[Q] Phone not booting after failed update..Urgent - Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi,
On my Note 2 7100 , I have given my phone to service centre guys to upgrade to 4.3 from 4.1.2.
After they attempted to upgrade the phone is not booting
The system status says Custom and they say it because you have rooted your phone and we cant help.
But before I gave my phone to them I have checked the phone there was no super user also every screen was looking official.
So I am not really sure if my phone was ever rooted or they screwed up my phone.
According to them if i install the old firmware my phone should boot.
But since I have no idea how it was rooted i am not able to do any thing.
Please help ... Urgent

kalp4u2 said:
Hi,
On my Note 2 7100 , I have given my phone to service centre guys to upgrade to 4.3 from 4.1.2.
After they attempted to upgrade the phone is not booting
The system status says Custom and they say it because you have rooted your phone and we cant help.
But before I gave my phone to them I have checked the phone there was no super user also every screen was looking official.
So I am not really sure if my phone was ever rooted or they screwed up my phone.
According to them if i install the old firmware my phone should boot.
But since I have no idea how it was rooted i am not able to do any thing.
Please help ... Urgent
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Is the service centre official Samsung? And before u upgraded, did u root/mess with ur phone in any way or did u just use it normally?

it is official samsung service centre
Irwenzhao said:
Is the service centre official Samsung? And before u upgraded, did u root/mess with ur phone in any way or did u just use it normally?
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Yes its official Samsung.
I have used it normally no messing with it.

kalp4u2 said:
Yes its official Samsung.
I have used it normally no messing with it.
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Flash a custom ROM using ODIN Guide here. dun use the odin in the description. It's outdated. use this instead. Flash a custom ROM (or official) (official 4.3 has kies though) If u wan 4.3 without bloatware, try this.
Hope I helped!

which rom should i use
Hi,
I have tried to flash it with stock rom but its not booting.
Which rom should I use to flash the device now ?

Keep pressing buttons continuously for download mode
Then the upgrade failed message will go and then it will enter into download mode. after this you can try again.

kalp4u2 said:
Hi,
I have tried to flash it with stock rom but its not booting.
Which rom should I use to flash the device now ?
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Do a mega wipe (if u dun mind). The service guys may have put in a wrong modem so, flash a modem for ur phone. Download ur modem here. This fixed my phone 5 minutes ago when i accidentally flashed a N7100 ROM (Ditto Note 3) on my N7105.

kalp4u2 said:
Hi,
On my Note 2 7100 , I have given my phone to service centre guys to upgrade to 4.3 from 4.1.2.
After they attempted to upgrade the phone is not booting
The system status says Custom and they say it because you have rooted your phone and we cant help.
But before I gave my phone to them I have checked the phone there was no super user also every screen was looking official.
So I am not really sure if my phone was ever rooted or they screwed up my phone.
According to them if i install the old firmware my phone should boot.
But since I have no idea how it was rooted i am not able to do any thing.
Please help ... Urgent
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next time do a search...
there are many guides on this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43879661
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2154890
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2536418
hope this help:fingers-crossed:

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[Q] Didn't know you couldn't downgrade 4.3 Now im stuck?

I tried to downgrade the ota 4.3 update, i didnt know you couldnt upgrade..
Now im stuck at the Firmware upgrade encountered an issue screen..
Kies 2 will start saying "connecting" but thats as far as it gets.. then Kies 3 says that the device thats plugged in isnt compatible with kies 3.
IDK what to do xD
Johnnysauur said:
I tried to downgrade the ota 4.3 update, i didnt know you couldnt upgrade..
Now im stuck at the Firmware upgrade encountered an issue screen..
Kies 2 will start saying "connecting" but thats as far as it gets.. then Kies 3 says that the device thats plugged in isnt compatible with kies 3.
IDK what to do xD
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Place your cell in Download mode, then use Odin to insert the official android 4.3 package.
andyistic said:
Place your cell in Download mode, then use Odin to insert the official android 4.3 package.
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You wouldn't happen to have a dl link for official would you?
Johnnysauur said:
You wouldn't happen to have a dl link for official would you?
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Start up Kies (no cellphone connected), then go to Tools / Firmware Upgrade
It will ask you for the model number, so put that in.
Then it will ask you for either the serial number or MEID, so put that in, too.
Then it should download a big-ass android package (around 1.5 gigabytes).
After the package is decrypted, copy it from the temp directory to some safe place on your local hard drive.
Use Odin in Download Mode to install this package.
The package should end with .tar.md5
If you accepted the official OTA 4.3 update, and you tried to revert your bootloader back to before KNOX... you're lucky since that should have completely hard-bricked your phone. I think, given to your description and assuming you've got the KNOX bootloader now, your best bet would be to try to repair the install by doing what I think is referred to as a "dirty" flash... which basically means you don't format or wipe your data before you attempt another installation of the same version.
I don't know for sure though, so don't take my word without someone who knows more verifying or refuting this.
Good luck, I'll be interested in seeing what you wind up working out.
-Zen
FallenZen said:
If you accepted the official OTA 4.3 update, and you tried to revert your bootloader back to before KNOX... you're lucky since that should have completely hard-bricked your phone. I think, given to your description and assuming you've got the KNOX bootloader now, your best bet would be to try to repair the install by doing what I think is referred to as a "dirty" flash... which basically means you don't format or wipe your data before you attempt another installation of the same version.
I don't know for sure though, so don't take my word without someone who knows more verifying or refuting this.
Good luck, I'll be interested in seeing what you wind up working out.
-Zen
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I downloaded the mk3 modem, and flashed it in odin, it fixed the softbrick. i rooted it with cf-auto and it went through no issue. disabled knox no problem, and now got cwm working.

Reward for fix null imei , no baseband and no network

Hi Guys,
I am noob and never had a Samsung device before, 3 weeks ago i bought a Samsung Note 2 phone from Malaysia shop, everything works fine, network imei etc,,, till i found XDA and interest to upgrade with custom rom, at that time i dont know anything about Imei loss, EFS back up etc,,
my first rom, is official firmware with a chinese language, and i saw a browser menu in chinese name "UC Browser" with little squirel image,,then after i flash a custom rom (Xperia-Z_ized) i found some problem< IMEI Null, no network and no baseband,,,i have tried several things
1. going to samsung service center in my country Indonesia, but the reject it since i buy outside of my country
samsung technician says, my imei and Serial number is fake,,,i did check my imei and it is register and also with my serial number
2. i try upgrade official rom with KIES thru emergency recovery and also upgrade and initialisation, but still imei null no baseband and no network
3. try several custom rom, DN3, Hurricane, etc,,but still the same
4 Flash recommended kernel, and modem, but no work
all things seem so confuse me and make me cant sleep,,,i have to download many stock and custom rom, flash with ODIN with none of them is work and able to restore my imei baseband and network...
in my give up, i am offer USD 30 for someone who can give a good advice and help me how to make my phone work properly...
here some attachment of my phone,,and hope someone able to help me with this
Thanks
M
Did your phone provided with the imei no?
(Pull out batt..sticker with imei no?)
Sent from my 01v21_v89_jbl1a698 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
Might be worth a try.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2700479
bichoudandy said:
Hi Guys,
I am noob and never had a Samsung device before, 3 weeks ago i bought a Samsung Note 2 phone from Malaysia shop, everything works fine, network imei etc,,, till i found XDA and interest to upgrade with custom rom, at that time i dont know anything about Imei loss, EFS back up etc,,
my first rom, is official firmware with a chinese language, and i saw a browser menu in chinese name "UC Browser" with little squirel image,,then after i flash a custom rom (Xperia-Z_ized) i found some problem< IMEI Null, no network and no baseband,,,i have tried several things
1. going to samsung service center in my country Indonesia, but the reject it since i buy outside of my country
samsung technician says, my imei and Serial number is fake,,,i did check my imei and it is register and also with my serial number
2. i try upgrade official rom with KIES thru emergency recovery and also upgrade and initialisation, but still imei null no baseband and no network
3. try several custom rom, DN3, Hurricane, etc,,but still the same
4 Flash recommended kernel, and modem, but no work
all things seem so confuse me and make me cant sleep,,,i have to download many stock and custom rom, flash with ODIN with none of them is work and able to restore my imei baseband and network...
in my give up, i am offer USD 30 for someone who can give a good advice and help me how to make my phone work properly...
here some attachment of my phone,,and hope someone able to help me with this
Thanks
M
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/general/guide-recover-imei-9-steps-t1264021
This looks like it might help. Its a guide on the galaxy s2 thread so read it carefully before you start
Odin odin odin!!!
bichoudandy said:
Hi Guys,
I am noob and never had a Samsung device before, 3 weeks ago i bought a Samsung Note 2 phone from Malaysia shop, everything works fine, network imei etc,,, till i found XDA and interest to upgrade with custom rom, at that time i dont know anything about Imei loss, EFS back up etc,,
my first rom, is official firmware with a chinese language, and i saw a browser menu in chinese name "UC Browser" with little squirel image,,then after i flash a custom rom (Xperia-Z_ized) i found some problem< IMEI Null, no network and no baseband,,,i have tried several things
1. going to samsung service center in my country Indonesia, but the reject it since i buy outside of my country
samsung technician says, my imei and Serial number is fake,,,i did check my imei and it is register and also with my serial number
2. i try upgrade official rom with KIES thru emergency recovery and also upgrade and initialisation, but still imei null no baseband and no network
3. try several custom rom, DN3, Hurricane, etc,,but still the same
4 Flash recommended kernel, and modem, but no work
all things seem so confuse me and make me cant sleep,,,i have to download many stock and custom rom, flash with ODIN with none of them is work and able to restore my imei baseband and network...
in my give up, i am offer USD 30 for someone who can give a good advice and help me how to make my phone work properly...
here some attachment of my phone,,and hope someone able to help me with this
Thanks
M
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DISCLAIMER:- I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU BRICK / RUIN YOUR PHONE IN ANY WAY OR YOUR PHONE BRICKS YOU OR YOU LOSE YOUR JOB FOR YOUR PHONE BECAUSE IT DOESN'T BOOT OR WHATEVER.
BASIC COMPUTER SKILLS REQUIRED
Brother I can help you out. I am listing the steps so do accordingly. Your phone is booting that means it can be recovered no matter what.
1. Install ODIN 3.04
2.GO TO www.sammobile.com, register yourself on the website, select your phone and download the latest firmware for note-2.
3. You should download the firmware by selecting the name of the country from where you bought your phone. EXAMPLE- if you bought it from INDIA then select country as INDIA.
4.Open ODIN and run it as administrator.
5.UNRAR the firmware so that it has got a .tar.md5 extension.
6.Select PDA tab in ODIN and navigate to the .tar.md5 firmware and select it.
7.Put your note 2 in download mode by pressing VOL DN+POWER+HOME BUTTON SIMULTANEOUSLY.
8.Press the VOL UP button after it enters download mode.
9.Connect it to PC via USB.
10.DISABLE the Auto Reboot option in ODIN
11.Select START
12.After successfully flashing it, remove the battery and boot into recovery.
13.Wipe data and wipe cache and wipe dalvik cache.
14.REBOOT THE PHONE.
15.VOILA!!!
bichoudandy said:
Hi Guys,
I am noob and never had a Samsung device before, 3 weeks ago i bought a Samsung Note 2 phone from Malaysia shop, everything works fine, network imei etc,,, till i found XDA and interest to upgrade with custom rom, at that time i dont know anything about Imei loss, EFS back up etc,,
my first rom, is official firmware with a chinese language, and i saw a browser menu in chinese name "UC Browser" with little squirel image,,then after i flash a custom rom (Xperia-Z_ized) i found some problem< IMEI Null, no network and no baseband,,,i have tried several things
1. going to samsung service center in my country Indonesia, but the reject it since i buy outside of my country
samsung technician says, my imei and Serial number is fake,,,i did check my imei and it is register and also with my serial number
2. i try upgrade official rom with KIES thru emergency recovery and also upgrade and initialisation, but still imei null no baseband and no network
3. try several custom rom, DN3, Hurricane, etc,,but still the same
4 Flash recommended kernel, and modem, but no work
all things seem so confuse me and make me cant sleep,,,i have to download many stock and custom rom, flash with ODIN with none of them is work and able to restore my imei baseband and network...
in my give up, i am offer USD 30 for someone who can give a good advice and help me how to make my phone work properly...
here some attachment of my phone,,and hope someone able to help me with this
Thanks
M
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@Larner had the same issue and i assisted him to recover
Return to stock rom
what I guided first unroot the device completely
Now go to stock recovery and perform a hard reset that should fix the problem if this does not happen nothing can be done.
mynonama said:
Did your phone provided with the imei no?
(Pull out batt..sticker with imei no?)
Sent from my 01v21_v89_jbl1a698 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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Hi
yes i have my Imei and S?N on the back of my battery,,,,
EnGiNeEr123 said:
DISCLAIMER:- I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU BRICK / RUIN YOUR PHONE IN ANY WAY OR YOUR PHONE BRICKS YOU OR YOU LOSE YOUR JOB FOR YOUR PHONE BECAUSE IT DOESN'T BOOT OR WHATEVER.
BASIC COMPUTER SKILLS REQUIRED
Brother I can help you out. I am listing the steps so do accordingly. Your phone is booting that means it can be recovered no matter what.
1. Install ODIN 3.04
2.GO TO www.sammobile.com, register yourself on the website, select your phone and download the latest firmware for note-2.
3. You should download the firmware by selecting the name of the country from where you bought your phone. EXAMPLE- if you bought it from INDIA then select country as INDIA.
4.Open ODIN and run it as administrator.
5.UNRAR the firmware so that it has got a .tar.md5 extension.
6.Select PDA tab in ODIN and navigate to the .tar.md5 firmware and select it.
7.Put your note 2 in download mode by pressing VOL DN+POWER+HOME BUTTON SIMULTANEOUSLY.
8.Press the VOL UP button after it enters download mode.
9.Connect it to PC via USB.
10.DISABLE the Auto Reboot option in ODIN
11.Select START
12.After successfully flashing it, remove the battery and boot into recovery.
13.Wipe data and wipe cache and wipe dalvik cache.
14.REBOOT THE PHONE.
15.VOILA!!!
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HI,
since i bought the phone in Malaysia, i have download stock rom Malaysia and flash thru Odin,,but still my Ime is null
tonylee000 said:
Might be worth a try.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2700479
---------- Post added at 06:08 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:03 PM ----------
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/general/guide-recover-imei-9-steps-t1264021
This looks like it might help. Its a guide on the galaxy s2 thread so read it carefully before you start
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Hi Tonylee,
i have flash MJ5 bootloader before but its failed
is Blpatch the same like MJ5?? how do i know which bootloader i have now??
is this a stock rom N7100XXDMG1_N7100ODDDMG1_INU_Prerooted.rar ??
i will try your advice and hope it will help me to make my phone work again....
Us an app called Phone Info https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.vndnguyen.phoneinfo to.see what bootloader you have installed already. Post here what that is. The blpatch is the dmg1 bootloader, you cannot flash the dmg1 rom if mj5 is installed. Yes the dmg1 rom is totally stock. just pre rooted.
If it fails whilst trying to.flash the mj5 then.its likely you have a mk4 or.newer bootloader wbich means you cannot.flash dmg1.
in that case the only thing I coukd.suggest is to.flash the very latest rom specifically for.you carrier
bichoudandy said:
Hi Tonylee,
i have flash MJ5 bootloader before but its failed
is Blpatch the same like MJ5?? how do i know which bootloader i have now??
is this a stock rom N7100XXDMG1_N7100ODDDMG1_INU_Prerooted.rar ??
i will try your advice and hope it will help me to make my phone work again....
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tonylee000 said:
Us an app called Phone Info https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.vndnguyen.phoneinfo to.see what bootloader you have installed already. Post here what that is. The blpatch is the dmg1 bootloader, you cannot flash the dmg1 rom if mj5 is installed. Yes the dmg1 rom is totally stock. just pre rooted.
If it fails whilst trying to.flash the mj5 then.its likely you have a mk4 or.newer bootloader wbich means you cannot.flash dmg1.
in that case the only thing I coukd.suggest is to.flash the very latest rom specifically for.you carrier
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Thanks i will install it in my phone,,,
thats is why when i donwload some stock rom, sometime Odin is failed,,,at that time i was taught, every stock rom will be compatible and succesfully install in my phone......................i did back to stock rom 4.3 using KiES firmware upgrade and initialisation,,,but still dont know the bootloader i have,,
i will send you the screenshot,,,my phone being repair in local service center,,,since samsung reject it,,,,;(
bichoudandy said:
Thanks i will install it in my phone,,,
thats is why when i donwload some stock rom, sometime Odin is failed,,,at that time i was taught, every stock rom will be compatible and succesfully install in my phone......................i did back to stock rom 4.3 using KiES firmware upgrade and initialisation,,,but still dont know the bootloader i have,,
i will send you the screenshot,,,my phone being repair in local service center,,,since samsung reject it,,,,;(
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Im willing to bet then that you have MK9 bootloader. This means you cannot flash any stock rom that has a bootloader MJ9 or older. Only MK4 and newer.
tonylee000 said:
Im willing to bet then that you have MK9 bootloader. This means you cannot flash any stock rom that has a bootloader MJ9 or older. Only MK4 and newer.
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Hi Tonylee,
do you know how to install MJ9 bootloader?? from MK9
by truth i dont know what to do after a week trying to flash a different rom but nonw of the were succesfully restor my imei back and network...
bichoudandy said:
Thanks i will install it in my phone,,,
thats is why when i donwload some stock rom, sometime Odin is failed,,,at that time i was taught, every stock rom will be compatible and succesfully install in my phone......................i did back to stock rom 4.3 using KiES firmware upgrade and initialisation,,,but still dont know the bootloader i have,,
i will send you the screenshot,,,my phone being repair in local service center,,,since samsung reject it,,,,;(
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HI tonylee,,
please find the attached pict, hope may will able to solve this
bichoudandy said:
HI tonylee,,
please find the attached pict, hope ma will able to solve this
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Right as id guessed your on mk9 bootloader. Ignore that now. Your knox warranty is 0x1 which is the tripped state.
You cant downgrade the bootloader lower than mk4. You cant flash a stock 412 rom If it is loaded with a bootloader Which I think Is the norm.
you have your imei so you can flash a stock 4.3 rom for your carrier or a custom recovery and custom rom such as ARHD
tonylee000 said:
Right as id guessed your on mk9 bootloader. Ignore that now. Your knox warranty is 0x1 which is the tripped state.
You cant downgrade the bootloader lower than mk4. You cant flash a stock 412 rom If it is loaded with a bootloader Which I think Is the norm.
you have your imei so you can flash a stock 4.3 rom for your carrier or a custom recovery and custom rom such as ARHD
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Hi Tony Lee,
Thanks for your advice,
I send email to samsung malaysia and just got reply and they told me my serial number is belong to samsung in spain, do you have any idea where I can download and flash a compatible 4.3 rom from my device?
How do I downgrade my bootloder lower than MK4, since I flash some stock 4.1.2 rom but always failed..
Once again thanks
bichoudandy said:
Hi Tony Lee,
Thanks for your advice,
I send email to samsung malaysia and just got reply and they told me my serial number is belong to samsung in spain, do you have any idea where I can download and flash a compatible 4.3 rom from my device?
How do I downgrade my bootloder lower than MK4, since I flash some stock 4.1.2 rom but always failed..
Once again thanks
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You could flash a spanish stock rom but id go with twrp recovery and arhd.
You cant downgrade your bootloader your stuck with what youve got now. Dont fret, im also stuck on mk9 since I flashed an mk9 rom for a developer to test something. If.you want to use 412 specifically there are custom 412 roms but you might as well.go.with 4.3 now
tonylee000 said:
You could flash a spanish stock rom but id go with twrp recovery and arhd.
You cant downgrade your bootloader your stuck with what youve got now. Dont fret, im also stuck on mk9 since I flashed an mk9 rom for a developer to test something. If.you want to use 412 specifically there are custom 412 roms but you might as well.go.with 4.3 now
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hi tony lee
i have download a europe stock firmware (suppose to spain rom too) N7100XXDME6_N7100OXXDMF1_N7100XXDMF1_Prerooted-EUR.tar.md5
when i flash thru odin, it failed..
do you know how to flash this firmware and downgrade my MK9 bootloader to older version MJ5??
there are also many stock rom failed when i falsh with odin,,but some is succes like this rom N7100XXALJ3_N7100OLBALJ3_N7100DXALJ1_HOME.tar.md5
bichoudandy said:
hi tony lee
i have download a europe stock firmware (suppose to spain rom too) N7100XXDME6_N7100OXXDMF1_N7100XXDMF1_Prerooted-EUR.tar.md5
when i flash thru odin, it failed..
do you know how to flash this firmware and downgrade my MK9 bootloader to older version MJ5??
there are also many stock rom failed when i falsh with odin,,but some is succes like this rom N7100XXALJ3_N7100OLBALJ3_N7100DXALJ1_HOME.tar.md5
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You cant downgrade you bootloader. You cant.flash these roms because they contain a bootloader that is older than mk4 which means it will fail.
the only.option you have for.flashing stock.is.to.flash a 4.3 one.
if you want older android on your phone you will have to go.down the custom.route
the only stock.roms that will flash ok are 4.3 roms or roms that dont contain a bootloader update (most of.them.do.do)
tonylee000 said:
You cant downgrade you bootloader. You cant.flash these roms because they contain a bootloader that is older than mk4 which means it will fail.
the only.option you have for.flashing stock.is.to.flash a 4.3 one.
if you want older android on your phone you will have to go.down the custom.route
the only stock.roms that will flash ok are 4.3 roms or roms that dont contain a bootloader update (most of.them.do.do)
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hi tonylee,
i did flash stock FW spain 4.3 rom N7100XXUEMK9 N7100OXXEMK4 PHE.zip but still my imei null and no baseband and no network,,,
soo give up now, none of the process suggested succesfully to return my imei and network back
Have you looked at this thread?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2420881
bichoudandy said:
hi tonylee,
i did flash stock FW spain 4.3 rom N7100XXUEMK9 N7100OXXEMK4 PHE.zip but still my imei null and no baseband and no network,,,
soo give up now, none of the process suggested succesfully to return my imei and network back
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[Q] downgrade from 4.4.2 to official 4.3 can i use Odin?

Hi guys,
i'll sell my 7105 in few days so i'd like to set back official rom!
my only doubt is right now i'm using custom rom on 4.4.2 can i just wipe all go in DOWNLOAD mode and install 4.3 official rom?
about keeping the root ?
thanks
Yes, Odin is the way to go. You don't necessarily have to wipe anything, but I would do so to make sure it is factory reset and to prevent you from boot loop.
Flashing stock will unroot the phone, but it won't reset the flash counter! Consider to do that as well as you are going to sell it.
thanks Yakobus for your reply.. actually i did act before reading ur msg
well i was just scared to destroy note 2 just few days before leaving me ahah!
FYI , for those like me willing to know, this is what i did...
I've got latest rom from sammobile..
I used trianlge away and then i went in recovery over my phone!
once in recovery i wiped ALL.. and i mean all with TWRP recovery!
from there i rebooted phone in DOWNLOAD mode and i used ODIN pc (u can find step by step by Dr Ketan or other post)
flashed 4.3 to my phone, when rebooted everything was working ( yes also wifi )
COUNTER went back to ZERO ... Knox is installed (apparently) but honestly i couldn't care less..
everything good if anyone has some doubts.. ask
:highfive:
You are welcome. Good to see everything went fine and thank you for the summary!
Edit:
What I did not have in mind: Your Knox counter is probably set to 0x1 as you were using a custom ROM. You cannot reset it so far and I do not know what that means for our warranty as it depends on your country's laws and your provider/seller.
with some more details pls , i'm a noob , had note II 4.3 JB , upgraded to 4.4.2 official kit kat and want to downgrade , i didn't root it , i didn't do anything at all and i dont want to lose the phone i just bought a week ago , can u help me?

Need advice n7105 strange knox bootloop with every rom but 4.1.2 stock after cm10.1

Hello,
I'm a noob but usually try to fix this kind of issues on my own, looking at the boards, following tutorials, learning, but this time I think I'm not able to find a solution on my own so I'm asking for advice here.
Some time ago I installed cyanogenmod 10.1 on my Note 2 LTE and was happy with it for some month, than last week I tried to upgrade to cm12.1 It worked but there where some issues and bugs, mainly I wasn't able to swap internal/external sd cards.
So I decided to go back to latest available stock rom 4.4.2 from sammobile.
Here is where the problem starts. The stock 4.4.2 resulter in a bootloop, tried cache/dalvik/factory reset, flash again, whipe again.. nothing.
The phone is not able to get past the white label "Samsung Note 2 gt-n7105" screen. It goes black than the white label again and again.
It doesn't even get to the Samsung animated logo.
Ok bottloop, no problem, try to flash again something else.
I tried different Custom roms, different kernels, different flashing methods. I can flash anything with no problem but every time a get a bootloop.
During the various attempts knox fired, but I don't care. I don't know if this could be the cause.
Actually the only firmware that works is the original oldest STOCK 4.1.2, every other stock firmware past that or any custom rom is bootlooping the same way. To fix I only can reinstall stock 4.1.2 with odin.
I really need any advice or hint.
At the moment my goal is to get at least to stock 4.3 but I cant.........
Thanks!
When you first bought your phone, did it come with Knox?
ErnestChia said:
When you first bought your phone, did it come with Knox?
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nope it doesn't existed before, but now I can see it when I boot in download mode "knox warranty void:1"
Try to get the latest firmware available via kies ,that worked for me
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2088809/[URL]
From what you've described, I think the Stock ROM 4.4.2 from Sammobile contained a bootloader update. So when you flashed this ROM, it updated your bootloader from the non-Knox version to the Knox version.
I am very unfamiliar with the technical details of Knox, but I think the new Knox bootloader is causing your bootloop problem.
However, I don't know why 4.1.2 works when everything else doesn't work!
Can you check the Stock ROM 4.4.2, and see whether it really contains a bootloader update?
mysuperdonghae said:
Try to get the latest firmware available via kies ,that worked for me
http://forum.xda-developers.com/sho...can flash cm10, 11 and 12 with no issue too..
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misthero said:
I think so, there is a boot.im, anyway I also discovered that I can flash cm10, 11 and 12 with no issue too..
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Since a boot.img is present, it means that it would flash your boot partition. So now we know for sure that when you attempted to flash the Stock ROM 4.4.2, your bootloader was changed to the Knox version.
So the lesson here is: before you flash anything via ODIN, always check to see if there is a bootloader update. Usually you don't want to be changing the bootloader on your phone.
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So now there are 2 possible ways to reach your goal:
1) Keep your new bootloader and see whether you can get Stock 4.3 or Stock 4.4.2 running on your phone
2) Try to restore your old bootloader
As I said earlier, I'm not familiar with the technical details of Knox, so I'm not sure how to get Stock 4.3 or Stock 4.4.2 running on your phone when your Knox indicator is already 0x1. You need someone else to help you.
And you can only restore your old bootloader if you happen to have made a copy of your boot partition before you flashed the Stock ROM 4.4.2. Even if you did have a copy of your original boot partition, I'm not confident with helping you to restore your old bootloader. You need someone else to help you in this case too.
Conclusion: I don't think I can help you to solve your problem I'm sorry. Hopefully someone else who is more of a pro than me will come along to help you out.
Good luck!

Repairing damaged recovery partition on Huawei Y560-U02 - Solved

I watched a few videos on YouTube on how to upgrade the Android O/S but none of them mentioned that it needs to unlock the bootloader 1st.
So before I found out that I need to unlock it I tried installing ROM before I knew that.
The phone came with Android Kitkat 4.4.2 and there is an official Lollipop for it that I want to install.
The device is rooted with Kingroot.
I tried the installations two times and the phone still works but I can no longer boot into recovery mode or fastboot mode. It just hangs and then I need to remove the battery to get it to work again.
I just want to restore it back to what it was before and then I will work on unlocking the bootloader.
I prefer to use tools that are free of cost.
Issue has been resolved.
I flashed the device with a pac file using SPD upgrade tool and now all is back to default.
Johncoool said:
Issue has been resolved.
I flashed the device with a pac file using SPD upgrade tool and now all is back to default.
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Hi. I recently messed up my phone (Y560-U02)! Please help me.
Can you please tell me where I can find the "pac file" and "SPD upgrade tool"?
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there is an official Lollipop for it that I want to install.
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You meant un-official, right?
Sorry for the delay. I check the linked email once per month.
Do you still need help on this?
I thought that it was official Lollipop. But it does not exist for this phone.
Yes I can help you get it to what ever you need but it is not easy if you want to do more than just resorted it back to default.
I will tell you more if you still need it.

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