yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] jester12345:
Only thing u can do without pit. Cause it seems pit wont work since update to 4.3 I tried many different things. Only thing you can do is odin a 4.3 stock rogers. Or the rooted 4.1.2 firmware.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] messerchmidt:
Can someone post a pit file for me?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] mindmajick:
Look in the general section.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] geeve420:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2609871
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Zen Arcade:
Before you attempt an Odin + pit recovery have you tried the following:

1 - boot into recovery and do a factory reset

2 - flash the stock image via Odin by itself (please copy and post the results from the status screen) - then repeat step #1

If that doesn't resolve your issue....

It's very rare that a repartition is needed, as I'm not aware of any roms that muck with the partition sizing/data on the i317/i317m .... but depending on what the status screen says it may be worth an attempt. If you visited the link above, you'll see that I've temporarily pulled the files. I have a new files ready and am planning on testing the one for the i317 this weekend. I don't have a i317m so... if you want to test the file (which was pulled correctly from an i317m and is now sized correctly) - send me a PM.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] messerchmidt:
I reloaded the stock image (rogers 4.3) via odin and did a factory reset in twrp, but i still cannot get a non-stock rom to work. very annoyed, and was going to try to PIT it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Zen Arcade:
Did the stock rom work?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] messerchmidt:
yes using the stock rom atm. as soon as i try to flash a non-stock rom, i it hangs at the boot screen after it retsrats. some older threads suggested re-flashing the phone with a pit file to repartition. I dont know what else to do
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Zen Arcade:
Which non-stock rom? After flashing it are you able to get into recovery mode? Does this rom by any chance flash a modem.bin?

If a stock rom loads ok, chances are your pit mapping is OK.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] softballjunkee13:
Sounds to me like ur definitely not giving the roms enough time on the boot. Some could take 5-7 minutes for initial boot. The fact that stock works and EVERY OTHER ROM here doesn't... leads me to believe this. Patience is virtue

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using Xparent Skyblue Tapatalk 2
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] wase4711:
also, someone at your skill level should not be messing with partitions; you are just asking for a brick..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] gregsarg:
Not to mention the likely requirement of fully wiping the internal storage of the device...

Arbitrarily changing frameworks back and forth without wiping the file structure first will give you problems on boot...(boot loops)...

Additionally....once the rom is flashed...it may help to immediately go to recovery and wipe the device caches and data again...g

Sent from my NOTE 2.750...

Courtesy of our amazing developers...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] wase4711:
listen to greg; he is an authority on re-partitioning and bricking! :victory:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] messerchmidt:
ok i will try again and keep you posted:cool:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] messerchmidt:
got it working after several tires, running the 4.3 jedi x2

:good:
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] superboom:
So, i opened this therad because there no persons pushing and Developing custom AOSP Roms for the Galaxy Tab 3.

I'm opening it here because the Android Developing forum is a bit AFK.

Also, my first question is,

Why we are not using the Android x86 source, put a little bit from samsung open source and Tab 3 binaries it, and compile it?

Its so hard?

We are the xda-developers, we can do it!
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] chaoskoch:
Curious..

Yes, I'm asking myself the same, the Galaxy Tab 3 is such a famous device and out since July, but still there are nearly no ROMs out. Are there any ROMs planned or will this device soon be moved to the low activity section? CyanogenMod officially supported the Galaxy tab and the galaxy tab 2, but it doesn't seem like they are planning to support the galaxy tab 3?

Is there a special reason for that?, I'm just wondering?
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] safariking:
you know why we need developers who want to put some time in this device and at the moment we don't have much dev's around here so wait...
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] AnthonyAlmighty:
Willing to get my hands dirty...

The most device development I've done to date has been a simple android app, but I'm willing to get dirty on this one. I just came into possession of one of these devices over xmas, and I never let a good device go to waste. I do have 17 years of programming experience in multiple languages including C++ and Java, and a lot of web-based languages, so I'm hoping to come up to speed relatively quickly.

I'll poke around here and on the net over the next few days and see if I can teach myself, but if someone could point me in the direction of some quick start tutorials for building custom roms, I'll get started.
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] superboom:
:push
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] cduced:
Anthony, I think one thing that is holding people back on this device is a good recovery. The ones available now are painfully slow. I'm guessing there is some power saving mode on the x86 chip that needs to be tweaked to get it performing well. Once that was fixed, it would be a lot easier to experiment with ROMs. -- Bud
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] Br1cK'd:
Also Interested

Anthony and all, hi and hello. Thinking of shaking the rust off, as I also just came into possession of a GTab3, 10.1 inch, over this holiday season. I haven't built anything in a long time, but anyone who ran a Vibrant a couple years ago around here, should recognize my handle. I maintained a rom for the Vibrant for quite a while, from Froyo to ICS, then life got busy.

Popping into here today, I'm kinda sad to see there's not much if any in the way of development on this device. Happy to have root, thats a start. cduced was right, we do need a better recovery option, at least one that is faster, though what we have now is workable. TWRP may be slow, but it's something. We were always hung up on doing pure aosp source build for the Vibrant, because Sammy is not known for making their kernel source easily and readily available. Working from an existing zip to kang it is easy, but really thats just the same rom, maybe stripped and repackaged. A source build is the desirable outcome.

Though I haven't begun looking into things for this baby yet, and my adb and build tools are far out of date, I am very interested in working towards a better set of options for this device. 4.2.2 still? I can't believe Sammy hasn't released a 4.3 update, that's sad, but goes to show the lack of support they give their devices, to anyone who's been there you know, but you also know, determined devs can make it a better world.

Anthony, and anyone else interested in trying to improve this device, feel free to PM me, I'm thinkin' we should make a Google Hangout or something, make it easier to communicate.
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] Ideas4ya:
Hey I want aosp on this device too! At the very least, id like a custom kernel that I can overclock to reduce lag. Ive never created a rom, but I dont think roms are the issue...id be interested in porting roms that already exists...x-note for multiwindow features, or pac-rom for a highly customized device.

Are you still up for the projects? Lets heat these forums up!!!
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] Meteore:
Thanks guys for give it a try, I'm like the other owner don't understand why there is no interest for this devise didn't check before buy :confused:and now start to regret :o
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] mylifeandroid:
There are some devs now they just relesed 2 but there tw based there trying it just takes awile because of lack of devs.
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] Meteore:
It's ok I have already seen and tried them :laugh:. I understand the concept of work on something new and the lack of dev it's just that I was surprised because I thought tab 3 was like the others tabs so the development was more evolve.no problem.
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] Br1cK'd:
Not to knock it, but whats been released in the threads, is nothing more than the deodexed build already up there, with some bloat removed. Even the install scripts have, or had, the same text as the original. So really, nothing new. I am looking into possibly kernel cooking for this device, that seems like a good point to start.

No promises at this point, I'm looking into it though.

Truth, Zen4 Style
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] pug1:
This is true but there is finally a bit of interest and may come up with some new goodies..... the reason they all have the same updater.script is because of the recoveries.... they need a little more work to get them to work with the x86 architecture
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] Ideas4ya:
Hey PM me with any test builds of the kernels please.
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] Calcu:
I think someone has to pm restl3ss!

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=49126542&postcount=90

Let's see what can we do here!
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] pug1:
Dont understand your post.... the link goes to one of his posts
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] Calcu:
Because in this post (if i'm not wrong) he tells that is making a recovery with 4 guys more.

something needed here xD.

Enviado desde mi Note 2
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] pug1:
Lol.... I see yeah... I am also in the process of building recovery but its a long time coming. Right now im reading a lot of material on how to build from source as that the route of the prob. Its this damb x86 architecture
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] Calcu:
Maybe.... we can port something from here

http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/06/micromax/

Enviado desde mi Note 2
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] superboom:
Push

If anyone have time, pm me and we can discuss about. I'm not a developer, but we can discuss ideas how to bring cm to the device
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] aidenbliss789:
http://www.androidtablets.net/forum...yanogenmod-samsung-galaxy-tab-3-variants.html

well this is a huge update
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] gcbxda:
Not so. This is mostly for the arm variations. The 10.1 x86 has no love over the cm forums either.
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] r2d23cpo:
I am a SAD owner of the forgotten TAB3 10.1 WIFI. I hate Intel and Samsung. This is for not releasing a full Open-source files that are build-able.

It help to get it out of the system. I feel a little better.

Now regards this post, Thanks guys for your good intention, time and effort. Anything we do is better that just waiting. I do not sign in to help because I not always have free time. I have not see nobody point this out, but my first statement is important. The truth is that our developers had tried. But the source is incomplete, for that reason it does not compile as expected. So be aware of it. Still I have hopes that you guys can make a difference. I will be around. Again keep the good work and Thank you.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] riahc3:
S-OFF means you can basically write to (almost) any part of the device and disables signature checks on firmware images....
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomk1482:
Makes sense.

But "fastboot erase userdata" should work then. It only gets "FAILED (remote: not allowed)".

ADB does not find the phone.

RUUs get stuck at the "Reboot to bootloader..." part. Phone also gets stuck here.

I'm stuck too...
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
S-off, like riahc3 said, means security flags are removed but this is for firmware so it doesn't mean rooted which would be for software. Which from what you've stated I doubt it was rooted.

The shipped bootloader though won't allow for many fastboot commands, that's why you get errors

The cid has been changed to allow for any firmware to be flashed, but the bad news is the Samsung chip which is prone to failure,

At this point I would attempt to flash an engineering bootloader and then custom recovery and os, hopefully you will be good after this

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2348266
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomk1482:
Thanks for your reply.

I tried this with the engineering bootloader:

>fastboot flash hboot 0.84.2000_hboot-eng.img

sending 'hboot' (1024 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.187s]
writing 'hboot'...
FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 0.189s

Is "hboot" a special name? According to the fastboot help, after "flash" comes a partition name, and I don't find that in the list returned by "fastboot oem boot".

Anyway, still "not allowed".
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
hboot, bootloader, SPL, these are all interchangeable terms, you will not see it listed in oem boot because that doesn't list partitions

Being you still have a shipped bootloader that command won't work, you need to flash it as a PC10IMG.zip, the link I attached has a thread on bricks and one on fastboot, read those and there is a link to a PC10IMG.zip that should hopefully work for you
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomk1482:
You mean, copying that file in the SD and booting, right?

Will do.

In that link you attached, there's a section with "Important Brick Info!", with another link to "When all Else Fails Boot From SD".

They talk about booting CM7.1 from recovery. But I don't see (at least, it's not clear for me) any engineering hboot in the file they attach. Is this something completely different? And it seems it's for rooted phones...

When you say "Being you still have a shipped bootloader that command won't work, you need to flash it as a PC10IMG.zip", these two things are pretty clear for me:

I DO need the engineering hboot.

I would need to put this engineering hboot image inside a compressed file named PC10IMG.zip in the sd card, and boot the phone with that.

If this is the case, I have the image at hand, but I've noticed that all the PC10IMG files include a file named "android-info.txt" and I don't know how to create this one (maybe it's easy). :rolleyes:

Is this the path to follow?

Thanks for the time you're investing on this. :o

PS. What is this then? :confused:

(bootloader) aARM_Partion[0].name=misc
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[1].name=recovery
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[2].name=boot
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[3].name=system
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[4].name=cache
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[5].name=userdata
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[6].name=devlog
(bootloader) aARM_Partion[7].name=pdata
(bootloader) partition number=8
(bootloader) Valid partition num=8

Copied from what "fastboot oem boot" returns.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
Its checking boot sequence not listing all partitions

See the 30th post

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

Hopefully you can flash the PC10IMG.zip and will then have an engineering bootloader and a custom recovery, with these you will have a much higher likelihood of fixing your phone, but being you have the chip prone to failure you may need to boot from sd

You'll need a custom recovery in order to boot from SD, this is a last resort though
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomk1482:
Ugh, you didn't specify a thread id in that link. :p
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomk1482:
Bump

:(
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
What happened after the flash?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomk1482:
Well, you sent me some link and addressed me to the 30th post, but the link was incomplete.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1728208y
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomk1482:
Hi.

Parsing...[SD ZIP]
[ 1 ] RECOVERY
[ 2 ] SPLASH1
[ 3 ] TP
[ 4 ] TP
[ 5 ] BOOTLOADER
[ 6 ] RADIO_V2
[ 7 ] RADIO_CUST

Answered Yes to "Do you want to start update?".

Frozen as soon as it begins the update:

[I][ 5 ] BOOTLOADER Updating[/I]

.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
Emmc is bad, need to replace motherboard, sorry
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomk1482:
Well, I've already contacted HTC for this. I have no idea about how much would it cost, but they can do it.

Anyway, taking advantage from your expertise here, do you think if in these cases they replace just the chip or the whole motherboard?

Also, -and I prefer to ask it here first before showing myself as a daring retard-...:D. This device is the euro version...do you think it makes sense if I request a change to the usa version? (I'm talking about the HSDPA/3G frequencies here). I'm pretty sure this can be done only at hardware level (probably a single chip replacement?), but if they replace the motherboard, I don't see how difficult would be just "putting this instead of this one", considering that we don't use the euro frequencies here either. Is this a valid request?

Thanks for your help. ;)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
It will cost more than its worth to have HTC do it, unless somehow you still have a warranty but that would be surprising. Yes the radio bands differ between the desire z and g2, what I would suggest is buying a broken one from eBay for cheap and swap logic boards, if you dig I bet you can find one for 40$ or less which will be much cheaper than sending it to htc
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abhi-xiaomi-1s:
Buy a new one bro..
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomk1482:
Hello.

I sent my phone to HTC and they replaced the motherboard. The whole cost was still cheaper than buying a new phone, so I went that route.

Since they get the replacements from their available stock, I had not much control on what they were using. So guess what...Samsung eMMC chip again.

Three questions:

1-Is this chip really that bad and I'm condemned? :laugh:

2-Rooting my phone would give me any options if the same problems happens in a future?

3-Considering that:

a) I have the old motherboard

b) a Sandisk eMMC chip does cost about 10 bucks

c) I know someone with the right tools to replace this chip.

If the same problem happens in a future and I replace the chip myself, should this work immediately of should I have to "prepare" this chip with some special software? :rolleyes:

Thanks for all the support given with my issue. ;)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
The Samsung emmc is prone to failure but that doesn't mean it will die in a week, a month or a year, some have had it work for years

Rooting and true radio s-off is amazing and will help with other problem, just not a fried emmc, not even JTAG can fix this

Soldering a new chip is tricky if you haven't done real fine soldering before, so be careful doing it yourself

Depends how and where you bought the chip, many vision specific ones come preloaded with firmware/software

If it doesn't you will need JTAG equipment to flash it

Hope all goes well for you!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomk1482:
Hello.

I would not do the soldering myself. I was talking about some friend who has the tools.

Anyway, the JTAG thing is a no-no for me then. Too much complications.

I was assuming that since my fried eMMC did not totally incapped the phone (HBOOT bootable, Fastboot visible, etc.), I should be able to flash any new eMMC, at least with the last method you suggested.

I don't think these thoughts are total nonsense. :p
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
No not total nonsense, legit question

All partitions are located in this chip, when it fries or is replaced you are left with a logicboard and no brain to it. The new chip would need the partition table flashed to it if it doesn't come with it. This would be something to ask your supplier as I have seen this chip sold before with partitions flashed to it already so the best answer is maybe
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomk1482:
If it comes with FSBL ("file system boot loader"), that's a hint it's partitioned? :confused:
[Galaxy S III General] reb00tz:
Hi all,

I got fed up with repeated failed attempts at attempting to download from TeraFiles or other such life/time-sucking/wasting distribution mechanisms. Managed to get a hold of the two files above, so Torrent away!

Brazil:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:E6A6EBC04BBAB747793943104A256F19AEE53658&dn=I9300UBUGMK6_I9300ZTOUGMK3_ZTO

UK:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:91512D3122C9227321F5FDDA7DC752F29A14477E&dn=I9300XXUGMK6_I9300OXAGMK6_BTU

Cheers!

P.S. Wanted to give source links, but since I'm "new", I can't post links to Sammy Firmware.
[General Questions and Answers] SIlverShadow197:
My i9305T Galaxy S3 is not reading micro SD cards at all. I have tried using the cards in my computer, and they work fine. My phone, on booting has a notification that states "Preparing SD card; Checking for errors.", Then after a minute or two, has another notification stating that the SD card is safe to remove. I have tried with multiple SD cards, they all work in a PC, but not my phone.
[General Questions and Answers] AC3D:
so the phone shows nothing when browsing trough your files with a filemanager?

In that case Are you using the stock rom? some custom roms may have problems with the reading of big (64 GB) MicroSD cards.
[General Questions and Answers] Stu4500:
Format using fat32 make sure it's not xfat
[General Questions and Answers] musnyk:
Same problem

I'm close to getting a new phone. My s3 won't read any SD card I insert in. I tried formatting from exfat to NTFS and nothing changed. Also tried rebooting, switching roms, clearing my SD card, and pretty much anything else I can think of.

Any of you guys know a solution, or a potential solution?
[General Questions and Answers] musnyk:
Tried this but it didn't do a thing, any other ideas? U think it's a hardware problem? :confused:
[General Questions and Answers] Sushant Rohan:
May be a hardware problem

Try flashing the stock rom
[General Questions and Answers] musnyk:
Will do. I'll be sure to report back if anything changes in case anyone else is having similar problems.
[General Questions and Answers] musnyk:
So guys... Im back after going back to stock and STILL my phone won't recognize my SD card. Any other ideas before I call it quits and buy a new phone? really desperate here.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itsmesam89:
Hi All,

Please help me.

I'm stuck with my XZ C6602 it is not going into flash mode.

I'm able to connect it in fast-boot mode but not in flash mode.

Every time i Does it the green light blinks and goes off.

However flash tool detects it in flash mode but only for 2 mins then device disconnects and restarts.

I have locked boot loader.

I have tried every thing re installing flashtool and all drivers but nothing works.

Please suggest me what to do.?

Should I have to unlock my bootloader for it or is there is any other workaround ?

Experts solve my problem.:angel:
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RaZieLRaH:
if the led turns green then goes off you are in flash mode. at 1st i also thought the phone doesn't go in flash mode but the led doesn't stay green all the time. Try another usb port/cable or try to flash on a different computer cause it might be a drivers or usb port related problem
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itsmesam89:
hi

tried everything....

tried different cable different PC/laptop but same thing happen.

I agree it does into flash mode and led doesn't stay green all the time then why does it restarts on its own even when cable is not disconnected.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rohit25:
Brother I faxed the same issue... To flash the ftf in locked bootloader is not possible..... Need to unlock it and then flash the ftf.... Spent 10mins yesterday why I was not able to flash ftf in flash mode.... Then it hit me

P.S always keep a backup of your DRM keys so you can get it back know you lock the bootloader again