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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
a wise decision :)

Btw, what makes you think, it's an emmc brick?

Did you wipe/format with a stock ics/jb kernel?

I think there is no other way to get this brick.

But may be the wipe is silently included in an installation package (invoked in a script or something).

Otherwise it might/should be another kind of brick (which is not so bad than an emmc brick).

Before the emmc brick there was no way to kill these phones via software.

Maximum was to use JTAG equipment.

But emmc brick is effectively like a hardware failure.

They have to change the motherboard for this.

That's why the repartitioning is only a workaround and not a fix/repair. The phone is still kind of damaged.

So it is still better to use your warranty, if you have.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
Thanks, but note it's only a workaround (read my previous post)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] angello2299:
ok thanks anyway
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] jask05:
Well I was using Jelly Bam Rom when I felt the device works wrong. For example it freezed or restarted when it wants. Sometimes I had this problem and I thought to reinstall the rom. When I tried to reinstall it I had a lot of problems to enter to recovery. Then I tried to reinstall a siyah kernel using Odin but it stops in one step. See that:

http://i47.tinypic.com/s0yagy.png

This is the problem. Odin can't write in Nand	therefore I think that it has problems with internal memory...

These is my last option because if it does not work I do not know what is the problem :(

At any rate I'm thinking to send it to technical services because it has warranty yet.

Thanks !! :fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] shoey63:
I think kernel partition is corrupted (not superbricked). Try taking battery out for 10 min and flash another kernel eg . CM 10. Use Triangle Away later after flashing new ROM.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] jask05:
I tried with Siyah kernel and I had the problem that can you see in the above image.

Do you recommend me other kernel?? (I need a .tar file for do it from odin..)

Thanks
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] shoey63:
Try Philz kernel.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
Looks like you didn't wipe. So this shouldn't be an emmc brick. But there is a slight 'chance' (negative) that some installation via recovery may have caused a wipe.

Did you install anything via recovery, or may be you did a restore?

But most current custom roms should be safe, or was it a stock rom with a custom kernel?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] 3lsheikh:
About EFS partition i think i can handle it but the SBL1/SBL2 sadly i can't :(

i can work with JTAG is there chance to do this with it ????
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] jask05:
I did not do anything. I had problems with the device because it freezed when I was using it. When I restarted the device I could not use because it kept in the bootloader ... Then I tried to flash Siyah kernel from Odin but occurs the problem that you can see in the above image (url) ...

Thanks :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] jask05:
Well... I tried and does not work :S I tried with i9100_16GB_u1_02_20110310_emmc_EXT4--patched--brick-between-00713-and-13061-MB--DATAFS-moved-by-11776-MiB.pit but Odin does not do anything. It stopped in:

I can wait a lot of time but Odin does not do anything and in the device does not appear any progress bar or any signal that says that this works properly :S

I give up, I do not know what else I can do.

Thanks!!!!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] alnon:
hi hg42

i tried another pitfile, which makes a bigger "hole" and my tab p6800 hangs again. if i trie to give a firmware from sammobil or a costumware on it, is the same results:

if i download something from playstore, a few time is ok and than one time its hanging and i must reboot one or two times, also the same if i work with the browser a long time its also hangs.

and last time my daughter looked a film on my tab and the film runs and runs but i cannot stopp it, only a reboot.

maybe you know what happens or you have another idea?

thanks for all

ps.: your scanners are work good and says that no brick in the new partitions.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
Did you really read the 1. post of the thread and the thread?

The emmc bricked memory cannot be recovered, it is lost.

You can only minimize it.

So use the 'find brick' scanners to determine where the brick starts and ends and then flash the closest pit.

Apart from that, loosing 3gb is the standard case, and was described as an example, because it's the case I got with my own phone.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
I don't know much about jtag, but to be useful, you should be able to restore the complete phone software, so there should be a source for sbl1/2.

I think I read somewhere that you can also use a pit with jtag, so my pit method may apply to jtag, too.

The possibilities with jtag may depend on the jtag box, though.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
I'm not convinced, that these probs are all caused by the brick...but everything is possible.

With only freezes I can not explain your observations.

But may be there are other effects of the brick, which we are still not considering.

May be it's not always a freeze, but there is a kind of changing data randomly.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] chandarakk:
bro pease tell my Tape EMMC brick or not please

i try 120824-151927-emmc_scan_all_partitions_once.zip it show like this

and hang it stop cotniue at that point like screen shot

i dont know EMMC brick or not or from why

my tape P6200 work normaly after i update to ICs it still work normal and after i install CWM then i do wape data/ fatory reset via tha CMW it hang on wape date /factory reset Now my Tape only Logo and restart i try flash many time via odin all go Done but i try wape data/ factory reset via Recovery <3e> it still hang in wape data /factory and phone still on logo please help me how to rvive it ?

sorry for my bad eng and soory too if i post wrong secttion because am just nebie here
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
yes, this should be a classical emmc brick, because you wiped in cwm with stock ics kernel and it freezes.

To revive, read the first post of this thread carefully.

If you have warranty, you should install the corresponding stock kernel+recovery and send it in.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] alnon:
yesterday i installed 3 apps from playstore without problems and at last i wanted to install the facebook app and the tab begins to download and after x% its freeze. i must reboot it many times because every boot the tab wanted to download the app ready, but only x% and freeze ......

if i install with adb i can much apps install without problems (usb-debug). i installed the navy software (copilot live) and downloaded the maps without problems, need i to download parts for a game the tab load x% and than freeze....

what i not understand is, the downloads are always on the "data" partition from adb or playstore or browser.. and why it not freeze with adb install and from copilot??:confused::confused:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] jask05:
Hi,

I have a news about my device.

I spoke with a technical departmente at 'El corte Inglés' because they works with Samsung and the guy that saw my device told me that the eeprom memory is died and I can't send it to official service technical because they will see that the device has been modified by me (roms, kernel, etc) ...

Well this is my great problem.

Do you know what can I do for delete the counters in download mode?

Thanks!!!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] chandarakk:
big thank bro hg42

when i start scan with emmc_find_brick_start.zip it alway breeze at

screen shot

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/3442/img0054eqe.jpg

and i start scan with emmc_find_brick_end.zip it alway breze at

screen shot

please help me it realy EMMC brick ?

where it brick start from where end from where?

and what pit must i flash with odin?

i download pach pit already but dont know which 1 must flash hope u can help me
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] megosu:
Hi,

I have a GT-I9100 (galaxy s2).

I have tried your block scanner and here are the results:

when scanning from start, it stops after 2046 MiB = 2146 MB -> ok

2047 MiB = 2147 MB...

And for end, it stops after 3073 MiB = 3223 MB -> ok

3072 MiB = 3222 MB...

I am really scared of doing more damage, would you be able to tell me which pit file I should flash ?

Also, even after reading the detail, I'm not sure of what to do.

Could you tell me what I must do in order to fix my device properly ?

especially regarding /efs, and formatting/restoring partitions.

I did a backup of /efs before breaking the device, I think it was with efs pro, not sure anymore...

I also have a nandroid backup (but I'm not sure if it can help...)

I'm so scared to break it even more that I did already.....

Thank you very much

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Forgot to say, when doing the all partitions scan, it passed mmcblk0p1 and then stayed stuck on mmcblk0p10 (is it /data ???)

It might be /data as now, everytime I try to format or mount /data, CWM throws me an error.

Does it help chosing the correct pit file ?

Thanks
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] megosu:
Help,

I'm still stuck, I don't dare doing anything before getting proper advice.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
This seems to be a common problem lately...(see also some previous post from alnon)

@alnon: are you sure playstore downloads directly to data partition?

May be cache is involved or perhaps tmp which is probably mounted in RAM (tmpfs, kind of ramdisk).

Then cache or tmp could limit the size.

From my htc desire I know that former market app downloaded to cache, so I couldn't install or update too much apps at the same time. Increasing cache allowed more app installations in parallel.

My note doesn't freeze. Except seldom when I get bugs in apps, then freezes disappear when the app is fixed.

Btw. are you overclocking? Or undervolting? Then disable this before looking further...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
Sorry, no. Someone else?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] megosu:
if you have a S2 9100, use a Jig (see on ebay).

Good luck
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
You should really try to understand the thread starter before doing more harm to your phone...

If you understand, you can find the brick yourself.

If not, you may do other bad things, making all worse...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
The backups are just in case something bad happens.

If you follow my instructions, you will not need them, but...you never know, so making backups is always a good thing.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] jask05:
I'm going to try with Jig but.. I don't know if this is the correct way.

Well.. Yesterday I bought a new device (S3) but I do not want to give up my S2. I am very stubborn hehe

Thanks for your time :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] megosu:
Hi,

just to be sure, in this situation:

when scanning from start, it stops after 2046 MiB = 2146 MB -> ok

2047 MiB = 2147 MB...

And for end, it stops after 3073 MiB = 3223 MB -> ok

3072 MiB = 3222 MB...

is it the PIT file I'm supposed to use ?

i9100_16GB_u1_02_20110310_emmc_EXT4--patched--brick-between-00713-and-03128-MB--DATAFS-moved-by-02304-MiB

How much space am I going to lose ?

I have read again your procedure, and there is something I'm not 100% sure about,

When flashing a PIT file, will the EFS folder lose its content ? You told about formatting partitions (data, cache), which is fine, but is there any system data to restore after flashing a pit file ?

Thanks
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
Nice (S3)

Apart from counters, they can also detect custom rom by reading partitions etc.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] jask05:
I want to try fill with 0 the partition but I do not know how can I do it :S and considering that I can not enter to recovery... it's a great problem. Do you know if any Linux distribution can see the partitions, and how ??

Thanks :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] mmola:
You can access your phone partitions from a Linux box through ADB (Android Debug Bridge). I am not sure if you can connect the phone through ADB if you cannot enter recovery mode, though... I don't know whether it works in download mode, and I don't have a phone to try it at the moment (since I sent it to be repaired, also).

PS: does your phone display a yellow triangle when restarting? have you tried reflashing a stock ROM from download mode to see if the phone will come back to life?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] alnon:
If i install with adb i see that it comes in the tmp, but its not freeze. Now on my tab is stock ics with root, so i cant overclocking and undervoltimg! Can i change the directory or better to change that all installed on the ext sd card?

Gesendet von meinem GT-P6800 mit Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
The internal memory can only be accessed from outside (e.g. linux, windows) by a rom or recovery exchanging the data via a protocol (e.g. UMS or MTP).

You could use adb to clear the flash but this only works in recovery.

I think in download mode it should be possible to write the whole flash, but you probably would have to create packages for this. I don't know how these are built.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
The question is, if the problem is downloading or installing...

You could mount another partition in the affected directories in the boot process, but this needs root and a mechanism to execute shell scripts.

I do something like this with an app called script manager.

All directories on my external sd are mounted on my internal sd by such a script.

But if the directory is used in the boot process you need to mount it before, which is very early. Apps are initialized much later.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
did you try to flash a custom kernel via odin?

This is often possible even if a rom doesn't flash.

With the kernel you get a recovery (probably cwm).

Then you could scan for a brick and use adb etc.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
sorry, it seems I overlooked your posts (I'm a bit overloaded nowadays).

713 < 2147 ok.

3222 < 3128 not ok!

(take the MB values not MiB)

so you need a file with a higher end >=3222MB

you loose as much as the moved-by-XXX-MiB tells you (but note: 1MiB = 1024x1024 Bytes)

You don't loose the efs folder when flashing a pit from the usual packages (if you do it correctly).

But the "experimental" pit-packages may indeed kill crucial partitions like EFS depending on the given values.

But anyway, having a backup of the EFS is always recommended -- no -- *** mandatory ***. If you kill this by mistake you got a big problem.

The system partition is "restored" by installing a rom. The data partition and internal sd may be empty, so formatting is enough.

If you have "good" backups (e.g. from cwm), you can restore them. The moved partitions behave like the original ones.

Indeed, you can also flash the pit with a "good" (= emmc safe) kernel+recovery and then restore a cwm backup from inside the recovery.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] megosu:
oh yeah... it is in MB, not MiB... my bad.

I was wondering why were you answering to others but not to me, but I didn't want to hammer you so I gave up :)

but thank you for your answer ! very helpful indeed.

My phone is at the repair center, so hopefully, I shouldn't have to flash the pit file anymore (well, I hope !).

If I have to, I did a EFS Pro backup when my phone was still up and running. Is it enough in case I need to restore my EFS folder or should I do the ADB procedure ?

From a temp CWM not patched again the emmc bug, if I restore the CWM backup I made on stock 4.0.4, will it do a wipe again and potentially break the repaired phone or the new phone ?

Thanks hg42
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
Currently, I don't have patched pits for i9003 (as you can easily see in the thread starter).

There I also told which information I need from you to try to generate patched pits for a new model (original pit, additional model description to distinguish different variants with the same model number, at least memory size).
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
Any EFS backup should work, but I tend to backup my efs in two formats: a tar file, which contains the files and an image of the whole partition.

This way I also have more options to restore it.

The efs backup tools tend to choose only one of both methods. So if you choose two complementary tools (there are some for free) you can get both backups. I don't know EFS Pro backup though.

Using adb (with tar and dd for both methods) allows to restore the efs in more situations, so I would recommend this, too.

Most efs backup apps use the same methods though, so if you check what they create this may be more comfortable (with the option to restore via adb).

Please also backup the efs backup to your pc or may be to the cloud.

You should first install a gingerbread custom kernel, which is definitely safe. Then restore your backup from there.

Fake CWM + stock ics or jb kernel would definitely "apply" the emmc bug.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] shoey63:
Hi HG. A bit off topic and unrelated to emmc brick, but it seems you are the PIT file expert. Rumours are circulating that official JB for Note1 will involve repartition to make more room in /system. I was wondering if you could make a PIT that reallocates some of the pre-load (hidden) partition to /system. I don't trust OTA or Kies. I know you are busy but if you could find the time make one, I would be more than happy to test and report back:beer:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] htaylay:
Please give true pit file for GT-N7100 16GB. I cann't do pit file myself. Please help me. :confused:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
I was hoping, that these kinds of request could be handled by the pit magic program (before looking at it).

Unfortunately it's a simple editor for single values and doesn't help you to keep certain things right (mainly keeping partition sizes constant while moving their start etc.

Would be nice if it would manage such relations for us.

I know there are different reasons to edit a pit file and therefore different relations between all these values.

Emmc brick being a special kind of patch which leaves a gap in the table.

An example: for a non bricked case increasing the size of a partition p by x should also move partitions behind p by x (keeping their sizes) and decrease the biggest partition behind p by x.

It should be possible to disable this automatic behavior.

I thought about creating such an application, but couldn't decide which gui to use to make it available on multiple platforms. Web (html/javascript or php) based would probably be best, but I don't want to maintain or have a server for this.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
you know, I need the original pit file and some information for this, do you?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] htaylay:
I have original pit from firmware package but I think it is not a true pit file for GT-N7100. If I use this pit file, odin show "fail" message.

Unless I use pit file, odin also show "fail". It need pit file to write complete firmware. You can analyse pit file from above

firmware package. it is attached below. Please help me. I need working pit file. Thanks you for your reply. :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
hmm, I now looked at my files and noticed, that I already provided patched pits for N7100 16GB.

This already worked for some people, so...why do you think it's not a "true" pit file for GT-N7100?

Because odin fails?

There are other reasons for this, so I don't understand why you need to blame the pit file?

Given that the pit from your firmware package also fails, should clearly indicate that the failure is caused by another problem.

Apart from that, you should at least provide more info about that "fail". E.g. you could provide the messages shown in odin window.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
FYI, I compared this pit file and it is identical to the one, I already used to create the patched pit for N7100-16GB

EDIT: I already had an identical pit but couldn't generate patched pits, because my patcher software failed...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
an interesting difference to other pits (N7000 etc.) is the size of the USERDATA partition.

The pit sets this to 0. The partition number isn't given (zero).

(note: the end column is calculated from offset + size, it's not a field in the pit structure)

I would assume that some software (odin or the doanload mode) interprets this as filling the rest of the memory.

-- speculating mode on --

So it might be possible, that you might need an odin version that is able to handle this.

Perhaps your device has gotten a newer odin version (and it might be, that it's not released yet).

-- speculating mode off --

Said that, what about the other N7100 owners on this thread?

Which odin version did you use?

Does anyone know of differences in handling the N7100 against the N7000?

The size of zero also indicates that this file might work with a 32GB model, too, because the end isn't given.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] htaylay:
If I use multiple file, odin stop as shown in figure 1 . If I use one package firmware, it show Fail message as in figure 2. you can look at attachment. Thanks for your help. I tested odin version 3.04 & 3.07. Both two show same message. Please give advice for me.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] sloper:
EFS readed from other N7000 needed

Please, if anyone can upload EFS.bin readed from N7000 for NSPRO

Thanks
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] iqram:
please make a pit (P6200)

please make a pit for me.im using galaxy tab p6200.

brick start 1027 Mib=1077

brick end 2030 Mib=2129

please anyone??
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ahhl:
from Partition Scanner thread http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=37114918&postcount=125

since my start brick 1073mb ends 7517mb, i am choosing this pit file

N7000_16GB_Q1_20110914--patched--brick-between-00281-and-07528-MB--FACTORYFS-moved-by-06912-MiB.pit

loss about 7528MB according to the txt file.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
The pit is correct

loss is 6912 MiB (note: not MB )
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] megosu:
I was wondering, once you "fix" the issue by flashing the new pit,

can you re trigger the emmc bug ? (I think so)

also, I have read the bug can move over time and corrupt different blocks, what triggers it ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] chandarakk:
use this 1 bro P6200_tabplus--patched--brick-between-00281-and-02160-MB--FACTORYFS-moved-by-01792-MiB.pit

after i read along time now my tape p6200 alive again big thanks to Xda forum and all who help me

exspecialy big thank to hg42

sorry for my bad eng

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Ohhh

bro can tell me How many Mib=MB ?