Samsung Galaxy Note/GT-N7000/Linux

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Contents 1 Prerequisites 1.1 The tool-box 2 Guides 2.1 Guide 1: Extracting PIT from my GNote using Linux AND command line tools 2.2 Guide 2: Rooting my GNote using Linux AND command line tools 2.3 Guide 3: Rooting using NON-tainting method 2.4 Guide 4: How to remove yellow triangle on any firmware with JIG View Single Post 3 Changelog

Prerequisites

1. a Linux system (I personally use Fedora 16 64bit, but do as you please)
2. I only use/describe command line tool
3. It might work under Mac OS X, but I don't own one
4. You must either be root or have sudo properly configured (for clarity I'll assume you are using a terminal windows with a root shell)

The tool-box

• Heimdall (the Odin alter-ego, fully opensource and multi-platform)
  • you can download it from http://www.glassechidna.com.au/products/heimdall/
  • Heimdall uses Download mode (VolDown+Home+Power)
    • CAVEAT: it will increase the reset-counter when you flash a kernel i.e. the taint-firmware counter by samsung.
    • CAVEAT: YOU WILL LOOSE YOU WARRANTY BY SAMSUNG
    • Luckily: You can reset counter using several methods (see relevant threads in Development Sub-Forum)
• Android adb
  • download latest android sdk (currently android-sdk_r16-linux.tgz)
  • extract it
  • launch tools/android
    • click enough to install platform-tools
  • at this point if everything went ok, you should find a platform-tools/adb binary
    • the binary is ELF 32 but it works ok provided you have the proper 32bit libs available in your system

Guides

Guide 1: Extracting PIT from my GNote using Linux AND command line tools

• Put phone in Download mode (VolDown+Home+Power)
  • TIP: this procedure DOES NOT increase the reset-counter
  • TIP: each model depending on its overall sd size (16Gb 32Gb) has a different PIT
• as root in a terminal-window:

#> heimdall download-pit --output MyNotePit 

• The result should be identical to the one you find in the Development Forum except for trailing '\0' to pad it to exactly 4Kb

Guide 2: Rooting my GNote using Linux AND command line tools

• Let's assume that the initial firmware version of the GNote is LA6 version (check yours ... and use proper files)
• Put phone in Download mode (VolDown+Home+Power)
  • CAVEAT: it will increase the "reset-counter" i.e. the taint-firmware counter by samsung (see above)
• Flash ChainFire Kernel for proper firmware version (in this example: LA6)
  • Download CF-Root-SGN_XX_SER_LA6-v5.0-CWM5.rar (see relevant post by ChainFire in Development Sub-forum)
  • Extract it somewhere and "cd" there
  • you will find a file in zImage/zImage
  • as root in a terminal-window:

#> heimdall flash --kernel zImage/zImage

Guide 3: Rooting using NON-tainting method

I haven't tested it, but see this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...&postcount=154

Guide 4: How to remove yellow triangle on any firmware with JIG View Single Post

From this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...&postcount=120

I tested it, it worked for me.

In a nut-shell:

• extract file Sbl.bin from 1.tar AND from 2.tar in two different directory
• wherever you should use Odin, substitute with heimdall flash --secondary-boot Sbl.bin

Changelog

• 06 Mar 2012 First Post
• 07 Mar 2012 Added 'Guide 4'