmm, thinking about that, I am not really sure whether a wipe also does a format?

So, please try in recovery to format the partition which gives you trouble.

You can also mount the partitions in recovery, to see if they are really mountable.

You will also get error messages, which may tell something about the problem.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
I think I cannot rely on wipe always doing a format.

To be sure, I replaced "wipe" by "format" in the first post. May be some people experienced an unformatted data or ums partition because of that.

Perhaps people which could successful revive their phone strictly following my description (PIT method) could report if wiping was enough?

Please also tell which recovery or ROM was used.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] frankf75:
Hi hg42,

Let me start with thanking you for the great guide. It took me some time to figure it out and had to read it couple of time to get the concept.

I succeeded to revive my Note, and to be sure I used your “patched-standard.pit” then run a dd on partitions to check them and all seems ok. Still, I have an odd problem maybe you know a solution.

Installing stock GB using Odin works and I have been using it for almost 24 hours. Installing any stock ICS ROM 4.0.3 or ICS 4.0.4 using Odin keeps hanging again at factoryfs. I tried OTA update on the Note, but after download and install it says update was not successful.

Restoring my ICS custom ROMs using CWM runs without problem but after reboot it freezes at password screen.

So in short, GB works fine, ICS cannot install.

Am I missing something?

Here is my partition 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 4215MB 6363MB 2147MB ext4 DATAFS

11 6363MB 15.2GB 8854MB fat32 UMS

12 15.2GB 15.8GB 537MB ext4 HIDDEN

~ # dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p9 of=/dev/null

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p9 of=/dev/null

1744896+0 records in

1744896+0 records out

893386752 bytes (852.0MB) copied, 22.006854 seconds, 38.7MB/s

~ # dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p10 of=/dev/null

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p10 of=/dev/null

4194304+0 records in

4194304+0 records out

2147483648 bytes (2.0GB) copied, 53.930880 seconds, 38.0MB/s

~ # dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p11 of=/dev/null

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p11 of=/dev/null

17293312+0 records in

17293312+0 records out

8854175744 bytes (8.2GB) copied, 225.119251 seconds, 37.5MB/s

~ # dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p7 of=/dev/null

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p7 of=/dev/null

409600+0 records in

409600+0 records out

209715200 bytes (200.0MB) copied, 5.271184 seconds, 37.9MB/s
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] non1oson:
hi hg42,

I'm trying to understand your thread. I have a bricked device where I can't get into recovery or download mode, it won't turn on or be recognized when USB plugged into my PC.

how do I do any steps in your first post, if I can't get into download mode?

thanks
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
Probably, you have another kind of brick.

There's a more general thread about how to handle different kinds of bricks.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] markdmello:
Thanks a Ton

Thank you so much hg42. I had lost all hope for my SGN. You saved my day.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ZiDanRO:
Sorry to ask such a noob question, but I want to be sure I do it right to repair an N7000.

I copy/paste @d.fx steps and modified for N7000. This are corect?

STEP BY STEP

-Put your phone into Download Mode

-Flash the modified pit using odin, NOTHING ELSE <---- It is corect to flash the pit to N7000 wit auto-reboot?

-After pit flash, the phone will try to reboot, and will get stuck. Remove the battery

-Go into Download Mode.

-Flash a clean, unmodified, samsung firmware WITHOUT PUTTING ANY PIT FILE <---- If I had ICS when the phone was bricked, can I flash GB with 1 file?

-Reboot in stock recovery, do a factory reset

-Reboot phone

-Format internal sdcard

Thank you in advance for all your answers!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Young Cardiac:
Can you link me that thread?

Thanks!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
I don't know why he recommends flashing pit alone and removing battery, d.fx? any comment?

I am quite sure you can flash new pit together with rom.

The pit will be flashed first by odin.

well I would flash a clean cm9 :-)

But it depends on what you want.

My recommendation is to use a "known good" rom.

Which is definitely NOT the one that broke your phone (stock ics), right?

To be clear: Don't use stock ICS kernel, it was the cause for the brick and samsung still only thinks to circumvent the brick situation in user land, whereas all well known custom roms prevent it in kernel AND userland.

custom recoveries (integrated with kernels) offer more options.

Ideally, you should format data and format internal sd.

If you cannot, you only have factory reset, where I don't know, what it does exactly.

So: if you want samsung software, you should first try a latest GB, until you are sure the phone works correctly.

Otherwise, I would recommend a cm9 or cm9 based custom ROM, but be sure you know all issues it has, because people tend to blaim the brick for everything.

Did you read my first post? That's always my current knowledge about how and why. Other derived guides do not update with mine. Also most are lacking describing the reasons, which are discussed in this whole thread, so reading it first should be mandatory.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
I only saw them when passing by, e.g. this one:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1656635

but not all are up to date, some things look curious to me.

But you can see what can lead to bricks of different kind and how they could be solved.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] pandalow:
anyone can helo me?

i don't understand this step:

"After flashing the PIT you have three empty partitions: system, data and internal SD.

So you have to put something senseful on it .

Otherwise it does in nearly no user noticeable way differ from a stock phone.

You just have a smaller internal SD."

how can i use the stock pit?(when i flash the stock pit i will get the same problem again!(stuck at data.img)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] shoey63:
No more stock PIT for u mate. Must stick with hg42's modified one - that's coz ur SUPERBRICKED! ei. corrupted chip, hence partitions being moved away from bad blocks resulting in 3 GB less internal SD card.

Flash this kernel with PC Odin - http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1068654&d=1337346991

Boot into recovery and go to mounts and storage. Unmount System, Data, Cache, PreLoad and internal SD (some may already be unmounted)

Format them all (U will lose everything on internal SD card).

Remount them all.

Go back to PC Odin and flash a ROM of your choice.

Brand new phone! (with 3GB less internal storage)

Search forums to get rid of yellow triangle and flash count (Try triangle away)

Never again flash or wipe on stock/ CF-root/repacked ICS kernel unless u are sure eMMC_CAP_ERASE is disabled on kernel u are using, eg. Speedmod or Franco.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
After flashing a *patched* pit, the partitions are at different places but the data indide the partitions wasn't moved.

So you have to possibilies:

* flash an image to the partition (which contains the file system)

* create a file system (which is called "formating") and eventually put files on it afterwards (e.g. restore a nand backup)

exactly -- you cannot flash a stock pit anymore, it must be patched before
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] pandalow:
Hey

ok i understand it now but i have still one question.

"Never again flash or wipe on stock/ CF-root/repacked ICS kernel unless u are sure eMMC_CAP_ERASE is disabled on kernel u are using, eg. Speedmod or Franco." what do you mean with this?(why) i can't wipe or flash on other kernels again?

i flashed the modified pit and the stock rom. Then i make *2767*3855# and i wipe with CWMRecovery.

Do i have make something else?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] shoey63:
That's because CWM/Stock Recovery on an ICS kernel can damage your hardware (Ie.BRICKBUG!) CAP_ERASE disabled in kernel prevents this from happening. Don't understand why u need to do *2767*3855#. Anyway safest route is to flash pre-rooted GB Rom from Dr. Ketan (Brickproof) with PC Odin- try this http://d-h.st/HJM, and then u can use CWM to flash ZIPRoms. PS: unzip to TAR first before flashing.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
according to *2767*3855# I read things like "although we see varying reports of how "complete" a wipe it is from device to device".

That's why I currently say "format data" + "format internal sd" in recovery (in CWM, TWRP etc.), remove external sd first to be sure.

Flashing a ROM usually isn't enough, this usually only flashes the system partition, and data and internal sd are not touched.

There are a few stock ROM files (I think for developers) which include a PIT (don't flash the PIT) and/or a data image (an empty one, so it wipes the data partition), and also with ums image (which probably cannot be flashed, because the size is different after using a patched PIT).

Does the prerootet ROM also include a data image? Then it would be sufficient to boot completely and then format the internal sd from GUI.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Bezeq:
No errors in ODIN, only after odin says pass - then phone gives error (example)

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/5509/img201207201014451.jpg

And i did as u said: dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 of=/dev/null

and got:

http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/6995/shellw.jpg

Please advice next step, thanks.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
ok, I was wrong, data is p2 and sdcard is p1, so you now checked sdcard, which is brick free now.

please check mmcblk0p2 now.

If the dd finishes and gives a message about bytes read etc. data should be brickfree, too.

Otherwise it will freeze.

You get the error because data isn't fomatted. this is normal.

There seems to be an automatic update.zip, which does some things after flashing the rom with odin, which fails because data isn't available until you formatted it.

May be the wipe data option is sufficient, but I'm not sure, if it really formats, but please try it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] shoey63:
Unfortunately it only has one image - Factoryfs so I would assume one would need to boot into recovery and manually format Data or do factory reset plus format internal sd card. Got my note going somehow with that pre-rooted GB ROM, just not sure exactly how. Just a combination of re-booting ,resets, cache and Dalvik cache wipes and fixing permissions. Way too many unnecessary steps I know but it worked eventually.

I guess what would be ideal would be a full wipe, pre-rooted GB ROM that properly formats all affected partitions. I think I'll ask Dr. Ketan....