yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
did you check, if you really have bricked blocks? (e.g. with emmc brickbug check app or my find brick scanner)

Your brick may also be a more simple one...e.g. a corrupted backup doesn't cause emmc brick, but other kinds of bricks.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] shoey63:
PhilZ

kernels have Dual USB Mount, init.d, and ADB root in recovery ( amongst other excellent features) and can be flashed from stock or any other recovery. Obviously not compatible with CM10 but recovery is still worth checking out. Flash it, test it, and reflash CM10 kernel after. Could be useful...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] claptnei:
Yes your emmc scanner showed the brick was in the System partition. I think when I was trying to fix it from recovery I did a data wipe thinking it would be safe as I was on a safe kernel. That was my mistake. But thanks to you, I have a working phone again and wont be fiddling any more as I am more than happy with ICS 4.0.4 LRK.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] shoey63:
I dont think ur really bricked. System partition is just corrupted. I feel U need to PC Odin original PIT file first, go into safe recovery,make sure system data and cache are unmounted fomat them all and then pc odin a new stock rom
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] rraaka:
cf root aint completely safe, version irrespective

you can back up with it but restore with say abyss

he was bricked
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
all my scanners read raw bytes, so they are independent of the file system.

Also, a corrupted file system usually doesn't lead to a freeze or reboot.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] mouaaah:
Hi hg42,

You saved my Galaxy S2, Thank you so much!!

Looking at a lot of forums, I became desperate and was almost sure I had to put my phone in the bin when I finally discovered this topic!

At the end I "only" lost 4GB in this story...

I think it's the first time I use the "donate" on a forum and I do it with a big smile :laugh:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
Thanks, I will use it to "buy" some time for the community...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] maverix13:
P6200 Small Help

First f all thank u so much for ur hard work...

Since i m not an expert i wanted sm help frm u. When i checked, Brick start slowed down and freezed at 1073MB and Brick End at 2147 MB.(not MiB) I m having GT P6200. So which PIT file shud i flash.

And i hav to flash PIT and ROM seperatly rite..

While flashing PIT, only PIT file need to be loaded rite? Dnt want dat PDA, BOOTLOADER n all rite?? Jus confirming....

And i found 2 types of files with DATAFS and FACTORYFS in those PIT files... Do i hav to flash them both??

Pls Help me out...

Humple request

.............................................

Thank you sir

Your idea worked. My tab its back to life.

Thank you so much
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Hessa:
Maybe i can find here some help

I got a SGII with the following problem.

My phone isn't really bricked, but i can't flash through CWM a costum rom.

I can flash with odin a stock rom, and i did i was even able to root the stock ICS rom.

But when ever i try to flash a costum rom with CWM it is fineshed installing with in a minute then after the reboot it hangs in a bootloop.

I have downloaded the Emmc check from google play and it say i don't have any damaged blocks but my chip is insane.

Now i wonder is it possible to fix this error or is there a way to really find out what is wrong

Things i already treid

Flash stock GB, root, treid to flash costum rom ended up in bootloop

Flash stock ICS, root treid to flash costum rom ended up in bootloop

Flash stock ICS with pit file and repation taken from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1457458 so really followed this instructions by the letter, then i treid to flash a costum rom after rooting still ended up in a bootloop.

So sorry if i'm just a noob, but i really would like to flash a costom rom or at lest being able to flash one.

Little update i used both brick scanners and no bricks

Als used the write block scanner and no trouble writing

But when i treid to install the paranoid rom, it couldend write to the emmc and got stock with a error 7.

First time i see this error most of the times it is just installed within a minute and after booting it's in a bootloop with what ever rom i try

Thx for any help infront
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] citifone:
Hi Hg42. I have the same exact problem with my Samsung N7000 as you had with phone that would not flash factoryFS and I've been reading your post and trying many hours now and could not find the brick block. I used your scanner and it keeps scanning all night.

I'm just wondering which patch PIT file did you use to fix yours?

Thanks
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
use a pit with brick-between-x-and-y, where x <1073 and y>2147

You can flash it in one go or separate

You flash the rom as usual and additionally add the pit file and check the option (I think it was 'repartition').

These are for different brick starts.

The gap (hole) in the partition table can only start at the beginning of a partition, so it starts at factoryfs or datafs.

It corresponds to the x above.

To be clear, this has nothing to do with flashing the rom.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
sorry, I forgot to answer your post yesterday.

The find brick scanners should be very fast, max. some minutes.

When they slow down, they probably touched a bricked block. I heard several reports, but never saw a slowdown myself.

Mine always freezed completely.

I assume the first slow down is when the brick starts (or ends for the case of the "find end" scanner).

It seems, that most bricks start in factoryfs, so the pit files with FACTORYFS in their name will probably do.

If you can determine the end of the brick, chosse one where the second number (y) in brick-between-x-and-y is higher than the end of the brick.

If you cannot determine the end, you can try to find it by trial and error choosing different y for the pits.

So you may start to flash a pit (without rom) with y around 8000, then use my "all partitions" scanner to check if all partitions are OK.

To be faster, I would remove the external sd first, because it is also scanned and may take some minutes.

If you get a slow down, the partition probably is not OK. Most partitions will be scanned very fast, only the biggest partition (internal sd etc.) may take some minutes maximum.

If a pit works, you can then try lower numbers, otherwise try higher numbers.

Each number should be chosen between the currently lowest working number and the highest not working number (you should write them down in a sequence, from outer to inner). Fastest will be to use one in the middle of these two in each step.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Kh.1:
its happend in n7100

any solution ? :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
use your warranty?

otherwise I'll need a stock pit for your device.

Shouldn't be very different from n7000.

Did you already try my find brick scanners?

I may need to know where the brick is located...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Kh.1:
i'll make warrnty as last option

http://www.mediafire.com/?xfaxhkvaf0kihp4

here is a stock pit file for n7100 i upload it .. that what do you need ?

about your brick scanners i couldn't but it into my sd card there is no way to do that .. have an idea could help ? ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] lainlain32:
Help

hello thank you for your assistance after the scan start and end I freeze to 786 Mb and 4588 Mb to end I do not know how to thank you pit

Désole Google translation
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
but you know that the repartitioning isn't a repair but only a workaround?

yes, exactly

From a first look I see it's all different from the N7000 structure.

--------- kB -------
num id name size offset end filename
1 80 BOOTLOADER 867 0 867 sboot.bin
2 81 TZSW 156 867 1023 tz.img
3 70 PIT 8 17 25 t0.pit
4 71 MD5HDR 1024 25 1049 md5.img
5 1 BOTA0 4096 4096 8192 -
6 2 BOTA1 4096 8192 12288 -
7 3 EFS 20480 12288 32768 efs.img
8 4 m9kefs1 4096 32768 36864 -
9 5 m9kefs2 4096 36864 40960 -
10 6 m9kefs3 4096 40960 45056 -
11 7 PARAM 8192 45056 53248 param.bin
12 8 BOOT 8192 53248 61440 boot.img
13 9 RECOVERY 8192 61440 69632 recovery.img
14 10 RADIO 90112 69632 159744 modem.bin
15 11 TOMBSTONES 4096 159744 163840 -
16 12 CACHE 1400832 163840 1564672 cache.img
17 13 SYSTEM 2097152 1564672 3661824 system.img
18 14 HIDDEN 573440 3661824 4235264 hidden.img
19 15 OTA 8192 4235264 4243456 -
- 16 USERDATA 0 4243456 4243456 userdata.img

as you see, the USERDATA partition has zero size.

So my current pit converter doesn't work.

I have to think about that.

Also interesting:

* what is TZSW?

* for what is MD5HDR used?

* m9kefs1-m9kefs3: are these backups of the efs partition?

but it has different size,

may be only the most important info is duplicated/saved?

* what the hell is TOMBSTONES?

Anyways, I can try to generate patched pits when I have fixed the zero size issue.

You have a bigger risk to take, may be it makes things worse.

But first I need to know where your brick is located.

1. you can remove the sdcard from your phone and write to it via uSD to SD adapter on your PC

2. you can use something like "adb push somefile /sdcard/" when in the recovery

3. some recoveries offer a "mount USB" function, then you can copy via PC
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] tyllerdurdent:
unbrick samsung SHV-E160l

I try to update my phone with kie and it freezes. Later, an error in the loader appears and send to emergency recovery. I try several times and it does not work at all.

I download odin and try to install the system again.

This time all went worst, something happen and odin sent error. now my phone does not turn it on, and only is recognized in download mode with QPST. Anyone have the phone image to this phone and the boot image ?

Anyone could help me?

:eek:

Thank you very much, I will be waiting any answer.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] turuu_tmx:
people i need PIT file for Galaxy note(n7000)

people please help me create PIT file as i think i emmc bricked my phone. i wiped and format the phone before installing ROM. now i can enter Recovery and Download mode but cant install ROM. as im missing System partition. so i used your 2 checker and beginning stopped at 1035Mib = 1086MB and End stopped at 2048MiB = 2148MB. please help me create PIT file.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] akram2015:
please file pits m250s

I want to file your pits to repair the model m250s please
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
Hmm, it's all there in the OP (I think, or am I missing something?)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
As you can read in the OP, I need at least a stock pit of your model.

Then let's see..
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] maverix13:
Thank u sir...

:cowboy::cowboy:It worked ... My Tab back to Life... :angel:

:(But kinda feel like crippled... Random Reboots and frequent freeze...:mad:

:confused: I kinda feel like i shud go for sm hardware repair... I even tried using a pit with bigger shifts like 200mb to 3000mb ( even though the hole was at 1073 to 2100). Is der anythng else i shud try b4 a hardware repair... i heard that v can replace the internal IC chip. . Researching on dat also now....:fingers-crossed:

thank you so much to u dat my tab came bak to life.;)

And watever errors mentioned above is coz of my mistakes... Dnt misunderstand pls...

Jus mentioned it hoping u might be able to advise me....:o

thanks again:highfive:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
after reviving you should first check with my partitions scanner, if all partitions are really clean.

If you are able to use adb, you can also run dd on all partitions, to check more thoroughly.

See forst1971's thread mentioned in the OP.

As you know, there are kinds of emmc bricks that move around, perhaps you have such a brick?

You may use the find brick scanners from time to time, to see if the brick moves.

If you want to give it to repair, you should eliminate all traces of custom ROMs.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
did you read the OP? I need at least a stock PIT, to generate patched PITs. Before I have to see if the PIT is compatible to my method.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] siccionraymond:
Question

Hi! greatwork bro! im halfway already.

I flashed you pit. < worked well man.

i went to download mode. then

I flashed a kernel.

Only a stock xxlpy kernel worked.

Wasnt able to access the recovery.

So i flashed the 512 pit.

Now im able to access recovery.

your work has given us hope sir!

Your a savior of notes!!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
and what's happening with a custom kernel?

The kernel must be compatible to the ROM.

Of cause, be cautious, don't never ever wipe with the stock kernel!

hmm, what do you mean with 512?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
Thanks for all the thanks

I am usually concentrating on the facts.

But I think I should thank you all for your kind words.

It's nice to see that all this helps you to rescue from a really bad situation.

I still remember how I felt, when I had the brick myself.

Also thanks to the few who donated, which gave me some more time to spend for solutions.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Ajsk:
Need Pit

Could someone please tell me were i can get Pitfile for my SHV-E250S?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] lyriquidperfection:
Type this in a Terminal Emulator but make sure you are rooted:

su -c 'dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/outputpitfile.pit bs=8 count=481 skip=2176'
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Ajsk:
Done, now i have outputpitfile.pit, i can use this file?, the thing is my device allready with corrupted EFS folder (no data inside), so no IMEI, and i wanted to re-partition while flashing with official custom rom.

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Thank you for this command code!! Appreciate!

When I open my pit with pit Magic, it says BYNARY TYPE: UNKNOWN. So This is one of mistakes i have to deal with ((( I need a pit for my device from same a working device SHV-E250S.

Do you think it may Fix this and help me obtain my EFS folder components and as a result my IMEI and Bandwidth back?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] lyriquidperfection:
Don't worry pit file is correct. Don't worry about the binary type being unknown. This is normal.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Ajsk:
Re-pertition

Thanks, i tryed to re-partition with my pit file and stock rom in odin v3.04, it could not re partition. Faileв to. I then tryed to re-partition using Odin 3.07, it is stuck on: see attached file. (((

And what is weared, i have flashed my phone without pit and re-partition, to stock rom, but it`s still rooted! when i restart i still have SU, and only current binary changes when i go to download mode, current binary: Samsung official, everything else stays custom(((
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Ajsk:
tryed, without rom, with just pit, the same thing((( seems like my device doesent let to change my partition space....
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] sebbooo:
I just came to say thank you! After a bad ROM flash, my /data couldnt be mounted and my phone just wouldnt boot.. BUT I used one both the files to check the drive and the patched PIT file and voila, everything is up and running as usual.

Really thankful for all of the people here on XDA making things happen!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
if you repartition with your original pit (that's what you extracted), you will not change anything, because it' the same partition structure.

To skip the bricked area, I have to patch it first.

So please attach your pit to a post, so I can check if I can patch it.

Why so many people don't read the thread starter?

I have to repeat all those facts written down there over and over again.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Ajsk:
Thank you very much for help; attached please find my pit file.

sorry: Why so many people don't read the thread starter? It`s not that people don`t read, i think they do, but after trying one and other options that don`t work out, you search further and get so much info all at once that you forget what was in the post you read before! so many threads that are linked with problems, and you must logically put them together, and users logic not the same as pro programmer, so all info all at once, a bit of a pain and confusion ... SORRY! (I`m talking about me personaly here now)..
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
will look into, when I have some spare time

Ok, I understand, but that's why I invest much time to keep my thread starter up to date. It should include everything most people need to revive from emmc brick.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Ajsk:
Well yes, and I’m sure there are people who use your instructions, and only use press button to thank. For me personally, it`s my first Android phone. And i started learning 4 days ago. I do know some basic stuff, like cmd, and program codes. But that’s it. I checked partitions: see attached files plz...

I`m not even sure that my problem is with emmc brick. I hope so, because there is your post and you have dialed with it before. And i hope that generated pit file will fix my device and i can flash stock factory rom back. I do appreciate your time, and will donate for your help.

I just hope it will bring back to life my device. I just bought it and first thing I did was flash it((( I didn’t even use android yet(((

By the way, i tried to check partitions: see attached files plz...

Thank you for your help.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Ajsk:
No ESN (((

I have been trying this thread for IMEI: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1802024

And can`t locate my phone on the com port as Samsung Mobile USB serial port ((((, the QPST find my device as unknown ((( Kies, can`t connect either(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] okrup:
Hye!

First thank you 4 your help, but i have a small problem,

I just succed to arrange the partition, when i did the start scan it stoped at 34-36 MB, and in the end scan it stopped at 3585-3590

1. so i used the "N7000_16GB_Q1_20110914--patched--brick-between-281-and-3770-MB--FACTORYFS-moved-by-3328-MiB" file

2. after this i went throw phase "flash pit and ROM" and phase "format partitions",

3. i didn't succeed to do a format internal SD and went to phase "start ROM".

The phone is wotking, i have signal and i can make calls..

Now there is a problem with the rom, i can't get the lock screen no power menu and the rom get a lot of freezes.

I am afraid from another brick, so i don't just flash another rom. or maybe I still have a problem with bad sectors.

I tried

# echo -n ON > /efs/imei/keystr

# reboot

but i got no such directory or somthing like that

what should I do now?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
your first picture looks like an emmc brick.

I didn't find time to check your pit over the weekend.

May be I try this week...I currently have very few spare time...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
Sorry, I don't know QPST
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
If your brick really starts at 34mb the file with 281-3770mb doesn't completely cover the brick.

Then I would have to create another pit starting below 34mb, which may not be possible, depending on the partitions in this area. I hope to find some time to look into this this week...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] okrup:
accordint to what you say i need pit that covers the parts bitween 34 to 281? right?

any way I really need your help and i hope you'll find time for it!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
should read like

...that *also* covers 34-281...

so it should cover at least 34-3770

This means the starting partition must be a lower one, but some of them cannot be deleted, because the phone will not boot without. So this pit will be much more dangerous, then.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] shoey63:
Where TF did you get that CWM.zip? That has caused ****loads of bricks! If on XDA this needs to be reported to moderators.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
walwyn,

If you cannot determine the brick area you can use try and error method. Use a pit with a wide brick area first. I think at least system and data partitions should be skipped completely (this was know as standard-patched pit in early days of the thread and is sometimes referred to in other threads/sites).

If your phone runs afterward you can use the scanners, otherwise try an even wider pit.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] walwyn:
Samsung GT-P6200 superbrick stuck on ODIN flash factoryfs.img

---will it add to flash count every pit i flash? and is it safe flashing pits too many times? scared that may add more bad blocks :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] walwyn:
Samsung GT-P6200 superbrick stuck on ODIN flash factoryfs.img

I've tried to do as you've said, I tried to flash the patch pit

P6200_tabplus--patched--brick-between-281-and-817-MB--FACTORYFS-moved-by-512-MiB.pit and it PASS

I tried d stock ICS is it bad? it was installed but it has too much FC even before I can finish registering etc going to welcome page...

So i tried to use the emmc scan brick start...how will I know if it's it? will it stop permanently or it will be slower scanning? right now it's already

scanning 1039 MiB = 1090MB -> ok

i think it's still going but very slow unlike the first scans..it started to slow on 1048MB....but still running.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
from what I know only custom kernels increment counter.

You may also be able to reset the counter.

Flashing pit doesn't erase, so it should be safe for itself.

But clearing partitions should be considered unsafe with stock kernels starting with ics. So use a gb rom first or custom rom.

Use a known good rom, e.g. your rom from before all the mess began or a well documented custom rom, where problems not related to brick are well known.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
I said system and data, you only skipped system.

Any change should be considered as start of brick, that is slowdown, error messages or freeze.

Please read more post of my pit and scanner threads, e.g. this question is answered several times.

Answering the same questions over and over again prevents me from doing real things.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] walwyn:
Samsung GT-P6200 superbrick stuck on ODIN flash factoryfs.img

so sorry Sir :( but after i flashed that and PASS, afraid to flash the stock ICS that bricked it, i flashed stock from sammobile the android 3.2. had access to recovery, since its not ics recovery tried to do a factory resert and completed booted perfectly, but when i opened gallery it pops up "not enough memory"...i checked the storage..it shown device memory total space 154 MB? :o

Did I just corrupt the storage :(( can i reflash the stock pit to revert the original partition state or it will be bricked again?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
with

P6200_tabplus--patched--brick-between-281-and-817-MB--FACTORYFS-moved-by-512-MiB.pit

you skipped only 512 MiB, but most people have at least 2GiB bricked, many even need to skip a much bigger area.

For a first try I would skip something around half of your biggest partition, e.g. 5-6GiB for a 11GiB internal sd.

If this works you can use the scanner and then selct a better pit.

In a former post you used the find-brick scanner, which results did you get?

Also if you have read my pit thread, you should have noticed that you have to format your internal sd (and to wipe data if you have such a partition, don't remember).

From your description I assume you didn't format your internal sd?

Reflashing a stock pit doesn't help if you have an emmc brick in your FACTORYFS, because you cannot flash over bricked blocks (Odin hangs at FACTORYFS).
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] walwyn:
Samsung GT-P6200 superbrick stuck on ODIN flash factoryfs.img

factoryfs is fine now only because of the new reflashed pit, what scanner should i use now to correcctly detect the bad blocks and find the best compatible pit :(

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It's on the Samsung galaxy tab plus Android development...title was

Guide To Root and Install CWM 6.0.1.0 In Tab 7 plus(P6200)