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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
The pit file is in the works.

I successfully repartitioned via the new PIT file and Odin.

Made a CWM backup first and restored it afterwards.

The system runs.

Also, I copied /sdcard to /emmc/backup-sdcard (this is on cm9, on stock you need to copy the contents of /sdcard to /sdcard/external_sd/backup-sdcard).

This is necessary because the repartitioning deletes the internal sdcard (this is really the UMS partition).

So the files have to be copied back afterwards.

My current problem is, that this internal sdcard isn't mountable, and I don't know why. When I look at it with a simple cat (like "type" on windows), I see all the data, but I can't mount it in any way.

I use cm9 and sadly they don't include e2fsck or parted.

Also mkfs.vfat doesn't work:

update:

cm9's mkfs.vfat or mkfs.ext2 don't work on this partition, may be because of it's size.

But cm9's mke2fs works.

But after booting the phone I still don't get a mounted internal sdcard.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
ok, flashing a PIT file a second time doesn't do anything, that means, this is only partitioning and doesn't format.

This is because Odin works with partition images, so the formatting is included in these *.img files.

So providing a PIT file will not help users to get up and running.They would need partition images, too.

Standard firmware files for Odin usually include system and data, so only an UMS image is needed.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Latoc:
You can get a UMS image from sammobile's firmware page, get a GB non-kies firmware, the kind that comes with 3 .tar files.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] travis82:
I got my phone back up and running with this thread now im on cm9 latest nightly as of now. Thanks
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] sun2sunny:
YESS I RECOVER IT FROM YOUR WAY BRO

u r my hero
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] sun2sunny:
but i cant flash it with odin i can just flash it with mobile odin pro
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] travis82:
works, just have an 8gb sd partition going to take it back to samsung and ask them why i got 8gb space out of a 16gb note maybe get it replaced till a permanent solution is viable.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
I think mobile odin cannot be used if you can not boot to gui, right?

If you are using linux? --> use heimdall + heimdall-frontend

but this has one problem, if I select a PIT file, I have to use another file as well, else it will not do anything, so you cannot do partitioning only (I think).

Perhaps with the command line version.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
I thought so, too, but this shouldn't work, because the partition image has a different size (old UMS - FACTORYFS - DATAFS)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] cgjones:
I'm guessing that many people who have ended up with 'bricks' are not as technically competent as most people in this thread seem to be. Is it at all possible to generate a flashable update or even a batch command to replicate the process?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
PIT file added

Finally added patched PIT file (only for 16GB!!!) to first post!

Please read update comments written there.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
should be very difficult.

Each of those bricks are different.

They first have to be sure, that it's really this kind of brick.

Then they have to make backups. This can be done in various ways.

E.g. I use Titanium Backup, which I payed and it needs a rooted phone.

They must be able to restore their backups afterwards.

This is'nt a job for non technical users.

Scripting in the adb shell sadly depends very much on the installed recovery.

I added a PIT file ion my last post, which is the maximum I can do for them.

This takes away the burden to play with adb.

I think to get even easier, it would have to be like a complete firmware package for Odin.

Anyone has an idea for an easier strategy?

Btw. you can use my PIT file (beware: this is only for 16GB phones) in Odin together with a standard firmware package (without a PIT file), first flash my PIT, then flash the firmware or you may add all these files and flash in one step.

PS: I could create a PIT for 32GB, too, but I cannot test it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
Today I will start a holiday trip until Monday, so please don't expect any answer from me until Monday evening (or so).
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] blue_panther9_9:
Sorry I forgot to tell you that I managed to get back to my SGS last nite.. Thanks to both you and HG42..:)

Also your PIT works perfectly with ICS LP9..
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] BABAK236:
Hi

I have P6800.....Always hang on factoryfs on odin

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use patched pit and flash done,,,,But after done,phone boot to recovery menu and i see "Can't Mount Data.......Your Storage not prepared blabla

What Should i do?

Edit: some times after press "reboot " in recovey ,Phone hang on Logo....and some time "Phone can startup normally" But ASK FOR PASSWORD"

Confused....
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
did you read/follow my instructions in the OP? e.g. format data etc.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] bougatsas:
So let's say you follow procedure :

phase "find brick"

Found Start 1099, End 4587

phase "flash pit and kernel"

* (re)boot to download mode (hold Vol-Down + Home + Power until you arrive there [20-30 seconds], then Vol-Up)

* flash a patched PIT in Odin

* flash a custom kernel with a good recovery (e.g. cm9 safe kernel) via Odin (which will increment the flash counter! -> yellow triangle -> warranty lost until you reset the counter)

phase "check partitions"

Found again Start 1102

How do you adjust the pit file now?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
the emmc scanner has several options. The usual ones are offered in an updater zip.

For the phase "check partitions", you don't use the "brick finder" but the "partition scanner".

The brick finder will find the brick again, because he doesn't scan partition wise but scans the whole device including the unused areas.

If you flashed the correct pit (one that completely includes your bricked area in it's unused area), the partition scanner shouldn't find a brick in any partition (message OK for all partitions).

Note that the brick seems to move a little bit in the beginning (in normal cases).

I think it stabilizes in most cases. The changes may/should be triggered by write operations (which bring the wear leveler into the game).

Unfortunately, some of the bricks seem to be quite random.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] sachneen:
Not able to Format

I am not able to run files to check the brick blocks..... and when i tried using the patched PIT files I was able to run my device with some of them but it freezes repeatedly..... and when i want to format the file system using clockwork mod it wont work can u please help me how to run CWM on it??

I have Galaxy tab P6200 Please help
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
more info please!

What is "not able"? There are 1 million possible reasons...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] BABAK236:
Hi

Of Course,,,,

(Wipe) :

wipe data/factory reset = NOT Done

wipe cache = Done

wipe dalvik=NOT Done (after press power key for select wipe dalvik,,,back to menu and not happen)

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Format in "mounts and storage menu :

Format cache : Done

Format system : Done

Format Data : NOT Done,,,(error mounting "/data!")

Format Preload : Done

Format eMMC : NOT Done...(error mounting emmc)

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Check all Partition By "adb shell dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 of=/dev/null" from partition 1 to 12

All partition is ok except "partition 10"

"dd: /dev/block/mmcblk0p10: I/O error"

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So,I did flash with pit :::

"P6800_ATO_PIT--patched--brick-between-281-and-2428-MB--FACTORYFS-moved-by-2048-MiB.pit"

Odin can flash with both pit...but after reset,phone loop to recovey and i see red line (can't mount /system)...

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But i Can't flash with all this pit,,hang on factoryFs when flashing by odin... "P6800_ATO_PIT--patched--brick-between-1153-and-XXXXX-MB--DATAFS-moved-by-XXXX-MiB.pit "

So,Any Help....?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
You didn't mention your brick numbers.

did you use the emmc scanner to find start and end of the brick?

That's why I wrote it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] BABAK236:
Hi hg42

Finally phone startup normally after wipe with org recovey,,,,But i have only 154mb in internall storage....d:

I think i need test all pit again

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Can you tell me ,what is different with 2 .pit file? Pit_xxxx_FactoryFS and Pit_xxxxx_DATAFS....

i did read first post but i can't understand

Thanks

Edite 1: i have 2GB after use another pit
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
well, why don't you use the find brick scanner?

Then you *know* where your brick is and can select the correct pit.

Should all be described in the OP.

Please tell me if something shouldn't be clear enough.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
All partitions from the one in the file name up to the "big" partition are shifted by some amount (last number in the name) towards the end. Look at the ascii graphics to get a picture.

So the first partition to be moved determines the starting area for the brick (more correctly: the start of the hole in the partition scheme that should cover the brick).

The amount they are shifted also tells how much space is lost (because this hole is not used after the repartitioning).
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] sachneen:
when i apply the files for finding the brick block in the recovery it just runs the files and returns no value. It just says:

Finding update package.....

opening update package......

verifying update package.....

Installing update......

Initializing....

done.

And when I run these files using CWM then I get an error message
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
:) so, which error?

It's the purpose of error messages to inform about what's going wrong...ok may be not for Microsoft :)

I have no experience with stock recoveries, may be they don't

provide output commands?

Any success story with the scanner on stock recoveries?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
If it's a message about signature, I remember you can switch off the signature check somewhere in advanced menu.

I tested only on twrp recovery...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] sachneen:
It was not a message about signature it says that its an emmc error however i was able to run these files when i falshed HC and installed CWM from recovery but now there is another problem when i run the brick start file it never stops though it slows completely down when it reaches 1128 MiB, after a minute of scanning it reports ok the same goes for brick end when it reaches upto 5120 MiB it slows down but still doesnt freezes it reports ok after a while

Also I check the adb version to get which blocks are damaged but as soon as I give the command (parted) print

It reports:

Error: The backup GPT table is not at the end of the disk, as it should be.

This might mean that another operating system believes the disk is smaller.

Fix, by moving the backup to the end (and removing the old backup)?

Fix/Ignore/Cancel?

I waited 25 min after selecting Fix but nothing happened, same happens for Ignore

I hope u can help :good:

Also can u please load a odin flashable version of CWM or TWRP for p6200 thanks in advance
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Fear345:
I cant get my head around which pit file i need, my bad blocks starts at 2179mb and ends at 6411mb which pit file do i need ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] sachneen:
Use this pit file brick-between-1086-and-6455-MB--DATAFS-moved-by-5120-MiB
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Fear345:
Couldn't see that pit file but so used this one N7000_16GB_Q1_20110914--patched--brick-between-1174-and-6543-MB--DATAFS-moved-by-5120-MiB my note now boots up :) but i only have 6gb of usb storage and 1.90gb of system storage but at least it works.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] sachneen:
Olryt thats great :good: hope you dont encounter any freezes :fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
there seem to be others with a brick with such a behavior, but I can only speculate about reasons:

Normally the scanner should scan very fast like when it starts and run the same speed until the end.

In your case I would assume you have a brick from 1128 to 5120.

The brick seems not to lock up the whole thing and I think the scanner gets an error for each step (io error or something) which is return after a timeout, so it slows down heavily.

Anyway you should assume these numbers as BRICK_START and BRICK_END, they seem to be in that range very often.

I think, this is normal, I got this, too, it's only a warning, you should ignore it.

If you choose to fix, then the bricked area may be accessed which leads to the freeze.

Why ignore also freezes? this first looks illogical to me, ignore should not access the emmc, but now I think, it's because the operation you started is now running and this freezes, but I don't see a reason why a "print" should access the emmc somewhere in the brick area.

May be you have a bigger problem, like damaged blocks in the admin areas?

But simply try to flash an appropriate PIT and look what happens.

sorry, I only have a N7000 and only have a little knowledge about this model.

I assume you can use any odin flashable kernel with integrated CWM or TWRP (or doesn't it include a recovery on the p6200?).

Perhaps it can be extracted from a custom ROM or such...or a ROM package can be reduced to only contain the kernel (and perhaps the recovery if it's separate).

Anyway, you have to look elsewhere.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] XPaNgX:
It is valid for i9003?

Hello, sorry my English translator.

I wanted to ask if this manual is valid for a GT-i9003, Original PIT file attachment, and if valid beginning the process of finding bad sectors to see if I can fix it.

Thank you.

I have error E: failed to mount /data (Invalid argument)

I just need to know if it is compatible and you send the rest.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] NeyLee:
Hello..

i am one of those bricked GTN7000.

But i successfully flashed my Note with one of your PIT ( N7000_16GB_Q1_20110914--patched--brick-between-281-and-12092-MB--FACTORYFS-moved-by-11264-MiB.pit ).I mean after that my phone booted just like a brand new one from the shop.i flash with Odin v1.85 and i flash this because my phone wont boot before this.i got stuck on the "SAMSUNG GT-N7000" screen.

So when my phone is ready i start to reinstall my games.After that i go to Setting>Stogare - USB Storage 79.++ MB, free 68.++ MB..

And after that i see this thread of yours and decide to do a emmc scan.Unfortunately, when in recovery mode>install zip from sd>/...

There is nothing to choose there..

And i got this pop up

"E:failed to mount sd card (No such storage/files)"

(something like that)

Please help me.Could you tell me what to do next?

Thank you for your concern.

P/S: Forgive me if something I said kind of harsh or rude.I am from Malaysia and i dont really know to write or talk in good English.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
the principle will probably also work for SIII, but currently there are no patched PITs for your device.

But, as you said, you can start with the "find-brick" scanner, to be sure *if* you have a brick and *where* it is..
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
if you didn't find out where your brick starts and ends, you probably have used a pit, which doesn't completely cover you brick area with the "hole" in the partition table. It seems you have still bricked blocks in your internal sd, which might be the reason it can't be mounted.

Or -- you didn't read my instructions properly (see first post) and didn't format your internal sd, which also leads to an unusable partition (not mountable).
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] XPaNgX:
Is a Galaxy SCL i9003, you've spent all scanner and found nothing, to do it manually in the third partition, ADB has given me mmblk0p3 I / O error
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
your attached PIT has a different format, so I cannot handle it (currently). The main structure is similar, so I can see the partitions, but the size/offset/end numbers don't make sense (e.g. all seem to start at 128kB).

Currently I don't have time to investigate further.

So for now, I would recommend forest1971's thread via adb and parted (see link in first post).
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
I assume yoiu used dd?

You can use the scanner manually via adb, see added description in first post of my scanner thread
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] NikDroid72:
Ok...first of all a big thx my friend!!!!

I was ready to send my SII @Samsung since everything tried was back to 0

My phone (4.0.4 LPM) had that MMCbrick problem after an attempt to restore a backup with CWM....:(

I follow ur instructions step by step

The pit file that do the job for me was the 713-2323 since my problem starts @1074 and ends @2148. I flash it with a 2.3.4 (K14) and i end up

with a screen full of red warnings...cant mount this,cant mount that etc....plus that i didnt had any option to format partitions:confused:

Anyway was ready to go to sleep and accept it but decide to flash it one last time.....so without format anything from my last step i set the phone to odin again and flash only (without the pit) a 4.0.3(BULPD) since was the last good workin for me rom.Dunno what happens but it worked:victory:

The f@#*in LPM kernel is history from my phone

I assume that the pit was already done the job since my space is 10GB now.

The phone is alive again and workin good so far...Everything works as before and i didnt notice any strange behavior yet...

I just wonder is all this normal??? I mean should i leave it as it is or should i try to format it now??? and what could happen if i try to go back to some custom rom (like CM10) ??? Should i try to take back up with CWM now ??? Should i try to restore my previous BULPD CWM back up???

LOL...too many questions for one day and since i spend 12hours yesterday:eek: to revive it i thing im gonna let it loose for awhile.

thx again my friend....ur work was very helpful for me...thx thx:good:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
nice...but I wonder why you can go without formatting.

I don't know BULPM, may be this ROM installs a script or something that does the format itself when booting.

If you can access all affected (=moved) partitions, then you can ommit the formatting.

You can probably check this with my "all partitions" scanner.

making backups is always a good thing :)

Restoring your backups should work normally.

Should be obvious to stay away from those brick bugged ROMs...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] lyriquidperfection:
If anyone wants to have a go at editing or creating pit files then take a look at my PIT Magic application:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1916936
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] roshanrx:
Problem booting up

hello i think i have a mmc_cap erase

i have a gt-p6210 it doesnt open up recoveries i have flashed via odin cwm but i doestn open

up only download mode opens and can flash any firmware

i have used pathed pits

and it doesnt boot up it only goes till

"SAMSUNG GALAXY TAB 7.O PLUS"screen and never goes ahead

and also while charging it charges but the battery indicator doesnt move

can i know what i can do.

please i ned your help
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
with emmc bricks Odin usually freezes (usually at FACTORYFS)

your's doesn't look like an emmc brick, it's another kind (please look for other de-brick instructions)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
looks like a useful tool (but couldn't test it, using linux, and currently no windows at hand)

can it handle different formats (S2, N7000 etc. vs. S1 etc.).

I currently have probs understanding how these S1 pits work.

libpit from Heimdall has defined two values "blocksize" and "blockcount".

S1 etc. use "blocksize" for size of one block in bytes, which is what I would understand by "blocksize".

"blockcount" is the size of the partition in blocks.

But S2, N7000 etc. use "blocksize" as offset of the partition in blocks.

So with S1 scheme I don't have an offset for the partition.

Without an offset, I seem to be unable to leave a hole in the partition table without creating an additional (unused) partition, which increases the partition number for all the following partitions (which I don't want).

How do you handle these differences?

How do you detect, which scheme is used in the PIT?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] roshanrx:
where can i find it

please help me find this brick
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Dr.OsOsTy:
now the usb storage 8.42 GB is there any way to recover my stoarge again to 11GB as stock plz help ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] mbunal:
U r lucky. Mine is about 4gb after 2 jtag. Any help?

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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Dr.OsOsTy:
now I want to know there is anyway to get usb storage back as stock or not ?

if not should I take it to service center ?

and what can I say to him?

plz answer
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] mbunal:
Me too???

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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] coelho_:
Flash standard pit and your rom for recovery at 11.08

Envoyé depuis mon GT-N7000 avec Tapatalk
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
I just googled for "brick" and "guide", found these:

Let's unbrick your phone - Guide (Soft Brick, Super Brick, Hard Brick, OTA Brick) - xda-developers

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

[GUIDE]How To Unbrick Your Galaxy Tab! - xda-developers

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1133590
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
if you have an emmc brick you cannot use the bricked part of the flash memory.

If you have warranty you may let them repair the device, but you should remove all traces of flashed ROMs etc.

There are users who did that...look for appropriate threads
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] mbunal:
how much time takes to flash std pit? last one, it takes for 2 hours. so i remove batery and flash gb.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Dr.OsOsTy:
Did u mean take recovery image for rom or what?

And i've tried to flash the stock rom and stock pit but it stuck

Plz explain more
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
revive vs. repair

If you read the OP carefully it should be clear that you cannot flash a stock pit, because then you will use the damaged area again, which will revert your phone to it's bricked state.

Sorry, he probably made a joke.

That's why I call it a revive instead of a repair.

It's only a workaround, the damage is still there, but your phone skips this area.

The bricked area is lost.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] coelho_:
Yes but is the Last solution for come back at the initial brick

Envoyé depuis mon GT-N7000 avec Tapatalk
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] KvnTM:
YOU SAVED MY LIFE!! *-*

MY GOD THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!!

My Galaxy Note works again :) only with 6gb but hey 32gb microsd and everything is fine.

THANK YOU!!!!

PS: It was fully bricked, my device cant mount any dir's. And now everything is fine *-*
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] axelmaxe:
Thanks, your post really saves my Tab.

But why does my internal memory decrease down to only 6GB (from 16GB)? Did I miss something?

I think this is a major issue.

Thanks for replying.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] StevieG_007:
Thanks!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
Did you use my 'find brick' scanner to determine where exactly the brick is located?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
Looks like you didn't use my 'find brick' scanners first?

This makes me wonder if anything in my OP may be unclear about that?

Perhaps there are probs getting into a suitable recovery first?

(for the n7000 you may need to flash a custom kernel for this)

Or what else?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] claptnei:
Many thanks for you thread. Saved my note from brick using your instructions. Not sure how I bricked it, all I did was a nandroid restore from LRQ back to LRK as I prefer it. I was on a safe kernel cf-root5.6? I think my back up was corrupted.