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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] idoit:
Well, bear with me as I explain. In Odin, I chose pit file and that specific (sboot.bin-less) ROM, and hit Start. <- First time

Then when it was stuck at "Set Partition", I used other cables and Odin versions with same 2 files.

Then, as I gain more courage (and TBH consider this phone as gone I guess?!) I just chose pit and Start. If I use later versions of Odin (3.09, and 3.07) and just choose pit file, it will get stuck at <ID:0/003> Get PIT for mapping.. Now if i use earlier versions (1.3 1.83 1.85 3.04), it fails.

I have to say that, when choosing only pit all 3 Auto Reboot, Re-Partition and F. Reset Time are automatically ticked.

On another note (for my self reference):

The command to get the pit file using adb is:

adb shell su -c "dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/external_sdcard/MyGodDamnPhone.pit bs=1 skip=17408 count=2396"

Now, I insert my external microSD. Bingo! well well well. I don't see mmcblk0 and mmcblk1 in my /dev/block/ folder which is very alarming, eh?! If the internal memory was even barely seen by system, it should have been mmcblk0 and my external microSD should be enumerated as mmcblk1. Am I right? Does this indicate that my internal memory is physically borked?

Anyways, I can mount external microSD on /external_sdcard with:

mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /external_sdcard
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dicksteele:
ok. My contacts are dry as helll and getting hard to read. But I think you are trying to do both at once?????

Rom and pit?

If I'm right only do pit. Let it reboot, catch it quick and get into download mode. Using power button, volume button combo.

Close your Odin after pit file flash. Them reopen it and try and flash twrp. I just want to see if pit flashes with no error, fixes partitions hopefully to accept the twrp flash o b to the recovery partition. If that works then try and flash one of the stock 4.3 roms, mine or Zens or JMP extreme. Zens MK6 is closest to stock.

I'll be home soon to rip my contacts out and be on my PC.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] idoit:
Crazy it is indeed.

Flashing only pit... making sure Re-Partition is checked on.

Odin 1.3 through 3.04 -> Fail

Odin 3.07 and 3.09 stuck at "Getting Pit information"

:(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dicksteele:
Well sh*t.

I'm thinking we've tried everything.

But I'm gonna throw it once more.

And I know you've done it, but it's all back to basics.

Maybe try another machine or laptop.

If PC, make sure it's using back USB ports. Make sure you're using original stock USB cable.

If you're doing all that, I'm afraid it may be time to get a baseball bat and have batting practice.

I found this and I've read it.

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s2/general/guide-t2345831

We've done pretty much everything on here.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] idoit:
I can't believe it. It was my first so called smartphone experience. Lived for only 2 months!!! Oh man, these things are so frickin' fragile! Will give it another whirl and report back if anything different occurs.

Oh btw, thanks to you both again. :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dicksteele:
You'd be saved with that efs backup.

Only thing that unhosed me or I'd have my Note 3.

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So do you have a backup pre-OmniRom?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] rangercaptain:
I echo everything suggested above but before you call it quits...

Uninstall everything (odin, drivers) from your pc

Reboot

Reinstall everything on a windows 7 pc

Right click on odin

Run as adminitsrator

Put phone in download mode

Connect to pc

Flash pit only

Reboot into dl mode

Flash 4.1.1 rom

Immediately disconnect phone and pull battery

Insert battery, boot into recovery (stock or custom, whichever boots)

Factory reset

Boot normal

Let settle for 5 minutes

If this procedure fails you can spend $50 and get JTAG'd. That will work for sure.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dicksteele:
Yepper. I meant to throw your JTG'd in.

These phones are actually tanks. I'm amazed mine is not in flames.

We've never talked about a TWRP backup I think. Mostly because recovery would not flash I think
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Zen Arcade:
Jumping in late here - not sure if you've sent your phone out for jtag reflash yet, or are contemplating skeet shooting, but here are some thoughts, after recapping:

1 - You appear to be on the MK5 bootloader on a Bell i317m

2 - Early posts you mention Odin fail flashing pit file - was this the i317m pit file?

3 - Flash of the Bell 4.3 firmware failed - appears to be correct firmware, assuming the phone is in fact a Bell i317m

4 - Subsequent references to flashing Rogers 4.1.1 modem and/or firmware, which may have installed Rogers CSC.

5 - Flash of 4.1.1 firmware also failed

6 - After the repartition attempt later on you don't see NAND Write start

So... your phone first crapped out in the middle of normal operation while running OmniRom and did not survive a reboot. You still have bootloader and recovery. Despite the lockup while attempting to repartition, you appear to still have your pit - note that in your last attempt to flash something Odin successfully read your pit file. The 4.3 bootloaders will refuse to load a new pit file unless the security signature matches that of the phone. That's what the failure was - not sure what you tried to flash. If you used the file I provided it was pulled from a Rogers i317m - it may be that the signature on the Bell phones is different from Rogers.

Possible explanations of your phone's condition:

1 - Memory/controller HW failure

2 - Unintended functionality from your prior firmware setup

Stating the obvious above, I know... not much to do in the first case - the cost of repair is about the same as buying a used replacement.

Assuming the second case - DS and RC have guided you well through the usual steps to recovery. I can suggest a couple of other things to try:

1 - Flashing a param file from another i317m (we'd need a donor).

2 - Or we could try the i317 param from the MJ4 leak (a last ditch effort)

3 - Flash the tz.img file alone from the MK5 firmware (I'd need to make a package for you)

4 - As a purely diagnostic last step, we could try flashing a recovery via Odin. The risk here is that you might lose recovery too, but if it works you'd at least confirm that your Odin setup is still functional.

If this doesn't improve things, the jtag reload from mobiletechvideos or other repair shop may - assuming it's not case #1 above.

Since you already have the MK5 firmware downloaded, can you extract the tz.img and upload it, or PM me to send it my way?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dicksteele:
Woo Hoo ! Calvary is here.

I was heading down that path also. Just ran into a couple of threads off another board that was talking about a Samsung Tool. Tool is not applicable but the advice to flash param seemed to be.

And I probably would have overlooked an i317M "version" so thanks Zen.

[MENTION=4422246]idoit[/MENTION] so if you can, get want Zen is needing, that would be awesome. I'll try redownloading firmware now to get a jump in it also. Mines got 30 minutes to go.....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] rangercaptain:
Are you still using that Tandy pc? Or a phone modem?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dicksteele:
14.4 Baud modem.. Booya !

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Zen,

PM'd you link to the tz.img.

on dev-host not AH :laugh:

From I317MVLUCMK5_I317MOYACMK5_BMC
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dicksteele:
I've already gotten the tz.img over to Zen. It will be an ODIN flash
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] idoit:
Can I flash it too? If so, can I have it please? :highfive:

Quasi-offtopic:

The TWRP Nand backup that I have is from 2013-12-24--23-20-26 JSS15J.I317MVLUCMK5 from when it was stock ROM (I guess it was 4.1.1 not 4.3 but I'm not 100% sure :( ) Here is its contents:

boot.emmc.win

boot.emmc.win.md5

c.txt

cache.ext4.win

cache.ext4.win.md5

data.ext4.win000

data.ext4.win000.md5

data.ext4.win001

data.ext4.win001.md5

efs.ext4.win

efs.ext4.win.md5

modem.emmc.win

modem.emmc.win.md5

recovery.emmc.win

recovery.emmc.win.md5

recovery.log

system.ext4.win000

system.ext4.win000.md5

system.ext4.win001

system.ext4.win001.md5

No tz.img there. If it comes in handy, I can upload them too.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dicksteele:
Not with what I did. Zen can package it up to flash in ODIN. I think I learned (read) how to do it the other night. But I'm going to be the guinea pig for what I package up.

Gotta get you going and I know Zen will whip it up right.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Zen Arcade:
MK5 is 4.3 so if you phone starts behaving you can restore that if desired.

Here are the Odin files to try. If you are comfortable with Heimdall, you can use 7zip to extract the files out of the tar.md5 files and flash them there - you'll need the i317m.pit file as well. In my experience, if one doesn't work, the other will not either however.

For Odin: Unzip each of these once to get the tar.md5 files to flash. Put them in the PDA slot. I typically use Odin 3.07, fwiw. Try the tz.img first.

MK5 tz.img - http://d-h.st/vz8

MJ4 param.bin - http://d-h.st/I5Y
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dicksteele:
Rock on ! Thanks Zen.

I'm out. Long day and longer one manana..

Good luck.

If this bombs, in the thread by BradtheMan. He just got his IMEI issue fixed by the mobiletechvideos dude.

He even has downgrade of bootloader from 4.3 to 4.1.2 listed as a service. most interesting.....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Zen Arcade:
I suspect your pit file is fine. I'm not as familiar with the i317m as with the i317 but I believe the i317m variants are the same except for modem and CSC. If you are able to adb pull the pit you extracted using dd a while ago I can compare and confirm.

You could also try option 4 I mentioned a few posts back - see if you can Odin flash a recovery. My guess is that will fail too. BTW, there's no need to add a pit file to the Odin flash at this point.. Just the one file in the PDA slot.

The symptoms point to memory fail with controller refusing to write memory or mount partitions.

At this point I think you are looking at a jtag reflash (maybe) or (more likely) hardware repair or replacement or skeet shooting. As mentioned before mobiletechvideos.com is a decent option for an initial consult.

If you want to dig into this deeper before that step there are some log files that may help point toward the root of the problem ....

From recovery:

run commands similar to the dd command earlier to redirect output to your ext sdcard or..

adb shell

su

dmesg > 'your file name here on ext sdcard

look for and copy /proc/last_kmsg to ext sdcard

Then adb pull both files to PC and upload so I can take a look.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] rangercaptain:
After looking at all those odin outputs i agree its hardware.

But to know for sure, JTAG, because the process eliminates the pc, usb, cable, usb board on the phone, etc. and flashes the phone rom directly.

Another option is to buy a used mainboard and replace that. I had to do that when the gps connector to the antenna snapped off during a screen repair. But JTAG is probably cheaper.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] idoit:
After exhausting all the options you, my honorable XDA friends, presented (as well as exhausting my brain I guess :D)... I will send it for a JTAG surgery this Monday and will update this post accordingly.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] idoit:
So a quick update on this. I figured this might not be really a good return on money. I ended up just getting rid of the whole phone.

With JTAG and post service and everything, it'd have easily become 100$ for this piece of brick and I didn't want to risk investing without any return. TBH, I didn't really like that phone, and I have a mixed feeling about Android all in all. I had to charge it twice a day, anywhere I wanted to go, I was constantly worried about the charge of GN 2!

For now, I'm having a love affair with my oldie-goodie reliable Nokia phone. I might flash Android on it but just to play, not as my main phone OS. Linux is still the king for me. Also, I realized even Symbian was better at power management than Android. The reason, I don't know. Maybe, I can be enlightened and maybe I'm absolutely wrong.

But hey, thank you very much, it was such a learning curve (7 pages worth of awesomeness and experience in this thread). :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Gregory:
Thanks for the update.. I was wondering what happened, This thread is a good read! I def learned some things.. There certainly are some good folks here @ XDA.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] crazymonkey05:
Dang [MENTION=4422246]idoit[/MENTION] if only you had warranty I would have suggested just bricking the Thing to no end and sending it to samsung
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] rangercaptain:
Good thing you didn't. Encouraging others to commit a fraud will get you banned.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] pyraxiate:
It's not so much that Symbian is better at power management, but more so the devices themselves didn't require the type of power modern phones require. Think about it. The number one power resource hog on a phone is the screen. large screens and quad core processors just require more juice. This also isn't mentioning the fact that more modern phones multitask whereas most Symbian phones only have 1 application tying up cpu cycles creating less drain. Just thought I'd Inform you a bit.

My LG G2 gets almost 25% more battery life screen on time wise mostly due to the smaller screen both using Android 4.4. Hardware makes more of power difference than software.

It's also how one uses their phone. there weren't many if any full blown messenger apps /full blown java + flash enabled Web browsers, 3d games, networking tools ( rdp ftp ssh http:// servers ), etc on the Symbian platform. Remember this..... Android IS Linux ...... therefore a much more capable OS.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] terpin32:
hey guys i need help i flashed back to 4.1.1 and tried doing at ota to 4.1.2 and now i have no recovery mode it just sits at the note 2 screen ive tried using odin to go back to 4.1.1 and nothing happens does the same thing but when i flash 4.1.2 it says its not a supported version someone plz help im half tempted to call att and ask for a replacement but idk if they will know what all i did then charge me for the phone so im trying to fix it any help will be awesome
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] cnote74:
odin a recovery any and flash it through odin then once it reboots into recovery fully wipe then flash a rom and your phone should be back up and running.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] terpin32:
ive tried this and it doesnt go into recovery mode

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is there anyway to wipe via odin cuz im thinking thats the problem but i cant cuz it wont do antyhting but download mode and the note 2 screen and thats it i got it get to the kies screen but it had an error and didnt work either
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] cnote74:
usually odin only wipes system and flashes the rom to get some of the roms to boot up requires booting into recovery for a factory reset.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] terpin32:
i just dont see how i lost recovery tho ive never had this happen
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] cnote74:
It might have got corrupted I've had it happen before to me. If your not having a volume button issue you should be able to boot into recovery.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] terpin32:
idk but like i said either i can get to download mode or what would be the recovery but it never goes so my volume buttons work but just wont go to recovery
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] cnote74:
recovery partition might be corrupted as your buttons works but flashing either cwm, TWRP or philz recovery through odin should work and boot you into recovery.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] terpin32:
ill just try more recoverys and see if it does anything thanks for the help man btw
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] cnote74:
No problem wish I could help you more.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] terpin32:
ya me to im wanting to send it in but idk what they will do it shows custom binary download yes 5 count and custom on current binary and system status and knox is tripped
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] cnote74:
Probably won't replace it as it has custom binary and knox tripped.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] terpin32:
i just wonder if i say i had an update and it failed half way though if they would know better or not tho lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] cnote74:
download mode would show otherwise and Samsung isn't stupid when it comes to custom android status and knox flag tripped.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] terpin32:
ya true idk i saw a kid on craigslist and he has an gn2 for like 120 bucks i might just buy but the screen is cracked tho but i can fix it might just do that today
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] terpin32:
Well got it fixed just had to flash the bootloader and the recovery popped right up lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] cnote74:
Glad you got it up and running.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] terpin32:
Yes me to I didn't realize how good this phone is compared to the atrix 2 lol thanks again for your help man
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] cnote74:
No problem anytime.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] terpin32:
Hell by the time the note 4 comes out ill finally figure out this one lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] c3phus:
Late but I fixed mine

I was having same issues as you did, however I could flash using odin so after 10 different flash attempts, I got my phone working. I flashed omni using twrp. It asked for a password but i just pressed cancel. And boom the next restart into recovery, the password is gone. Also, I found out the problem was battery, or at least I think it is right now. I'll take it to best buy to see if they have a battery i can test my phone with.

If someone responds, I'll bother with updating my phone status.

The problem that I think is due to battery:

The phone would turn on and while the Rom is managing things for the first boot, the battery would crap out and as a result corrupt the data and cache partitions. This leads to the password issue in TWRP as TWRP thinks that the data and cache are password encrypted rather than corrupted partitions. Since, the data was never wiped, when flashing the stock version, the stock version would crap too because of the data from the 4.4. I do believe it has nothing to do with omni ROM. Just a coincidence that it happened while in omni Rom.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] cherylbaker:
ok so it has been a long long time since I have done a rom from scratch. I did it before using the kitchen and still have that all setup on my computer so I downloaded the newest version and followed all the steps for note 2 (since there was no steps for note 3) but figured if I used a note 3 rom I should be close :). So I already noticed one thing is the highest android it goes to is 4.3 but I found the right code for 4.4 so I used that but not sure if that is all that needed to be done about that. Right now it is trying to deodex (says it might or might not work). But on top of those items and I might need to put a new version of supersu and busybox is there any script things that need to be changed to work on the note 3????

since I decide to trip the old knox I thought I would try doing my own rom again. Wanted to try and to it all the way from the base that dropped rather than taking someone elses just so I knew how to :)

thanks for any help
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Epix4G:
You using this one ????

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2597220

This guy took dsixda work and continued it because he stopped working on it because of heath and family problems. .

Sent from my SM-N900P using Xparent BlueTapatalk 2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] cherylbaker:
No unfortunately that is Linux and all I have is windows

Cheryl
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Epix4G:
Dual boot Linux and windows never have to worry again :p:p

Sent from my SM-N900P using Xparent BlueTapatalk 2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] cherylbaker:
Well I have never run Linux (ok well maybe not never but seriously it's been over 15 years) but I am having my husband make me a bootable Linux usb and I will try that. .

Really would rather stay with windows but such is life

Cheryl
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Epix4G:
I never boot into windows but to use Odin. ... I know I could use heimdall but odin works better ... That's all I use windows for kind of funny

Sent from my SM-N900P using Xparent BlueTapatalk 2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] cherylbaker:
Maybe one can extract the rom manually.. i doubt very much I will have the patience to get Linux working...

Cheryl
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] cherylbaker:
Well I broke down and setup a ubuntu virtual box and created a rom and it worked .. but it created an updater script but it has a lot of stuff in it and I have no idea what it all means and don't know how to find out

Cheryl
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] terrorblade23:
is there any way i can recover my contacts? i have stock rom....firmware...stock...i have tried to root it with odin...but nothing...stuck on setup conection

if i want to save just contacts what i have to choose backup boot,recovery,sistem,preload,data,cacha,and-sec,ds-ext,modem,dario,efs,misc (BEcause i have low storage)
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] l7777:
What is yours?

Speed bin: 1

PVS bin: 11

To get it run the below from a root shell

cat /proc/last_kmsg | grep bin: -i

Someone more knowledgeable than me will have to let us know what the numbers mean.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Tepifan:
Speed bin: 1

PVS bin: 15
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] shojus:
Not working in terminal for me? Hmmm
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] fronc:
Speed- 1

PVM- 11

What is better? 11 or 15?
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Tepifan:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2215710

I just skimmed over this.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] l7777:
Did you get root permissions (su) first?

Unknown at this point
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Tepifan:
I can't speak for anyone else, but I did mine via adb shell.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] shojus:
Yes sir...

Gonna try that. Thanks Just curious really :D
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Tepifan:
Yep.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] kwkw480:
Speed bin: 9000

PVS bin: 9000
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] shojus:
Speed bin: 1

PVS bin: 11
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] neilrl79:
Speed bin: 1

PVS bin: 13
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] gehx:
[ 0.475674] c1 1 clock-krait-8974 f9016000.qcom,clock-krait: Speed bin: 1

[ 0.475693] c1 1 clock-krait-8974 f9016000.qcom,clock-krait: PVS bin: 10
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] @rbiter:
just so you know, something i read in comments sections on anandtech about anand talking about differences between snap 800 and 801. supposedly the 801 has 16 different bins. so you guys with 11 and 13 are pretty good. the guy with 15 is awesome. sadly i have 9. not too bad but hopefully i can get good undervolt still.

btw, if you're doubtful, the commenter went on to say that you can see this in n9005 kernel source. take it fwiw. it's something.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] robsonline:
Speed bin: 1

PVS bin: 8 :(
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Dodge DeBoulet:
For those of you unsuccessful in getting results from the cat /proc/last_kmsg | grep bin: -i command, were you running stock or a custom rom?

I'm on ViperOne M8 v1.7.1 and I'm not getting the expected output.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] robsonline:
I'm on an M8 running ViperOne v1.7.1, and the command would not work for me either. I copied the file to my documents folder, and opened it using in Quick office. Then searched for "bin". That was the only way I was able to find it.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] :
Speed bin: 1

PVS bin: 13

Was hoping for 14 or 15 lol but 13 is good c:
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] johnc0865:
Speed bin 1

PVS bin 14
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] jbarcus81:
I enter

cat /proc/last_kmsg | grep bin: -i

get nothing.. SU and root fine.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] starcms:
Boot to recovery and try it with adb shell.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Dodge DeBoulet:
No dice here. I just get the command echoed back to me.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] HD2Owner:
have a look at my research ;)

guide-snapdragon-801-clocking-voltage