[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] darkspr1te:
Back up you EMMC

Ok you should now have a device flashed with our 8660_msimage.mbn loader, Qualcomm Diagnostic Load Host, AKAIK(QDL for now, do not confuse with QDload mode, which is the PBL Rom code in the cpu we cannot change)

[now i've bricked my device on purpose]

So under linux with a bricked device we use the program lsusb

darkspr1te@darkspr1te-NV54-Series:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04f2:b044 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd Acer CrystalEye Webcam
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05c6:9008 Qualcomm, Inc. Gobi Wireless Modem (QDL mode)
darkspr1te@darkspr1te-NV54-Series:~$

and using dmesg we see

[ 1511.796072] usb 1-4: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci_hcd
[ 1512.008462] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial
[ 1512.008492] USB Serial support registered for generic
[ 1512.010621] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic
[ 1512.010626] usbserial: USB Serial Driver core
[ 1512.022493] USB Serial support registered for Qualcomm USB modem
[ 1512.022531] qcserial 1-4:1.0: Qualcomm USB modem converter detected
[ 1512.022827] usb 1-4: Qualcomm USB modem converter now attached to ttyUSB0
[ 1512.023180] usbcore: registered new interface driver qcserial

so now we flash the device with our generic bootloader/parition table and the info changes , but we only over-wrote a small part of the start of the emmc, most of which is in the mbr (master boot record) and partition 1 ( /dev/block/mmcblk0p1) called SMD_HDR and populated with smd_header.bin ( i do not have a copy of this, any one help? )

Hopefully the rest of the data still exists thats written after this, so the therory goes , if wwe write a new mbr and partition1 data from back up (pit file plus smd_header.bin ) the rest of the data should still be there.

We also must write new copies of the SBL1,SBL2, RPM,SBL3,ABOOT,RPM at a minumum to get 301k factory mode, recovery.img to get upload/download modes.

Before we do that

We must backup the phone

(my device is just underdoing a reset so will edit and update with VID/PID's and copy paste's of cmd output).

So plug in your device and check with dmesg

you should now see

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04f2:b044 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd Acer CrystalEye Webcam
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05c6:9026 Qualcomm, inc

Dmesg should report a USB TTY com port and SD? device

[31690.930470] scsi 11:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic- Multi-Card 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[31690.931188] sd 11:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[31691.666710] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] 3805184 512-byte logical blocks: (1.94 GB/1.81 GiB)
[31691.667445] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[31691.667451] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[31691.668575] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[31691.668581] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[31691.673200] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[31691.673207] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[31691.674683] sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb4 <sdb5 sdb6 sdb7>
[31691.677438] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[31691.677445] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[31691.677451] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

now we have access to the emmc as a sd-card we must backup from here

dd if=/dev/sdb of=/mnt/2tbhdd/shv-e160l.bin bs=512

and when the dd command has finished you will see simlar to this (not the value here are examples

534241+0 records in
534240+0 records out
273530880 bytes (274 MB) copied, 21.7881 s, 12.6 MB/s

Thants it. We now have a backup of the entire system. next i will do a write up on splitting the backup into the required files and how to write a new bootload.

You device should remain like this between power up's, you dont have to do anything further on the device just yet so put it to one side.

Regards

darkspr1te