[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pmennen:
Ok, I have a N7000 with stock gb and KK2 kernel and I want to load the Paranoid Android ICS rom. First I see that I must route my phone, so I tried following the instructions at:

http://www.android.gs/how-to-root-samsung-galaxy-note-n7000/

These instructions make it sound darn simple, but perhaps I am really dumb? Ok, so first I downloaded the latest kies as well as "CF-Root-SGN_ZS_MUL_KK1-v5.0-CWM5.rar"

After installing kies, I got it to connect to my note although not without heart ache. Eventually I found that it would only work if I first disabled USB debugging. But that wasn't enough. Then I had to reboot the phone. (Without that step it wouldn't work). It wasn't clear to me if I even needed to make it connect to kies. The instructions didn't say I needed to. Ok, so then I start "not-rooted-yet.bat" which displays this:

(1) make sure u have installed adb drivers for ur device

(2) enable "USB DEBUGGING"

(3) enable "UNKNOWN SOURCES"

(4) [OPTIONAL] increase screen timeout to 10 minutes

(5) connect USB cable to PHONE and then connect to PC

(6) skip "PC Companion Software" prompt on device

(7) !!! PUT A CF-ROOT zImage FILE IN THE zImage FOLDER !!!

I can only easily do items 2-5. It's hard for me to imagine that I should just ignore the other 3 items.

Instruction #1 confused me. How do I accomplish that? It seems that the adb drivers come with the android sdk but the instructions don't say anything about installing that. That seems like a big deal and if it was required it seems that it would surely be mentioned?

Plus I found this post which also indicates that the sdk is not required.

> victorlht88:

> no u don't need the android sdk to root.

> just install kies, plug your phone with usb debugging enabled

> and let it install the drivers.

> restart your comp and plug your phone in (download mode),

> downgrade the firmware (if need be) with odin and simply

> root using cf root.

> its not that tough.

However those instructions seem about as clear as mud, since if I plug in my phone with usb debugging enabled, kies just hung forever saying "connecting".

Do the adb drivers get installed just by installing kies or do you somehow have to coerce kies to do this?

And then there is step 6. But I don't get any prompt of any kind when I plug in the phone to the pc.

And then there is step 7. I don't know what this means, but my guess is that I have to copy the zimage\zimage file to somewhere on the phone. However where exactly? There is no zImage folder on my phone! Plus even if there was, I couldn't copy anything to it after checking "USB debugging" (mass storage mode) I can no longer see my phone in explorer. What happens when I plug the phone in is that the phone says "USB connected" and then two new drives appear on my PC. However if I try to click on either of those I see "No disk drive. Insert a disk and try again". I even tried rebooting my pc, but then I get even more than two new drives showing up briefly, but they always give the same error message as before.

... yet I know that thousands of people have routed their phones ... so I am left pretty mystified. If anyone can clarify these instructions it would help me greatly, and maybe others as well.

Thanks

~Paul