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[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dandroid40:
Thanks xcly I got in to the recovery no problem was holding buttons down to long :eek: just got one more thing iam not sure about the unroot and back to stock

Recovery

1.use triangle away to unroot

2.flash a stock firmware with odin

3.then factory reset and delete cache

Is this correct and would it get rid of the cwm recovery is this the correct procedure to get it back to when I bought

It . I would feel like I lost a loved one if it broke :) thanks for all the help.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DesertHawk:
If you want to go back to stock unrooted its easy

Use triangle away to reset flash counter, just incase

Download stock rom which is in odin flashable format

Put phone in odin mode so power+home+vol down

Press volume+ when it gives you some info

Open odin and flash the md5.tar file under the PDA section

Happy days

~ Taylor_Swift
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dandroid40:
Thanks taylor will try that later .
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dandroid40:
Thanks for your help

I got it back to stock perfectly with no binary count

Phone was playing around after using sd maid . Could anyone tell me if there is away of having root but still get ota updates or the easiest way to do that .
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmg2080:
Downgrade Galaxy Note 2 T889 ver. 4.1.2 to 4.1.1

I was 100% successful flash to stock 4.1.1 from 4.1.2.

I did get the Samsung logo stuck. then I did a Wipe Data/ Factory reset.

took care of the problem.

there's a video of a guy doing it using Odin3.07 same one I used and I got a Stock 4.1.1 file online working fine .

time to unlock it now. still waiting on reply from other person.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stempanssi:
Hi! I got a couple of questions...

1. I am planning to root because I want to install xposed. Should it be enough with just root and no nandroid backup choice? I would like to keep the device as close to stock as possible.

And can I change the DPI of the statusbar with xposed or do I have to modify the DPI in build.prop?

2. How much does the samsung (exynos) sources affect the performance on AOSP roms? I have heard that AOSP lags a bit or is atleast "broken". I like the clean look on AOSP and would like to install it on my Note 2 as well.

Thanks

Sent from my Note 2
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xcly:
I'd go with auto cf root if you want to keep it as stock as possible. Haven't used xposed so can't answer the second q.

Aosp roms on exynos galaxies suffer from bad camera to name a few breaks. Wont say they lag at all but it's those proprietary drivers that aosp can't access..

You can instead get a custom rom and flash aosp theme on it. Exactly what I'm doing at the moment with cleanrom.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stempanssi:
Yes cf auto root is what I have been thinking. How about the xposed as I cannot make a nandroid so is it easy to uninstall xposed. Do you know?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DesertHawk:
You have to just have stock recovery for OTA support. Thats all.

~ Taylor_Swift
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stempanssi:
BTW how to uninstall Xposed???

I am just wondering if I want to go back to stock...

Edit: Ok took the shot and rooted + installed xposed. It is great. Just what I wanted.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DesertHawk:
Lol, if you want to uninstall it there will be a zip file on phone memory called uninstall xposed cwm zip for something. Flash eeeett

~ Taylor_Swift
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yoram zioni:
replacing stock dialer image

hey, can you advise how to replace the stock caller id image on a Galaxy Note 2 (N7100) dialer. i am referring to the grayed-out generic image that is presented during an active phone call (in case there is no contact id image available) thanks much!
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meeekolet:
Hi everyone, my 1st post here ever. I own a note 2 for about 3 months now and i am enjoying it coming from a previous iphone user. I should say i am above average technically but i am a android noob. My phone is still unrooted, most likely planning to root it sometime this week.

I am very much interested with changing my ui to tablet look (something similar to a note 10.1 probably). Since i am a super noob at this, would you mind sharing noob process how to do it? I have checked online how to root and is fairly easy compared to jailbreaking. But installing the ui based on the instructions online, is a bit technical for me, for now.

Hoping for your kind consideration.

Thanks
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] newnesh:
Binary Count Reset for Bricked GT-N7100

Can someone please help me? My samsung galaxy Note 2 suddenly stopped working when i tried to unlock my phone from the lockscreen page. I then held on to the power button to reset the phone. But upon startup it just stopped at the Samsung logo. If I take the battery out it goes into a boot loop.

Instead of waiting patiently to send it back to Samsung for a warranty repair, I tried fixing it myself. I tried using a stock root and odin for my GT-N7100 but now it doesn't even startup.

Now if i send it back to Samsung for a repair, my Odin mode states a binary count of 1, making the warranty void apparently.

My question is: Is there anyway i can reset the binary count? I can't even switch my phone on to access google play store so triangle away is not an option. I am however able to enter download mode.

If anyone has any solutions I'd be most grateful because i seem to have exhausted every option.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stempanssi:
Yea but I rooted with stock recovery...
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xcly:
You'll need CWM to flash zip files. Flash using odin. Stock recovery is quite useless in my opinion

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Most of the themes and ui resources on xda is recovery flashable zip files. But if you're still not sure, point where you found how to do it and someone might be able to help

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Download stock firmware from sammobile or samsung-updates. Flash using odin. Download CWM for N7100 and flash using odin. Enter recovery and do a backup. Do a full wipe in recovery (data cache dalvik cache wipe). Reboot.

That should normally clear out any bootloops

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You'll probably have to decompile and edit one of the system apks. My guess is probably one of SecContacts, SecContactsProvider, SecPhone, SecTelephonyProvider. Would be great if someone can clarify.

There will be an image in the res folder that you say you see, which you can replace with something else. Just open the apk (not extract) and paste an image with the same name to replace that icon and push it back to /system/app with correct permissions and reboot.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xcly:
You can use any N7100 firmwares.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Muaaz Khalid:
[Q] Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (Firmware upgrade encountered an issue)?

Hey,

I have Note 2 (GT-N7100) its primary market is Europe. i was using it and it suddenly stucks and after sometime it restarted with this error "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. connect to kies select recovery mode and try again" I have just bought it and it happened . i Have tried to resolve it through odin mode because recovery mode is not opening. it is only going in download mode ... I downloaded it and used odin to put it on my phone. It says successful but after restart same error remains. kies isn't detecting my device. I'm an absolute noob when it comes to this stuff. In odin it says [Successful] but problem does not go. Help me resolving this problem.?????

Thanks.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xcly:
Have you tried installing CWM using odin with phone in download mode? Try that and see if you can get into recovery.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stempanssi:
When I set system ui's dpi to 240 I get this annoying black bar between the statusbar and the app window. Does anyone have a solution to get that away?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djuken:
Philz Kernel

Can you please help me?

I tried to flash Philz Kernel via Odin but it wont complete. it is stuck in <ID:0/008> NAND Write Start!!

I tried to flash it also in CWM. During the process below error occurs:

assert failed: write_raw_image ("/tmp/zimage", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p5")

E: Error in /external_sd/Philz-cwm6-JPLSB-UAE-5.00.5-signed.zip

(status 7)

installation aborted.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xcly:
Redownload Philz and try again
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djuken:
i have tried it already sir including other versions. but when i am flashing stock rom via Odin there is no any error Sir.

Only when i am flashing custom kernel there is always an error
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xcly:
What device are you using? Seems like something's preventing you from writing to the kernel partition
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Primokorn:
PhilZ Kernel doesn't exist on N7100/N7105... Did you take the N7000 version? :eek:
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rubennd:
hey i got some doubts.. right now im on paranoid android (stock kernel) and also im rooted.. but probably i would have to get stock firmware, but i dont know if i have to unroot first and then flash via odin the firmware of my phone, or first flash the firmware and then do unroot? also, if i flash the stock firmware would i be having the stock recovery? it doesnt matter if i reset the counter back to 0, i need just to get back to stock firmware, and im not pretty sure of the process/correct order, i just want the phone to be everything stock and that in the future if there is a OTA it doesnt show the system as modified whener i go to about phone settings
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xcly:
Flash stock using Odin. You may have to do a factory reset depending on whether you get force closes or not. Everything will return to stock including recovery.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rubennd:
thanks! will try it when i get out of work

already trying it, but odin isnt reconigzing the phone, when i plug the phone in download mode it doesnt show nothing on odin

ok now i think im in a bootloop, how can i solve it??
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Primokorn:
If Odin does'nt recognize your phone you can try to install the usb drivers again. Check that no Kies process are running in background.

For Bootloops, only Factory reset can solve it so go to your recovery mode.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rubennd:
actually that how i made it work, the problem was that it wasnt accessing to the recovery mode but like 15 or 20 mins after, it worked, everything fine now, thanks
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sam5154:
Hey guys,

As you may know s4 and s3 both have handwrite recognition in their stock keyboard.and it seems that they support more languages than Note 2. (at least they support Persian while Note 2 doesn't)

Is there anyway to port database of S3 or S4 keyboard to Note 2 ?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bayones:
anyone knows how to resolve my CWM recovery issue? I can't go through the recovery unless I use the tool kit. Whenever I press the 3 buttons it just keeps on rebooting on the samsung n7100 start up screen.

thanks in advance guys.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Primokorn:
Do you hold the 3 buttons until Samsung logo then release them? Did you already manage to enter in recovery mode?

Need more details...
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deagle-lim:
im n7100

mind to tell me which rom support multi-ui by xperiacle ?

and which rom support floating multi-windows ?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] duck man:
Does anyone know where the icon png's are located? I want to replace them but I can't find them
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ayyex:
Hi,

My Samsung GT-N7100 's Baseband version appears to be unknown, Cell radio is not working. I just flashed the original Firmware 4.1.2, doesn't solve the problem. Any suggestions?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xcly:
Should normally be able to find them inside one of the subfolders under res

Can you see your IMEI? I'm thinking you might have blown your EFS
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ayyex:
No, dont see IMEI too. What shall i do?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bayones:
how to disable CRT OFF animation?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xcly:
Well if you backed up your EFS before or have a CWM backup, try restoring. If you don't have anything, you'll have to go to Samsung service centres and let them restore it for you. Likely you'll have to pay as well.

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That would probably depend how you got it in the first place. What rom are you using?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cikaro:
how to root using this method?

Hi..newbies here..anyone can teach me how to use this method? i already download a file named Framaroot-1.4.1.apk and save into sd card.

So the next step what should i do?

Refer link below for detail. tq

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2130276
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Primokorn:
The better thing to do is to post on the related thread :p

Install the app and launch it
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bayones:
I got it when I applied the Multiwindow - All apps MOD.. I'm on android revolution v17 which doesn't have the crt off animation.

thanks for the reply
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xcly:
Well I'm guessing that mod you applied had crt off enabled. Better to ask in the mod thread directly :)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dandroid40:
I got one more thing I need to ask I noticed today I been rooting the phone with a cwm n7100 file on my n7105 I've had no problems with it working but I dont like the cwm recovery it installs as I like it to be as close to stock as possible.

I've seen today and downloaded a file called cf-autoroot for my model of phone witch says you keep stock recovery it just gives root access witch is what I wanted

Have you used it and what would your opinion be on me restoring the phone and re doing it with the cf autoroot is it worth the bother or stay as I am .
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xcly:
Honest opinion. Stock recovery is useless. End of :) if you don't want to use backup functionalities and no custom rom install etc switch to stock but otherwise, stay on cwm
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mha93:
Problem solved.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rebecca.Hines:
CyanogenMod killed our phone?!

Hi, I am desperate, and I can't find our specific problem anywhere!

My husband has a Galaxy Note II through US Cellular. We rooted it. We are just learning, so not increadibly inexperienced here. He did some research and saw that this CyanogenMod is the number one rated rom on the market, so he decided to put it on his phone. It did the blue loading circle icon over night (several hours), none of the buttons work, pulling the battery didn't work, as it just started up the icon again as soon as it was replaced..I tried to get help last night with no luck. This morning I pulled the battery, the SIM card, and his memory card, and now all it will show is the battery (like it is charging), but the battery is empty, and has the "loading circle" in it...but that circle isn't spinning, and no percentage is showing. The buttons still do nothing. Is there anyway to fix this and not be stuck with a zillion dollar paperweight?

THANK YOU SO MUCH IN ADVANCE, I AM A MAJOR NOOB TO ALL OF THIS.

EDIT: Ok...he pulled everything out of it again, and now the spinning CyanogenMod icon is back, and the buttons still don't work.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soccerfan6789:
I had this before. You may have flashed a wipe that doesn't play well with CyanogenMod. Essentially, if you made a backup, go back to that. If not, you might have to go back to the stock ROM via Odin.

Just clarifying, CyanogenMod isn't the best rated or best, its just used the most. You have tons of options from big guys such as AOKP and some other small developers which can sometimes be just as great at those guys.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cristiano007:
Greetings everyone

I have a problem With my note 2. I can't turn on Mobile data. The Mobile signal is great and I can make and recive calls. When i try to turn on The data it doesn't even show the data icon on the top like before. My note 2 is rooted and non-4g.

Can anyone please help me
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sam5154:
Did your operator send you Apn Settings message? I think that you didn't set APN yet.

find APN setting from operator webpage, and set them in

settings/ wireless and networks/ more settings/ mobile Networks/ Access point Name

but usually there is a ussd Command to get APN Settings via a message.

btw, disable market unlocker if you use That app
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] haissam33:
touchwiz help

hi plz need help my touchwiz stopped working but the s pen work perfectly i have tried everything root unroot wip restore factory reset everything my build is n7100xxdmc3 version 4.1.2 baseband xxdlk7 plzzz help :crying:
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maungperfect:
Dear all,

I want to know country for my note 2.

Thanks
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dr Sanfour:
netherland (TNL)

http://ykkfive.blogspot.com/2011/11/samsung-csc-code-reference-2.html?m=1#.UapqbaPfsb0

Envoyé depuis mon GT-N7100 avec Tapatalk
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sam5154:
What?what stopped working? you mean the launcher? did you played with seclauncher.apk? is yow Rom deodexed?

btw, flashing a new Rom is the ultimate answer.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] haissam33:
i flashed a new rom same problem on my note 2 i cant use my fingers to touch screen but the s pen worked perfectly its very confusing
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stempanssi:
How about TWRP on this device? Which is better on note 2 CWM or TWRP?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Primokorn:
TWRP is better!

PhilZ Recovery is nice too.

I never had any issue with TWRP so I didn't try the last version of PhilZ one. It seems that last version has been really improved.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PsyChoFok:
Firmware

Can I flash DMC3 to a ALJ3 Device? N7100 International? stock
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nilim:
Memory swap and unrooting

Hi y'all!

I've searched for the answers I'm looking for but I didn't find anything really clarifying.

These are my questions with a little premise.

I'm planning to swap my Note 2 internal memory with the external microSD. I know that, to accomplish this, I must root the phone and that's fine.

I'd really like to keep the system as stock as possible aside from this so:

- if, after the swap, I unroot, will the swapping still be in place? Or will I have to keep it rooted?

- And will future firmware updates reset the switch?

Thank you very much for the answers!
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Primokorn:
Well I suggest you a couple of solutions:

1/ If you still have TWRP backups (of stock ROM), you have to flash this recovery again (.Zip file to be flashed with your current CWM Recovery).

One TWRP installed, go to Restore menu.

2/ Flash an official Firmware. AFAIK it's not mandatory to flash the firmware of our country. For instance I live in France but I could flash a polish firmware without any problem and everything will work. The modem file is the same thought :)

So try to flash a US firmware via PC Odin or Mobile Odin.

Don't forget that a FULL WIPE is necessary when you change the ROM.

Full Wipe means Wipe Data/Factory reset + Wipe Dalvik Cache + format /system or Wipe System (depends on the recovery).

Finally I'd say that deleting root permissions on a CyanogenMod ROM doesn't make sense thus forget this idea and try something else.

You need root access to swap your memories. Unrooting will create some issues I think.

When you will update your firmware you will loose this option at the beging expect if you flash the ext2int mod or Redpill kernel...

Just for information, have a look at this custom rom which has been created for swaping: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2234976
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stempanssi:
Is TWRP considered as a safe recovery regarding the SDS bug? And what does people mean by safe recovery?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Primokorn:
SDS issue is linked to the kernel AFAIK.

Safe means that you are protected from a bad experience :p
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stempanssi:
Okay thanks!
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nilim:
Thanks for your answer!

I gave a look at the ROM but I'd really like to stick with my original system as long as I can, I'll take this into consideration some time from now :)

I also plan (I haven't the Note 2 yet, I'm a couple of days away from being an happy Note 2 owner :D ) on making the most out of the S-pen and hadwriting recognition and this is a polish kernel, I'm italian. I know that some people encountered problems with this feature and foreigner ROMs.

I think I'll keep from rooting untill the italian 4.2 comes out and then I'll follow the swap procedure. This should give me at least a few months without having to do that too often :)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Primokorn:
I'm pretty sure that there are no differences in the kernel between a polish firmware and an italian one.

Awaiting JB 4.2.2 (soon maybe :)) you can also have a look HERE.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nilim:
I already downloaded the script :) I've been lurking around for some days now since I wanted to know well this phone before buying it and I stored some utilities the moment I decided to go for it.

Thank you again :)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] solegrin:
1st thing to do?

Hello..

I wanted to ROOT my note2 so bad that i've read a lot of posts but my confusion still remains..

What is the 1st thing that I should do or install?

Root my device using what? Any suggestions?

Install a custom recovery?

Install a kernel?

Flash the ROM of choice?

Do titanium back up?

Please enlighten me.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Primokorn:
It depends on what you want to do. If you only want root access, you can use CF Auto Root (root access with stock recovery)

If you want to flash mod, theme, custom rom then YES

Not necessary. Always depends on what you want to do later.

Have a look at all related threads. You have to first make a choice: TouchWiz/Samsung based ROM or AOSP based ROM

Recommended to backup your apps and personal data.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sam5154:
find a Pre-rooted ROM and flash with Odin. This way your warranty won't void and you will hare all the powers, and it's way easier than any other method. You can get necessary additional features via Xposed framework.

Plus, I feel that odexed ROMs are smother
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] solegrin:
Thank you Memphis for replying.

I will just first videos of my ROM of choice.

As for Kernels, can you elaborate more about the disadvantage and advantage of having these? because as far as im browsing the forum.. I've seen a lo of people having kernels and ROMs on their N2 that I also wanna try on my device.

Sorry for a lot of questions.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Primokorn:
Well a custom kernel has several advantages like extension of battery life, integrated modules, improved performance...

The choice of the kernel depends on what you want. For example I don't recommend Agni or Devil kernel if you want a better battery life.