Greetings,
I have an almost 3 year old stock SGH-T889 T-Mo Note II running Android 4.3. The other day I was trying to open facebook and the thing froze. When I tried to reboot, it went to the Sammy boot screen for about 40 minutes and then the T-mo 4G LTE screen where it stayed. I pulled the battery and tried to boot to recovery (Vol UP, HOME + POWER button hold) but it went to a Bugdroid screen with the "downloading do not turn off target" message as if I was using ODIN. I tried it a few times to no avail. I then tried to use ODIN to flash the stock ROM. It said I had no PIT partition. I found a PIT file and tried using ODIN to repartition but that failed as well (I used a few different versions of ODIN to test this out v1.85, .87, v3.07 etc. to see if there were any differences). Is this eMMC failure? Is there a solution to either hard wipe or revive the device short of a hardware fix? I had done the eMMC chip test last year per a friend's recommendation and it showed I did not have the insane chip. I was hoping my old trusty device would find a new home but at this point if I could just hard wipe the thing I'd be happy. I've tried searching for solutions but have had a hard time. Maybe I'm looking up the wrong thing? Any advice or a point in the right direction would be greatly appreciated!
Have you found a solution? I have the exact same problem after going strong with the note 2 for more than 2 years.
Same issue here
I recently ran into the same issues - no PIT partition, but I can still get to the downloading screen.
At this point, I'm assuming my EMEC chip needs replacing... I guess I'll just get a new, cheap phone.
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Hi there,
I am going crazy over my wife her Note2. Last night it suddenly rebooted itself and got stock on bootscreen. it was in the middle of the night and connected to the charger. I tried to restart, I tried pulling the battery out and then restart, I tried flashing stock rom. Nothing. I can't get into recovery, I can get in download mode but it won't flash anything. It says that it is missing PIT and odin gives a big red FAILED. But when I flash stock ROM with PIT file it won't flash, even after 3 hours nothing happened. What can I do?
It can't damage the PIT partition by itself.
I had the same missing PIT problem on my old Galaxy Player 5.0 because i entered a Motorola partition code in the Terminal Emulator (Don't ask why....LMAO)
Yeah i couldn't fix it and i got a replacement.
Maybe check the symptoms of an Insane chip,some Note 2's have a hardware issue, maybe the Insane chip became "Insane" ? lol
Hello guys
I just want to say i'm no where near an expert on this, and i feel i have tried to fix this issue but made it way worse in the process so please be gentle.
This morning i woke to my Samsung Note 2 N7100 just hanging on the samsung start up screen. Tried all the normal things, taking bat out, restarting many times etc. No luck, just kept hitting the samsung screen and freezing.
After some goggling i found my way to the Recovery screen (power+vol up+home) but when it was loading there was a lot of Red Error messages. It loaded the options screen and i tried to do a factory reset. A lot more error messages to basically then say failed. Tired it a few times and even tried to clear the cache but kept failing.
So i tried loading it into Kies, which didn't connect to the phone so i couldn't reinstall the software.
So i decided maybe i need to flash the phone. I downloaded a stock Rom for the phone (i was on Kitkat so found that version) Used odin and half way through the install it came up failed.
Since then the phone only displays the "Fireware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies"
So i went back to Kies but still couldn't find the phone. It also won't let me go back into recovery mode, only into download mode.
I thought maybe i'd give the flashing another go but this time when i flashed it, it just hangs trying to find Pit but eventually fails saying no Pit.
From research it appears that the partition is buggered. All the research i've done seems to say stay away from messing with the partition. some people say its Emmc thats gone and its game over but others say there is hope still.
I can still access the Download menu and the product name is still GTn7100, Binary still samsung official so i am holding out hope there is some life left in it. I'm on my last legs now so open to all offers for solutions. Please assist if you can
Thank you in advance
Andy
If you're able to get in download mode.. Maybe try flashing a custom recovery (TWRP) which you could try full format in it then install a ROM using it.. Also, maybe trying to use a CM based one? Though you might need a external SD card to move files from PC to your phone.
I don't know if this would work, but try it.
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Hi,
This morning I woke up to see my phone seemingly booting up but after a few minutes I realised that it was stuck on the boot screen. I can only assume something hardware or software related messed up while I was sleeping and now after reading a few threads I am very scared that my phone could possibly be bricked.
First up, I updated to 4.3 from 4.1.2 about 3 weeks and it has been running fine albeit a few annoyances at the new firmware Samsung deployed. To get root I had to install philz_touch_5.11.2 recovery through ODIN and then go into my new recovery to install root through Dr Ketan's Multi Tool which seemed to work well with no problems, it was quite flawless through the whole update. But now I guess something has happened to my phone and that has changed. When I saw it was stuck, I thought that it would be possible to just reflash to stock firmware and that would fix it. It was working up until the point ODIN got "cache.img" which failed the install. Now, I exited ODIN since it didn't work and restarted my phone and tried to flash the stock 4.3 ROM again. This time, immediately I got a screen telling me that there was "no PIT partition"
(Look at the attachment for the screen, I am new so no outside links)
and now I am getting the message on my phone after restarting "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again." I am now downloading Kies to try this but does anyone have any suggestions or solutions?
GoonReb0rn said:
Hi,
This morning I woke up to see my phone seemingly booting up but after a few minutes I realised that it was stuck on the boot screen. I can only assume something hardware or software related messed up while I was sleeping and now after reading a few threads I am very scared that my phone could possibly be bricked.
First up, I updated to 4.3 from 4.1.2 about 3 weeks and it has been running fine albeit a few annoyances at the new firmware Samsung deployed. To get root I had to install philz_touch_5.11.2 recovery through ODIN and then go into my new recovery to install root through Dr Ketan's Multi Tool which seemed to work well with no problems, it was quite flawless through the whole update. But now I guess something has happened to my phone and that has changed. When I saw it was stuck, I thought that it would be possible to just reflash to stock firmware and that would fix it. It was working up until the point ODIN got "cache.img" which failed the install. Now, I exited ODIN since it didn't work and restarted my phone and tried to flash the stock 4.3 ROM again. This time, immediately I got a screen telling me that there was "no PIT partition"
(Look at the attachment for the screen, I am new so no outside links)
and now I am getting the message on my phone after restarting "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again." I am now downloading Kies to try this but does anyone have any suggestions or solutions?
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Update: I spent the past two days trying to solve this and I'm at a standstill in progress. It seems that my phone was one that suffered SDS with a corrupt eMMC chip so I've lost both my firmware and recovery but I can still get into Download mode. It also seems like I have lost my PIT table and I am just completely unable to flash the PIT file back to the phone for some reason. Does anyone have any ideas on how I could just factory reset my phone or reinstall my partition table so that i can get a simple recovery installed? Please help
Exact same issue!
I know exactly what you are going through!
My phone did the exact same thing back in June. It downloaded the firmware update over wifi, then when it went to install, it restarted to the boot logo, and went no further. I had left it for a number of hours, so time doesn't seem to make any difference.
I've been working on it since the end of July, and haven't been able to find a solution yet.
dkinniburgh said:
I know exactly what you are going through!
My phone did the exact same thing back in June. It downloaded the firmware update over wifi, then when it went to install, it restarted to the boot logo, and went no further. I had left it for a number of hours, so time doesn't seem to make any difference.
I've been working on it since the end of July, and haven't been able to find a solution yet.
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Yeah, it doesn't seem like time would fix it, so frustrating. Right now I am getting the glass of my Note replaced (it has a slight crack) which apparently voids my warranty when I went into my carrier to organise a replacement. After it's repaired I will take it to another store and try to get it sent off to Samsung, hopefully they are understanding about it and will honour their warranty end as I do believe it was SDS so it would be their fault for using faulty eMMC chips. The only thing I wish I could do it just start over, flash the PIT file so I can just install CWM to see if any of my files are still there. I just want some peace of mind and it seems impossible at this point. I guess it is impossible to flash a PIT when the storage chip is corrupt, sucks to lose all my messages and data, just wish I had a backup in place but it is a good learning experience for the next time I have a functioning phone.
GoonReb0rn said:
Yeah, it doesn't seem like time would fix it, so frustrating. Right now I am getting the glass of my Note replaced (it has a slight crack) which apparently voids my warranty when I went into my carrier to organise a replacement. After it's repaired I will take it to another store and try to get it sent off to Samsung, hopefully they are understanding about it and will honour their warranty end as I do believe it was SDS so it would be their fault for using faulty eMMC chips. The only thing I wish I could do it just start over, flash the PIT file so I can just install CWM to see if any of my files are still there. I just want some peace of mind and it seems impossible at this point. I guess it is impossible to flash a PIT when the storage chip is corrupt, sucks to lose all my messages and data, just wish I had a backup in place but it is a good learning experience for the next time I have a functioning phone.
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I was lucky having most of my info already backed up. I also had just upgraded another line, so I had a new phone to work with. It just sucks having to switch everything over to a new phone, reloading all the apps etc.
Hello,
I know that this issue had been posted again and again here recently and I've just read a lot of these threads but none of them reached to a solution that suits me, not to mention the difference in details between my case and others. I've experienced soft-bricks before but this is my first time to experience hard-brick. I've used this phone for 3 years (since 2012) and I don't want to lose it now.
TL;DR: The phone is stuck on Bootloader screen "Galaxy Note II", but Odin is able to flash Stock ROMs with PIT and repartition option ticked with no issues (NAND RW). TWRP recovery can be flashed and opened but sees the Internal Storage size as (0 MB) and cannot mount any partition.
That happened 5 months ago, my Note 2 was running Ivan Miller's CM 12.1 and updated to the last version without any issues, and I was charging my phone that day, then unplugged it and got out of home then discovered that my phone is dead.
When I got back home, I tried to charge it again but nothing happened. The lid didn't turn on, and the device didn't give me the charging screen. I tried to turn it on a few times with no avail.
Then I got to a Repair center which told me that the phone needs a new motherboard, which costs practically a new one's price. So I threw it in a drawer and bought a used phone instead.
2 weeks ago, I got my phone back from the drawer and went to another repair center, where they revived the phone again and told me it's a (harddisk issue) which should be replaced with a new one (which costs here in Egypt, a lot of money). But I was happy that the phone is back again and can be turned on, and I had a renewed hope that I can fix it again!
When I got back home, I fired up hiemdall (because I had no access to Windows at that time), downloaded the last stock version from SamMobile, and flashed it on the phone, but it was stuck on the "Galaxy Note II bootloader screen". I flashed TWRP and I could boot to the recovery but it sees the Internal Storage size as (0 MB). When I tried to wipe anything, I got errors in mounting the partitions (this is the only place I can see the logs since TWRP boot).
I followed the guide here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2154890 but with a PIT file from a different thread because the last versions of Stock ROMs have no PIT file inside them and the recovery ROM in the Guide points to HotFile website which had been suspended. (First I used Heimdall to repartition and use the PIT, but it couldn't write the PIT partition, then I used Windows with Odin 3.10.7 and it didn't give me any errors).
I flashed the stock ROMS without and with PIT file for repartition but no avail. The phone is stuck on bootloader screen "Galaxy Note II". I don't want to lose hope and give up for purchasing new eMMc chip because I believe the NAND is still able to read and write unlike other cases that I've read here in different threads where they couldn't repartition the phone because Odin couldn't NAND RW or something like that.
Do you have any pointers that can help me solving this issue?
Sorry for the long post.
Hi,
I recently got a SM-T210 from a friend to repair. The description given was that their kids factory reset the unit and won't boot anymore. First the tablet had the death sleep issue which is a easy fix. But after that the tablet simply continues to show the "Samsung GALAXY TAB3" boot screen and never finishes booting.
As I'm known with Odin I simply downloaded the original firmware from sammobile for this tablet and took the firmware version for the Netherlands as that's where I live. There are 2 4.4.2 versions available and downloaded them both. When using Odin 3.09 and higher I simply cannot install the firmware, but on Odin 3.07 it can. Although it installs the tablet still fails to boot properly and hangs at the tab logo as described earlier.
With Odin 3.09 or higher I'm not even able to install the firmware as it says that there is no PIT file and NAND flash write fails. I've found 2 PIT files for this tablet on the forums and even with the use of these PIT files it still errors with the same issue and installation seems impossible with these versions of Odin.
I've also tried installing TWRP recovery but that won't boot either. When booting the tablet with volume key up it shows the Andriod icon with the spinnng "intestines" and alot of red error messages show not able to find /system and /data. My guess is that this is pretty bad, but that is what I want to fix with the stock firmwares and/or the PIT files (LT02.pit and T210(R).pit).
I'm currently out of ideas to revive this tablet and almost start thinking that it's completely dead, but before throwing it in the garbage bin I'm wondering if anybody here is able to help me further with this issue.
If you think you miss critical information, let me know so I can supply it!
Any help is greatly appreciated and thanked for!
langerak said:
Hi,
I recently got a SM-T210 from a friend to repair. The description given was that their kids factory reset the unit and won't boot anymore. First the tablet had the death sleep issue which is a easy fix. But after that the tablet simply continues to show the "Samsung GALAXY TAB3" boot screen and never finishes booting.
As I'm known with Odin I simply downloaded the original firmware from sammobile for this tablet and took the firmware version for the Netherlands as that's where I live. There are 2 4.4.2 versions available and downloaded them both. When using Odin 3.09 and higher I simply cannot install the firmware, but on Odin 3.07 it can. Although it installs the tablet still fails to boot properly and hangs at the tab logo as described earlier.
With Odin 3.09 or higher I'm not even able to install the firmware as it says that there is no PIT file and NAND flash write fails. I've found 2 PIT files for this tablet on the forums and even with the use of these PIT files it still errors with the same issue and installation seems impossible with these versions of Odin.
I've also tried installing TWRP recovery but that won't boot either. When booting the tablet with volume key up it shows the Andriod icon with the spinnng "intestines" and alot of red error messages show not able to find /system and /data. My guess is that this is pretty bad, but that is what I want to fix with the stock firmwares and/or the PIT files (LT02.pit and T210(R).pit).
I'm currently out of ideas to revive this tablet and almost start thinking that it's completely dead, but before throwing it in the garbage bin I'm wondering if anybody here is able to help me further with this issue.
If you think you miss critical information, let me know so I can supply it!
Any help is greatly appreciated and thanked for!
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Nothing to loose so i should give it one more try with Kies. I remember that years ago i had a problem with a samsung phone and even Odin wasn't helping me. I did it with Kies then which fixed it. No garantuees though.
Droidphilev said:
Nothing to loose so i should give it one more try with Kies. I remember that years ago i had a problem with a samsung phone and even Odin wasn't helping me. I did it with Kies then which fixed it. No garantuees though.
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Thanks, I've tried it with Kies but it won't even recognize the tablet. When I put it in Download mode and connect it to my computer the Kies welcome screen keeps switching every 2 seconds to the connecting screen, back to the welcome screen and keeps on going like that.
Any ideas left?
langerak said:
Thanks, I've tried it with Kies but it won't even recognize the tablet. When I put it in Download mode and connect it to my computer the Kies welcome screen keeps switching every 2 seconds to the connecting screen, back to the welcome screen and keeps on going like that.
Any ideas left?
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Except for correct drivers etc etc not really, no.
I am facing same problem.
My Tab 3 (Sm-T210) has gone too.
Now I can't restore it.
I have downloaded Stock ROM from sammobile.org,
but I can't extract this properly.
It always says that "files are corrupted".
I am also going to be hopeless as like as you.