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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] gszabi:
Do you have any kind of infrared soldering equipment? Are you removed the old emmc? Is it glued? (Ofcourse it is!) :)

Do you have any high level soldering skill? Special flux gel, reball equipment? Ok i dont bothering you more im just trying to told that it will be a very very very hard project for a man who dont trained specially for these kind of work.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] BojanMK:
I have a local electrician over here which is willing to solder the specific BGA chip. I know that is a hard thing to do by your own. :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] howard bamber:
You would of been a lot better buying a full second hand main board, instead of the chip. Reballing and reflowing a chip is not something to do in your kitchen.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] BojanMK:
Disagree

Buying a new motherboard is more expensive than buying just the emmc chip... of course, if you know what's the problem of the phone.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] qazibasit:
Everytime i started any such mission. It always leads to ruining the equipment. I have damaged my microwave, laptop operated it to clean the fan, my old tv and so many other goods.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] BojanMK:
Order placed

Guys I have placed the order of the chip at parts4repair.com . I hope the shipping time of the item will be fast because it's not a big thing and it will be processed fast trough postals and customs. It should arrive for about 2 weeks so stay put. :)

That's why is better to take the motherboard to a local electronics technician and he'll do all the nasty work.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] msedek:
Lol I can't wait to see the result of this :D

Tapatalking on my n7000
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] abhinav quietly brilliant:
any progress?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] warfareonly:
He said it will take approximately two weeks, so wait for two weeks.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] BojanMK:
The item has been shipped today with a tracking number. It should arrive in two or three weeks and now all I have to do is wait. :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] msedek:
Do you have a backup of your efs folder?

Tapatalking on my n7000
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ThaiDai:
Difficult to make when you buy a device that's already dead (as he wrote in the first part of his thread).
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] msedek:
So no wonder how(if he ever manage to success soldering the new chip) he's gonna recover the IMEI

Tapatalking on my n7000
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ThaiDai:
AW: My N7000 project

haha, that's a nice thought. But first he have to attach the chip. And I doubt he will succeed without the equipment.

So two challenges now.

We'll see in about 3 weeks
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] BojanMK:
Why would I need the old IMEI? After soldering the new chip on the motherboard, the new chip brings new IMEI to the phone. The phone has no warranty so basically I don't need any proofs for the IMEI or that stuff. I don't care about that at all.

Check the Desire S EMMC replacing thread on this forum and you'll see that the phone got new IMEI with the new chip and it works just fine. :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] msedek:
If this its true then I'm not sure about the legality of this thread/procedure anymore...

In a nutshell you are saying.. It doesn't matter if you get stolen notes.. You only need to replace EMMC and you even get a new IMEI? Erm

Tapatalking on my n7000
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] BojanMK:
Exactly. :)))
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] SpyderTracks:
As msedek says, not sure how legal this procedure is, especially without restoring official imei. Sorry mate, gotta report it... But then again, I really wanna see how this turns out!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] msedek:
I'm in the same position

Edit: I think we shouldn't report this because this its not something average Joe can perform.. And it's really interesting if you have an efs backup if there's sites selling EMMC chips already and he succeds soldering and document the whole process then a lot of people might get back in business..

Tapatalking on my n7000
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] BojanMK:
I'm sharing the procedure of how to fix a completely bricked Note. It your opinion if you're going to believe that I bought this phone for 100 euros or not. I got the original box of the phone and a statement from the official service for Samsung in Macedonia that they are not able to repair the phone and the only solution is replacing the motherboard which costs 200 euros.

This thread is made for educational purposes and if you report it, you definitely don't like helping people. What do you think, I can't just simply fix my phone without sharing the adventure I'm having? I have spent 100 euros on a phone that I had no idea what's wrong with it. You don't know how much 100 euros are worth over here and believe me, nobody likes to pay 100 euros for something that doesn't works. For 100 euros you can buy a good Android smartphone, for example Sony Xperia Tipo.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] jeroen180:
Status update? Im really wondering. its not the money.. but it is the challenge to unbrick it.. keep it going!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] djoni_gitara:
+1

BojanMK just make sure to document the whole process :good: ...for educational purposes ;).

Good luck man, hope it will work :good:

I am realy interested in this project... subscribed :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] jeroen180:
Now you say it... subscribed as well:good:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] SpyderTracks:
I get it mate, I'm not reporting it, this is too good to miss for a lot of people. Keep us posted.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] qazibasit:
Reported or not reported. Even if thats not legit, ur doing it legally, there are already chips out there with new imei. To license an imei number for a phone it cost 6$. So most chinese vendors take these imei for their phone by paying. In 2004 china even started manufacturing phones without imei. For which its cellphone market was banned for 2 years.

If ur phone worked. That will be a note hardware plus software hack. Plus doing an operation of a gadget helps u to learn about it more.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] BojanMK:
Long live China! :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] BojanMK:
The chip arrived today guys and I'm going to leave my motherboard with the new chip at the technician. I'll post the results later tonight, stay put. :P
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] abhinav quietly brilliant:
good:thumbup: keep us posted :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] msedek:
Hey remember to tell the technician to film the whole thing :cool:

Tapatalking on my n7000
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Tos69400:
Good luck men. This thread will help a lot of people who bricked their notes.

Envoyé depuis mon N7000
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] M3TALLICA:
You don't really have to quote the post with both the pics....gosh
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] BojanMK:
Guys THE PHONE WORKS but we have little problem... Now I have Unknown IMEI problem and I need a working EFS dump from a same phone. Is somebody able to get me this? Please try to find atleast!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ThaiDai:
AW: My N7000 project

That is the funny part now. If someone give you his dump he is giving you his IMEI.

And that is illegal if you use it a second time.

Asking for it might even be against the XDA rules.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] djoni_gitara:
wow great!!

http://www.cvxcvx.pl/?lang=en

maybe this guy can help

here is discusion...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2115503&highlight=imei
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] nokiamodeln91:
This is good news.. Congrats man. Bravo. but the efs you are asking for will clone the imei and mac addresses of interfaces which is not good.

---------- Post added at 01:17 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:15 AM ----------

Cvxcvx maybe able to help you in this case.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] BojanMK:
I will change the IMEI as the previous one I had because it must be the same as the motherboard wants. The CPU is probably comparing his IMEI with the EMMC and then makes the phone's network to work.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Etnoscope:
so the phone is fully functional?

no freezing, no FCs, no nothing with the new EMMC thing?

everything is fine besides the EFS thing?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] BojanMK:
Yes but I have to fix the IMEI so the phone can be fully functional.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Tonyboy09:
Cant wait to hear the result, mate. Good luck!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] lhurtado:
Great work! About IMEI, cvxcvx fixed my IMEI, it takes 5 minutes, so it's worth try.

There is no IMEI check in the phone, the network provider check IMEI against a black list to allow registration. Usually unknown and dummy IMEI are blocked.

Good luck!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] fleurdelisxliv:
Dang i wonder if they have the chip for the kindle fire? it has the same bug and mine is bricked hmmmmm ima have to check it out. Thanks man this cld help a lot of ppl :thumbup:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] msedek:
Gotta quote myself here from some weeks ago.. And now the question is... Do you have the full video?

Tapatalking on my n7000
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] djoni_gitara:
if I am on his place, I would probably not shot the video, because changing the chip is hard enough task in itself. But if you want to know what the procedure is, there are a lot of videos to YouTube for example:

http://www.youtube.com/user/BGAReflow/videos?flow=grid&view=0

Considering the IMEI, you were right. But i have no doubt that BojanMK will suceed to repair his imei. He will not do anything illegal, he have his imei on back back of the phone.

What is more important to me is that he proved and suceed in repairing a totaly dead phone, by changing the emmc chip. And I am thankful him for that.

If by chance something like that happens to me, I would tried to fix it in the same way, oh and I have my EFS backup allready ;)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] msedek:
Well it's not proven at all.. Besides some guy saying that he succed performing such task and showing no proof.. I see no point on this thread if he doesn't provide the full procedure..

Tapatalking on my n7000
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] djoni_gitara:
Well, yes you are right, I get your point. This can serve as an advertisement for some kind of "easy repair" There is a lot of people with dead phones and without waranty, and here is procedure which not cost too much.

Without detailed pictures and description we are only lefted to believe this is true. But I do believe and it not cost too much neither :D

I think he is excited right now :D, and he will probably post some pictures and description later :good:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] BojanMK:
About the video I promised guys, the technician had no camera at his workshop so I was able just to watch. Definitely it was no easy process but the technician had it done in half hour or a hour because he has over 10 years experience with mobile phones so this is nothing new for him. When he first removed the old chip, the contacts from the board were screwed up from the previous service. So he have fixed them by putting some solder on the place and brushing it with toothpaste brush. After that he put the new chip and when the phone boot up, I was about to break the ceiling if I jumped from happiness. :D

The procedure costed me 8 euros so now the whole project price till now is 164 euros. Now with the fixing IMEI problem, I think the overall price will be 170 euros.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] BojanMK:
Still nothing with the EFS guys, I can't repair it. My technician tried Z3X box and couldn't fix it. CVXCVX the polish guy tried ASANSAM dongle and I don't know what else he tried (but he tried everything) and he couldn't repair it. He said it is a hardware problem and I have no idea how this can be. I have tried deleting the EFS folder, replacing it with other fake EFS' but still nothing. I think the chip is causing this problem and I have sent an email to parts4repair to help me with this.

If someone has any idea how to solve this no matter hardware or software tweak, please share...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] goobieracing:
Sorry I'm not helping but I think this was something else taking on this project good luck!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Sale_zg:
try with contact Adam Outler.He is the ONE who can give u some info about exynos devices...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] BojanMK:
I have tried mate, but he doesn't replies to my private messages. :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Sale_zg:
Try trough his forum of unbrickable mod or beter CASUAL root something.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ThaiDai:
I would try to get an info from Samsung (maybe in their developer forum). Maybe somebody there can give you a hint why it isn't enough to solder a new eMMC chip to the board.

Maybe there is a special initialization procedure necessary including the "definition" of an IMEI or something like this.

If you get an info like "Soldering is only part one of the procedure" and "Part 2 can't be published" it might end your search but you know why.

If no such step is necessary: maybe the soldering process wasn't perfect - but I assume the device wouldn't start at all.

You wrote somewhere before about the total costs until now (170 ?). So adding your time invest, I start to believe that a complete repair by changing the motherboard is "cheaper" and "easier".
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] zviki:
170€ with the phone...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] :
this thread can be closed no?

how did the efs file pcodin flash go?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] BojanMK:
Not yet... I have tried restoring original N7000 EFS from other phone but still luck. I'm now going to wait the parts4repair.com staff to reply how to fix my problem because this is caused from the chip as the previous eMMC chip was working good without any problems at all.

The thread will be open until I repair the phone completely and make a good example of it for all XDA users. :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] :
Could have got a s3 under contract for 70 less

Anyhow I hope you get it working. Good luck.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] BojanMK:
That maybe is offered in USA, but not in Macedonia. :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] zviki:
Somebody with broken Note could give you IMEI... :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] PurpleMelbourne:
If you get this working then I wonder if we could upgrade our Not e's with a bigger eMMC? I'd love a 64GB or better still, 128GB Note... ;)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] M.Barakat:
great chance for using :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] howard bamber:
Meant 2nd hand board. I got one for £60

From box 13......
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] BojanMK:
I have already tried to restore a EFS backup from a working Note but still no lunk. :/

This is pretty much possible if you're able to find the chip. :)

I didn't quite understood that second NAND board. Can you post a link or something to explain better?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] zviki:
Second hand , not NAND :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] TheNoticer:
AW: My N7000 project

Why you need IMEI? There is one at your box and behind the battery. Your guaranty is already void through JTAGing because they are modifying the Hardware. After that the eMMC chip was replaced also a Hardware modification. If I were you I would copy the IMEI which is on the back of my phone or box.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] warfareonly:
Sorry, I thanked you by mistake.

The device does not recognize/accept whatever imei he has tried to restore. You cannot just open up a settings menu and change/enter your device imei like adding a contact. He needs to restore the imei in order for the phone to access the network. Devices without imei aren't allowed to access networks.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] zviki:
What?He just take picture of IMEI and problem is solved - IMEI is in the phone!:D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] BojanMK:
Long time no see fellas

Hi guys, sorry for not replying for some time, I wasn't really in the mood to share something here about the phone.

About the phone... I've tried everything, from JTAGs to boxes and many technicians tried but none of them succeed and getting the IMEI working. So, I have decided to send the EMMC chip back to parts4repair.com and I have ordered a new EMMC chip without any program on it because a technician told me that he could get it working like that. That's the last thing I'll try because I'm sick of this EMMC chip bull****s and etc.

The very problem I think is when the first owner sent the phone for repair at the OFFICIAL Samsung service in Macedonia, and they screwed up the BGA pins on the motherboard! Wtf man, OFFICIAL Samsung service screwed up the EMMC BGA contact pins from the motherboard?! I can't believe it either but that's the true... :mad: However, my technician was able to repair the pins with some pcb technique of his and the first EMMC from parts4repair.com actually worked but it couldn't get any IMEI. There's a veeeery small chance that one (or more) pins didn't worked good and that's why the phone couldn't get any IMEI even with JTAG but the chances of that are very small because everything else on the phone worked good and even when checking the whole EMMC chip with a program, all the test passed.

Picture from the motherboard below.

That greenish color on the board is soldering grease

Now what's left for me to do is to wait the new, not programmed chip and hopefully my technician can solder it good once again and repair the motherboard fully.

Wish me luck on this very last try to get this phone working at once. :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] :
Dude good luck but no offense...sounds like tiu should just get a new phone. Boards aren't meant to be modified so many times.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] BojanMK:
Yeah, I know that but like I said, this is my last try to fix this piece of ****. :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] zviki:
Good luck! And all pins for the chip are OK? I see missing(damaged) pins... Huh...

...from SG NOTE N7000 with Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] KvnTM:
Cant wait for the result too. i just superbricked my note months ago and samsung replaced my mobo but this is really interesting, dont give up m8!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] BojanMK:
My technician once fixed this with his funky pcb techniques which is very hard. He looked with his magnifying glass and made sure that all the pins are okay before he soldered the old EMMC chip which I have sent back to parts4repair.com some day ago and of course, I have talked with them before I send the item to their address.

Is there maybe any chance that you have the old motherboard? :)) Thanks for the support though, I appreciate it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] KvnTM:
No chance, sry. Samsung dont gave me the old motherboard. If i had it i would send it to you but i dont it, im so sorry..:(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] BojanMK:
Got the new chip...

Yesterday I received the new chip (without program) which is SanDisk SDIN5C2-4G. A 4GB chip almost the same as the original KMVISOOOLM-B503 from Samsung, but this mother****er didn't had any contacts (the chip was flat, I have no idea how they can send this stuff like this) so my technician had to make one for it and he really sweat on this one. After hour struggling with the contact, the chip got in place on the motherboard which the contact pins from the motherboard got revived again with some trick of his and I have seen members on this forum crying about the missing contact pins they can't get fixed! If someone is interested, I can ask my technician to share a tutorial or something on how to get the contacts fixed in no time. :cowboy:

Tomorrow is the D-Day... my technician will try J-Tag recovery on the phone with this new 4GB chip and if everything goes well, I should have my phone working with an IMEI and all other crap working flawlessly. So, I'll post the result tomorrow. :fingers-crossed:

Money spent till now: 180 euros (hopefully I'll get the refund from the old chip which is 60 euros)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] mikk@:
I commend you on your determination. Good luck mate!

Sent from my GT-N7000
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] :
Good luck man. Hope its not an exercise in futility.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] zviki:
Refund for used chip? :rolleyes: Hmm... Good luck with that. Will be 4GB space enough? Maybe for CM rom,because with stock rom there is only 11GB free of 16GB...

...from SG NOTE N7000 with Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] BojanMK:
Nothing... the SanDisk **** chip can't be read nor written with JTAG so I'll have to get this chip too back to parts4repair.com because this isn't a good chip for N7000 as they say.

I'll get refunds and sell the phone for parts... I have no other options

Does anyone wants to buy N7000 screen in great condition? Or maybe some other minor stuff from the housing, whatever...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] :
Sell it on eBay...or buy a broken screen n7000 on eBay
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] mobi323:
Re: imei reporting

I have just started to read the journey of BojanMK and his n7000 as I have recently had similar problems with my n7000. I managed to break a pin off the sim tray. The tech who repaired it said that there was a possibility of damaging the IC chips etc. The repair was successful and phone was working great. However a day or two later a couple of things were not working viz the speakerphone, the screen rotation and the magnetic field detector (although I have a suspicion that this is a problem of the jellybean 4.1.2 update).

An online tech service confirmed that the motherboard chip/s were damaged so I have purchased a new motherboard (US$128) and I am awaiting its arrival.

Anyway I am interested in some of the comments on this thread about the imei number. Where is this number? Is it the body of the phone? Is it in one of the chips that go on the motherboard? I don't want to do anything illegal - I just want my n7000 to work as before. Some members appear to be suggesting that the change of imei number should be reported but to whom?

Also what can I do with the old motherboard as it is very serviceable except for a few non-essential features as I have pointed out. I have visions of buying a n7000 with a broken motherboard and putting my old motherboard in it to have a serviceable backup Note.

I'm sorry if I appear dumb.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] :
Bojanmk, I feel for you man, it sucks having that. Too bad you couldn't enjoy your phone this long. Thanks for sharing the story, hope others learn from it
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] neier24:
I've read somewhere about how to find a new efs imei stuff for your phone, a new generic one. If you got hope, you might find it around.

mobi323, that is a resonable price! Where you've bought your motherboard from?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] zviki:
Mobi323,sell it to BojanMK :)

...from SG NOTE N7000 with Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] mobi323:
New n7000 Motherboard

aliexpress.com
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] neier24:
I've seen the site. I hope can raise to the expectations. Keep us posted. Good luck.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] mobi323:
Re n7000 motherboard

Actually, when I get my n7000 working I'm thinking of finding one like BojanMK's and making a serviceable handset out if it.

The only things that don't work (as far as I can tell) on this motherboard are: the auto screen rotation, the speaker phone feature, and the magnetic field detection (but I've heard that this is a jellybean 4.1.2 problem). I can live with those problems in a backup handset.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] :
Yeah he tried that already efs.img from early roms, even cvxcvxc I think
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] BojanMK:
I have tried everything on the phone mate and it's not working. Fix something, break something else and that's how things were going. I'll probably buy a motherboard from aliexpress.com like you did. If you don't mind please share the link from the item you bought with us, I would like to check it.

And please share with us your story about the motherboard if you get your phone repaired.

However, I am not able to try anything on the phone because I am currently in USA so this will have to wait 2 or 3 months.

Cheers.