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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] aheeejd:
I'll try another reboot. Sorry, I should have stated that I flashed reborn, then booted & signed into google & stuff. Then went back to recovery & wiped cache & dalvik. But I'll do another reboot now & report back.

Edit. I went back to recovery & flashed without wiping & same exact thing. Chameleon fc & error 1500, HFA would not work. But my 3g is working fine.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
K lemme know if it works or not. If not there may be another issue to look at which will require a ##786# master reset so you'll need your MSL which we can get with terminal emulator

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] aheeejd:
I was just reading in the reborn thread & the guy was on a different rom & flashed the fix & it was all good. Then he flashed reborn & they came back. But he did a reboot & all was good. Ladt reboot I did I reflashed fix. Im gonna do just a reboot & cross my fingers. Brb

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ceabbott2:
Mother of all that is holy!!!

It worked It worked My phone even updated the profile!!! It hasn't had a profile update since I rooted and after I flashed the 900 zip posted by Garwynn it updated!!! Again I am on LJC with TWRP recovery. I can't express my gratitude enough but you can be damn sure a donation is coming! Almost every app I own (most I don't use) I have the paid version. I have always said I can only do a little part by making a donation to these AMAZING and Incredibly talented developers. I consider myself lucky to have these gentlemen and ladies working on our phones to make them so easy to personalize. That is my favorite quality about the Android platform...INDIVIDUALITY!

Thank you to everyone who made this fix possible, developers and testers alike. Brilliant work!:good::victory:

Sincerely,

Charles
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] garwynn:
Nope, flash the zip for ljc based roms.

And as a reminder... the Zip will only keep it fixed if you stay on the same ROM. If you change or flash another ROM you nees to reflash the zip to correct again.

Hope to have a better fix for LJC no later than Wed...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] aheeejd:
Reborn is ljc but it wouldn't work for me on that. I just flashed MacsRom & flashed the fix & this time it worked. Yeehaawww. Nice. Been a long while. Thanks for this. Not sure what the problem was with other rom but another guy over there had issues. He did fix on other rom & worked, he flashed reborn & it came back, he did a reboot & it went away. Thanks again.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] vvette:
So its something on the phone that is corrupt? f you flash a new rom (wiping system, cache, divak, etc) why would we still get the same error message? Would it be better to return phone to Sprint or do you think you can solve it permanently?? Thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] garwynn:
All of the steps above only handle half of the equation.... chameleon.apk. The second half - /carrier partition - doesn't have an image so we have to make one for LJC. I will be making a ZIP and adding the fic to LJC one clicks later this week.

More details when I can get in front of a PC tomorrow.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] aheeejd:
But what about this, the next time we get an official update & that one would essentially overwrite the problem, would it not.

And also, how & if, has this affected wifi. I flashed h2o this morning, got the HFA & chameleon fc, let that do its thing, tried setting up wifi, no go, boot to recovery, flashed fix, boot back up, no chameleon or HFA, but still no wifi. Had trouble with wifi on jellybomb to before fix. Flash Macs rom again, all good.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
If h2o is lk8 based that seems to be a problem in lk8. Not connecting to wifi or not staying connected.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] aheeejd:
Yes, sorry, you are right. I totally forgot H2O was lk8. That makes sense to me. I should have remembered that.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] garwynn:
Going forward seems will work fine since it upgrades the partition data automatically. Just seems that they didn't think anyone would need/want to go backwards for any reason. Not the first time we've seen Samsung not worry about being able to go back.... but first time it's broken something of this magnitude AFAIK.

So, to recap:

LJC (4.1.1) to LK8 (4.1.2) includes a change to Chameleon.apk - this change updates the data in the /carrier partition to a version supported by the new Chameleon.apk. If you stay on LK8 or update after, you're fine and probably haven't experienced any errors.

If

you went back to stock LJC or any ROM based on LJC (meaning it contains the LJC version of Chameleon.apk) - you probably experienced both issues.

How to fix it? I've got several options available:

1) On Monday I posted a L900ErrFix.zip that is designed for people planning to move back to LK8 or LK8 based ROMs. It includes the LK8 Chameleon.apk and the LK8 carrier partition.

2) For those wishing to stay on LJC and LJC based ROMs - Gyrene2083 got his phone replaced and dumped the LJC carrier partition. I have attached a ZIP that you can flash by CWM/TWRP - Odin version coming soon. Big thanks for the assist on this!

What does this mean? Unless you jump to LK8, flashing other LJC ROMs should no longer have HFA/Chameleon errors reappear. But if you go to LK8 and back you'll need to flash a solution as LK8 will update the partition.

At some point this week I'll be rebuilding the LJC and LK8 one clicks to include a carrier partition as well as fix the recovery issue in LJC nodata versions. This should allow someone to flash one of these and avoid issues.

Developers

- to avoid compatibility issues it may be wise to replace Chameleon.apk in your LJC based ROMs with the LK8 version. It will automatically update the partition and work without errors.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] garwynn:
I'd say let's start a new thread in Q&A for the wi-fi issues. Be happy to troubleshoot those as well.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] shiftr182:
Thanks garwynn for your dedication in fixing this.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] cajun9924:
Thanks Garwynn for all your work. I dont post much but your work has helped me out all the way back to e4gt . I have the wifi issue on all lk8 roms and would be happy to help test.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] garwynn:
Wifi Issues - I'm making a thread now, can you post details there please?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] AlpineMan:
Garwynn, thanks for the 2 fixes. I'm confused though. I'm on LJC now (never been on LK8), still debating if I should go to LK8. So in the meantime, should I install L900ErrFixLJC.zip or L900ErrFix.zip???
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] garwynn:
I would do the ErrFixLJC for now... when you decide to go to LK8 it will automatically update the carrier partition to work properly.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] vvette:
Does this fix mess up wi fi tether? Thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] garwynn:
Doesn't affect it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] LilWeech:
So install the ErrFixLJC while on LJC rom and if I decide to go to a LK8 Rom n for some I want to go back to my nandroid or any other LJC rom I should be good .
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] garwynn:
Not quite. If you go to LK 8 and then go back you will have to flash the zip file again. this is because LK 8 will update the carrier partition again as soon as you boot.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
Bump this back to the top for those still in need of a fix :D:thumbup::cool:

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Fangs87:
From the best I could follow, I've tried both the install 2 apps & ##72786# and the remove 2 files then ##73786#, but it looks like it needs to be done after each rom install. Still not sure if it is a permanent enough fix for the rom i'm on now, I was on the H20 RC3, then went to Whomp 2.0 when i noticed all hell breaking loose. If you need a copy of my /carrier pm me your email and i'll send it as soon as i get home.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] garwynn:
You shouldn't need to do all of that.

Did you try just the L900ErrFixLJC.zip?

That should do it for you...

Note:

I'm assuming Whomp 2.0 is LJC. If not, use L900ErrFix.zip instead.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Fangs87:
whomp 2.0 is ljc , h20 was lk8. Where were these zips ? Did i miss them in the op?

** found the zip , flashed it also. So we'll see if ti works.

Does this have anything to do with a message showing up when i wipe / flash now about unable to mount /preload?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
No this fix just updates chameleon and HFA sqllite dbs in /carrier to prevent the errors

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Lyvewire:
Its crazy how much you learn from this site. I decided to try H20 yesterday and my phones been doing the error. I never updated firmware and I'm still on LJ1 so when I'm seeing LCJ or Lk8 I'm not sure which applies to me. I been trying to avoid any updates since everything seemed fine prior to flashing h2O. Although I had issues on Macks 3.6 a week or two ago.

I've read thru this entire thread but it almost seems I'm 1 of the very few that didnt update. Is there really 2 more updates after LJ1 or am I not reading the info right in my phone? Trying to figure out which fix is for my firmware and which ROMs I should stay away from. Or should I just go head jump in and update. I did see people were having issues on LK8 when reading thru the forums on different ROMS initially and tried to avoid updating because of it but it seems as though that idea back fired.

Any help is appreciated
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Fangs87:
I believe macs rom is on ljc, h2o has been on lk8 since lk8 was release just about and i think its the only rom on lk8. I'm not sure of anything running on lj1 other than a stock build where you keep denying ota updates. Most of the rom's have what they are in the title, ex: [ROM][Team WHOMP!]Whompasaurus Rom V2.0-Ultimate Options & Performance![

LJC

]1/6/2013 or [rom] h2o rc3 [

lk8

] 1/5/13 new halo theme!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Lyvewire:
Thanks I'm going to take the leap. I'm still under 14 days if anything goes bad. I used APK and denied update which is why it probably didnt work. Back to stock unrooted and I still get message.I'm also thinking although I havent encountered many issues if I was running the wrong ROM on the wrong firmware things maybe have not been doing all the rom features offer. Good info. Thanks again
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Itchiee:
Yes, this fix works if your staying on LJ1 or auto upgraded to LJC. Once you factory reset it does come back.

Here is another shot at the fix (including a restore, and flasher counter wiper all in one)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2086769

I'm not sure that once you apply this fix, then go again and factory reset, that the errors are gone.

From what I gathered the LK8 update creates a /carrier partition that the early updates don't know existed.

The fix would be for these earlier updates to erase or delete this information which should fix the problem.

There were supposed to be one click fixes arriving but not sure where that project went....... *cough*
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Lyvewire:
Looks like some hope! Reading now

Thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] btbamzao:
This doesn't fix errors. Tried it already.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] garwynn:
Will ask Billard to throw in the carrier partition to fix that.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] btbamzao:
Sweet!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] billard412:
For anyone who doesnt know, I now have 2 versions, one of which wipes the carrier partition and fixes this. Ive also made a custom TWRP recovery with a wipe carrier option.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] kevinrocksman:
Ive found that if u have flashed lk8 and flashed a lk8 rom and want to go back to a ljc rom just wipe system like 15 times before flashing the ljc rom, for some reason that works with no problems
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] garwynn:
Guess I don't need to ask then! :P

Thanks Billard - will also have to check out the TWRP changes as well!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] t3project:
and again for anyone who doesnt know, YOU CAN run an LK8 ROM on LJC firmware without any problems from what i can tell. that way if you flash back to an LJC ROM you will not get these errors. there is no need to flash LK8 firmware really.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
Which firmware are you talking about? Theres ROM, modem and kernel, then theres the bootloader. The updated carrier partition resides in /root/carrier and as far as I can tell the updates are coming from chameleon which is part of the launcher, so not sure what you're saying here. If you flash an lk8 rom you flash the new chameleon which updates /carrier db's causing the error on revert. What exactly is it that you aren't flashing that's preventing the updated chameleon? Bootloader? Modem? Or kernel? Since ROM was obviously flashed :confused: just curious as this may help me force the chameleon downgrade on lk8 so the errors never begin in the first place.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] t3project:
as i have been playing with my phone and running international roms and lk8 roms and everything in between, i returned to ljc firmware. after flashing each rom, doing some testing with various mod and stuff, when i return back to an ljc based rom, i have yet to chameleon errors or hfa. for me, and it may only be me, the errors only occur if i flash the entire lk8 firmware and an lk8 rom and then try to return back to an ljc rom or ljc firmware (modem, kernel, sboot, tz.....etc)

right now i am back on ljc firmware have been flashing back to int based roms, lk8 and ljc roms with no errors what-so-ever. like i said, it may just be me and my testing but it only occurs if i flash lk8 firmware first (modem, kernel, sboot, tz.....etc)

and no, the lk8 apks are not in the ljc roms that i have flashed.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
Weird, the only lk8 apk that has any effect is chameleon so unless someones been sneaking updated chameleon apks in the roms you're flashing they shouldn't have any lk8 apks. I wonder if a combo of the updated bootloader + rom triggers the chameleon updates. Maybe just the rom alone won't trigger the update action. That's the only thing I cam think of that would prevent the upgrade of chameleon is some kind of bootloader check that recognizes the chameleon update as incompatible with the firmware.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] t3project:
yea i know.........maybe garywn knows. it's possible i could be totally crazy though but that's how it works for me
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
Idk garwynn and I have been logging and debugging the damn errors for almost 2 weeks so far we determined the sqllite db's in /carrier were being upgraded from v1 to v2 and not being rolled back with everything else which is what triggers HFA on boot cuz the carrier db isn't recognized during the boot sequence. Haven't figured out what triggers the upgrades tho, or how to roll back the db's without a /carrier flash or partition wipe. I've been looking into forcing the sqllite and chameleon to downgrade or stay the same on lk8 so the errors dont occur after a roll back. Even though updating the partition and apk on ljc seems to have no negative impact and isnt too much of a hassle given the circumstances.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] t3project:
hmm....i did have one hfa a few days ago, now that i think about it after coming from an int rom when i flashed back to a lk8 rom. but i let it activate and then it actually booted into twrp and formatted the carrier partition. but it hasnt done it since.......i just remembered that cuz i thought it was odd that it booted into twrp to format and actually worked and that it was that partition. could have been remnants left over from the rom. cant remember which it was though. saurom i modified maybe
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
It's been a huge PITA I spent a whole Sunday combing thru a 1500 page log line by line looking at all the errors and the boot sequence trying to figure out what was tripping the HFA on boot and found the UNKNOWN file error from the db's version not matching up.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] t3project:
i dont see any reason why cant we modify the updater-script in the roms to flash the proper carrier partition and then flash the rom. this seems like it would remove all issues related to this so far. wouldnt it? or am i missing something?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
All we really need to do is pack the contents of the fix zips into the matching roms and one clicks ive been trying to figure out how to stop the updates in the first place so lk8 stays on sqllite v1 instead of jumping to v2 that way the errors wont occur to begin with

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] billard412:
Seems like mundane work when you could just wipe it if need be. Plus. If you put the wrong files in the carrier partition (even if it is for the sake of a fix), wont it screw ota's up?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] garwynn:
Wasn't sure carrier can rebuild if purged so figured a restore of orig. version would be safer. Hit me up on GTalk tomorrow and can explain more if you want.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
Well so far I've been able to roll back to lj1 with errors flash the fix then ota to ljc with no errors after ota so no I dont think the partition will effect otas the partition appears to be entirely for activation use storing db's with your about phone/status account info to use during network handshakes.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] t3project:
if they are rom specific then they wont the wrong files.

i think it's a good idea. i'll get the info together and put a post in the dev section later with what to add to lc1 and ljc based roms and updater scripts. i dont really see a need to add it to lk8 roms because, well, that's what updates it to begin with. lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] garwynn:
You can pull the LJC version out of the zip and just dd it from CWM/TWRP when doing the rest of the ROM.

And sorry for not being around a lot, been working to get a better understanding of things on the build box. Never fear though, GN2 kernels are now moved up on my short list!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] billard412:
Nope think I got a better grasp on it after rereading some stuff. Although wiping it doesn't seem to have any negative effects as far as I can tell, I've uploaded an additional version of my restore zip with your fix in it as I'm sure thatll be the preferred method for most. Good work guys
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] garwynn:
Probably overkill but I'm also including it in LK8 one clicks... which will hopefully be posted today if mirrors can be ready.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] 2k10MBC300SPT:
a One click LK8 crossover , with the easy ability to go back to LJC, (if desired) would be Ideal Bruh..My first LK8 transition was a nightmare and Had to get my GN2 replaced..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] blake25:
it work

i did this metod and it work fine for me flashvia odin and i dont get any error and it update him self to ljc whit no problems thk very much for make this :D
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ajada85:
I followed the Instructions on page one, it failed to install

Any Help?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] coiledwire:
Got back to page 11 and use the LJC fix zip posted by garwynn.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ajada85:
gotcha. Thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] crxsi420:
This worked PERFECT! Major thanks to the OP for this.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] hottoddy69:
Does the new ma5 leak have this problem too is you flash ljc?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] kingdazy:
No, but it does have another issue. Read up about it in the leak thread in the development sect.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] orlondo:
you are the F#$% Man thank you so much been working on this for two days. you saved our asses.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] KEYofR:
Which thead? There are a few that say MA5. The only issues I've seen are gallery is slow and some people say their charging light stops working?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] garwynn:
MA5 bootloader won't allow you to revert to earlier ones.

Fear not though, there's a fix for that.

If you think you'll ever want to revert to before I suggest doing this and then re-flashing recovery and kernel:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=37405885&postcount=166
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] monkeybone12:
WORKED FOR ME!!! Thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] cgi2099:
oh my god this saved my butt thank you so much!!!

Josh
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] 1FstYOTA:
I got the chameleon error after odin back to ljc for the ma7 update. Once I updated to ma7 everything was fine.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] rayj24:
activation error?!

I followed all the steps, and when it rebooted after calling ##72786#, and went into activation, it failed and and said activation error. It also says profile cant be updated error 1500 please help out here
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] luisrodg:
I'm on MA7 stock. I can't update PRL/Profile as I get "connection error #6204" . Also if the phone is in LTE/CDMA mode then it will connect to 3G and will connect to LTE if available. However if I put it in CDMA mode only it will NOT connect to 3G and a pop up message will keep appearing saying "error #67 - registration error". If I do #72786# after it reboots it gets into looping Hands Free Activation which always fails and only way to get the phone working is to cancel the Hands Free and use "activate this device" on the settings. However this just gives you voice, text, and data but all previous problems persist.

Does anyone have ANY idea why the Note2 has this problems and how to fix them?

Thanks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] DarkManX4lf:
Call sprint tech support and have them do a provision on your device. If that doesn't work go to a Sprint store and see what they can do.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] garwynn:
This was a mean beotch to fix. What did you use to get to MA7? If it was an older one click please try the current ones and see if it can fix. Otherwise it's Billard412's LJC restore then MA7 one click to fix... at least according to my testing.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
Flash the appropriate hfa fix, go to about phone> > status and write down your 10 digit MIN, next get your MSL - ##72786# > edit enter 000000 - open terminal emulator and type getprop ril.MSL (case sensitive) - copy the 6 digit code that appears between the command you typed and the new line prompt, then ##786# > reset. Once it does its dance and reboots go back to the dialer and dial ##72786# > edit > enter correct MSL add your # and the MIN you wrote down. You've now successfully reprovsioned your device with out calling sprint :beer:

I like to break stuff! :D