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[Hardware Hacking General] E:V:A:
Samsung Galaxy Note (GT-N7000/L) Service Manual + Full Schematics.

After having spent considerable time trying to find any half-descent schematic of the GT-I9100, I was pointed to a Google search-link (thanks to an anonymous source) and came across the full schematics of the GT-N7000/L. This was a lucky strike since the only schematics for the I9100 that I could find, was encrypted, as I posted here. Why so? Because it is very similar in hardware and design to the GT-I9100.

We are interested in better understanding the hardware in this phone, so that we could (a) develop unbrickable-mod, (b) communicate with phone modem via a virtual serial interface over USB and/or from a local shell and (c) get proper and early debug output for development purposes. But there are many more good reasons...

So, in addition, I decided to put together the messed up pages for the Service Manual, in the right order together with the schematics.

So here you go (the combined):

Samsung Galaxy Note (GT-N7000/L) Service Manual

+ Full Schematics.

This download consists of 2 PDF files compressed with 7zip:

Samsung_GT-N7000_Service_Manual.pdf

Samsung_GT-N7000_Schematics_Rev_07b_20110925.pdf

PS. The parts list should be somewhat similar to that of the GT-I9100 and if not, you may recreate it, using my script in the GT-I9100 Hack-Pack Add-On.

Hope this helps!

EDIT -- 2012-08-10 -------------------------------------------------

Apparently the schematics are not so "full" as I claimed previously. There are many missing pieces, although they show some of the most important connections. Sorry about that! (I will have to leave the title as is, in order not to screw up the search engines and other links.)

In addition it is worth noting that:

a) I have good reasons to believe that some component labels are screwed up, including the block diagram, as usual...

b) The similarities to the GT-I9100 are more limited that thought.
[Hardware Hacking General] utshoo:
I Was Looking For the Service Manual. Thanks a Lot For Your Effort.
[Hardware Hacking General] E:V:A:
Some interesting and useful excerpts.

The Application Processor (Exynos 4210) boot pins/modes:

The Baseband Processor (Intel XG626) boot pins/modes:

The Voice Processor (Audience earSmart™ eS305) Known as U207 and also used in the GT-I9300:
[Hardware Hacking General] Entropy512:
Bad news regarding "Unbrickable" on these devices - even on Exynos devices where the proper xOM resistor combo has been found, a critical piece of the puzzle (a USB-bootable IBL that does not enforce signature checks of the next step of the boot process) is missing.

Rebellos and company have it for Hummingbird but not Exynos - this is why Unbrickable does not currently exist for any Exynos device. :(
[Hardware Hacking General] E:V:A:
There's got to be a way to circumvent that. But I have not followed that development very closely as it involves quite a bit of RE. Who's working on this (other than rebellos) ? What is the progress if any?
[Hardware Hacking General] Rebellos:
Who was working on that except me was AdamOutler. But actually work stalled, as Samsung locked Exynos more than S5PC110, they don't answer any technical questions. And at all I've got no time nor skill to look for deep hidden security holes in Exynos iROM.
[Hardware Hacking General] Entropy512:
I have also yet to see anyone compromise a device at this low of a level - all OMAP attacks have been farther down in the chain of trust. Same for the VZW GS3 - it doesn't check recovery signature on boot so that leaves a wide open hole.
[Hardware Hacking General] prietpraat1972:
THANKS

I Was Looking For the Service Manual. Thanks a Lot For Your Effort.
[Hardware Hacking General] Gareth-:
Perfect, thanks!

G
[Hardware Hacking General] Ajseter:
Can this thread helps the dev to publish a Safe Kernel for ICS
[Hardware Hacking General] AdamOutler:
It should be possible to short one of those xOM0-4 pins. Use the option in Odin to create a bootable SDCard. Boot from sdcard.

Notice the pull-up/pull-down configuration in the schematics of the iROM which are perfect for the shorting.
[Hardware Hacking General] akromatic:
i'd assume there is no mention if there is a hidden NFC reader somewhere inside
[Hardware Hacking General] Carmageddon1984:
Great stuff E:V:A!

Could you please focus a search for information on the issue of NFC? Specifically what I and many other international Note owners would like to know, is whether it is technically possible in anyway, to add NFC support into our Notes... this is the ONLY thing is is lacking :crying:
[Hardware Hacking General] Boyze:
+1
[Hardware Hacking General] E:V:A:
Regarding the NFC capability.

I'm not a HW designer, and IMHO I think there would be NFC included if it was designed properly. Samsung is more known to include new technologies into their design, than omitting them. Even when they have not been tested properly, like, for example, OTG and HMDI in some of their past devices. Certainly the N7000 was intended to have NFC, as it is included in the schematics and design. But for some reason Samsung decided to pull that possibility. So unless some Samsung Tech representative can enlighten us why they pulled this from the device, it is probably not worthwhile pursuing.

The missing chip U209:

(Need to be confirmed that this is missing on ALL devices, not just the Anandtech one, that this picture came from.)

The component location and identifications

The NFC chip schematics:

So if someone else is willing to have another look inside their device or have better knowledge of the NFC technology, please let us know! Given the large internal space available in the N7000, one should be able to hack together a USB-hub or UART based NFC reader, at least in theory. But that is a project far beyond my time and effort here, especially since I don't have an N7000.
[Hardware Hacking General] Entropy512:
Hmm... That's approximately where the antenna contact pins are on Qcom variants... That's the difficult part, even if the NFC chip is populated, if if there's no antenna it won't work. However those two big solder pads above the chip might be where the antenna contacts go.

There is no place in the plastic back of the N7000 for these contacts... I wonder if an I717 replacement back would fit here?
[Hardware Hacking General] Elantric:
Curious to review the schematics linked in the 1st post

but it takes me this page and I can not figure out what to click to download the PDF or 7ZIP files ???
[Hardware Hacking General] Carmageddon1984:
huh, Do you have bugs in your Accessibility accesories? does the app not read out the big, black "Download" button for the blind people? :rolleyes:
[Hardware Hacking General] primitive.A:
does anyone know where the Real time clock backup capacitor sits. i think mine is faulty
[Hardware Hacking General] dan_me:
stylus

HI EVA and to all, does it happen you to have the diagrams for the stylus, can we figure it out why the Note Stylus is so insensitive compared to Note 2 one and manage to fix it? I found out a way to tune mine but i don't think there are the schematics. I'm thinking to do a comparison between the two and it would have been very good to have both stylus schematics. Even if i'd pay a lot money for the Note 2 stylus it wouldn't get in its place, it's bigger.

I'll load the pic indicating the component which i slowly rotate about 3 degrees clockwise - till 6 o'clock as viewed - and i increase a little its sensitivity (made it as it was new) but far from Note 2. It is not writable this way, can this be fixed?
[Android Apps and Games] Curb71:
I have a sprint evo lte and would like to know if there is an application for showing me my minutes used. I remember one a few years ago I think for my Diamond.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] amsu50:
Is video.call possible with this phone? My wife has a galaxy sl and can do video call. Does the captivate glide have this capability? I've done it with gtalk and skype.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] dudejb:
Yes. I have done it with Skype, Fring and the google one I think is Gtalk.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] amsu50:
I have done it with skype and gtalk as well. On my wifes galaxy sl it has an option for video call when she makes a normal phone call. Does this phone have that type of option?
[Samsung Captivate Glide] dudejb:
What I do have is Contacts from Skype that I have merged with my Google Contacts allow me to make a skype video call. It has the option "Video call with Skype"

I went to Contacts ---> Groups --> and choose my Skype user name and can see all my Skype contacts and those contacts have the "Video call with Skype" option.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] roothorick:
Worked just fine calling my friend's Xperia Play VZW over Talk. Front camera was better than his :D
[Samsung Captivate Glide] timon12:
is there any way to have video calls via dialer? i've got free video calls, not data so I don't want to use skype or talk
[Samsung Captivate Glide] dudejb:
Ask you're survive provider what app they support in free video calls, dialer has no ability to make video calls.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] roothorick:
Seconding dudejb here -- this is done through some app provided by that carrier, which may only be available on phones sold by that provider. Even if they won't willingly provide you with the app, hope is not completely lost -- you can dump the APK from a friend's Android phone, or get creative with an OtG cable on a demo unit at one of their stores. No guarantees that'll work though -- it may depend on some weird framework or hardware inside their phones.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] Electrosmog:
any changes?

Hi, I've tried to search forum in this topic without success, so I need a clear answer for this question: is there any ROM supporting native video calls at the moment for i927?

And the second question (no need for very clear answer ;) ) - anybody found any way to make native video call with i927? I thought this device is part of Galaxy S II series of phones which were declared to support such calls, but I'm quite confused now and afraid of being mislead...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XeroHertZ:
Hi,

I've been trying to find a group ringtone option in the CyanogenMod version 9.0.0 RC0 galaxysmtd KANG rom.but I didn't find it anywhere...any ideas???

Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XeroHertZ:
OMG 113 views and not a single reply in XDA....weird :S
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xsenman:
Its possible that this post is in the wrong thread maybe a search for CyanogenMod version 9.0.0 RC0 galaxysmtd KANG rom thread , could give you better response
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XeroHertZ:
I already did and found nothing..that's why I posted here..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xsenman:
I guess most of the experts have moved on to S3 forum :), sorry I can't assist you as my phone is a different version
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XeroHertZ:
I guess so....this S1 is used by my brother, I have an S2 and will get an S3 in a few days...he'll probably take my S2..lol

Thanks for your help anyways..very much appreciated :)
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] jaywhojaycee:
I install chainfire3d to play cod black ops zombies and I rebooted and I got stuck at the Google screen
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] leelaa:
Tip for the future, dont use warez apk`s ;)
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Mr_Beefy:
You could always download the factory image from Google and reflash
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] jbrawley1:
Me too... *sigh* i just had to use the root tool kit to reflash recovery in Bootloader menu, :) no more chainfire for me xD
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] jaywhojaycee:
Yeah I had to use the root kit too but gotta start all over
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] philburkhardt:
C'mon, you had to know it was a gamble to install it in the first place. Chainfire3D hasn't been updated since October of last year. The chances of it being compatible with JB were pretty small.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] dansan382:
you didnt brick it. you just boned it hardcore.

a brick means its useless. its OS is just screwed. wipe it and dont make the same mistake lol
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] kevinrocksman:
exactly, i recommend changing this threads name tO [Chainfire doesn't work well with Nexus 7]
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Rafase282:
There was another thread asking about this app where I reported it doesn't work and was confirmed that it screw the recovery too.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] jaywhojaycee:
No it was a soft brick cus I did a wipe that did not work
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] mrnovanova:
Chainfire 3d was made to give single and dual core phones a little gpu boost. The Nexus 7 has a quad + 1 core tegra with a 12 core gpu and you actually went and flashed Chainfire on it? Do you see where I'm going with this? Talk about overkill fail. Good news is, your phone ain't bricked. Bad news is... well... you're you:silly: Next time you wanna juice up your **** make shure it ain't juiced out. lol.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Harry GT-S5830:
Then the title is still wrong. A wipe of data does not repair /system ...
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Lennyuk:
Just wait the 30 days for the exclusivity for Xperia to be over then the game will be available to everyone...
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] AndIKnow:
Unfortunately I didn't read this thread and mines stuck at the Google screen too. I bought the game for my Xperia and decided to Titanium Backup it over to my N7 but it didn't work so tried Chainfire 3D which killed the device itself lol.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] kieso:
I don't get while people want chain fire either? I thought it was used to help those without tegra hardware to play tegra games. I'm holding off on rooting until the recovery gets situated.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] easxoom:
I'm assuming its more than that since the guide said to load the QUALCOMM Plugin. And I rooted my nexus 7 and had no issues, definitely stay away from Chainfire if you have Jellybean or Quad Core
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] frenetic:
This happened to me a bunch. I kept trying to get around it and get chainfire to work in some way, but it won't at all.

Don't worry, you're not borked. A factory image flash after installing recovery works, if you were stock

It's a much better situation if you are running a custom rom (non-stock Nexus 7):

Simply install recovery like you did when you rooted (fastboot flash recovery image) and simply flash zip from sd card, the image you flashed to begin with. Reboot and it boots back to the same state you had it when you left. I have only seen this issue with Nexus 7.... but this method works and it's just another reason you should always do a backup.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Jamin13:
Stay "bricked." You'll have less problems that way.

|Trolling With A Smile|
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] RA017:
Damn, why don't I read this thread earlier? My Nexus 7 bricked too for the pursuit of Street Fighter IV HD on my N7.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] SoHaunted:
What exactly compells people to use an app made for single cores on an N7? We may never know.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Ryands991:
I wish people knew what a bricked device was these days. The term is thrown around WAY too much, in my opinion. It's like getting some form of virus on my laptop and saying "OH NO THAT WEBSITE BRICKED MY LAPTOP"

1. Always have a recent Nandroid backup ready. If I remember right, Chainfire gives you warning about messing things up. (I could be thinking of another app...) If it does give you that warning, you should have made a backup before proceeding. Consider this a lesson learned.

2. Wipe and reflash your system partition, and it should work again. You might not even have to wipe data if you reflash the same ROM.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] kevinrocksman:
yep it does give u a warning
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] CooLoserTech:
Why would you need chain fire? This is a gaming beast!
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] stuuuuuu:
if your stuck on boot logo then boot into cwm and open adb shell on pc and execute

/system/lib/cf3d_uninstall.sh
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] myztkl-kev:
lol, i got a message telling me it could brick my phone installing it, so i did a nandroid backup, i too bricked my phone, 5 minutes later all was well. dont ignore messages that say you can brick your phone doing this. back it up
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] kevinrocksman:
ok the word "brick" is way overused. a "brick" is a device that is used as a brick and only a brick meaning it is a paper weight and does not turn on. You had a semi-brick meaning that your os got corrupted. Not your hardware or firmware
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] MrZafonic:
Lego bricks ftw
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] armyboy11b:
Lol wtf :confused::thumbup:
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] slimdizzy:
Can we close this topic now. OP and others were stupid and didn't read anything. Between this and the crap that is in the general section, this is one of the worst sub-forums on this site.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] ponyponyponyswag:
same mistake here

I uh "flashed it?" then I was stuck on google screen (boot screen?). I think i ran recovery and erased everything? Hopefully not so I can flash? (im really new lol) from my zip , sd card. I don't even care about stupid street fighter anymore I just want my baby back :(

I will 96% completely read and watch tutorials before I do anything to my n7 again.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] wired57:
yeah chainfire3d isn't compatible with jellybean, sorry.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] dv1234:
N7 problem

I installed chainfire.. It bricked my n7. But i managed to restore it, but now after showing the cyanogenmod logo, the screen start to flicker and the divice shuts down. any Help?

EDIT:

Now it boots totaly up, then starts the flicker.. and a low noise from the speakers... any1 who can help me?
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] redundant409:
that is most likely not related to chainfire 3d. did you try restoring the factory image? https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#nakasi
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] SUDroid:
He needed chainfire for a graphics fix in Call of duty Black ops zombies on android. Without Chainfire, the graphics are messed up.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] TheGoD:
Dude, you don't know what you're taking about. Yes, you could use the app to reduce some graphic settings, but allot of people have bought it to run games that are incompatible to there device or to force AA on a game that provided no option to activate it. Especially the later is for higher end hardware. Sadly tegra gpu's use a incompatible AA variant and Chainfire doesn't give a f about ICS compatibility.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] kendong2:
how do you buy a free app?

this thread needs to die. the app has last been changed on 3rd october 2011, those who think it still would work with current devices and android version can't be helped anyway.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] kevinrocksman:
1st off is your profile icon a goat?... 2nd a 12 CORE GPU?!... um no, using the wrong word somewhere, 3rd NO chainfire IS NOT made for "giving single and dual cores any type of boost, there is NO overclocking options in there. It was made so you could play games that wernt allowed to be played on ur device by "dummyfiying" the name of the device to start the games"
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] mrnovanova:
First is all O wise one its not a goat it's an alpaca.

Secondly here is a picture from nvidia. See where it says GPU CORES 12

And thirdly

Here is an excerpt of an article (link below)

The results are nothing short of spectacular. We got Samurai II: Vengeance THD to actually play. This is a game designed specifically for quad-core Tegra 3 devices (e.g. not our single-core Snapdragon Evo 4G). Not only did we get it to run, but it ran completely and utterly flawlessly. Hell, our phone was even undervolted.

http://www.vikitech.com/12186/chainfire-3d-improve-android-graphics-performance

And seriously dummyfying the name of your device so you can play... Really? There is build.prop for that.

I don't talk out the side of my mouth I do a little bit of research before I give advice and you should too.

PS You should really read that article to find out what chainfire 3d actually does.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] kevinrocksman:
ok just to let you know I have a very huge following, I have done quite a bit for xda. See my status? Recognized contributer?

The cores, yes you are correct (because i thought you where talking about the processor itself (which is quad-core)) I'll give that one to you.

2nd, this is FROM the Chainfire description ON Google Market

"Chainfire3D is an intermediary OpenGL driver. What does that mean? It means that Chainfire3D sits between your apps and the graphics drivers, and can intercept and/or change commands between the two. It has some built-in functions, and can be further extended with plugins to provide extra functionality."

"Features include reducing texture size and quality to reduce memory use and potentially increase game performance, as well as increasing memory use potentially increase performance."

You stated (Chainfire 3d was made to give single and dual core phones a little gpu boost. )

Respect your elders. Think before you speak. We where both wrong on both sides (me being the cores and you being what chainfire does):highfive:
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] mrnovanova:
Seriously!!!

Isn't Saying this "Features include reducing texture size and quality to reduce memory use and potentially increase game performance, as well as increasing memory use potentially increase performance."

The same thing as saying this

Chainfire 3d was made to give single and dual core phones a little gpu boost.

Think about it.

Let it marinate for a second

If I try to explain this:"Features include reducing texture size and quality to reduce memory use and potentially increase game performance, as well as increasing memory use potentially increase performance."

To a noob isn't this: Chainfire 3d was made to give single and dual core phones a little gpu boost.

The noobiest way to explain it?

Do you still have your thinking cap on?

I'm not here for a pissing contest, cudo's on your credentials an all, but I'm trying to do something constructive here. My message wasn't meant for you but for the op and he understood it. I don't know if you realize how arrogant you are but thanks for your contribution, thanks for showing up. You can stop thinking now and go find someone else to heckle.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] kevinrocksman:
eh, I'm done here. I've got more important things to do for the XDA community.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] xopher.hunter:
Lol that was fun to read

#nerdrage
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xcly:
Hi all,

I'm having some trouble with battery drainage. Main cause is mediaserver, I have searched, and (for other devices) they suggested moving my pictures and videos off the sdcard. I have no additional media files since before this mediaserver issue began so I don't know what the problem is.

As you can see from the image, battery drains normally, then the sudden drop.

Can anyone shed any light on this? Are there any other people with the same issue?

One thing I did was flashing latest firmware from sammobile. Was fine for the first few days but suddenly this happened..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] member68:
I used to have this problem. I think it might have been caused by a corrupt media file, which made the media scanner get "stuck" on that file. I deleted everything in my /sdcard/ folder which solved the issue. I'm not 100% sure, that this was the solution though, since I did a few factory resets at the same time, but the problem is gone and so is the excessive battery drain.

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gandhimaster:
when you say deleted everything, literally the entire contents of the sd card? on my nexus there is no external one so that means deleting all the notification/gallery/system files too??
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xcly:
yep wanna ask the same thing. I haven't actually had any media I've added myself, which probably means it may be a file from one of the apps.

Will I have to go through all of them and delete? The mediaserver seem okay now but I'm worried about when it might go off again..