pre rooted stock rom had an issue with old bootloader (which fixed initially from Chenglu, and as i9000+bodivas released it as well) and i think these prerooted roms generate the problem with stock recovery
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=32446500&postcount=123
sigh, IC. its getting a bit complicated to be honest. There is a bunch of guides atm telling us to do this and that and forwarding us to this and that place and every one of these guides/modifications is working with this or that stock rom (pre-rooted or not) and not working with others.. Errors just appear, then disappear and other appear again.
The problem is I am starting to loose track ^^ and that in the most of the cases the devs are explaining things very fast and with little details (I know they think, an average user as I am won´t understand the details, but little more details would be nice), so when I am reading the guide to root and flash my SGN2 I feel a bit lost in some moments...
The problem is, I am a former HTC user and all this "badarse triangle of fear" stuff is totally unknown to me. I never had any issue to s-off + root/cwm my HTC devices, because I read 5x through the guides and asked holes into the devs, till I got my answers. This also helped other people who were not that persistent.
I tried this in
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1915386 but noone seemed to care, so I gave up
(don´t have that much time atm because of my RL is very time consuming, but hopefully this will change soon).
To this guide. I am still missing some pieces, so please enlighten me, so that I won´t brick my new smartphone (first Samsung phone I own).
Flash chenglu's custom recovery (first line on my signature post #2) = here you mean the "cwm6-root-note2.tar" with 12.1MB?
- just flash via Bootloader (power down + home + power)? or via Odin 3.07 (PDA)?
Download this recovery = this recovery is STOCK, so basically you replace the not working one CWM6 with the original one..?
"this status can be achieved even in semibricked condition" - well is that just theoretical or will I semibrick my phone with anything I do before for sure?
You will have binary count '0' and current binary 'official' as well system status 'official' = ok, Stock recovery with root, so basically I can go to root via Bootloader. Can I also use software like Quick boot?
Is Rom Manager necessary in this situation?
I suppose I'd need to install superuser after root.
That is for now... I now I probably seem to be very noobish for you, but I am no programmer (scientist working with BSL-3 viruses) and I am asking because I´d like to learn programing a bit...
Thanks a lot!