[RECOVERY]CWM Based Recovery 6.0.4.7 for N900 N9005 N900T N900S

ttav

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no couse mine first note3 is on warranty reppair
and I bought the second one
I was just heading into town to try and bamboozle CPW staff to give me a replacement when i found the fix.
Saved me a lot of money as i was going to buy another Note 3 while waiting for repairs:)
 

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Now I understand. I have the same problem. Just didn't know how stock recovery looked like. Glad I am not the only person with this problem. I will try to use an other version of Odin when i get home today.
I finally got CWM working.

I used Odin 3.07
Make sure Re-Partition and F. Reset Time is unchecked before you flash.
 

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Go to menu System settings then in the search field write reactivation and the phone find it for you(it is disabled by default). you can do that with any setting you are looking for, it is like windows 7 search.
Thanks alot ... find it... :) never thought to use the search option !

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I'll pass for now. :laugh: thanks.
Dude if you're still bricklooped try this


May be agood idea to backup your efs and sorry but you should do this via TWRP 2.6.3.2*

Get twrp from goo.img

All do respect for cwm. I was unable to get it working via cwm. *Also these two users who recovered from the brickloop were able to later perform a nandroid and restore (twrp 2.6.3.2) by not restoring efs.*

Do an "adb shell" in twrp (advance/ adb sideload)

If you get a device not found error go into terminal and type the commands

From the ADB shell: Wipe the EFS *with the following command:

mke2fs /dev/block/mmcblk0p12*
mkdir /efs
mount -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p12 /efs

Do a Factory Reset*


2 users confirmed this worked!


If anyone here wants to try this and let me know that would be great. *Alternatively I have also extracted and created a ext4format .tar.md5 of the cache.img, boot.img and the system.img if flashed in that order from the stock firmware you may also recover after factor reset in stock recovery.






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Dude if you're still bricklooped try this


May be agood idea to backup your efs and sorry but you should do this via TWRP 2.6.3.2*

Get twrp from goo.img

All do respect for cwm. I was unable to get it working via cwm. *Also these two users who recovered from the brickloop were able to later perform a nandroid and restore (twrp 2.6.3.2) by not restoring efs.*

Do an "adb shell" in twrp (advance/ adb sideload)

If you get a device not found error go into terminal and type the commands

From the ADB shell: Wipe the EFS *with the following command:

mke2fs /dev/block/mmcblk0p12*
mkdir /efs
mount -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p12 /efs

Do a Factory Reset*


2 users confirmed this worked!


If anyone here wants to try this and let me know that would be great. *Alternatively I have also extracted and created a ext4format .tar.md5 of the cache.img, boot.img and the system.img if flashed in that order from the stock firmware you may also recover after factor reset in stock recovery.






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Can anyone confirm this? Wow. I'll pull out my unit from samsung service center if this is true hehe.

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Can anyone confirm this? Wow. I'll pull out my unit from samsung service center if this is true hehe.

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I assure you it's true and it will work. I've been busting my butt as have others. I cannot take the credit for this method as someone else posted it before I did lol! (Slow typer!) But my ext4 format .tar.md5 should also work albeit a lot harder and more for advanced users. So if you're in the brickloop follow those instructions up there ? and you'll have a working device. Just remember do not restore efs

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chadman4

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I assure you it's true and it will work. I've been busting my butt as have others. I cannot take the credit for this method as someone else posted it before I did lol! (Slow typer!) But my ext4 format .tar.md5 should also work albeit a lot harder and more for advanced users. So if you're in the brickloop follow those instructions up there ? and you'll have a working device. Just remember do not restore efs

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What ext4? Is there another method to fix?

Also, what do you mean do not restore efs? On where? I already restored nandroid (all checked) before which actually caused the brickloop. Will that process fix my problem as well?

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What ext4? Is there another method to fix?

Also, what do you mean do not restore efs? On where? I already restored nandroid (all checked) before which actually caused the brickloop. Will that process fix my problem as well?

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If you have linux I can give you instructions on how to build 3 ext4format .tar.md5 flashable odin file. They need to be flashed seperately for ut to work. However as I said it is a lot more in depth and challenging if you're not a linix user. Not to say you can't do it. Just use the very easy user friendly instructions I posted and you will be saved

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If you have linux I can give you instructions on how to build an ext4format .tar.md5 flashable odin file. However as I said it is a lot more in depth and challenging if you're not a linix user. Not to say you can't do it. Just use the very easy user friendly instructions I posted and you will be saved

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What did you mean by your do not restore efs comment? You mean if I restored efs via nandroid twrp restore I can't use this? Or in the future?

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What did you mean by your do not restore efs comment? You mean if I restored efs via nandroid twrp restore I can't use this? Or in the future?

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Restoring the efs is what I believe caused the brickloop. There are other methods to bqck them up. And until our custom recovery finds a patch for this do not restore efs moving forward. That being said if you're in a brickloop already it wont work by simply deselcting efs. The method I posted will fix. And once you're up and running again you can restore if you don’t restore your efs. Keep in mind this method is in beta so to speak so restore a nandroid at own risk! However I'm confident in this method. So if you're in the brickloop go try it and then when it works amd you've finished doing the happy dance push my thank button with your finger....like this ?

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ttav

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I assure you it's true and it will work. I've been busting my butt as have others. I cannot take the credit for this method as someone else posted it before I did lol! (Slow typer!) But my ext4 format .tar.md5 should also work albeit a lot harder and more for advanced users. So if you're in the brickloop follow those instructions up there ? and you'll have a working device. Just remember do not restore efs

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Sorry i was out celebrating a recovered from bootbrick Note 3:D
I can totally confirm this works.Cheers to the guys in the N900T thread.
 
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Please can you tell me if i made a nand back up of my original stock rom JSS15J.N9005XXUBMI7 and i flash a custom Rom which is deodexed offcourse, if i can make a restore without any problem? I ask this because i never did a restore of an odex rom after i flash a deodex one!

Thanks in advance for your answer!
 
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