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[Galaxy Note II General] yiannisthegreek:
Thanks... This is good to know. Question though... I live in Canada and my device was a UK version that I bought from a store here in Edmonton, Alberta. That being said... Will Kies be able to find my proper STOCK firmware given my location or does it find it based soley on the serial number?
[Galaxy Note II General] mariosraptor:
It finds it base on serial number. If is is a UK device it will install the latest one for the specific serial number and UK.
[Galaxy Note II General] sda.171:
Great guide but i still have a question!

Q- Should i flash stock recovery prior to following this procedure? :D or will KIES do it for me?
[Galaxy Note II General] UtkarshGupta:
Kies will
[Galaxy Note II General] danfozzy:
anyone on windows 8 having trouble with this? program stops responding after downloading the initial upgrade components (step4)

this might be the final push for me to go back to win 7
[Galaxy Note II General] mariosraptor:
no. Kies will do it.

Sorry. Not using win8
[Galaxy Note II General] danfozzy:
just a heads up that you cant do this on a mac, the option isn't in the tools menu
[Galaxy Note II General] ahchah08:
What does the serial number look like? I've tried every number on the back of the battery and on the box!!! :(
[Galaxy Note II General] mariosraptor:
It is like S/N: 8BC6738BSH

It is under the imei

Or settings-about phone-status
[Galaxy Note II General] JCM800:
Would this method work in restorin my UK S3 back to stock please? It was originally a '3' branded phone tho, not sure kies would install that, sorry to sound totally silly, just not familiar..thanks!
[Galaxy Note II General] mariosraptor:
Yes it will restore to what it had out of factory.
[Galaxy Note II General] ccigaM:
YOU ARE A LIFE SAVER :o:o:o
[Galaxy Note II General] eliashadow:
Great guide Marios!

Very usefull for everyone, especially some users like me who have never seen kies ui to know about....:)

So, now i found a reason to use Kies one day....
[Galaxy Note II General] mariosraptor:
Hey thanks. Thought it might come handy:D
[Galaxy Note II General] elsayed234:
flash counter

Please .. does this Reset the flash counter back to zero or I have to use the triangle away first ?!
[Galaxy Note II General] mariosraptor:
As stated in OP, yes you have firstly to use Triangle Away.
[Galaxy Note II General] jadaress1:
Thanx for takin time out to do thus guide for us all
[Galaxy Note II General] prinzhernan:
I tried doing this just for fun. My phone was on the latest stock rom for my country. Didn't lose any data after going through the whole process.

Thanks for the guide!
[Galaxy Note II General] lrm537:
Has anyone tried this successfully ? If so, now long did the phone take to boot up afterwards? I'm trying it for the second time and it doesn't seem to want to boot, it's stuck at the Samsung screen with the pulsing blue light behind the logo.
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
note more than 5min once it finish downloading and start flashing, otherwise

you may got bootloop. In that case

Reboot to recovery (vol up+home +power)

and wipe cache and data (factory reset)

PS:This will erase all your data.
[Galaxy Note II General] lrm537:
Thanks. I had waited 15min+ so i knew something wasn't right. I ended up flashing stock through Odin but the reason i wanted to do it this way was so i would have the same firmware it originally came with. Not sure which one it was. I can't see one for UK so i'm using the German one at the moment.

Gonna give it another go, see what happens
[Galaxy Note II General] mariosraptor:
You just had to do what the DR said. Kies installed the firmware for you. Do it again if you want the original firmware that the phone had out of factory (or the latest version of it)
[Galaxy Note II General] lrm537:
I done it again with the same result...no boot. But after following the docs advice of wiping data it has worked perfectly. I'm now on 4.1.1. Got to admit to a tiny bit of panic there, but it's all good. Thanks .
[Galaxy Note II General] mariosraptor:
No boot is normal cause you are downgrading.

4.1.1 is the latest official fw from sammy to your phone's carrier/hardware combo.
[Galaxy Note II General] dogan2010:
Does this resolve the issue with kies with the warning

Kies doesnt support your phone csc xxx ??
[Galaxy Note II General] akdenizx:
Thank you, this is very useful
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
I have never tried it, but it should. b'coz it download firmware according your serial, not according CSC.
[Galaxy Note II General] lrm537:
Thanks, that makes sense, all working now. Thanks for the guide, I wouldn't have thought about using Kies for anything useful like this.
[Galaxy Note II General] saad3000:
hi it didnt work for me on note2 after finish binanry it said remove battery put it back power on ur phone attach to pc and try again i did it 3 times stuck on samsung n7100 logo only download mode no recovery mode my phone is semi brick need helpppppppppppppppp plz
[Galaxy Note II General] ramgab:
Having the very same issue

Tried everything, Kies never connected to my phone then after a month of light usage it just stopped. Can't go into recovery, just shows Samsung logo, on download mode it just says 'downloading'... Tried the steps in this post and nothing happened then tried ODIN (which shows connected on some com port) but fails every firmware I try (tried Middle East,UK & India fw). Re-partitioning with a Pit file just halts trying to connect to the phone. All this was tried on both a windows xp (x86) and a windows 7 (x64) using numerous original cables, different drivers and usb ports.

Out of clues :confused:
[Galaxy Note II General] mariosraptor:
Did you try repartitioning prior to this or after. Did you with Odin flashed correct firmwares i.e n7100 to n7100 or wrong one i.e n7100 to n7105?
[Galaxy Note II General] ramgab:
I tried with Kies (as described) it downloaded for 3 hours and then gave me an error of no connection.

Then tried ODIN with 3 different firmwares from SamMobile and they are all for n7100 (stock roms).... ODIN states the MD5 is ok but then gives the Failed message straight after trying to push the rom to the phone.

Last resort was trying out repartitioning and this also failed.

BTW. ever since i got this phone i was NEVER able to connect to any version of Kies...

My only chance is to send it back to uae for free repair as its still under warranty, shipping will cost me alot though :crying:

unless you have any tricks i could try out first :fingers-crossed:

PS.

* If i connect the charger while phone is 'off' it shows an empty battery... no animation... and no charging led...

* If i insert USB cable, go into download mode and remove the battery, the phone stays in download mode and does not turn off

* when connected i see the Samsung USB in device manager so i'm sure the computer can sense the phone

Glad I still have my good old HD2 ... Class 10 NativeSD with JB 4.1.2 :D
[Galaxy Note II General] mariosraptor:
While using odin close kies completely from task manager. Try it
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
As well close firewall and anti virus.

Usual cases firewall causes same thing as you described.
[Galaxy Note II General] ramgab:
I've tried that many times :(

Do you think it might be the battery :confused:

All my computers have SSD drives and I've read in one of the posts someone insisting that you should not try recovery from an SSD as that usually fails, I've not yet tried that and might give it a go tomorrow. Any other ideas ?

I also get no device name in download mode if that might help...

Thank you for your help mariosraptor... much appreciated ;)
[Galaxy Note II General] mariosraptor:
I don't know anything about the SSD drives but that should not be the case. It's ok if you do not get the device name in download mode cause it boots directly in download mode and you are not setting it in there.

If you find a spare battery try it out.

I am going out of ideas :(
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
Sometimes I have seen if you keep rom files too deep then it may fail

Just make a folder on desktop and put Odin and rom file in same folder. Just download Odin from here http://d-h.st/6Er and extract to same rom folder. And close anti virus before doing all.

And if fails just take screen shot /logs from Odin and share here.
[Galaxy Note II General] marleyb:
No it does not Bro :crying:

Regards
[Galaxy Note II General] ramgab:
Always do that before flashing firmwares... I'm really starting to believe it might be a hardware glitch... don't know...
[Galaxy Note II General] dogan2010:
Yeah it does not solve that problem

It seems no one has the solution
[Galaxy Note II General] ramgab:
My last trial before sending my Samsung paperweight back to where it came from ...

The N7100XXDLJ_OXA_Factory ROM seems to have all 4 files needed for a full factory recovery, i'm downloading now and will keep you all updated.

Hope this works :fingers-crossed:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=32273406&postcount=5
[Galaxy Note II General] ramgab:
OK... This was tried on a 3rd computer running

* XP SP3 (clean install)

* Samsung Latest USB drivers

* Odin 3.07

* ALL 4 tar files + the PIT file

Odin message = Get PIT for Mapping.... then nothing for over 20 minutes :eek:

My last trial ... failed ...
[Galaxy Note II General] mariosraptor:
Use Odin 1.85 :) report back.
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
Sorry man

Stuck at getting pit is really a bad sign and highly favors SDS.

I have read your older post again, here some points making me suspicious about SDS are

-no recovery but only download mode

-charging behaviour

-fail repartition

-stuck at pit mapping

And I couldn't get one thing, how this happened? If it was spontaneous without triggering anything like device was running fine and suddenly reboot and never boot normally, then it should be SDS only unless prove otherwise.

Goodluck.
[Galaxy Note II General] ramgab:
Hi mariosraptor,

Sorry to say I got sooooo pissed off and went shift-deleting anything that could remind me of this horrific experience.

Hope other victims have better luck than I did ;)

---------- Post added at 09:53 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:43 PM ----------

Hi Dr. Ketan,

It must be the mysterious SDS...

As you explained, it was on my desk and while i was working noticed that it restarted by itself and minutes later turned off... and that was it...

Reminds me of a crappy Omnia i owned years ago, at that time i should have learned my lesson. Not saying that Samsung makes bad phones as others have no issues but for me, rock solid reliability is a priority.

From experience, I think HTC rules in build quality and reliability.
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
If that was the case, as you said it was spontaneous reboot then don't try anything and straight way send it to service centre, it is SDS only, you may have not updated to latest firmware which is believed to be fixed for it.

Regards and good luck.
[Galaxy Note II General] mariosraptor:
oh, if it really started like that then yes, as Dr Ketan says it is probably sudden death.

sorry man
[Galaxy Note II General] bawffg85:
er,i posted a same tutorial 2 months ago in gfan in china...
[Galaxy Note II General] ramgab:
Hi Dr.Ketan,

My phone's rom region was still on 4.1.1, if I knew there was such a bug I would have changed to a UK 4.1.2 rom earlier.

You think they'll change the motherboard or the whole phone?
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
Likely they just change motherboard.
[Galaxy Note II General] mariosraptor:
Yep. Frim what I have seen only Sony changes full phone but lets you keep old batter and battery cover.
[Galaxy Note II General] gkhzr:
Ynt: [Guide] Revert back to Original Stock Rom With Kies

I wanna go back to stock, it will be perfect for me. Thanks :)

GT-N7100 cihazımdan Tapatalk 2 ile gönderildi
[Galaxy Note II General] prinzhernan:
This process works really well. If it gets stuck somewhere just wait. If it's beyond 30 mins just reboot your computer and try again. It successfully restored my note 2 after a bad update.
[Galaxy Note II General] mariosraptor:
Yep. I have used it with my phones for a long time :)
[Galaxy Note II General] cineung02:
my tablet is stuck so i cannot find the serial number, it 's any other way to know serial number?
[Galaxy Note II General] mariosraptor:
On the box ptobably.
[Galaxy Note II General] lopman:
Look under battery for s/n
[Galaxy Note II General] mariosraptor:
Does the tablet have a battery that can be removed? Don't know :confused:
[Galaxy Note II General] lopman:
It have but it is a bit more difficult to remove. So the only way would be as you say look at the box
[Galaxy Note II General] mariosraptor:
Yes. I think is written on the box.
[Galaxy Note II General] cineung02:
no have box and baterry cannot removable

:crying::crying::crying:
[Galaxy Note II General] mariosraptor:
What country are you from? And where did you buy from?

Which tablet is it?
[Galaxy Note II General] Sparh4wk:
great guide, really helped me
[Galaxy Note II General] anson89:
Thanks.. its good to know.. =D
[Galaxy Note II General] kotty:
does not work on N7105 LTE phone..
[Galaxy Note II General] bajok!:
back to basics

Thank you for this tutorial, mate! I got my Note 2 back to stock ROM after a series of flashing... :)
[Galaxy Note II General] mariosraptor:
What is the problem in your case? Let us know so we can help you.
[Galaxy Note II General] mariosraptor:
Lol. Disregard :)
[Galaxy Note II General] Pusong mamon:
will this work if i flash to a custom ROM like omega v12? thanks
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
It should work, I think this method won't detects installed rom.
[Galaxy Note II General] Pusong mamon:
thanks, because i want to try custom roms and im worrying on how to get back to stock

now im a little relieved :good:
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
Oh but you can flash stock rom with odin much easy way.
[Galaxy Note II General] Pusong mamon:
How? Btw im from uae.
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
Read post #1 of this thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1896696

I think for uae no recent update, but you can flash any rom, I recommend one from latest Feb released dmb2
[Galaxy Note II General] cineung02:
my tablet is Samsung SPH-P600 Galaxy note 10.1 from sprint, i think no body in this forum have this tablet so i cannot find original stock rom.
[Galaxy Note II General] mariosraptor:
You have to find it's serial number in order to input where necessary.

I cannot help. You can find either one from any friend or look a live demo at a Sprint store and go to settings- about device- status.
[Galaxy Note II General] strikes301:
Reset phone issues

I tried this process and got to the last screen, clicked the ok button and then nothing. See the picture. It does not fill the start upgrade button so I can push it. It only highlights the cancel button......urgh I am using the same cable that came with the phone and I also changed the port plug in on the back of the computer and tried it again. I rebooted the phone and tried it again...nothing. I reset the phone and cleared the cache..nothing. Help!!!! This phone has never been recognized by Kies or Odin. The only thing that has recognized it is Galaxy Note 2 toolbox. But when I have rooted the phone before, when Odin comes up it doesn't bring in the phone information. I close Odin and it finishes the root and pushes it to the phone anyway. Also, the s/n on under the battery and the s/n that shows in about phone are different. The s/n that shows on the phone is 0123456789ABCD and that's what shows up on toolbox when I connect it.

Let me know if you can help or have any questions before you can help me. I live in USA, but bought the phone from China if that helps any. Under the battery cover it says Samsung Note II GT-N7100. When it boots up it shows Samsung Note II GT-N7100 and then just the Samsung logo. No Android ever shows up.

Thank you in advance for any help!!!
[Galaxy Note II General] matzone:
Right before you press ok to star the flash procedure, pot your phone into downloading mode, connect it and press ok. It should work now.
[Galaxy Note II General] strikes301:
I tried that. There is no download mode on this phone. Only recovery mode and factory mode. I have tried everything to get it into download mode and nothing. That's why I wanted to use this method to reset it. I believe since I bought the phone from China, it has some kind of block so I can't use certain features, like Google Play Store. It will let me download the app, sign on and get to the main screen, but when I try to download anything it shuts down and then won't ever open up again, only says Play store has stopped.

I also get very bad signal, so I have tried to find the CSC code to change it hoping that if I get out of the China setting, then I will have access to stuff. If I try to install a ROM, it won't install and I am guessing it's because I don't have a download mode, just the recovery. I'm sure someone else has bought a phone from a China seller to use in different countries. So Hopefully someone has figured out or knows how to help.

I have reset the phone and cleared the catch again. I tired to do the Keis reset from my laptop at home and again the same thing.

The first pic is what comes up first in recovery mode. I push the home key and then it shows the items on the second pic. The third pic is the factory mode that will come up.

Again, thank everyone in advance for helping me!!
[Galaxy Note II General] mariosraptor:
It is a fake Note 2. That is why is not going in download mode.
[Galaxy Note II General] strikes301:
fake note 2

So there is nothing I can do about getting it out of the China settings?
[Galaxy Note II General] mariosraptor:
It is not about China customizing. It is a copy of the genuine N7100 by Samsung.
[Galaxy Note II General] NEDSTER1972:
DOES THIS WORK WITH A GT-N7105 AS I KEEP GETTING "GT-N7105 IS NOT SUPPORTED"

pLEASE HELP.
[Galaxy Note II General] NEDSTER1972:
Ok i got it to install but now it just stays on the samsung boot up screen.

Bollocks
[Galaxy Note II General] mariosraptor:
Boot in recovery by pressing volume up+home+power. Once there wipe data/factory reset and wipe cache.

Reboot
[Galaxy Note II General] Garfildu:
One question

Is it true that this thing not working on mac ? Because i have a mac and i don't find that comand in tools ????
[Galaxy Note II General] Th3KiNG:
do i need to do flash counter to 0? or kies will do it all?
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
Flashing rom doesn't reset counter, irrespective of method you use.

Right now only available method is triangle away.
[Galaxy Note II General] ramgab:
Motherboard Changed !!!

Finally, got my phone back today, they changed the motherboard and supplied a new serial number. First thing i did was get it upgraded to 4.1.2.

A bonus i got with the mobo change is that Samsung Kies actually connects now :victory: Never had that working before the mobo died...
[Galaxy Note II General] rajverma3135:
Extracting original firm from Samsung kies

Hi guys

Is there any way to extract original firmware from Samsung kies, as everything I want to uproot my phone, I have to connect my phone to Samsung kies and it download a file around 1gb then update my phone.

If I can get a zip file or ruu file then it can help and prevent downloading 1gb again n again.

Thanks

Cheers

Raj
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
You can download rom from here and keep with you. You need to flash with odin whenever you need it.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1896696
[Galaxy Note II General] rajverma3135:
Thanks for Ur reply mate.

I had a look on suggested post.

My phone details are as follows

Base N7100XXDLK7 ANDROID ROM STOCK FACTORY

Build number JZO54K.N7100XXDMC3

Do I need to look for base number or build number.

Thanks
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
You can flash any rom. Just same from your country will give you better language option.
[Galaxy Note II General] Ry2mkk:
:laugh:
[Galaxy Note II General] tuannghia1985:
Thanks guy, I think Kies has one job now. :D
[Galaxy Note II General] Sh0rty007:
Done it. Phone booted..

BUT.. still Kies is saying that my device is not supporting upgrades through Kies.
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
Download this

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.johnan.checkfus

And check what is your product code
[Galaxy Note II General] Sh0rty007:
In the app store they say it doesn't work anymore.

Verstuurd van mijn GT-I9300 met Tapatalk
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
We needs it for other purpose, we needs just to check whether your product code is not corrupted. Install and check product code.
[Galaxy Note II General] Sh0rty007:
Did it.It gave the same as i flashed and what Kies is saying.

And what Kies is selecting when i do a software upgrade and preparation with Kies.

:S :S :S

Product code looks goed. What do i need to see about it?
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
Attach your kies screenshot
[Galaxy Note II General] Sh0rty007:
Here they are..
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
Your device is s3?

And which firmware you have flashed? It seems firmware and csc is different.
[Galaxy Note II General] Sh0rty007:
I9300XXEME2 Download (Thanks To SamMobile!)

Base Firmware: I9300XXEME2 (4.1.2)

Region: Europe

Country: Netherlands

Carrier: Unbranded

Build Date: 16 May 2013

Modem: CEELL1

CSC: PHNEME2

I think this is the one. Flashed it through Kies this evening again.
[Galaxy Note II General] Noo$H:
Has anyone got this working on an N7105? i am trying to go back to stock but cant find my ROM (Australian Unbranded 4.1.2) even to flash using odin. When i try using this kies method it says 'GT-N7105T' does not support initializing' :/

also btw, is there a way of looking up what rom came originally on the phone just by searching the serial number or something?

thanks

EDIT: disregard this post. updating kies seemed to solve the issue
[Galaxy Note II General] ahmadkamalrmc:
Dude u're a life saver. I got my Note II a week ago, brand new and it was on 4.1.1 and did not show any updates and I followed u're procedure and I'm on 4.1.2 now. Thanks a million.
[Galaxy Note II General] fussygoat:
Will this work on a bricked phone?

Does this work on a bricked Galaxy Y GT-S5360? I tried this on my phone. However, on the 5th step I connected the phone (in download mode) first before pressing volume up. My computer did not recognize my phone. It said "device driver installation failed" - similar to what happens when you plug in a usb device and is not recognized. The 'Start Update' did not light up and could not be clicked.

Hope to hear from you guys and to get help reviving my phone.

Thanks!

EDIT: Sorry. I noticed I posted this on the wrong forum / room. But if it's alright with you guys, can you just disregard that I mentioned a different phone model? I'm really interested to know if this process would work on a bricked phone. Thanks again!
[Galaxy Note II General] FluffyGrwyfoo:
What do I do if my phone got bricked during this process?
[Galaxy Note II General] dsg_gti:
Thanks http://xdaforums.com/images/smilies/good.gif
[Galaxy Note II General] thedadio:
Thank you so much. This guide helped my flash my phobe back to stock after it crashed and wouldnt boot anymore ( I was using lion rom 4.3 ) so I got the phone running again. Then flashed latest uk h3g rom via odin to get my hd voice back. Now im just waiting for a decent 4.3 rom to appear.

---------- Post added at 02:10 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:08 PM ----------

Would a kies restore fix imei and efs problems?
[Galaxy Note II General] Philly3:
Hi I have successfully upgraded my N7100 from 4.1.1 to 4.3 but now gone GSM connection. What is the problem?
[Galaxy Note II General] Skywalker.00:
Check and make sure your imei is still intact. If it is not you may have somehow corrupted your efs partition. This can only be fixed by flashing back to stock.

Also check your APN's and access points just in case ;)
[Galaxy Note II General] Philly3:
IMEI code good. The funny thing is that I bought a new phone which has been rooted :confused: How can this be?
[Galaxy Note II General] sora9009:
then it must be used phone.