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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Entropy512:
Root (and any other modifications to /system) don't matter, with the exception of CWM "fakeflashing" - Another reason NOT to use ROM Manager!

If you do not perform a factory reset from recovery OR the Settings menu, you will be safe.

Currently, your Note is hosed. Hopefully when I meet with two Samsung engineers in two weeks, I will be receiving information on repairing damage. However, the bad news is that so far, based on all discussions, the process completely wipes the chip including bootloaders. While it is possible to repopulate the bootloaders in the same power cycle, it is a process that is likely going to be prone to frequent failure.

So:

Good news: It should be possible to repair this damage within the next few weeks

Bad news: There's a good chance that the repair method will turn your phone into a traditional hardbrick

Good news: Unlike the current eMMC damage, the hardbrick that will result from the upgrade process failing should be fixable with JTAG. (Current bricks are not.)

Yes, wipe from GB, or install a safe kernel to perform your wipe from. Speedmod and Franco's kernel both allow for safe wiping AND should permit resetting your flash counter. They'll also give you a reasonably well working device. DAFUQ will also boot Touchwiz firmwares, but a bunch of things are broken with it currently - however it IS capable of safely wiping a device and booting a firmware well enough to run TriangleAway.

No, nandroid restores on dangerous recovery/kernel combos are not safe. The restore process formats the partition first.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] SpyderTracks:
Thanks for clearing that up, wasn't aware of that. Apologies guys.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] May Arno:
A Successful Experience

Hi guys,

I have done this process while having a GS2 with a chip which marked as In-Risk for the BrickBug and it went out well. Then I though I will share.

Started with flashing a Stock GB ROM using Mobile Odin.:good:

Booted up, surely lots of errors due to user settings. Crossed figures and did Factory Reset and Wipe cash. :good:

Connected the phone Kies, Successfully recognized. Updated to ICS 403 using Kies. ( due to some minor problems jumping to Modified ICS ROM from GB) :good:

Rooted using relevant 5.5 CF-ROOT using PC Odin :good:

Flashed UHLPS NeatRom Lite (1th July 2012) (it includes Siyah 3.3.2) :good:

Everything works amazing. Not even a single problem so far in 2 days use.

Hope you guys don't brick your S2 and have fun.

Cheers
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Phil3759:
You are confusing superbrick with brick bug and soft brick

With brick bug, your phone will never turn on again, you cannot install any thing at all or see any screen light
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] :
Just updated via kies to 4.0.4 and used cwm to inject busybox again. No issues... Kkes didnt wipe anything so i dont think.i could have had this issue... The uodate was very quick... And it didnt back anything up so i think.i can safely assume it didnt wipe
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] May Arno:
Edit: I haven't read what I jsut said... Sorry pal. My wording was badly bad ... I corrected it. Thanks for the heads up.

What I meant was:

I didn't say I bricked my phone and recovered. what I said was that the GotBrickBgg 1.1 told me I am at risk and my chip is one of the risky ones and cuz I had stock leaked ROM I took this approach to get out of it and be safe.

And in one stage I had to factory reset which tigers the brick. I have done the factory reset and since I was in GB nothing happened.

Let me know if you feel I am confusing something.

Cheers
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] aziz981:
Thanks Entropy512!!!

I will be waiting for your update, and hoping for good news.

It would be great to have my device wake up again, and of devices in similar state. (or am in the only one.. :eek: )

---------- Post added at 12:08 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:04 PM ----------

Most of the S2 are having brickbug, mine too, and have flashed and wiped my cell many times.

It is a maybe condition it can be bricked.

However wiping many times, it will occur sooner or later. So utmost care or simply avoid wiping the device.

Quoting from my memory from the threads i read, hopefully i am right.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] May Arno:
Too true. They made b big deal out of it though. Which is, but I really wasn't stressing cuz It breaks it breaks...

Thanks for sharing pal...

---------- Post added at 05:03 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:58 PM ----------

And I can see that you already bricked a Note ... They will figure out soon to do something for it ...

No worries... be happy....
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] aziz981:
True that.. And i bricked my note in the same way..lesson learned the hard way. But have submitted my note to SSC..hopefully they will fix it..
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] May Arno:
What is SSC? I had a quick googling around and didn't find anything relevant.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] SpyderTracks:
Samsung Service center.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] May Arno:
Too true. I didn't think about it cuz I was under impression that Modified phones doesn't make it there. and we brick our phone there is no way to put a stock ROM on it to make it ready for SSC. But it's definitely a good idea to give it a try. I hope they fix it for you pal.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] myshu:
seems i got the VYL00M , rev 0x19 :)

I kept to stock LQ5 and stock LPM , also flashed them through mobile odin. No brick yet :) even with a hard reset on LPM. Seems stock is fine.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] May Arno:
Yeah. I don't see any reason to be paranoid. Maybe just a lil bit cautious is enough...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] SpyderTracks:
With a superbrick, there is no way to tell if you've been rooted or what rom you were on.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] SpyderTracks:
Please read up on the brickbug as you obviously don't understand how it is triggered. Surely reading this thread you can see just how prevalent it is Nd its people like you who end up being superbricked out of ignorance.

NO stock rom is safe, rooted or not!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] May Arno:
Then you can claim warranty having bricked your phone. Did anybody so far had a positive reply from Samsung for that?

Considering that it's a very new issue I reckon we should wait for couple of weeks to see what people hear from Samsung for sending their bricked phone for service.

Hope it would be ok.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] SpyderTracks:
Most people with warranty have claimed successfully.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] May Arno:
Nice. I wasn't aware of that pal. It's good news. I heard that salesale bricked his, and send it to warranty and i waiting to see what he will get in response. Cheers
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] SpyderTracks:
Touch wood for him :thumbup: Samsung are very aware of this issue which is the why their so willing to fix without asking too many questions. So long as you say something like "I upgraded over the air to ICS and the phone was bricked" and don't mention rooting or cwm, they usually just accept it there and then.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] May Arno:
Hahaha... Amazing tip... Hope i will never need to use it though.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Mittaa:
There have been a couple of threads claiming that Odin Mobile Pro isn't save to use.

I therefore asked Chainfire some Q about using Odin Mobile Pro.

Here is his answer: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1347899&page=163
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] SpyderTracks:
Hi guys, we need to be careful here as this is a thread for the gnote. Just going over last few comments it would be easy to mistakenly think kernels before July for note are safe which is of course not the case.

It's probably best if you start a thread in the s2 forum on this otherwise could cause confusion and unnecessary damage. :)

Mods, any chance we can clean the S2 related comments to save confusion? Post reported.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Entropy512:
If you bothered to read, you'd see stock is not fine. Even CWM isn't guaranteed to cause damage.

CWM is highly likely to cause damage

Stock is far less likely to cause damage, but there are enough reports of damage from stock that it's clear that the chances are nonzero

The chances of damage WERE zero with older kernels. Similarly, I am willing to state, without any doubt, that removal of MMC_CAP_ERASE from drivers/mmc/host/mshci.c of a custom kernel will guarantee safety.

This is not the Cyanogenmod support thread. Just don't flash it from a Samsung XWLPM or XXLQ5 kernel. Any older kernel is safe, any custom kernel is safe.

It's kind of funny - the open source community are the only ones who can guarantee that their implementations are safe from this bug now that we know exactly what causes it and how to avoid it.

No, XWLPM proves that official kernels are not safe. Similarly, the N7000 proves that official kernels are not always safe - every ICS release for that device, whether leaked or official, has been dangerous.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Mittaa:
I recapitulate and rest my case: It dangerous to be an owner of a smartphone (it can ruin you, you get addicted, girlfriend becomes envies and it can be bricked in so many ways).

Now I will go on vacation ... and be happy either ways :laugh:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] O_G:
Thread Cleaned​

Please keep discussions to the galaxy note, bringing up kernels from other devices could cause some confusion as the "safe" kernels are different.​
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] kyllerbuzcut:
Just to clarify and sum up. As there had been a LOT of posts with lots of people saying things.

If I have a custom kernel which has the Emmc erase removed, so is effectively"safe", I am now able to flash any room I want from cwm recovery and out won't wipe and cause Brick bug?

I could be picking the information up wrong so I just want to check.

For example I have speedmod latest kernel and on stock 4.0.3 right now. So theoretically I should be able to download 4.0.4 and just flash that through cwm and there should be no risk? Is that correct?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] SpyderTracks:
Read the op here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=20

A safe kernel is only safe while that kernel is installed. If you were to flash a stock ics rom package after the safe kernel it would replace the safe kernel with a faulty kernel
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Entropy512:
Yup.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] kyllerbuzcut:
Ahh. Good just I asked first then.

So I'd have to flash a "ROM only" in order to maintain the safe kernel.

Like when extracting the zip file it shows you the various parts.has anyone noticed if the 4.0.4 zip file shows you the room as a separate file inside, then I could use just that via Odin.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] SpyderTracks:
That's. Right. If you want to delete or not flash a kernel its labelled as the zimage file in a rom package.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] kyllerbuzcut:
Right.I've extracted the zip and the tar file inside and can see the various parts.one last (hopefully) question.can I just delete the z image file, or do I have to replace it with the zimage file from the kernel I want, (even though it's already on my phone right now).I don't want a different kernel at the moment. It's a safe one with the Emma erase not on there.

I'm just scared that if I flash the zip (minus the zimage) out might break half way through our something .so just want to be 100 percent clear in my head that I need A zimage there our not. And that of it has to be there I can put any one in there them re zip it all back up.is that all correct please?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] SpyderTracks:
You can just delete it and your current kernel will remain. You can flash any part at any time.

Btw, what kernel are you currently on?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] kyllerbuzcut:
Currently on speed mod latest version.

I gave that a go last night trying to unzip remove zimage then re zip. It wouldn't begin the flash from cwm. Guess I could try just flashing everything except zimage in Odin our something.is there a correct order that you should flash things in?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] SpyderTracks:
You can flash them all simultaneously
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Jumbo78:
When I try to download, it downloads .zip file??? Should I rename to .apk or flash wia CWM?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] ablor:
Try to rename it or use a different browser for downloadin

Parasiyahdroid
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] :
Can the temporary cwm be used to flash on the device itself down to stock jb for wipe and then i can uograde via kies and reroot?

Can temp cwm flash non stocks roms w.o binary count? (or at all for that matter)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] crazy_4_and1:
Sorry for bothering you @Entropy512 earlier over at N7000 forums , I could not find a post like this anywhere , and this one is VEEEEERYYYY helpful . Just one question ( probably a lot of people here want to know the same thing ) . It sounds like it is safe to do a factory reset or a full wipe - data/system/cache if you have a "safe" kernel ( the one with no "emmc_cap_erase" function enabled ) , and I just wanted to ask once and have a direct answer if it is safe or not ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] rush25:
i got a sii yesterday with gb 2.3.5 today i update to 4.0.3 as i heard 4.0.4 are bad !!but now i want to root so just asked is it safe for my device to get root also i proper freqient wipe data resets through cwm on my other phone for new roms so after i root will i be able to do wipe through cwm ?

details:-
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] crazy_4_and1:
Your choice is to try and wipe ,but no one can tell you for sure if it will BRICK YOUR PHONE since your chip version is unknown and its interaction with wiping the eMMC chip is also unknown . You can root safely - it is a totally different thing from this , but you might want to ask either Enthropy512 or Chainfire for advice about wiping your partitions .
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] aziz981:
You should be lucky to get a non buggy fw. As entropy512 has said earlier, i9100 kernels are safe. And you can do a wipe without risks. I do it many times while trying new roms. Havent encountered any issues( though i have a fwrev marked as unsafe by brickbug)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] asm-xda:
so as far as I understood from reading this thread, eMMC lockup is triggered by unsafe kernels doing a call for the "erase" routine in the eMMC chip, right?

The part I'm not fully grasping is the following:

Typical calls to this "erasing" feature on the chip are seen from either the Recovery Binary (can I assume this is the same binary that the BootLoader) and also from the Update-Binary present in ROMs which gets fired when flashing is in process. So far so good?

Assuming I'm on the right track following this bug and repercussions, what is the link between kernel and bootloader?

1.- I mean, does the bootloader use the kernel to "erase" the partitions while in a Data Wipe/Factory Settings command? or does it have its own low-level code to interact with the eMMC chip?

2.- The bootloader is part of the ROM package right? so it is also flashed any time a firmware update is flashed, (unless there is a way to prevent flashing the bootloader by unpacking the .zip and excluding some of the packs in it of course)

2.- If bootloader uses kernel to "talk" to the hardware, flashing a "safe" kernel on an affected phone would allow us to Data Wipe the phone without superbricking it, right?

3.- On the other hand, if bootloader has its own low-level kernel-like routines to get the job done at hw level, one could only change the bootloader and execute Data Wipe without any issue... Is this right?

Last but not least, many thanks to all the guys who are researching on this matter. I think that if it took me so much time to read related threads about this bug, it must have taken several times that much time to them to research and share all those findings to us. Many thanks! :good:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] rev.pragon:
Hmmm i have vzl00m 01A. Good or unkown? Tool sayd it isn't probably bad. Asked this question in another thread didnt get an answer.

@cf: thx for your engagement all the time
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] KennyLegend:
Uh oh !!!

Vyloom 0x19 on my s2
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] CamoGeko:
Same here, perhaps it's time to stop being so nasty to my phone... after a year (flashing new sh*t on it every day and what not) lol

Otherwise it's just gonna be like.. f u! I don't wanna work for you anymore and brick itself. :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] danielsf:
Hopefully being on a custom kernel like Siyah, we who have the Vyloom 0x19 :( should have some protection, as it's know what to look out for when updating the kernel to the latest sammy sources. I'm so glad I skipped the Siyah 2.something b6 before I knew their was a problem (I was lucky our all day and didn't have time to flash), as I would have defiantly had wiped my phone and now I know that it would defiantly have bricked it. I'm getting the s3 this month, so I just hope that doesn't have the same problem and my s2 lasts long enough :(

Edit: Kind of scared to touch my s2 now :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Northern-Loop:
Known Brick Bug :(

Though I have flashed lots
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Josuhu:
Living on an endge! Just the way I like it.

But of course I have the brick bug.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Northern-Loop:
Is this only effecting Samsung ROMs or CM9 source as well?

Should I stop flashing Nightlys until the day or 2 later to make sure everything is okay?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] mamaams:
my SII is 0x19 so I've tried to read abot this issue but i didn't understand anything actually :( could anyone explain the issue and how to avoid it ? :confused:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] CamoGeko:
The way I see it is it doesn't depend on what ROM you're running its how you wipe your phone. Those that have the brick bug won't notice any difference until it happens. Its more like a surprise attack.

You can only avoid it if you never wipe your phone.

Sent from my 80GB CyanogenMOD 9 + Siyah ICS powered beast. Booya!!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Northern-Loop:
I shall be selling my S2 shortly and I was going to Odin O2 standard rom on there and factory reset :eek:

How are we meant to clear data then?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] hackerboi:
infeckted !!!

*Sigh*
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] CamoGeko:
Just wipe it the normal way, only this time cross your fingers and toes.

I was also thinking of selling my S2 soon to either get a Galaxy Nexus or the S3.

Sent from my 80GB CyanogenMOD 9 + Siyah ICS powered beast. Booya!!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Chainfire:
Flash the last GB firmware instead of ICS :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] KennyLegend:
So flash last GB, wipe data, flash ics? Cool.

Excellent tip Chainfire ;)

Thx

You had better get the S3 mate....we've known each other too long now :D:D:D

Plus....all the best devs have the S3 at this stage ;)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] danielsf:
May I ask if the galaxy s3 shows any signs of this problem please? It could be a very important factor to whether I buy the s3 at the end of this month please :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Northern-Loop:
I'll get downloading GB then, cheers.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] CamoGeko:
Yeah I'm seeing more and more are popping up all over the place. However, the funds that I will have to put forward for the S3 are slightly on the large side. Don't know if I can pull it off mate.

Sent from my 80GB CyanogenMOD 9 + Siyah ICS powered beast. Booya!!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] adv1sory:
And the next thing we would need is an app that shows if parts of the chip are already corrupted[/QUOTE]

+1 I heard the only way to find out is by reading the bad sectors which in turn would then brick it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] z3us:
Affected :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] xXCorleoneXx:
WTF

infeckted !!!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] remorema:
well this i what I got after my phone hard bricked due to emmc brick bug and came back from samsung services repair center with a replaced PBA main.

Im now officially scared of using samsung official firmwares. funny thing is I now trust more in CM team than samsungs own engineers. big lol to samsung

Sent from my reborn i9100
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] damca:
info about new eMMc

I got same info after my phone hard bricked (i restore with temporary CWM from LPM to LPG and have hard brick) due to emmc brick bug and came back from samsung services repair center with a replaced PBA main. Then I test it with this aplication - eMMC Brickbug Check and there is info that my eMMC haven´t brick bug and is Sane chip. Now with new eMMc chip work everything with temporary CWM for me - wipe, backup, restore (i restore with temporary CWM from LPO to LPG and everything ok). New memory is slower then original. I test in eMMC Brickbug Check (CHECK MEMORY) and i have score 31MB/s. My wife Galaxy S2 with bad but original eMMc have 50 MB/s .
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] ArcticFish:
Curse my curiosity!

( I have the bug :L)

Sent from my SGH-T989 with Cyanogenmod 9 Nightly Power.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] gaiden:
Illl be damned... Got the bug on.my wifes note... I got mine bricked and sent back to sammy...

I flashed stock lrg 4.04 yesterday on my wifes via pc odin and did a factory reset on it... It must be plain luck... It boot ok.. And all been good...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] CamoGeko:
The main advice floating around is to either stay on gb or get onto a custom kernel like speedmod or goku.

Sent from my HTC One X
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] markp1989:
I got 0x19 Known issues on my SGS2 i9100 :(

I am on CM9 so thats where I plan to stay for now. I only heard about this issue today as I had been out of the loop for the last few months, I only intend to keep this phone till the next nexus phone or next note come out anyway.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] kriskovski:
Will this http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=8&view=5759 (PDA: N7000XXLRI CSC: N7000OXXLP8) brick the note?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] :
Firmware doesn't just brick the note... it is a little more involved than that. Please read the following forum for more details:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1424997

[STOCK ROMS] N7000 All stock ROMs + install + Root guide All at 1place,Latest 4.0.4
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] coolfreebies:
Hello,

l usedthe Brick bug software and have a problem chipsetS l want to root my phone, which files if available will i need to do this.

Model: GT-N7000

Version: 4.0.4

Kernel: N7000XXLRK

Build: IMM76D.XXLRK

thank you
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] CamoGeko:
Why are you asking this here?

There are few methods to root, one is posted above your post.

The other is just to flash a cf root kernel in odin.

Sent from my HTC One X
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] hakaz:
Can confirm your findings, posted them about two weeks ago too but had no answers up to now :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] cryostasis25:
Got a unit that has bricked bug also nice application. Hopefully flashing it once a week does not awaken the bug.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] :
I hope you have read up... If you are flashing with wipe in ICS kernel that isnt a safe kernel (includes stock) you are at risk.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] cryostasis25:
Yup been reading and now im taking precautions flashing it.