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[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scufutz:
... Mine id xf1 and for one error i installed 4.1.1 ... Which ruind my note 2 by giving me the SOD sleep of death,i changed the rom to differents 4.1.2 roms but i cant get read of sod ... Every time the screen goes off never turns on i need to restart

Sod is worse that sds becouse you have a working phone but you have your hands tied ... Wtf
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Omen123:
So what happens if my phone dies, whilst the flash counter is 1? There isn't any way to get rid of it if it actually gets SDS.....

And is it possible to keep this issue from happening somehow? By regularly using the same dummy file generator every few months?

If I was to send it back, they will surely do nothing?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FloatingFatMan:
Why would any company repair a device that isn't actually broken? That doesn't even a tiny bit of sense.

If it does fail it will be completely dead so they can't start it to check. But if you're that worried, just put it back to stock now.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Omen123:
Oh okay then. Do you know how I can stop the crashes completely and fix the issue? Is there a patch or fix of some sort?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tuangd:
Mine crashed while I was flashing stock ROM over it, and it can't boot up ever again. But when it's going to download mode luckily the triangle sign was not show up so the guy at service center not even ask for my proof of purchase and change the device mainboard for me right away.

I think I was a bit lucky at the time.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FloatingFatMan:
Without knowing the cause of the crashes (which many not even be related to SDS), no. First place to start though, is the custom ROM you're running. Restore to stock; if it stops crashing, you know where the problem was.

Restoring to stock is the first port of call when trying to diagnose problems. Stock is known to be stable, custom ROMs, not so much.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Omen123:
It is stock, but I would really like to keep my root. Since I use gl to sd, speaker boost, abrighternote.apk, sd boost, seeder, exynos mem abuse, galactic night and a few tweaks with xposed installed.....

Stock 4.1.2 rooted odexed. And it keeps on crashing, has done 7 times today. The phone is 8 months old, and I think it has started to develop premature signs of SDS.

Surely if I do remove the root + make it all officially stock, and then send it back to Samsung, telling them about my problems, they would replace it, providing it still does crash every now and then? That's the only good thing about apple, if you just tell them it's crashing, they would replace it there and then on the spot.

I guess I'll reset the flash counter and just use stock 4.1.2 for a while to see if my problems persist, and send it out before it gets too late.

Does this seem like a viable solution?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FloatingFatMan:
Exynos abuse? When I tried using that, my phone started to crash regularly. When I removed it, the crashes stopped. Try removing it and see how things go.

They certainly won't whilst it's not stock, but if it's stock, and still crashing, they probably will. However, try removing Exynos abuse first. Like I said, when I used that, my phone became seriously unstable.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Omen123:
But doesn't it protect you from an application wiping your data just like that. The huge security flaw with touchwiz?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FloatingFatMan:
That was patched out ages ago, as part of 4.1.2. It was also never really a serious threat, unless you were the sort likely to install dodgy applications from dodgy sources.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Omen123:
Okay, I uninstalled it, and restarted the phone. The phone has frozen twice since + had to restart it both times
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] satchef1:
Thanks for that.

Unfortunately, I can't get a hold of anybody at Vodafone that is able to discuss the case. The customer service department is crippled in this case - they have no information about what the fault is or what caused it, and are unable to retrieve the information. The 'Engineering Department' (a 3rd party repairer) are 'not at liberty to discuss technical details of the case with customers'. I've been ignored by Vodafone employees on Vodafone's forums and Twitter account, and when emailing the executive's office I just get told to phone customer services.

I've asked them to return the phone to me. I'm going to send it to Samsung myself - hopefully someone there has some sense. Pretty sick of the UK mobile networks to be honest - anything goes wrong and they batten down the hatches, bury their heads in the sand and wait for you to go away. PAYG for me when my contract is up in November - I'll just buy my handsets outright from now on.

I will bookmark that page. If I get nowhere with Samsung then I'll have to start arguing the legal case for getting my phone fixed (which Vodafone will most likely ignore in the hope that I get bored and give up).
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FloatingFatMan:
Well, I can only relate my own experience in that regard, and my experience is that the Exynos abuse app caused my phone to freeze several times, and it stopped after I removed it. Mind you. I tried it when I was on 4.1.1, and shortly after removing it, I flashed with 4.1.2. Possibly that had something to do with it also.

All I can say for certain is that my phone was stable before Exynos Abuse, and wasn't afterwards until I got rid of it.

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Oh, they will go to great lengths to avoid their responsibilities, that much is certain. If I were you, I'd talk to the people at your local trading standards office (most towns have one), they can advise you what step it's best to take next.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Omen123:
And it's back to freezing up. At least 10 times a day, sometimes when just being left alone. Quite surprised the alarm went off this morning too!
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FloatingFatMan:
Time to flash back to stock then. If it's still freezing afterwards, time to RMA it.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrgreywater:
So mine broke too (suddenly didnt start one morning)

I've sent mine to w-support.com (Germany). They've changed the mainboard in 5days, and after a week I now have my Note 2 back and its running fine. The repair was payed by samsung, I just had to send a copy of the bill.

So everything is fine for me, except the fact that I had to pay the money for the shipping (6.90€ not a big deal), but I know that the vendor of the product has to pay it (at least in germany). I've sent them an email, but they still didnt answer.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FabioDefri:
I try to report the sds of my note 2

this morning it was working perfectly ... then I left resting while eating breakfast

just take it back I read on the screen:

SDCARD MODE

COPY BINARY FROM SDCARD ..

COPY BINARY EMMC ..

SDCARD DOWNLOAD COMPLETED

From that moment no longer give any sign of life

reading a bit online I read that SDCARD MODE is activated by test point to retrieve those bricked and copy the boot loader from external sd ... as you may only be activated
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Omen123:
I unrooted, returned to stock etc... problem was still there

I called the company with which I got the phone with. They offered a swap for a new phone. Re Rooted, and backing up apps now. Thanks for the help! So glad I didn't have to send it out to samsung and switch to ios for a week or so!

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Sadly though, it seems this particular replacement also has the 0xf1 board. But at least it's not crashing.

What precautions can I take to make this phone actually last now?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AKar1978:
I have Type:-VTU00M

FR:0xf7

do i have the bug or not???anyone who knows????thanx
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FloatingFatMan:
Install stock 4.1.2, or a custom ROM that has the eMMC fix.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] epicelite:
I've got

Type: MAG4FB

Date: 11/2012

CID: (Do you need this? It's really long I aint' typing all that...)

FwRev: 0xf7

Am I safe?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clearday:
Yes.

"distrust until you can verify"
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] epicelite:
What do you mean by that?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mozilla008:
How 'bout this one?

I'm wondering why the date is 3/1997, even Nokia 5110 doesn't exist that time.. :confused:
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nazarali87:
hi

i have problem in note 2 7100 :c rying:

when i turn on it stuck in flash screen

i try to instal new kernel but this message appear

There is no PIT partition.

and when i try to instal pit file this message appear and stuck

get pit for mapping

i check cable and another port but the problem still

what is solution ???
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clearday:
The original was "TRUST but verify". I think it's BS because if you really trusted, then there is no need to verify.

"distrust until you can verify"
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amerkiller1995:
If I was to buy a phone next month from Amazon, what's the possibility of getting a faulty handset?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tuangd:
The same thing happen to me, phone died at the moment I tried to flash stock ROM with Odin and Pit file or partition error happen.

Now it's time to go to service center and replace the mother-board

Mine was lucky the last thing I flash was a stock ROM and when they checked my phone by going to download mode it showed that this machine running on stock, they changed MB for me right away.

So good luck :)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lyall29:
No, you do not have the bug.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baralgin1003:
hello! My note 2 dont turn on. only blinks red diode every 10 sec. battery is full, do not enter in recovery mode, JIG dont working. seems i have SDS. how i can repair phone?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdasunny:
Sounds like you have sds. Jig don't work for note2. Can send for warranty claim.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] klaaskakkerlak:
Same here

I awoke this morning to find that my Note 2 had died. I was totally unaware of the potential for this problem - and for this I think that Samsung have let me down terribly. There should have been some admission on their part that this could happen and they should also have recommended steps to avoid it (if this is possible). I have read all 85 pages in this thread and now feel even more let down by Samsung. Some people try to play down the percentage of people affected - but if you are one of the few affected it doesn't help to be disregarded as "insignificant"..... but isn't this exactly what Samsung have done by not giving me the chance to take some preventative measures?

My whole family have Samsung phones - due to my recommendation not to be seduced by the Apple hype - and now this!

I live in the Netherlands and hopefully the consumer protections are enough to get my phone fixed without any problems. The Samsung.nl site gave a list of service centres - the first of which was a Vodafone store. They didn't want to know about it - totally rude and not interested. Suggested driving 25 kms to a larger city!. Instead we walked 100 metres to the next Service Centre on the list - The Phone House - they were extremely helpful and have sent the phone to Samsung.

This is my second Samsung phone and will probably be the last - despite the fact that I have thoroughly enjoyed and embraced the experience- photos, audio, video, notetaking, calendar, navigation and, oh yes the phone......it was all a great way to keep in constant touch with Australia.

As others here have suggested, I will advise as to the outcome......hopefully won't have to wait too long.

cheers
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mozilla008:
When did you bought your Galaxy Note 2 and how long you're using it?

I just hope I'm not affected with the SDS, I bought my SGN2 3 weeks ago..
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Iriseyoufall:
It seems my phone is broken now also duo the SDS-problem. I knew that I had a SGN2 with a Insane-chip. I've updated to version 4.1.2 (late version DLK7) kinda fast. Afterwards I decided to root my phone and flash the Perseus kernel with a built-in software SDS-fix. I've runned the eMMC program multiple times without a crash or problem. So I thought that my phone was not affected / corrupted yet. A couple of weeks ago the symptoms started. I had a phone-reboot when I clicked to update a application in Google Play. A couple days later another crash. I've did run the eMMC program again and it showed : Passed. Then it seemed suddenly the problem was not happening for roughly two weeks.

Last week my phone started to acting weird after a program update (LED LIGHT MANAGER). My first thought was that this was because of a bad LED LIGHT MANAGER update. So I've cleared the data and removed the application. But the problem occured afterwards.

I did a eMMC program test and my phone did reboot (did not pass the test). Then freezes and reboots started to happen frequently and the time between those were becoming shorter and shorter. Maybe it was caused by a program or something. So I've started in Safe-mode and see what happened. But even that made my phone freeze.Sometimes scrolling in mails, facebook or even deleting a picture is causing the freeze.

Now the phone is even freezing after like 2 minutes without dooing anything. And one time it didn't wanted to power on. A battery-remove and add was needed. Also on a restart I noticed that some datasetting of application where missing. I had to do the settings of Swiftkey-board again and from Whatsapp+ :S:S

Luckily got most of my datastored in the cloud with a good back-up of Titanium Back-up. I have a insurrence also on my phone. Upcoming wednesday gonna visit the Samsung Repair Store and ask them to replace my motherboard with a good chip. Phone is roughly : 7/8 months old now.

It seems that the software-fix (kernel and rom) are not the solution. Sooner or later everyone with that specific kind of broken Batch: VTU00M 16GB internal memory chips with revision 0xF1 will be a victim of this SDS problem.

We keep in touch.

Regards,

IriseyouFall
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mufaddalezzi:
Is this bug still available on N7100DDDLK6/N7100XXDMC3??
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Iriseyoufall:
ROM / Kernel doesn't matter. If you have the named earlier named faulty chip, you will be screwed eventually.

Download eMMC and check your revision type
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mozilla008:
Check your eMMC Type & FwRev using eMMC Brickbug Check, free download at Google Play.

If your eMMC is:

Type: VTU00M

FwRev: 0xf1

then there is a possibility that you're affected with SDS.

When did you purchase your SGN2 anyway?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mufaddalezzi:
January 2nd..so I'm currently unrooted and just to make sure will eMMC app wont affect my device? Seeing people comments based on downloading eMMC app while they are not rooted freezes their devices..can this occur?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mufaddalezzi:
So will this app cause no problems with unrooted note 2?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mufaddalezzi:
Here I got these results..so is it ok?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Iriseyoufall:
Yes, you are safe. RevFW 0xf1 is bad , anything else is good.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mvtm:
Hi xda

Early adopter of GNII since October. I purchased the International Unlocked version. GT-N7100 in a beautiful marble white and now it is dead!... Please help me revive it, i will thank you so much.

Here are the details: Since about 2 days ago my GNII started to randomly shut off while charging or in use. My only solution to this was to take away the battery and place it again as the power button became irresponsive. I have never dropped my phone or caused any physical damage including contact to water.

Today, my phone shut off as usually and i have not been to boot it up. It freezes always on the: "Samsung -Galaxy Note II- GT-N7100" screen with the black background and cannot get past it.

I was in stock android. Never rooted. Stock android 4.1.1 just as it came out of the box.

I don't know what do or what can be causing it. Please i would appreciate all of your replies and ideas

--------------------------------------------------------------

Do i have SDS?

I Cannot enter recovery mode but can enter download mode.

People have been telling me to flash with Odin. I don't have a clue. I am on Mac OSX too.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kflanegan:
Samsung Support for US GT-N7100 owners?

My Galaxy Note II GT-N7100 died via the SDS bug on Saturday night and I have not been able to recover using any methods available. I have contacted Samsung US support via their 1-800-726-7864 number and currently been on hold for over 45 minutes waiting for "advanced support", whatever that means....Just got off the line with one of the advanced support specialists and they are unable to process any kind of support for the international model via their support center in Texas. Can anyone in the US who have experienced this issue reply with the process to receive warranty service for their phone? I'm going to take my phone to a local cell phone and tablet repair shop tomorrow before work to see if there is anything they can do to fix the bug. I'm beyond frustrated right now that US Samsung supports solution to my problem is to call a UK support number and have the repair processed through them. Yeah so I can spend $5-10 on just the call and who knows how much on shipping the phone to who knows where. Then waiting weeks or even a month before getting the phone back. Please help US owners of the GT-N7100. I don't want to be without my Note II that long.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mufaddalezzi:
If it's SDS issue than you probably have to change the motherboard of the phone..this might cost alot if you go to any local repair shop but if your on warranty you can go to any nearest samsung service centre and they will fix it in matter of hours or couple of days.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kflanegan:
Wish I could just take it to a local Samsung service center. We don't have any that I'm aware of in Alabama and the central Texas service center is refusing to even open a ticket or allow me to send the phone on my own dime to have the phone diagnosed and possibly fixed. I really don't want to ship the phone overseas to have the parts replaced. Anyone here in the US have a better solution? How much would the parts cost to purchase?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mufaddalezzi:
If the eMMC is damaged then you probably need to change the motherboard..you can do it by yourself also

Here's the links you cant it from

http://www.globaldirectparts.com/Se...arch=galaxy+note&show=60&page=1&brand=Samsung

Or

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fully-wor...544&pid=100011&prg=1005&rk=2&sd=400505630040&
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fsaenz:
I am one of the "luck" owners of a GN2 with Insane chip. Even luckier that I bought mine overseas and therefore I have no warranty in my country. I can also not ship it to repair because I will have to pay an insane amount of tax. :crying:

A couple of weeks ago my phone started acting weird. Apps would close while in use, phone would freeze and restart was necessary. Since this weekend things got ugly and yesterday I decided to reset to factory default (I was running on official 4.1.2 ROM, Kernel and not rooted). After the reset the phone would not stay 2 minutes awake without freezing. Having no warranty I decided to flash Perseus Kernel, which solved 90% of the problems, it still freezes about 6 times a day (which is a lot, but much better than before).

I was expecting that the phone would still live with the Perseus Kernel, even with the freezes. Do you know of anyone else that had problems using Perseus Kernel?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ppn7:
Do you undervolted or underclocked gpu/cpu? Abb profile on perseus ? Memory undervolted? Don't use 54mhz mini for gpu it will make freeze your phone
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fsaenz:
I did not change anything else. Phone is still not even rooted.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] melvinchng:
if you are rooted, will they change mother board for you?

Accidentally sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note 2
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fsaenz:
It is not rooted. And if it were I do not think this would make any difference, as I do not have any warranty.

I am trying to find a solution that does not cost me money :)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] melvinchng:
I have tested my phone memory block. And it completed successfully. But i have 0xf1. The date is 09/2012. I bought this phone on October 2012. And until now I don't have any issue. Maybe some reboot...

So is anyone here rooted their devices and Samsung still able to change emcc chips for you?

Accidentally sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note 2
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mufaddalezzi:
If your phone dies due to eMMC bug then samsung won't be able to detect wether your rooted or not..so it's probably an advantage for you..and if they tell you your rooted then they have lied to you.. so basically they will have to fix it for you as long as your warranty is lasting:)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Iriseyoufall:
The Perseus Kernel is fine, loved it. It has also the soft-SDS fix. Soon might try that Redpill kernel instead though.

That is the reason of those freezes / reboots. It is the automatic protection that kicks in. It avoids the phone of dying correctly (instantly), but instead it makes your data more and more corrupt, until the day comes that it keeps hanging on the Samsung boot-logo and you can only enter the recovery modus or download modus. The download modus will show binary count (1) and it means that basically your whole nan.d partition (os) is ****ed up. But like I said that soft-SDS fix in rom/kernel that Samsung silently released does not solve the problem, sooner or later your OS/data will become corrupted. It is a hardware defect and trust me, it ain't fixable with just a software patch. They narrowed probably the chance of happening / data corruption <because your phone might freeze / reboot on time so data won't be lost. You can wait on it that this goes wrong eventually ( that happened with my phone ). eMMC blocks start being corrupted more and more, that is the reason of the time between freezes and reboots becomes shorter and shorter. I was protected also with that SDS-soft fix. Also the SDS-soft fix doesn't do his job when in recovery or download modus! Means you are 100% unprotected there. Best solution is just a motherboard swap. But it is indeed sad, feel sorry for you that there is no warranty in your country for a overseasd product :S
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fsaenz:
Wow. Bad news for me....

Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation!

I had no problem with the phone this afternoon. Let's hope that it can hold like this for a while.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kflanegan:
Any US owners of the note II able to come in with their process to get the repair completed by Samsung UK? So far I'm getting the run around by several Samsung support email correspondences. Thanks
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] melvinchng:
I bought my note 2 last October. And I'm going overseas to study. So I want to fix it before going to US and I'm in Malaysia.

Will SDS freeze then reboot your device?

Accidentally sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note 2