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Help All Hell Has Broken Loose!

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androidn0te

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My Wife's Note 2 started acting erratically over the last couple days. Last week she lots two thirds of her pictures from the last year (they just vanished off her phone). Then her desktop reverted back to a wallpaper she had applied a few weeks back but since changed (strangely enough from some of the images that no longer exist on her phone). Then yesterday her phone simply stopped making calls, telling her it couldn't read the sim card. I took it out and restarted the phone, which now is stuck at the "Samsung Note II" splash screen and won't load any further.

I tried doing the recovery option using the Android Manager, but I get a series of failure notices. Even when I apply the "wipe/factory reset" option, I get nothing. Just fail, fail, fail and back to the splash screen.

Any thoughts? We have no idea the cause but are more concerned about how to fix it. Thanks!
 
Motherboard probably died. Pretty much the same thing happened to my GN2 a few weeks back. After wasting time trying to reflash a stock ROM, I found out from the android boards that my error messages indicated a bad motherboard. On the plus side you can probably find a clean GN2 on EBay for under $140. Good luck.
 
Tried using Kies above, but it was weird. I kept inputting the model name for Note 2 but it wouldn't except it. I tried the Samsung program but it kept telling me to connect the device (but it would not read since it won't go past the splash screen).

I tried flash it using Odin3 but after I hit start it fails and says it can't open the serial (COM) port. Is that a bad sign? Is it FUBAR at this point?

If anyone's interested, the exact failure it gets when I book into Android Recovery is as follows:

E: failed to mount /efs (No such file or directory)
E: failed to mount /system (No such file or directory)
E: failed to mount /cache (No such file or directory)
E: failed to mount /cashe/recovery/log (No such file or directory)
 
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