Firmware note 2 n7100. Install the programs necessary for the firmware

So far phablet Galaxy Note 2 is one of the most interesting smartphones in their niche, and many are unlikely even with the advent of the Galaxy Note 4 to decide on a change. However, technology has gone very far in these two years, and updates from manufacturers are unlikely to appear at all, and hopes for getting new features are associated only with custom firmware.

Here Galaxy Note 2 just received a custom firmware assembly called Ditto Note 4 (DN4). This will allow you to get a real Note 4 from Galaxy Note 2 after installing the firmware. Of course, all this only applies to changes in the interface and functions.

If you dare to install Ditto Note 4 on Note 2, then almost all the branded features of the new flagship will become available - this includes the energy-saving mode, the new quick access panel, the updated Air Commands interface and more. The DN4 firmware itself runs on Android 4.4.4 KitKat, and its installation is quite standard - download the zip file and install using custom recovery, or using Odin.

By the way, you can download the DN4 firmware file for Galaxy Note 4 here: download .

Before starting the installation, you should prepare and follow the following instructions:

• Check the model number of your smartphone as the instruction is only for Note II (GT-N7100): Settings/About phone.
  If you have a smartphone of a different model, then the instruction is categorically not suitable, and if you try to update your smartphone with a different firmware, you can make it a “brick”.
• Galaxy Note 2 must be rooted with custom TWRP or CWM recovery.
• You will need to do backup system and then do a Factory Reset - in no case do not skip these steps.
• You will need a Nandroid backup in case you want to roll back to previous version OSes, that is, when the flashing process fails.
• Factory Reset will completely erase your data, but if it is important for you to save all SMS messages, installed applications and photos.
• Sync with Gmail so you don't lose your contacts.
• Be sure to carefully read each step of the instructions, do not skip the steps to do the flashing the first time.
• You are responsible for all actions and in case of failure we are not responsible.
• Check battery charge. Recharge the phablet to at least 50, and preferably up to 80%.

Now that you know all of the above, you can proceed to the practical part of the article and successfully install Android 4.4.4 DN4 on Note 2.

Installing Android 4.4.4 DN4 on Note 2:

• 1. Download Android 4.4.4 DN4 from this link: download .
• 2. Connect your Galaxy Note 2 to your computer with via USB cable and copy the firmware file to the smartphone memory. Do not unpack the archive under any circumstances! Do not turn off your smartphone while copying!
• 3. Now disconnect your smartphone from PC and turn off Note 2.
• 4. Boot Galaxy Note 2 in recovery mode: Home + Power + Volume up button.
• 5. First, make a backup of the system (Nandroid Backup): in CWM, select "backup and restore", specify the name of the backup file and confirm the choice; in TWRP, click on "Backup" and confirm your choice.
• 6. Now you need to do a Factory Reset: in CWM, select "wipe data / factory reset» and confirm; in TWRP select "Wipe" and confirm your choice.
• 7. After that, you need to install our firmware: in CWM, select "install zip from sdcard" and "choose zip from sdcard"; in TWRP, click "Install".
• 8. Specify the Android 4.4.4 DN4 zip file and confirm the installation.
• 9. Reboot the phablet and boot it normally. The first boot will take a little longer, so wait for it to finish.
• 10. You will need to enter your gmail account details in order to continue working with the Galaxy Note 2 N7100.

In this article, we will learn how to flash your phone step by step and painlessly. samsung galaxy n7000 Note 2. Follow the step-by-step instructions and you should not have any problems.

Before the beginning Samsung firmware Galaxy Note 2, we advise you to read the rules.

1. The battery charge of the phone must be at least 50%.
2. The process of flashing a smartphone must be taken seriously and strictly follow the instructions below.
3. During the software update, do not touch the phone, do not disconnect it from the computer.
4. Make a copy of all necessary information and numbers phone book with phone.a
5. Need to be done full reset machine settings. To do this, go to the settings along the following path: Settings - Backup and recovery - Data Reset.
6. Remember that only you are responsible for any changes you make to your phone.

What do you need to upgrade

You will need the following list of files:

• Odin3 PC application;
• driver SAMSUNG USB Driver for Mobile Phones .

Instruction

1. Install the Odin application and all the necessary drivers to connect your smartphone to your computer
2. Set the device to Download mode. To do this, turn off the smartphone and simultaneously hold down the "power", "volume down", "home" buttons, after the warning message appears, press "volume up", a picture with a green robot will appear on the screen, which means that the Downloading mode is enabled
3. Launch the Odin application on your computer. Click the PDA button and select the required driver folder as below

4. Connect your smartphone to your computer via USB cable. ID:COM field indicator should be blue

5. Press the Start button to start flashing

6. The phone will reboot during the update process.

Upon completion, a loading animation will appear on the screen, followed by the actual loading. Do not be alarmed if the phone takes longer to boot than usual, these are the consequences of the update.

Advanced → Wipe dalvik cache

Wipe data/factory reset

Wipe cache partion

Mounts & storage → format /system

• It is desirable to flash from a laptop (or from a PC running via UPS) in order to avoid power outages during the firmware.

If you want to root after flashing a new firmware, here is a video tutorial with detailed step by step instructions.

Warning: Use these instructions at your own risk. We will not be held responsible for anything that happens to you or your device that results from using the information in this guide.

What you need to have for firmware Samsung Galaxy Note 2 GT-N7100

1. Create a folder on the disk with numbers or English letters for the necessary files (example: C: 7100)

2. Download there everything you need for the firmware using the links below (it is recommended to download the latest versions):

Step-by-step instructions for firmware Samsung Galaxy Note 2 N7100:

1. If you have an antivirus - disable

Programs:

Install SAMSUNG driver USB Driver for Mobile Phones

Unzip Odin3_v3.09

4. Firmware

• Run Odin3 v3.09, it will be in the Odin3_v3.09 folder
• Click on the PDA field and find the firmware file that you unpacked into the C: 7100 folder
• Connect your smartphone original cable to a PC, the first ID:COM field will turn blue.
• We double-check everything and press "Start".
• Wait for the end of the firmware process for 7-10 minutes, after which the smartphone will reboot itself.
• Disconnect your phone from the computer while it reboots.

If you did it right, after the reboot you will have a boot animation and the device itself will boot with the official Android 4.x firmware.

Instructions for installing the official single-file firmware on Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (GT-N7100, GT-N7105).

Drivers and programs

Attention!

To install the official stock firmware on Galaxy S3 and return the phone status (Settings > About device > Properties > Device status) to "Official" after switching from custom firmware and thus return the possibility of receiving updates over the air, it is enough to follow the instructions presented.

Installation instructions

Unzip the downloaded archive to a folder with Odin PC for convenience. The file in ".tar" or ".tar.md5" format must be left, but "SS_DL.dll" can be deleted.

Perform a data reset on the device.
To do this, go to the settings on the tab " Accounts » to the section « Archive and reset”, select the item “ Reset device” and press the button “ Delete everything". The phone will reboot.

Run Odin PC as administrator.

Put the device into download mode ( Download Mode).
To do this, simultaneously hold down the Volume Down key, the Home button and the Power button. Then wait until the phone reboots and agree to the warning by pressing the Volume Up key.

In this state, connect the smartphone to the computer. In Odin, the inscription " COM».

Click on the button " AP» and select the TAR archive of the firmware.

Items « Auto Reboot" and " F.Reset Time" must be activated, a " Re-Partition", if active - must be disabled.

Click on the button " start". The firmware installation process will begin.

At the end of the operation, if everything went well, the message “All threads completed. (succeed 1 / failed 0)". The phone must be rebooted manually by holding down the power button until the screen turns off. The initial boot of the device may take up to 5 minutes.
ATTENTION!
If the device does not boot for a long time or a data reset has not been done, it must be performed from the recovery.
To do this, simultaneously hold down the Volume Up key, the Home button and the Power button. After downloading select " Wipe data/Factory reset", and then - " Reboot system now". If after these steps the device also freezes at boot, you need to reflash it again.

Before flashing, it would be better to familiarize yourself with the profile branch on w3bsit3-dns.com, because there is one big nuance in the firmware: the bootloader version.

In short, newer firmware requires new version bootloader, old - respectively, older. If this condition is not met, a special section (EFS) is overwritten in the smartphone, in which Phone IMEI, so that the smartphone cannot use cellular network and turns into a tablet. As a solution, they either restore the EFS section (unless, of course, you took care of the backup in advance), or flash a special modem that does not require IMEI (the dream of anonymous people, not otherwise), or service center for a lot of money they change the board itself.

In my case, I already had the latest available official firmware 4.4 installed, so the bootloader version was also “fresh”. That is, I should not have installed the old versions of the firmware, but I was not going to.

So let's get started.

Briefly, the whole process can be divided into the following stages

1) Flashing the recovery

2) Make a full backup

3) We flash the desired firmware

But it's worth taking some time to prepare.

0. Preparatory work

During the flashing process, we will need a few things that are best taken care of in advance.

Odin- a special program for flashing smartphones, it will have to be installed on a computer.

Drivers for a smartphone - it is advised to use the latest available version.

Both Odin and drivers are easy to find in the header.

Custom recovery. If I understand correctly, there are only two favorites here: TWRP and PhilZ-touch. I'll use . Since I'm going to flash the recovery through Odin, I'll need a .tar recovery file.

Custom firmware. Here the choice is simply huge. I decided for myself that it’s worth flashing either on MIUI because of the beautiful and thoughtful interface, or on CyanogenMOD 12 (because today this is the only available Lollipop firmware for Note 2, while in stock android I’m only attracted to Material design), or on Ditto Note, where most of the updated chips of the new TouchWiz and new generations of Galaxy Note were ported. But this, of course, is a matter of taste.

And, of course, a Windows computer and a micro-USB cable.

1. Recovery

Recovery is a special utility program that allows you to install firmware on your smartphone, and also performs a number of other important actions such as creating backups and cleaning up unnecessary data. By and large, a smartphone always already has a recovery, but its capabilities are very limited by the manufacturer. Therefore, we need a modified recovery. As I said, I chose TWRP. I hope you have already downloaded the required .tar file.

So, turn off the phone, and then turn it on by simultaneously holding down the volume keys, the center key and, in fact, the power button. A warning message will appear about the danger of modified firmware, but we have already decided everything, and therefore we press the volume up - and the smartphone goes into firmware mode.

Now we run Odin as an administrator and connect a smartphone to the computer. There is an opinion that starting with Windows 7 it is not necessary to install drivers separately - supposedly they are found automatically. From my point of view, it will not be superfluous to install them separately - it will not take much time.

Odin will happily report that the phone has been found, in the left upper corner The port number to which the smartphone is connected will appear. On the port number, Odin will report that in this moment happens to the smartphone and what is the result of this or that operation. On the right side, select the AP button (this is if you are using Odin 3.09, in version 3.07 the same button is called PDA) and select the recovery file. Let me remind you again that we need exactly the .tar file.

And click Start.

When the process is completed, the phone will automatically reboot. However, this is an option - the corresponding checkbox in the Odin settings can be disabled.

The important point is that at the first reboot, the regular recovery overwrites all other, so it is extremely important to hold down the volume key combination when rebooting up, central key, power button (this is a regular key combination for TWRP, for other recovery it may differ). Release the keys when the model name appears on the screen. After that, TWRP should boot, which will independently make the necessary changes so that the regular recovery does not overwrite anything else. If it didn’t work right after the first reboot, it will boot into TWRP - you will have to flash through Odin one more time.

In principle, TWRP can be installed using only the capabilities of a smartphone, but you will need a terminal and root. Instructions on - last section "dd Install method".

1.1. If you need root access on the original firmware.

To be honest, I never really understood why root in real life. Here are the geeks - yes, they are, for them root on the phone is the first thing, Titanium backup does not work for them without this. For myself, I can’t figure out why I need it in real life. Well, for example, if you decide to install custom recovery not through Odin.

If you believe the same w3bsit3-dns.com, then the easiest way to get root on the latest official firmware- this is .

In short, you need to download from http://autoroot.chainfire.eu/ special file for specific model, and then flash it through Odin.

But I have not tried this method, so I can not say anything more.

2. Making a backup

The most important thing to do after installing custom recovery is backup, especially the EFS partition. This is the same section where the phone's IMEI is stored. Its backup is done once, and the result is stored in a safe place. But if you often experiment with firmware, then nothing prevents you from including the EFS partition in the backup every time.

Be sure to select before starting the backup so that the result is not saved to the internal memory, but to the memory card. Most firmware require that you first delete all data from internal memory during installation, which will be fatal for backups. Before starting a backup, you can also choose what to include in it. As the first backup, I selected all available options. But if I understand correctly, only EFS is not restored with the new firmware.

After completing the backup, I connected the smartphone to the computer and copied the resulting backup to a safe place, and copied the firmware file to the SD card.

3. Custom firmware

The firmware can be flashed both from a computer via Odin, and directly from a smartphone via recovery. Just pay attention that for firmware via Odin you will need .tar file, while through the recovery you need to sew .zip.

As the firmware for installation, I chose, which is actively developed by the form user. main feature firmware - updated TouchWiz interface and ported proprietary chips from Note 3 and Note 4. I flashed through the recovery.

To do this, turn off the smartphone, and then turn it on by holding the volume keys up, the center key and the power button. As soon as the name of the model appears on the screen, you can let go. After that, the smartphone will boot into TWRP recovery. Before starting the installation, it will not be superfluous to make Wipe in the section of the same name. Wipe in most cases is the key to the stability of custom firmware, so some firmware has the option to make Wipe before installation - the so-called “ clean install- clean install.

Then select Install and select desired file firmware, swipe confirm the installation new firmware and follow further instructions.

Similarly, you can install CyanogenMOD: .

4. Instead of a conclusion

The whole firmware process took, on the strength, half an hour. As a result, my Galaxy Note 2 has been transformed, having received an updated TouchWiz interface with all the basic programs and, if not all, then most of the new branded tools that make working with the pen much more convenient.

I don’t see any random crashes of applications, as I had on the stock firmware. The phone stopped rebooting by itself. The rest - without much change. I was hoping that it would be better with batteries, but this issue is unchanged. True, this firmware has a root by default, which means you can use special programs to find out which applications are to blame for the increased consumption (here the root will come in handy, yes).