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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ilegales:
i had a lot of restarts - over and over again

i unplugged my battery and it kept happening

since upgrading to ICS - its quite a lot better but still sometimes i get the restarting issue - battery life on ICS is ok - maybe a bit worse than GB
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Final5k:
For the restart thing, there maybe an apk which is incompatible? I had this problem after installing several apks from the market when I was on GB once and did a factory reset to solve it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] stiffi2011:
I wasn't complaining about ICS. In fact, I really liked it. Especially the additional widgets, and the voice search improvements.

I was just paranoid that something I did in everybody function would cause the super brick bug. While people seem to thinkI they know what triggers it and what doesn't, we just don't know for sure.

So for me, I'm staying on GB until Samsung admits and fixes the emmc bug.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Roy_W:
Back to GB for me too.

I agree with the OP, I have gone back to GB.

For me the advantages of ICS do not outweigh the stabilty of GB.

ICS:

I lost 40-50% battery life but I gained Chrome ( a little bit buggy but good nonetheless). I also ran the risk with the EMMC bug.

GB : I get my battery life back again, have to use the standard browser but at least I can't brick my phone.

I use the note quite heavily for the web, notes, email and following tweets. It has become an excellent companion and I really don't want to lose it just for the sake of running the latest OS.

I have enough patience to wait until an "official" patch comes out that can repair the bug. After such times I will go back to trying the various ROMs on the site.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] jedro072:
Me too recently on ICS Dxlp9 now back to more safer ROM stock GB 2.3.6 unrooted! loving it! gonna miss the resizble widgets and those new features but its worth to wait LOVE MY NOTE
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] zen123:
I'm back to stock UK XEU LA4 rom and all the better for it. The stability of GB definately outweighs the few advantages (that I've experienced anyway) with ICS.

My main issues with stock UK XEU ICS where

1/ Bluetooth connectivity problems with my car Nissan Connect system

2/ Adobe Flash player was unstable & some websites I frequent didn't work properly at all

3/ Screen responsiveness reduced

4/ Battery life was worse
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] 007shaolin:
heading back to gb too. Cant find any reason for using ics. and tw is so ugly. Waiting for the official Miui
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ridgmont61:
I tried LPY and didnt like it - battery life awful and unpredictable then reverted back to GB - I think I will keep it this way until a much better ICS is available maybe CM9?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Constable21:
Likewise I've gone back from XXLQ2 to XXLA6. There wasn't enough good new stuff in the Touchwiz version of ICS to outweigh the battery drain and keyboard problems. And I did do a full wipe before flashing.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Entropy512:
Main issues people have are:

1) TWizzed ICS is a horrible disappointment compared to an actual ICS experience. Samsung basically reverted half of ICS to a legacy Gingerbread UI.

2) Samsung did a ****-poor job of software quality control with their ICS releases. It's utterly stupid that the launcher force closes if you debloat unrelated apps - but that has been the case since the first I9100 ICS release. (There's a reason most custom firmwares use Apex instead of TWLauncher.)

3) Last but not least - Samsung has had a latent defect in the eMMC chips shipped in nearly all of their Exynos-based handsets up till now, and the kernel developers for the SPH-D710, SGH-I777, SHW-M250S/K/L, and GT-N7000 were stupid enough to enable the trigger condition for a known and documented MMC chip bug. The I9100 kernel development team was smart enough to remove MMC_CAP_ERASE from the MSHCI driver or not enable it in the first place.

In general - if you perform a wipe data/factory reset on any stock ICS kernel, you run a significant chance of permanently trashing your phone's internal storage.

It's a MAJOR bug that Samsung should NEVER have allowed to go out the door.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] praetorius:
that's because mundane tasks do not need 1.6gHz to operate. at most, you will be hovering at 800mHz.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] TopOfNewYork:
most of u people need to stick w iphones

android requires some basic intelligence u might think u r smart but u probably aren't...I would consider myself a noob but with the recent influx of iphone total noobs most of u make even me look like an expert

there is nothing wrong w ICS...

the emmc bug we totally understand it by now the fact that many of do not is getting weird at this point...u need an idiot proof phone if u cant get ICS running properly....that phone is an Iphone...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] poope:
I did exactly the same thing, and was wondering if anyone else stayed on gb. Ive had all the ics roms, but there always was something missing. And ics has no major benefits for me. Btw... im tired of flashing roms twice a day.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] clandestino123:
I think that I've found the important part in your post.

Early versions of gingerbread had lots of shortcomings.

ICS is an improved android OS. But right now, it is in its early stages with lots of bugs to be ironed out....just like GB used to be.

Hope this helps you to understand the issues.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Constable21:
You may be a noob, but I had a GS for a year, then a GS2 for another year before getting the Note and been rooting and flashing from the start. I wouldn't like to make assumptions about your intelligence, but I think I know rather more than you do. I'd say it speaks more about your experience of Android phones that you think the bugs in ICS are acceptable.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] :
And a lot more battery friendly. Still dont understand how GB can be better in that
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] testacount:
I was also on ics and now back on gb. And its the best for me. I had luck wiped after every instal of ics and not bricked my note.

The battery life on ics was the only thing why I'm gone back to gb. I use the same apps but on gb my note is lasting longer much longer. And I'm note talking about minute's, g have hours more of battery life. And if the battery life in ics want be better i stay on gb. And why we need the ics. Can it do something better than gb. The only thing is that it can brick your note, give you a poor battery life.

Sent from my GT-N7000

Happy on Gb.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] gitin:
plus u get to play asphalt HD for note 1.0.3 from Samsung Apps plus Real Racing 2 and other games without a lag :))

and S-Pen works better on GB
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] anonymous572:
You are wrong. S Pen works MUCH BETTER with ICS LPY/LPF + normal custom kernel like franco#3. At ICS rom you can turn on S Pen indicator which is so cool and helpful.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] sanghaviraj:
Im on stock ics updated via ota, my kernel is lp8 can i install speedmod kernel without having the risk of hard brick,n if what's the safe procedure
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] gitin:
i might be wrong but when i tried few ICS ROMS even with franco kernel 5 i noticed when GPU acceleration is on under Developer Options

and you take a screenshot and try to write something on it, it is too laggy its not smooth at all but if you turn off gpu acceleration it goes well

sorry i take lods of screenshots and write on them so i said its laggy...

thanks
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] chintamanijaipuri:
Yes,

You can install speedmod kernel safely.. Read the instructions there.

There is two types of file.... Pc odin and CWM Flashable...

I chose CWM.... Because it's safe, easy and without increasing Counter..

Best of luck
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] McFarah:
Hi everyone,

First of all, sorry for my English. I am currently working on an OVAL (oval.mitre.org) project which main goal is to determine if an Android device (smartphone, PDA..) is vulnerable or not , according to its system settings and installed applications. To make it quick and simple, the OVAL application that I am working on should be able of gather all system settings by reading all configuration files of the smartphone, and then analyze this information to determine if the device is secure. Since I have not yet a smartphone, I use Android SDK and some Android X86 images with VirtualBox.

Once one emulator is started, I run adb shell so I can read all files under / . Among them, some interesting configuration files are located under /system, for example. All of them are read-only, that's not a problem since I just have to collect information. I think that some settings can change from one Android version to another, but I will treat this problem later.

self@self:~$ adb shell
# ls
acct
cache
config
d
data
default.prop
dev
etc
init
init.goldfish.rc
init.rc
mnt
proc
root
sbin
sdcard
sys
system
ueventd.goldfish.rc
ueventd.rc
vendor

My question is the following: suppose we now have a real smartphone, that we can't root and/or plug (USB) to a laptop: is it still possible to access to / (or to /system) to gather system information? Is there another way? Maybe by entering in recovery mode (I can't test for the moment because, as I said, I have not smartphone and it seems to be impossible with emulator) ?

Thank you for your attention and for your help !

McFarah (I know, it looks like English-speaking name, but I'm french ;) )
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] SifJar:
Anything you can do in an ADB shell you can do in Terminal Emulator on the device also. [Android Terminal Emulator - Google Play]

It is essentially the same as an ADB shell, but running on the device itself. All the same commands will work.

There are also plenty of file browsers which I think should be able to read those files without root (I can't test as my phone it rooted, but I believe most file browsers e.g. Solid Explorer, MiFile Explorer, ES File Explorer etc. should be able to do this).

EDIT: For example:

(screenshot of terminal emu running same command as you quoted in your post)

EDIT: Also, it looks like you are running as root in the ADB shell output you posted above. The prompt appears to be a #, which indicates root. The normal prompt is $.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] McFarah:
Hi SifJar

Thank you for your answer. I have already used Terminal Emulator, this is a good tool, that's right. I have not really experimented with browsers yet.

I have forgotten to say that, but ideally, the application should be able to perform her task without reposing on others external applications. Maybe I would rather write an Android application dedicated to the OVAL application myself, and add some automatisms: the Android application gathers all system and installed applications settings and feeds the OVAL application with that. Do you think this is a good solution?

Thanks
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] SifJar:
Sorry, I just assumed you wanted a solution for running the same commands you could over ADB on the device itself.

Yes, I believe you can easily call any of these commands from an app as well. I don't know exactly how one would do that, I'm not a developer but I'm sure it's fairly straight forward.

From a little googling, it seems you'd use something like this in your code:

Process process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("su");

(replacing su with whatever command you wanted to run e.g. ls)

A few links that might be helpful:

http://saurabh-nigam.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/running-android-native-code.html

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/...-a-system-command-from-an-android-application

https://code.google.com/p/market-enabler/wiki/ShellCommands
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] McFarah:
It must be said that I have not been very clear in my previous post!

Anyway, thanks a lot fot your helpful answers and the links, I will go into that in depth, and I will post again if I experiment some troubles. By the way, xda-developers forum is a very good one.

Have a nice day,

Mc Farah
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] irish-sid:
I was adding some skins to the Ultimate Clock Widget via Astro, and moved some fonts into the font folder, but as I done that the phone froze. I left it for a couple of mins but nothing happened, so I rebooted.

Now all I get is an empty battery on the screen with a circle in it.

I had 90% battery when this happened.

I can't reboot into recovery, but I can into download mode.

So what happened? and where do I go from here?

I'm using CM9
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
I'd flash a stock rom with Odin. Clean slate.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] irish-sid:
It's that drastic?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
Given the phone won't boot, you've got no recovery & can only get into download mode, thinking logically, is there anything else you can possibly do ?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] charismakid:
Your absolutely correct . I would have done the same thing .
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] irish-sid:
True.

So, theoretically then I just flash stock, root it, and flash my most recent nandroid? I'll then have everything back to how it was?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
Yep. You'd think that should work fine. If it doesn't, post back in this thread with whatever you're having trouble with.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] irish-sid:
That's sorted. Thanks very much. Back to how I was a few days ago :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
Good man ;-) You're one of those rare people who had a recent Nandroid handy when the worst happened (you'd be surprised how many don't). Kudos.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Sdalton19:
So I am running the stock rom but have root access. the update pops up every 5 minutes to remind me to install it. I let it install and about 3 second in i get a yeild sign with an exclamation point in it. and the phone stops there. I waited for about 3 hours and nothing happened. Anybody know what I need to do here? I used Galaxy Nexus root toolkit v1.3 to root my phone. BTW i am with verizon
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jordi97:
For as far as i now you cant update a rooted device. i sugest unrooting an try to update agian.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Sdalton19:
reply

yea that's what I thought I was going to have to do. but wanted to see if there was an update package someone had made for rooted devices like some others had.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] iim baby jesus:
nvm i think im going to trade the phone
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Sdalton19:
So no one has an answer on this?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] joshnichols189:
Yes you can. You can't update a phone with CWM recovery though.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Ragnar:
Correct a rooted phone can update but not with any custom recovery. You need to flash back to the factory stock recovery.

Sent from a phone...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Sdalton19:
OK so looks like everyone is here was incorrect. The 4.04 rooted update is here in the XDA forums all i needed to do was flash it and the new antenna and everything is working fine now. here are the links.

4.04 http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1631796

radio http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1630438

Thank you Brandon for helping me out with this.

There are no stupid questions only stupid answers.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Ragnar:
Your right, stupid answers, that's not an ota update you did. That was pulled from a phone which was updated and packaged into a flashable file to use on a rooted device. But a carrier ota update as your device was asking you to update will not work without stock recovery.

Sent from a phone...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Sdalton19:
Isn't that exactly what i asked for second post in? Point is if you knew that, why didn't you say so? Look there's nothing wrong with being wrong every once in a while but be graceful about it. And if your going to give advice make sure you fully read the question and offer decent advice. You were saying there was no way to update it without unrooting and flashing back to stock. That was after I asked "yea that's what I thought I was going to have to do. but wanted to see if there was an update package someone had made for rooted devices like some others had." Is that not exactly what I asked for????
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
Well, you are right that there are a lot of partially right and partially wrong answers in this thread. But what are you saying is not exactly right either.

1) There is a difference between updating your existing build (like what you had asked to do in the first post) and flashing an entirely new build.

2) There is a difference between running a stock ROM (like what you were running before) and running a ROM that looks like it's stock, but is not (like what you are running now).

3) Root has NO impact whatsoever on your ability to install OTA updates on your stock ROM.

4) An OTA update will NOT install with a stock recovery UNLESS you are using the stock recovery version that came with the build you are using. (It seems like a lot of toolkits are flashing non-matching stock recoveries).

5) An OTA update file can EASILY be installed if you have CWM installed. See here.

6) Your phrase "unrooting and flashing back to stock" is silly, as flashing back to stock replaces your ROM, so why would you need to "unroot" your current ROM only to flash a stock ROM overtop? You don't root a device - you root an Android OS build. The phrase "root my device" does not make any sense.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Chainfire:
As you are all probably aware, the SGS2 and SGNote variants suffer from a bug that may brick your device when a certain erase method is used.

A thread with a lot of background about this issue can be found here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1644364

Attached is a simple APK that reads out your chip's type and CID, and lets you know if we know that chip is dangerous or safe.

Just uninstall again after using.

Most SGS2's and Note's have "bad" chips (its actually the firmware that's bad). This is only dangerous if your kernel is dangerous as well. Gingerbread kernels are usually OK, Samsung ICS kernels are usually (bad on Note, good on SGS2 if released before July), custom ICS kernels: look in the kernel's thread. This is a simplification. See Entropy512's excellent post with some further details about which kernels are what.

Obviously, this comes "as-is", we're not responsible what you do with your device, etc. No rights can be derived from the output of the program!

Internal data used:

MAG4FA, VYL00M, or KYL00M fwrev 0x12 || 0x19 --> known bad

MAG4FA, VYL00M, or KYL00M fwrev >= 0x25 --> probably safe

MAG4FA, VYL00M, or KYL00M fwrev != 0x12 && != 0x19 && < 0x25 --> probably bad

M8G2FA, MBG8FA, MCGAFA, VAL00M, VZL00M --> probably bad (mentioned in patch code)

Everything else: unknown chip

News - 08.06.2012

Samsung: "Patches will be out in form of new official ROMs and also sourcecode releases after testing, which might take some time."

Changelog

05-09-2012 - v1.2

- Added chips mentioned in patch code ( http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=31124285&postcount=785 )

08.06.2012 - v1.1

- fwrev 0x12 is also known bad

(v1.0: 6750; v1.1: 34315)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] panyan:
is this something you want us to run to collect the results or is it for our own information? :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Chainfire:
It is for your own information... there's no testing involved or anything, it just pulls some info from the device, and shows it on screen for you.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] jermitano:
now something to use to at least know if you are uber risked...thanks mate
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] andreww88:
But, even though you have the 0x19 firmware, if you are on cm9, you are "safe" because of the edited kernel. So, like it says I'm in danger but I'm on PA.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] :
0x9 - unknown :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] nameejokerx:
Owh damn..

Im in danger..

Someone please help my note.. At least until note 2 out..

Maybe i need to be careful now..

Thanks chainfire..

Update: no wonder sometime i hv half brick my note.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] EdgaBimbam:
emmm every note has 0x19, so dont worry.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] FRlTZ:
VYL00M - 0x19

so...that bad....maybe I'm just damn lucky then..
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] samit.mahap:
my s2 status

Feels like danger boy from million dollar baby:D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Ogy77:
VYL00M - 0x19 And me too have this on my SGSII,is this so bad or not,becouse I think sell my SGSII???
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] muhamet:
0-19
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] JazonX:
If there were 100 Galaxy Note's which Include 99 - 0x25 devices and 1 device with 0x19, Im the one who always gets that Unlucky one! SML :D But enjoying every minute of this!

Thanks Chainfire!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Ogy77:
And solution for this or some step dont brick device???
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] rebista:
And the next thing we would need is an app that shows if parts of the chip are already corrupted
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] samit.mahap:
lmao, bwahhahahahaha, lolol:D:D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] LaCroyx:
0x19 but no worries, i flashed roms like 100 times and no issues so far. Just stick with the instructions and no problems
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] chrisrotolo:
app seems to work on my galaxy tab plus GT-P6200.

I haz brick bugg.

i think i noticed a problem factory reseting quite a few times back on stock honeycomb.

im on CM9 now.

This is good information to know. I read the original article too.

Thanks @chainfire! and everyone who helped.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] zmadaric:
Is there any solution to make it unbrickable?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Ogy77:
Good to know,but solution for this is...?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] JayGB2011:
Just to clarify, This app reports the emmc firmware only.?

It says I have the bug :(

I did install the UK ICS update but then did a Factory Reset in System? What's the chances I have messed up the phone?

Not very happy with this, Only had the phone a month and now find out that Samsung are releasing a Kernel which can brick the device!!! WTH?!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] KennyLegend:
Does ur phone boot?

Then stop worrying and don't flash anymore ;)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] JayGB2011:
Stop flashing?

What if I want to try out other ROM's like CM9 / PA / Asylum? etc?

What if I want to root and use CWM?

So because Samsung have supplied Kernel's which brick I should just stay stock?

Nah I don't think so... That's unacceptable, Yeah so they are working on it. How long will that take?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Obliterator:
No worries bro. Just chill, everything will work out, as long as your phone works in the current state, there's no need to be concerned. Look I have got the same bad chip, but there's no need to freak out because we've only met one condition out of the several to render our device in full danger.

Everything will work out fine, we've got chainfire, entropy and Samsung themselves working on this issue, so it's just a matter of time till this gets fixed. Just chillax mate. :-)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] KennyLegend:
If u have to ask the question at this late stage then you SHOULD stop flashing.

If I was you I would make sure I'm on a kernel that has eMMC _cap_erase = 0.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] tazer4:
Just use Siyah kernel and your fine on any rom Samsung/CM9/AOKP, problem solved.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Entropy512:
Um, franco kernel r5 is safe. If you determine if you're "safe" based solely on chip name/fwrev, I have bad news for you - you'll never be "safe".