I was referring to the Korean Note (I'm in Korea and I saw you have a Korean variant phone) which hasn't been released yet.
It's likely that many people bricked their phones by flashing one of these regional roms (German or the Chinese one) to their device when it isn't meant for their phones. Any manufacturer's ROM should be checked against the device in hand.. not JUST SAMSUNG ICS
Earlier on this thread, there was mention of a one size fits all rom for the shv-e120.... I'd be very cautious about a one size fits all variant claim. Either it will be extremely unstable and render the phone largely unusable or it will "brick" the phone. I would also be cautious about flashing the official ROM directly from KIES before a rooting procedure is confirmed because sometimes and upgrade can really lock a user out of the option of rooting for a while at least. Most of all, one should be prepared to find a way out of the "woods" before entering it :-D
Man, as i said, you should read a little beat more, we all are like this, even me, that is how i have now a very expensive brick in my house...
Usualy you would be right in what you are saying, but this is not the case, at all. There is an I/O bug in an unknown number of ICS Samsung Roms, the bug is in the kernel and also in the EMMC firmware. Samsung introduced a new feature meant to improve performance wich instead is ending up by making the EMMC non wrightable, when a huge quantity of data/info is manipulated (read, wright, delete), or a factory reset (that broked 99% of devices), the instructions are interpreted wrong by the EMMC controller (due to the wrong firmware and kernel) wich is ending by wrighting a large quantity of zeros, 32 kb, and only zeros, and after that beeing unable to read that wrong info, wich is wrong from the beginning, and no firmware could read again, cause is an abnormal info already wrighten...., so the system become non bootable, and is starting an infinit boot looping.
And more, you could very well flash the rom and usit for a few hours (like i did), or a few days or week, but in every second the EMMC can colapse, it is not a proof that you made 4 factory reset and that is why you are safe, you can never be safe once you have an ICS with the wrong EMMC firmware and kernel.
Man, take care! There is no need to learn a leson in the hard way, like i did.
