yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Gucci.Nexus:
Ok thanks. So i have to be rooted for that method?

Phone:

Galaxy Note II - SGH-i317M

Provider:

Telus

Rom:

stock 4.1.1

Kernel:

stock

Recovery:

stock

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Thanks to the Devs hard work and the power of sharing!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Yes I rooted right away with chainfire autoroot and used dd on all my partitions except /data.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Gucci.Nexus:
thanks for helping bigbiff. i got the efs

for the other partitions i think i just change the number after the p right? 1-15 (16 is data).

are there any that are important to backup other than efs(3), modem(10), system(13)?

i notice some people put bs=4096 at the end of the commands. do you know what that does?

it would be great if you could tell me the dd restore command line for this stuff please, in case I need to restore them one day.

cheers,
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
I did p1-p15 for partition backup.

bs just means blocksize, or how much data to try and transfer per write. I usually don't specify it because I don't care how long it takes. I am not sure what the default is off the top of my head.

To restore reverse the order:

dd if=/sdcard/partiton1.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1

Good luck.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Gucci.Nexus:
Awesome thank you! Last question please. What is a good way to back up/restore csc?

Phone:

Galaxy Note II - SGH-i317M

Provider:

Telus

Rom:

stock 4.1.1

Kernel:

stock

Recovery:

stock

--------------

Thanks to the Devs hard work and the power of sharing!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
I believe CSC files are in /system and will be backed up when you backup system.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Gucci.Nexus:
if I use this restore command, would it automatically overwrite whatever partition is currently there? or do i need to first delete the partition i want to replace and then use this restore command?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
It will overwrite the partition with a bit by bit cop of what you backed up with dd.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] turilo:
Updated links in OP sorry about that :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] yas1987:
For some reason everyone i click PDA button and select teh appropriate TAR file (one specfically for rogers) , and click start, odin just closes on me, can you please tel me why that might be? I have odin 1.85
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] hallo13th:
Try a different computer yet?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] yas1987:
will try that now, lets see how it goes
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] turilo:
Try a newer version of Odin also maybe. Never had that issue how old is your pc?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] yas1987:
the first one time i tried it was on my mac which has windows, didnt work then i tried on this 3 year old HP laptop that didnt work either, it was odin 1.85, im going to try 1.84 , lets see how that goes. Brb

BTW i have question for you, once i install the ROM using oDIN, then i go on the backup app which i downloaded on my phone, make a backup of my rom, and then i flash the superuser , how do i flash superuser, under PDA for odin the zip file doesnt show, im not to familiar with this since i am coming from apple, i would appreciate your input or some direct on where to read and understand.

Thnks again

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So i tried using on 3 sepearte computers, odin3 1.85 1.84 and each time i click start is hows an ODIN has stoped working (the windows notification ) and ihave to close the program. I wonder why
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] turilo:
your going to have to find yourself a proper windows pc, make sure all Samsung usb drivers are installed also, I just install Kies for that! As for flashing supersu, its flashed via CWM or TWRP not Odin. make sure you know what your doing, don't want to see you brick your new phone m8 :eek:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] yas1987:
Hey thanks Turilo, so i got through the first step but the problem was instead of using the canadian versin of CWM, the one you made specficially, i used the other file and that flashed. Now i am having trouble making a nandroid backup, i installed GooManager , it wasnt even on the google play store, wifi installed it, and open it and there is no open script button, when i click on flash rom it say sin order to use this featuer you must have openrecoveryscript compatibily recovery, i tel it to try to find one for me and it takes me to download openrecovery-twrp 2.3.11 and the same file you have up for download, i down load it and no luck... I dont think i am doing it right, Im going to unisntall GOOmanager and try using the other one, hopefuly that works -Appreciate the good lookin turilo!

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So i figure it out: to enter TWRP you click volume up home and power button and when samsung logo comes up you let go of powerbutton and hold on to the other 2 buttons, that will enter you into TWRP and then from there click restore and bakup and then backup and Voila thats backedup :) Thanks Turilo., now on to the last step and do superuser, Wonder how to do that.. AHAHAH im such a n00b
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] turilo:
Well to begin i didn't make any CWM all that magic goes to Chainfire not me you got confused. after you installed the TWRP with Odin you were supposed to boot into recovery: hold volume up/home and power until it powers off and you see first boot screen then let go! then it will boot into TWRP recovery, then tap backup and let it do its thing. After that is done, assuming you have supersu0.97.zip already in your phone, you use TWRP again to install, then flash zip from sd card and browse for supersu0.97.zip, slide to flash and done. Your rooted!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] yas1987:
I never meant to give you credit for the CWM, i just appreciate you guiding me thats all! Much to respect to chainfire no doubt.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] turilo:
lol not a problem! i wish i had some of Chainfires skills :) Glad you got it sorted, what carrier did you find a note 2 with?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] yas1987:
Btw turilo are you on rogers aswell? Are the rogers galaxy note 2's unlocked bootloader? Also how does one know they have root once the zip is installed, i installed the zip and it said complete, no mention of Root and then i clicked reboot.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] turilo:
Yes im with Rogers also im actually in need of a stock un-rooted backup, i of course backed up rooted, not that it means anything really. to check root use root checker on the market or an app that requires root like titanium backup. As for boot loaders im not 100% sure about
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] yas1987:
So how can i help you , please let me know how to send you a unrooted backup, Im extremely dizzy at this point lookin at the screen for so long, you wana PM me or paste the info here, il be up in the afternoon and first thing i will do is deal with it! THanks again Turilo and the community and good night! :victory: I shall sleep well
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] PeterGuru:
I simply can't get TWRP on my device. I was able to flash CWM via ODIN 1.85, but I get the same problem as others concerning TWRP. ODIN just keeps closing.

I also tried to flash TWRP via adb, but that didn't work either.

Peter

P.S. I was able to get a clean backup of my Rogers ROM with CWM before flashing SuperSU.

Addendum: SUCCESS! I was finally able to get TWRP on my device. I found a page on the Goo Manager web site with a flashable file, which you can flash in CWM. Here's the link. It's the third file ... the ZIP file.

http://goo.im/devs/OpenRecovery/t0ltecan

Now I'm going to go all the way back and re-flash CWM, then restore my original CWM version of the original Rogers ROM, then re-flash TWRP, and then do a Nandroid before flashing SuperSU. That way, I'll have both the CWM version and the TWRP version of my original Rogers ROM.

SUCCESS! I now have TWRP working well, including my Blue Theme, and have a Nandroid of my original ROM prior to rooting. I realized afterwards that I didn't need to keep an equivalent CWM version because, if I want to go back to CWM for whatever reason, I'll simply re-flash the original ROM under TWRP, and then flash CWM, and then do a Nandroid under CWM.

I'm currently in the process of restoring a nandroid from my external SDCard. Since this device has only 16GB of internal space, I think I'll start using my 32GB external card for TWRP backups. Edit: SUCCESS again! Ahh, how nice it feels. :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Kiwinadians:
I've been looking around, and I'm curious, is it possible to get a full, stock, stock-recovery dump our entire system? I'm assuming we can make this dump by dumping through Odin, but I have not seen anyone mention this process. I'd be willing to do a full dump, I know it can be done with mobile Odin once root is acquired, but is it possible with Odin for windows pre-root?

Sorry for my ignorance, I'm not used to mobile devices, just nvidia based tablets, so I've mostly just used NvFlash.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] turilo:
Good to hear Peter!:victory: I was going to suggest you flash TWRP via cwm i had the .zip just thought Odin version would have worked for everyone guess i was wrong :eek: glad you found it yourself and provided a link :good:

Now im Wondering if you can help me out on the clean TWRP backup you made :victory: I myself forgotten to do so of my rogers Rom :silly: anyway you can zip her up and hook me up via pm maybe :cool:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] ZedZardoz:
I too am new on the phone side. Is there an Odin dump of the stock AT&T SGN2 ROM or a process to do so? I'd love to "play" with my phone but don't want to burn any bridges along the way.

There were some posts that updates don't work after CMW/TWRP/root? Any other side effects?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] turilo:
Ya seems Samsung hasn't decided to release the stock firmware quite yet, I myself am anxiously waiting for this! If anyone knows how to dump their stock fw via adb that be great! Im already rooted :eek:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] PeterGuru:
I'll see what I can do ...

Let me put a zip file together, and I'll see what I can do. I have a feeling the file is going to be HUGE, which could take a LONG, LONG, LONG time to upload.

I'll let you know.

Peter
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] turilo:
Great! Sounds good to me! It be greatly appreciated :D:cool:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] CayenneGTS:
Hi turilo, I live on the border of Oakville and Burlington and will gladly help you out with getting the stock un-rooted backup. :)

I would love to pay you to root my device and I can come to your place at your convenience if you're cool with that.

I just posted a very long post on your other thread regarding your rooted Note 2. I'm kinda nervous of doing this root myself and am curious about some other things - see below.

I apologize for the noob questions - I'm new to the Andriod ecosystem and I just got a Note 2 (Rogers) and have a couple of questions.

1. You rooted your device and what exactly did that accomplish? It appears you were able to get rid of the Rogers bloatware. So all the red colored Rogers app icons and software are gone? What else is the benefit of rooting your device in particular? Is it faster and the battery lasts longer? Please be as specific as you can.

2. Did your device retain all the TouchWiz and S-pen funtionality after being rooted? In other words rooting did not make your phone a pure Andriod system? I also have a Google Nexus 7 and can see differences in the OS compared to the Note 2, so I'm assuming the differences are "enhancements" (depending on your perspective ofcourse ) that Samsung put in.

3. As someone else mentioned, now that you will not be able to get updates OTA, does this mean that when Samsung releases the update to allow multi window or any other update for their software, you won't get that automatically? Is this not something to be concerned about? I would want to get any updates to the S-pen or TouchWiz for instance.

4. Does the above also mean that when Android 4.1.2 becomes available, you will have to update your device manually using some archane process? ie, you won't be able to do this simply from the Settings menu and click on update software?

5. Last noob question - for Andriod idiots like me (I'm a little bit techy - I jailbroke my iPhone back in the day, but would rather not root my Andriod phone unless the benefits outweigh the disadvantages - get rid of Rogers bloatware, keep the Touch Wiz and S-Pen functionality, improved battery life, faster processing etc), and I'd pay you for your time to root my device.

TIA.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] antiochasylum:
Holy crap. I'm going to say, in your case please understand what rooting accomplishes before you touch your device.

You don't have the faintest idea. Rooting in a nut shell does nothing more than to give write access to the /system partition. It does not speed up the device. You do not loose any functionality(unless you un install an apk that you don't know what it is)

You will need to flash back to a stock recovery to be able to update in 9 months when the note 2 finally gets 4.1.2, but my guess Samsung will bump straight to 4.2. But it will probably be a Kies update which if you had a custom recovery will not matter. Guys on the forum will grab a leak and make it a flash able zip months before it see's Kies or becomes an official update.

You will be able to remove all the useless apps you don't need that come pre-installed. That's all. Rooting does nothing else.

You need to read up on android, rooting, custom recoveries, nandroids, Odin, download mode and all that BEFORE you touch your device. You need to be able to recover from a soft brick and not come to the forum and post OMG HALP I BROKED MAH FONE.

Also don't be scared to root it. You will never learn anything if you don't read and attempt it. You will always be relying on someone else to fix it. Educate yourself and when you feel confident do it. But I highly suggest you do it yourself. There are plenty of people nice enough to help. Myself included that have plenty of experience with plenty of devices.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] PeterGuru:
700+ MB File ...

Okay, I prepared two files to see which one is smaller. I have a ZIP file at about 845MB, and a RAR file at about 768MB. The original file was about 1.2GB.

Any suggestions on the best way to send your choice?

Peter
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] turilo:
Ok well id have to say antiochasylum has explained it quite well actually for me lol and he is a well known Dev as you may see :D but there are also apps that involve root that benefit you, like titanium backup etc that allows you to backup everything on you device which requires root! I could help you root your device if really necessary but i can assure you its actually quite easy :victory:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] turilo:
Excellent m8! id say the RAR route be best, I have a drop box account i can add you to a folder that should work. you have a drop box email account i can add? :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] PeterGuru:
PM Sent ...

I sent a PM with the details.

Peter
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] antiochasylum:
Turilo, you might want to attach Odin to your OP as well. So people know what to use and where to get it. :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Chainfire:
Just a reminder to everyone, I need the following things to brings the full goodness of Triangle Away, Mobile ODIN, and CF-Auto-Root to the AT&T and Canadian notes:

- Stock recovery.img (no CWM/TWRP, stock!) for both AT&T and Canadian models

(on the S3, these were actually identical across all Canadian models, I am hoping the same again)

- Kernel source code for both AT&T and Canadian models

Samsung has released the code for the Sprint, TMOUS and USCC models, but for some reason not for AT&T. Please keep on requesting the kernel sources here: http://opensource.samsung.com/reception/receptionSub.do?method=inquiry . The more the merrier.

- Mobile ODIN dump files for both AT&T and Canadian models

If you install Mobile ODIN Lite (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1347899) it should offer to make you a dump file. I have not received dump files for AT&T or Canadian models yet.

Thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] antiochasylum:
Copy that, Chainfire. As soon as I get my 317 I'll get the required info, at least for the ATT variant.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] PeterGuru:
Preparing ODIN Dump File ...

I'm preparing an ODIN Dump File as we speak. I'll let you know how and where to get it when it's done. Any idea how big these files are?

Peter
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] antiochasylum:
Large. 800+ MB usually. Possibly upwards of 1+ gigs.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Chainfire:
A Mobile ODIN dump file is only a few KB, small enough to email or pastebin (its just text, be sure to let the pastebin expire quickly, or manually remove IMEI from the dump). Takes long to generate due to some legacy stuff (timeconsuming way to get some information on old devices) but the result is small. I guess I should fix that sometime ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] turilo:
Excellent thank you Chainfire! i will send a request now for source code. Ah nice you beat me to it Peter. I was dumping one now also for Mobile Odin! :laugh:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] turilo:
Damn i used up all my thanks and cant even thank the great Chainfire! how sad of me :eek: Thanks for your great work once again :D My dump of mobile Odin is ready if Peter hasn't gotten it yet, but hes ahead of the game so i'm sure he has :good:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] PeterGuru:
Dump sent by PM ...

To Chainfire: I just sent you a link by PM for the ODIN dump.

Peter

P.S. I'm really pissed! Your ODIN app said it would take 30 minutes, but it took only 22. Next time get it right, okay? ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Chainfire:
AT&T sources were just released, yay!

Now all I need is a stock recovery.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] turilo:
Oh sweet! Thats awesome news lol wonder what happened to Canadas them buggers
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] llsektorll:
Was having trouble booting into CWM. TWRP didn't work for me as it caused Odin3 to crash. CMW worked. On my Rogers (Canadian) Note II I had to hold down the Vol Down + Power + Menu Button then let go of the power button while holding down Menu and Volume down when Samsung logo came up to get into CMW to flash and root. Maybe that will help someone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] turilo:
hmmm seems many are getting Odin crashes with openrecovery-twrp-2.3.1.1-t0ltecan.img.tar ill see what bigbiff can do, for now use the cwm if you want TWRP just flash the openrecovery-twrp-2.3.1.1-t0ltecan.zip with cwm then reboot recovery
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] :
Stock recovery.img

@Chainfire

What is the best way to procure a stock recovery.img? I am still running stock and would like to assist with this project.

Thanks,

Trem
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Chainfire:
Well, as long as there's no stock firmware available, we could do this:

- somebody who is already rooted (through CWM for example), but still running a stock kernel, dump the stock kernel

- I modify the stock kernel so it grants root in adb

- you flash modified kernel

- you dump original recovery

We'd need this for both I317 and I317M models.

Root is needed for these commands.

Dump kernel to external sd-card, through adb shell:

su
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p8 of=/storage/extSdCard/boot.img bs=4096
exit

Dump recovery to external sd-card, through adb shell:

su
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p9 of=/storage/extSdCard/recovery.img bs=4096
exit

Both of these should give you a file of +- 8 MB

So, if some rooted folks would be so kind to post their stock kernels ... (and please also include which device model you have!)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] ongxa:
HI and thank you for your post. I just rooted my SGH-I317M. I am a very NOOB with android. Everything ok EXCEPT the alarm clock did not work for me. I set it up but it did not go off. Come to work late today. Please help.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] :
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You probably should take ten steps back and read the thread again. The main highlight of it is..ROOT WILL NOT DO ANYTHING MORE THEN GIVE YOU SYSTEM WRITE PERMISSION. It won't make you late for work or impregnate your dog. Chances are you didn't set something properly.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Chainfire:
Sigh... you can't. That's why I said for somebody who is already rooted to dump their kernel...

Doesn't matter anymore, because we now we can't do it. Well, you could still dump the kernel... maybe somebody else who isn't rooted yet will be able to help us further.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] :
I hadn't actually rooted. I retracted my comment, but apparently you saw before I could take it down, it was merely a early morning brain fart. I will hold off until your kernel arrives.

For those who could dump the kernel, I am running 317m.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] PeterGuru:
Doing it now ...

I'm in the process of doing this right now. Will let you know shortly.

Peteer
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Chainfire:
Cool, I'll be out for a number of hours though. Might not return until tomorrow. On the other hand, I might be here, so keep monitoring the topic.

Yeah, this post says nothing useful at all, lol.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] PeterGuru:
Sent by PM ...

Links to Boot and Recovery dumps sent by PM.

Peter
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] turilo:
For anyone interested in battery stats from my LTE note 2 here ya go! Still with good percentage left to go also :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] alcuin:
I presume PeterGuru is hooking up the Canada i317m. Here's stock kernel for US i317, just in case.

http://www.mediafire.com/?j0wj13gdfty646t
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bwells88:
The battery life is killer on this cell for sure... 8)

I'm having issues getting root.... ive used Odin many times and never had any issues... Odin gets to file verification and it closes everytime...

I've used Odin3 ver 3.04... also an older version, , I think 1.85... I've downloaded the file a few times... I'm on a Telus version SGH-I317M so I was using the twrp-0ltecan one... I've tried 2 computer's. .. different cables... lol

I downloaded the Note 2 toolbox and didn't see my model number yet so I'll wait on that one...

If I can get root I'll pull the Telus kernel for you guys but I'm a little baffled...

Should I just try the cwm6 recovery for the i317 and see if it'll root?

Thanks for the help. .. :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] turilo:
yes just use cwm6 recovery for the i317 it will work, ill get in touch with bigbiff see what might be causing the FC with Odin with the TWRP.tar file. then just flash openrecovery-twrp-2.3.1.1-t0ltecan.zip via cwm to have TWRP recovery
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] PeterGuru:
Flash TWRP in CWM Recovery ... not via ODIN

I had the very same issues in the beginning. What you need to do is install CWM via ODIN, and once that's done, if you really want to use TWRP, as I did/do, you can then flash TWRP in CWM-Recovery. Once that's done, reboot into recovery and you'll now be using TWRP.

Do not try to install TWRP via ODIN ... not yet. Again, flash it in CWM-Recovery.

Here's a link to the flashable file. It's the last one on the list, the ZIP file:

http://goo.im/devs/OpenRecovery/t0ltecan

Peter

Here's a link to my earlier post on this issue:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=33712352&postcount=34
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Hi, if you have the att i317 can you post /system/build.prop? I will create a TWRP port for ATT once I get this file.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] PeterGuru:
Your assumption is correct ...

Your presumption is correct. The Rogers I317M stock kernel dump has already been sent to Chainfire. ;)

Peter