[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chaosin1983:
Hi guys, I am desperate and in need of help :( ...apparently my Note decided to die on me and I think I just made it worse. Please whoever has any suggestions please help me.

For a good while now I had been running Paranoid Android without any problems whatsoever until last friday my phone woke up stuck on the start screen (the one that says GT-N7000). Please note that NO changes were made to the system nor were any new apps installed. Rebooting the phone resulted in the same situation.

After noticing that it was stuck, I figured I would go into recovery and try clearing cache as that sometimes will help, to my surprise the phone was unable to go into recovery, it would just present a blank screen.

I could still go into download mode, so I thought I would go back to stock through ODIN eand re-root and re-flash, when i tried this ODIN hanged at this point:

<ID:0/007> Added!!

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> N7000XXLA4_N7000OXALA4_N7000XXLA4_HOME.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<OSM> Leave CS..

<ID:0/007> Odin v.3 engine (ID:7)..

<ID:0/007> File analysis..

<ID:0/007> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/007> Initialzation..

<ID:0/007> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/007> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/007> factoryfs.img

<ID:0/007> NAND Write Start!!

I tried several GB and two JB stock ROMs, both ended up with the same results. I also tried flashing this through ODIN 1.83, 1.85 and 3.07 with no luck.

Then I got worried that my phone had somehow gotten bricked (overnight with no change which I know does not make sense), and I found forest1971 thread on how to revive a bricked Note. Following this thread I tried all PIT files from 2.0 up to 2.5 and ODIN hanged at this point:

<ID:0/003> Added!!

<ID:0/003> Odin v.3 engine (ID:3)..

<ID:0/003> File analysis..

<ID:0/003> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/003> Initialzation..

<ID:0/003> Set PIT file..

<ID:0/003> DO NOT TURN OFF TARGET!!

After this I got really desperate, so I went ahead and tried the manual method, and tried flashing Speedmod kernel in order to be able to access recovery again as is instructed in the thread. ODIN hangs during this process as well, thus not installing the Kernel but it did give me the yellow triangle and increased my binary flash count. I had managed to avoid this throughout my whole 10 months of owning the phone by doing things correctly, and now I cannot send it to Samsung even though I would still have 2 months worth of warranty eliminating the possibility of sending it back to them.

So in summary I can't access recovery, I can't flash a stock ROM, I can't flash kernels and now I have the yellow triangle. Please also note that I have tried with several USB cables, updated drivers and several PCs.

What can I do about this? Is there still some sort of hope for my phone? Can the triangle be somehow removed without access to recovery or the ROM? and finally how on earth could my phone do this from one night to the other without me installing or doing anything to it?

Thank you very much, any ideas will be greatly appreciated.