[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hg42:
depends on what you call healthy.

The damaged blocks are still unusable, but because with the workaround they are not used by anyone, the phones operation is healthy.

There are people saying they have faults of different operations after that, but I think this has other reasons.

My phone currently seems to work flawlessly, but you never know.

I think, the reasons for the brick are not completely understood (at least by me), so we generally cannot be sure about the consequences.

3 GB for the my standard PIT

2 GB for the one with 1024000 in it's name.

you should use a ROM independent tool for determining those numbers.

Each ROM has a different concept of showing those numbers.

Usually you have these kinds of memory:

1. working memory

this is RAM (not a flash memory), this is where all data and programs are really executed. The OS loads programs from the other kinds of storage (here flash, mostly disks for a PC) into the RAM before executing them.

2. system storage (FACTORYFS mounted on /system)

this is where the OS is stored, that is configuration and system programs and also system apps (which are really user visible packages of programs and their environment).

3. user storage (DATAFS mounted on /data)

there you find all data which is created after installing the OS.

This includes all apps you have installed yourself from the market.

The data partition is normally leaved intact when installing a new OS version except for so called "wipe" updates.

4. internal SD (UMS mounted on different directories in each ROM: e.g. /sdcard, /emmc)

not all phones have such a internal SD, only those with big internal flash memory, where not all flash memory is used by the system. The spare part is provided to the user as a kind of sdcard (but it is not a card!).

5. external SD (mounted on different directories in each ROM: e.g. /sdcard/external_sd, /emmc, /sdcard)

this is the real sdcard, which you can replace.

As you see above, some mount the internal to /sdcard and the external to /emmc and some mount it the opposite way.

Samsung ROMS usually use /sdcard for internal SD and /sdcard/external_sd for the external SD.

Now what is called usb storage in your screen shot? I really don't know...

Assuming you have no USB OTG adapter in use, the most reasonable thing to be reported to the user as USB storage would be the external SD because it is removable like an USB stick and users may be used to this name. But "USB" is simply a wrong name here.

Or do they mean the storage you can see, when attaching the phone as USB storage to the PC?

As you can see your internal *and* your external SD, this could be the sum of both or only one of them, but which one?

Btw. which ROM did you install?

Do you have an external SD installed?

the difference between the patched-1024000.pit and the patched.pit should be exactly 1024000 kB.

That's why it is called this way.

here, 842 MB is the /system partition as you can see in the listings in my first post.

2 GB is the /data partition and 16 GB is all partitions counted together.

Companies like Samsung tend to always tell the bigger numbers.

Btw. the space available for installing apps by the user is the /data partition.

did you have the same OS installed before the brick?

I think, you had an ICS ROM installed when you got the brick and now you're hopefully back to a GB ROM, right?

(the screen shot doesn't look like CM9)

Then it might be a concept change in between.