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Boot Loop - Tab dead?!?!?

Tab is running CWM Recovery and Gingerbread Overcome Rom beta 1. Has been running fine for 3/4 days. Yesterday the tab froze and rebooted twice. Tab was left on last night while on charge. This morning when I unplugged the tab it was off, so I switched it on but it is stuck in aboot loop. The Galaxy Tab Samsung screen displays but then just reboots.
I can get in Recovery and have performed a data wipe and cache wipe, made no difference.
I made a CW backup on Tuesday and checked afetr that it was on the sdcard, it was. However if I now try and do a restore from CW it claims there is no backup...
Is my tab dead? Is my internal memory dead?
I'm comlpetely lost now....

Can you get to the flash zip option in recovery? If you can try to reflash the ROM from the SD card. Have to tried starting over using Odin? Hope this helps. Good luck.

I can get to the flash zip but they are not there? This is whats making me think maybe there is an issue with the internal memory?? The tab has been freezing and rebooting at least once a day for the past 2 weeks or so?
Haven't tried the odin route yet, will give that a go tonight

If you wiped everything then yes, that will delete your internal memory.
Follow the Overcome guide to use Odin and restock to the GB safe rom, then go back to Overcome.
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GANJDROID said:
If you wiped everything then yes, that will delete your internal memory.
| Don't Revive Me Bro! |
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Ah, my Avatar is quite fitting at this point........
Thanks. Will follow the guide again tonight

kevstv said:
Ah, my Avatar is quite fitting at this point........
Thanks. Will follow the guide again tonight
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Haha, itbis
All youll need is:
Odin 1.7
P1_hidden.pit
GB-stocksafe.zip (i think thats what its called)
And the Obercome beta rom.
Hope it works out well for you.
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this also happened to my tab (because i was playing around with my system files) i just reflashed the ROM and it was fixed, dont worry about it being bricked as long as you can still access CWM and download mode
hopefully you backed up
good luck! hope you get it fixed!

Think I could be in trouble. Followed the odin steps and got a big Red fail on Completing (Write) - Fail
Now whenever i turn it on all I have is a phone icon with a broken line going to a pc icon, cant even get into recovery!

Just flash dbdata. Don't worry, it's not bricked if you can still power it on and odin recognise it.
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kevstv said:
Think I could be in trouble. Followed the odin steps and got a big Red fail on Completing (Write) - Fail
Now whenever i turn it on all I have is a phone icon with a broken line going to a pc icon, cant even get into recovery!
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Thats alternative download mode. Try again

DarkPal said:
Thats alternative download mode. Try again
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Try what again? I've tried switching off and on again several times? Do you mean try the odin steps again? If so I have twice and both times ended with the same Fail. I am really starting to think there is a serious issue with my internal memory...

aibo said:
Just flash dbdata. Don't worry, it's not bricked if you can still power it on and odin recognise it.
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Thanks but I'm fairly new to this, could you expand a little please. Thanks

There is a dbdata.tar file somewhere on roto rom's thread or chainfire's gingerbread rom. If it's a zip, extract it beforz. Flash it as pda.
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I've had random reboots running a few different roms. It sucks and it does require a complete wipe. I end up going back to heimdall and reflashing all vzw images. Then I'm on a clean path to a fresh start.
Tbolt meatclaws-talkatap

Tab won't even switch on to alternative mode now other than when it's plugged into the wall socket power charger!?!?

Anyone able to offer an help? The tab will not boot unless it's plugged in charger, so when plugged into pc/laptop will not boot so I can't get to download mode..

Have managed to get it to switch on now but still getting the write failed when trying to flash the PDA. Have tried the GB Stock Safe and have tried the official samsung, both fail. This really does sound like an internal memory issue to me as everything seems to work fine until itgoes to write to the memory, does that sound feasible or am I just panicking?

One piece of advise...make sure that your battery is fully charged before you start anything....like if you plug it in will it show it charging...because if you start messing around with Odin or flashing and it dies from lack of power....then you will be SOL....I just had to send two into Samsung in the U.K. to get them flashed back to normal....but followed the Overcome rom instructions and both now have 2.3.3 android...Good luck!

1Brite1 said:
.I just had to send two into Samsung in the U.K. to get them flashed back to normal...!
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Did this cost you?

[Q] Messed it up and need help

This WAS the situation before the problems:
Rooted Gingerbread rom, all working fine. Decided to unroot and install the full version of the official German ICS rom by using PC Odin. All went fine and used my Note for over two days. Because of the lags en slow responses I decided to reflash the ICS rom. From that moment on I messed it up. I've been reading and searching hundreds of posts for almost a day but didn't find a solution.
This IS the current situation:
I can get into download mode
I can get in recovery mode
However, in recovery mode I can not install a rom, every flash (CWM, both ICS and GB - even using chainfire's rom needed for rooting) stops on a random moment...but never gets it to the end, even if I wait several hours. Installing is very...very....very slow.
In recovery mode i can not restore a Nandroid backup, both ICS and GB. Every backup stops when /system has te be installed. errormessage.
In download mode I can connect my Note to PC Odin. I can select a rom and start flashing. However, after appr. 80% installation halts during "nand write start", no error message. The flashing does not finish, even after hours.
Funny is, i can install a kernel like Abyss.
So, I can't restore, i can't flash using cwm in recovery and I can't flash using PC Odin. My device seems not fully bricked. The max I get when rebooting (knowing that the process has not finished) is the triangle screen.
Any advise is appreciated.

Do not flash thru CWM... Flash a good GB kernel like "franco.Kernel" but thru PC Odin then u can flash whatever u want from franco's CWM... Good luck

Don't need help anymore
Note is officially bricked. After several attempts to recover from a softbrick the screen of my Note didn't turn on anymore. No button or button combination works, no recovery and no download mode, just a black screen.

Ce said:
Don't need help anymore
Note is officially bricked. After several attempts to recover from a softbrick the screen of my Note didn't turn on anymore. No button or button combination works, no recovery and no download mode, just a black screen.
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Flat battery? It's also possible that it's just the screen that's not working. Try entering download mode "blind". So hold power+home+vol down for ~10 seconds, then press vol up. Hook it up via usb and see if Odin can recognize it.

Thanks, didn't think of that. But unfortunately no response from the device.

So now that it looks like your phone is officially bricked, I think you should just take it to Samsung and make up a story. Like you were updating your software with Kies and something happened and the phone is just not booting up.
I am sorry you bricked your note though..

try AMORA Filemanager.. flash via recovery and you have a file manager,,, take a look on your partitions
just my idea, you got nothing to lose

musashiro said:
try AMORA Filemanager.. flash via recovery and you have a file manager,,, take a look on your partitions
just my idea, you got nothing to lose
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I would like to but it's very hard when you can't see anything on the screen...

Maybe it's just the battery, try to charge it externally and try a JIG also
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Just a quick, final, update.
My Note was superbricked. Had to send it to a Samsung Service Center. No additional questions were asked. Samsung replaced the mainboard. Didn't have to pay anything.
Great service!!!

try this out buddy, do it on your own risk!!! anyways you have messed it up.
Ce said:
This WAS the situation before the problems:
Rooted Gingerbread rom, all working fine. Decided to unroot and install the full version of the official German ICS rom by using PC Odin. All went fine and used my Note for over two days. Because of the lags en slow responses I decided to reflash the ICS rom. From that moment on I messed it up. I've been reading and searching hundreds of posts for almost a day but didn't find a solution.
This IS the current situation:
I can get into download mode
I can get in recovery mode
However, in recovery mode I can not install a rom, every flash (CWM, both ICS and GB - even using chainfire's rom needed for rooting) stops on a random moment...but never gets it to the end, even if I wait several hours. Installing is very...very....very slow.
In recovery mode i can not restore a Nandroid backup, both ICS and GB. Every backup stops when /system has te be installed. errormessage.
In download mode I can connect my Note to PC Odin. I can select a rom and start flashing. However, after appr. 80% installation halts during "nand write start", no error message. The flashing does not finish, even after hours.
Funny is, i can install a kernel like Abyss.
So, I can't restore, i can't flash using cwm in recovery and I can't flash using PC Odin. My device seems not fully bricked. The max I get when rebooting (knowing that the process has not finished) is the triangle screen.
Any advise is appreciated.
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i was not a member when i commited this mistake. but then big thanks to this community it helped me back from softbrick.
first you do is install a stock kernel of ics on your note go into recovery and just clear cache partition, thats it no wipe/data factory reset.
then,
install the pit file from this thread, also read it completely before proceeding. http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1667886 , hoping yours is 16gb version and also read this thread for additional info but its quite complicated for me so im just telling you the direct method and hopefully itll get your note back to work. so once you download the 16gb pit file unzip it and in the unzip folder you will find a separately lying pit of 16gb stating patched-standard thats the one you want.
then,
goto samfirmware and download the latest ics firmware(i downloaded the indian one as it is in file .tar),
unzip it till you get .tar file.
open odin- click pit-select 16gb patched standard pit- check wether repartion is ticked- click pda-select the .tar file you extracted connect your phone and start. this time i wont stop at factory.fs.....
NOTE THAT AFTER THIS PROCEDURE IS COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY YOUR INTERNAL STORAGE WOULD BE ONLY 8GB INSTEAD OF 11 GB STOCK WHICH YOU WERE GETTING.
I REVIVED MY NOTE THROUGH THIS PROCEDURE. PROCEES AT YOUR OWN RISK.
one your phone is working you'll be able to reset the counter with a jig and get your phone under warranty and get your motherboard changed by teliing at the Samsung Service that you are getting only 8gb instead of 11gb you used to get earlier(warranty only if you had any).
hope this helps mate.
BEST OF LUCK!!
A BIG HUGE THANKS TO hg42.....

[SOLVED][CONFIRMED] Unbrick Super Bricked Galaxy Note GT-7000

hello guys , as many fellows do, i tried to root my galaxy note and then after rooting on STOCK ICS, i did a data wipe/factory reset
then the phone was frozen, after i reboot, the phone shows "Samsung Galaxy Note GT-7000" and nothing after that,
i could go to download mode but not recovery mode,
after trying and trying and trying, i thought it was over, i sent it to Samsung, but they asked me to pay about 300$ to replace motherboard,
after days and days and days of searching, i found the solution
here how it goes:
1)download bit files (attached)
2)download GB stock rom (search for it)
3)download odin (attached)
reboot the phone into download mode (vol down + bower + home) buttons, connect it to PC,
flash the rom along with a bit file using odin,
but you should use a specific bit file, try one by one, from down up, (mine worked for factoryfs files)
this will restore your bricked MMC, not totally but at least ignore the corrupted sectors and use the good ones
people are going to say what about that huge number of files, would i afford trying it all ?
i say yes, just try to flash ROM with pit file, if it stucks at the factoryfs for more than 1 minute, then use the next pit file, and one by one,
those files restore mmc within specific range of sectors , so you should try them all until you find your right one,
GOOD LUCK ALL

KariemSoudy said:
hello guys , as many fellows do, i tried to root my galaxy note and then after rooting on STOCK ICS, i did a data wipe/factory reset
then the phone was frozen, after i reboot, the phone shows "Samsung Galaxy Note GT-7000" and nothing after that,
i could go to download mode but not recovery mode,
after trying and trying and trying, i thought it was over, i sent it to Samsung, but they asked me to pay about 300$ to replace motherboard,
after days and days and days of searching, i found the solution
here how it goes:
1)download bit files (attached)
2)download GB stock rom (search for it)
3)download odin (attached)
reboot the phone into download mode (vol down + bower + home) buttons, connect it to PC,
flash the rom along with a bit file using odin,
but you should use a specific bit file, try one by one, from down up, (mine worked for factoryfs files)
this will restore your bricked MMC, not totally but at least ignore the corrupted sectors and use the good ones
people are going to say what about that huge number of files, would i afford trying it all ?
i say yes, just try to flash ROM with pit file, if it stucks at the factoryfs for more than 1 minute, then use the next pit file, and one by one,
those files restore mmc within specific range of sectors , so you should try them all until you find your right one,
GOOD LUCK ALL
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Waste of space.. This its well known and has its own thread in general section... And it's not a fix.. It's a partial solution you will still have a burned chip... This thread its pointless and misleading... Reported
Besides you gotta be really "slow" to spend days and days and days "searching" for a solution when the pit file method to partially recover a note its always in the top 10 threads in general section..
Tapatalking on my n7000

Hahahaha its not the super brick its the sodt brick i have landed in such situation thrice and to mention no pit file is required in this case. Only the stock rom and odin solves the problem. Thread already present.
U didnt need months to search this this only an open eye browsing in the xda forum )). Btw i am happy ur phone is working again.
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This method is posted in General section and was posted some time ago.....
Since this is a double post..........
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Help Needed Urgent for JB Indian ROM (Bricked, I Guess)

I upgraded my Note two days earlier and never made any restart as I found the ROM was quite good.
But yesterday night I tried to upgrade my iPad's firmware using note's usb tethering and everything was running cool even I could download 1 GB via iTune. Then suddenly note stopped working and after few minutes note's power went off and stuck on Galaxy Note logo and never passed the screen. Even it did not went recovery. By the time few times I pulled off battery , but nothing worked.
Only thing was I was able to go to download mode. So started PC Odin ...when it was about to complete, I got Failed (Red) msg saying it cannot right "factoryfs.img" to phone. I tried few times this with restarting computer but nothing happened. But I remember with the same machine I flashed the same GB rom earlier few times.
I also tried to use the pit file , but ended with same result.
Few things about the Note -
It was not rooted , JB update was done with Kies, and my internal memory had only 800 mb left.
Please help me out.
Thanks in Advance

see if you can flash a GB ROM using PC Odin.

anjath said:
see if you can flash a GB ROM using PC Odin.
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Thanks for the reply, but I have tried GB rom only with PC Odin.

Check this thread and especially in post 8 the "efs2ck"-repair described by member nokiamodeln91.
Stuck at "factoryfs.img" in Odin can be a result of a bricked device (emmc bug).
With the above filesystem check and repair the member in this thread solved his problem.
So maybe you're lucky and can repair it with this simple steps.
If not then you have to use the workaround or the mainboard replacement. Everything is discussed in the above thread.
Good luck.

ThaiDai said:
Check this thread and especially in post 8 the "efs2ck"-repair described by member nokiamodeln91.
Stuck at "factoryfs.img" in Odin can be a result of a bricked device (emmc bug).
With the above filesystem check and repair the member in this thread solved his problem.
So maybe you're lucky and can repair it with this simple steps.
If not then you have to use the workaround or the mainboard replacement. Everything is discussed in the above thread.
Good luck.
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Thank You a lot ...finally I am in GB rom again...

[Q] Galaxy S3 lte Brick [Repartition]

Hello! S3 Lte (i9305) of my friend is bricked and gave me to solve this problem.. I have never been this stage and I have no idea .. Flashing offical rom with odion is stucked at hidden for so long and reflashed the rom several time but still stuck at Hidden, so I reflashed the offical rom with checking Auto reboot, Nand-erase , and F.Rest.. After checking Nand-erase, rom is flashed successfully but there was no partition .. So I reflash with pit file and repartition but still stuck at Get PIT for mapping.. in flashing .... How i can solve this! Plz help me! I only add PDA and PIT ..
Need other file like CSC,etc (I don't know excatly what are they) This is my 1st experience with bricked Samsung...
Sry for my bad english..

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Before reading, the steps I used is to completely reformat the phone leaving nothing behind.
I have bricked my phone before. What I did is:
1. Download the stock firmware of your phone on sammobile (depends on your country and service provider)
2. Put your phone into download mode (off and on your phone. When it goes to Samsung title screen, press home, off and volume down button at the same time.)
3. Connect your pc to your phone and open odin.
4. Check and see if the message shows pass.
5. Under bootloader, open the md5 file that you downloaded before.
6. Start and wait till it finish.
7. Check your phone and reconfigure as if you have a new phone.
Hope this helps

Thz bro! I already done this step .. my s3 still at bootloop and at recovery still have mount error..
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xyp3r said:
Thz bro! I already done this step .. my s3 still at bootloop and at recovery still have mount error..
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did you do a full wipe?

emmc is fried

SamC95 said:
did you do a full wipe?
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Yes bro... I full wipe with phliz recovery.. mount error was occur at the starting recovery..

opssemnik said:
emmc is fried
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How I can solve ?

xyp3r said:
How I can solve ?
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change emmc chip(nly very skilled people will know how to do so) or change the whole motherboard