[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Dan_Aykroyd:
Hi there,

I recently got a Note from work, coming from two years of a Galaxy S, I understood most of the "scene" for the Note, but learned new stuff such as the dreaded 0x19 eMMC bug and Yellow Triangle (counter) when flashing via ODIN. Those things were new to me until now.

So, last night, I've spent it whole (from 2 AM to 7 AM) trying to make this work, figuring out a safe way to wipe a ICS that was filled with unsuccessful roots and left overs from previous flash. After searching, reading a lot, understanding and connected all together logically, I did it this way. Here it goes, hope it helps, since I've seen a lot of people having trouble to root this.

The premise is to start fresh with a wiped phone and go as straight as possible to ICS LQ3. If you don't want to wipe, you could avoid those steps and work around them. I wanted to share what I did so others could do it easier.

All these steps are just because LQ3 is too big to directly root (0 MB left in ROM, acording to Titanium Backup), so you have to work your way towards that.

Let's begin:

1) Flash N7000XXLC1_N7000OXALC1 Open Europe WIPE, Pre Rooted from this thread from bodivas via ODIN PC. Look for "LC1" and download it from HotFile.

What this achieves is to go back to a safe GB stock ROM & Kernel where you can safely wipe the phone via Recovery, plus it's a wipe ROM that'll do that too just when installed. This wont give you the yellow triangle or increase your custom flash counter, so don't worry.

2) Configure Play Store to download or side load the Mobile ODIN from ChainFire. I think you'll need the paid version, since I'm using the EverRoot option here, available only there.

3) Flash N7000XXLQ3 from this thread by dr.ketan or directly from SamMobile.com with Mobile ODIN with settings: Enable EverRoot, Inject Superuser (SuperSU), Inject Mobile ODIN and (optionally) Wipe data and cache and Wipe Dalvik cache for a "cleaner" migration to that new LQ3

* I've noticed that sometimes, after wiping data with Mobile Odin, you might get the "null null" error when typing with the keyboard, since it messes the CSC. What you have to do is reflash CSC (called "Cache" in Mobile Odin) without wiping again

This will flash the new LQ3 version while mantaining a partial root from the previous firmware.

4) Now if you go and open SuperSU it would say that there's a problem with the SU binary and can't be solved. What this means is that there's 0 space left in the ROM for it to update, so we need to solve this.

What you have to do is get Titanium Backup or a similar app to remove some system app and make space. What I've chosen to delete is "Setup Wizard 1.3" that is the wizard you first saw when you flashed your new firmware, so surely you won't be needing it again. It frees about 2 MB of space, but you could be deleting any other app instead of that one if you wanted.

5) Flash CF-Root-SGN_XX_SEB_LQ3-v5.6-CWM5 from this thread from ChainFire, or any other kernel of your choice, to install CWM and the latest SuperSU.

6) When the phone starts again, open SuperSU and it wil prompt it to update the binary.

Voilá! Everything is done: now you are in LQ3 with full root, SuperSU correctly working and with CWM installed. From now on, any new firmware that has a fully loaded ROM should work the same way to root.

Enjoy and hope this helped somebody out there :) Any questions, please let me know.

Regards,