yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] ghost_j1:
thanks man but would u mind to provide me with steps how to flash the ftf file ??? and what do you mean by flashinf the ftf file ??

thanks for responding anyway :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] pipi14:
Wrong section!!!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] FerGT:
To use flashtool, first download the firmware you want, then check usb debugging in your cellphone (settings/development options). Now turn off the cellphone, then open flashtool.exe, put flash and select the firmware you want to flash (with termination ftf) now there will be an advice in the computer screen sayin to conect the phone, conect it by pressing the volume down button until a green light is showed at the notification light part in the cellphone then flashtool will begin to flash the phone and wait it to finish the process. That all I hope it help you, sorry fot my bad english.

IF THIS WAS HELPFUL, PLEASE HIT THANKS
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] ghost_j1:
Thanks alot man and i can understand ur English :)

I am ganna try it and let u know but i few question still in my mind and hope u have the answers

is that process will give a rooted device or no :confused:

and is it an original firmware form sony :confused:

after all am I able to get the official updates from Sony :confused:

thanks alot and hope it the original firmware and if its not anyway to get it ??

coz my friend get an used phone and his old owner is really miserable man :eek:

thanks again :laugh:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] FerGT:
Yes it is the original SONY firmware, there wont be any problem receibing the updates

IF THIS WAS HELPFUL, PLEASE HIT THANKS
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Snowstormzzz:
Why not just roll a factory reset and update the phone via the PC Companion? Should be able to get rid of the crap in the phone as well.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] ghost_j1:
Thanks alot man thanks :cowboy:

factory reset will not roll me back from ICS to Gingerbread i though.. am I right ? ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -viperboy-:
Hello all! Here are the directions with links on how to go back to stock L900VPALJ1 FW. It will be provided for everyone because playing with these phones can sometimes go south and you always want to be able to go back to stock :) Please follow these directions to flash this:

Download the stock tar - (mirror link) MD5SUM: d42d84446d5ce832999ebb92f21f56b0

Download Odin - (mirror link)

Download the Drivers - (mirror link)

Install the drivers, reboot if prompted.

Extract the .zip you downloaded from Step 1 and remember that location.

Start Odin by right-clicking on it and choose "Run as Administrator"

Go into download mode - power off the phone, then press and hold Vol Down + Home + Power. Press Vol Up when prompted with the warning about flashing custom software.

Plug in the phone, make sure Odin recognizes it (first box should light up, indicating a device was found)

Click the PDA button and chose the .md5 file you extracted earlier.

Click Start

It is important that you DO NOT close the program, unplug the cable, or really even touch the phone while this runs. The phone will reboot on its own when it's done flashing.

Credits:

My friends at Samsung-Updates.com for the tar :)

Enjoy :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -viperboy-:
Reserved, just in case.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] wwjoshdew:
Awesome viperboy! I was starting to wonder if people were going to be able to download these anymore, since it's very important to keep them on hand in case you mess up your phone. My old links to the deleted thread stopped working, and now I can replace them with this one.

How To Flash your Note 2 Stock Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTUW1_L5fmU

[YOUTUBE]xTUW1_L5fmU[/YOUTUBE]
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Autris:
I'm getting an MD5 checksum invalid when flashing this via Odin, is anyone else getting that problem?

The checksum checks out for the zip file. I have downloaded it 4 different times and each time the checksum on the zip works but the tar comes up invalid in Odin

Odin Log:

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> MD5 hash value is invalid

<OSM> SPH-L900_L900VPALJ1_L900VPALJ1_L900SPTALJ1.tar.md5 is invalid.

<OSM> End...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] percentevo:
I got the same error with this file after multiple attempts. Found an image that worked here...

Hope this works for you, good luck! :fingers-crossed:

Just to set this straight, I should've credited wwjoshdew for that image post. I got it from his how-to video. It saved my bricked phone and was just tryin to pay it forward. Much apologies for any trouble caused!!!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] xboxfanj:
Way to post sextape's image without crediting him!

I can definitely see where you've earned the credit there.

/sarcasm
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] wwjoshdew:
Sextape removed himself from the forum and the link to sxtp doesn't work. Where did he get the stock tar from? Did he make it? We don't know if viperboy got it from the same person or place that the "guest" from the other thread got theirs from.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -viperboy-:
Proof that it's his please?

But I did remove the link anyway. I dont believe the tar to be his but I will not thank or credit anyone that asks for money before helping the community. Not only is that against XDA rules, but that is just being a douche. Imagine if a ROM/kernel dev did that. It wouldn't fly. Why? Because you have other choices, but choices were limited with only one person getting these files. Now, it shouldn't be as much of an issue.

I will post up a different version of the tar that I know has nothing to do with sextape's version, just for you honey :)

Thanks man, appreciate the support. Some people "know" everything while knowing nothing ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] xboxfanj:
I don't see how sextape saying that he wasn't going to post 4.2 yet (until he tested it thoroughly) since due to the nature of test builds, it may not work on factory devices, is asking for money. However, regardless of your opinion on him (asking for money and what not), it is plagiarism to post something that he acquired as your own. While he didn't make it (Samsung did and he never claimed he did), without him, you (as well as the entire community) would not have the file, so why don't you give him some respect and stop being so entitled to everything. You are not entitled to his leaks. He is giving them out to the community because he is a nice guy. So what if he feels like the community could help him out a little bit? So what if he thinks that it can be a give and take relationship? He's given his fair share, why can't anyone give him something for it? Is that a crime against humanity? Because if so, I advise you to take a good long look at the post above mine with its two donate buttons. Why do his standards not apply to you? Why can you ask for donations but not him? What makes you so goddamn special?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -viperboy-:
Again I will ask, please provide me with proof that it is his. Because your point is irrelevant without it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] xboxfanj:
The MD5 hash on his and your AndroidFileHost link are the exact same. He uploaded a couple days before, so I feel like you can put two and two together there, don't you, Derek?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -viperboy-:
Well, I was not aware of that. Thank you for pointing it out. I got this file from someone else and didn't know that it was the same. As said, I took the link down. I will be adding a new link to a different file that IS NOT from him once it finishes uploading. Thank you for your concern and bringing this to my attention :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] xboxfanj:
Alright, now that that's outta the way, why can you ask for donations, but he can't?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] pstevep:
Hi.

He was asking for donations up front. With a supposed goal. The goal amount was never listed, and you aren't allowed to ask for donations up front. Viperboy still releases his work with out donations.

Savvy?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -viperboy-:
As a dev, you are thread sh1tting and you should know better. I don't know how you even wondered out of your little sandbox and got over here. I will continue to answer you until someone comes and cleans this up...

Does my OP ask for donations? No. Did I say I wouldn't release something until money was paid? No. As a reminder for you, please read the XDA rules. Let me quote the important section for you...

So I am perfectly in compliance and sextape wasn't. Hope that clears it up for you :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] KennyG123:
As a Recognized Developer you are held to higher standards on XDA as others. Proper credit needs to be posted when using or posting other's work. It would be nice to answer Moderator PMs as well. Sextape asked to have his account removed, he was not banned. If you downloaded the file from his former post then there is no reason not to give a thanks. No XDA action was taken other than his thread unapproved. If you disagree with his actions that is a different issue than giving proper thanks and credit as required by XDA rules.

Thank you for your cooperation

Friendly Neighborhood Moderator

Edit: I see that you claim to have been unaware of the source of your original file yet also did not thank the "other" source that got the exact same file for you.

Also enough of the sextape debate. This is not the place for it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -viperboy-:
And as I said, someone said it was his, I was unaware (and not even sure that it was accurate), but I removed it anyway. The next file that will be up has 0 to do with him, so no credit to him is needed nor will it be in the OP.

I read your PM on my phone but forgot to respond, sorry about that.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] xboxfanj:
How were you "unaware"? Did you not see a thread with the same version a few days ago? I really doubt that poor excuse.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] KennyG123:
Gotcha....question...how different can a stock tar be?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] B.Jay:
Let me remind you to think how you're going to approach people; being offensive is not what we want to see here - and consider this a friendly warning.

Apart from that: A LEAK belongs to NO ONE apart from the manufacturer who actually holds the copyright on the firmware. You complaining about "it's sextape's, not your's" is totally, absolutely, irrelevant. If you're so inclined to point out possible ownership you well better look into the terms of copyright and intellectual property first and then you may point out that it actually belongs to Samsung.

Also, just as a another friendly reminder - THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT THREAD! If you feel like playing sextape fanboi take it to IRC, Facebook, Twitter or whatever service else the world doesn't care about.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -viperboy-:
Yes, I saw his thread and I participated in it. As I said, I had a file from another source that I was not informed was his file. I never checked the md5, the filenames were just different. I assumed it was a different file, sorry I didn't check the complete legitimacy of it...

Well, good question, I'm not really sure. But the other file I have isn't even the same size and it comes from a completely different place.

Thank you, sir.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] pstevep:
This is true. Although I might add, he asked to have his account deleted because he didn't want to abide by our rules.

On another note.

The difference between stock tar files, is probably similar to the differences in stock ruu files. One or two files changing. If viperboy was using sextape file he would need to credit him. As it appears that he is going to be using a different file altogether, no credit needs to be given.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] goodpup420:
i really dont understand ur need to come in here and totally derail the thread. especially when u urself have not always 100% of the time given proper credit where due and infact have even been accused of stealing code. those are all just accusations which anyone can throw out but seeing as how uve been in the same position before u would have a little more sympathy and give the dude the benefit of the doubt. he took down the damn file so get over it. who cares when where how why he got the file? as stated its none of ur property its samsungs. there were complaints. he responded to the complaints same goes for u so why the need to try and be all high and might?

man this is soooooo disappointing when u get a new device and ur so excited to learn about it and do all the stuff u can do then u try and gather all the things u need but run into threads like this that are too busy worrying about their sandy vaginas over getting credit for something that they didnt even do. i love all the work everyone does here but sometimes man its so annoying sitting here having to filter through crap like this just to get to the things we need
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] xboxfanj:
#1. I have always given proper credit in my threads, but that is irrelevant.

#2. I am sorry that I blew up a bit, but I did think that sextape deserved more respect than he was given

Anyway, thanks, -viperboy- for addressing my concerns. Let's just go back and discuss the topic at hand: Note II software.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -viperboy-:
It's all good man, water under the bridge.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] SantinoInc:
Regardless of the source I thank you for this important tool...rock on!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -viperboy-:
I have put up another stock tar for you guys. This one came from Samsung-Updates.com, credits in OP, filename says it as well. Original file was located here but hotfile is slow as hell lol so I mirrored it for you guys. I will have another mirror up tonight once I get back to school.

Please someone test this to make sure it flashes, it should without issue. Thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] JBizzleFoSho:
It doesn't seem to wipe everything out like I thought it would. I still have all my apps and what not. My status still says modified but when I go to download mode it says I have Samsung Official. I'm a bit confused

Edit - Did a factory reset and now it says my device status is normal. Still though that Odin' a full image would have reset me back to out of the box stock.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] guirae:
so i dLed this ODIN'ed it. when it was in it's md5 format, Odin would freak out and freeze.

after i renamed the file to a .tar file, it worked. i noticed that wasn't mentioned in the OP. thought i'd let people know who haven't done this before/are running into the issue.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Tiffany84:
In my experience with Odin and tars, Odin doesn't usually touch your data partition and that's why you still had all your apps installed. It's also the reason why sometimes the phone won't even boot after flashing the tar without doing a factory reset. I'm definitely not the smartest person when it comes to any of this but that's just been my experience. It will wipe out every partition but the data partition. So it's best to boot into the stock recovery afterwards and do a factory reset.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] goodpup420:
didnt have this problem at all. did u just pull the md5 out of the zip instead of extracting it all? there was a second file in the zip that disappears when u extraxt the whole zip file
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mokash34:
! C:\Users\K\Downloads\SPH-L900_SPR_1_20121004114000_y7g9ak44az.zip: CRC failed in KIES_HOME_L900VPALJ1_L900SPTALJ1_265523_REV04_user_low_ship.tar.md5. The file is corrupt

That is what I get every time I try to extract the file. It gets to 99% and then errors out. I've redownloaded twice already. Am I doing something wrong?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] wwjoshdew:
Just a heads up, the tar.md5 would not flash in odin. My MD5 of the 1.3GB file is 75dc0b88dcb01c52ae449137e0f6c258

When I load the "other" one, it works just fine. Now my phone is 100 percent stock.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrnamster:
I too was unable to flash. It got stuck at the "NAND Write Start" step. The MD5 checks out.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mokash34:
Which "other" one... I cannot seem to get this update to flash
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] wwjoshdew:
Check the 3rd Post. If you click on the video, there is a mirror to the one that works in my video.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] adrian2pm:
whats the difference of flashing this stock rom then do the ota update than flashing with team venums stock with ota?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] rwright64:
This one gets you the newest modem. I don't know that it's any different though.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] bman55:
is there a flash counter? or yellow triangle?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] claude9039u:
Viperboy when are you going to get a rom up for the Note 2. Oh by the way whats up!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -viperboy-:
Was working on it, but then the new base came out lol so it gonna take a little bit.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] bcraig2010:
Thanks this worked for me using the file you noted that did not need to be unzippec in your youtubr video.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] claude9039u:
Cool I will be waiting I don't run a ROM unless its from you and your crew!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] TNTRMSKD:
The files in the OP do not work.

ODIN will lock up on NAND write.

Trying the file from joshdew's youtube video.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -viperboy-:
It was pulled from Samsung kies server, no reason why it shouldn't :/
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] TNTRMSKD:
Not sure? I'm not being accusatory, it's just what happened to me and I believe someone further up posted the same thing. ODIN just sits at NAND write indefinitely, I retried the flash 3 times.

I used joshdew's file and it worked.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -viperboy-:
I don't have time to flash this and test it, but I will put up a new link here in a little bit. Maybe you can test it for me and see if it works?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -viperboy-:
Edited...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Tw1sted247:
To viperBoy, So can I use the method posted in the OP as a back up if any issues arise while either rooting or flashing a ROM like JellyBomb or Blazer, or "CleanROM" . As if I hit a boot loop or if it "Bricks". Is this the method I would want to use to get my phone working again so I can start the process over?

I am looking to Root and Flash but want to do a little more research, want to make sure I have my bases covered. So if an issue arises I can atleast put it back to stock and use the phone until I can get some info on rerooting it or flashing etc.

One last thing does this put you back to a Stock ROM rooted or back to Stock unrooted like a brand new phone(with the exception to the counter still needing to be zeroed out?)

Thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -viperboy-:
Goes to stock unrooted. And yes, that is the theory. But others are saying that the files in the first post don't work. That's why I posted 2 other files, but no one has confirmed if it works.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Tw1sted247:
Thanks for the response man appreciate it.

One more thing, in theory should one always be able to reach their screen (forgot the name of the screen) where you hold the volume up, home, and power to access the twrp or cwm screen?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -viperboy-:
Yes, you'd really have to screw up to loose that lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] XxdejavuxX:
I'm already stock but I keep getting an error when trying to force the OTA. I going to download from the new link you put up and try to start over gain so i can try the OTA with your stock unrooted. Will report tomorrow thanks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -viperboy-:
Can someone please test the 2 tars I posted a few posts back? Need to know if they work.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -viperboy-:
Updated the link in the OP. The new file worked, I had to Odin because the phone decided not to boot out of the blue.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] XxdejavuxX:
It worked for me. thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -viperboy-:
Thanks much, I verified it worked 100% as well.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mayer7196:
Please help! I followed the above instructions and it comes up FAILED in Odin? Tried it again, same thing. Any ideas?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] dc13:
Redownload and try again.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -viperboy-:
You did unzip the file, right? But yes, try downloading again and make sure the md5 matches.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mayer7196:
I actually just reopened the newer Odin v3.07 and it worked? Weird, thanks everyone!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Klinefelterkid:
Does anyone know of a stock image like this that is flashable through recovery?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -viperboy-:
Nope, otherwise I probably would have mentioned it ;) you can use mobile Odin though to flash from the OS.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] 00mred00:
like viperboy said no....but I know it was done on the s3. sure would be handy. I may try and get with the devs over there that made the flash to stock and reset counter zip and see what we can make happen (time permitting)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] wwjoshdew:
Are you all forgetting about THIS?

You just load the tar to your phones sdcard, and run the app...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] asteetva:
You have just joined , I have been using Viperboy's roms since PPC 6700 days ( 2006), his work is awesome, I am glad he is here, not sure who you are, but from how you commented abut his credit, seems like that is how you did it...Everyone here knows him sorry everyone - ONE...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] wwjoshdew:
He was corrected and put in his place already...

I remember that phone. My very first posts on this forum were about it! Lol. I want to forget about losing my contacts every time I used the kitchen to put 5.5 on it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] 00mred00:
no....i have not

but the method I am looking at makes it super easy in comparison to swap back and forth temp to use allshare cast for example.

trust me ..I am more interested in finding a rooted solution to allshare cast but that series of zips on the s3 were extremely handy for going back and forth
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] chamkilla:
Its only for sprint ? Or I live in Norway I also can use same firmware?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -viperboy-:
I doubt your model is an L900 and I'm sure you're not CDMA either. So Sprint only.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lexvdub1:
This also works with mobile ODIN, I just went back to full stock, make sure to turn uncheck EVERROOT, once completed activate phone, then go HAM again.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jayharper08:
I've cleaned the thread guys. I have a history with both of you and you guys are respected. Let's keep it that way please. :highfive:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] sextape:
Sorry about that Jay
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] JY1:
Hi Viperboy,

Any idea where I can find the original stock Sprint tar ALJC?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] bocaccio:
Anyway you can help or tell me what i did wrong? I rooted then tried to flash synergy but apparently did it wrong because im stuck on the gn2 screen. I supplied a pic of what odin looks like on my end. And the note is in dl mode with the bar at about 20%.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Epix4G:
Use this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2152556

The bootloader will always fail on the older tar ... security from going back to older bootloader

Sent from my SPH-L900 using Xparent BlueTapatalk 2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] bocaccio:
Use same instructions as on this post but use the file you directed me to?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Epix4G:
Its the newest return to stock until they get a tar of mc2

Sent from my SPH-L900 using Xparent BlueTapatalk 2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] bocaccio:
Worked like a charm!!! Thanks for the help
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] hhhstonehhh:
i got fail msg during using odin..

and when i turn on the phone it said "firmware upgrade encountered and issue..."

i tryed to use odin again but it end up fail.. can anybody help??