[Q] Hard bricked phone - how to create .tar file? ODIN fails - AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II

Hi guys, I need help with my bricked AT&T Note 2. I am asking this questions after I searched whatever I could.
I messed up and formatted internal and external storage and I am left with nothing on my Note 2. So, I thought I'd flash the stock ROM via ODIN and tried to create a .tar file out of a zip. I used 7Zip and created a .tar file. But, I couldn't flash this .tar file through ODIN. The ODIN force closes everytime I hit 'Start'. I suspect that it's due to the incorrect .tar file. Am I following the right procedure to create the .tar file? If not, can you please help me figure out how to create .tar file.
Should I be flashing the PIT file too?
Any help is very appreciated. Thank you!

Search for "I317UCALJ2_I317ATTALJ2_ATT.zip" I don't think I can post a url. It's under a search on google. Also.Sammobile has it. Inside that file is a stock tar file. I used it to go back to stock and from there moved on to CleanRom.

there are also links to stock firmware files here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1987541, in the first post, Section 5.

Thanks a lot guys for your response! I was able to flash through ODIN and get my note 2 to work again. Again, thank you both a lot for the response!

Sameer3.b said:
Thanks a lot guys for your response! I was able to flash through ODIN and get my note 2 to work again. Again, thank you both a lot for the response!
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Glad to hear you revived it :thumbup:
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Sameer3.b said:
Thanks a lot guys for your response! I was able to flash through ODIN and get my note 2 to work again. Again, thank you both a lot for the response!
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These 2 guys just helped u get ur life device back. Please hit their Thanks button. If it weren't for them u would be carrying around a $800 paper weight. New members....... do not neglect the Thanks button. It means the world to some ppl. I hit it for help I get. Even just efforts to help me. I have like 1600 Thanks given. I hope newcomers can learn and do the same. People in their efforts to help others are taking time out of their day in effort to assist the folks less fortunate in the community. Just show ur appreciation. Like I said..... For some people, it means the world.
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Ps. I got u guys just in case he doesn't
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I understand. I made sure I hit the thanks button.

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[odin][froyo][2.2]

Well,
i'm just posting this for my friend(abby_nitewolf) since she can't post it from her account because of some limitations of something. i dont know...
Continuum-Community,
I'm not sure if this was posted or if you already had this, but i made an odin file for our 2.2 Froyo update.
http://www.mediafire.com/?9nxa2ui9c327y7m
Yes it has been tested and i have flashed it on 4 Samsung-Continuum and it worked perfectly.
Any questions of concerns just post here or you can pm me.
Thank you Trailblazer and Imnuts for helping with this and thanks again Imnuts for giving us FROYO.
Notes:
People had been asking me questions about this file,like what is it? who are you? whats 7z? odin?
Well this is the reason for adding this extra section.
What's .7z? I thought it was suppose to be a .tar image.....?
Well young one, .7z its a 7zip extension that i used to compress the original file so it can be easily uploaded and downloaded. Just download 7zip and use it to extract the original file.
What's Odin?
Well, ok, not trying to be mean, but if you dont know how to use odin, then you really shouldnt be messing with this file, do some research and then come back to this thread, because you will be using Odin to flash this file onto your phone. Hint:Use the power of google!
Since i'm flashing this onto my phone do i put the file under PHONE?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It goes under PDA!!!
I'm confused, who uploaded this, torque240 or abby_nitewolf?
Hmm...does it really matter? well if its really bugging you then abby_nitewolf is the one who provided us with this odin image, and of course IMNUTS gave us the gift of 2.2 FROYO.
abby_nitewolf
Imnutes beat you to it lol
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Really? He posted the whole odin package? Sorry....
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Nope, yours is original, with no mods, and yours has everything
So, thank you very much for your contribution, everyone will be very appreciative,
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Thanks and thanks trailblazer for all the help. And everybody please let me know how it goes.
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Thanks for linking this. It's nice to have the bone-stock Odin image for those who want to use it as a base for building their own rom.
Link has been updated so i wont get my dropbox privileges suspended again
Found out you have to reflash cwm recovery odin image again. no biggie just takes a minute. unless it really bugs you
Other than that its been working, now tested on 7 phones, no problems so far.
I would love your feedback on this please.
Thanks You
Hehe, its name has 69 in it
Oh and thank you NiteWolf for revealing to me that embarresing typo in my signature, LMAO
trailblazer101 said:
Hehe, its name has 69 in it
Oh and thank you NiteWolf for revealing to me that embarresing typo in my signature, LMAO
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ha ha yup, took me that many tries to finally get it to work
And i liked that typo, ha ha it made me laugh so much, i was like what!!!!!
Whooooooo thank you for the stock Odin file
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odin says what?
Do we have to flash the modem ( per imnuts's instructions ), or just this ODIN file?
Modem file is in this odin image. So yes just this
SENT VIA HAMSTERBALL
Thanks Abby.
Ok, so I just re- flash the cwm mod, then your file,then restart.
Do I need to do anything fdom within cwm? Should I do a wipe/factory restore after flashing the mod?
Thats what I did when I flashed imnuts' mod
sgtwebb1 said:
Thanks Abby.
Ok, so I just re- flash the cwm mod, then your file,then restart.
Do I need to do anything fdom within cwm? Should I do a wipe/factory restore after flashing the mod?
Thats what I did when I flashed imnuts' mod
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1. Flash this odin image
2. reboot
3. turn off then reflash cwm
And after you reflash this odin image, when you reboot it actually formats everything, data. dbdata. cache...etc...
Sweet, I'll get this done this evening.
Dear Abby---
(sorry, I had to.. )
I flashed the rom, IT'S PERFECT.
Many thanks.
I had a bug with the other rom, every time I opened a website, the screen would blink off, and it was driving me bonkers.
This seems to have fixed it.
Everything is working great.
Again, thanks a bunch.
Is the included ROM rooted or deodexed?
Sent from my Continuum on stock Froyo 2.2.2.
all stock/rooted
And yes, its deodexed xP
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[Q] need help restoring phone to stock.

ok so i rooted my epic 4g touch and need to return it to sprint. i have stable_epic_starburst_10.9.11-1 currently running. with SPH-D710_ClockworkMod-Recovery_5.0.2.6..... i do not have a backup for some reason of the stock Gingerbread build. can someone help me fix this isue? i have used these two solutions.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1272186
and
http://epic4gtouchroot.com/epic-4g-touch-unroot/how-to-unroot-epic-4g-touch/
with no success.
i have odin3 v1.85
adb
and
acs-eg30-stock-kernel-pulled.tar
ZedomaxBackup-1.zip
do i need anything else?
follow instructions in this thread for odin. I used this once and had no problems.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1282420
Heelfan71 said:
follow instructions in this thread for odin. I used this once and had no problems.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1282420
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i did this method also but when i go into settings>about phone it says under build number "starburst stable 10.9.11" so its still using the starburst rom. the only thing i have noticed is it just gets rid of CWM... what am i doing wrong then??? sorry if the answer is obvious i am a newb still.
did you download the file from the link I posted? The Stock-EG30.tar file? If you used the .tar file you listed in first post that might be problem. Download Stock-EG30.tar , open odin and put Stock-EG30.tar in the PDA slot and hit start.
thanks for the patience with me. i was using the other file because they had a similar name.... this fixed my problem thank you very much!!!!
TAK209 said:
thanks for the patience with me. i was using the other file because they had a similar name.... this fixed my problem thank you very much!!!!
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No problem, glad you got it working.

need a kernal with vs. 5+ clockworkmod

need a kernal with vs. 5+ clockworkmod please
i also need it to work on odin so it cant be .zip :/ pls help my phone wont turn on
.tar file -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1383678
Sent from the future.
SocialReject said:
.tar file -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1383678
Sent from the future.
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turned on bro omg thank u so much i really really really appreciate it!

[Q] I have a few questions about pulling files

Okay so I Am trying to teach myself how to do some of this stuff. I really like to play with computers and I have always been really good with them but I have always been self-taught. Anyway I am trying to pull the stock recovery image for the 2.3.6 update we got. So what I did was I went to the thread where it was posted here and took the file (SGH-T989_TMB_1_T989UVKL1_CL799405_REV00) and unzipped it in WinRAR then I extracted a file called recovery.img
So is that it? Is that how to get the stock recovery? If I flash that through Odin then CWM will be gone? If I wanted to make it flashable through CWM can it be done and how would I do that? If that is not the right way to do it then what is the proper way?
I appreciate any help anyone can give me it is not a big deal but I just want to learn how to do things for myself so I don’t have to rely on others. So if anyone wants to share and teach I would really appreciate it.
mojorisin7178 said:
Okay so I Am trying to teach myself how to do some of this stuff. I really like to play with computers and I have always been really good with them but I have always been self-taught. Anyway I am trying to pull the stock recovery image for the 2.3.6 update we got. So what I did was I went to the thread where it was posted here and took the file (SGH-T989_TMB_1_T989UVKL1_CL799405_REV00) and unzipped it in WinRAR then I extracted a file called recovery.img
So is that it? Is that how to get the stock recovery? If I flash that through Odin then CWM will be gone? If I wanted to make it flashable through CWM can it be done and how would I do that? If that is not the right way to do it then what is the proper way?
I appreciate any help anyone can give me it is not a big deal but I just want to learn how to do things for myself so I don’t have to rely on others. So if anyone wants to share and teach I would really appreciate it.
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Not sure you can flash a recovery.img via CWM, MAYBE, but I am going to go out on a limb and say, not, because if you are in CWM, the recovery partition is mounted and in use, so it will not let you overwrite it ....
yeah I kinda was thinking that too but I wasnt sure thanks for the info
For starting out you can look for a rom kitchen (forgot name sorry) update your phine to latest ota then do a nandroid backup from cwm and then load those files to kitchen and create it like that.
hit the THANKS for me.
I think i saw something avout rom kitchens somewhere a quick searcj should turn it up thank you
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mojorisin7178 said:
I think i saw something avout rom kitchens somewhere a quick searcj should turn it up thank you
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I think this is the kitchen you are talking about. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=626292
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[Q] need help rooting please

i have downloaded the chainfire file. I watched a video where the guy did it on a sprint model. I put the zip file on my desktop, made a new folder and moved the contents into the new folder. now he uses odin 1.85 and in my folder its 3.07. also he said only the auto reboot box should be checked and mine has that and also the f reset time box checked and i cant uncheck it. Im not sure what to do here, I could really use some help here as this is my only night with the computer for a while and I really would like to root this ting tonight. I appreciate any help. thanks.
I will be sure to hit thanks
i have odin 1.85 and the latest tar file form chaifire , if I use odin 1.85 and put the tar file in only the auto reeboot box is checked and the file goes in the correct spot. can I just do it that way and hit start or will i be missing something?
Use 3.07 or 3.09. Leave defaults alone. There are tons of guides here for using odin if you need more help.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Use 3.07 or 3.09. Leave defaults alone. There are tons of guides here for using odin if you need more help.
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I hit the thanks button but I still wanted to say thanks personally. so thank you:good:
You're welcome! Sounds like you got the rest on your own, so good work there!
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When I rooted my s3 I clicked on pda and once the .tar file got added everything was done automatically. After that all I had to do was put the su zip into my sd card and flashed it thru recovery and done.

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